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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1871

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Latest European News. Arrival of the Suez Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 January 1871 · page 2

THE following was issued as an extraordinary from this office at noon yesterday:- . [PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] The Australasian Steam Navigation…

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Latest European News. Arrival of the Suez Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 3

THE following was issued as an extraordinary from this office on Thursday morning:— [PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] The Australasian Steam Navigation…

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Latest European News. Arrival of the Mail Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 15 March 1871 · page 2

THE following was issued as an extraordinary from this office yesterday morning:— [PER ELECTION TELEGRAPH.] The Australasian Steam Navigation…

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Latest European News. Arrival of the Mail Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 12 April 1871 · page 2

THE following was issued as an extraordinary from this office on Monday evening:— [PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] The Australasian Steam Navigation…

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Latest European News. Arrival of the Mail Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 13 May 1871 · page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE MAIL STEAMER. The following was issued as an extraordinary from this office on Thursday afternoon:— [PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]…

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Arrival of the English Mail. Via Suez. Total Wreck of the Queen of the Thames. Civil War Still Raging in Paris. Eight Hours Armistice Granted to the Rebels. Bishop Dollinger Excommunicated. Wool Sales Improving

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 June 1871 · page 2

THE branch steamer, Rangatira, reached Glenelg on Sunday evening, with the South Australian portion of the English mails. The P. and O. Co.'s R. M. steamer, Rangoon,…

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Latest European News. Arrival of the Mail Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 7 June 1871 · page 2

THE following was issued as an extraordinary from this office on Monday morning:— [PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]…

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Wreck of the Queen of the Thames

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 7 June 1871 · page 4

BY the arrival of the new steamer Maitland from England via the Cape of Good Hope, we have news from the latter place of the wreck, on the night of the 17th March, near…

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Wreck of the Queen of the Thames

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 10 June 1871 · page 3

THE following is the evidence of Captain Macdonald the commander of the. Queen of the Thames, given at an official enquiry held in Gape Town:—…

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Late European News. Arrival of the Suez Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 5 July 1871 · page 2

THE following was issued as an extraordinary from this office on Monday morning:— The Australasian Steam Navigation…

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Late European News. Arrival of the California Steamer. Sydney, Tuesday, 9.30 a.m

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 26 July 1871 · page 2

THE California mail-steamer City of Melbourne has arrived, bringing European news up to the 20th June. The news is comparatively unimportant…

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Wrecks and Massacres in the Straits of Magellan

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 16 August 1871 · page 4

THE San Francisco Morning Call of the 31st May publishes the subjoined account of the loss of the British steamship Princess, and the capture of her crew by the Indians in the…

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Capture of the Schooner Fanny, and Massacre of Her Crew, by the Natives of the Sandwich Islands

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 September 1871 · page 2

WE have been favoured (says the Fiji Times of the 5th instant) with the following particulars of a dreadful tragedy, by a gentleman who accompanied the Strathnaver in…

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Latest European News. Arrival of the Suez Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 27 September 1871 · page 4

THE following was issued as an extraordinary from this office at nine o'clock on Monday morning:— The Australasian Steam Navigation…

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Particulars of the Wreck of the Megæera

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 4

THE Malacca, with the officers and crew of H.M. ship Mogæra, wrecked at St. Paul's Island, arrived in Sydney harbour on Monday morning at half-past ten o'clock. From the officers of the Mogæra, and the…

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Total Wreck of the Barque Catherine, Off Redhead

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 2

SHORTLY after ten o'clock on Tuesday morning the firing of guns from the Signal Hill conveyed to the citizens the unwelcome intelligence that a vessel was in distress off the…

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Total Wreck of the Barque Catherine, Off Redhead. (From the Newcastle Pilot.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 4

SHORTLY ater 10 o’clock on Tuesday morning the firing of guns from the Signal Hill conveyed to the citizens the unwelcome intelligence that a vessel was in distress off the coast, and a few minutes…

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Latest European News. Arrival of the Mail Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 25 October 1871 · page 2

THE following was issued as an extraordinary from this office yesterday morning :— [PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] The Australasian Steam Navigation…

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Wreck of the Ship Annie Sise

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 November 1871 · page 8

By the Nebraska we learn that the ship Annie Sise, hence to San Francisco, was wrecked on Farrallones Island, just outside of San Francisco harbour. The vessel was…

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The English Mail. Via Suez. Total Wreck of the R.m.s.s. Rangoon, & Loss of the Australian Mails and Cargo. Fall in the Price of Wool. Attempted Fenian Raid on Canada

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 28 November 1871 · page 2

The branch steamer, Alexandra, reached Adelaide at midnight on Sunday. The Behar from Galle arrived at King George's Sound on Wednesday, and reports…

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