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The Bald Rock ferry Co[?] new steamer was launched from the Company's building yard at Bald Rock Balmain at about halfpost 9 o'clock yesterday morning. The launch was a most successful one, and as the vessel glided down the ways she was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The schooner Lizzie Davis (Mr. Wright, of Sydney, owner) became a total wreck last night, near Tacking Point Lighthouse. The vessel was in ballast, bound for the Clyde…
Continued on Trove, page 202 →BRISBANE, Friday.--A serious collision occurred in the river this morning. About 9 o'clock the A.S.N. Company's steamer Cintra was proceeding up the reach…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rumours have been for some time current of various irregularities on board the steamer Dorunda, and at the quarantine station, in connection with the recent outbreak of cholera. William…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →BRISBANE, Saturday.-- A slight mishap to the steamer Currajong on Friday afternoon gave occasion to ugly rumors of a serious accident. The vessel upon rounding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The medical board appointed to inquire into the origin and nature of the recent disease on board the Doranda sat on Friday and Saturday. A long report from Dr. Hickling' to the Colonial Secretary was read,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A deputation from the National Shipwreck Relief Society, consisting of Captain John Broomfield, Messrs. Thomas Buckland, and A. T. Wilshire, interviewed the Governor by appointment, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London, December 23.—An urticle on the Irish question, supposed to have been written by Cardinal Manning, appears in this week's issue of the Tablet, the Catholic organ in England. In this article the writer obiects to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Monday.-- The Postmaster-General has received a wire from Cooktown as follows:--" The master of the schooner Rover reports observing plenty of wreckage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dorunda inquiry was continued to-day. Among the witnesses examined was Mrs. Doran, who lost her husband and two children on board. Her husband was the first patient who died, his illness being very brief…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--Early this morning Messrs. Howard Smith and Sons received a telegram from Phillip Island, from the first mate of the steamer Gambier, stating…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Gambier anchored eleven miles outside she Heads to-day, and hoisted signals. The captain the steamer Adelaide was unable to go near owing a heavy pale, but ascertained by signals that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Fiji Times has the following concerning a destructive gale which occurred in Fiji on the llth January:— "Reports concerning the devastations occasioned by the late gale are now being received from the various districts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →COOKTOWN, Monday.--The Swedish brig Norman, Captain [?], was wrecked on January 16, on [?] Reef were the Queensland Government [?] Mavis…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram received by the Merchants, Shipping and Underwriters' Association, Limited, dated Freementle, February 1, says :--The Mira Flores, barque, 500 tons, bound from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Chinese crew of the Government steamer Palmerston has been discharged, and a scratch crew will work her round to Sydney where she will be sold…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The barque Anteros, in ballast for New Zealand, ran aground on Marion Reef, about eight miles from Edith-burgh at high tide, and is at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ketch Fanny Kelly, bound from Auckland to Mongonui, has been totally wrecked. Four passengers (a mother and her three children) were drowned. The crew were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The following particulars of wrecks which have occurred during the year 1885. on the coast of New South Wales, are published in the Gazette:— January 27: Stag, barque, 307 tons; Thomas Kehoo,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →AUCKLAND, Friday.--The ketch Fanny Kelly, running for shelter before a gale, struck on a sunken reef near Wangarei. Mrs. Turnbull and three children were drowned…
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