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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1882

9 stories in South Coast's papers

Sad Case of Drowning

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 2 March 1882 · page 3

THE Ballina correspondent of the Lismore Chronicle fuenished the following particulars to its issue of the 2nd February. Mr. J. Thurgate mentioned below is well-know in this district…

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The Kameruka Collision. the Marine Board Enquiry

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 8 March 1882 · page 3

The Collision occurred at 1.30 a m on Sunday, six miles north of Beecroft Point. Archibald Dawson, master of the ketch, stated that the Esther Maria was sunk by…

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Bulletin Libel Accident

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 25 March 1882 · page 2

THE following excellent article on the above case appeared in, the leading-columns of the Sydney Morning Herald of the 15th instant:—…

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Accident to a 25-Ton Gun

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 12 April 1882 · page 3

ONE of the two 25-ton guns recently imported from England for the fortifications at Middle Head was landed safely on the rocks at Balmoral oil Friday week by men…

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Another Tram Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1882 · page 4

THE Evening News thus speaks of the recent sacrifice of a child's life by the street slaughter house :—" Again have we to record another terrible and…

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Another Tram Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1882 · page 4

THE Evening News thus speaks of the recent sacrifice of a child’s life by the street slaughter house :—“ Again have we to record another terrible and…

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Serious Railway Collision

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 2

THE following are the particulars of the Bathurat railway disaster:—As the 3.30 a.m. mail train was coming round the curve into the station yard it ran into the…

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The Mining Accident at Creswick. Creswick

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 21 December 1882 · page 4

The most terrible accident that has over occurred in a mine in this or any other Australian colony, happened in the new Australasian mine, two miles from Creswick, at…

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Creswick Catastrophe. Twenty-two Men Drowned. Thrilling Incidents at the Mine

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1882 · page 1

Not in the history of mining in the colonies has such a catastrophe occurred as that which took place at the New Australasian Mine, Creswick, last…

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