Fire on a Steamer
NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- A fire broke out at Raymond Terrace on board the A.S.N. Co.'s steamer Daisy last night at 12 o'clock, and but for a timely discovery would have…
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Fire on Board the Steamer Daisy. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Newcastle
Just before 12 o'clock last night the steamer Daisy of the Raymond-terrace Steam Navigation Company was found to be on file. Mr William Smith of the Railway Department noticed an unusual quantity of smoke issuing from the…
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See! how the firelight flashes on the pane, Look bow it flickers to the raftered root, That almost gives its brightness back again So far the darkling shadows hold aloof…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The finding of the Steam Navigation Board in connection with the loss Gulf of Carpentaria is that the master and officers at the time of…
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The Steam Navigation Board of Victoria concluded the inquiry with regard to the wreck of the s.s. Gulf of CArpentaria on Tuesday. The Argus states that Captain Fullarton, chairman of the board, submitted a letter and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Steamer Wallace. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Auckland
The steamer Wallace, of the Anchor line, has gone ashore on the rocks at Greymouth, and is full of holes. The Wallace is an iron paddle boat, 80 tons register, 50 horse power, and belongs to Mr. Peter Donald, of…
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On the evening of March 16th a cable message was received from Hongkong to the effect that the Australian barque Bothwell Castle, bound from Newcastle to Petropaulovski, had run on a reef at the Ngarik (or Ngatik) Island,…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The American ship Ivy, which arrived last night from New York, reports that after rounding the Cape she came across wreckage, in the shape of the…
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In the Water Police Court, Friday, before Mr. Addison, John E. Meaburn, master of the steamer Gunga,was charged with having committed a breach ot the Quarantine Act. On September 25 the Gunga…
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The charge against Captain J. E. Meaburn of having committed a breach of the Quarantine Act, in coming higher up the harbor than Pin[?] while he had a case of small-pox on board was continued in…
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Prosecution was commenced at the Water Police Court yesterday in a case which promises to be one of the strangest heard in Sydney for a long time. A middle-aged man named…
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The South Australian Adr[?]rtiser reports that an inquest was held by Mr. John Symons at the Terminus Hotel, Morgan, on Tuesday, October 20, on the fire which destroved the river steamer Shannon on the previous Saturday. Mr…
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The monthly meeting of the committee of the National Shipwreck Relief Society of Australasia was held at the Exchange yesterday afternoon, when Captain Hixson occupied the…
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The eleventh annual report of the " Royal Humane Society of Australasia" (as it is grandiloquently termed) for the year ended September, 1885, has just been issued. The Victorian Humane Society was…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Arrival of the M.m. Steamer Caledonien at Adelaide. (Reuter's Telegram.) Adelaide
The Caledonien, steamship, of the Messageries Maritimes Company, Demanbauge, master, has arrived. She brings the following dates:—Marseilles, September 23rd; Post Said, September 29th; Mahe, 11th…
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Writing on the 29th ult., our New Caledonia correspondent reports :--"We have had news of the loss of the French schooner Ernestine, bound from New Hebrides to Noumea. The first…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.—A telegram was received here this morning from Gisborne, the chief town of the Poverty Bay district, giving the partionlars of a disastrous occurrence to the Union…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.—A telegram was received here this morning from Gisborne, the chief town of the Poverty Bay district, giving the particulars of a disastrous occurrence to the Union…
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A strange story from the sea is recorded by Captain Child, of the steamship Hampshire, which arrived yesterday from Hongkong and Singapore. It seems that while the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamship Indus Ashore. the Passengers Saved. [By Cable.] (From Our Special Correspondent.) London, Nov. 11
The P. and O. Company's steamship Indus bus been totally wrecked at Trincomalee, on the north-east coast of Ceylon. All the passengers were saved. The Australian mails…
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