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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1869

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Summary of English News by the Mail Steamer. [The Sydney Morning Herald's London Letter.] London, 21St April 1869

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 June 1869 · page 5

IN to-day's Punch our new Chancellor of the Exchequer is represented as the Wizard of the North drawing golden eggs from an empty bag, and declaring that there is no deception in the…

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The Disabled Steamer Dandenong. Serious Delay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 June 1869 · page 4

THE steamer Dandenong, which left this port for Melbourne on Thursday last, arrived off the Heads on Saturday, with her machinery deranged. The first intimation received in town was at about twenty minutes to 11 a.m., when she hove in sight to the…

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Wreck of H. M. S. Ferret

Empire · Monday 14 June 1869 · page 3

Sightseers at Dover, on Easter Monday, March 29, witnessed not only the review—which, although given up as hopeless in the morning, took place in the afternoon—but the wreck of her Majesty's ship Ferret…

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Seizure of a Suspected Slave Schooner by H.m.s. Rosario

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1869 · page 7

H.M.S. ROSARIO returned to Port Jackson, on 21st May, from a cruise among the various groups of Islands in the South Pacific, and by Captain Palmer, the commander, we have been courteously supplied with the…

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Commercial Circulars. [Per Mail Steamer Avoca.] Stock and Share Lists

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1869 · page 3

BARTON AND ME[?]HADO.—The business of the share market has been below the average this month, and has been principally in Bank shares and de[?]tures. A company, with a capital of £10,000, in share of £5 each, has been es[?]blished, under the style…

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The Sydney Monthly Overland Mail. by the Mail Steamer Avoca. From the 15Th to the 21St May

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1869 · page 5

THE great "will" case, "Wolfskehl v. Mitchell and another, was terminated on Monday last, when a verdict was given for the defendants. The railway from Singleton to Musclebrook was…

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Wrecks. Total Loss of the Barque Douglas—miraculous Escape O[?] the Crew on a Raft

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1869 · page 10

THE following account of the above-named vessel and fearful sufferings of the crew appears in the Newcastle Chronicle of the 8th instant:- Captain Sayers states that he sailed from Newcastle on the…

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Wreck of the Barque Douglas. (From the Newcastle Chronicle.)

Empire · Wednesday 16 June 1869 · page 3

Captain Sayers states that he sailed from Newcastle on the 4th of May, bound for Yokohama, Japan. He experienced easterly winds from the time of leaving until the morning of the 8th of May, when, in…

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The Schooner "Daphne," Siezed As a Slaver by H.m.s. "Rosario."

Illustrated Sydney News · Thursday 8 July 1869 · page 5

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Burning of the Steamer Mittie Stephens—sixty-three Lives Lost. (From the New Orleans Times.)

Empire · Thursday 8 July 1869 · page 4

During the past few days the public mind has been occupied by one of those wholesale calamities which have occured by the hundred on Western waters in the last fifty years, which has wrapped in flumes…

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Trial Trip of the New Steamer America. (From the New York Times, April 29.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 July 1869 · page 4

THE Paci[?] Mail Steamship Company's splendid new steamer America, Captain Seth Doane, left Pier No. 43, North River, at a little after 8 o'clock yesterday morning, and proceeded down the bay and forty miles outside of Sandy Hook, on her trial trip,…

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Commercial Circulars. [Per Mail Steamer Malta.] Stock and Share Lists

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1869 · page 7

BARTON AND MELHADO —The share market has been far from active during the month, and prices have, upon the whole, been barely sustained. Advices from London, however, show an advance in the value of our debentures of from a ½ to 1 per cent.,…

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The Sydney Monthly Overland Mail. by the Mail Steamer Malta. From the 16Th to the 18Th June

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1869 · page 5

THE late rough weather has been rather severely felt at Newcastle. The Dandenong was towed into that harbour last Monday morning with her machinery disarranged, and otherwise disabled…

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Summary If English News by the Mail Steamer. the Court

Sydney Mail · Saturday 17 July 1869 · page 6

Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, left Osburne, and returned to Windsor on May 8. The Queen left Windsor on May 11, and came to London, accompanied by the Princess Louise and…

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Wreck of the Douglas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 July 1869 · page 4

THE following is extracted from an official report respecting the wreck of the barque Douglas, and addressed to his Excellency the Governor, by Lieutenant John T. Gowlland, of the Government steamer Thetis:…

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The Schooner Snowbird and Reported Loss by Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 August 1869 · page 5

THE suspension of Mackinlay, Brothers, and the disclosures which have resulted therefrom, have caused an unusual stir in commercial circles. Briefly stated the affair stands thus. Some time previously to…

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Commercial Circulars. [Per Mail Steamer Geelong.] Stock and Share Lists

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 August 1869 · page 3

BARTON AND MELHADO.—Transactions in the share market this month have not been numerous, and there has been little variation in prices. The half-yearly meetings customary at this period of the your have been held, and the results have been, upon the…

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The Sydney Monthly Overland Mail. Per Mail Steamer Geelong. From the 19Th to the 17Th July

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 August 1869 · page 5

A WOMAN named Anne Newlands, died suddenly in A bercrombie-street, Chippendale, on Friday last, the 9th instant. A man (supposed to be a German, but whose name…

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Wreck of the Douglas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 August 1869 · page 8

THE following is extracted from an official report respecting the wreck of the barque Douglas, and addressed to his Excellency the Governor, by Lieutenant John T. Gowlland, of the Government steamer Thetis:…

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Arrival of the United States War Steamer Kearsage

Empire · Friday 13 August 1869 · page 3

The Americas war steamer Kearsage, 7 guns, 1081 tons, the celebrated vanquisher of the Alabama —steamed into harbour at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, and anchored in Farm Cove, close to H.M.S. Rosario…

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