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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1888

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The Angerona-Orontes Collision. LONDON, Jan. 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 4

The Admiralty has held a court of inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision which occurred about 12 months ago off Wollongong, between the ships Angerona, bound from…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 4

YESTERDAY morning a man named Thomas Denton, in the employ of I. C. Shepherd, South Hill Dairy, was admitted to the hospital suffering from several cuts, sprains, and abrasions,…

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Deaths from Drowning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 January 1888 · page 4

A young man named John Richard Radcliffe, who was in the employ of Mr. Gibbins, of Arncliffe, was drowned whilst bathing in a waterhole at Bexley on the…

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Collision in the Bristol Channel. LONDON, Jan. 24

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 January 1888 · page 4

A collision has occurred in the Bristol Channel between the ship Celtic Chief, bound for Albany, Western Australia, and a German barque, the name of which has not been ascertained. The…

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Terrible Accident in George Street

The Yass Courier · Thursday 26 January 1888 · page 4

ABOUT ten minutes past 9 o'clock on Monday morning, while three men, named Tim Kane, labourer, Henry Cripps, stonemason, and Peter M'Inerney, labourer, were engaged at…

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Three Boys Drowned in a Dam

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 January 1888 · page 2

On Tuesday evening two sons of Mr. Benjamin Jones, a labourer in the employ of the Hon. R. H. Roberts, of Currawong, aged respectively eleven and nine years,…

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The Late Fatal Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 January 1888 · page 2

THE district coroner hold an inquest on Friday last on the body of Frederick Albert Vincent Shipp, a child four yours of ago, son of Mr. Henry Shipp of Gullen, whose sad death was…

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Coach Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 January 1888 · page 2

AN accident to Mr. Moran's mail coach travelling between Wheeo and Gulburn happened on Friday afternoon at a place about fourteen miles from Goulburn. One of the horses being…

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Peculiar Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 31 January 1888 · page 2

MR. A. D. BADGERY, J.P., held an inquest at the house of Henry Pearce, at Colo Valley, on January 28, touching the cause of death of a man named Robert Patch. From the evidence…

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Accident at Manton's Creek

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1888 · page 3

A PAINFUL accident happened at Manton's Creek mine on Thursday afternoon to a miner named William Jeffries. He was working in a very deep shaft, and a…

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Accident to Mr. J. J. Kennedy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 February 1888 · page 2

A Brisbane telegram to the S. M. Herald says —Mr. J. Kennedy, the comedian, met with a severe accident at Toowoomba on Saturday night, when playing in "The Shaughraun."…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 7 February 1888 · page 4

A YOUNG man named Russell, son of W. Russel of Deccan-street, fell the other day and fractured the small bone of his left arm. Dr. Macdonogh attended to the injury yesterday at Mr. Hollis's…

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Accident to the Mail Train

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 11 February 1888 · page 4

ACCIDENT TO THE MAIL TRAIN.—The down mail train on Thursday ran over and killed a cow between the Goulburn station and Joppa Junction, at a spot about two miles from Goulburn. The engine and…

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Sad Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1888 · page 4

A SAD fatality happened near South Head on Sunday morning, when a man named Thomas O'Connor lost his life through the breaking of a rope, by means of which he was lowering…

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A Serious Collision

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1888 · page 4

TOOK place on the Parramatta River at the conclusion of the Kemp-Clifford sculling race on Saturday afternoon, as a result of which one man lost his life by drowning, and another is…

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Accident

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1888 · page 2

ACCIDNET—About Middey Yesterday,near the White Horse Hotel Charles Hickson a Lad seven yours of ago son of Mr. john hickson englane-sitter was knocked down and run over by a lorry driven…

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Street Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 February 1888 · page 4

A LITTLE boy named Charles Hickson, son of Mr. Hickson, railway employe, had a narrow escape from being killed yesterday at about 1 o'clock. He was endeavouring to cross the street…

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Street Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 February 1888 · page 2

WE have been requested to draw the attention of parents and others to the carelessness exhibited by children in crossing the streets. A gentleman who has to spend a good part of his…

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Accident to a Shunter

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 February 1888 · page 2

A SHUNTER named Albert Carr met with a serious accident about half-past 7 or 8 o'clock this morning. While putting the brake on a heavy truck with his foot he slipped, and his…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 February 1888 · page 4

A MAN named Andrew Tomkins, in the employ of Mr. Gibson, of Tirranna, in riding home on Saturday evening, met with a slight accident through a horse in a buggy shying and…

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