Accident to a Mail Steamer
A CABLE received by Messrs. Finck and Betz, local agents for the North German Lloyd line of steamers, reports that the steamer Hohenstaufen, from Bremen…
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Accident to the Steamer Hohenstaufen
Messrs. Finck and Betz, the local agents for the North German Lloyd line of steamers, have received a cable announcing that the steamer Hohenstaufen, en route from Bremen to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on a Mail Steamer. Narrow Escape of the Kaikoura. (By Cable.)
AUCKLAND, Monday.--Great excitement was occasioned at Lyttelton to-day when it became known that the New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Kaikoura was on fire,…
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The schooner Aurora, 52 tons register, built at Whangarei, N. Z., in 1868, has been totally wrecked at Marc, an Island off New Caledonia. Word was brought to Noumea that the vessel, laden with copra, bound for Noumea, was lying…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Steamer Damascus
Forty-eight days from London to Sydney, or 46 from Plymouth, including a stop at Teneriffe of nine hours, a few hours at Cape Town, and a couple of days at Melbourne. Such is the record of the Aberdeen White Star liner…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boiler Explosion. an Hotel Wrecked. Fifty Inmates Killed
LONDON, February 18.—A boiler explosion, which occurred at the Park Central Hotel, Hartford, U.S., killed fifty of the inmates—many of whom were burned alive—and wrecked the hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Schooner Neptune [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne
A Court of Marine Inquiry was held to-day to investigate the loss of the schooner Neptune, which went ashore on the Ninety-mile Beach on the 6th instant and became a total wreck. The vessel,…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Customs Department has taken up the matter of the cargo of the schooner Neptune, wrecked off the Gippsland coast, which consisted of dynamite. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cablegrams. (From Our Correspondent.) Wreck of the Sir Walter Raleigh. London, Feb. 19
Virtually the whole of the cargo of the ship Sir Walter Raleigh, which went ashore on the French coast, has been salvaged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wreck of the Neptune. the Captain and Mate Suspended--recovering the Dynamite. (By Telegraph)
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Customs Department has sent the inspector of explosives and his staff to the scene of the wreck of the schooner Neptune off Pearl Point in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Civil War in Samoa. Germany and America. Detention of a Steamer. a British Subject Arrested. England and America Demand His Release. Germany Backs Down
LONDON, February 21.—Germany demands the punishment of Mr. J. C. Klein, who was compelled to leave Samoa. AUCKLAND, Friday.—By the orders of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Loss of a Schooner
TIDINGS are to hand of the total loss of a vessel named the Aurora, an Auckland-built schooner, owned in Noumea. It appaars from the statements which have reached Noumea that the Aurora was…
Continued on Trove, page 391 →The Wreck of the Schooner Neptune. Melbourne
A Court of Marine Inquiry was held to-day to investigate the loss of the schooner Neptune, which went ashore on the Ninety-mile Beach on the 6th instant and became a total wreck. The vessel,…
Continued on Trove, page 382 →The Proposed Steamer Race
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The steamers Ozone and Courier continue to excite considerable attention. The directors of the Bay Excursion Company will hold a meeting shortly, and if they…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on a Mail Steamer
AUCKLAND, Monday.— Great excitement was occasioned at Lyttleton to-day when it became known that the New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Kaikoura was on fire. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Summary of News, Per Orient Mail Steamer Liguria
Will be published in the Sydney Morning Herald of THURSDAY next, February 28. CONTENTS: GENERAL, POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, MINING,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Southern Cross Wrecked. All Hands Saved
THIS morning a telegram was received from the Circular Head, Tasmania, reporting the total wreck of the steamer Southern Cross. The report stated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Five-Masted Schooner
The growing inclination of American shipbuilders to prefer schooner rig on vessels of any size in preference to barque or ship style has been recently exemplified by the number of craft…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Fast Trip Op the Steamer Burwah
The other day Captain W. Ellis, of Messrs. W. Moward Smith and Sons' steamer Burwah, recorded a splendid run up to Brisbane, and he has now to report having left Brisbane on the return trip at noon last Friday, arriving at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Shipping Disaster. the Steamer Southern Cross a Total Wreck. the Passengers and Crew Safely Banded. (By Telegraph.)
MELBOURNE, Saturday.--News was received in Melbourne to-day of the total wreck of the steamer Southern Gross, fortunately without loss of life. The Southern Cross was trading…
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