Man Commits Suicide. Jumped Overboard From Steamer
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Leslie Matthews aged 28 committed suicide last night by jumping overboard from the Courier as the vessel was coming up the Yarra from…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1923
509 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 26
Wreckage Sighted. South-east of Lord Howe Island
SYDNEY, Monday.—On arrival from the New Hebrides Captain Brown, of the steamer Makambo, reported having sighted some floating wreckage, two miles to the…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—While a destroyer was being towed to Wear for breaking up it broke away from the tugs aud was driven ashore. Whitburn lifeboats rescued the crew…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—F. Russell, who was a passenger by the steamer Berrima, of the P. and O. branch line, from Capetown stated there were five deaths on the voyage…
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VANCOUVER, Thursday.—There is a heavy easterly gale off Washington. The steamer Nika is rudderless and afire near Umatilla reef…
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SYDNEY, Monday.— The sailing is reported by cable of the new cargo steamer Ulmarra from Glasgow for Sydney on Friday. The new vessel is…
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NEW YORK, Saturday. --The gales and zero weather continue unabated and are playing havoc with the Atlantic shipping. The Italian steamer…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.—The Colonial Sugar Refining Company's steamer Rona had a terrific battle with cyclone en route from Fiji. The vessel was hove to for two days…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The sailing is reported by cable of the new cargo steamer Ulmarra from Glasgow for Sydney. The new vessel will go into the North Coast…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.-- The steamer Bona had a terrific battle with a cyclone en route from Fiji. The vessel hove to for two days and…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The German schooner Bertha arrived in Newcastle to-day, much battered and with nearly the half of her foremast gone. Her…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- The North Coast steamer Nambucca, which was beached at the Macleay River entrance, has been re-floated…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The North Coast steamer Namhuccn, which was beached the Macleay River, has been refloated…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Within a few weeks the largest vessel built in Australia will be launched at Cockatoo Island dock. The vessel is 12,800 tons, and when completed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Republican Homes Wrecked. Reprisals for Rebel Destruction
LONDON, Monday.—The Free Staters have commenced wrecking republican houses In Dublin as a reprisal for the destruction bv rebels. Twelve men in Free State…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Westralian Government steamer Eucla, when off Cape Leeuwin yesterday, struck a submerged object, believed to be either…
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The sailing is reported by cable of the new cargo steamer Ulmarra from Glasgow for Sydney on Friday. The new vessel will make the voyage out to…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—George Kitching, the Hornsby bank manager, who pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny of £5400, was sonreneed by Judge Scholes to three years'…
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AUCKLAND, Saturday.—After a terrific battering in a cyclone during a voyage from Nauru the steamer Waihora arrived in nort. The captain said they had a remarkable…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—By wireless the Canadian steamer City of Vancouver has reported that when the ship way 24 hours out from Newcastle stowaway appeared in a…
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