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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1851

3 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Another New Steamer. (From the S. M. Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 11 June 1851 · page 2

THE CLARENCE RIVER.—We have been furnished by the Managing Committee of the Clarence River Steam Navigation Company, with the following particulars of their new steam…

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Eastern News. Frightful Collision at Sea.—loss of the P. AND O. C. Steamer "Pacha." (From the Singapore Free Press, July 31.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Monday 20 October 1851 · page 4

On the afternoon of the 22nd instant the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Erin, Captain Tronson, from Calcutta, arrived here, presenting a very disabled appearance,…

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Legislative Council. [Owing to the non-arrival of a steamer on Friday last, we were unable in our last to give the Council proceedings to later date than Tuesday, and the report of that day went no further in the Sydney papers than the close of the debate on Mr. Cowper's railway motion. We have now therefore to give the remainder of Tuesday's proceedings, and those of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and from the length to which they run can only give them in a very brief shape; the first three days principally abridged from the S. M. Herald, and Friday's given from the Empire.] Tuesday, December 2, 1851. Penrith Nepean Bridge Bill

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 10 December 1851 · page 4

On the motion of Mr. DARVALL, this bill was read a second time. To be committed on Friday. NATIONAL EDUCATION…

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