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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1892

2 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Missing Pleasure Steamer

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 24 February 1892 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday.—The excursion steamer Zeus fifteen passengers on board, left Cairns on Saturday, and is missing…

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Wrecked on the Goodwins

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 20 April 1892 · page 3

ERASMUS DARWIN, grandfather of the famous Charles Darwin, the naturalist, inscribed upon his seal the significant words, "Omnis ex conchis"—all things arise from oysters. But from…

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