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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1875

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Accident to Dr. Ward

Evening News · Monday 15 November 1875 · page 2

We hear that, on Saturday afternoon, as Dr. Ward, of St. Leonard's, in company with his little boy, was driving towards Milson's Point, his horse shyed at a cow, and the doctor and his boy were…

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Fatal Boat Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 16 November 1875 · page 5

THE TASMANIAN TRIBUNE reports a fatal boat accident which occurred at Hobart Town on the Prince o Wales' birthday. At about two o'clock in the afternoon, a waterman's left town for…

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Boat Accident

Evening News · Thursday 18 November 1875 · page 2

A boat accident occurred in the Harbour near the entrance to the Heads, on Tuesday afternoon which nearly resulted in low of life. Messrs. Hinchcliff, Metoalfe, W. Gibb, and D. Gregory were out…

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Terridle Boat Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 November 1875 · page 3

THE fatal boat accident on the River Derwent, on November 9, is thus described by the Hobart Town Mercury:- Early in the afternoon a party consisting of C. Matthews, second officer of the barque Lutra; Frank…

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Coroner's Court. This Day. Accidental Drowning at Waterloo

Evening News · Friday 19 November 1875 · page 3

The City Coroner held an inquest this morning at the Bee-hive Public-house, Waterloo, as to the cause of the death of a woman named Margaret Donovan, aged sixty-five years. The evidence showed that the…

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Serious Steamer Collision

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 27

THE steamship Sir Jaines C. Stepheneon, Captain Bell, of South Shields. 2000 tons, with a general cargo from London, bound for Bombay, arrived in Plymouth Sound during the night of September…

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Mr. A. M. Sullivan, M.p.—his Narrow Escape From Drowning

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 5

Mr. A. M. Sullivan had a narrow escape of being drowned while bathing at a point on the coast of Clare, not far from Loop Head, on Wednesday, September 8…

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Dreadful Boat Accident

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 14

THE fatal boat accident on the River Derwent on November 9, is thus described by the Hobart Town Mercury :—"Early in the afternoon a party consisting of C. Matthews, second officer…

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Terrible Boat Accident

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 653

THE fatal boat accident on the River Derwent, on November 9, is thus described by the Hobart Town Mercury:—Early in the afternoon a party consisting of C. Matthews, second officer of the barque Lufra; Frank…

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Fatal and Destructive Accident on the Minmi Line

Evening News · Tuesday 23 November 1875 · page 5

On Monday morning, about half-past ten o'clock, a destructive accident occurred on the Minmi line, by which a young man named Shaw, aged eighteen years, son of a resident at Minmi, lost his life, and property…

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Fatal Accident at Minmi. [From Our Newcastle Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 November 1875 · page 7

ON Monday morning considerable sensation was produced by the receipt of telegraphic intelligence from the Miami Colliery that a fatal accident had occurred on the colliery line, and Unit considerable damage had been produced by a…

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Coroner's Court. the Fatal Accident on the Patriarch

Evening News · Thursday 25 November 1875 · page 3

The City Coroner held an inquiry at his office yesterday as to the cause of the death of a seamas of the ship Patriarch, named John Williams, who died early on that day from jnjuries receiver through falling from the main-topgallant…

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Serious Accident

Evening News · Friday 26 November 1875 · page 2

The Macleay HERALD'S Port Macquarrie correspondent report:—Considerable excitement has been manifested both in the town, and on a certain part of the road between here and Kempsey, with regard to…

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Dreadful Gunpowder Accident

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1875 · page 685

A BOY named James Henry Harrison, ten years of age, the son of a fitter at the Sandhurst Railway Station, is said (by the Bendigo Advertiser) to have met with an accident on Saturday morning, which is likely to prove fatal. In the…

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Painful Accident

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1875 · page 2

On Thursday evening, about u quarter past 5 o’clock, a labouring man, name J[?] Thornton, suffering from n grievous injury to one of his [?]egs, was brought to the Parramatta Hospital by…

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Boat Accident. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 November 1875 · page 5

SIR,—The-froquency of the occurrence of boat accidents in Sydney Harbour induces me to ask space in your paper for a few remarks. Of course, the best boat in the world may be upset at…

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Found Drowned

Evening News · Wednesday 1 December 1875 · page 4

This morning the City Coroner held an inquest at the Observer Tavern as to the death of a man whole body was found floating in Sydney Cove yesterday afternoon. Evidence was given shewing that the…

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Collision at Sea

Evening News · Wednesday 1 December 1875 · page 4

It will be seen by Reuter's special telegram in another column that the Cutty Sark, bound for Sydney, had been into collision with a vessel and returned to dock on the 22nd November. There seems to be an…

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Fatal Accident at Bethungra

Evening News · Wednesday 1 December 1875 · page 4

A telegram to the GOULBURN HERALD of yesterday states:—On Sunday last a young man named Henry Jordan had his neck broken by being thrown from his horse at Bethungra. He leaves a farm, cattle,…

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Frightful Accident

Evening News · Wednesday 1 December 1875 · page 4

A frighful accident, resulting in death, has occurred on the Port Chalmers Railway, New Zealand, An employe, named Alfred Smith, while coupling some loaded trucks for the ship Zealandia, by some means…

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