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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1885

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Accident to Mr. C. B. Ranclaud

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1885 · page 4

ABOUT a quarter to 6 p.m. yesterday a somewhat serious accident occurred to the above highly-esteemed and popular citizen whilst coming down Wolfe-street,…

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Terrible Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1885 · page 5

A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Tichborne lead, Parkes, some time on Sunday night, to an old resident named Michael Holland. A digger, who was looking for a pool of…

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Found Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1885 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The body of a female, much decomposed, has been found in the harbour…

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Collision in the Harbour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1885 · page 2

A collision of a somewhat serious character occurred in Sydney harbour on Wednesday morning, although fortunately it was unattended with loss of life, says the "Evening News." It appears that…

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Fatal Accident at Ballarat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1885 · page 11

A SAD fatal accident occurred at Scotchmans on Saturday, by which a young man named Vernon Hampton lost his life. The deceased was…

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Another Accident with Firearms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 April 1885 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Hubert Bell, 13, son of Mr. Bell, manager of the Bank of New South Wales branch, Young, was accidentally shot by his brother aged 9…

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Fatal Gun Accident at Young. Affecting Details

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 April 1885 · page 3

A FATAL accident occurred at Young on Saturday morning, by which a little boy named Reginald Harry Russell Bell, son of Mr. Sydney Bell, manager of the local…

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Accident at Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 April 1885 · page 3

YESTERDAY afternoon what might have been a serious accident occurred on the Commonage-road, Hamilton, to a boy named Frederick Patterson, who was…

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Fearful Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1885 · page 6

A FEARFUL accident took place in Tasmania on the Western Line last week. When the train which leaves Launceston at 5 p.m. was midway between…

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Collision in Sydney Harbour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 April 1885 · page 2

A dense fog prevailed in the harbour on Tuesday morning, and caused considerable delay to the shipping, both in ward and outward hound. Only one accident occurred, the North Shore Ferry…

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Accidentally Poisoned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1885 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Saturday.—Mr. Clarke, a Queensland squat[?]er, was accidentally poisoned in Wellington yesterday. He took an overdose of chlorodyne…

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Serious Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1885 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A serious accident occurred at the Salvation Army barracks, Eaglehawk, by which three men named William Southgate, William…

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Strange and Fatal Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 April 1885 · page 2

MR. WM. BURTT, the well-known jeweller of George-street, Sydney, died at the Sydney Hospital on Friday last from the effects of an operation for tumour in the thigh. Mr…

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Fatality in Gundagal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1885 · page 5

GUNDAGAI, Thursday.—A fatal accident happened here this morning to a man named Stitt, engaged on the railway works close to town. It appears that…

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CABLEGRAMS Another Dynamite Explosion. the Admiradty Attacked This Time. the Principal Clerk Seriously Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1885 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday afternoon.—An explosion, supposed to have been caused by dynamite, occurred to-day in the office of Mr. Edwin N. Swainson,…

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A Man Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 April 1885 · page 3

YESTERDAY afternoon three men named Christopher M'Millan, H. Robinson, and T. Sims were pulling in a boat in a creek leading from Hexham to Wallsend, when the…

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Fatal Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 April 1885 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Jno. M'Mullen, at the Bondi sewer works, was lying on the tramway at the works, when a waggon went over him. He died in the hospital…

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The Collision at Penjdeh. Arbitration Suggested

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 April 1885 · page 2

LONDON, Monday.—The Times to-day publishes a telegram from its correspondent at St. Petersburg, in which it states that the British Government…

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Drowned in the Harbour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 April 1885 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—John Shelley, a passenger by the steamer Pearl, fell overboard in the harbour and was drowned…

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Fatal Boat Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 April 1885 · page 4

HOBART, Monday.—A sad boat accident occurred at Latrobe yesterday. Constable Morris, with his wife, son, and daughter, and Mr. Webster, the watchhouse-keeper…

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