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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—A scene of indescribable confusion greeted the eyes of Constables Wells, Witts, and Carlston and a Civil Ambulance officers when they entered a house…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PERTH, Tuesday.—During a cyclonic storm in Point, Coates Harbour two whaling steamers were blown ashore. One was totally wrecked, but the other may be refloated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Monday.—On the arrival of the mail steamer Orcades at Adelaide from the eastern States it was learned that an attempt had been made to steal the mails…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Even while the world-wide depression in shipbuilding has been passing through its most acute stages, a development has been taking place which bids fair to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →HOBART, Thursday. --The ketch Gladys struck a submerged rock off the Three Hammocks Island to-day. Captain Burgess and three other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUCKLAND, Thursday.--A fire is raging aboard the steamer Canadian Pioneer, which was to have completed loading cargo for New York and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AUCKLAND, Thursday.—A fire is raging aboard the steamer Canadian Pioneer, which was to have completed loading cargo far New York and Boston to-day. The outbreak…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Friday.—There was another outbreak of fire on the Canadian Pioneer at Auckland last night, bat was extinguished after six hours. The vessel is now being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Saturday.--Five thous and bales of wool and flax in the hold of the steamer Canadian Pioneer, which [?]ught fire last week, were damaged by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—There was an affray between unionists and volunteers on the Union Coy's. steamer Marama yesterday while the vessel was proceeding down the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain Percival the a[?]man, whose Avro machine recently came to grief on Coolangatta bea[?] has had the wrecked machine packed up and this will be forwarded to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The passenger liner Wilhelmina collided with the steam schooner Sierra, off San Francisco lighthouse to- day. A wireless message reports that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RAN FRANCISCO, Thursday.—The passenger liner Wilhelmina collided with the steam schooner Sierra off San Francisco lighthouse. Wireless reports state the schooner is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Thursday.--At Christmastide in the Atlantic a storm severely buffeted the steamer Kaikoura. The vessel reached Auckland yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charged at the Police Court with having carried an excess of passengers on the furry steamer Pearl at Grafton, Alexander McPhee pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Thursday.—Armed men raided the American steamer Seanlabaga in Alex andra Basin, Dublin, held up the erew, disarmed the captain, and seized ammunition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Thursday.—The steamer Kaikoura was severely buffeted by an Atlautic storm during, which one man was killed and four disabled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Saturday.—Early last week the eight-year-old son of a prominent Sydney manufacturer's agent was sent to school at Lilydale. During the day someone called…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Sunday.—The German barque, Adolie Vinnien, while making her maiden voyage from Bremen to Barry was wrecked. The Lizard lifeboat was unable to reach the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Among the many recent invention concerned with life saving at sea, one of the most interesting is a new form of mechanism for propelling a lifeboat…
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