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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1867

5 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Frightful Accident in the Regent’s- Park

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 30 March 1867 · page 3

ONE of the most fatal ice accidents that has taken place in this country for many years happened on the ornamental water in the Regent’s Park on Tuesday afternoon, causing…

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A Man Drowned at Tinonee

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 3 August 1867 · page 2

ON Thursday evening last, about six o’clock, THOMAS WOOTEN, a very old resident of Tinonee, was drowned by falling off the punt, whilst endeavoring to pull it across the river. He had been…

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Tee Late Accident at the Heads. Inquest on Pilot Beeder

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 24 August 1867 · page 2

THE City Coroner commenced an inquiry on Saturday, at the Observer Tavern, George-street North, respecting the death of a man whose body was found on Friday morning, on Store Beach,…

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Fatal Boat Accident in Sydney Harbor

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 23 November 1867 · page 2

A BOAT accident attended with a lamentable loss of life, occurred on Sunday evening, between Middle, Head and South Head. On Sunday afternoon, a party of six persons started from…

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Accidents and Offences

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 28 December 1867 · page 3

EVER since the horrible murder and mutilation of the unfortunate child Fanny Adams, the usually quiet village of Alton, Hants, has been in a state of excitement and commotion, and on Friday,…

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