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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1899

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Inquiry Into the Adamstown Fatality. a Verdict of Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 November 1899 · page 7

Mr. G. C. Martin, the district coroner held an inquest at Simmonds Royal Standard Hotel, Adamstown, yesterday, touching the death of he lad Edward Patrick…

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Miners' Accident Fund Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 November 1899 · page 4

The bill introduced in the Legislative Assembly yesterday to provide a fund for persons injured, or the relatives of those killed or injured by mining accident, sets…

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Serious Shooting Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 November 1899 · page 8

A serious shooting accident happened to a young man named George Winter, son of Mr. Mark Winter, of High-street, on the Mount Vincent road, yesterday. It appears…

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Miners' Accident Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 November 1899 · page 4

The Miners' Accident Fund Bill, introduced by Mr. Fegan in the Assembly on Wednesdy, differs little from the one which Mr. Cook brought down in the…

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Accident on Shipboard

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 November 1899 · page 4

At 4 p.m. on Saturday a seaman of the barque East African was admitted to the hospital, suffering from a broken thigh. The vessel reached hero on Saturday…

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Serious Accident to a Trooper. Sydney, Sunday Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 November 1899 · page 5

Geo. Hanson, the Sergeant Farrier of the Mudgee division of the Australian Horse, one of the contingent of leave by the Langton Grange, when riding a horse in…

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West Wallsend. Serious Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 November 1899 · page 3

While Mr. E. Stobbs and his family were driving home from Wallsend on Monday night the horse, in coming down the long hill between Wallsend and this town, shied at a pool…

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Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 November 1899 · page 4

While entering Gibraltar on her homeward voyage from Australia on October 11, the Orient liner Cuzco came into collision with H.M. fronclad Anson, which was lying at anchor. The accident is…

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A Seaman Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 November 1899 · page 4

A seaman named James Blythe, belonging to the ship Celtic Monarch met his death on Saturday in attempting to desert from the vessel while she was lying in the stream on…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 November 1899 · page 4

Mr. George Whiteley, the gatekeeper at Rose-street gate, West Maitland, met with a terribly sudden death last night. While the mail train from Sydney, due at 10.24, was…

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Maitland District the Railway Crossing Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 November 1899 · page 8

Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., District Coroner, conducted an inquiry yesterday afternoon, at the Governor Gipps Hotel Abbott-street, into the circumstances connected with the…

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An Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 November 1899 · page 8

A young lad named William Robinson, son of Mr. Thomas Robinson, of Church-street, while bird-nesting in the grounds of Brough House yesterday afternoon, fell to…

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Maitland District the Bird-nesting Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 November 1899 · page 8

The young lad William Robinson, who was injured by a fall from a tree in the grounds of Brough House, Church-street, on Tuesday evening, is slowly recovering…

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Maitland District Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 November 1899 · page 8

A young man named Sidney Brimley met with a painful accident while mowing lucerne on Mr. Elias Bowden's farm at Bolwarra, on Tuesday afternoon. He was…

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Merewether. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 November 1899 · page 8

The child of Mr. Judd sustained a painful accident here on" Monday evening. It appears that while playing he came into violent contact with a barbed wire fence…

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The Miners' Compulsory Accident Fund Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 6

Though this is not a question of more local interest (writes our Stockton correspondent) it may not be injured in any way by a few local comments. When the draft bill was…

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Drowning Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 November 1899 · page 8

A sad drowning accident occurred in the river at Oakhampton yesterday morning, when a young man named Archie Cook, aged 16 years, went beyond his depth, and…

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Accident to Dr. Russell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 November 1899 · page 8

Dr. W. J. Russell narrowly escaped serious injuries in a buggy accident near paterson on Saturday morning. It appears that he was returning from Gresford, and was…

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District News. Minmi. Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 November 1899 · page 3

On Wednesday, while a by of 10 years, son of Richard Snedden, was endeavouring to ride a horse (which had previously thrown its owner and bolted) met with a…

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West Wallsend. Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1899 · page 3

On Saturday last, while W. Galloway, residing in West Wallsend, was in the act of mounting a horse belonging to W. Campbell, the animal started plunging and kicked…

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