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134 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 7
The following particulars we find in the San Francisco Chronicle of 22nd October:— A strange and terrible murder took place at 7 o'clock last evening, at the corner of Stockton and Sutter streets. Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →There are two sides to all subjects—and, assuredly, the immense extent of our mercantile and commercial transactions presents no exception to the rule. One aspect of it excites to a high degree our national…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From a survivor of the wreck: of the Reliance, lost on Indispensable Reef, among the South Sea Islands, on the 2nd April last, we (Rockhampton Bulletin) learn the following particulars:—" The surviver is a seaman,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BARTON AND MELHADO.—Transactions in the share market this month have been somewhat below the average, both in number and amount,and there has been little alteration in prices. Banks: The New South Wales have remained almost stationary at £4[?] to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE 1st instant, being New Year's Day, was observed as a general holiday throughout the colony. In Sydney and its immediate neighbourhood there was all the festivity usual on such an occasion. The Tattersall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A CORRESPONDENT at Pescadera writes to the Alta, November 19th, as follows:- The American ship Hellespont, Captain Cornelius Soule, 79 days out from Newcastle (Australia), coal loaded, bound to San…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A correspondent at Pescadero writes to the Alta, November 19 th,as follows:- The American ship Hellespont, Captain Conelins Sonle 79 days out from Newcastle (Anstralia),…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tramore, Monday.—Yesterday evening the barque Mea, 1,000 tons burden, bound from Constantinople to Waterford, with a cargo of Indian corn, become a total wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A disastrous shipwreck occurred off Sandy Hook on Tuesday night, the 17th November, by which the packet-ship Isaac Webb, running between Liverpool and New York…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A melancholy catastrophe has happened ta a Clyde iron steamer, the Hibernia, one of a line of packets plying between New York and Glasgow. When in mid ocean her machinery broke down, and the ship…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Starry Bannet, an American steamer, Captain Summers, foundered in the previous storm in the middle of December, in the North Atlantic south-west of the Irish coast, in latitude 49. N[?]lougitude 22. W. and was lost with 122 of her passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MIDWAY between the Bill of portland and the Lizard, 100 miles or more from either, a promontory which mariners have good cause to dread juts far out into the Euglish Channel. This promontory has three principal heads—Star Point, Prawle Point,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BARTON AND MELHADO.—The business done in the share market this month has been below the average, both in the number of transactions and in amount of capital invested. The principal inquiry has been for de[?]entures of all kinds, but the supply has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE annual general meeting of the Destitute Children's Asylum took place at Randwick, on the 29th ultimo, the Hon. E. Deas Thomson in the chair. About 300 ladies and gentlemen were present. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WRECK OF THE KETCH CAROLINE.—This vessel left Sydney on the 12th instant, bound for Newcastle in ballast, with a moderate S. W. wind When off Broken Bay it increased to a gale, the master, Captain K[?]hoe, seeing every indication of heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DR. TAIT has become Archbishop of Canterbury, and general approval follows the choice of so able and useful a man. The new Primate was much favoured by the Queen, who, some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jack Trueblue (a tar who pitches into his foes) Mr. R--BERTS--N. Bill Bowline (a heart of oak, a little cross-grained) Mr. F--ST--R. Sam Skyscraper (a purser's mate, with a keen eye to the reckoning) ... Mr. S--M--L…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Starry Banner, an American steamer, Captain Summers, foundered in the previous storm in the middle of December, in the North Atlantic, south-west of the Irish coast, in latitude 49. N., longitude 22,W., and was lost with 122 of her passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →WE regret to have to record the total wreck of the fine ship St. Vincent, belonging to Messrs. Potter, Wilson, and Co., of Glasgow, which recently arrived from Cardiff, with a [?] of coal for the P.,N.Z,. and A. R. M. Company. After discharging her…
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