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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea
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The wrecking of Tweed Shire Council's plan to have the Shire reticulated with electricity by the Electric Construction Company of Australia was visualised by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Sunday:-- Fourteen lives were, lest when the Grimsby trawler Laganes was wrecked off the Iceland Coast at the height of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY. Tuesday.--During a storm at Martindale near Denman, a house was wrecked and many other buildings were damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great damage was caused by a severe hurricane in the Cook Islands. At Raratonga, fruit packing sheds were levelled. Houses, offices and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →H.M.A.S. "Australia" (At Sea), Tuesday. STIRRING SCENES were witnessed to-day, when, in terrific seas, the crew of H.M.A.S. "Australia" gave a wonderful exhibition of seamanship and transferred nine men…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A last minute police raid held up the British liner Almeda Star for more than an our, says the Buenos Aires correspondent of the London…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Darcy Lorenz, 20, of Lang-street, Austinmer, was attacked by a shark or huge fish while he was "shooting" a breaker at Austinmer…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Due to the breaking of an oil-pipe an aeroplane had to be landed in a swamp near Warnervale to-day, and was wrecked. Three persons in the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →DARWIN, Sunday:--Fifteen months ago Dr. A. Moller, of Denmark, began an adventure in the cause of science that ended…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Monday:--The intercolonial steamer, Wangarella, was unable to sail for Auckland to- night owing to a disputes which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Australian air mail which left Croydon on February 23 is now 24 hours behind schedule owing to the wreckage of the undercarriage of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CASABLANCA (Morocco), Thursday:--Twelve men were drowned when a lifeboat capsized while on its way to rescue the crew of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Twelve were drowned when a lifeboat capsized on the way to rescue a Spanish smack which was driven on the rocks in a terrific gale. Huge seas…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEW YORK, Sunday:-- Simultaneous with the fall in the value of the pound, reviving forecasts of further dollar devaluation, Mr. James…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. H. T. Piercey has returned to the Tweed much improved in health following a month in Randwick Military Hospital. Mr. Piercey made the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Much interest was taken by Tweed people in the recent voyage of the ketch Dawn from the Tweed to Twofold Bay on the South Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four exhausted men hammering on the door of a lonely farmhouse in Iceland brought news of a three-masted French fishing vessel, with a crew of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DUNKIRK, Sunday:--Four, exhausted men hammering on the door of a lonely farmhouse in Iceland brought the news of a three-masted French…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday:-- Leaking badly in all holds, the Japanese freighter, Portland Maru (5,865 tons), fully loaded with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In a desolate spot between Brazzaville, a river port and capital of the Middle Congo Colony in French Equatorial…
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