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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea
82 stories in Riverina's papers · page 4 of 5
A daring exploit has been carried out on the Chinese coast. Ten Chun Chases (irregular predatory bands who infest the mainland), boarded the German…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London beheld last night (2nd August) one of the grandest exhibitions of atmospheric electrical disturbances witnessed for many a day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Port Stephens, which was reported overdue, has been wrecked on the New Zealand, coast. All hands were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Hankow took fire at the wharf, Hong Kong, and was burnt before daybreak. One hundred Chinese passengers were incinerated, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Kankow was burnt at the Hong Kong wharf before daybreak yesterday. One hundred Chinese passengers were incinerated, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Hankow was burned at the Hongkong wharf before daybreak. There were 100 Chinese passengers burned to death, and much valuable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reuter's Agency reports that the Russian steamer Varlak struck a torpedo in Valdivostock harbor, and sank immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Russian steamer Varyrag struck a torpedo off Vlodivostock, and sank immediately. Two hundred passenggers perished and only one was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the passengers by the German mail steamer Prince Sigismund which arrived in Sydney on Saturday from Hongkong, was Captain Joslin,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The captain of the derelict schooner Anna Rebecca tells the following story of the week spient by him and the crew on the keel the capsized vessel:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The loss by fire of the steamer Haversham Grange, New York to Australia, abandoned near Capetown, is estimated at £2,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Russian steamer Jessaica foundered in the Gulf of Bothnia. Out of a crew of 38 all told, the captain and 30 others were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Russian steamer Jenica foundered in Gulf of Bothnia, and out of [?] of 38 the Captain and 30 others were drowned. The German…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Schiller, bound for Melbourne, lost her anchors during heavy weather, and became stranded off Dung[?]ness. Terrific seas were running…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Finnish barque Sevinde, bound from Dalhousie, New Brunswick, Canada, has been wrecked on Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A small fire was discovered aboard the steamer Riverina at the wharf today. It was speedily extinguished, trifling damage being done…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mail steamer Australian, of the E. and A. line, went ashore on a reef 120 miles east of Port Darwin on Saturday night, and is considered a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twenty-five Chinese from the wrecked steamer Australian arrived at Thursday Island by the Taiyuan yesterday, and were refused a landing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Education Bill was further considered in Committee in the House of Lords yesterday. Lord Lansdowne's amendment to clause…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Hull steamer (Arlington) collided with and sank a Belgian steamer (Cnppuby), at Dungeness, during a fog. Twelve of the…
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