Plantation Wrecked by Lightning
During a recent storm, a farmer named Nolan, of Mt. Errwah, in Queensland, had a strip of bananas four chains long torn up and scorched…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1928
404 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 21
Gangsters Retaliate Revenge on Mayor of Chicago Bombs Used Homes of Supporters Wrecked Chicago
Following the city administration's attempts to curb crime and Mayor Thompson's declaration that the gang of terrorists must be ended, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dropped Into Sea Daring Parachutist Four Miles From Shore Rescued by Steamer
SYDNEY, Sunday. --Lieutenant Haakon, Quiller the Norwegian parachutist, lelapt from an aeroplane at a height of 7,000 feet off Bondi…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yacht Blown Ashore Sydney
An eighteen foot motor yacht, which was being sailed by a mail named Collett and a boy was blown ashore at South Reef yesterday and badly damaged. The vessel was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Running Fight Steamer v. GUNBOAT Rifles For North China Material for Novel
SHANGHAI, Saturday.--The Czechoslovakia seamer praga, en route from Manila to Tsingtao, was attacked by a Cantonese gunboat on the Shantung…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steam Shovel Wrecked
An unusual blasting accident happened at Josephville on Tuesday. Blasting operations were in progress in one of the cuttings on the Kyogle-South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Steamer Wrecked Melbourne
According to a private message received in Melbourne the British steamer. Ocean Transport was wrecked on the coast of Ocean Island. So fair as is known the members…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Ocean Island British Steamer Wrecked
SYDNEY, Wednesday.--According to a private message received from Melbourne, the British steamer Ocean Transport was wrecked on the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Tin Hero" Miners' Secretary Denounced Ben Tillett Outspoken Wreck of the Unions London
"The authority of Mr. A. J. Cook, the miners' secretary, is questionable in most, things, but his unscrupulous attack on his colleagues regarding the industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shipwrecked Crews Sydney
Twelve officers and forty-four Lascars of the steamer Clan McWilliam, which was destroyed by fire in the Solomons in December, arrived in Sydney to-day. The master…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pirate Ship Steamer Attacked Marauders in China Sea Two Seamen Killed
SHANGHAI, Monday.--A second Japanese steamer was attacked by the mysterious pirate ship off the China Coast. The Hirao Maru, bound for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smallpox Outbreak. Sixteen Deaths on Steamer
Montreal, Thursday.--A message President Cleveland states that the deaths due to an epidemic of smallpox and pneumonia which is raging…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vessel Ashore French Whaling Ship. Crew Land on Kerguelen Island
PERTH, Thursday --Wireless messages received from the steamer Themistocles, now within radio range of Applecross, report that the French…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pirates Chinese Attack Steamer Fight with Destroyer Shanghai
A second Japanese steamer has been attacked by the mysterious pirate ship off the China coast. The Mirao Maru, bound for Tsingtao, in answer to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →16 Dead on Steamer. Smallpox and Pneumonia
HONOLULU, Thursday.--A message received from the steamer President Cleveland states that 16 of the passengers and [?] are now dead as a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Twin Towns Suffer Most. Hotels Partly Wrecked
The twin towns of Tweed Heads and Coolangatta suffered most from the storm. The gale was the worst experienced for 30 years, the wind attaining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aeroplane Wrecked Adelaide
An aeroplane piloted by Flight Lieut. Miller was wrecked while making a forced landing near Port Pirie. The pilot and two passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unlucky Friday Oil Tanker's Hoodoo Runs Aground After Storm May Be a Total Wreck London
A large oiltanker, the Varano, constructed by Armstrong, Whitworths last year, was returning from her maiden voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CHALLENGED Queensland Seamen's Union Naval Crew for Steamer Brisbane
In a statement to-clay the secretary of the Queensland branch of the Seamen's Union (Mr. Carrigan) stated that, he had ascertained that the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Steamer Rammed 20 Deaths Reported Boat Sinks in Fog Channel Collision
It is feared that 20 persons were drowned when the Italian steamer Alcantara, was rammed and sunk by the Russian training…
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