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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1883

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Accidentally Killed

Southern Argus · Tuesday 2 January 1883 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Betts held an inquest in the committee-room of the hospital touching the death of James Nesbit, aged [?], a resident of Summerhill, near Arthursleigh. It appeared from the…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1883 · page 3

A sad accident resulting fatally happened near Marulan on Saturday last to an elderly man named James Nesbitt. Nesbitt formerly had a selection at Summer-hill on the Lower…

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Collision Between the Malwa ([?]) and the Clan Forbes ([?])

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 3 January 1883 · page 2

From a correspondent we been favoured with the following account of the collision between the Clan Forbes, steamer, and the P. and O. Co’s steamer Malwa, ending with the…

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Fatal Accident on the Cooma Railway Works

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 4 January 1883 · page 2

AN accident resulting fatally occurred on Tuesday afternoon last on the Cooma railway extension works, near Tarago. A middle-aged man named Hugh Tully, who was at work in a cutting, was…

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Unfortunate Accident

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 6 January 1883 · page 3

A very painful accident occurred on New Year's Day to a young man about twenty-one years of age named Alexander Me Kogg, son of a farmer on the Douro estate. It seems that…

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Terrible Blasting Accident

Southern Argus · Tuesday 9 January 1883 · page 4

The New Zaaland Herald reports the following shocking accident at Mount Eden: —The other day William Henry, quarryman, residing at Mount Eden, was dangerously…

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Death by Drowning

Southern Argus · Tuesday 16 January 1883 · page 2

On Saturday night a brickmaker named John Pogson, aged 45, met his death suddenly through being drowned in a pond at the Mulwarree at North Goulburn…

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Sad Case of Drowning

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1883 · page 2

ON Saturday night or early on Sunday morning last a sad case of drowning occurred in the Mulwarree Ponds, the deceased being John Pogson, a man forty five years of age and a brickmaker in the employ of…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 January 1883 · page 2

NEWS has just been received in town of a sad accident that occurred this morning to a son of Mr. Arthur Gray, of the Clear Hill, eight or nine miles from Goulburn. From…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 January 1883 · page 2

THE coroner (Mr. A. M. Betts) held an inquest on Wednesday, at the residence of Mr. Arthur Gray, Upper Sooley, on the body of Silas Gray, who, as reported in our last issue, accidentally shot himself'…

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Sad Fatality

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 27 January 1883 · page 4

DEATH OF MR. COMMISSIONER KING.—It is our painful duty to record the fact that on Thursday evening last Mr. Johnson George King, commissioner for conditional purchases, was…

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Fatal Accident

Southern Argus · Saturday 27 January 1883 · page 2

The principal evidence taken at the inquest held last Wednesday on the body of Silas Gray, whose death was reported in Thursday's issue, was that of his brother Mark Gray, who deposed: I am the son…

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The Late Fatal Gun-shot Accident

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 27 January 1883 · page 4

OX Wednesday evening last Mr. Betts, coroner, held an inquest at the Upper Sooley on the body of Silas Gray, the lad whose death by the accidental discharge of a gun was previously reported. The following…

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The Late Fatal Accident to Mr. Commissioner King

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1883 · page 2

WE received on Saturday morning from Cooma the following telegram relating to the sad accident which caused the death of Mr. Johnson George King, re. ported in last issue:—…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 February 1883 · page 2

A SAD and fatal accident occurred sometime during last night to a young man named John Cottington, aged about 28 or 29 years. The deceased, who leaves a widow and three…

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Fatal Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 8 February 1883 · page 2

A SAD accident occurred on Monday night, by which a young man named John Cottington lost his life. Cottington was a tanner in the employ of Mr. Gillospie, and lived in a cottage at the tannery,…

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Accident on the Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 February 1883 · page 2

THE corner (A. M. Betts, Esq.) held an inquest yesterday afternoon, at the Australian Arms, touching the death of a man named John Cottington, when the following evidence…

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Two Young Ladies Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 3

A MOST distressing and lamentable occurrence took place in Coogee Bay on Thursday morning, in the vicinity of what is known as the ladies' bathing-place. Two sisters, named…

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Gun Shot Accident

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 10 February 1883 · page 4

Yesterday afternoon a young man named John Fox, about nineteen years of age, in the employ of Mr. Collett of Murray's Flats, was shooting lat a crane when the gun burst and badly…

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