These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1874

22 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 2

Seizure of the Steamer Spark by Pirates

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 2 December 1874 · page 6

OUR telegrams recently informed as of the seizure of the steamer Spark, and the massacre of her captain and some of her crew, by Chinese pirates who had shipped…

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Cruise of H. M. Schooner Sandfly

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 23 December 1874 · page 6

H. M. SCHOONER Sandfly, one gun, Lieutenant Howell, which arrived in Sydney harbor on Thursday evening, is one of the vessels built for the suppression of the slave-trade…

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