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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
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The jury met yesterday at 10 a.m., in the Council Chambers, to consider their verdict. At 12 o'clock they announced that they had come to a decision. On the court opening, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Do you not think that a meeting should be called, to allow the public to express its opinion on the mismanagement of the New castle Life boat If that affair of the Yarra…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Tuesday night last (says the Illawarra Mercury) the steam collier Eagle got in a most peculiar and critical position on entering Belmore Basin, about 11 o'olook. It appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A steamer passing Cape Capricorn to-day, bound south, reports the stranding of the mail steamer Normanby, hence to Singapore. All hands saved. [FROM GREVILLR'S TELEGRAM COMPANY.]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The s.s. NOrmanby struck on an unknown rock outside Pine Island. She steamed thence, and was beached on No 2 of the Percy Islands. Her fore compartments are full of water, which is flowing and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following particulars of the wreck of the Normanby are given in the Brisbane Courier by a passenger:— The Normanby left Moreton Bay on August 11, at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We arrived off the wreck of the R.M.S Normanby at 5 30 p.m. Monday, 20th. She is lying on a white sandy bottom of Lagoon No. 2 Perey, and to all appearance might have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Lord Ashley (s.) was at five o'clock on Saturday discovered to be leaky. The pumping appliances, though working well, proved inadequate. A quantity of coal was thrown overboard,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the stirring little village of – stood a quaint, old-fashioned farm-house built beneath the shade of mapla and [?] trees Spreading [?] and bright morning golorie…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEARLY a month after the event there has come news of a very calamitous shipwreck on the Pacific Coast. The report is that the steamship Eten was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Between 6 and 7 o'clock on Friday evening last, after piloting the steamer Murray and schooner Nowra safely outside the entrance to Gipps Land Lakes, the Thomas Norton returned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamship Cuz[?]o arrived at Glenelg this morning. S[?] le[?] Plymouth on the afternoon of September 27. She occupied forty days seven…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Captain Thompson, of the ketch Unity, on arriving at Lyttelton, reported having passed some wreckage six miles off Stoneyhurst, belonging apparently to a vessel or 30 or 40 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamship Hankow arrived from London to-day, with dates to the 24th September. She brings 292 passengers. For Sydney—Mr M'Taggart, Rev. Mr. Gervaise, Mrs. Smith,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following news was brought by the Hankow:— The Daily News correspondent, under date September 26, says, regarding the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A steamer has arrived, at Port Darwini with English cablegrams, and will return in forty-eight hours London, November 5. England has offered her services to tha Porte as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The C[?]roy has just returned from Port t[?] Captain Harris reports a heavy sea breaking over the Florence Irving. He thinks there is [?] possibility of saving her, and he expects her soon to break…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is the report and decision of the Marine Board of New South Wales in the matter of the loss of the above steamer:— On Monday, the 10th instant, the Board held…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Acting under instructions from the Government, the coroner, Mr. T. W. Pearse, J.P., proceeded to Port Stephens on Thursday morning last, to hold an inquiry on the body of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr J. C. Read, the well known painter, is dead Great complaints are being made as to the quality of the bread supplied to British…
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