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755 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 38
LONDON, Sunday.--A terrible blizzard bas occured in the Eastern States of America and a fearful loss of life has occurred. Up to the present over 200 fatalities are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Auckland, Saturday.--The ship Pleione, which went ashore yesterday on the Walkara beach, is held fast on an even keel. The [?]nd has gathered around the vessel and forms a kind…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram from Townsville states that the steamer City of Melbourne is supposed to be ashore, or to have broken down, 15 miles from Kimber [?], near the mouth of the Norman River…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →COOKTOWN, This Day.--The cutter Rapid arrived here late on Saturday night, with Captain Craig and the crow of the schooner Princess Louise, from Lizard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COOKTOWN, Monday.--The schooner Princess Louise, bound from Sydney to Normanton with a general cargo, struck on a sunken patch off Lizard Island on Wednesday night and sank…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The cutter Rapid arrived here late on Saturday night, with Captain. Craig and the crew of the schooner Princess Louise, from Lizard Island. Captain Craig states that on Wednesday evening last at 7 o'clock the Princess…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →BRISBANE, This Day--The steamer City of Melbourne is supposed to have gone ashore or to have broken down near Kimberley or Cooktown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday--The steamer' Julia Percy, from Warrnamhool with passengers and cargo for Melbourne, was caught in a ter[?]ific gale near Port Campbell on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Auckland, Monday.--The gales having slightly subsided along the coast, an examination bas been made of the ship Pleione, which is lying a total wreck on the Waikanae Beach,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Monday it was announced that the Messageries Maritimes Company intended to build a new steamer, to run in conjunction with their present Australian mail service. The following further particulars, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A man named Neilson, employed on board the steamer Maranoa, met with a horrible death while the vessel was off Percy Island. Tho vossol's engines broke down, and while he was engaged in repairing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →COOKTOWN, Wednesday.-- The wreck of the princess Louise was sold to-day, fetching £11, and the cargo £6. At the inquiry to-day it was found that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The chief engineer of the steamer Maranoa gives the following account of the fatal accident on board that vessel to the man Neilson. There was no breakdown of the machinery. A small screw in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Great excitement was occasioned in Auckland on the 16th by the intelligence that the ship Pleione, Captain Culbert, from London to Wellington, had gone ashore two miles north of the Waikanae River. The Pleione…
Continued on Trove, page 650 →The Marine Board also inquired yesterday into the circumstances attending the loss of the schooner Growler, which was wrecked on the 18th inst, while on a voyage from Tomakin to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WILCANNIA, Tuesday.--Dissatisfaction is expressed at the Minister for Works' statement at Bourke that the Government propose a tax on river borne goods by means ol a steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.--The strained relations between France and Italy have been intensified by the report that a French squadron fired two shots at the Italian steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A French man-of-war is stated to have fired upon an Italian steamer. The matier has caused considerable excitement in Italy, and a strict inquiry into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PERTH, This Day.--With regard to the 13 sailors who, according to a punctured tin band round the neck of an albatross, had been shipwrecked and had taken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday the new steamer Me Mel, the latest addition to the Balmain Steam Ferry Company, went on her trial trip, which was most successful, the results being quite up to anticipation. The Me Mel left Erskine-street wharf at noon sharp, and called…
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