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188 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 10
Sir,—I deoply sympathise with the bereaved and sorrowing widows and orphans of these poor fellows, who were wreoked and drowned at Newcastle, and but for the merciful providence of God my…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE effects of the late disastrous gale still occupy considerable public attention. People can scarcely be said to have settled down again to the general routine of business; as day after day brings fresh intelligence of sad disasters' on our…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE SCHOONER CARRYWALL.—This small schooner has bebecome a total wreck at [?] Harbour, forty-five miles north of Smoky Cape. The vessel was at anchor. loading for Sydney, when the gale came on on the night of the 11th instant. She…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following extract from a letter, dated the 17th July, addressed to a gentlemen in Sydney by a magistrate on the Manning—River, discloses further calamities resulting from the late storm:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Tuesday last, Captain Goss, R. N., Mr. E. A. Moriarty, and Captain Hixson, Superintendent of Harbours, visited Newcastle for the purpose of making an inquiry on behalf of the Government into the management of the lifeboat, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT a late hour on Saturday night information was received by the Chief Secretary and Messrs. Bright Brothers (agents for the Black Ball line of packets), by telegram from Geelong, of the total wreck of the ship Netherby on King's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TO THE EDITOR or THE EMPIRE. Sir,—The recent and appalling calamity that has befallen our community, resulting in such a serious loss of life, has naturally enough called forth the warm,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Intelligence reached the Government about 9 o'clock on Saturday night, of the wreck on King's Island, of the emigrant ship Netherby, 911 tons, Captain Owons, from Liverpool, bound to Brisbane, and the oxistence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Tuesday last the board of inquiry consisting of Captain Goss, R.N.E.O. Moriarty, Esq., and Captain Hixton, Superintendent of Harbours, which had been appointed by the Governmet to investigate matters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE inquiry into the circumstances connected with the late wrecks was resumed at the Court-house on Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock. Jesse Hannell, lighthouse keeper, examined by Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have promised £50 towards the fund now being raised for the surviving families, the widows and orphans made so by the loss of husbands and fathers during the late gales. But I am told that at the meeting of the committee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following telegram was received from Grafton dated 20th July, from J. R. Myhill, Grafton, to Captain S. Hixson, Sydney :— Casualties of shipwreck on the coast, between…
Continued on Trove, page 471 →THE Commissioners resumed the inquiry on Thursday morning, at half-past 10 o'clock. The first witness called was William Ahern, one of the Customs crow; who deposed: I was an eyewitness of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Tuesday last, Captain Goss, R.N., Mr. E. A. Moriarty, and Captain Hixson, Superintendent of Harbours, visited Newcastle for the purpose of making an inquiry on behalf of the Government into the management of the lifeboat, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →AT a late hour on Saturday night information was received by the Chief Secretary and Messrs. Bright Brothers (agents for the Black Ball line of packets), by telegram from Geelong, of the total wreck of the ship Netherby on King's…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The schooner Elien, which arrived on Saturday from Twofold Bay, brought to this port Captain Coleman and three men, of the wreeked schooner Mimmie Dyke, which left Melbourne on the 7th instant, in ballst, for Sydney. On the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I forward for insertion in your journal the following account of the wreck of the Tahitian schooner Irene, which vessel has twice visited this port. It is a narrative account, and taken down from one of the survivors, of whom there were only…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Since the news of the total loss of the Blackball ship Netherby, on King's Island on the night of the 14th instant, arrived in Melbourne, and the steamers Victoria and Pharos were despatched to the rescue of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir—A letter appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald of Friday last, signed "A Citizen," charging the Committee with misappropriating the funds by extending relief to an applicant who had been shipwrecked I…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THIS vessel, the property of Mr. Francis Cook, of this city, was totally lost yesterday morning on the North Head. Ske is insured in Messrs J. B. Metcalfe and Co.'s office for £600, but we are informed that this will only cover one half of her value…
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