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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

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Accident at Crookwell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 February 1886 · page 3

Mr. John Lyons, of Crookwell, visited Dr. Morton on Thursday, and had a very ugly wound in his thumb attended to. The injuries were inflicted whilst the patient was using an axe, and were very…

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Serious Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 February 1886 · page 4

A very serious accident befel a young man named Leslie Ferguson, son of Mr. S. Ferguson, of Ifield, on Thursday afternoon last. He was riding a horse in Goldsmith-street, and the animal shied at a…

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A Painful Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 February 1886 · page 2

IN another column will be fond particulars of an accident through an explosion of gunpowder on Saturday at Mr. Walker's lime kilns, Kingsdale. We have to chronicle a second accident from the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 February 1886 · page 2

MR. GEORGE CAMPBELL working for Mr. Belcher at Garoorigang met with a painful accident on Saturday last. By some means the wheel of a dray passed over the right foot, severely injuring the…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 February 1886 · page 4

A MAN, named Henry Hadvay, sustained some painful injuries on Saturday evening, through a gunpowder explosion, at Kingsdale. He is engaged at. Mr. Walker's limekilns, and while removing some…

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Serious Accident From Gunpowder

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 25 February 1886 · page 2

SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM GUNPOWDER.—On Monday afternoon, a second accident, unhappily more serious than that recorded in last issue, occurred through an explosion of gunpowder at Mr. Walker's…

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Fatal Accident Through Nitric Acid

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1886 · page 2

A shocking calamity recently occurred on board the Union Company's steamship Manapouri, which left Auckland on Friday for Melbourne. The vessel had not…

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Accident at the Gaol

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 March 1886 · page 4

On Saturday evening a warder at the gaol named Dodd sustained a painful, accident through an accidental discharge of his rifle. He had just come. off duty and was standing with the butt of the…

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A Boy Accidentally Shoots his Sister

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 March 1886 · page 4

AT the Central Criminal Court on Monday William Lawlers, a boy, was arraigned upon the charge of having, on the 28th November 1885, at Bukelang feloniously slain one Sarah Lawlers. The…

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Fatal Mining Accident

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 4

Braidwood, Thursday. A minor named George Breach, working at Flanagan's Point, Little River, has been missed since Saturday evening last. A Chinese neighbour named…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 3
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

A painful accident occurred yesterday morning about eight o'clock to a young man named Archie G. Cady, residing at Maxton. Cady was engaged in cutting wood with a circular saw, driven by…

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Sad Firearm Accident

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

A LITTLE fellow between four and five years old was the innocent cause of a very painful accident yesterday to his uncle, a young man named Frank Brewer, near Gunning. Brewer had been…

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Serious Circular-saw Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 March 1886 · page 3

A MAN named Alfred Cady, Maxton, met with a very severe accident yesterday morning. He was cutting some wood with a circular saw and by some means, probably the shifting of the wood, his hand…

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A Shooting Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 March 1886 · page 4

A FATAL gun accident occurred at Rookwood on Monday afternoon, the victim being a child named Mary Matthews. It appears that the child was left at a neighbour's place for safety while its mother…

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Sad Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Thursday 11 March 1886 · page 2

AT about noon on Monday last a serious accident occurred to the son of our respected townsman, Mr. John Harvey. It appears that the poor little fellow, who is…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 March 1886 · page 4

ON Tuesday Mr. W. Holt, of Arthursleigh, was examining some mineral specimens, when a horse which was standing close beside him took fright at something, and in rearing, it is thought, struck him…

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Fatal Gun Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 March 1886 · page 2

A SAD case of shooting, resulting in the death of a child named May Matthews, aged two years, occurred at Rookwood on Monday afternoon. It appears that the child had been left by her mother…

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Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 March 1886 · page 2

ANOTHER gunpowder accident occurred yesterday A man named Fardon, living at Lake Bathurst, lit a fuse connected with a blast and threw the match on the ground. There happened to be some powder…

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Fatal Tram Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 March 1886 · page 6

The festivities which took place at Botany on Wednesday were terminated with a sad calamity. As is usual on such occasions, the tram accommodation was wholly insufficient to meet the…

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