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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1884

4 stories in Riverina's papers

Wreck of a Steamer and Supposed Loss of 200 Lives

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 28 February 1884 · page 3

Lloyd's agent at Shanghai telegraphs, under the date of January 12, at 8 p.m.:—The steamer Hwai Yuen has been totally wrecked on the Hieshan Islands. Five…

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Appalling Shipwreck on the Coast of Nova Scotia.—124 Persons Drowned

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 21 May 1884 · page 1

HALIFAX, N. S., April 5.—A steamship disaster, which took place on Thursday night at the very entrance to Halifax Harbour, has been paralleled iu horror only…

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Mr. Heydon Swims Ashore

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 30 July 1884 · page 6

IT is a mistake to suppose that the man whose course of public action it is hard to understand and consequently difficulty to justify is necessarily a weak man. There…

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Intercolonial Telegrams. Sydney. Wreck of a Labor Vessel at the New Hebrides. August 26

The Germanton Times and Tumbarumba Advocate · Friday 29 August 1884 · page 2

A correspondent at New Caledonia writes, as follows, under date Noumea, I5th August;--" Shortly before the departure of the last mail news came to…

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