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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1886

9 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Found Drowned

Macleay Argus · Saturday 1 May 1886 · page 3

ON Saturday afternoon the 24th ult., it was reported to the Bellinger Police that a young man named Henry Cook had been found drowned lying on the Beach at a place called…

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Painful Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 3 July 1886 · page 2

It is with great regret that we record the occurrence of a very severe accident to the wife of our esteemed townsman, Mr. Job Stanford. It appears that on…

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Not by Accident. a Story by E. W. Thompson

Macleay Argus · Saturday 24 July 1886 · page 1

Death is so much the comrade of life that a man of ordinary fortitude does not, after the first shock, blench and shudder much to know that he has been touched…

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Not by Accident. -- (Concluded.)

Macleay Argus · Saturday 31 July 1886 · page 2

people were struck by the change in his appearance. His face was gaunt and tragic, the tense strain had made him very hazard, his neighbors thought they had…

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Collision Off Newcastle

Macleay Argus · Saturday 28 August 1886 · page 3

AT a quarter past 5 last Thursday week a collision occured off Bed Head, between the the schooner Mary Pashley, bound from Sydney to Nambuccra River, and Messrs. J…

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Sulky Accident

The Manning River Chronicle · Monday 15 November 1886 · page 2

As Mr. Worfold, photographer, was driving from Wingham to Cundletown on Thursday afternoon last along the road leading from the Woolla cemetery, the vehicle…

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The "Woodburn" Accident. To the Editor

Macleay Argus · Saturday 27 November 1886 · page 3

SIR, -- Now that the popular steamship has got over her troubles and is practically resurrected it is time to consider what treatment the shippers of maize which was so…

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The Keilawarra-helen Nicoll Collision

Macleay Argus · Saturday 18 December 1886 · page 2

THE Marine Board inquiry into the above disaster was commenced on Tuesday last, Captain Broomfield presided. It was arranged that the case…

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The Late Collision

Macleay Argus · Thursday 23 December 1886 · page 3

THE Marine Board continued their inquiry on Wednesday morning into the circumstances attending the collision between the Helen Nicoll and the Keilawarra on the 8th…

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