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484 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 25
A well conceived and skilfully executed scheme to steal a steamer, and obtain a quantity of valuable goods by false pretences, has, there in every reason to believe, been thwarted by the intelligence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Captain Espinarse, the Government Shipping Master, went on board the steamer India to-day, in consequence of the ship's papers not having been reported at the Customs. They were found on board, and from…
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following further particulars of the extraordinary robbery and capture are from the Melbourne ARGUS of April 29:-The narrative of Frederick Nicholson, an able seaman, is that the ship…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our telegrams yesterday alluded to the seizure by the Commissioner of Customs, Melbourne, of a steamer supposed to have been stolen from the Clyde. Intelligence of the daring robbery had been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamship India was seized last night by direction of the Commissioner of Customs. The circumstances under which the seizure was made are singular. The ve[?]l arrived in Hobson's Bay on Wednesday morning last under…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Union Company's steamship Tararua, 82S tons, Captain F. C. Garrard, while on the voyage from Dunedin to Melbourne, went ashore on the Waipapa reef, 25 miles north of the Bluff, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is the deposition of Frederick Nicholas, an able seaman on board the stolen steamer India, made before the authorities in Melbourne:—"I joined the vessel at Cardiff on the 22nd October, 1880, and signed articles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Henderson, the reputed owner of the Ferret, was arrested at Seymour, and remanded to Melbourne. The prisoner made no statement when arrested. He gave the name of George Bolton. It seems his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Tararua shortly after striking the Waipapa Reef parted amidships, swamping the boats alongside and drowning all the women and children, and when the Hawea, steamer,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Tararua has parted amidships. It is believed that only 12 men are saved. The boats were swamped, and the women and children all perished. The Tararua had eighty-two passengers on board, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We received a telegram on Friday evening stating that the Tararua, s.s., had been stranded on a reef off the Bluff, Otago, N.Z., but it was then hoped that the crew and passengers were safe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There in now, says the Argus of the 29th ultimo, no room for doubt that the steamer India--an account of the seizure of which appeared in our issue of yesterday is idnetical with the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This morning the Customs officers, with two dockyard employees, endeavoured to open the remaining closed doors of the ship Ferret. Two were forced open. A locked book was discovered,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The most intense excitement was occasioned in Melbourne when the news of the almost total loss of the passengers and crew of the s.s. Tararua was cabled from (New Zealand. The Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The statements of all the survivors from the wreck of the Tararua go to show that the vessel's course was altered by the captain under a mistake as to his position. Up till late on Friday afternoon persistent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—The wreck of the Tararua, accompained by so serious a loss of life, which has doubtless made many families not only desolate, but also destitue, will prove, I may safely assume, and occasion for the exercise of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--Another sad calamity has occurred. I have no desire to enter into the mental sufferings of,those who mourn their losses from the wreck of the Taraua, but this much I do say, that had a few of my…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One unfortunate circumstance in connection with the wreck of the Union Company's steamship Tararua was the publicity given throughout Australia, and presumably New Zealand, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the arrival of the steamer Gunga, from Fiji, this morning, we learn that the well known schooner Jessie Kelly had a narrow escape from total loss on her voyage hence to Fiji, and but for the good…
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