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192 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 10
ACUKLAND.—The A. S. N. Co.'s s. s. Auckland, Captain Walker, ran on a reef, fifty miles S. W. of Cape Howe, on the morning of the 27th May, while on her passage from Melbourne to Sydney, and became a total wreek. Crew, passengers, and mails saved,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR. D. M'Naught, late of this city, who is at present on a visit to England, and who was on board the Queen of the Thames when she was wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope, describes, in a letter to his friends some of the principal incidents connected with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE adjourned inquiry in to the circumstances attending the wr[?]k of the steamer Auckland on the B[?]ware R[?], off Cape Conrad, on the 27th ultimo, was resumed on Wednesday, by the Steam Navigation Board The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE adjourned inquiry into the wreck of the steamship Auckland, on the Beware Reef, near Cape Conrad, was continued on Friday. The members of the Board present were:—Captain Payne (chairman), Captain Devlin, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Maryborough Chronicle of the 20th gives the following particulars:— The captain and crew of the Juliet, whih struck on Breaksea Spit on Monday, June 12, and was afterwards abandoned in a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN official inquiry was commenced on Monday into the causes of the loss of the A.S.N. Co.'s steamship Auckland, by the Steam Navigation Board, at the Custom-house, before the following members of the board:—Captains…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE following communication, from a well-known merchant in Melbourne, a passenger by the Queen of the Thames, has been received by a gentleman resident there, and will doubtless be read with interest:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE visit of his Netherlands Majesty's screw steamer Curacao to Victorian waters is one of undoubtedly great interest to the whole of the Australias, from the fact that she is sent for the purpose of opening up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE the departure of the June mail the parliamentary session has been brought to a close. The prorogation took place on the 22nd ultimo, with some eclat, although very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following interesting letter has been forwarded by Mr. Goyder for publication in the S. A. Register and the Advertiser:— "In accordance with my promise before leaving Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. GOYDER, Surveyor-General of South Australia, who was a passenger by the unfortunate Queen of the Thames, wrecked at the Cape of Good has addressed the following interesting letter to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ANOTHER instance of the extent to which illegal trading and sly-grog selling is still carried on open and defiantly by river steamers in this colony is once more exposed and brought before the notice of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FROM the Cape Argus, April 18, we obtain the report of the Court of Inquiry (the second) hold at Cape Town, as to the loss of this ship. After summing up the evidence as to the position of the ship when the light…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Rev. W. S. 'Wilson, of Cassilis, who was formerly editor of The Parish Magazine of the diocese of Newcastle, has written and forwarded to his successor in the editorial chair an interesting account of the voyage to England…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →St. Danis, May 24th.—Evening.—This has been a terrible day for Paris. The city is burning in many places, and the destruction of a great part of the central and eastern districts seems inevitable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alexander Longmuir, master of the schooner Challenge, on remand, was again brought before the court, charged with assaulting a man whose name is unknown, on board his ship while at anchor off the island of Vanu…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Having observed with regret that the usual mothod of determining the deviations of compasses on board of iron steamships, by swinging, whon moored amidships to a buoy in still waters, is by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PARIS, May 28.—The aspect of the Boulevards is the strangest sight imaginable. I followed them from the Porte St. Martin to the Rue de la Paix. Strewn over the streets were branches…
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