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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1890

5 stories in South Coast's papers

A [?] Shipwreck. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 March 1890 · page 2

THE mail [?] into Brisbane to London struck a [?] Saturday morning [?]…

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Terrible Disaster off the Queensland Coast. a Mail Steamer Sinks in Three Minutes

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1890 · page 4

A BRISBANE telegram of Saturday states that the British India Company's R.M.S. Quetta from Brisbane for London, struck on an unknown rock near Mount Adolphus, Two…

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The Schooner Johanna. a Romantic Voy Age

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 July 1890 · page 4

THE [?] is arrived at her [?] being as [?]…

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The Ocean Steamer of the Future

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 August 1890 · page 4

THE coming ocean steamer will be over a quarter of a mile in length —one learns these particulars from on American paper. She will be driven by electricity, and in such a fashion…

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The Murder of a Constable. Shot Through the Heart. Harrowing Scene on a Steamer. the Murderer Arrested. Fired at and Wounded

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 27 August 1890 · page 4

THE Dargaville correspondent of the New Zealand Herald gives the following particulars of the shocking tragedy which took place on the Northern Wairon River,…

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