Storm Causes Heavy Damage in Metropolitan Area Fierce Blow Launches Ashore Downpour of Rain Sydney
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 June 1936 · page 5
Considerable damage was caused by a cyclone which was experienced in Sydney last night, particularly to yachts in the harbour,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADRIFT! Steamer and Barge Broke Moorings Newcastle
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 July 1936 · page 5
The Newcastle and Hunter River Company's steamer, Allyn River, and the Public Works Department's hopper barge Orestes, to which it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Surgery at Sea Three Operations on Steamer
Singleton Argus · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 8
Three operations at sea, two of them for appendicitis, were performed by Dr. C. M. Lawrie, surgeon on the steamer Port Darwin, which arrived at Brisbane…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 July 1936 · page 2
Two men who were marooned on the waterless Havannah Island, north of Townsville, managed to attract the coastal steamer Innisfall by flashing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Days Without Food on Deserted Island Two Men Rescued by Crew of Coastai Steamer
Singleton Argus · Friday 17 July 1936 · page 1
Weak s.o.s. signals, flashed from a cheap torch with its battery nearly flat, attracted the coastal steamer Innisfail to Havanah Island, a small uninhabited waterless area of land, about 25 miles north of Townsville…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Trip Home by Steamer Maitland Women Bhisbane
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 July 1936 · page 2
Matron Mendham, of the Maitland Hospital, and Miss U. Gunn, also of West Maitland, who motored from Maitland to Darwin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Total Wreck Sydney
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 July 1936 · page 10
The owners of the steamer Abel Tasman have received advice that the steamer is now a total wreck on the rocks at the entrance to…
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Singleton Argus · Monday 27 July 1936 · page 4
The steamer Abel Tasman, which was swept on to the rooks at Greymonth on, Saturday last is a total wreck, according to advice just…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bomb Wrecks Butcher's Shop in Ballarat om ec ers op m OUTRAGE! Gelignite Again £450 Loss Melbourne
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 1
An explosion which shook the countryside for a considerable distance and practically wrecked the butcher's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gelignite Explosion at Ballarat Butcher's Shop Almost Completely Wrecked. Melbourne
Singleton Argus · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 6
A butcher's shop in Ballarat, conducted by Harold Lugg, was almost completely wrecked by a gelignite explosion early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Children's Corner A Section of Interest and Entertainment for Younq Folk. (All Rights Reserved) Model Schooner
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1936 · page 3
You can sail this model, schooner on a Email stream, or a pond in the park. Make the hull from a piece of wood,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aerial Search Abandoned. Wreckage Discovered. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON, Sunday Night
Singleton Argus · Monday 3 August 1936 · page 2
The aerial search for the Cloud of, Iona has been abandoned. Aeroplanes discovered wreckage of the air liner at Minkuier Reef, due south of Jersey…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bomb Outrage at Ballarat Second Time in Three Weeks Shop Wrecked. Melbourne
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1936 · page 2
A bomb outrage at Ballarat, the second in less than three weeks, damaged the interior of the lock-up shop of Mr. Harold Lugg, at Eureka-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aground Again The Steamer Idant Tug Refloated Sydney
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 August 1936 · page 1
A telegram from the pilot at Port Macquarie to the Maritime Services Board to-day announced that the steamer Idant grounded last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →38 Lives Lost French Steamer Founders a Sea Mystery London, August 16
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 August 1936 · page 5
The wreck of the French steamer Oranaise (1806 tons), with the loss of 38 lies is still a mystery, but it is now stated definitely that there was no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Steamer Breach of International Law Claimed
Singleton Argus · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 1
Hopes of reaching agreement among the Powers on non-intervention in the Spanish civil war are fast disappearing again as a result of an incident outside Spanish territorial waters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Perilous Trip Battered Schooner 126 Days' Battle Capetown, Sept. 4
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 September 1936 · page 9
"We are 126 days out from Liverpool and still alive; what more do you want?" said Captain Voss, of the battered 150-ton schooner, Diolinda, when…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →CHALLENGE "Gang of Wreckers" Labor Strife Sydney
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 September 1936 · page 1
There was another episode in the internecine strife in the Labor Movement to-day, when a meetinu of the Union…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Explosion That Killed Policeman's Wife Home Wrecked Inquest on Geelong Crime Talk of Foul Calumny Melbourne
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 September 1936 · page 1
Dozens of pieces of splintered timber lined the back of the Coroner's Court to-day at Geelong, when the inquest into the death of Mrs. Aimee Milne, 40, following an explosion at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipping Warned Wreckage Reported SYDNEY
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 September 1936 · page 5
The Commonwealth Navigation Department to-day received a message from the Master of the Interstate steamer, Iron, Master, that he had…
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