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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1871

6 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Shocking Gun Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 25 May 1871 · page 3

A SHOCKING gun accident happened near Helston, Cornwall, on March 11. A miner named Pryor, who was in search of partridges, had mounted a hedge and was…

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The Fatal Accident at Melbourne on Queen's Birthday

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 1 June 1871 · page 2

THE almost perfect success achieved in the Review was dashed just at the close by a lamentable accident, in which Mr John Alexander, a corporal in the…

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Colonial Extracts. the Late Case of Drowning in the Murrumbidgee River

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 28 September 1871 · page 3

OUR readers will remember that on Tuesday the 22nd of last month, Mrs Duncan Macfarlane, the wife of a settler on the Murrumbidgee River, was accidentally…

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Collision at Sea. Abandonment of the Barque a H. Badger

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 2 November 1871 · page 3

THE Alice Cameron, barque, from Auckland, came into port yesterday morning, and by her have arrived the crew and passengers of the barque A. H. Badger, who were picked up from their ship, which was in a…

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European Extracts. Disraeli and Queen Victoria. the Ex-premier in Direct Collision with the Crown. He Pronounces the Queen Effecte and Embecile

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 23 November 1871 · page 4

The following is the New York Herald's special despatch, referred to in a telegram from New York, two days ago, as being without confirmation in the regular press…

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Balloon Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 14 December 1871 · page 3

PAOLI, ORANGE COUNTY, INDIANA, OCTOBER 1ST.—Professor Wilbur was engaged by the Orange County, Indiana, Fair to make an ascension in his hot air…

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