Supposed Loss of a Steamer
LONDON, Friday.--It is feared that a steamer engaged in conveying United States naval officers from San Francisco to More Island has been overtaken by a gale, and…
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A New Steamer. Trial Trip. London, January 10
The new steamer Argus, built for Messrs. A. Currie aud Co., of Melbourne, for the Indian-Australian trade, has made a successful trial trip, attaining 18 knots…
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Advices from San Francisco state that a steamer which left that port with a number of United States naval officers aboard, bound for More Island, is supposed…
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Archibald Currie'a new steamer Argus, which has been built for the trade between Melbourne and Calcutta, has performed a trial trip. She attained a speed…
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THE three-masted schooner Heath, which has been trading on the coast to Newcastle for the past five years in the coal trade, was lost on Friday at Capo Three Points. The Heath was…
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At a late hour last night we received an official memorandum by telegraph from the Postmaster-General of Wostorn Australia, at Perth, announcing that the iron ship Benan, Captain Burns, coal laden…
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THE Telegraph authorities have been furnished with a report from the Postmaster-General of West Australia to the effect that "the iron ship Benan, 1400 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Tornado in America. Enormous Damage to Property. Hundreds of Lives. Lost--thousands Injured. Churches, Buildings and Hamlets Levelled. the Niagara Bridge Wrecked
LONDON, Thursday.--America has been visited by some terrible cyclones. At Reading, a town in Pennsylvania, enormous damage was done to property, and…
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The Telegraph Department received from the Postmaster-General of Western Australia, early this morning, news of the wreck of a ship. The message was as follow:--…
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"Foundered at sea within sight of the port." Such was the fate of the Integrity, a smart little ketch which during the past live years had been engaged in the coasting trade. The…
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LONDON, January 13.-The steamer Priam, bound for Hongkong, has been wrecked on the Cissargas Islands, off the coast of Spain. Nine lives were lost…
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THE captain and crew of the Integrity, a ketch of 60 tons, arrived in Sydney this morning, and reported that the ketch foundered yesterday 25 miles N.E. of…
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Captain J. H. Ferguson, master of the ketch Integrity, which foundered on Friday morning, has made the following statement with respect to the disaster:-"We left Camden Haven…
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The steamer Priam, bound for Hong Kong, has been wrecked oil Caps Finisterre on north-west coast of Spain, during a terrible gale. Nine lives were lost…
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The steamer Priam, bound for Hongkong, has been wrecked on the Cissargas Islands, off the coast of Spain. Nine lives were lost…
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Will be published in the Sydney Morning Herald of THURSDAY next, January 17. CONTENTS: GENERAL, POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, MINING,…
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PERTH, Sunday.--The ship Bevan, coal laden, was totally wrecked off Point Cloates, near to the North-west Cape, on December 30. Captain Behns, the master, and crew, numbering 80 in…
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During the southerly "buster" last evening the steamship Gulf of Guinea, a new vessel of 3250 tons, which recently arrived here from London, dragged her anchors and went ashore…
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Will be published in the Sydney Morning Herald of THURSDAY next, January 17. CONTENTS: GENERAL, POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, MINING,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Russian Colonisation. Italy Suspicious. Steamer Watches Steamer
LONDON, January 15.-Two hundred Cossacks nominally bound for Obok have arrived at Saakim, on board an Austrian steamer. They were closely followed by an I[?]dian man-of-war…
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