China. [Per Steamer Columbia.]
Rebel movements still continue. Everything quiet in Peking. Nothing of importance from the Northern parts. Exchange at Hongkongon Landon Bank Bills, 4s 7¾[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1863
8 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
Wreck of the P. and O. Co[?]s Steamer Colombo
The following particulars of this disaster are taken (by the Herald) from the James if [?], November 27. The following log telegram was received in Bombay, on Tuesday evening, the 25th insstant:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Saturday, February 21, 1863. the Wreck of the Orpheus
WE who live in the interior cannot readily form an adequate conception of the feeling excited in a maritime city like Sydney by sudden and unlocked for news of shipwrecks, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Capture of the Confederate Ironclad Steamer Atalanta. (Washington National Intelligencer.)
The capture in Warsaw Sound of the Confederate Ironclad Atalanta, alias Fingal, by Captain Rogers, of the Meehawken, is a splendid affair, and the most important naval capture of the war. She was the finest vessel the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Confederate Steamer "Alabama" in Table Bay. Capture of a Federal Ship Within Sight of Cape Town
The S. M. Herald publishes the following from the Cape Argus, August 10:— Yesterday, at about noon, a steamer from the northward was made down from the signal-post, Lion's Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Delaware. (From the Nelson Examiner.)
The Delaware left the outer roadstead on Thursday morning, September 3rd, with a light easterly wind, which drew round to north in the afternoon, and then fell nearly calm. Towards evening it came on to blow heavily from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Confederate Steamer "Florida." Capture of the Ships Southern Cross, Red Gauntlet, and B. F. Hoxie
On Saturday last the anniversary of the independence of our once happy country, the whaling schooner Varnum H. Hill, of Provincetown, Freeman, master, arrived at Hamilton, bringing into port fifty-four prisoners, put on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arrival of The Branch Mail Steamer at Adelaide
The first of the following telegrams from our Sydney correspondent was received on Thursday night, and distributed throughont the town and neighbourhood early yesterday morning. The additional news arrived at a…
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