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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea
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A message from Mexico City states that the captain and six of the crow were drowned when the British schooner Caiman, en route from Havana…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →When the steamer Changte, which arrived at Sydney this morning from Hongkong, v[?]a ports, was 8 miles from Cairns (Queensland) a passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Baltimore message reports the death from his injuries of one of the 37 persons injured by an explosion on board the French schooner Richelieu,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A message from Tsingtao stated that the German steamer Etha has landed arms and munitions consigned to General Sun [?] at Foochow,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three men were injured, one seriously, while lighting a fire which occurred in a hold containing sulphur on the steamer Queen Olga at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It is understood that accommodation has been reserved on a steamer leaving for England about the end of February for Mr. W. J. M'Kell, Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How some shipwrecked men appealed for assistance and were turned away was related at the inquest following the death at Clevedon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →While the steamer Zealandia was off Gabe Island it collided with a,whale. A passenger stated that the vessel trembled all over and the sea was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A message from Foochow says that on Friday evening a mob of students repreaenting the Fukien Students' Union attacked a Spanish Dominican…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The New Zealand steamer Horurata, of 9545 tons, went aground on the north foreland but was refloated. A Thames fog then descended and two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Navigation Department has rereived a message stating that the steamer Cooma which was stranded on North Reef last July is on fire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two more deaths and one fresh case of smallpox occurred at the quarantine station to-day among persons infected aboard the steamer Ganges…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Federal liner Northumberland, bound from Auckland to Napier, put into Gisborne on Tuesday afternoon with a heavy list (says a New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer [?]aranah, bound from Melbourne to Launceston, rammed Princes bridge, one of the principal thoroughfares over the Yarra, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Hongkong message says that the 6000 ton Chinese owned British steamer Hoangho was boarded by pirates and taken to their lair at Bias Bay. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The crew of the ketch Helen Moore which was blown ashore on Wednesday night, abondoned the vessel. She was found to be leaking rapidly, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The crew of the ketch Helen Moore which was blown ashore on Wednesday night, abondoned the vessel. She was found to be leaking rapidly, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An explosion occurred yesterday on the 260-ton steamer Hillmeads, which is lying in the river at Yarraville. The vessel has been out of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An explosion occurred yesterday on the 260-ton steamer Hillmeads, which is lying in the river at Yarraville. The vessel has been out of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trouble on the mail steamer Orsova on Saturday resulted in the vessel being delayed considerably. It is stated that shortly before the vessel was due…
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