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Southern Highlands · Accidents

Accidents, 1889

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Chapter Iii. an Accidental Meeting

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 11 September 1889 · page 4

The season is at its height. Ramsgate is full aud overcrowded; even the bathingmachines are let at night for sleeping apartments, and the boats, too, have awnings…

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Guilty. Chapter Iii.—continued. an Accidental Meeting

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 18 September 1889 · page 4

Wo! hooh! whack! and there is a stampede of donkeys, from which, the greatest difficulty, you get out of the way, and the donkeys are ridden by children of all ages…

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Guilty. Chapter Iii—continued. an Accidental Meeting

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 25 September 1889 · page 4

"MURIEL, you do me a great injustice," he answered earnestly; "I love you, and if you will have me, I swear to ask you to be my wife when my father dies. All I beg…

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Terrible Harbour Fatality

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 9 October 1889 · page 2

A SAD boating fatility occurred in the ha[?] hour on Thursday morning, when a young woman named Nellie Thompson lost her life besides which, says yesterday's Herald,…

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Terrible Drowning Fatality in the Murray. Six Children Drowned

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 19 October 1889 · page 1

WENTWORTH, Tuesday.—A terrible drowning fatality occurred this afternoon. Richard Gurney, being about to leave home for some time, took his wife and…

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Accident at the Quarry

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 2

AN accident happened at the Gib Quarries yesterday morning. Some men were engaged hoisting a large block of atone with the crane. When suspended in the air the gear of the crane becams…

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Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 9 November 1889 · page 2

MASTER George Osborne met with an accident when returning home from Moss Vale on Thursday evening. He was in the act of pulling some roses, when the horse made a…

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Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 20 November 1889 · page 2

MRS. EVANS, wife of Mr. H. Evans, life-assurance agent, of Mittagong, met with a nasty accident on Monday last. She was in the act of mounting her horse in front of…

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Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 27 November 1889 · page 2

HERBERT GILROY, son of Mr. Gilroy, of Robertson, met with a serious and painful accident on Sunday last, by which he lost; the sight of his left eye. Doctor Corder, of…

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Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 4 December 1889 · page 2

A serious accident happened to Neil Thornbury on the Mose Vale road on Sunday last. He was riding, a young horse, and his wife was walking by his side, when suddenly…

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Painful Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 December 1889 · page 2

A SIMPLE, but extremely painful accident happened to Mr. J. D. Sherriff's youngest child, two years of age, on Thursday last. She was sitting with her hand upon the…

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Drowning Fatality

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 14 December 1889 · page 2

JANE LORIMER, a little girl aged two years and two months, daughter of George Lorimer tailor, in the employment of Mr. Tonks, pf this town, was drowned in a hole at her parents residence,…

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Buggy Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 28 December 1889 · page 2

UNFORTUNATELY the holidays did not pass over without an accident, of a more or less serious nature. Mr. John Stokes, sen., accompanied by his daughter, Ruth a young…

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The Dangers of Electric Wires. Extraordinary Accident

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 28 December 1889 · page 3

A REMARKABLE accidnet from contact with an electric lighting wire occurred recently in New York. A telephone wire, worn by rust, broke and fell from the high pole on which it was,…

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