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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
7 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
The arrival, yesterday, of the brig Lalla Rookh, from the South Sea Islands, brings intelligence of a most destructive hurricane that swept over the islands on the 28th January, doing grert damage both to life and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We received yesterday (Wednesday) morning the following telegram from our Sydney correspondent:— The Wonga Wonga, with the mails, reached…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great alarm has been excited at Wellington by the discovery of pieces of wreck and other indications which show that a serious disaster has occurred to one of the steamers trading on the New Zealand coast, and which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We (Empire) have rarely had to record a more wonderful institue oi escape from peril than that disclosed by the plain, unvarnished statement of Captain Musgravo, who, with two of his crow, arrived in town…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Newcastle Telegraph of Saturday gives the following report of the unfortunate collision, on Thursday, between the steamers City of Newcastle and Bungaree…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Every now and then the story of Robinson Crus[?]e is repeated in real life. We know not, indeed, on how many of the desolate islands, which are represented in charts of the ocean by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wonga Wonga has arrived at Glenelg. The Ellora has brought the mail to the Sound. She ran short of coals, hence the delay. She would leave the Sound on the 13th…
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