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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

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The Recent Drowning Case. Magisterial Enquiry

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 19 November 1895 · page 2

A magisterial enquiry was held in the Wagga Court House on Saturday last before Mr. L. A. Fosbery, J.P. District Corner, as to the death of john Allen Smith, whose…

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Six Children Starving on an Island. Father and Mother Drowned. Launceston

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 4

A tragic story has just been received from Trefoil Island, near Cape Grim, on the extreme noth-west point of Tasmania. James Parker, master of a Email coasting…

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Shocking Burning Case. Mother and Infant Badly Injured. a Neighbor Drops Dead

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 14 December 1895 · page 4

ABOUT 9 o'clock on Wednesday night (says the Age) a fire broke out in the dwelling of Mr. George Brundell, a slaughterman, residing at Maidstone, near Braybrook. The…

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Drowning Case

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1895 · page 4

An Inquest was held on Tuesday before Mr. L. S. Tonsldson, Coroner, and a jury of five, touching the death of Ah leong, a Chinaman who was drowned in the river on…

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Thrown from his Horse. a Fatal Accident. Orange

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1895 · page 2

MR. G. H. Tompson, accountant of the Wentworth G. M. Company, Lucknow, was thrown from his horse last night, and died this morning at Millthorpe, where he was…

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Fatal Accident at Narandera. (From Our Correspondent.) Narandera

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 31 December 1895 · page 2

THIS morning Robert M'Innes, employed as shunter or porter at the railway station, was run over or struck by an engine, and his head seperated from his body. It…

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