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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1898

95 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 5

Accident to Mr. Barton

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 5 November 1898 · page 2

Mr. Edmund Barton, the leader of the Opposition, met with a serious accident while returning home from Tuesday night's sitting of the Legislative Assmbly. He crossed to North Sydney by…

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Accident to Mr Barton

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 November 1898 · page 2

The leader of the Opposition, Mr Edmund Barton; met with an accident on Tuesday night while returning from Parliament. He left the North Shore ferry boat, and was…

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Shocking Burning Fatality

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 November 1898 · page 3

A SHOCKING burning fatality occurred on Friday morning on the lighter Shannon as she lay at her berth at Miller and Co.'s. wharf, Yarraville,…

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Local News. Fatal Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 November 1898 · page 2

A SHOCKING fatal accident was reported in town on Saturday afternoon. The victim of the dreadful occurrence was proved on investigation to be an old and well known…

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Fatal Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 16 November 1898 · page 2

An inquest was held at the Courthouse, Queanbeyan, on Saturday afternoon, touching the death of William Moore. who was found dead on the Gundaroo road on the…

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Fatal Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 November 1898 · page 2

JAMES RYAN, 40 years of age, a selector near Young, was killed on Sunday evening just outside Burrowa whilst on his way to a shed at the Fish River. He was…

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Sad Fatal Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 November 1898 · page 2

ONE of the saddest shooting accidents that has taken place at Berry occur[?]ed on Tuesday, by which Harvey D. Hay, a fine young man of twenty-two, lost his life…

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A Harbour Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 26 November 1898 · page 5

A collision between the North Shore Ferry Co.'s steamer Wallaby and the Government launch Leila, resulting in the swamping and sinking of the latter, occurred…

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A Sad Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 26 November 1898 · page 2

A very sad shooting accident is reported from Berry, which resulted in the death of Mr Hervey D. Hay a brother of Dr Hay. It seems that the young man, who is only…

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A Fatal Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 26 November 1898 · page 6

One reads nearly every day of accidents resulting fatally through the negligence of some person or other, yet few seem to realise that an attack of indigestion left unchecked…

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Drowned in a Bath

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 29 November 1898 · page 3

MRS: CATHERINE HELLYER, a woman of 23 years, met her death on Saturday morning, under peculiarly distressing circumstances, at her late…

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A Terrible Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 December 1898 · page 2

A TERRIBLE accident happened on last Sunday night to Mr. James Groves, of Tangmangaron. Mr. Groves left Blakney Creek just after to rule home on a…

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Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 December 1898 · page 2

Mr. Andrew Anderson met with a painful accident at the Kohinoor mine on Saturday last. He was engaged in barring down some loose ore from the back of the…

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A Serious Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 December 1898 · page 2

OCCURRED on Saturday night to Mr Joseph Kaye, the Yass-Queanbeyan mail-contractor. He had delivered his bags, &[?]., at the Queanbeyan post-office, and having finished…

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Shocking Fatal Accident

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 23 December 1898 · page 2

A SHOCKING fatal accident occurred yesterday in Upper Dowling-street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, resulting in the death of domestic servant named Minnie Lowney. Deceased…

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