Minindi Wreck Inquiry. Is Mellish Reef Mischarted
SYDNEY, Thursday.--Judge Scholes has not delivered his finding in the Minindi wreck inquiry. He wants further information as to whether the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1923
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Wreck of the Mindini. Was Reef Mischarted?
SYDNEY, Thursday.—When the inquiry into the wreck of the steamer Mindini was resumed this morning Mr. Evans, who appeared for the second officer, asked the court…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Russel Basal, of McCredie's dispensary at Annandale, was working in his room this morning when fumes from mothylated spirits evidently…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—An ontbreak of fire occurred aboard the steamer Canadian Constructor at 3 o'clock yesterday morning Serious damage was done to portion of the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — The four-masted barque Janet Dollar from America was taken in tow off Sydney Heads yesterday afternoon by a [?]ug. Hardly had the low line…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. --Late on Saturday night thirteen boys of the Danish Government reformatory ship, Sterna, deserted the ship at Geelong. The boys…
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In the Brisbane "Courier" of the week ending 29th March, 1873, appears the following: The Ellesmere, while attempting to leave the Richmond River,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A party of Federal members yesterday visited the Cockatoo dockyards and inspected the 12,000 ton steamer now being built for…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday.—Wireless reports the British, steamer City of Victoria afire in the middle of the Atlantic. An unnamed-British steamer is rushing to the rescue…
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The correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" in Paris says that the Germans were not slow, in retaliating for the shooting of the workers at Essen on…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.--The Government steamer Douglas Mawson, under charter to J. Burke and Sons, which left Burketown on March 26 or 27, should…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—The Government steamer Douglas Mawson, which left Burketown oh March 26 or 27 and should have reached Thursday Island under normal…
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In the Brisbane "Courier" of the week ending 29th March, 1873, appears the following: The Ellesmere, while attempting to leave the Richmond River,…
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SYDNEY, Friday. -- The steamer Largs Bay was still held up last night with Brisbane passengers aboard. If the engineers are not forthcoming this…
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BRISBANE, Friday,—A telegram, received by the managing director of John Burke, Ltd., from the firm's agent at Burketown, states, that, the Douglas Mawson crossed out…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A schooner, thought to be the Bronzcwing, has gone ashore hear Wilson's Promontory. The crew landed safely. The vessel so far is quite…
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BRISBANE. Sunday.—Up till to-night there were no tidings of the missing steamer Douglas Mawson, and the worst is feared. Arrangements have been made for a number…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.—While the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Kaikoura was bound from Wellington to Opua to complete loading, a fire broke out in number…
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SYDNEY, Monday. --For having salvaged the disabled barque Gartheneid, recently, the owners of the steamer Zealandic are claiming £20,000 from the…
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SYDNEY, Monday—News has reached Sydney of a disastrous collision 65 miles from Singapore, in which 31 lives were lost. The vessels were the steamers Koribct and…
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