The Man on the Bridge. by the Skipper of a Pleasure Steamer
The other day a man told me that [?] mine [?] of job that would suit him down to the ground. All I'd got to do was to go…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1936
49 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 3
Steamer's Dash To Aid Of Islander
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Morinda, which has arrived in Sydney, has three days late, the delay being partly caused by heavy south-cast weather…
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NEW YORK, May 4.— The Canadian cargo steamer Planter came into collision with the British freighter City of Auckland in a fog in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Offers to Salve Wrecked Barque
LONDON, May 5— Lady Houston, noted for her large gift to enable Britain to compete in the Schneider Cup air[?] race, and for having financed a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bomb Damages Building Attempt To Wreck Petrol Station ALBURY
An attempt was made on Saturday right to wreck a petrol, service station owned by Charles Reiff when a bomb was placed against the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£3000Engine Completely Wrecked Disaster at Electricity Works
When the governor of one of the oil engines at the new Municipal Electricity Works failed to function to-day the engine gained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →'Plane Falls Into Sea Aviators Scramble Safely Ashore
MELBOURNE. Thursday.—The amphibian Saro Windhover was foreed down by darkness in Bass Strait last night and wrecked by heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wrecked Diesel Certain Cause Of Disaster Unknown
The explosion and subsequent wreckage of one of the Diesel oil engines at the Municipal Electricity Works will be reported by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dismantling of Wrecked Engine
The wrecked engine at the Municipal Electricity Works is now being dismantled in order that a minute examination may be made to try and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charged with Theft. From Wrecked 'Plane
DARWIN, Tuesday.—At a special court at Newcastle. Waters, Arnold Jones (25), Storekeeper of Newcastle Waters, was charged with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecked Power Engine to Be Replaced Will Cost Council £2680
The purchase from of South Australian Farmers' Co-Operative Union Ltd. of a replacement for the engine recently wrecked at the Electricity Works at Railway Town at a cost of £2680 was a decision made at the monthly meeting of the City Council last night…
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SYDNEY. Saturday. — A fierce brawl developed in the casualty room at the Sydney Hospital early this morning, and before it ended a large…
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SYDNEY. Saturday. — A fierce brawl developed in the casualty room at the Sydney Hospital car[?]y this morning, and before it ended a large…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Hands Of The Wreckers
ALL THAT REMAINS of the once up-to-date treatment works of the Amalgamated De Bavay's at the northern end of the line of lode…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage of Girl Pat? Three Men Dead (Special to "The Miner.") LONDON, June 16
Lloyd's agent at Inagua, one of the Islands in the West Indies, telegraphed that a native fishing boat has reported that a small British…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ketch Catches Sampan Sydney
A message from Noumea states that a Japanese vessel suspected of poaching was chased by the motor ketch Caledonien near Yate for 90…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News In Brief Steamer A Total Loss
SYDNEY, Monday.—The steamer Abel Tasman, which went ashore at Greymouth. New Zealand, is now a total wreck. No lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stranded in New Zealand Volunteers From Wrecked Vessel SYDNEY
"We don't know how they are going to get back to Australia," declared the spokesman of 17 members of the crew of the Abel Tasman, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked by Explosion Gelignite Used In Shop Deliberate Crime Melbourne
A butcher's shop in Ballarat conducted by Harold Lugg was almost completely wrecked by a gelignite explosion early this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wrecked by Explosion Gelignite Used In Shop Deliberate Crime Melbourne
A butcher's shop in Ballarat conducted by Harold Lugg was almost completely wre[?]ked by a gelignite explosion early this…
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