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104 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 6
IN our advertising columns appears a requisition from tho Commissioner of Trade and Customs for tenders for a vessel to proceed at once from this port to the Auckland Inlands, in the South Pacific, to prosecute a search for the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The following correspondence respecting the despatch of the steamship Victoria, to search for, and convey relief to, the supposed shipwrecked persons on the Auckland Islands, was laid upon the table of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A London correspondent not unfamiliar to the readers of the Free Press, who has [?] Captain Dalgurno, and learned from his own lips the harrowing tale of the sufferings of the survivours of the wreek of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Good Samaritan, No. 3 division of the order of the Sons of Temperance, celebrated their first anniversary on Thursday last by a social tea meeting in the schoolroom connected with the Congregational…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The news brought by the August mail from England, respecting the wreck of the ship Invercauld, in May, 1864, at the Auckland Island, and the extraordinary rescue of the captain and two of the crew, upwards of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Information reached Sydney yesterday, by telegram, from Grafton, that a boller explosion, attended with very serious loss of life, had occurred on board the C and R.R.S.N. Co.'s steamer Agnes Irving. It appears that the steamer left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IF the faint twinkling of a candle's light was calculated to awaken so beautiful an idea in the mind of our, great dramatist and poet, to what shall we liken that noble light which not only so far transcends the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →O[?] the 1st August, the [?] Brother [?]than, trading between San Francisco and o[?] strank on a [?] near Crescent City during thick weather, and became a toral wreck. She had on [?] a large cargo and a [?]compl[?] of passengers. One…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is the official report of G. W. Emery, heeper of the light-house at Crescent City of the wreek of the Brother Jonathan, steamer: Crescent City Light Station, August 1, 1865…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EVERY now and then the story of Robinson Crusoe is repeated in real life. We know not, indeed, on how many of the desolate islands, which are represented in the charts of the ocean by a dot, the survivors of some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The River Don correspendent of the Launcaston Examiner says:—Through the courtesy of Captain Anderson, of the schooner Watrus, In am able to place before your readers the particulars of the wreck of the Mary Grant, from the River…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE yacht Ænid, belonging to Commodore Sir William Wiseman, started on an excursion to Broken Bay, her crew consisting of Lieutenants Broughton, Meads, Hunt, Mr. Fulgam (midshipman), and two seamen. They left Farm Cove at 8 p.m. on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The whaling barque Nile, Captain Fish, of New London, arrived here last evening, bringing portions of the officers and crews of eleven more vessels that have fallen a prey to the pirate…
Continued on Trove, page 726 →ANOTHER tree marked with Leichhardt's initial L has been discovered by Mr. Hays on Richmond Downs. It is situated on the bank of the Flinders River about a hundred miles to the east of Port Bowen. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another phaso in the transactions of customs business on the Murray has arisen within the last few days which should cartainly settle the inhabitants of thise districts in their determination to rest not until they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following has been handed to us for publication: Sir,—I have to report to you that the schooner Josephine of and from Sydney, in coming in on the 25th, took the ground on the middle spit. I got a bower and strcam anchor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain Tyrrell, of the schooner Minerva, of Sydney, who arrived overland yesterday from the Tweed River, has kindly furnished us with the following particulars relative to the loss of that vessel:—"The Minerva, schooner, of forty-five tons (in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The branch steamer with the English November Mails arrived at Adelaide yesterday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Chrysopolis did not reach Benicia until 11.30 last night, having remained at Rio Vista by the wreck of the Yosemite to tow her down to Benicia which she did successfully, leving the Goliah to tow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Editors Union.—I undertake a painful duty in attempting to give you a description of the terrible disaster on the steamer Yosemite, which occurred at the Rio Vista landing last evening, and from which I…
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