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A telegram from Circular Head states that the steamer Southern Cross, while on the passage from Form by to Melbourne, struck on Rocky Cape reef at 10 o'clock last night and became a total wreck;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Will be published in the Sydney Morning Herald of THURSDAY next, February 28. CONTENTS: GENERAL, POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, MINING,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Sunday;--a collision occurred yesterday afternoon between the steamer Barcoo, bound north, and Webster and Company's steam-tug Beaver. The former, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A collision took place in the Brisbane River on Saturday afternoon between the steamers Beaver and Barcoo near the powder-magazine. About 300 excursionists were on board the Beaver, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News was received in Melbourne on Saturday afternoon of the total wreck of the steamer Southern Cross, belonging to the Tasmania Steam Navigation Co., and which has for some…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Telegraphic particulars of the wreck of the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company's steamer Southern Cross appear in another column. This makes the third steamer in five years the same company have lost by striking on rocks. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Whatever doubt existed here as to the practicability of the German project for floating an exhibition around the world in a gigantic steamer late files from home announce that the German Export Society has raised 5,000,000 marks (£250,000)…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In a late issue some particulars were given of the vessel then being built for Messrs A. Currie and Co., and named the Argus. On January 10 last the went on her trial trip and, under rather adverse circumstances, wind and tide,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Will be published in the Sydney Morning Herald of THURSDAY next, February 28. CONTENTS: GENERAL, POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, MINING,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HOBART, Monday.--The captain, first and second officers, and first and second engineers of the steamer Southern Cross arrived in Launceston on Sunday night. They report that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another well-known Australian trader has gone ashore, and is expected to become a total wreck; but fortunately all hands have got safely to land. A cablegram, dated Sourabaya February 25, has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Further advices from Formby state that the steamer Southern Cross, which went ashore on Rocky Head, is a complete wreck, only the mailbags being saved. It appears that the rock on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Elsewhere it will be seen by cable that the ship Dallam Tower, which last August brought out to Sydney a general cargo from Glasgow, has been totally wrecked on the coast of Java. The crew landed in safety. The Dallam Tower…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The s.s. Southern Cross, which went ashore at Rocky Head, is a complete wreck. Only the mail bags were saved, but they were completely saturated. The rock on which the steamer struck is not marked…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →HOBART, This Day. -- Nothing can now be done to save the Southern Cross, and she must become a complete wreck. In connection with the disaster it is stated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stops have at last been taken at home to furnish the Governor of New Guinea with some suitable means of travel along the coasts, and for navigating the rivers within the territory over which he has been commissioned to exercise…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Will be published in the Sydney Morning Herald of THURSDAY next, February 28. CONTENTS: GENERAL, POLITICAL, COUMMERCIAL, MINING,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, This Day. -- Mr. R. T. Vale, member for Ballarat West, who was a passenger by the Southern Cross when she was wrecked, states that the night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, This Day. -- The Mangana, from Launceston, is bringing on the passengers wrecked in the steamer Southern Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The steamer Lady Loch leaves to-morrow for the scene of the wreck of the Neptune off the Gippsland coast, with the inspector of explosives and divers, for…
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