The Bessemer Saloon Steamer
THIS steamer has been built expressly to obviate the disagreeable accompaniments of the sea passage between Dovor and Calais, across the English Channel, and is the invention of Mr. Bessemer…
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Wreck of the Steamship Schiller. London, May 8
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 260…
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Captain M'Kinnon, of the Liverpool ship Horan, from San Francisco, at Queenstown, reports that on October 8th, at 10 p.m., in passing in the vicinity of Ceno, in latitude 24'1 south, longitude 130 40…
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By telegram received this day from Melbourne, we learn that very heavy gales have occurred at Timaru. The Otago papers of the 10th instant report that the ship Cyrene, from San Francisco,…
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Narcisse Pelatier Do St. Gisls, a boy on board the French ship St. Paul, was wrecked on Rusel Island, in 1858, with three hundred and odd Chinese on board, all of whom but about seventeen,…
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Narcisse Pelatier De St. Gills, a boy on board the French ship St. Paul, was wrecked on Russel Island, in 1858, with three hundred and odd Chinese on board, all of whom but about…
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The completion of a new anxiliary steamer for the Queensland trade, was on the 13th instant the occasion of the usual interesting ceremony attending a launch. The new vessel has been constructed at the buildlng yard of air. D…
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By telegram received this day from Melbourne, we learn that very heavy gales have occurred at Timaru. The Otago papers of the 10th instant report that the ship Cyrene, from San Francisco,…
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Narcisse Pelatier De St. Gills, a boy on board the French ship St. Paul, was wrecked on Russe[?] Island, in 1858, with three hundred and odd Chinese on board, all of whom bat about…
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Narcisse Pelatier De St. Gisls, a boy on board the French ship St. Pauh, was wrecked on Russel Island, in 1858, with three hundred and odd Chinese on board, all of whom but about seventeen,…
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Advices by the Lord Ashley report the total wreck of the steamer Bapide, Captain Champion, on Ourail Reef, northward of Noumes. The vesal was from Nonmea. bound round the coast. The wreck…
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ON Monday last a most remarkably amusing story came to…
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We regret to have to record another shipping disaster at the Clarence Heads. The firm screw steamship New England, trading between the Clarence and Sydney, is reported to-day by telegram to have got…
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By the arrival of the Lord Ashley (s.), from New Caledonia, we learn that the Rapide, belonging to Messrs. Higginson and Co., of Noumea, had become a total wreck on a reel at the entrance to Warao, while prosecuting her passage to Noumea. All…
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THE following prologue, written by Robert Adams, Esq., was spokes at the entertainment given in aid of the "Wrecks Relief Fund," by the Balmain Amateur Dramatic Class, on Wednesday, 26th…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Commercial Circulars. [Phr Mail Steamer Macoregor.] Stock and Share Reports
MELHADO AND CURTIS.—The market still remains inactive, and appears likely to obntinue so whilst the bauks give so large a rate for fixed caposits. Either an altorstion must take place in the rates of intereat on fixed deposits, or bank shares must fall to a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE. Monday, 1.45 p.m. Wreck of the Barque P.C.E.
News has just been received in town that the barque P.C.E. was wrecked between Lake Macquarie Heads and Redhead, and that two men were drowned. The captain and two hands have…
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ON Saturday, at midnight (says our Newcastle correspondent), daring the heavy gale and high sea that was running, the barque P. C. E., Captain Brown, a regular trader to Newcastle, bound from Dunedin, New Zealand, to this port, in ballast, was in one…
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The railway into the city will be opened on Monday. Jessie Gambling, lately a servant at Government House, has been committed for trial for…
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P. C. E.—On June 5, at midnight (says our Newcastle correspondent), during the heavy gale and high sea that was running, the barque P. C. E., Captain Brown, a regular trader to Newcastle, bound from Dunedin, New Zealand, to this port, in ballast, was in…
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