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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1864

7 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Melancholy Accident, and Death of Mr. Charles Fairfax

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1864 · page 2

WE have, this morning, to announce the death of Mr. Charles John Fairfax, one of the proprietors of this journal. In a world of bereavement and mortality, we have no right to obtrude upon the public…

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Accident to the James Paterson (s.), and Perseverance Schooner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1864 · page 2

CAPTAIN MAIDES, of the Grafton steamer, which arrived at the Company's wharf on Thursday last, reports that at three p.m. on Wednesday, the 6th instant, on his passage from Syndey to the…

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The Appalling Accident at Santiago. Latest Particulars

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 26 April 1864 · page 2

ADVICES received from Santiago, via New York, state that the Chilian Government have decreed the entire demolition of the remains of the Church of Campania. About 1700 of the burnt bodies…

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Steamboat Accident: Upwards of Thirty Lives Lost

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1864 · page 4

ON the 10th of July, a sad catastrophe occurred at Lyons, involving the loss of upwards of thirty lives. A river boat, plying on the Saone called La Mouche, was what is nautically known as crank,…

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The Restoration of the Apparently Drowned

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 October 1864 · page 4

WE reprint from the Government Gazette the new instructions issued by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for the restoration of the apparently drowned. These instructions are the result of…

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Fatal and Melancholy Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 15 November 1864 · page 2

WE are this week called upon to record one of the most painful accidents that it has ever been our lot in this district to witness, and which has resulted in the removal from our midst of an old and much…

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Terrible Boat Accident— Seven Persons Drowned

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 27 December 1864 · page 2

INFORMATION reached Sydney on Wednesday that a boat accident occurred in the Port Hacking River on last Tuesday afternoon, by which seven persons a father, mother, and four children, and another…

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