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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1895

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Latest Cablegrams. Collision in the English Channel. One Vessel Foundered. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 23 August 1895 · page 2

The Lyon-Seaford collision in the English Channel occurred twenty five miles from the coast, during a fog. The latter foundered in forty minutes…

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Fatal Accident Wille Experimenting. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 October 1895 · page 2

A lad, named Sydney Parker, was killed, and several others injured, while experimenting in an amateur pyrotechnic display at Adelaide on Saturday…

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Terrible Bathing Fatality. Two Sisters Drowned in Lake Willinga, Bawley Point. Narrow Escape of a Third Girl. a Brave Boy

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 12 October 1895 · page 4

News reached Milton on Tuesday afternoon, about 6 o'clock, of a sad drowning, fatality at Bawley Point. Two young women named Sarah and Henrietta Lynn,…

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Late Bathing Fatality at Willinga Lake. a True Heroine

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 8

The Rev. J. Hornby Spear writes:—"In justice to the memory of a brave girl, permit me to mention a fact in connection with the late deplorable accident at…

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Collision in the Harbour

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 October 1895 · page 2

Sydney, Monday.— A serious collision took p[?]arly yesterday morning it [?] Bay, between the ship [?] from Paget…

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The Death of Mrs Biddulph. the Fatality at Cambewarra

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 26 October 1895 · page 2

The news of the fatal accident to Mrs. T. T. Biddulph at Carabewarra West on Tuesday afternoon last came as a great shock to the whole community, especially…

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Boating Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 November 1895 · page 2

Sydney, Monday.—A boat capsized outside the Heads yesterday. Three lads, named Arthur Pocke, Charles Vitally, and Charles Bulgin, were…

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Southerly Buster in Sydney. Terrific Hailstorm. Sad Boating Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 15 November 1895 · page 2

Sydney, Thursday. — A southerly buster passed over the city last night, which was the heaviest this year. The wind blew at the rate of 63 miles an…

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Shocking Fatality. a Man Drowned at the Bay Supposed to Have Been Taken by a Shark

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 16 November 1895 · page 2

EDWARD BAILEY, the light-keeper at Jervis Bay lighthouse, was drowned yesterday afternoon under dis[?]ng circumstances [?] It would seem from the part[?] to [?]…

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Fatality at Cape St. George. a Lighthouse Assistant Drowned

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 23 November 1895 · page 8

On Friday afternoon week, a fatal accident occured to Mr. Edward Bailey, at a place called Governor's Head, about three miles south of Cape St. George Lighthouse,…

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The Boyd Massacre. an Incident in the Life of the Late Mr. Alex. Berry the Some Male Survivor Drowned in the Sholilaven, 1822

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 23 November 1895 · page 4

THERE was a paragraph in the Sydney press a short time ago stating that Mr. A. W. Farquher had presented to the Technological Museum a hardwood long, which had…

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Sad Drowning Fatality. Dubbo

Moruya Examiner · Friday 29 November 1895 · page 2

Another drowning fatality occurred on Sunday afternoon in the Macquarie River, about 200yd. from the traffic bridge, on the town side, in the vicinity of Howard’s…

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Terrible Boating Accident. Four Members of a Family Drowned. the Survivors Left to Starve on an Island

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 2

HOBART, Thursday,—A terrible and tragic story has just been received from Trefoil Island, near Cape Grim, at the entrance of North-west Point, Tasmania. James Parker, master of…

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The Accident to the Steamer Tambo. a Narrow Escape at Cape St. George

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 4

SOME excitement was occasioned when it became known that the disabled steamer Tambo (Huddart, Parker and Co.'s line) whilst towing up the coast, had broken…

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Fatal Accident at Coolgardie

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 4 December 1895 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from Coolgardie (W.A.) on Monday states:—Mr. George M'Leod Mathieson, late M.L.A. for Glen Innes, N.S.W., fell over the balcony of the Royal Hotel on…

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