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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1900

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Edited and Revised by His Nephew, Benjamin Bunting. Chapter Vi (Continued.)

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 31 March 1900 · page 9

When we entered this space there was no one there, but soon after we came in a procession of about twenty women filed in from the clump of…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. A M.L.C. DEAD. Jas. Hoskins, M.L.C. died yesterday. the Glenklg Wreck

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 4 April 1900 · page 2

Several bodies and a quantity of wreckage from the steamer Glenelg was washed up on the Gippsland coast. The bodies were horribly mutilated by…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Chapter Vi (Continued.)

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 April 1900 · page 7

When we entered this space there was no one there, but soon after we came in a procession of about twenty women filed in from the clump of…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Chapter Viii

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 7 April 1900 · page 7

The proposal of Senhor Guilherme to accompany me to Katanga seemed most advantageous to me, for I could never have felt any security in…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 12 April 1900 · page 7

(I, Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Edited and Revised by his Nephew, Benjamin Bunting. Chapter Ix

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 14 April 1900 · page 7

This advice was so sensible that there was no disputing it, and we remained as quiet as possible until the army of King Kongo returned,…

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Launch at Forster. the Steamer "Wootton." Forster

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 18 April 1900 · page 2

THE launch of a new vessel was successfully accomplished to-day. It was built for Mr. Allan Taylor, of Sydney, by Mr. Harry Miles, junr., of…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 7

(I, Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 7

(I, Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck aid Adventures. Edited and Revised by His [?]ephew, Benjamin Bunting

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 26 April 1900 · page 7

[?] Benjamin Bunting, so charlste[?] in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 7

(I, Benjamin Hunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 3 May 1900 · page 7

[?] Benjamin Bunting, so charistened in 1860. do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Bl[?]zzard, deceases, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…

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Launch of a New Steamer

Macleay Argus · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 8

Our Nambucca Heads correspondent writes:--"On Monday last a new steamer built by Mr. E. Davis to the order of Mr. Buckle, owner of the s.s…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Edited and Revised by His Nephew, Benjamin Bunting. Chapter Xiii

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 8

True to their time, the canoemen were there when we arrived at the river bank in the morning, and all Guilherme's and my people and goods…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Edited and Revised by His Nephew, Benjamin Bunting

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 10 May 1900 · page 7

[?] Benjamin Buntink so chr[?]stened in 1800, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr.Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Edited and Revised by His Nephew, Benjamin Bunting. Chapter Xv

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 7

I proposed to Guilherme that as we had still some time before the sun set we should take our guns and go out for a stroll on the chance of finding…

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Wreck of the H[?] De Fraise. Fou[?] on the Camden Haven Bar. the Crew Rescued. L[?] Tuesday, [?] p.m

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 5

THE new [?] H[?] De Praise, owned by Captain C. De [?] of the C[?] Haven at 3.30 this afternoon. She was p[?] up by the steamer Kincumber, and…

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Wrecks Near Port Phillip. 23 Lives Lost. Sydney

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 5

THE ship "Sierra Nevada," of fourteen hundred tons, bound from Liverpool to Melbourne, was wrecked at 1 o'clock this morning at Portsea, near Port Phillip Heads…

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Wreck at Camden Haven

Macleay Argus · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 8

The schooner Hennie Defraine, laden with timber on account of Mr. Geo. Defraine, who is also part owner, crossed the Camden Haven bar…

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The Shipwrecks Near Melbourne. Melbourne, Saturday Night

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 16 May 1900 · page 3

ANOTHER body from the wreck of the Sierra Nevada was washed up to-day, but it went back again with the tide. The survivor, M'Coy, is still in a very bad condition…

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