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It has new been ascertained that four lives were lost by the wreck of the Union Company's steamer Boojum, at Napier, while attempting to reach the ship Northumberland, which dragged her anchors in the Napier…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AUCKLAND, Thursday.--The ship Northumberland, which yesterday went ashore in Napier roadstead has completely broken up. Her masts went first tearing out the deck. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The barque Northumberland which went ashore at Napier is now breaking up. There is a perfect pandemonium on the beach, and large crowds are broaching the cargo, Many person were helplessly drunk…
Continued on Trove, page 1003 →News from Fiji reports the wreck of the brigantine Nightingale. The chief officer was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--The brigantine Night- ingale, whilst returning to Sydney, after landing a cargo of coal at Mago, was wrecked on the Mabnlici Reef, of Lan, one of the Fiji Group…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At about a quarter to 12 o'clock last night Inspector Donahoe, of the Water Police, received a telegram from Manly from Captain Coopor, of the Pomme de Terre, a well-known, coasting schooner, stating that his vessel had been in collision…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At a late hour last night news was received that a fatal collision had taken place at the Heads. We are indebted to the Telegraph Department for the following:--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When we went to press with our town edition yesterday evening, says the Wellington Post of the 12th instant, the latest new received from Napier was to the effect that the Northumberland was in no apparent immediate danger, as she had ridden out the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Terrific weather has been experienced on the East Coast. During a gale two small steamers were totally wrecked, accompanied in each case by loss of life. The Go-Ahead, from Wellington, in the darkness and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AUCKLAND, Monday.--Daring a terrific gale on Friday the coasting steamer Go-a-head was wrecked at Cape Kidnappers at the entrance to Hawke's Bay. Captain Plumley states that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Joseph Crosbie, the chief mate of the steamer Cheviot, was washed overboard and drowned on the 23rd, off Cape Northumberland, during a heavy N.W. gale and furious sea. About 8 a.m. three waves swept…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The past fortnight will be remarkable in the political history of the colony, for the adoption in the Legislative Assembly of new Standing Orders, the object of which is to prevent any obstruction or waste…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Bombay Gazette of 22nd ult. publishes the following particulars relative to the wreck of the P. and O.R.M.S. Tasmania :-- "On Tuesday we published a telegram…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is expected that the cargo of the ship Darling Downs, which sank off the Nore, after having been in collision with another vessel[?] will be recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →From our English files to hand by the R.M.S. Austral we have further particulars of the wreck of the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Tasmania on the Corsican Coast. The vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Messager de Tahiti, a French journal, pulished at Papeete, Tahiti, gives some details of the destruction by fire of the German steamer Raintea in the Pacific Ocean, From the report of the first engineer of the vessel, it appears the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The following account of the loss of the Tasmania, sent by acorrespondent at Ajaccio, appears in French journal:—"As[?] reported yesterday, the Tasmania struck on the Moines, probably through an error in navigation, The disaster occurred at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The following interesting parrative of a passenger on the ill-fated steamer Tasmania was published in the Daily News of April 22:— At 3.50 a.m. I was lying awake in my berth, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Captain T. Woodhouse and the crew of the steamer Ripple[?] which was wrecked at the Solomon Island in February [?] arrived here yesterday in the schooner Lizzle. No one was [?] [?] injured by the loss of the vessel, and It was unattended [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →London, Thursday.--At a meeting of the Peninsular and Oriental Company yesterday, the chairman (Mr. Sutherland) in referring to the recent…
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