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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1836

32 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

Accidents, Offences, &c

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 7 January 1836 · page 3

A man named Brennan, a sawyer in the service of Dr. Fattorini, at the M'Leay River, was brought up to Sydney, by the William the Fourth steamer, on Sunday…

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Collision Between the Governor and House of Assembly at Tobago

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 14 January 1836 · page 2

On the 26th of May last the legislative session was closed in a strange way; the lieutenant-governor called the House together and addressed them in a speech…

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Accidents, Offences, &c

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 14 January 1836 · page 2

On Saturday evening, 9th instant, as the dray of Robert Campbell, Esq. M.C., was proceeding to Canterbury Farm, on the Liverpool road, laden with property of…

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Fatal Accident

The Australian · Friday 25 March 1836 · page 6

We extremely regret to state, that an accident of the most lamentable description occurred at Launceston Races. Mr. Nevile a young gentleman who, many of our…

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Road Accidents

The Australian · Friday 25 March 1836 · page 3

In proportion to the numbers on the road, it is a matter of doubt whether, there are not annually more accidents with gigs and pony phaetons than with coaches. At…

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The Times and O'connell. "Slander meets no regard from noble minds; "Only the base believe what the base only utter." Beller's "Injured Innocence."

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1836 · page 3

The Beldame of Printing-house-square, in its slanderous and vituperative attacks upon Mr. O'Connell during the past five or six months, has stated, over and over…

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English Extracts. Melancholy Accident—forty Persons Drowned by the Bursting of a Water-dam, at Greenock

The Colonist · Thursday 28 April 1836 · page 4

ON Saturday evening (Nov. 21) a little after 11 o'clock, one of the most awful accidents happened to the inhabitants of Crawford-John, one of the suburbs of Greenock. It appears that owing to the excessive…

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Accidents, Offences, &c

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 19 May 1836 · page 3

On Tuesday last, Thomas Light formerly a bailiff of the Court of Requests, was committed to take his trial for perjury, committed in giving his evidence on the…

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English Extracts. Patalaccidents on the Serpentine River. Seven Persons Drowned

The Australian · Friday 20 May 1836 · page 4

A most melancholy and fatal accident, which tended greatly to mar the pleasures of the day, and has thrown a number of highly respectable families into the most…

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Accidents, Offences, &c

The Sydney Herald · Monday 19 September 1836 · page 2

By the Lord Lyndoch, a runaway convict from this Colony named Williams, who had been apprehended at Hobart Town, was forwarded to this Colony by…

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Accidents, Offences, &c

The Sydney Herald · Monday 26 September 1836 · page 2

On the evening of Wednesday last, three armed bushrangers paid a visit to the hut of a man named Reynolds, situate near the farm of A. B. Spark, Esq., at…

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Accidents, Offences, &c. Murder in Argyle

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 29 September 1836 · page 3

It this day becomes our painful duty to record one of the most barbarous murders which the criminal annals, even of this Colony can exhibit. On the morning of…

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Select Poetry. MONODY. On the Death of Ensign Massey, of the 4th or King's Own Regiment, who was unfortunately drowned near Coimbra, in the month of March, 1827

The Colonist · Thursday 6 October 1836 · page 7

THERE'S a still, long grave, in a distant land, That grave was dug by a stranger's hand; No mother's tear has the sod bedew'd— No sister's care has the wreath renew'd;…

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Accidents, Offences &c

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 6 October 1836 · page 3

A few days since, as a person, who was formerly an overseer to Mr. Dixon, was proceeding from Parramatta to Prospect, he was fired at by a rufiian who had a…

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Accidents, Offences &c

The Sydney Herald · Monday 10 October 1836 · page 2

On Friday evening the chambers of Messrs. Carter, Sydney Stephen, and Thurlow, in Wentworth's Buildings, were feloniously entered. Mr. Carter lost his…

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Accidents, Offences &c

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 13 October 1836 · page 3

On Monday, Tommy Warrow and Billy Yarrow, two native blacks, were placed at the bar of the Police Office to answer the charge of drunkenness. "Were you…

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Colonial Literature. Port's Corner. ORIGINAL. The Scull and the Spider. By the late Henry Vaux, Esq., D. A. C. G., who was unfortunately drowned at Norfolk Island

The Sydney Times · Saturday 15 October 1836 · page 4

Aye weave thy web, thou venomed one, within thy venomed cell, "Weave on--the tenant and the task, Befit that chamber well;…

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The Sydney Herald · Thursday 3 November 1836 · page 2

On Thursday Mr. John M'Kaeg, who formerly officiated as a Baptist Minister in the large room at the rear of Hart's Buildings, and who has been for many months…

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Accidents, Offences &c

The Sydney Herald · Monday 7 November 1836 · page 1

On Saturday, Alexander Lambert was convicted of [?] and assisting in the wilful murder of Corporal Hardman, of the Mounted Police. The deceased and…

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Accidents, Offences &c

The Sydney Herald · Monday 14 November 1836 · page 2

Two native blacks called Tommy and Jackey, were given into custody on Thursday, by a person named Williams residing ia Kent-slreet, charged with decoying a…

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