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Accidents, 1849

3 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Dreadful Accident at Glasgow.— Awful Loss of Life. (From Bell's Messenger, February 19.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 13 June 1849 · page 4

GLASGOW, SATURDAY NIGHT.—This evening a dreadful catastrophe occurred in the Theatre Royal, Dunlop-street. Very shortly after the performance had commenced an alarm was given…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, June 28, 1849. [In Saturday's Mercury we published a report of Thursday's Council proceedings, from our Sydney correspondent. In this report Mr. Macintyre's notice of motion for a select committee on the Newcastle breakwater was accidently omitted, and Mr. Lowe's motion relative to the Real Property Bill was necessarily briefly reported; we now give, as follows, the Atlas's report of both.] Newcastle Breakwater

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 4 July 1849 · page 4

Mr. MACINTYRE gave notice that he should move, on Tuesday, that a select committee be appointed to inquire into the state of the breakwater at Newcastle, the…

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Dreadful Accident

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 24 November 1849 · page 4

During the last five weeks a spacious building, for merly a coach factory, has been opened as a place o[?] worship by the Roman Catholics. This building was on the north side of Charles-street, Drury-lane, within a…

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