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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1916

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Greek Prince Injured

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 1

Prince Alexander, second son of the King od Greece, who is an officer in an artillery regiment, was riding out to [?] at the head this…

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Sensational Motor Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1916 · page 2

A MOTOR accident, which was extremely fortunate to end without fatal consequences, occurred at the Blackman's Point punt last Sunday afternoon. The car, a large type of…

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Sad Drowning Fatality. Two Lives Lost at Karaak [?]Lat

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 19 January 1916 · page 2

Word was receive in Wingham on Monday afternoon that there had been a drowning accident that day in the Manning River at Karaak Flat. Dr…

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Double Drowning Fatality

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 2

A double drowning fatality [?] red in the manning River at [?] Flat on Monday. Mrs. [?] of a railway [?] and [?]…

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Fatality at Wingham. Woman and Boy Drowned

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 2

A DOUBLE drowning fatality occurred at Kararak Flat, near Wingham, on Monday afternoon, whereby a woman named Mrs. Duncan and her brother, George Hudson…

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The Karaak Flat Drowning Tragedy. the Inquest

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 6

An inquiry was held by Mr. F. F. Potts P.M. District Coroner, at the Court House on Wednesday into the circumstances of the death of Annie Duncan…

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Motor Car Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1916 · page 2

A motor-car driven by Mr. Stephens of Mailland, accompanied by his wife and child went over the Mograni Cutting at the lower end on Tuesday…

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Returned Soldier Injured

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 2

As the Sydney mail train was about to leave the Junee station a returned soldier, wounded at Gallipoli, named James McDonald, was saying good bye…

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Drowning Fatality

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 4

Word reached the Bellingen Courier from Orama on away that the body of Mr Dan. O'Sullivan, road contractor, had been found in a water…

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Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1916 · page 2

Mr. Frank Callaghan, of Dangog, had the misfortune to break his ankle and small bones in his leg in the last race of the Oddfellows Sports on…

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Accident at Tibuc

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 9 February 1916 · page 2

A painful accident befel Mr. Earnie Harris on Saturday afternoon last. He was out rabbit shooting with his brother at Tibuc when he accidentally…

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Fatal Scalding Accident

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 11 February 1916 · page 4

A scalding accident, which terminated fatally, occurred a couple of weeks ago at Taylor's Arm to the infant son of Mr. and…

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Fishing Boat Capsizes. All the Occupants Drowned

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 19 February 1916 · page 5

THE fishing launch Seabird capsized on the Camden Haven bar on Saturday last when inward bound, and the whole of the crew were drowned. The little steamer crossed…

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Fatal Accident. an Upturned Dray

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 10 March 1916 · page 2

On Friday morning, soon after starting work, a man named George Painter, a horse driver on the railway construction work near…

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Aftermath of Motor Collision

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

Some months ago a collision between two motor cars, belonging to Mrs. Leonard of Nambucca Heads and Robinson Bros., Kempsey, occurred…

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Serious Gun Accident

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 2

MR. ARTHUR BASHAM, a well-known resident of Newtown, met with a very painful accident on Saturday last He was one of a party of shooters whose custom it has been of late to make week-end…

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Coolongolook Fatality

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 8 April 1916 · page 2

On Thursday last Mr. F. F. Potts, P.M., Coroner, held a magisterial inquiry into the cause of the death of John Woodward, which occurred at…

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Famous for an Accident

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1916 · page 4

The Russians are gradually winning their way back to Czernowitz, a name that cenveys little or nothing to most people, though its university,…

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Mysterious Drowning Case

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 22 April 1916 · page 5

A considerable sensation was caused at Glenthorne on Wednesday afternoon, when the news spread around that the body of a man had been washed up…

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Sad Drowning Fatality

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 29 April 1916 · page 4

Since the tragic drowning of the two Misses Lyons, at Bay's Hill, some five years ago. probably no similar disaster has caused such widespread…

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