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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1878

211 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 11

Accident on the Maitland (s.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 December 1878 · page 3

A SEAMAN named John Morrow met with a painful accident early on Thursday morning, on board the steamship Maitland, whilst on the passage up from Sydney. Morrow, it…

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Accident to a Coal Train

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 December 1878 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning, about 9 o'clock, an accident happened to a coal train which was coming in from New Lambton. The train had reached the railway yard at…

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Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 December 1878 · page 2

YESTERDAY a party of gentlemen and two ladies procured a sociable from Mr. James Hubbard for the purpose of proceeding to the Folly. They started on their journey…

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Fatal Accident at Lake Macquarie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 December 1878 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon a most lamentable catastrophe occurred on the above favourite place of resort, which has cast a gloom over the whole district. It appears that Messrs…

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Four Young Girls Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 December 1878 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Narrabri, in Monday's E. News says:—A shocking calamity has occurred in the Namoi. Four young girls have been drowned. The victims of the sad…

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Sad Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1878 · page 2

A SAD accident was recorded in our telegrams on Tuesday afternoon. We learn the following particulars from the Wanganui Chronicle:—"On Monday afternoon Dec. 2nd…

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The Late Fatal Accident at Lake Macquarie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1878 · page 4

THE body of the young man, Henry George Adams, who was drowned on Saturday last, at Lake Macquarie, by the upsetting of a boat, the particulars of which, we have…

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Drowned in a Tank

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 December 1878 · page 2

A. BOY named Newman, eight years old, was missed from his home at Tighe's Hill, between 8 and 10 o'clock on Saturday night, and his parents becoming alarmed, a search…

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Death by Drowning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 December 1878 · page 2

AN inquest was held yesterday morning, at. Ivoret's Hotel, Tighe's Hill, before C. B. Ranclaud, Esq., coroner for the district, and a jury of twelve, on the body of a lad named…

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Fatal Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 December 1878 · page 4

THE Hamilton, Spectator contains an account of a fatal accident which happened to Mrs. A. T. Dickens a short time ago. The painful circumstance is of wide spread interest…

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Serious Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 December 1878 · page 4

ON Thursday afternoon a groom named Alfred Fenner, in the employment of Mr. James Hubbard of the Yacht Club Hotel, met with what it is feared may prove a…

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