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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 January 1886 · page 4

AN accident which resulted in a fractured thigh to a lady named Crow occurred at Bungondore yesterday. The mishap took place at a picnic. Mrs. Crow was arranging some catables upon a…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1886 · page 2

LAST evening a son of Mr. Gillet's, of Mummell, came to town and had a dislocation of his elbow reduced by Dr. Gentle. The accident was caused by the capsizing of a vehicle in which the patient was…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1886 · page 2

LAST week a little child, son of Mr. Herbert Charles, gardener, met with a very serious accident. He was playing near a horse, and the animal, being probably annoyed with flies, let out and kicked the…

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Fatal Boat Accidents in Sydney Harbour

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 January 1886 · page 4

THE customary rejoicings in connection with the ushering in of the New Year were unfortunately marred by the occurrence of another of those fatal boat accidents with which the inhabitants of the…

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Drowned in a Reservoir

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 January 1886 · page 2

HARRY CLIFTON, 23 years of age, in the employment of Mr. Southee for over three years, was swimming his horse in the reservoir at Cootamundra on Tuesday night, when the horse suddenly went down under…

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Boat Accidents In the Harbor. Four Persons Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 January 1886 · page 3

Several boat accidents occurred on New Years day, two of them unfortunately attended with fatal results—four lives being cut short amid the TELEGRAMS from Tumberumbs state that an extraordinary case of shooting occurred there about one o'clock on Friday. Some fifty or sixty of the townspeople were…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 8 January 1886 · page 2

LAST Friday an accident befel Sydney Worrall, a son Of Mr. James Worrall of Laggan. It appears the lad was riding a rather restive horse when it bolted. He…

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Boat Accidents in Sydney

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 8 January 1886 · page 2

SEVERAL boat accidents occurred in Sydney harbour on Friday last, and four lives were lost", "The inert serious happened about midday off Garden Island…

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Sad Deaths by Drowning

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 14 January 1886 · page 4

Lauricton, Monday,—An inquest was held to-day on the bodies of two girls who were drowned at Kendall, Camden Haven, last Saturday. One was a daughter of Mr…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 January 1886 · page 2

Yesterday a man named Murray by some means fell from a cart, and striking the wheel fractured two ribs on the right side. He was brought into Goulburn to Mr. Hollis's dispensary, and attended…

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Three Ladies Drowned

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 January 1886 · page 2

A SAD accident happened on Sunday at a bathing place near Belfast, Victoria, known as Boarding School Bay, by which three ladies were drowned while bathing. One of them got out of her depth,…

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Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 22 January 1886 · page 2

On Saturday last as Mr. Alfred Withers, hotelkeeper at Grabben Gullen was riding through a thick scrub after some horses, a thick-pointed stick struck him in the…

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Fatal Accident on the Waratah-Homebush Railway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 7

ON Monday morning a fatal accident was reported as having occurred on the railway line at Teralbah, forming part of the Homebush and Waratah railway now in the course of construction by Messrs…

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Drowned in a Bath

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 January 1886 · page 4

AT an early hour on Thursday, Mary Ann Dixon, the wife of a shipwright, residing at Louisa-road, Balmain, was found drowned in a bathing house, situated at the foot of a garden attached to the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 January 1886 · page 2

Mr. A. L. Faithfull yesterday morning unfortunately met with a somewhat severe accident through being flung from his horse at Springfield. The animal was a very spirited one, and in rushing…

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Suicide by Drowning

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1886 · page 4

The suspicion recently expressed that the man Thomas Byrne, whose sudden disappearance after his release from Queanbeyan jail, where no had been doing a sentence of a month…

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Sad Death by Drowning Near Bowral

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 4 February 1886 · page 4

We learn from the Mittagong Mail that on Sunday morning last a young woman named Mary Turner was drowned while bathing in the Wingeearribee…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 February 1886 · page 2

MR. D. BROADHEAD met with a nasty accident whilst riding on Sunday last. His horse put his foot in a hole, with the result that his rider was thrown to the ground and received injuries to his…

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Sad Case of Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 February 1886 · page 7

ON Sunday morning last a servant girl named Mary Turner, 23 years of age, in the employ of G. H. Caird, Esq., of Burradoo, near Bowral, was drowned in the waterhole in the Wingeearribbee…

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Accident to the Express

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 February 1886 · page 4

THE Melbourne express, which reaches Goulburn about 8 a.m., ran into some empty trucks which were on the track at Culcairn, near Albury, early this morning. At the time of writing we were not…

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