A SERIOUS accident occurred Wednesday last, on the Hastings Road, Frankston, when Mrs. Roslyn Parris, of Baxter was driving her horse and gig into the market, was proceeding along the road, about 12.45pm, when a motor lorry laden with roofing tiles crashed into the rear of her gig, smashing it and the harness to pieces, throwing the lady heavily to the ground, rendering her unconscious. Mrs. Parris was attended by Dr. Johnston who was summoned to the scene of the accident, and removed to Nurse Campbell’s private hospital “St. Pancras”, where she was admitted suffering from severe shock and bruises,…
Author: Cameron McCullough
ON Monday afternoon at 2pm a wood-cutter, named William Singleton, aged 43, single, who was felling trees for Mr. Holland, at Flinders, met with a fearful accident. At 7pm Mr. Holland became alarmed at the non-appearance of Singleton. He went in search and found the missing man pinned beneath a fallen tree. Jacks were necessary to release him, and after five hours of agony and inability to move, Mr. Holland conveyed the man in his own car to Dr. Maxwell’s surgery at Frankston. Dr. Maxwell found the injuries to be of so severe a nature that he ordered his immediate…
VERY great sympathy was expressed with Cr. F. H. Wells and Mrs Wells when it was heard that their second eldest son, W. Wells, had been the victim of what appears to have been a cowardly assault on Saturday night last. It appears that the lad was returning home from the picture show when he was attacked and rendered unconscious. He was conveyed to his home by friends and Dr. Maxwell was speedily in attendance. The lad, who is 18 years of age, did not regain consciousness for several hours. His condition, although somewhat improved, is still serious. It is…
THE shire secretary, Mr. John E. Jones yesterday received application from the secretary of the Amateur Sports Club, Melbourne, asking permission to use the Frankston park for the commencement of the Olympic Marathon test race on Saturday, 29th September. The application was granted. This race from Frankston to Melbourne will commence at 1 o’clock, and is really a test to select a representative for Australia at the Paris games next year. The shire president, councillors and leading members of Frankston sports clubs will assist on the day, and as competitors will be present from all the States considerable public interest…
THOSE persons who decline to sit at table whilst there are thirteen present, and who scent the gravest danger if it should so happen, that there is thirteen at any gathering, will now have a further proof of the fatality that they allege goes with the number thirteen. Recently the leg of a racing pigeon was washed up on the bench at Edithvale, with the dread thirteen on its leg band. Of course, there is no doubt that the poor bird would have died a similar death if his number had been any but thirteen; still those good souls who…