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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1835

7 stories in Sydney's papers

Dreadful Steam-carriage Accident

The Colonist · Thursday 8 January 1835 · page 4

ON Tuesday, afternoon, the 2nd of August last, the city of Glasgow was thrown into an indescribable state of excitement and alarm, in consequence of the reports which reached town, announcing the total…

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Accidents, Offences, &c

The Sydney Herald · Monday 6 April 1835 · page 3

A young man named Cooper, in the employ of Messrs. Hughes and Hosking, while proceeding on board the ship Orwell, on the evening of Friday last, accidently…

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English Extracts. Prize-fighting.—dreadful Accident

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 15 April 1835 · page 3

A frightful catastrophe, the result of a pugilistic contest for money, occurred on Monday last near Liverpool. "It appears." says a letter from that place. "that one of those brutal and degrading…

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Dreadrul Accident and Loss of Life. (Abridged from the Liverpool Standard.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 16 April 1835 · page 2

There was a prize fight on Monday last, at Brombnrough, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, which was attended by a crowd of tho lower classes from Liverpool. The ballia having ended, it…

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Accidents, Offences, &c

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 10 September 1835 · page 3

As a cart laden with flour, belonging to Mr. Green, flour dealer, of Sussex-street, was proceeding down Erskine-street on Tuesday last, it came in contact with the…

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The Drowned Shepherd

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 22 December 1835 · page 4

In 1822, when the western part of Ireland was afllictcd with grievous famine, and when England stepped forward nobly, and poured for[?]h her thousands…

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Drowned Persons. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 24 December 1835 · page 2

GENTLEMEN—As your columns are always open to suggestions of a useful nature, I beg leave to transmit you the following communication, which I hope you will find worthy of a…

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