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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1884

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Cablegrams. Joe Thompson, Gambler. Australian Cricketers Win. T[?]emer's Challenge to Row. Wants champion Race in England. English Cricketers for Australia. Cholera in Italy. Want's Yacht Wrecked. Survivors are Cannibals. [Through Greville's Telegram Co.] London

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 10 September 1884 · page 3

MR. THOMAS HUGHES, Q.C., the wellknown physician, has warmly denounced Joe Thompson, the Australian bookmaker, for having fleeced some young…

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Wreck in Cook's Straits

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 10 September 1884 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Friday.—Thoship [?]. an iron [?] of 1143 tons, on the [?] from London to Wellington, was totally wrecked off Cape Jackson, Q[?] Cha[?]…

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Latest Cablegram. Riots in Ireland. Police Charge on Rioters. County Down Barracks Wrecked. [Through Grevillr's Telegram Co.] London, Monday

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 24 September 1884 · page 3

AGITATION has been renewed in County Down, Ireland. At Castle Wollan, a township with about one thousand inhabitants, the…

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Telegrams. Gippsland Stock Market. Funeral of John Frazer, Half a Millionaire. Sir Moses Montefiore. the Education Question. Archbishop Moran Speaks. Hon. A. Stuart Improving. David Quinton Found Dead. Melbourne Sporting. Chinese Steamer Beached. Bairnsdale Stock Report

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 29 October 1884 · page 3

MESSRS. A. Macarthur and Co. wired from Bair[?]dale on Friday night:—We have had sixty hours splendid rain. The whole country is fooded. Store…

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Latest Telegrams. Fat Stook Markets. Another Small-pox Case. Lady Macquarie's Chair. Two Children Found Dead There. Bega to Eden Railway.important Municipal Decision Steamer Abergeldie, 600 Immigrant. Three Stock Inspectors Passed. father Pollard Dropped Dead in Church. Sheehan Arrested in New Zealand. Murder Committed Seven Years Ago. [Through Greville's Telegram Co.] SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 24 December 1884 · page 3

IN the fat cattle market, there is a good supply and the demand is easier, beef bringing 25s. per 100lbs. The fat sheep market is over supplied,…

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