Song. Jack's Last-night Ashore
Come let the grog go round, my boys, And lets' all Jolly be; What though old Time on plaion flies Don't we fly fast as he?…
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91 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 5
Total Wreck of the Steamer "City of Sydney."
Much anxiety was manifested in the city throughout yesterday, from the non-arrival of the "City of Sydney (s)," due from Melbourne on the provious evening, which became hourly more painful, until the arrival at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Total Wreck of the A.s.n. Company's Steamer City of Sydney. No Lives Lost
THE City of Sydney, 700 tone, R.T. Moodie, commander, left the Sandridge Railway pier, Melboorne, on Tuesday, at six p.m., for Sydney, and cleared the Heads at half-past nine, with a light S.S.E. wind, fore…
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During the whole of yesterday the arrival of the City of Sydney was anxiously looked for, having left Melbourne on Tuesday afternoon, and having on board…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wreck of the City of Sydney. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—As the captain and passengers from the wreck of the illfated steamer City of Sydney proceed by this conveyance to Sydney, it is useless my giving you detailed particulars further than the first information received here was by the arrival, about…
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NEW YORK, August 30.—The Great Eastern has anchored in Flushing Bay. she struck a rock at Montank Point, staving a hole in her bottom. She disembarked her passengers at Flushing Bay. and they were forwarded here by railway. The damage to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Later from America.—Great Federal Victories. New York, 15th. September, evening. (Per steamer North America, by telegraph to Cape Race, and from Londonderry.)
The Federal Generals McClellan and Burnside passed through Frederick, Maryland, on the 13th instant, and immediately pressed forward in the direction of Hagerstown, to overtake the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Total Loss of the Melbourne' Steamer, City of Sydney
During the whole of yesterday the arrival of the City of Sydney was anxiously! looked for, having left Melbourne on Tuesday afternoon, and having on board…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wreck Statistics and Chart for 1861. (From the London Standard, September 26.)
SHAKSPEARE compares England to a fortress, and the Channel to a moat, but if[?] he saw the leviathan steamers now coming np that, Channel, he would be the first to acknowledge that the comparison did not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Violent Storm, Shipwrecks, and Loss of Life. (From the European Times, October 27.)
A SEVERE storm raged in this neighbourhood on Sunday night, the 19th Several casualties occurred in the Mersey, but happily unattended with loss of life. At an early hour on Monday morning, the Ann E. Hooper, from Baltimore for Liverpool, was driven…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland. by the Telegraph steamer we have papers to the 19th instant from Brisbane
The Guardian states that a very severe storm of thunder, lightning, and rain passed over Brisbane on Monday evening. The drenching torrent was most acceptable, and, with the aid of others which went before, the ground begins to show signs of…
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