A Schooner Ashore. Camden Haven
The schooner Julius Vogel is ashore on the rocks at Camden Haven Heads, and has every appearance of becoming a wreck…
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Arrival of the Queensland Mail Steamer. the Floods in China. [By Telegraph.]
COOKTOWN, Tuesday.--The. R.M.S. Merkara arrived here at 4 o'clock from Singapore, bringing dates up to 13th August. Captain. Craig, of the Catterthun, was…
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The Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Evening Star reports that, by order of the Minister of Marine, a search party was sent from Collingwood to discover, if possible, whether there was any truth in a report that some shipwrecked men were on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Disastrous Wreck Loss of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Crew and Passenger Saved. [By Telegraph.]
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The signalman in charge of Wilson's Promontory telegraphed to-day announcing that Captain Thomson, of the steamer Gulf of Carpentaria,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of the Steamer Gulf of Carpentaria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
No news was received to-day from the scene of the wreck of the steamer Gulf of Carpentaria, except a message from the captain, who remains at Wilson's Promontory, to the agents, to the effect that he and the…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The steamer Nomesis, on her way from Sydney, picked up three boats and some wreckage off Wilson's Promontory belonging to the wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOUNDERING of the Steamer Gulf of Carpentaria. [By Telegraph] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
The steamer Cintra brought the officers and crew of the steamer Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne this evening. The crew of the Cintra have started a subscription on their behalf, and have raised £24…
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Considerable, excitement prevailed in, Sydney on Tuesday evening, respecting the total loss of the fine cargo steamer Gulf of Carpentaria on an unknown rock, on the voyage hence to Melbourne,…
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Some anxiety is being manifested (says the Newcastle Herald) for the safety of the ketch Young Tom, which left Newcastle about the 25th of July for Townsville, and has not since been heard of. The ketch Duke of Cornwall left here about 10 days…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Foundering of the Steamer Gulf of Carpentaria. Melbourne
The steamer Gulf of Carpentaria, from Sydney to Adelaide, became a total wreck near Wilson's Promontory this forenoon. News of the wreck was brought to the Promon tory signal station by Captain Thomson, who, with all on…
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The captain and crow of the steamer Gulf of Carpentaria, wrecked on an unknown rock between Cleft Island and the Anser Group, reached Melbourne on Thursday evening, having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Marine Board Inquiry. the Steamer Swansea
At the Marine Board meeting yesterday, there were present:—Captains Hixson (president), Bloomfield (vicepresident), Moodie, Robertson, M'Lean, and Fox, and Commander Lindeman (secretury). An inquiry was held…
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The Melbourne Steam Navigation Board opened the inquiry into the foundering of the steamer Gulf of Carpentaria, on Tuesday ; but the evidence taken disclosed nothing but what has already been [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wreck of the Gulf of Carpentaria. [By Telegraph.]
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--At the Steam Navigation Board inquiry, held to-day into the loss of the Gulf of Carpentaria the witnesses examined were Samuel Kennedy, the second officer,…
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The now steam collier Mount Kembla the arrival of which on Tuesday night was notified in yesterday's issue, was granted pratique yesterday morning, and came up to a berth at Circular Quay. Designed solely for utility, the Mount Kembla has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wreck of the Gulf of Carpentaria. [By Telegraph.]
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Sream Navigation Board resumed the investigation into the loss of the Gulf of Carpentaria off Wilson's Promontory. The board decided to…
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The barque Edwin Basset Captain M'Donald, and one of the recently purchased fleet of the Union Company was wrecked at West Wangami Inlet, Nelson N.Z.. on August 31. The ship could not be worked…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Barwon "A Banker" at Walgett,—steamer Rounding the Western End
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Continued on Trove, page 16 →Wreck of the GermaoH Corvette Augusta
INTELLIGENCE has been received that the German corvette Augusta has been lost while oh the voyage to Australia. Of those on board 230 persons were drowned. The Augusta was bound from Wilhelmshaven to this port…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Our Mail Letter, Per Orient Mail Steamer Sorata. Sydney, Sept. 30
At the time our last mail letter was despatched the discussion was proceeding in the Legislative Assembly on the address in reply to the Governor's speech, and the amendment moved thereon, by Mr, Burns, the…
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