Letters That Wreck Lives How Pests of the Pen Are Tracked
More anonymous letters are being written to-day than ever before. This is the alarming verdict of a we[?] known handwriting and forgery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipwrecks & the sea, 1926
28 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 2
Cloudburst at Junee Buildings, Fences and Railways Wrecked Main Line Traffic Blocked at Harefield
A cloudburst flooded the country between Junee and Harefield late on Tuesday afternoon. Junee residents state it was tho most terrific storm over experienced in the town. One building was washed away, and others were damaged. Long…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck on New Zealand Coast Auckland, N.Z.
The steamer Karu is reported to have sunk near Cape Maria Diemen, while en route from Whangate to Australia to load timber. One boat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Airman's Return. Great African Flight. Mail Steamer Outraced. London, March 13
Huge crowds at Croydon lustily cheered the appearance in a sunny sky of a small fleet of aeroplanes at a quarter past 4 o'clock this afternoon heading…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Wreck Off Queensland Coast. Twenty-two Men Missing. Two Rescued After Two Nights At Sea
The steamer Dorrigo, with a general cargo aboard, bound from Sydney to Thursday Island, foundered on Friday, near Double Island Point,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer's Speed Record. New York, April 3
All the official speed records regarding passenger, liners were broken by the Cunard liner Mauretania, which maintained 29 knots an hour in…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Steamer Founders. Captain and Son Picked Up. No Sign of Crew
Captain N. G. Roskouge, Queensland Deputy Director of Navigation, has received a message from Double Island Point lighthouse that the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Wreck of Egypt. Salvaging Bullion. Divers Seek £1,000,000. Paris. April 26
French and Gorman divers will leave Brest on May 11 to salvage £1,000,000 worth of gold and silver aboard the P. and O. Liner Egypt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on Steamer. Suva (Fiji), May 3
A fire occurred in the bunkers of the Union Steamship Co.'s steamer Kaiwarra (3,000 tons) at Lautoka. on Sunday morning. The crew…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Aeroplane Wrecked. Crash in Cemetery. Passenger's Wonderful Escape. London, May 2
A passenger in an aeroplane making an exhibition flight had a remarkable escape in a terrible flying accident at King's Lynn this afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Steamer for Hay
The first river steamer for Hay will leave Echuca on the 2nd June. Personal. Mr. F. A. Spence arrived from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreck of the "Hesperus." (Received from Willie Plema.)
It was the schooner "Hesperus," That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Steamer Wrecked
The Northern Steamship Company's steamer Manaia, of 1,159 tons, which struck a rock while on the way from Tauranga to Auckland, is regarded as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreckers of Industry
Despite the advice of certain sane Labour lenders many sections of the A.L.P. in the States are quarrelling over the Essential Services…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stranded Steamer Cooma. Expected to Become Total Wreck. Brisbane
The steamer Burwah arrived at Port Alma with passengers from the stranded steamer Cooma, which is on the North Reef and is becoming…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters That Wreck Lives. How Pests of the Pen Are Tracked
More anonymous letters are being written to-day than ever before. This is the alarming verdict of a well-known handwriting and forgery…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Chinese Pirates. Seizure of Steamer. Hong Kong, July 17
The South China "Morning Post" states that when the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Kwanglee, from Shanghai for Canton…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Steamer Smash Boat Crashes Into Pier
Fourteen persons were Wiled or downed when the Japanese freighter Taisho Marn crashed into a pier at Shanghi on Monday, in endeavoring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Windstorm. Many Houses Wrecked. Highway Blocked by Trees. New York, July 23
The most devastating windstorm over known in the eastern portions of New York State resulted in several deaths and caused enormous damage to…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The [?] Wreck
The charge of una[?] the S.S. Cooma which went a ground against the master [?]…
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