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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1883

4 stories in South Coast's papers

Melancholy Accident at Klama. Drowning of Fathers M'grath and Clark

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 18 January 1883 · page 2

BY the time our journal shall have been published, the intelligence of the sad end of Father M'Grath and Father Clark will cease to be news. On Friday last, the telegraph wire convoyed the…

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The Tathra Accident

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 2

ON Monday, May 14, the Coroner, Mr. Peden held an inquest, at the Tathra Hotel, Tathra, on view of the body of O. Alfred Swansen, killed on the steamer Kameruka whilst at…

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Accident on board the Kameruka

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1883 · page 2

AN inquest on the body of Alfred Swanton, who was accidentally killed on board the Kameruka on Sunday forenoon, was held at the Tathra Hotel on Monday,…

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The Late Accident. (To the Editor of the Bega Standard.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 11 August 1883 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—Having noticed a paragraph in the STANDARD this morning, headed "Good Samaritan," I beg to inform you that Messrs. E. and A. Francis also…

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