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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea
198 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 10
The crew of the steamer Skipsea, which has arrived at Newcastle, battled for 10 days with a fire in her coal bunkers. The outbreak was separated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Union Steamship Company's steamer Karamu has been added to the [?] lying idle in Sydney reports the Sydney correspondent of die…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Victoria (British Colombia) message states that the Canadian coastal steamer Alaskan has been lost. Eight members of the crew were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Victoria (British Colombia) message states that the Canadian coastal steamer Alaskan has been lost. Eight members of the crew were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A cable message from Auckland, dated January 4, states:— A sensation was caused in the Police Court to-day when the police announced…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The ketch Truganini is ashore near Fort Glanville. Her cargo is scattered over, the beach…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →As a sequel to the collision between the Norwegian steamer Yarra and the barque Muscoota, off Wilson's Promontory on December 26, the Yarra was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Oceanic Steamship Company on Tuesday announced a reduction in the through passenger rates from Sydney to London, via San Francisco (reports…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Oceanic Steamship Company on Tuesday announced a reduction in the through passenger rates from Sydney to London, via San Francisco (reports…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More anonymous letters are being written to-day than over before. This is the alarming verdict of a well-known handwriting and forgery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There is an inclination to discredit J. W. Greenwood's story of his swim from the steamer Hunter to the stole on Friday night (reports the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reuter's Antwerp correspondent reports that the British India steamer Austraila collided in the Scheldt with the London steamer Nautilus. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A well-known manufacturer, who arrived in Sydney from overseas during the last few weeks is alleged to have lost over £200 at cards and his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cable message from Berlin, dated January 24, states — A terrible disaster occurred to-day at the offices of the "Berliner Tageblatt" newspaper. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News was received in Sydney on Thursday by wireless that the American four-masted schooner Defiance had been burned to the water's edge at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ketch Opah a vessel of 41 tons, which was about 14 years old, waa destroyed by fire at Passage Island on Monday morning (reports the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The steamer Canadian Pioneer, loaded with wool, is on fire in Auckland Harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The manager of the Commonwealth Government line has decided to send a steamer direct to Hull with wool. This move has caused mnch concern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A unionist fireman, who at Lyttleton, New Zealand, felled a non-unionist with an iron bar and then kicked him as he lay unconscious aboard the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The West Australian Commissioner of Police received a telegram from Geraldton on Tuesday afternoon that the Fremantle fishing boat Northern Star…
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