Original Poetry. in Memoriam of the Late George Oke, Who was accidentally killed by the fall of a tree
The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1881 · page 4
Sadly, sadly, friends are weeping For a loved one called away; While so calmly he is sleeping In his narrow bed of clay…
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Moruya Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1881 · page 2
A young lady named Miss Loutit was killed yesterday at North Shore through falling out of a buggy…
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Moruya Examiner · Saturday 12 March 1881 · page 2
At the inquest on the Victorian torpedo explosion, which caused the death, of several persons, there was not sufficient evidence to show how the accident was…
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Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 7 April 1881 · page 2
The Melbourne “Daily Telegraph” reports that as the 9.45 train from Brighton arrived alongside the platform at the Robson’s Bay station on Saturday night, a Miss Isabella…
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Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 5 May 1881 · page 2
IT is our painful duty to have to record the deaths of two very old and respected residents, who met their deaths in a swift and sad manner. an old man named Jean Hoste was in the act…
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Moruya Examiner · Saturday 7 May 1881 · page 2
AUCKLAND, Saturday morning. —The Union Company’s steamship Tararua, 828 tons, Captain F. C. Garrad, white on the voyage from Dunedin to Melbourne, went ashore…
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Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 7 July 1881 · page 3
ABOUT 10 o’clock this morning a seaman on he Prima Donna (s hooner) named Christian Ellison, was found drowned in the Kiama Basin. Search was made this morning and…
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Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 14 July 1881 · page 2
ON Wednesday evening last, Mrs Bishop, an elderly lady—well known in the Shoalhaven District—residing at Nora, received such severe injuries by burning which gave but…
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The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 4 August 1881 · page 2
AN inquest was held at North Huskisson, Jervis Bay, on Thursday last, before Mr. District Coroner Richards and a jury of five, touching the cause of death of one, Robert Lamb, who…
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The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 1 September 1881 · page 2
AN inquiry was commenced by the Maine Board yesterday into the circumstances attending the collison between the steamers Illawarra and Civility, on the 13th instant. The members of…
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Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 1 September 1881 · page 2
THIS morning when the early express train from Brighton was approaching the Jolimont crossing a wheel struck the chair of the railway up stting the carriage from the line and…
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The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 8 September 1881 · page 2
A TERRIBLE accident occurred on Tuesday morning, the 30th ultimo, to the Brighton express train. When the express was approaching Jolimont, the axle of the engine broke, and…
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