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The steamer Alexandria arrived at Cooktown from Normanton early this morning, having been aground for 30 hours on a sand spit about 80 miles north of Cooktown. She brings news of the wreck of the…
Continued on Trove, page 321 →The steamer Coraki, while crossing out on Wednesday, afternoon, struck on a bar. The sea is breaking over her. Chere are a number of passengers on board, eighty head cattle, and a cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →After an immunity of several months from the dreaded disease of smallpox, we have to report this morning a fresh outbreak of the infection in our midst, and under circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Once more the existence of smallpox has been discovered in Sydney, and this time the case is one calculated to cause unusual anxiety; for its history shows that a steamer which arrived at the Circular…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great anxiety exists among the German residents in these colonies respecting the fate of the German gunboat Augusta, which left the port of Wilhelmshaven (Kield) in the beginning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.--During the passage from Sydney to Newcastle of the schooner Scotia, a steamer, name unknown, collided with her off Shepherd's-hill, at 4 a.m. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The steamer Oceanian, for Marseilles, which arrived lost night from Sydney, is anchored in the bay under strict surveillance, owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—A letter under the above heading was inserted in a recent number of one of your contemporaries in which it was made to appear that the Shamrock was the first steamer introduced into this country. Mr. Henry Gilbert Smith, a…
Continued on Trove, page 345 →A collision, which is supposed to hare occasioned loss of life, occurred in broad daylight on Saturday afternoon. Shortly before 3 p.m. the A.S.N. Co.'s steamer Wentworth came out from the wharf to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A collision, which will doubtless occupy the attention of the Marine Board, occurred in the harbor on Saturday afternoon, between the A.S.N. Co's. steamer Wentworth (Captain J. E. Munroe),…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADEN, August 17.—The British. India. Company's steamer Meckara, London, July 29, arrived here to-day, en route for Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By the schooner Mary Ogilvie, which arrived yesterday from Lord Howe Island, there reached Sydney Captain Munns (the master), Mrs. Munns, and the crew of the brig Naind, which was wrecked on Elizabeth Reef, whilst on a voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Elizabeth Reef has been the scene of another shipping disaster. By the schooner Mary Ogilvie there arrived in Sydney yesterday Captain Munns, Mrs. Munns, and nine of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PORT SAID, August 20.—The M.M. Company's steamer Caledonien, Melbourne July 18, passed here to-day homeward, three days in advance of time…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →With reference to the quarantining of the French steamer Dupleix, the following letter has been handed to us for publication by the secretary to the Board of Health. The agents of the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An inquest was lately held in Newcastle (England) on the body of Asa Isabella Stoddart, who died in romantic circumstances. The deceased had been "keeping company " with a soldier named Pitt, with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →By the arrival of the schooner Mary Ogilvie, from Lord Howe's Island, we learn of the total wreck of the brig Naiad on Elizabeth Beef and the resoue of the crew by the Mary Ogilvie, which vessel brought…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →CAPETOWN, August 20.—The emigrant steamer : Belgic sailed on 20th instant for Sydney. All well on board…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Late on Saturday night a serious fire occurred on board the steamer Dargo, belonging to the Gipps Lakes Navigation Company, lying at Latrobe Wharf. After running the usual trip…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Intelligence has been received that the German corvette Augusta has been lost while on the voyage to Australia. Of those on board 230 persons were drowned…
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