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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1879

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Fiction. Afloat and Ashore. a Russo-australian Novel. [The right of publication in Australia has been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney Mail.] Chapter Xviii—la Fiancee Malgre EllE

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1879 · page 926

The parti whom Captain de Latouche designed for Natalia was stout, bald, and middle-aged, or rather on the shady side of middle-age. A methodical and systematic man, be had accumulated a large fortune in the semi-military role of…

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The Steamer Australian

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 December 1879 · page 4

The Australian is a fine looking screw steamer, which has been built in Dundee to the order of Messrs. G. and B. Nicoll, of this city, who are developing a steam shipping trade with the Northern coastwise ports of this colony. The Australian is the…

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Fiction. Afloat and Ashore. a Russo-austral1an Novel. [The right of publication in Australia has been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney Mail.] Chapter Xxv.— Vonitzin's Sacrifice

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1879 · page 975

The Commissary Vonitzin has been out-manoeuvred by Natalie, and, being a sensible as well as an extremely worldly man, has taken second thoughts previous to posing himself for the final leap. His forecast is sagacious enough…

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The Suez Mail Steamer

Evening News · Monday 8 December 1879 · page 2

The Telegraph Department are advised that the steamer Tanjore, With the Suez mails, was sighted off Cape Borda at 11.10 a.m…

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Arrival of the Steamer Norfolk

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 December 1879 · page 4

The arrival of so splendid a steamship as the Norfolk from London is a significant mark of the great value English shipping capitalists attach to the growing passenger and cargo traffic that is being carried on between England and Australia. Messrs…

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Fiction. Afloat and Ashore. a Russo-australian Novel. [The right of publication in Australia has been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney mail.] Chapter Xxix.—madame Wrnceslas

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1879 · page 1022

In a former chapter we explained how Natalie's engagement with the Commissary came to an end. It was that she might yet one day be the wife of Paul that she had resisted this rich and not unkindly man. For Paul's sake…

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Wreck of the Schooner Venture, of Sydney, at the Bampton Shoals. (From Our Norfolk Island Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 December 1879 · page 4

By the Marion, from Noumea, we learn of the total loss of this vessel at the Bampton Shoals, on the morning of the 28th August last. The following particulars were obtained from Mr. Allan Buffett, one of [?]oat headers, who returned to his home on…

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The U.S. Co.'s Steamer, Roto-mahana

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 December 1879 · page 24

WE this week present to our readers a group of pictures of the latest addition to the magnificent fleet of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, in the shape of the Rotomahana, which…

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Fiction. Afloat and Ashore. a Russo-australian Novel. [The right of publication in Australia has been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney Mail.] Chapter Xxxvi.—" Cœlum Non Aniham."

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 December 1879 · page 1070

She is sitting under the shadow of a widely-spreading lime-tree in the Champs Elysées. Her parasol lies on the emerald green grass at her feet, and she has an open book in her lap. There is no mistaking the features; doubly…

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Wreck of the Benledi

Evening News · Saturday 20 December 1879 · page 4

PERTH (Western Australia), Saturday.—The iron ship Benledi, 1100 tons, bound from Sydney to Calcutta, was wrecked on the night of the 16th December, on the southern group of the…

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Arrival of the Steamer Orient

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 December 1879 · page 5

This splendid steamer, which has attracted so much attention, not only in the colonies, but also in England previous to her leaving, arrived on Saturday morning last, and the interest taken in…

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Wreck of the Barque Adelphoi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 December 1879 · page 4

About 9 o'clock last evening Captain Gregory, master of the barque Adelphoi, reported to Acting-subinspector Donohoe that vessel had been wrecked yesterday morning, off Port Hacking. From Captain Gregory the following particulars of the occurrence…

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Total Wreck of the Ship Ben[?]le[?]. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Fremantle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 December 1879 · page 5

The Ben Ledi, ship, 1057 tons, belonging to Messrs. Watson, Brothers, of Glasgow, which left Sydney in ballast for Calcutta, on November 8th, struck on the rocks at the Abrolhos Group, on the [?]th instant, and…

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Wrecks

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 December 1879 · page 5

This barque Adelphoi was on a voyage from Adelaide to Melbourne, haying left the former port on the 9th instant in .ballast. She was 349 tons register, and was commanded…

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Shipwreck and Great Loss of Life. London, December 24

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 December 1879 · page 2

The s.s. Barossa, bound from Liverpool to London, has been lost in a tempest, and 200 of her passengers and crew drowned…

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Fiction. Afloat and Ashore. a Russo-australian Novel. [The right of publication in Australia has been purchased by the proprietors of the Sydney Mail.] Chapter Xlvi.—old Faces and Old Times

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 December 1879 · page 1118

It is about noon, and Oginski, who has been further seeing the lions of Melbourne, confesses to a certain amount of heat and thirst, as well as general weariness. M. Francois's hospitable Bourke-street door stands open…

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Total Wreck of the Agnes Irving. Full and Latest Particulars

Evening News · Monday 29 December 1879 · page 2

This morning, shortly after tho shipping community had resumed business after the holidays, they were startled by hearing that the Agnes Irving, steamer, had been wrecked on the South Spit on…

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Wreck of the Steamer Agnes Irving

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 December 1879 · page 3

The above steamer, 440 tons register, built of iron, in England, in the year 1862, for the Clarence and Richmond River Steam Navigation Company of this city, has, we are sorry to state, become a…

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Wreck of the Ketch Margaret. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kiama

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 December 1879 · page 5

The ketch Margaret, Captain Peterson, bound from Shoalhaven to Sydney, with 12,000 feet of timber, became a total wreck near Black Head yesterday afternoon, in a squall which sprung up about half-past…

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The Wreck of the Agnes Irving

Evening News · Tuesday 30 December 1879 · page 3

KEMPSEY, Tuesday.-The steamer Agnes Irving now lies high on tho sand spit. Her stern and starboard fore deck is down in the deep water channel. All the luggage and instruments are…

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