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123 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 7
It is our unpleasant duty to record the occurrence of prolonged and violent gales on the eastern coast of the colony, with a number of shipwrecks, and we lament to say, as far as at present ascertained, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Rak[?], Captain S. H. Wright, arrived in Port Jackson on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Her dates are Europe 10th, America 11th, California 10th, Panama 24th, January; and Wellington, 26th February…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN addition to the loss on the New Zealand coast of the Echunga, the steamer William Miskin, the Star of Tasmania, the Water Nymph, and schooner Otago (particulars of which were published in the S. M. Herald of the 28th February), we have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Statement og Georgr Orchard, sole survivor of the crew, of the brig Fortune, which was wrecked about ten miles to the southward of Hokianga, New Zealand, on the 3rd February, 1868:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →STATEMENT of George Orchard, sole survivor of the crew of the brig Fortune, which was wrecked about ten miles to the southward of Hokianga, N. Z., on the 3rd February, 1868:— I signed articles as A.B. at Sydney, on the 28th December,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FROM THE 28TH FEBRUARY TO THE 6TH MARCH. THE annual meeting of the Sydney Infirmary was held last Friday evening, the 28th ultimo, in the Castlereagh-street schoolroom, his Excellency the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Statement of George Orchard, sole survivor of the crew of the brig Fortune, of Sydney, which was wrecked about ten miles to the southward of Hokianga, N.Z, on the 3rd February, 1868:—I signed articles as A.B. at Sydney, on the 28th December,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →ON the 14th of February next, Parliament will have held its first sitting, and received from the Government a programme which has just been rehearsed by three Cabinet Ministers at a Conservative dinner in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Holyhead, Monday, Dec. 3.—Not since the 3rd of December, 1863, four years to this very day, when 13 vessels were stranded and 43 lives [?] has Holyhead seen such distressing sights…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, February 14, 1868.—On the 11th instant, an attack was made by a band of Fenians upon the police in the streets of Cork. The police were armed with muskets, and fixing their bayonets they made a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →During Friday night and yesterday the metropol[?] and the country generally was visited by a fearful gale approa[?]hing at periods to the force of a hurricane. The damage done to property in the metropolis has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A great number of vessels have put into Ramsgate harbour to repair the damages—some, very serious— which they sustained during the severe gale of Saturday. A large brig, the Sunium, of Scarborough, 263…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About half-past nine o'clock on Monday night when it was blowing a fearful gale from the South-west, the boom of the gun from the [?] aroused the inhabitants of Tramore, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There have been some terrible shipping disasters reported during the week. Two vessels belonging to Plymouth have been wrecked, the Majesty, in Penberth Cove, and the June, which foundered off Land's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE arrival of this fine vessel, belonging to the Victorian Government; was noticed in our Feb. number. We now give a view of the ship as she lies in Hobson's Bay, Melbourne. The following are her dimensions:—Length On the range of lower…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At a special sitting of the Central Criminal Court at Darlinghurst, on the 26th ultimo, H. J. O'Farrell, who attempted to assassinate Prince Alfred at Clontarf, was brought up for trial. The case was postponed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE cordial reception given to The Queen s Book, by the people, who have been eager in their demand, and. the reviewers who have been most loyal in their criticisms, has so gratified the royal compiler as to have led…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Southland Times of 1st April contains a long and interesting report by Mr. Henry Armstrong of a voyage made in the brig Amherst, for the purpose of forming depots and necessaries for castaways on the Auckland and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following reports of survey held on the condition of this vessel while ready for sea, on a voyage to Rockhampton, have been handed to us for publication. Sydney, 23rd April, 1868…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Gibraltar Chronicle of January 20 states that the British barque Minnie Gordon, which arrived at that port on the preceding day from New York, brought the master and two seamen of the United States…
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