Cholera on Board a French Steamer. London, Aug. 2
The Messageries Maritimes steamer Peluse has been placed in quarantine at Marseilles, two of her passengers from Egypt having died on board from cholera…
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A Steel Steamer for Sydney
A LARGE steel screw steamer, which has been built for Messrs. W. Howard Smith and Sons, of Sydney, at Messrs. John Key and Sons' yard at Abelen, Kinghorn, Scotland, was successfully launched on June 4. It is…
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News has been received that the steamer which ran into Flinders on Friday was the German collier Titus, bound from. Newcastle to Melbourne, laden with coal. When she ran in the sea was…
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In the matter of the loss of the brigantine Surprise which occurred on March 15 near Capo Vela Vati in the South Seas, and of which evidence had previously been given that it bad been caused through neglect of the mate…
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The steamer Tomki arrived at Lismore on Saturday, and left again to-day. During her stay she was visited by a large number of people, who are much pleased with her appearance and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Irish Informers. Arrival of the Steamer Pathan
It is needless to dwell on the intense interest taken by the community in the threatened influx into this colony of several of the worst characters produced by the recent Irish outbreaks. The questions put and…
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Of the steamer Newcomen. from London for Sydney to arrive in a few days, the Melbourne "Argus" says:—The Newcomen adds yet another to the already very extensive list of cargo boats which have been built within this last…
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LONDON, August 7.—The new steamer Namoi, built for the Hunter River Steam. Navigation Company of New South Wales, has been launched at Kinghorn, in Fifeshire, Scotland…
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The new steamer Namoi, built for the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company of New South Wales, has been launched at Kinghorn, on the Firth of Forth…
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The City of Brisbane, steamer, from Newcastle, entered the heads this morning at an early hour, during a dense fog, and before rounding Bradley's Head struck on a long reef running out there. As the vessel was only going at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Schooner Reported Missing. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane
The schooner Lenton, which has arrived at Cooktown from New Guinea, reports that the schooner Kate Kearney is missing. The crew of the Lenton have searched four weeks amongst the Islands for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another Steamer for the Colonial Trade. London, Aug. 8
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Tougariro will be launched on August 25…
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LONDON, August 7.—The newsteamer Namoi, built for the Hunter River Steam Navigation Company of New South Wales, has been launched at Kinghorn, in Fifeshire, Scotland…
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By advices received from Cooktown, it is feared that the Kate Kearney, brigantine, the property of Captain T. A. Like, has been lost with all hinds in a gale off the east coast of New Guinea. Captain Miller, of the ketch Leviton,…
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Advices bore been received of the total loss of the ketch Marquis of Lorne 18 miles north of Dunk Island, 80 miles north-east of Card weft. It is believed that all hands were saved. She was the property of Burns, Philip, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Ketch Marquis of Lorne. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane
The ketch Marquis of Lorne, 54 tons, yesterday struck the rocks, 18 miles to the north-east of Dunk Island, 20 miles north-east of Cardwell, and went down in 15 minutes in seven fathoms of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Ketch Marquis of Lorne. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane
The ketch Marquis of Lorne struck a rock about, 18 miles north-east of Dunk Island, near Cardwell, on Saturday, and sank in 15 minutes. It is believed that the master and crew are saved. The Marquis of Lorne…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The S.S. Catterthun Ashore
[?]ome excitement was created in shipping circles this morning, when it became known that the E. and A. Co.'s steamer Catterthun had gone ashore in the harbour shortly before midnight last night, when outward hound for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Catterthun Ashore Mysterious Passengers From Watson's Bay
The E. and A. Company's s.s, Catterthun, Captain F, Binstead, left Smith's wharf, Miller's Point, at 9.30 p.m. on Tuesday, for Hongkong, via Queensland ports, and proceeded slowly down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accident to the Steamer Bega
The Illawarra Company's new steamer Bega, Captain Hersee, from Sydney, on her first voyage to Woollongong, and while coming up to the jetty, had too much way on and came heavily up against the jetty wall, starting two…
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