Launch of a New Steamer
LONDON. May 21.—The new steamship Tasmanian, the latest addition to the fleet of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, has been successfully launched on the Clyde…
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Launch of a New P. and O. Steamer. London, May 21
The new steamship Tasmanian, the latest addition to the fleet of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, has been successfully launched on the Clyde…
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The Penguin, from Fiji, reports that the iron ship Syria, Captain Benson, 1140 tons burden, from Calcutta to Fiji, with 480 coolie immigrants, ran on the Nasali reef, 20 miles from Suva and 30…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The new ship Syria, from Calcutta, with 480 coolies bound for Suva, has been totally wrecked at Naisali reef. Twenty of the coolies and the majority of the Lascar crew…
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The Pangan, from Fiji, brings the news that the iron ship Syria, Benson, master, 1140 tons burden from Calcutte to Fiji having on board 480 coolis immigrants ran on to the Nesali reaf situated 20 miles…
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SUEZ, May 21—The British India Co.'S steamship, Duke of Westminster, sailed to-day, outward, for Queensland ports…
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The British-India steamer Duke of Westminster sailed to-day outwards for Queensland ports…
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The steamship Texan, the fifth beat under charter with the Orient Steamship Company for the conveyance of immigrants to New South Wales, arrived in Port Jackson Yesterday afternoon with a large batch…
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The M. M. Company's mail steamer Melbourne arrived here yesterday, bringing the following Mauritius news to May 2:— The cool weather has Bet in 14 days earlier than…
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The Penguin, from Fiji, brings the news that the iron ship Syria, Benson, master, 1140 tons burden, from Calcutta to Fiji, having on board 480 coolie immigrants, ran on to the Nasali reef, situated 20 miles…
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THE Penguin, from Fiji, reports that the iron ship Syria, Captain Benson, 1140 tons burden, from Calcutta to Fiji, with 480 coolie immigrants, ran on the Nasali reef, 20 miles from Suva and 30…
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The Hunter River Steam Navigation Company's new steamer Namoi made her first trip to Morpeth yesterday. She was visited by a large number of persons…
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At the Water Police Court yesterday, Captain R. J. Skinner, of the s.s. City of Brisbane, pleaded guilty to a breach of the Navigation Act, in permitting more persons to travel by his steamer…
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By the arrival of the new [?] the Company have secured a vessel which is second to some of the between Sydney, and the other [?] and [?] certainly the [?] passenger vessel of the company [?]…
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The, perhaps, largest full-rigged ship that has ever come to Fiji has been totally wrecked on the point of the Naselai Reef, about midway between Suva and Levuka. She was the Syria, from Calcutta, and bound for Suva with a large…
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In our issue of the 22nd instant, we published brief information of the disaster which bad befallen the ship Syria, while convoying coolie immigrants to Fill. By the arrival of the steamer…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Colonial Treasurer has received a telegram from Bowen, stating that the master and crow of the schooner Lady Robinson, from Adelaide for Townsville, arrived there…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--The Hunter River Company's hew steamer Namoi arrived at 4 o'clock I this evening with a large number of passengers, but owing to the tide being out she went ground,…
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HOBART, Wednesday.--The Tasmanian by Navigation Company's. new boat, the Flores, arrived to-day from Hull in 51 days' steaming. The vessel experienced fine weather during the…
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Were it not that most of the harbours in the colony are of such a nature as to render their navigation dangerous, owing to shifting sand banks across the entrances, there is not the least doubt that the trade of the colony would have expanded a very much…
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