The Stranded Steamer Titus
Melbourne, Wednesday.—Another attempt was made to-day to tow off the stranded steamer Titus, which went ashore at Warrnambool, but the effort was unsuccessful. Another…
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Summary of News for Europe. Per Orient Company's Steamer Ormuz. Political
The political record of the past fortnight is a very light one. The second reading of the Land Bill has been carried in the Assembly, and members are now debating its clauses in committee. The Premier has made an…
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A telegram from Warrnambool states that the steamer Titus is in much the same position as yesterday, except that a bank of sand has silted up around her and about the stern. The tug…
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NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The steam collier Western picked up three men in a boat, yesterday, off Lake Macquarie. The men hoisted signals of distress, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floating of the Steamer Titus. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
A telegram from Warnambool states that an attempt was made by the tug Albatross at 1 o'clock this morning to tow the steamer Titus off the beach where she was stranded, but the hawser broke. During…
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A telegram from Auckland on Monday reports that the barque Weatheresfield, Captain Sherris, bound from Brisbane to Lyttelton, has gone ashore at Ohau, 17 miles north of where the Pleione was wrecked. All…
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Yesterday the barque Speedwell, Captain Samson, belonging to Mr. J. C. Ellis, from Melbourne, was outside port, and was about entering the harbour, when she was ordered on to Sydney. On the passage thither she went…
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BRISBANE, This Day.--Cutter Pilot Chief was wrecked off Scarborough yesterday. The crew narrowly escaped. They had to swim ashore…
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Newcastle, Sunday.--Intelligence reached here to-day that tho barque Speedwell, commanded by Captain Sampson and owned by Mr. J. C. Ellis, M.P., of this city, was totally…
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TAKES, This Day,—The schooner Garfield, coal laden in entering the Heads yesterday took the ground on the South Spit. She was got off next tide…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.--The cutter Pilot Chief, bound from Noosa to Ere, has been wrecked at Scarborough Point. The crew were rescued by the police after two of them had swum ashore…
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News has been received from Cairns that the schooner Ensign was wrecked on Friday night on the Herald Surprise Reef. All hands were saved…
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The Under-Seeretary to the Treasury has received a telegram from Cairns stating that John Walker, master of the barque Ensign, from Townsville to New Zealand, in ballast, had arrived with a crew of nine men. He…
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BRISBANE, This Day.--The barque Ensign from Townsville to New Zealand in ballast, has been wrecked on a reef off Cairns. All bands were saved. The…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The barque Ensign, Captain John Walker, bound from Townsville to New Zealand in ballast, was wrecked on a reef off Cairns on Friday last. All hands…
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MULWILLUMBAH, This Day--Thesteamer Tweed went ashore on the North Head when coming in yesterday. She was from Sydney, and belongs to Mr. George Nicoll…
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News has been received from Cairns that the schooner Ensign was wrecked on Friday night on the Herald Surprise Reef. All hands were saved…
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The steamer Tweed, from Sydney, belonging to Mr. George no Nicoll, while crossing in yesterday, went ashore on the North Head. Efforts were made to get her off on last night's tide, but without success. Captain Tulloch intends…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A Close Thing. the R.M.S. Cceana and Steamer Casino Nearly Collide. Inches only Between them as They Pass
THE arrival of the new steamer Oceana was nearly being marked by a serious murine di[?]ater. When the Oceana was leaving Melbourne, about 7 o'clock on…
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A TELEGRAM received in town to-day state that the steamer Tweed, which was reported to have grounded on the North Head on Thursday last, when attempting…
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