A Trip to the Solomon; Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper Iii
"Awake!" cries the Persian poet, "for Morning, in the Bowl of Night has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to flight."…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1911
242 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 13
General Cables. Wreck in Peru. Vancouver
The steamer, Port Elgin, was wrecked on the coast of Peru. The crew were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Airship Wrecked. Sensational Mishap. Panic-stricken Spectators. London
The Lebaudy airship was wrecked at Farnborough. It was the first trial since the accident on October 26. A large crowd ascended in calm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attacked by Cannibals. Desperate Straits of Wrecked Steamer. Capetown
The British steamer, Kaisenga, struck on a reef off Womazai Island, German East Africa. While on the reef the vessel was attacked by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Riots in China. Public and Private Buildings Wrecked. Peking
Ten hours' rioting took place at Hangchow, owing to the high price of rice. Twenty shops and several Mandarins' houses were destroyed…
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The Spanish steamer Debays was sunk in a collision off Dungeness yesterday. The captain, mate, and three others were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Skipping Disaster. Passenger Steamer Rammed. Sinks in Five Hours. Vancouver
The steamer Merida, with 200 passengers, from Havana to New York, was rammed by the Admiral Farragut, cruiser, and sank five hours…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Airship Wrecked. Berlin
A violent gust of wind caused an airship with eight passengers to fall on to a roof at Dusseldorf, Germany. The airship was wrecked but all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Trip to the Solomons; On, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Pepesala (Russell Islands). Paper Iv
Dr. Quaiffe, son of the respected medico of that name, who resides at Woollahara, Sydney, came on board at Rendova, and took Mr. Meeks vacant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer in the Air
An attempt is to be made this afternoon at Penrith to fly with a steam driven monoplane invented and built by John Jones, 23 years…
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The steamer Prinz Waldemar struck a sunken reef in the South Seas and narrowly escaped destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Island Hurricanes. Disastrous Results. Four Schooners Wrecked. 15 Lives Lost. Sydney
The island steamer Malaita, which arrived this morning, brings news of the devastation wrought by the recent hurricanes in the New Hebrides…
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A fire broke out on board the harbor tourist steamer Kookooburra, in Middle Harbor, this afternoon. There was a large number of passengers on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Trip to the Solomons Or, Two Months on an Island Steamer. Paper V. Baniki, or "The Hill Top."
The phrase, "The voyage of life," is such a common one that it has lost its significance, at any rate, to the untravelled man. But its appropriateness…
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The steamer Tabago, with one hundred passengers, and a cargo of cattle, struck a rock off Puntamala, at the entrance to the Gulf of Panama,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WRECK. West Australia
The Norwegian barque Mandalay, bound from South Africa to Albany, was wrecked of Chatham Island ten days ago. The crew were all saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News by Wire. a Barque Wrecked. Sydney
The barque Mandalay, bound from South Africa to Albany, was wrecked on the West Australian coast ten days ago. The crew escaped in boats and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Barque Wrecked. Loss Near Albany. All Hands Safe. Perth
This afternoon news was received here that the crew of the Norwegian barque Mandalay had reached Denmark, an agric [?]tural settlement 25…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dynamite Explosion. Shop Fronts Wrecked. Two Men Injured. Sydney
During blasting operations at a building in the course of erection in Pitt-street an explosion of dynamite dislodged hundreds of tons of earth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Health Wrecking Cons[?]. a Great [?] by Bill [?]
Mr. C. Mu[?], of Barton-st., North Sydney, Sydney, says:—" I was [?] by indig[?] with all its accompanying evils for a long time, the…
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