Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Shipwrecks & the sea, all years

Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1898

5 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers

Novel. Flotsam. Book Iv.—come Ashore. Chapter I.—(continued.)

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 10

[?] said to come at once, for it really was Alice, and it added that she was in good health. Just at first I forgot everything but that, and thought only of…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Novel. Flotsam. Book Iv.— Come Ashore ,Chapter Iii.—(continued.)

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 19 February 1898 · page 10

So now the thing was how to get Alice home again. For two or three days I didn’t really know how to begin. It seems absurd enough now, but I was afraid to tell the…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

A Terrible Wreck

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1898 · page 2

The inhabitants of Fiji Islands the other day discovered that there was n terrible wreck on their shores. Yet we discover wrecks in our midst every day. We refer to the wrecked,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

A Spanish Steamer. Twice Runs the Blockade

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 14 May 1898 · page 7

The Spanish steamer Montserrat. from [?], on the south coast of Cuba, has run the blockade, and entered Havana Harbour…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

The Wreck of the Maitland. Pathetic Scenes

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 14 May 1898 · page 4

When the Gosford train, bringing the survivors to Sydney, arrived at the Redfer[?] Station shortly before 10 o’clock on Saturday evening, the scene was pathetic beyond description. A large crowd…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →