Colonial Extracts. the Ship Wrecks at Timaru
THE correspondent of the New Zealand Herald telegraphs the following particulars of the loss of the Benvenue and the City of Perth.— "A terrible calamity happened…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1882
7 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
The Wreck of the Magnet. New Caledonia, June 8
THE captain, Government agent, and crew of the Queensland schooner Magnet, 92 tons, arrived here on the 31st ultimo in the schooner Port Villa, the Magnet having…
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THE American papers report the burning of the steamer City of Sanford at Jacksonville, and the subsequent loss of fifteen, lives. She was…
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THE following account of the loss of the brigantine Zephyr, bound from Melbourne to Hobart, at Craggy Heady, Kent's Group, is given by the correspondent of the Hobart…
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THE immigrant ship Northampton from Plymouth; with upwards of three hundred and seventy immigrants aboard, struck the rocks Port Hacking during a heavy fog on…
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AT about half-past 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, news was received at the office of the Sydney Daily Telegraph that the coasting steamer Woniora, belonging to the…
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THE following telegram was received by the Under-Colonial Secretary of Queensland, from Captain Pennefather, late of the schooner Pearl, dated Cooktown, 9th December,…
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