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755 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 38
A race is to take place to-day in the Bay from Williamstown Lightship to Port Arlington, distance about 25 miles, for £1000 a side, between the bay steamers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GREAT excitement was caused in town yesterday by the receipt of the following message from Townville:-- "You Yangs just arrived with foremast cut away…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following information was received from Townsville to-day:—"Telegraph Department,—You Yangs just arrived with foremost cut away. Reports having encountered a fearful gale in Whitsunday Passage…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →During the past two or three days some little anxiety has heen felt at Townsville for the safety of one or more vessels plying on this coast, and at 9 a.m. to-day a steamer was signalled as arriving from the south. Speculation was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There is very little fresh to report in regard to the wreck of the Geelong. The Briksgate has arrived safely in Kop poll Bay and after Coaling will resume her trip…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The recent heavy weather along the Queensland coast, which has resulted so disastrously to two of Messrs. W. Howard Smith and Son's boats— the Geelong and You Yangs—was the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The portmaster has received a telegram stating that the schooner Golden Isle is a total wreck at Stanage Bay, near St. Lawrence. All hands were saved. The captain arrived at St. Lawrence to-day. The schooner…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BRISBANE, This Day.--Another shipping disaster has been occasioned by the recent boisterous weather on the coast. Captain Heath, Postmaster, has received a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ROCKHAMPTON, This Day.--News has been received of the wreck of the schooner Louisa Lamont, bound from Port Pirie, South Australia, to Townsville on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The topsail schooner Mary Ogilvie, which arrived on Wednesday night from the Solomon Islands, via Suva, Norfolk Island, and Lord Howe Island, and anchored in Watson's Bay for medical inspection, was granted pratique yesterday morning, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BRISBANE, This Day.--It has been determined not to attempt to float the wrecked steamer Geelong. It will be sold by auction on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram has been received stating that the schooner Golden Isle is a total wreck at Stanage Bay, near St. Lawrence. All hands were saved. The captain arrived at St. Lawrence to-day. The schooner…
Continued on Trove, page 415 →News has beon received of the wreck of the schooner Louisa Lamont at Rockhampton, bound from Port Pirie, South Australia, to Townsville, on B[?]ker's Group. The crew arrived at Sea Hill yesterday, but no…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →On Sunday, telegraphic news was received from Townsville of the s.s. You Yangs there with her foremast cut away, part of her main mast gone, and in a distressful plight in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sir,—I wish to call attention, through the medium of your popular and widespread newspaper, to the Sunday boat running from Balmain and Pyrmont to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 5.40 this evening the steamer Derwent was proceeding down the river, bound for Maryborough. When rouuding Bulimba Point she was caught by a strong flood tide and carried over the wrong side of the river…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →During the past two or three days some little anxiety has been felt at Townsville for the safety of one or more vessels plying on this coast, and at 9 a.m. to-day a steamer was signalled as arriving from the south. Speculation was…
Continued on Trove, page 416 →A fireman named Adolf Meyer of the ill fated steamer Geelong has given a statement regarding the wreck, which if it be relied upon places a very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The captain of the schooner Louisa Lamont, which was wrecked at Bunker Group, says that the vessel struck a rock about 32 miles from Keppel Bay, between 2 and 3 o'clock on Wednesday. He was ignorant as to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Captain of the Louisa Lamont stye that the vessel struck a rock about 82 miles from Keppel Bay, between 2 and 3 o'clock en Wednesday, but he is ignorant…
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