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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1869

7 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Fatal Accidents, Suicides and Murders. (From late English papers

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 2 January 1869 · page 3

ONE of the most lamentable boat accidents that has happened near the Channel Islands for many years occurred on October 19. It appears that a party of gentlemen, returning…

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Sad Accident- Death of a Young Wife by Drowning

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 27 February 1869 · page 2

THROUGHOUT the entire community a feeling of deep sorrow: has been expressed on account of the untimely death of Mrs. JOSEPH BATES; [?] an event which occurred on Saturday evening…

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General News. Accident to the Fire King

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 6 March 1869 · page 4

Yesterday evening.at 8 o’clock. as the Fire King ’[?]was returning from Balmoral, with a large number of excursionists on board, she came into collision with the barque…

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Accidents and Offences

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 24 July 1869 · page 4

A YOUNG man named Wilson, employed at the Bangor station, of the “London and Worth West Railway Company, has been detected in a very extensive system of robberies. A hitherto…

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INQUEST. Frightful and Fatal Accident

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 11 December 1869 · page 2

AN inquest was held in Cundletown on Wednesday last, on the body of a man named John Brown, a laborer at the [?] Saw-mills, Scott’s Cre[?]k, Lower Manning, before the…

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A Strange Case of Drowning from the Steamship Tamar. (From the Cornwall Chronicle.)

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 18 December 1869 · page 2

A MELANCHOLY loss of a life occurred on the last trip of the Tamar steamship from Melbourne to Launceston. The vessel had passed the pilot vessel off Queenscliff’, when Captain Saunders…

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Collision at Sydney Heads. Total Wreck of the Prince Patrick Schooner

The Manning River News and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 25 December 1869 · page 3

AT about three o’clock on Friday morning, 17th instant, the schooner Prince Patrick and brig Drover were proceeding out through Sydney Heads, both vessels being bound to Newcastle…

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