Shipwrecks
The Board of Trade inquiry into the wr[?]k of the European resulted in Captain Kerr's certificate being susp[?]nded for six months. The Commissioner expressed his admiration…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1878
34 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
Latest English News per steamer Chimborazo. (From the Herald's Special Telegraphic Correspondent.) General Summary. London, January 23
THE Ministeral explanations of the only ambiguous sentences in the Royal message have given the almost relief and satisfaction In all quarters, and popular agitation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegraphic Intelligence. [From [?]Reville's Telegram Company.] Mb. T.R. Watt Killed. Great Cyolone at Cairns. Eight Houses Totally Destroyed. London Wool Sales Active: Mr W. Denshire Promoted. Parliamentary Land Agents. the Pigeon-shooting Case Settled. All Defendants' Discharged. Steamer Hunter Stranded Crew and Passengers Saved. Sydney. Reed. Thursday, 7-p.m
T.R. WATT.-Esq., a squatter, of young, has died at Forbes from the effects of being thrown out of R buggy. There was a great eyclone at Cairns…
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We take the following additional items from the Herald's correspondence:— According to a telegram from the Russin head quarters, the number of pr[?]oners taken at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegraphic Intelligence. [From Oreville's Telegram Company.] Shipwreck at Ownsville. Appeal Case, Robertson V. Day. March. Supply Bill Introduced. the Government Land Sales. Mr. Barbour in Opposition. Sydney. Recd. Tuesday, 7.80 p.m
THE ship Merchant, with a cargo of timber has been wrecked near Townnsville; all hands were supposed to be drewned or murdered by the natives…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Disastrous Wreck. All Hands Supposed to Be Drowned or Eaten by the Blacks. (By Telegraph to the Evening News.)
Townsville, Tuesday.—A disastrous wreck has occurred on the coast. The wreck is almost certain to be that of the timber ship Merchant. All hands have been lost by drowning,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegraphic Intelligence. [From Greville's Telegram Company.] Bank Discount Raised. Wool Down One Penny at Closing Sales. Judge Fellows Dead. Auction Sales of Crown Lands. Wreck of Ship Merchant Confirmed. Reported Massacre of Six Men. Sydney. Reed, Tuesday, 6.80 p.m
THE Banks have raised the rate of discount one percent. Private cablegrams state that the London wool sales closed one penny…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Important Cablegrams. a steamer has just arrived at Batavia brings the following cablegrams :— London, May 2
An Austrian entry into Bosnia under an agreement with Russia is imminent. England assents to the proposal regarding Austria's occupation of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(From Reuter's Telegram Company.) Received Wednesday evening. The San Francisco mail steamer Zealandia arrived at Auckland on Tuesday. General Summary
Subscription have been called at St. Petersburg for a new issue of 50,000,000 roubles in Treasury bonds. It is generally believed that a war between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Outbreak of Smallpox at Melbourne. Three Cases on the Mail Steamer. (By Telegraph to the Evening News.) Melbourne
Last night Dr. Figg, who has been in charge of the R. M. S. Siam since her arrival here, reported to the captain three cases of chicken pox as among the Lascar seamen. The captain…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Baraiag of a Steamer, Five Hundred Lives Lost. (Home News, April 12.)
Lloyd's agent at Larnacs, Cyprus, in a letter, dated March 19, furnishes full particulars of the burning of the Austrian Lleyd's steamer Sphinx, near Cape Elia, in the early part of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Violent Storm on the Coast. Disastrous Shipwreck and Loss of Life. Destruction to Property. (From Monday's Evening News.)
WE have to record another fierce gale along the cost which has caused shipwreck, loss of life, and destruction to property. The first break in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Loss of the Steamer Blackbird. (By Telegraph from the Herald's Correspondent.) Melbourne
Further particulars relating to the loss of the steamship Blackbird, show that the m[?]te observed white water, which he mistook for a shoal of fish. The steamer took ground…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News by the Mail. Arrival of the Steamer City of Sydney at Auckland. (From Reuter's telegram to the Herald.)
THE P.M.S.S. Company's steamship City of Sydney arrived this evening, from San Francisco, bringing the following passenger for Australia:—Messrs, Balfour and Buchanan, Mrs. and Miss Night, Mr. Gallagher…
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Proudly a ship left Albion shore And hearts were light and gay, As swanlike over the tonsing waves That good ship fought her way…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Loch Ard. Miss Carmichael's Narrative. (From the Warrnambool Standard, June 5.)
WE are indebted to Mr. M'Iutyre, missionary for Heytembury Forest for the following particular concerning the loss of the illested ship Loch Ard :—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Nawcastle Life-Boat Service. (Pilot of Tuesday.)
At the meeting yesterday of the Looal Marine Board a communication, was read from the Sydney Board, announcing that the Treasurer had agreed to the proposals for a Life Boat…
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The steamship Taratua had a stormy passage between Melbourne and Hobart Town. The Tribune of Saturday stakes that the steamer left Sandridge pier on Wednesday morning, about…
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On 6th April the Childwall Hall, a large iron steamer, 1361 tons register, left Liverpool for Bombay, via the Suez Canal. But four days after, near Cape Finisterre, she was…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Supposed Wreck of the Barque James Service and Loss of Life. By Telegraph to Herald. Adelaide
A telegraph from Fremantle reports heavy gales on the coast of Western Australia for some days. A vessel supposed to be the barque James Service has been totally wreeked on Mur…
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