Trunks Rifled on Steamer
Sydney, January 18.—Clothing and other articles were stolen from two trunks brought back from Japan by a Sydney actor, Frank Jarbo…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948
58 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 3
Tasman Yacht Race Victorian Ketch Leading
Sydney, January 27.—The Victorian ketch 111 had increased her lead over Seaward to 60 miles tonight in the Trans-Tasman yacht race. She was…
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BRISBANE.—Waterside workers at Townsville yesterday refused to load in the Corabank (for England) 3,000 tons of lead (worth…
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SYDNEY. — The wreckage of a plane believed to be that of a Percival monoplane which, with its two occupants, has been…
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Sydney, January 30.—A report that the wreckage of a plane had been found in wild country about five miles from Kiandra, north of Koaclusko, was found…
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SHANGHAI, February 1.—Six thousand cabaret hostesses and workers raided and wrecked the social Affairs building here yesterday. The riot was a protest against the Government's order closing 15…
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ADELAIDE—The Port Adelaide tug Woonda has reached the stricken British motor ship Willesden near the Althorpes and has it…
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Paris, February 22.—A French news agency reports that wreckage has been found on the invasion coast of Normandy of France's giant six-engined seaplane…
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SYDNEY—Three men who attempted to stow away in the Matson liner Marine Phoenix were discovered before the ship left…
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PERTH.—Eleven children in the Ormonde had chickenpox, four measles, and one child was convalescing from scarlet fever when…
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WELLINGTON.— The steamer Coptic, travelling from Panama to New Zealand, is being diverted lo Pitcairn Island to bring a woman…
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MELBOURNE.—The ghost of a third engineer who hanged himself five years ago in the bath-room of the 10,000-ton freighter Hazelbank, now at Victoria Dock, is said by members of the crew to have…
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SYDNEY.—Firemen from four brigades, after a two-hour battle early today, subdued a fire which was menacing the British freighter…
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Wellington (A.A.P.—Reuter), March 7—Two occupants of a Tiger Moth aircraft were killed when it struck a belt of trees near Canterbury…
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SYDNEY.—The fireworks factory of Howard & Sons, at Epping, was blown up this morning, when a light bulb fused and fell on 68 dummy hand grenades —containing explosives—which had been stored on a bench for immediate delivery to the Army. Although no one was hurt, the factory was wrecked…
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NEWCASTLE. — After losing her rudder, the wooden coastal steamer Illalong ran aground on Belmont Beach, about 12 milets south of Newcastle, in a fog. Nobody was hurt, and the officers and crew…
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St. Paul (Minnesota), March 14—The northwest airlines reported that one of its planes carrying well out 20 passengers and crew on a non-scheduled…
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SYDNEY. — The auxiliary schooner. Pathfinder was taken in tow when in distress and drifting on to a reef near North Head…
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KlNGSCOTE—The Port Adelaide auxiliary fishing cutter. Stephen is hard aground in rocky shallows off Whalebone Beach, on the north coast of Kangaroo Island. The 12-ton Stephen's stranding on her maiden cruise was the…
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BRISBANE.—Two youths, who 14 days ago set out from Sydney to Brisbane in a 26-ft. open lifeboat, arrived yesterday at…
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