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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
9 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
The Queen is in good health. The Princess of Wales gave birth to a son on the 8th January. Parliament is prorogued until the 4th February…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday a southerly gale set in along the coast attended with fierce driving gusts of wind and rain. Thi weather continued at Newcastle until Sunday morning early, when the violence of the wind abated, and the rain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Friday afternoon intelligence was received that the brig Grecian, of Hobart Town, and last from Sydney, was a total wreck on the Nine Mile Beach, which lies between Red Head and Lake Macquarie. The first mate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday, the Confederate cruiser Alabama completed taking in coals and provisions. Although the vessel was necessarily in a dirty state with the clouds of dust raised in the former operation, a good many of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The heavy gale which swept our coast on the 2nd and 3rd instant has left a fearful record of its fatal effects. We are already in possession of particulars relating to the loss of four ships,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Friday heavy rain set in and caused the river to rise; its continuance flooded the river to a height as great as that attained in the flood of 1860 at that place, More than half the alluvial flat of the Shoalhaven is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our English letters and papers by the Madras were delivered on Tuesday morning. The following extracts are from the S. M. Herald and our own files:— NARRATIVE OF EVENTS…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have again the painful task before us of recording a fearful steambottdisaster on the Hudson. The steamboat Berkshire, running between this city and Hudson, was burned to the water's edge on Wednesday night, at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer New Moon, bound from the Macleay to Sydney, was lost at Hannah Bay, near Port Stephens, on Saturday night. One seaman, named Richard Day, was washed on shore; but he can give no account of the…
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