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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
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Our correspondent at Ballina yesterday sent word of the loss of the schooner Agnes, six miles north of the Brunswick River, and all hands drowned. Lnst night the following was forwarded by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Several of the surviving European passengers from the ill-fated Quetta arrived yesterday. A considerable crowd assembled at the wharf to see thom land. There was little further to be learnt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR JARDINE, of Somerset, telegraphs from Paterson to Brisbane to the effect that the schooner on Monday from North West Papua. Mr Strachan states…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT intervals of a few years the towns or Northern Queensland have all suffered more or less from the cyclonic winds which blow with terrible force in that latitude…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The river steamer Magnetic, bound for Lismore, ran on the bank near Coraki this morning, and sunk within half-an-hour. All the passengers and crow were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The schooner Undine has been totally wrecked near King George's sound. She was formerly a gunboat on the Australian station, but since passed into the bands of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The recruiting schooner Eliza Mary has been wrecked on an island at the Now Hebrides, and 52 lives lost. A burricane swept over the island and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Quetta inquiry was continued to-day, and further adjourned. The whole sitting was occupied with the examination of Captain Heath, Portmaster of Queensland. The chairman read the following…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The state of wreckage was the best criterion of the force of the collision. The c[?]pesite van and one or two other vehicles were telcsooped in front of the engine. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The largest frozen meat-carrying steamship which has yet entered Port Jackson is at present (says the Herald) lying at Circular Quay. The Maori King (the name of the vessel) arrived in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Intelligence has been received that the British-India Company's s.s. Dacca, 3909 tons, Captain Stuart, R.N.R which left London on April 30th, with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Wednesday evening the river steamer Allyn sank near the Dyke, with 800 bags, of general produce, taken out of the Union Company's steamer Manapouri, on board…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The discovery of what is believed to be the hull of the wrecked warship Orpheus, on the Manukau bar, was causing some surprise in Auckland (says the Herald) when the Rotomahana left there on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The missing boat from the You Yangs wreck has arrived safely, so that all hands have been saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News has been received that the steamer You Yangs has been wrecked near Cape Willoughby, and the Government steamer Govern or Musgrav[?] and a tug have gone to the scene of the wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A SERIOUS shipping disaster has occurred in the River Tamar, Tasmania. The steamer Nelson, a recent addition to Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co.'s line…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. F. J. Thomas, Manager of the H. R. N. S. N. Company wired us as follows last evening:— "At a conference between the Directors of the H. R. N. S. N. Co. and the Newcastle Steamship…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Following upon the recent maritime accidents that have occurred along the coast, news came to hand on Wednesday of the wreck of the barque Zodiac. This vessel was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A telegram was received at Newcastle this morning, stating that the barque Louis, with 620 tons of coal bound for Roebuck Bay, struck when going out of the latter port…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Konoowarra arrived at Brisbane, at 7.30 on Thursday, bringing Captain Anderson, wife, and children, and Miss Brown, passengers on the Zodiac. The…
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