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  2. TRAGIC HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

    The joyful Christmas festival is often darkened by some particularly sad happening, and thin rear it wan not without its tragedy. In this instance the victim was ...

    Article : 221 words
  3. A LAD'S SAD DEATH.

    Mr. and Mrs. H. Higgins, of 101, Carrington-street, sustained a sad loss on Christmas Ere through their third son, Leslie, aged 16 years, being accidentally ...

    Article : 62 words
  4. DROWNED IN THE SURF.

    A surfing fatality occurred at the [?] Entrance this morning. Mr. Louis Butler (32), a resident of Concord, was carried out to sea and drowned. It appears that several young ...

    Article : 86 words
  5. AN INTERRUPTED HONEYMOON.

    The folly of striking a match near exposed petrol was strongly demonstrated in Adelaide on Monday night, when a taxicab was destroyed by fire. The mishap ...

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  6. RAILWAY CROSSING FATALITY.

    A young man, Mr. John Kelly, employed by Mr. Andrew Ferguson, storekeeper, of Marrabel, was accidentally killed to-day. He was driving a pair of horses attached ...

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  7. TRAGIC HAPPENING AT PAYNEHAM.

    A tragic occurrence took place in the early hours of Friday, December 26, at Keen-street. Payneham, a tingle woman, aged 31, being found by her ...

    Article : 123 words
  8. DROWNING CASE AT TUMBY BAY.

    A shocking boating accident happened in the bay this afternoon. Mr. W. A. L. Williams, chemist, was to have taken a party to Tumby Island in his boat, Dolphin. The ...

    Article : 353 words
  9. A WOMAN SHOT.

    At an early hour yesterday morning Mrs. Bolton was shot in the head, and now lies in the North Sydney Hospital in a precarious state. A man has been ...

    Article : 121 words
  10. LADY'S LEG BROKEN.

    A picnic party was rudely disturbed on Monday afternoon on the Brighton beach by two horses galloping over them, the animals having got out of control. The ...

    Article : 90 words
  11. SAD VEHICLE FATALITY.

    A fatality, surrounded, by sad circumstances, occurred at Solomontown yesterday, the victim being a well-known jockey and horse trainer, Mr. Frederick ...

    Article : 534 words
  12. VARIOUS ITEMS.

    J. Vause, aged 15, son of Mr. H. T. Vause, of the Nelson Hotel, was the victim of an unpleasant experience yesterday. He was sheep-droving, and stopped at a creek ...

    Article : 1,303 words
  13. TRAVELLER LOST OVERBOARD.

    A commercial traveller named Distant, employed by Prescott & Co., of Kent-street, was a passenger by the steamer Hunter, from Newcastle to Sydney, and as ...

    Article : 61 words
  14. SHOT WHILE ASLEEP.

    The quiet and peace of Christmas Day in Cootamundra was disturbed by a painful shooting case, which was enacted on the outskirts of the town in a house ...

    Article : 180 words
  15. A YOUNG MAN FATALLY SHOT.

    Mr. George Reynolds, 22 years of age, was fatally shot on Sunday afternoon near Glen Lossie station, where he was camping with a number of other young men. He ...

    Article : 71 words
  16. Victoria.

    The deepest sympathy is felt for Mr. E. C. Murch, one of the oldest and most popular commercial travellers in South Australia concerning the death of his ...

    Article : 295 words
  17. BETWEEN SHIP AND WHARF.

    A fatality occurred during the annual Port Pirie regatta this afternoon, the victim being Mr. John Myles, a middle-aged wharf lumper. At about ...

    Article : 980 words
  18. A HUSBAND FATALLY STABBED.

    Alfred Thomson, of High-street, Miller's Point, died at the Sydney Hospital last night as the result of a knife wound in the arm. His wife. Alice Elizabeth ...

    Article : 94 words
  19. A CHILD'S SAD END.

    David Hendry, aged 2 years and 6 months, whose parents reside at Park-street, Parkville, was playing in front of a shop when an employe was carrying ...

    Article : 63 words
  20. DECAPITATED BY A TRAIN.

    Mr. Arthur Francis Walker, a paints (69), stepped off a moving train at Ring wood yesterday, and fell between the platform aud a carriage. A wheel passed over ...

    Article : 41 words
  21. A FATAL DIVE.

    Mr. Michael Kelly, employed by the Railway Department as foreman shunter, was bathing at Sandgate yesterday. He dived into shallow water and sustained ...

    Article : 45 words
  22. SUDDEN DEATHS.

    Thomas McGee, aged 40, was found in one of the burnt-out rooms of the Terminus Hotel yesterday, at 5 o'clock, in a state of collapse. Dr. Riddell was called, ...

    Article : 331 words
  23. A SURF BATHER DROWNED.

    Mr. Hugh Augustus Johns (44), formerly a noted footballer, was drowned in toft surf on the Back Beach at Sorrento to-day. Ha was overcome by cramp and whilst ...

    Article : 52 words
  24. POISON AT A PICNIC.

    Four children were ptomaine poisoned at a picnic to-day. They were with a picnic party at Moore Park, and partook of tome corned beef sandwiches. Shortly afterwards they became [?] ...

    Article : 70 words
  25. TWO BOYS DROWNED.

    John Stewart Ferguson (12) and Francis Lionel Lewis (10) were drowned yesterday in the Murray Hirer at Yarrawonga, [?] the rural workers' strike camp. The ...

    Article : 109 words
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