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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1880

6 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Recent Railway Accident in Scotland

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 10 January 1880 · page 3

THE Goulburn Herald remarks as follows in reference to the late railway accident in Scotland:—"Many years ago the directors of the North British Railway Company pondered…

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Terrible Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 10 March 1880 · page 3

A Most melancholy accident the cousequences of which may yet prove fatal—occurred in Cooma on Wednesday last to Joseph Gates, aged four years, son of Henry…

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A Chapter of Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 20 October 1880 · page 2

Mr Joseph Shumack of the Canberra Inn met with a painful accident on Saturday last whilst returning home from the One Tree Hill cricket match. He was cantering rather…

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Mail Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 December 1880 · page 2

ON Sunday, as the Gundaruo and Gininderra mail was approaching the Queanbeyan post-office for the purpose of delivering the bags, with a somewhat restive and unmanageable…

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Fatal Accident at Wagga Wagga

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 December 1880 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon (says the Express) Wagga Wagga received a severe shock in the sad intelligence that Mr John Gordon, of the firm of Gordon and Shepherd, architects…

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Case of Accidental Drowning

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 December 1880 · page 3

ON Christmas-day, when every one in this city was, enjoying the rest and quiet of a holiday, one home was thrown into the deepest gloom by the…

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