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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1896

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Painful Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 3 October 1896 · page 9

While Mr. J. McKune was engaged in fossicking for gold on the beach in the vicinity of Tacking Point on Saturday afternoon last, he met with…

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Serious Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 3 October 1896 · page 8

On Wednesday last, while engaged at the works in connection with the training wall at the new entrance to the Macleay River, a man named John…

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Serious Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 10 October 1896 · page 9

On Saturday last a rather serious accident occurred at Hickey's Creek. Two young sons of Mr. A. Mitchell were engaged driving some cows in…

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Local News. Accident to the Mail Coach

Macleay Argus · Saturday 10 October 1896 · page 8

Early on Wednesday morning one of the horses attached to the Kempsey mail coach bolted from the yards of the Royal Hotel, Port Macquarie, and…

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Peculiar Fatality. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Saturday 17 October 1896 · page 9

Hugh Connors, owner of a sluicing claim at Kiandra, met with a most peculiar fatal accident yesterday. The bung of the water race started, with…

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Painful Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 17 October 1896 · page 8

On Thursday last Mr. John Gill, of East Kempsey, met with a painful accident. He was out at Dulcoughi engaged in attending to some bullocks…

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Fatal Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 17 October 1896 · page 9

On Friday last week, Mr. Leslie McNeil met with an accident on the Nambucca, which involved fatal consequences. He was engaged clearing a…

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Horse Drowned

Macleay Argus · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 9

Oil Monday morning last the ferryman at Central Kempsey noticed a very fine draught mare endeavoring to get on to the punt. He drove her…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

Macleay Argus · Saturday 7 November 1896 · page 9

Yesterday, a sad case of drowning occurred at the residence of Mr. Angus Sutherland, West Kempsey. It appears that a son of that…

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Buggy Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 9

Yesterday, Mr. Thompson, commercial traveller, was being driven to Port Macquarie by Mr. D. Renwick, and when about two miles out…

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Local News. Buggy Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 8

On Tuesday last while a buggy and pair were standing outside Mr. Moses' store, Greenhill, a team passed and startled the horses in the buggy,…

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Serious Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 28 November 1896 · page 9

On Wednesday last Mr. F. G. Panton, jun., J.P., met with a very serious accident. From the meagre accounts to hand it appears that Mr…

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Sad Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 12 December 1896 · page 8

An accident, which nearly involved fatal consequences, happened to Arthur, the nine year old son of Constable Donnelly, of Gladstone,…

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Serious Railway Accident. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Saturday 19 December 1896 · page 12

A serious accident occurred on the Esk railway line, Queensland, on Wednesday afternoon. A heavily laden cattle train was descending a…

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Found Drowned. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Saturday 26 December 1896 · page 9

The body of a man named William Sinclair, a wool classer, was found yesterday in the Peel River at Tamworth…

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Painful Accident

Macleay Argus · Saturday 26 December 1896 · page 9

On Saturday night last, Mr. Thomas Williams, master of the steam drogher Cornstalk, had the misfortune to meet with a very…

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