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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1911

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Health-Wrecking Constipation. A Great Cure by Bile Beans

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 16 June 1911 · page 8

Mr. C. MUTKINS, of Burton-street, North Sydney, says:—" I was tortured by indigestion with all its accompanying evils for a long time, the whole…

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A Trip to the Solomons; Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper Viii. Santa Cruz

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 17 June 1911 · page 3

After steaming from Guadalcanar one forenoon, and passing, without stopping, the large island of Malaita where the inhabitants are still rather wild and…

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A Trip to the Solomons. Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper Viii. Santa Cruz

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1911 · page 5

After steaming from Guadalcanar one forenoon, and passing, without stopping, the large island of Malaita where the inhabitants are still rather wild and…

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A Trip to the Solomons; Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper VIII.—(Continued). Santa Cruz

Guyra Argus · Thursday 22 June 1911 · page 3

Who can doubt but that there are higher intelligences around us, possessed of more senses than we, but who cannot fully commensurate with…

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A Trip to the Solomons: Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper VIII.--(Continued). Santa Cruz

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 26 June 1911 · page 5

Who can doubt but that there are higher intelligences around us, possessed of more senses than we, but who cannot fully commensurate with…

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Excursion Steamer Wrecked

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 28 June 1911 · page 4

A steamer four, hundred excursionists aboard has been wrecked in the Finnish waters. The fate of the excursionists is unknown…

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Steamer on Fire

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 July 1911 · page 4

The steamer Erina, lying at Long Wharf, Balmain, was partly destroyed by fire this morning. Thomas Childs, jun., son" of the owner, was…

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Cablegrams in Brief. Steamer Beached

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 5 July 1911 · page 7

The steamer Spokane, with 150 excursionists on a trip from Seattle to Alaska, struck a rock in Plumper's Bay, and was beached; The vessel…

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Wreck of a Steamer an Officer and Three Men Drowned. London

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 10 July 1911 · page 2

The second officer and three of the crew were drowned [?] attempting to put a line [?] from the wrecked steamer Santa Rosa at…

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Steamer Aground

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 12 July 1911 · page 7

The steamer, Santa Rosa, with 290 passengers went aground. There was a panic when the vessel struck, and many women and children…

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A Trip to the Solomons; Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Article I.

Guyra Argus · Thursday 13 July 1911 · page 3

This narrative must begin at the beginning. In Charles Dickens' story of "The Cricket on the Hearth," he says, "If I am to tell a story I must begin at…

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German Steamer Capsized

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 8

The German steamer Elbing VIII., 652 tons, owned by Messrs. Elbinger. Ceftfisch, and Reed, capsized in the North Sea during a heavy sea. The…

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The Santa Rosa Wreck

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 22 July 1911 · page 8

Mr. Hewson, father of the drowned mate of the wrecked steamer Santa Rosa, has declared at the official inquiry that Captain Faric deliberately…

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The Wreck of the Belle Flower. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 27 July 1911 · page 4

Further particulars of the wreck of the [?] Belle flower, of the New Zealand coast show, show that [?] Dorsell was drowned…

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Schooner Wrecked

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 July 1911 · page 4

Further particulars of the loss of the schooner Bellflower, off New Zealand coast, show that the crew hung on to the ship till daylight, when it…

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Schooner in Trouble

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 29 July 1911 · page 4

The schooner Jubilee has been sighted in a dismasted condition, off the Manning River heads in tow of the steamer Wolowra…

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Through the Rapids in a Steamer

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 August 1911 · page 3

A notable character produced by the dangers and the peculiar navigation of the Niagara River was Joel R. Robinson, who piloted the steamer…

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The [?]Shire Wrecked

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 4

The steamer [?]shire ran ashore [?] miles off South Cape Guardaful, at the mouth of the Gulf-of Alden.She is abdly leaking.Seventy-five of her…

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Survivors of the Wreck

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 19 August 1911 · page 4

The second boat from the abandoned ship Puritan has reached Anos Island. The survirors proceeded thence to Tahiti…

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The Fifeshire Wreck

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 August 1911 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday Afternoon.—A cable was received to-day advising that the passengers in the boat missing from the Fifeshire wreck are Miss Owen, Mrs. Dale, Mrs. Mannix,…

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