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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1841

3 stories in Sydney's papers

Domesttic Intelligence. Melancholy Accident at New Zealand

The Sydney Herald · Monday 12 April 1841 · page 2

IT is with much regret we have to record the melancholy loss by drowning, of Francis Atherton, Esq., and David Malcolm Kemp, Esq., Assistant Surveyor on the Government…

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English Extracts. Dreadful Collision at Sea. (From the Liverpool Albion, February 22.)

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1841 · page 1

A SHIP SUNK WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO SOULS ON BOARD.—It is our painful task to have to record one of the most melancholy disasters, which, of late years has…

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Accident at Virginia Water

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 27 December 1841 · page 2

WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.—Her Majesty left the Castle yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four, accompanied by the Duchess ct Bedford and the Countess of Erroll rather earlier…

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