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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The passengers of the wrecked steamer Southern Cross arrived to-night by the Mangana and have furnished the press with some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE Wednesday.--The Marine Board gave their decision to-day in the case of the grounding of the steamer Birksgate on the "D" reef, near Cooktown, on the 27th ult., but by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The excitement of the general election has passed away, the new Parliament has met, the Speaker has been elected, and most of the formalities, which form the prolude to the actual…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In connection with the wreek of the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company's steamer Southern Cross the following from her first Australian logbook in inferesting. Her introduction to Tasmanian water was marked by a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →HOBART, Wednesday.--The Southern Cross is in the fame position as on Sunday last, but the bad weather prevailing along the coast may injure the prospects of securing salvage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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 42 →IN connection with the loss of the three-masted schooner Airlie by fire off the west coast of Australia, a strange statement has been made, which goes to show that the coal at the island of…
Continued on Trove, page 444 →The steamer Southern Cross, while on the passage from Formby to Melbourne, struck on Rocky Gape reef at 10 o'clock on the night of February 22, and became a total wreck. The steamer Herbert…
Continued on Trove, page 443 →Another fine ship, the Dallam Tower, has been lost, it is feared totally; but the wreck differs from most of those recently reported, in that it was unaccompanied by loss of life. The crew reached…
Continued on Trove, page 444 →Nine hundred vessels totally wrecked and 2000 human victims suddenly snatched from vigorous existence annually. Such is the terrible revelation mado by the official statistics of the past year, and incorporated into the report of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The presentation of a lifeboat by a lady, at Dover, the other day, is reported by a late home paper. The present was made by Mrs. Sydney Morice to the National Lifeboat Institution. The ceremony was performed by the donor, who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Monday.—The steamer Investigator, lying at Port Adelaide, had a narrow escape from destruction by fire on Saturday, by the bursting of a lamp left alight in the forecastle. It…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AUCKLAND, Monday.—A severe gale has been experienced at Apia, the chief seaport of Samos, in the course of which the American barquentine Constitution was totally wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AUCKLAND, Monday. -- Advices to hand per R.M.S. Alameda state that a severe hurricane has been experienced at Apia, Samoa. Besides other damage, the American barquentine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Mr. Frederick Dunn, inspector of explosives, has returned from the wreck of the Neptune, after destroying all the explosive matter, thus preventing any danger…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, March 5.—Messrs. Money Wigram's new steamer Suffolk, which has been launched at Leith, will trade to Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Money Wigram's new steamer Suffolk, which has been launched at Leith, will trade to Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Mr. Frederick Dunn, inspector of explosives, has returned from the wreck of the Neptune, after destroying all the explosive matter, thus preventing any danger to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HOBART, Tuesday. -- The inquiry into the Southern Cross wreck has been adjourned till Wednesday. The most important evidence yesterday was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BALLINA, Wednesday.--The creamer Coraki, while being towed to sea this forenoon, was carried by a southerly current on to the south beacon, where she is lying in a rather…
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