The Sydney Monthly Overland Mail. Fer P. and O. Steamer China. and E. and A. M. Singapore. [Via Suez.] General Summary
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1875 · page 2
SINCE Our March Summary, Parliament, which had been adjourned for the re-election of the new Ministers, has reassembled, and settled down to the work of the session, not, however,…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 April 1875 · page 507
What said the Diver in his first surprise, As babes and mother met his questful eyes? We trust he reverently bowed his head, And thanked his Father for the peaceful Dead…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 April 1875 · page 27
The DAILY TELEGRAPH mentions three more vessels which, it is feared, have been lost with their crews, nothing having been heard of them since they put to sea. The barque St. Mirren, off…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 April 1875 · page 30
The twin screw steamer Fiona arrived on Sunday from Greenock, where she was built under orders of the Colonial Sugar Company, who intend ber for the sugar trade between the Clarence River and this port. The vessel is constructed…
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Evening News · Friday 30 April 1875 · page 3
CAPTAIN M'KINNON, of the Liverpool ship Horsa, from San Francisco, at Queenstown, reports that on October 8th, at 10 p.m., in passing in the vicinity of Cane, in latitude 24[?]1 south, longitude 130.40…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 May 1875 · page 26
An alarming fire took place on board, the Royal Mail steamer Nile, on her last voyage from Southampton to the West Indies. She had on board a crew of 119, besides 88 passengers—the latter…
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Evening News · Saturday 1 May 1875 · page 2
An alarming fire took place on board the Royal if Mail steamer Nile, on her last voyage from Southampton to the West Indies She had on board a crew of 119, besides 88 passengers—the latter…
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Evening News · Saturday 1 May 1875 · page 2
A Deal pilot lugger put into New haven Harbour on January 30th, bringing eight Danish seamen, the crew of a small trifling trading wrecked in the Atlantic sixteen days previously. Before the ship…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 May 1875 · page 2
The new Channel steamer Bessemer left Hull on March 3, and arrived at Gravesend, after having experienced half a gale of wind and a heavy beam sea during the night. Mr. Reed, C.B., was on board officially as the constructor…
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Evening News · Wednesday 5 May 1875 · page 2
Sometime ago a meeting of merchants, shipowners, and others, was held in the Chamber of Commerce, to organize a fond for the relief if suffers by the wrecks on the coast, and like wise to set on foot…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 May 1875 · page 7
MELMADO AND CURTIS.—There is very little alteration to notice in the state of the Share market, and transactions have, in most instances, been only to a limited amount. Banks: Bank of New South Wales have ranged…
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Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Friday 7 May 1875 · page 9
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Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Friday 7 May 1875 · page 6
LAST month, it was our sad duty to send home details of the terrible disaster which occurred on the 15th February, when the steamship "Gothenburg" struck upon a spur of the Great Barrier Reef, on the coast of Queensland, and sank in…
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Evening News · Saturday 8 May 1875 · page 5
THIS steamer has been built expressly to obviate the disagreeable' accompaniments of the sea passage between Dover and Calais, across the English Channel, and is the invention of Mr. Bessemer,…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1875 · page 598
The new Channel steamer Bessemer left Hall on March 3, and arrived at Grave[?]nd, after having experienced half a gale of wind and a heavy beam sea during the night. Mr. Reed, C.B., was on board officially as the constructor…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 May 1875 · page 6
On sunday morning last at 9.30, the ketch Bernard and Isabel, which had been engaged in the coasting trade between Sydney and Shoalhaven for the past eighteen months, became a total wreck within the harbour of Kisma. One of those very severe…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Telegrams This Day. Cable Messages Wreck of the Steamship Schiller, with Australian Mails and Passengers. Nearly 260 Lives Lost. Serious Illness of Mr. Vogel. the Berlin Press and the Belgian Note the Wool Sales. the Corn and Metal Markets. the Suez Mails, Shipping Arrivals. &c. &c. &c. [Reuter's Special Telegram] London, Via singagore, May 8
Evening News · Monday 10 May 1875 · page 2
The health of the Hon. Juliuswagel, [?] of New Zealand, is precarious, and his medical advisers have decided, after consultation. that a course of German baths is in dispenseble restore…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 May 1875 · page 5
THE steamship Schiller, bound homeward, and having on board the Australian mails, via San Francisco, was totally wrecked on the Scilly Islands, off the coast of Cornwall. She had on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams This Day. Cable Message. Wreck of the Steamship Sculler. Further Particulars. Went Ashore in a Fog. Loss of 311 Lives. Forty-four Persons and a Portion of the Mails Saved. Emperor of Russia Arrived at Berlin. the Result of the Interview Between Two Emperors Anxiously Awaited. Italy and the Church. London, vis Singapore, May 11. Received In Sydney May 3.35 a.m
Evening News · Wednesday 12 May 1875 · page 2
The steamship Schiller went ashore on the Stilly island in a thick fog, and became a total wreck. There were three hundred and fifty-five persons on board at the time the ship struck, and three…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 May 1875 · page 5
FIFTY-SIX mail bags have been recovered from the wreck of the Schiller. The passengers were mostly Germans, and it cannot be traced that there were on board any…
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