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75 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 4
THE ship New Era, which was driven ashore on Monday morning, has been pronounced a hopeless wreck by the agent of the Boston underwriters. The vessel struck on a sand bar near Corlies Creek, about three miles northward of Shark Liver, on the Jersey coast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GENTLEMEN—By your Advertisement of the 13th February in the Empire Newspaper, you set out a table of charges for freights, viz:—To Greenwell Point 20s. Per ton; grain from ditte, 8d. per…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following letter will be read with painful feelings. It is the dellberate and apparently dispassionate statement of a shipmaster as to the shameful treatment he received at the hands of one who was bound by the laws of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. MEEK, who arrived here in the Equator, from Mani'a, fornishes us with the following account of the wreck of the whale ship Canton 1st, of New Bedford, A. J. Wing, master. The ship sailed from Tahiti for the Marian and Sandwich Islands. On the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following letter was published in the Argus of last Thursday. At present we pronounce no opi[?]ion upon the facts it narrates Ciptain Wiles happens to be in Sydney, and has the opportunity of producing the evidence of his officers and crew, should he be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following letter will be read with painful feelings. It is the deliberate and apparently dispassionate statement of a shipmaster as to the shameful treatment he received at the hands of one who was bound by the laws of humanity to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following letter was published in the Argus of Thursday week. At present we pronounce no opinion upon the facts it narrates. Captain Wiles happens to be in Sydney, and has the opportunity of producing the evidence of his officers and crew, should he be…
Continued on Trove, page 59 →The nomination of a member to serve in the Legislative Council for the United District of Clarence and Darling Downs, took place there on the 20th instant. The writ of election having been read by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Emmile Louise, Chilian barque, Captain Lorenzo, sailed hence on 17th May, 1854, bound for Valparaiso, and was wrecked ou the 7th July, on an island about 500 miles from Valparaiso. The following extract of a letter receive from Mr. Castle, one of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hunter made another trip down the harbour on Saturday with a large party of latters and gentlement, composed chielly of the directors, share[?] and their familles resident in Sydney. This can scare[?] be called…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Emmlle Louise, Chilian, barque, Captain Lorenzo, sailed hence on 17th Hay, 1854, bound for Valparaiso, and was wrecked on the 7th July, on an island about 500 miles from Valparaiso. The following extract of a letter receive from Mr. Castle, one of…
Continued on Trove, page 71 →YESTERDAY'S Maitland Mercury furnishes the following account of the first [?] of this [?]: THE HUNTER'S FIRST TRIP.—On Sunday morning, a great con[?] of the people of Maitland and Morpeth. notwithstanding…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—In compliance with your request relative to the changes that have taken place in this harbour in connexion with the recent earthquake, I shall be happy to afford such information as we have been able to collect…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE HUNTER'S FIRST TRIP.—On Sunday moraine, a great concourse of the people of Maitland and Morpeth. notwithstanding the wet weather, assembled at the Hunter River New Steam Navigation Caompany's Wharf, Morpeth, to welcome the new steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 77 →INFORMATION reached the city yesterday morning that the packet ship St. Patrick was ashore at Barnegat. The St. Patrick is commanded by Captain Whitman, nnd sailed from Liverpool November 15, for this city, with upwards of 400…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Information reached the city yesterday morning that the packet ship St. Patrick was ashore ai Barnegat. The St. Patrick is commanded by Captain. Whitman, and sailed from Liverpool November 15, for this city. with upwards of 490…
Continued on Trove, page 79 →Copies of papers relative to shipwrecks by lightning, as presented by Sir Snow Harris, F.R.S., to the Admiralty, have been laid before parliament, and are now printed by order of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Thursday night last the schooner Martha and Elizabeth, Anderson, master, bound from Melbourne to Newcastle, was cast away near Jervis's Bay. Fortunately no lives were lost, but nothing was saved from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following are the particulars of the loss of this vessel. She sailed from Melbourne bound for Newcastle:— "April the 26th.—At 5.30 p m., sighted Cape St. George, bearing N. ½E., the wind variable from S.[?].E., with rain and'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Thursday se[?]ght, it in supp[?]ed shortly after twelve o'clock when the terrible drifts[?] wind and slect were at their fiercest, the Will-o'-the-Wisp screw steamer, of between 450 and 500 tons burthen, struck on a reef about 300 yards from the main portion…
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