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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1914

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Dairying. Renovating Paspalum. An Accident and Its Consequences

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 May 1914 · page 4

According to the Inspector for the North Coast district, the Department's advocacy of the renovation of old and deteriorated paspalum pastures by…

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Burning Fatality at Singleton

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 6

A magisterial inquiry was held at the courthouse on Monday, before Mr. A. Simmons, J.P., concerning the death of an old man named Thomas Fellows, when the…

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Sensational Motor Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 2

A sensational and extremely narrow escape from what must have proved a shocking disaster occurred on the Armidale-Kempsey road on Saturday. Mr. J. Le…

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Dairying. Renovating Paspalum. An Accident and Its Consequences

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 6

According to the Inspector for the North Coast district, tho Department's advocacy of tho renovation of old and deteriorated paspalum pastures by…

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Fatal Canoe Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 12

Two young advocates, MM. Bigeard and Dupre, were drowned in the Marne through the capsizing of their canoe. The accident was witnessed by a number of persons…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Dairying. Renovalting Paspalum. an Accident and Its Consequenices

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 May 1914 · page 7

According to the Inspector for the North Coast district, the Department's advocacy of the renovation of old and deteriorated paspalum pastures by…

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Carpentier Injured. London, May 11

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 May 1914 · page 7

Owing to having injured his foot, Georges Carpentier, the European champion, will be unable to box Dick Smith, of England, on May 28, as arranged. He is willing to meet…

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Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 May 1914 · page 5

During the progress of a football match at Victoria Square on Saturday afternoon, between Singleton and Hinton clubs, one of the visiting players, Arthur Cook, was thrown…

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Racing Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1914 · page 5

Aa accident that might have pro[?] very serious happened at R[?]ond Terrace on Saturday last. A match race was being…

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Accident at Football

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 May 1914 · page 2

Air accident occurred shortly, after the start of the football match between Singleton and Hinton at Victoria Square on Saturday afternoon. A member of…

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Biplane Collision. London, Tuesday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 May 1914 · page 5

Two Sopwith biplanes at Aldershot on a perfect evening came into collision over the golf links, in view of hundreds, and plunged headlong to the ground…

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Fatal Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 May 1914 · page 2

The steamer Star of New Zealand, bound from London to Monto Video, collided with and sank a pilot boat. Five pilots were drownod…

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Fatal Collision Between Biplanes. London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 May 1914 · page 2

Two biplanes collided at Aldershot, and Captain Anderson and a mechanic were killed, while Lieutenant Wilson was seriously injured…

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Channel Collision. Pilot's Cutter Sunk. London, Wednesday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 May 1914 · page 5

The steamer Star of New Zealand came into collision in the Bristol Channel with a pilot's cutter. The fourteen survivors had narrow…

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Trolly Gang Run Down. One Killed; Five Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 May 1914 · page 3

A serious railway accident, resulting in the death of one man and injuries to five others, occu?ed on Tuesday morning it Bong Bong Budge, between…

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Painful Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 May 1914 · page 4

Mrs. E.J. Doherty, of Maitland, was about to step from a train at Waratah to join the Maitland train last evening when the train moved, and she fell on the…

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Accident at Sawmill

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 May 1914 · page 2

A young man named John Murphy, employed at Messrs. Gould Bros, and Co.'s sawmills, was the victim of a painful accident on Tuesday morning. He…

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Shooting Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 5

The mystery surrounding the shooting case at Wamberal, Gosford, has been cleared up. It appears that four boys went gillbird…

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How a Collision Was Caused

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 5

At the Marine Court inquiry into the cause of the collision between the ferry boat Belludera and the Government tug Kate, it was found the collision was caused by the…

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Inventions by Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1914 · page 5

An alchemist, experimenting in earths for the making of crucibles, found that he had invented porcelain. A watchmaker's apprentice, holding a…

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