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38 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 2
A terrible shipping calamity, involving heavy loss of life, is reported from San Francisco. The iron screw steamer Walla Walla, 6070 tons, trading between San…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Venezuelan authorities are still in pursuit of the pirate ship Libertador, formerly the Ban Rich, which was fitted out by the Venezuelan revolutionary party to…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Artists will hear with regret that the old-fashioned and romantic village of Runswick, near Whitby, is in danger of destruction by landslips. Indeed,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Esk, 2145 tons, was covered with ashes when passing five miles from St. Pierre on Thursday night. Everything ashore was then in flames…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The welcome news that the steamer Boveric had been found by the steamship Narrung, and was being towed into Fremantle, reached Melbourne at about 11…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →The schooner Essington, from Bowen Straits, arrived at Port Darwin on Tuesday, bringing Ahmet', a Malay from Trepang Bay. He reports that he was one of the crew of a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The schooner Advance missed stays off Botany early this morning, and being driven on to Henry's Hoad, foundered. Captain Ing[?]troom was drowned, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN many quarters the idea seems still to prevail—and we gave expression to it quite recently in an article on ‘Some Early Steamships’ —that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN many quarters the idea seems still to prevail—and we gave expression to it quite recently in an article on 'Some Early Steamships'—that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New York, May 18.—The steamer Etonia arrived to-day from River Plate, via St. Lucia. "At St. Lucia," says the captain, "I went on board the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An attempt to wreck Mr. M. Lynch's cosmopolitan Hotel, at Maclean, was made late on Tuesday night. The family were in bed when a load explosion occurred in the cellar, below the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following remarkable story of a sea tragedy is here published for the first time in Australia. More lucidly than any narrative of recent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The blowing up of the war-ship Maine led to the Spanish-American war. The controversy as to the cause of the disaster has been revived…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A serious riot occurred yesterday at Paterson, New Jersey, the headquarters of the anarchists in the United States. A number of men are on strike, and…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →At Newcastle on the 26th ult a fire occurred on the Lake Macquarie passenger steamer, Maggie Johnson, while the vessel was lying at Cockle Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →A terrible disaster has occurred on the Elbe, near Hamburg. The excursion steamer Primus, which had on board 185 persons, was run into and cut down by…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →A tugboat that was sent from Cape Town to search for the steamer Waikato, of the New Zealand Shipping Company's line, which, when spoken on the 11th inst. off…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →M. Santos Dumont, whose daring knows no limit had a miraculous escape from death at Monte Carlo. His airship was totally wrecked in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Rev. Dr. Brown, who has just returned from the Solomon Islands, in conversation with a Herald reporter stated that the labour schooner Sybil sailed from…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →A heavy gale has occurred at Port Elizabeth, in the Cape Colony, which caused much damage among the shipping. Seventeen sailing vessels were driven…
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