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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1906

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Telegrams. Sydney, Monday Bathing Fatality

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 2

Cecil Charles [?] was carried one to [?] while surf [?] Saturday afternoon. Two [?] the…

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The Racecourse Fatality

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 4

As evidencing the respect in which the late jockey, John Gullum, who met his death on the Nowra racecourse, was held by Sydney sportsmen…

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Railway Collision. on the South Coast Line

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 4

A collision occurred between two ballast trains on the Illawarra line at 3 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, at the Kembla junction, where the main…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Monday. Case of Drowning at Adelaide

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 2

A canoe containing a number of young people capsized at Adelaide on Saturday. The accident was witnessed by a man named Charles…

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Accident at Yalwal

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 2

A man named [?] was [?] from his cart when driving down yalwal Gap road and had there at his [?] broken by the fall. He was…

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Accident at Jamberoo

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 4

While Mr Charles McGlinchey of Jamberoo, was exercising a trotting horse in his yard he was badly injured by coming in contact with a clothes…

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Fatal Accident

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 8

It is our duty this week to chronicle the sad intelligence of the death of Frederick William Davis, eldest son of Mr and Mrs J. Davis, and grandson of Mr and Mrs S…

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Dangers of Rifle Shooting. Precautions Against Accidents

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 20 January 1906 · page 7

The military authorities, in order to vent accidents in connection with rifle shooting, Have prepared a notice, copies of which are to be maintained in two…

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A Terrible Accident

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 2

Sandy: Am hearin' ye has been in Lunon. John: Aye, man, A hev at. Sandy: An hoo did ye get on? John: Fine, man!—bit a bed an accident…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Pensioner Drowned

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 2

William Kimbell, an old age pensioner, was drowned in the Murray River at Albury yesterday through the boat springing a leak…

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Vehicles Accidents

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 8 February 1906 · page 2

Dr, Park, of Bulli, had a sensational experience on Saturday morning , He was driving home from his Balgownie surgery, and in tinning the corner…

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A Terrible Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1906 · page 2

Sandy: Am [?]earin’ y[?] has been In London, John: Aye, man, A no[?] Sandy: A[?] did [?] get on? John: Fine man—hill a had on accident…

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Collision in Rotten Row. "On the Snaffle."

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 2

Miss Beatrice Hendriks, of 7 Vicarage-gate, Kensington, her sister Ethel, and her sister. Mrs Pollard, were riding in Rotten Row one day in May…

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Mr Rooseveits Adventure. a Steamer Collision During His Sleep

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 7

The New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote on 27to November:- At the close of his visit to New…

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Accident to Mr. John Holland

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 4

On Thursday last Mr John Holland, of Nowra, was thrown from a trap in which he was breaking in a horse on the Greenwell Point road and sustained…

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Drowning Fatality

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 8

Truly in the midst of life we are in death. On Sunday morning the force of this was again brought home to the people of this district when the news was passed round…

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The Accident to Mr. John Holland

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 22 February 1906 · page 2

Mr John Holland, of Nowra, who was recently injured through a fall from a nap in which he was breaking-, in a horse, is s[?]ill confined to his bed,…

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Collision in [?]Ow [?]

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 2

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Mr Roosevelt’s Adventure. a Steamer Collision During His Sleep

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 7

The New York correspondent of the London “Daily Mall” wrote on 27th November.— At the close of his visit to New…

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The Kiel Disaster. German Torpedo-boat Sinks. Thirty-three Drowned

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 3

On 19th November the Kiel correspondent of the London "Daily News" wrote:— Far out near the Buelk lighthouse at…

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