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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1863

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Correspondence Respecting the Collision Between the Kembla and Hunter. Letter to the Rev. John West From the Undersecretary. "(M. 1667.) " The Treasury, New South Wales, " 18th November, 1863

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 November 1863 · page 5

"REVEREND SIR,—I am directed by the Honorable the Tressurer to hand you, as representative of Mr. Frithiof Blix, now absent from the colony, copy of a communication received on the 17th August last from…

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Accidents, Casualties

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 November 1863 · page 3

SEROUS ACCIDENT.—Writing from Muswellbrook on the 12th instant, the correspondent of the Singleton Daily Times says:—A fearful accident happened to a son of Mr. D. Graham, of this place, on yesterday…

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Accidents, Casualties

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 November 1863 · page 3

STREET ACCIDENTS.—A little boy who was playing in Bay-street, Glebe, was on Tuesday ran over by a horae. He received a flesh wound in the leg. Another accident occurred at Canterbury on Tuesday. A man named…

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Fatal Accident on the West Coast—loss of Three Lives. (From the Lyttelton Times, November,14.)

Empire · Monday 30 November 1863 · page 3

ON the 31st October, intelligence was received by the Government of an accident at the river Grey, which terminated in the death of Mr. Charles Townsend, superintendent of the Government store on the coast, and two…

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Accidents, Casualties

Sydney Mail · Saturday 5 December 1863 · page 11

FATAL ACCIDENT.—An accident attended with a fatal result, [?]d at the Moa[?] crossing-place, on Sunday last. It appears that about half-past ten o'clock in the morning of that day a man who had come up the river…

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Fatal Accident to an Aeronaut

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 5 December 1863 · page 4

A grandy fete was hold on Monday last at the Park of Mr North, at Basford, near Nottingham. Amongst other amusements it was announced that Mr Coxwell would ascend in his balloon at six o'clock in the evening…

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Accidents, Casualties

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 December 1863 · page 2

ACCIDENT AT PITNACREE CROSSING.—About three o'clock on Monday afternoon a dray, the property of Mr. Wynne, of Paterson, loaded with general merchandise, and drawn by two bullocks, went into the river at the Pimacree…

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Collision at Sea. (From the Argus, December 11.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 December 1863 · page 5

CAPTAIN Williams, of the ship Exodus, has furnished us with the following report, which is extracted from his official log:— "October 17.—Latitude 22[?]6 S., longitude 29 47 W. chief officer (Mr. Porter) reported two ships to windward,…

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Accidents, Casualties

Sydney Mail · Saturday 19 December 1863 · page 2

ACCIDENTS.—An accident occurred in George-street on Saturday afternoon. A man named Thomas Woods, who has but lately arrived by steamer from Nambuckra, was leaving a draper's shop when he slipped down on the…

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Fatal Boat Accident: Two Lives Lost

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 December 1863 · page 4

A BOAT-ACCIDENT, which resulted in the drowning of two persons—Mr. James Oliver and Mr. George Dawes—occurred off Rose Bay on Friday night. The following are the particulars of this lamentable…

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