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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1866

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Overland Mail Via Torres Straits, Per Hero Steamer

Empire · Wednesday 17 October 1866 · page 4

Mails for India, Europe, &c., will be made up at this Office and forwarded from Sydney by a steamer leaving on or about the 15th instant, in time to enable the mails to be transhipped to the steamer Hero, which is appointed to leave…

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Overland Mail Via Torres Straits, Per Hero Steamer

Empire · Thursday 18 October 1866 · page 4

Mails for India, Europe, &co., will be mads up at this Office and forwarded from Sydney by a steamer leaving on or about the 15th instant, in time to enable the mails to be transhipped to the steamer Hero, which is appointed to leave…

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Overland Mail Via Torres Straits, Per Hero Steamer

Empire · Friday 19 October 1866 · page 4

Mails for India, Europe, &co., will be made up at this Office and forwarded from Sydney by a steamer leaving on or about the 16th instant, in time to anable the mails to be transhipped to the steamer Hero, which is appointed to leave…

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Overland Mail Via Torres Straits, Per Hero Steamer

Empire · Saturday 20 October 1866 · page 4

Mails for India, Europe, &co., will be made up at this Office and forwarded from Sydney, by a steamer leaving on or about the 16th instant, in time to enable the mails to be transhipped to the steamer Hero, which is appointed ti leave…

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The Sydney Monthly Overland Mail. by the Mail Steamer Madras. From 21St September to 22Nd October. Friday, 21st to 28th September

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 October 1866 · page 5

On Friday, the 21st of September, on the order of the day being read for the resumption of the adjourned debate on Mr. Macpherson's motion (for the appropriation of £28,000 for public worship), the matter was…

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Wreck of the Brig Cosmopolite

Empire · Saturday 27 October 1866 · page 4

The brig Cosmopolite, which left Sydnay on the 1st October, has become a tolal wreck at M[?]-head Island, near Gledsto[?]. The first intimation was received of the news was the arrival by the Boomerang, steamer. We have received…

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Wrecks Relief Fund

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 November 1866 · page 7

A PUBLIC meeting was held last evening at the Masonic Hall, York-street, for the purpose of receiving the report and balance-sheet of the Wrecks Relief Committee. The Mayor of Sydney took the chair, and agter reading the…

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The Wrecks Relief Fund

Empire · Thursday 1 November 1866 · page 5

A public meeting took place last evening, according to advertisement, at the Masonic Hall, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Committee of the Wrecks Relief Fund, who were appointed to carry out the…

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Wrecks Relief Fund

Sydney Mail · Saturday 3 November 1866 · page 10

A PUBLIC meeting was held on Wednesday at the Masonic Hall, York-street. for the purpose of receiving the report and balance-sheet of the Wrecks Relief Committee The Mayor of Sydney took the chair, and after reading the…

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Parliamentary Paper. Vessels Wrecked on the Coast

Empire · Saturday 3 November 1866 · page 3

Return of vessels wrecked on the coast since the 1st January, 1866:— Petrel, schooner, 69 tons, struck on crossing the bar, Richmond River; no lives lost…

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Wreck of the Cawarra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 November 1866 · page 2

THE proceedings of the Steam Navigation Board in an investigation, ordered by the Treasury, into the circumstances attending the wreck of the Australasian Steam Company's steamship Cawarra, off the port of Newcastle, on the 12th…

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Wreck of the Cawarra

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 November 1866 · page 9

THE proceedings of the Steam Navigation Board in an investigation, ordered by the Treasury, into the circumstances attending the wreck of the Australasian Steam Company's steamship Cawarra, off the port of Newcastle, on the 12th…

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Arrival of the Branch Steamer Balclutha, at Adelaide, with the English Mail Per Geelong. News to October 11. Turther Reduction in the Bank Rate of Discount. Treaty of Peace Between Austria and Italy Signed. the Old Atlantic Cable in Working Order. Unpopularity of President Johnston. Wool Higher. [From Our King George's Sound Special Telegraphic Correspondent.] Adelaide, Saturday, 2 p.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 November 1866 · page 5

THE branch mail steamer Balclutha, Captain Wall, arrived at Glenelg Pier, at 1 p.m., after a passage of 98 hours from the Sound—the pasoage to the Sound occupied 123 hours…

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Launch of the G. V. Brooke Lifeboat

Empire · Friday 16 November 1866 · page 2

The lifeboat which was subscribed for by the friends and admirers of the late glfted G. V. Brooke, as a testimony to his worth and an appropriate memorial of his untimely fate, was launched, on Thursday, Septem…

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Arrival of the Branch Steamer Balclutha, at Adelaide with the English Mail, Pee Geulong. News to October 11. Treaty of Peace Between Austria and Italy Signed. the Old Atlantic Cable in Working Order. Unpopularity of President Johnson

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 November 1866 · page 731

Adelaide. Saturday, 2 p.m.—The branch mail steamer Balclutha, Captain Wall, arrived at Glenelg Pier, at 1 p.m., after a passage of 98 hours from the Sound. The mail steamer…

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The Sydney Monthly Overland Mail. by the Mail Steamer Bombay. From October 26Th to November 22Nd. Friday, 26th October, to 2nd November

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 November 1866 · page 5

ON [?] previous occasion have the natural and industrial resources of New South Wales been displayed to so much advantage as they are at present at the Exhibition at Melbourne, and will be at the…

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Wrecks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 November 1866 · page 8

FAME.—The Fame, schooner, of 60 tons register, left Newcastle for Sydney, on Wednesday, the 7th instant, with a cargo of 96 tons coal. At 9 o'clock p.m., when off the North Point of Broken Bay, a southerly wind and heavy sea sot in; hove-to during the…

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A Leaf From A, Medical Stufrnt's Unsorted Recollections. a Shipwreck As Seen Erovl Howth Hill. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Wednesday 28 November 1866 · page 2

Sir,—In the year 18—, I was completing my fourth session as a medical student in Dublin, where, although an Englishman by birth and connexion, a residence of some…

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Steamer Pluto. Sir,—[?] To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 December 1866 · page 3

men t[?]ctice in your leading article of this morning, a statePl[?] the effect that Captain Bowden, of the ill-fated steamer [?]o, remonstrated against the placing of certain boilers on the [?]eck of that vessel…

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Accident to the A. S. N. Company's Steamer the Williams

Empire · Monday 10 December 1866 · page 8

We reportad the accident in our shipping column of Saturday's issue. We now give further particulars, as follows, from our Newcastle correspondent:— NEWCASTLE, Saturday Morning, 7th December—As…

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