Fierce Gale in Hob[?]n's Bay. A Steamer's Experience. MELBOURNE
A fierce gale swept Hobson'a Bay yesterday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, it having been blowing hard all day. The varions excursion steamers…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1904
149 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 8
A Barque Wrecked. One Hand Lost. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
The barque Ethel, from Delagoa Bay, South Africa, to South Australia, was stranded, high and dry, near Cape Spencer on Saturday night. One…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late Cable News. [Reuter's Message.] a New Steamer Service. LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon
The Toronto correspondent of the Daily Mail states that negotiations are proceeding for the establlihment of a direct steamship service between New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Capsize of a Steamer. a Missionary Drowned. [Reuter's Message.] London
A steamer belonging to the American Presbyterian Church, and engaged in missionary work, was proceeding to leopoldville, a station at Stanley Pool, River Congo, West…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Steamer Foumders. Twelve lives lost. [Reuter's Message] London
Owing to a cargo of coal shifting, the steamer Commercial, bound from Newcastle to London, foundered off Whitby. Twelve of the crew were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Disasters. [Reuter's Messages] An American Tornado. Wreck of a Township. LONDON
A tornado a day or two ago wrecked the business portion of and 300 private houses in Moundville, a small town in Alabama, U S.A. In addition, 37…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Far East. Russia's Reply to Japan. Not Yet Presented. Further Fall in Stocks. An Exciting incident. Japanese Warship Fires at a Russian Steamer. [Reuter's Messages.] London
Count Lamado[?]ff, Russian Foreign Minister, has intimated that Russia's reply to Japan's Note of January 16 will be transmitted to Japan next…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Steamer on Fire. LONDON
The German steamer Augsburg, which left Adelaide in November for Hamburg, via Java, has put into a Spanish port wish a fire in No. 3…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Explosion on a Steamer. SYDNEY
A boiler explosion cocurred on the steamer Chemnitz, which arrived in Sydney from Alg[?] Bay yesterday. One fireman was fatally injured and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia and Japan. Russian Ammunition Steamer Taken. Important Russian Announcement. Not Ready for Hostilities. Land Operations Not Expected at Present. Amazement on the Continent. an Opinion of "The Times." Sunday's Attack on Port Arthur. Coal Not Contraband of War. [Reuter's Messages.] London
The Japanese have captured the Russian East Asiatic Company's 6000 ton steamer Mancharia, laden with munitions of war for Port Arthur. The Russian authorities have finally rehoisted the Russian flag over Shan-hai-kwan fort, owing to the British protest against the French occupation of the fort…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Weather. [By Telegraph.] Sterms on the Court. A Schooner Ashore. SYDNEY
Ba[?]rous weather has been experienced along the coast during the past several days. On a Friday morning the schoo[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Steamer Aground. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Saturday Afternoon
The steamer Fliedery, trading between Melbourne and Warrnambool, in endeavoring to make the wharf at War[?]nambool this morn[?]ran aground on a sandbank, She is in no…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Russia and Japan. Recent Russian Losses. Cruiser Boyarin Wrecked in a Storm. Catastrophe on Lake Baikal. Fears of the War Spreading. Rise in the Price of Wheat. Strict Censorship Over News. Rising Expected in China. [Reuter's Messages] London
The Daily Mail correspondent in the Far East telegraphs farther details of the loss of the Volu[?] Fleet transport Ye[?] lost in Tal-lien-wan Bay, north of Por[?] Arthur, on Febrary 11. The Yes[?] while attempting to pick up a mine, ran into another, which exploded, serding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia and Japan. Fight at Yalu River. Reported Russian Repulse. Loss of Two Thousand Five Hundred Men. Panic on the Continent. Heavy Fall of Stocks. Fears of the War Spreading. Canada Preparing for Eventualities. Australian Mail Steamer Chased. Mistaken for a Japanese. General Kouropatkin Appointed Russian Commander-in-chief. Jews Expelled From Siberia. [Reuter's Messages] London
The New York Herald St, Petersburg correspondent telegraphs that news has reached the Russian capital of an outpost engagement between the Japanese and the Russians on the Y[?]lu River, the northern frontier of C[?]ea. The Russians, the message atates, were repulsed, losing 2500 men. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2nd Edition Miners Office, 9 P. M. the War. Chasing the Mongolia. Russian Troops in Corea. British Steamer Fired On. Aiding the War Funds. [Reuter's Messages] London, Tuesday Afternoon
The R M.S Mongolia, bound to Australia, which was chased by Russian warships under the belief that it was a Japanese vessel, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Russia and Japan. Another Attack on Port Arthur. Japanese Movements on Land. British Steamer Detained by Russians. Colonel John Hay's Proposals. Four Russian Destroyers Captured. Admiral Alexieff at Harbin. Reinforcement of the British Garrison at Singapore. [Reuter's Messages.] London
Mr. Bennett Barleigh, the correspondent fo the Daily Telegraph, cables that the Japanese have captured four Russian torpedo boat destroyers by using Russian signals and deceiving the commanders. The Times correspondent, after visiting Chem[?], on the Corsan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following appeared in yesterday's Second Edition:— the War. Chasing the Mongolia, Russian Troops in Corea. British Steamer Fired On. Aiding the War Funds. [Reuter's Messages.] London, Tuesday Afternoon
The R M.S Mongolia, bound to Australia, which was chased by Russian warships under the belief that it was a Japanese vessel, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mail Steamer Overdue. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The ma[?] steamer M[?]na, from Vancouver, is overdue, and it is feared that she has encountered [?] weather at sea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Warship Ashore. LONDON
British Columbian advices state that the British cruiser Bonaventure, 10 guns, 4360 tons, has gone ashore on the Central American coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia and Japan. Coming Important Engagements. Chunchuses Attack a Russian Post. Loss of a Japanese Gunboat. Fifty Bodies Washed Ashore. Reconnaisance From Port Arthur. Russian Ships Bottled Up at Vladivostok. [Reuter's Messages.] London
Japanese authorities, it is cabled, do not anticipate any important land engagement south of the Yala River, in Corea. There are indications, it is said, that the Russians will make the river the line of resistance to the Japanese advance…
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