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276 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 14
THE following details concerning the recent devastation amongst shipping at Lacepede Islands have been supplied by Captain R. Wills, of the barque Prince Arthur, which has arrived from Western Australia. The masters and greater portions of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The schooner Resolute, from the Richmond River, bound to Sydney with a cargo of pine timber, took shelter in Broken Bay on Monday, but has since dragged her anchor", and gone on shore on the middle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Local Marine Board, after several sittings, have brought to a conclusion their inquiry into the cause of the collision, on the l0th instant, between the Maitland (s.) and the lighter Champion, by which colli[?]on it will be remembered the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LOSS OF TEE BRITISH BATQUE MARIA-DEATH OF 13 OUT OF A CREW OF 14 - HORRIBLE STORY OF THE SUVIVOR. Boston, February 21-A letter was received in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELHADO AND CURTIS.—Business in the share market has been pretty active dur[?]; the past month, and been more varied in character than tha[?] of many preceding months—that is not confined to Bank shares. Insurance stocks in particular have had a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →WRECKS AT THE LACEPEDE ISLANDS.—Concerning the wreck[?] at the Lacepede Islands, Messrs. L. A. Manning and Co., the agents of the Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association at Fremantle, telegraph to the effect that the Cingalee, Helen…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boston, February 21.—A letter was received in this city yesterday from Captain Kane, of the American schooner F. E. M'Donald, dated at Goree, on the west coast of Africa, January 24, in which…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →A telegram from Mount Gambier to the S.A. ADVERTISER dated May 4. states:—Frederick and Johann Cottlieb Barrien, father and son, were charged with stealing from the wreck of the ship Geltwood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the Mount Gambier Circuit Court, on the 4th May, Frederick Barrein and John Gottlieb Barrein, his son, were charged with stealing a large quantity of goods from the wreck of the Geltwood, on June 23, 1876. The prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →All the six Geltwood prisoners who were acquitted at the Mount Gambier (S.A.) C[?]lt Court, are to be prosecuted for an infringement of the Customs laws. Considering the character and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE ketch Rose, John Buckley, master, with two sailors on board, left Newcastle for Lake Maquarie, with cargo, on Friday morning last, the 11th instant, at 11 a.m., and was totally wrecked between Terigal Haven and Tuggerah Beach Lake entrance, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the Mount Gambier Circuit Court, on the 4th May, Frederick Barrein and John Gottlieb Barrein, his son, were charged with stealing a large quantity of goods from the wreck of the Geltwood, on June 23, 1876. The prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 632 →Telegraphic advices from the Macleay River report the loss of the schooner Milton Badger, of 177 tons register. The vessel was attempting to cross the bar outwards at 2.30 p.m. on the 23rd instant when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BOSTON, February 21.—One of the most appalling tales of shipwreck and starvation that has ever startled and horrified the civilized world reached this city yesterday in a letter from Captain Kane, of the American schooner F. B…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It appears that the charge against the chief engineer on the Somerset is that he was feloniously the cause of the death of the Chinaman by seriously threatening him and so intimidating him as to make…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Assembly, on Friday, Captain Onslow is to ask the Colonial Treasurer the number of wrecks and loss of life from shipwreck, for the period from 31st December, 1870, to the 31st December, 1876, that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday morning, May 19, intelligence was received by the Postmaster-General by telegraph from Cape Borda, of the total wreck of the brig Emily Smith, a well-know trader between Port Adelaide and Western Australia, which is said to have occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELHADO AND CURTIS.—We have to report an increased business in the Stock and Share market, and, although the price of some of our Bank shares has given way, it has very probably brought buyers into the market. Debentures of the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"The keepers of the Cape Borda light-house," says the S. A. REGISTER, "succeeded in finding the scene of the wreck of the Emily Smith, about seven miles Cape de Couedie, but were unfortunate in not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EARLY this morning, a brigantine, the Omaha, Captain Burr, from the Chatham Islands, arrived and brought the captain. crew, and passengers of the ill-fated ship Ocean Mail, which was wrecked at those islands on the 21st March. We are indebted to…
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