Victoria. Melbourne, Thursday. New Steamer
Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co.'s new steamer Courier has arrived at Melbourne from London…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1888
128 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 7
New Zealand. Auckland, Friday. Mail Steamer
The Frisco mail steamer Alameda arrived here to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reduction of Steamer Fares
FROM advertisement it will be seen that during the Centennial holidays the Newcastle steamship companies have made arrangements to issue return tickets at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck of the Alice Jane
The schooner Alice Jane, employed in the coasting, trade, is reported to have gone ashore at Tomakin. She drove ashore during the recent bad weather, and is almost sure to become a total…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jack Ashore in Auckland
"JACK ASHORE" has furnished a good deal of amusement in Auckland recently, according to the N.Z. Herald. Some of the extravagances perpetrated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shipwrecked Off Cape Horn
EXTRACT of letter from David James (late master), of the barque Colorado, of Glasgow:—"Having lost our ship on Staten Island, on the 5th of July…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Railway and Steamer Arrangements
Great efforts are being made by the Railway Department and by the steamship companies to provide for the immense traffic now proceeding to Sydney. The respective…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Launch of a New Intercolonial Steamer
On December 15 Messrs. Edward Withy and Co. launched from their ship-building yards at Hartlepool (says the Shipping Gazette of December 23) a screw steamer built to the order of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Zealand. Auckland, Friday. Smallpox on a Mail Steamer
The 'Frisco mail steamer Mariposa has arrived at Auckland. There was one case of smallpox during the passage, but the case is now convalescent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Accommodation During the Centennial Holidays
MESSRS. LOCHHEAD AND Co, local agents for the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company, have shown us a letter from the Sydney manager of the company with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the May Queen
From our New Zealand exchanges, to hand by the s.s. Hauroto, we glean further particulars of the loss of the Aberdeen barque May Queen at Lyttelton Heads. The vessel, itappears, struck on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shipwreck and Loss of Thirteen Lives
The Union Company's steamer Trojau, which arrived at Plymouth on January 2, from Capetown, brought home Mr. John Davis, chief officer, and four of the crew of the shin Idomene, of Liverpool,…
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The iron barque, Ann Millicent, bound from Liverpool to Adelaide, has been totally wrecked on the island of Timor, in the Indian Archipelago…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of a Ship and Loss of Twenty Six Lives
Two Swedish sailors were landed at Plymouth on January 9, the sole survivors of the American ship Alfred Watts, of New York, which was wrecked with the loss of twenty-six lives off the Bahamas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stranding of the Steamer Geelong. The Engineer and a Seaman Drowned. BRISBANE
THE following information was received from Townsville to-day:—"Telegraph Department,—You Yangs just arrived with foremost cut away…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Ketch Missing
Fears are entertained for the safety of the ketch Australian, which left this port early in November last for the Solomon Group and has not since been heard of (says yesterday's Daily Telegraph.) The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Fast Steamer
The P. and O. Company's new steamer Oceana on her trial trip attained a speed of over 16 knots an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Louise Lamont
News reached Sydney on Friday, from Rockhampton, of the loss of the topsail schooner Louise Lamont, on the Queensland coast. The vessel left Sydney several months ago, for Adelaide, where she…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[By Wire From the Sydney Papers.] London, Monday. a Fast Steamer
The Orient steamer Oceana, the latest addition to the fleet, is a splendid vessel, averaging 16 knots. The British Government will pay the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand. Auckland, Thursday. Mail Steamer Arrived
The 'Frisco mail steamer Zealandia arrived at Auckland to-day. POSTPONEMENT OF LOAN. The Now Zealand Government will…
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