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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1861

4 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Riot at Lambing Flat. Fatal Collision Between Rioters and Police. (From the Herald's Special Commissioner, by electric telegraph and special messenger to Yass.) Burrangong, Sunday, 6.30 p.m

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 20 July 1861 · page 6

Three of the ringleaders of the late riots were arrested to-day. Great excitement prevails at the present time, and a "roll-up" is now coming from Tipperary G[?]lly to release the prisoners…

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Fatal Collision Between Bushrangers and Police. (From the S. M. Herald, July 19.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 July 1861 · page 2

For some few months past the residents in the district of Cowra have been living in continual apprehension as to the sa[?]ety of their lives and property by reason of a gang of bushrangers having established themselves in…

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Accidents in High-street, West Maitland. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 October 1861 · page 6

GENTLEMEN—On looking over the local news in your paper of the 1st instant, my attention waa arrested by a couple of paragraphs, the one headed "Collision in High-street," and the other "Narrow escape," both…

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Railway Accident. (From the Herald's Campbelltown Correspondent.) Monday Morning

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 November 1861 · page 3

This morning, as the 3.30 train left the station, a number of horses were on the railway line, which galloped along until they came to the first culvert, where they stopped en masse, and before the engine could be stopped it came into contact…

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