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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1932

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Travelled on Steamer Without Paying Fare Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 October 1932 · page 2

When William Van Lamme appeared at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having travelled on board the steamer Zealandia to New…

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Bexley Sensation Woman's Home Wrecked Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 October 1932 · page 1

With an explosion, which could be heard all over the district, a bomb severely damaged the home of Miss Martha Harris at Bexley early this…

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Bomb Explodes Bexley Home Wrecked Is It a Vendetta Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 October 1932 · page 2

A bomb was exploded at the home of Miss. Martha Louisa Harris at Bexley early on Saturday morning. The explosion caused great damage to the…

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Shop Windows Wrecked Sequel to Collison Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 October 1932 · page 3

Damage estimated at about £1000 as caused to Maples' furniture warehouse, Prahran, yesterday as a result of an accident which had a…

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Missing From Steamer Mystery Cleared Up Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 November 1932 · page 1

When the trawler Mary Ann was fishing off Barrenjoey on Sunday a human thigh bone camp up in the net, but it fell back into the sea. A piece…

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Mission Vessel Lost Wrecked on Maiden Voyage

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 November 1932 · page 3

VILA. (New Hebrides), Thursday. The Melanesian Mission vessel, Southern Cross, has keen lost on her Island of Aneitum on her maiden…

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Wreck of 'Mission Ship Heroic Officer Swims Ashore with Line Vila (New Hebrides)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 November 1932 · page 4

Further details have been received of the wreck of the Melanesian mission vessel, Southern Cross, on Aneityum, the most southerly island of the New…

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Jensen Was "Jugged" So He Wrecked the Cell Tub

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 December 1932 · page 3

The police had a cell tub at the Leeton lock-up which they valued at 10/. That was before Christmas. They don't value it at 10/ any longer,…

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