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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1871

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Arrival of the English Mail Steamer ‘Geelong.’ News to January 24. England still Neutral. Paris in Flames. All side Forts Captured, Prussians Everywhere Victorious, Dreadful Slaughter throughout France. Governor Denison Dead. Marshall Prim Assassinated. Austria Proposes Peace. Paris will never Capitulate. Fenian Convicts Released. Bright and Childers Resigned. [Through Greville’s Telegram Company.] [ by Electric Telegraph.] Sydney. Wednesday 10.12 p.m

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 3

This Branch Mail Steamer Rangatira, Captain Brown, with the European Mails per “ Geelong,” was signalised off Glonelg Pier,…

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Another Steamer Blown up. Memphis, ([?].) January 27th

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 4

The steamer W. R. Arthur, from New Orleans for Louisville, exploded her boilers tearing away the forward part of the cabin and texes. She then took fire and…

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Later News From France, England, and America. More extended news from the Continent. American Papers of the 16th Feb.—Three weeks later than those received by Suez. Terrible Railway, Accident, 18 Lives Lost. Explosion Lost. Explosion on steamer, 80 persons Perished. France

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 4

THE following interesting details have only been referred to previously in telegram;— The German Triumphal entry…

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