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Accidents, 1840

5 stories in Sydney's papers

Dreadful Accident. Port Phillip

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1840 · page 3

On Tuesday last, about four o'clock P[?] M., the whole town was ala med by a tremendous shock, which caused the houses to rock to and fro, and a low but heavy sound as of thunder was heard. We…

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebp; Containing a faithful account of the Fortunes, Mister- tunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and complete Career of the Nickleby Family. (Continued.) Chapter Lvi. Balph Nickleby, Baffeld by His Nephew in His, Late Design, Hatches a Scheme of Retaliation Which Accident Suggests to Him, and Takes Into His Counsels a Tried Auxiliary

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1840 · page 4

The course which these advantages shape out for themselves and imperatively call upon the historian to observe, now demands that they should revert to the point they attained previous to the…

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Crown Lands. Despatch from the Most Noble the Marquis of Normanby to His Excellency Governor Sir George Gipps acquinting His Excellency with the opinion of the Law Officers in England as to the Right of the Crown over the Waste Lands of this Colony. Drowning street, 29th June, 1839

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1840 · page 2

SIR—With reference to my Despatch No. 43, of the 4th May last, relative to the questity aised by the Judges of New South Wales, as to the Right of the Crown over Waste Lands in the…

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The late Fatal Accident. to the Editor of the Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 31 July 1840 · page 2

SIR,—It is now above three months. since, through the medium of your valuable paper I directed the attention of the public authorities to the dangerous state of the road in Kent-street north, and…

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Extracts. Steam Boat Accidents. Outline of Legislative Enactments proposed by the Commissioners on Steam Boat Accidents

The Sydney Herald · Monday 24 August 1840 · page 2

Having thus noticed those heads of the subject which appeared to require particular consideration, we now proceed to submit the outline of legislative regulations, which we recommend for adoption…

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