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From information to hand by the last mail it seems that the survivors of this vessel. which was sunk in the Channel when bound to Sydney, as already reported, have made affidavits as to the circumstanees of the wreek. The owners of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Captain Magrath, of the barque Altear, reports seeing on January 9, at Elizabeth Reef, a vessel lying high up on the rerf. She appeared to have not been there a great while. He approached within two miles of the reef, but could not…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A report of the wreck of a steamer is to hand from Singapore. It seems that the vessel, the Phyapeket, sprung a leak and rapidly filled and foundered. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A political crisis hss arisen which has culminated in the resignation of the Government and Sir Henry Parkes, and in the formation of a new Administration by Mr. Dibbs. The circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- The firemen of the steamer Bulimba to-day refused to proceed to sea unless two of their comrades, who are doing 14 days' imprisonment for assaulting a colored…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It appears that this fine ship, from Cardiff to Hongkong, is a total wreek on the coast of West Australia. She went on a reef when under full canvas, and speedlly became a complete wreek. The crew, 28 in number, were picked up…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The cutter Gipsy has arrived at Carnarvon, bringing particulars of the wreck of the new vessel Beuan off Point Cloates. The captain of the Benan states that the vessel left Cardiff for Hongkong on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PERTH, Thursday.--The schooner Airlie, laden with coals, from Muar, Borneo, took fire off North Cape, and was ultimately beached in the Ashburton roadstead. She has settled down…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday :--This morning, as the barque Francois was being towad to sea she took the ground on the north spit, and remains there still. It was expected that at high tide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, January 16.-The Colonial Office has purchased the steam yacht Merry England of 350 tons for the use of the Government of New Guinea. She sails for there in a month…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, January 17.-The steamer Olissengen, bound for Rockhampton, has returned to Malta in consequence of the machinery haying become deranged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Olissengen, bound for Rockhampton, has returned to Malta in consequence of the machinery having become deranged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One of the officers of this American ship, Mr. M'Donald, was a passenger to Sydney yesterday from Samoa by the steamer Lubeck. He reports that the ship was bound to Melbourne with nearly a million and a half of lumber from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The ketch integrity, timber-laden, bound from Camden. Haven for Sydney, sprang a leak last week, about 25 miles north-east of Barranjoey lighthouse, and the crew, being unable to keep the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →London, Jan. 15.-A. report of the wreck of a steamer is to hand from Singapore. It seems that the vessel, the Phyapeket, sprung a leak and rapidly filled and foundered. The number of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Shipwreck Relief Society of Tasmania have considered the case of the crew of the lost Empress of China. At the meeting some correspondence was read from the owners, the captain, and a portion of the crew of the Empress of China…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →News is to hand by the mail that an action was brought by Alexander Philip Johnston, late, chief officer of the sailing ship Smyrna, in respect of personal injuries sustained by him in a collision between the Smyrna and the iron screw…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The iron ship Benan, Captain Burns, coal laden from Cardiff to Hongkong, was total wrecked off Point Coates, Western Australia, on the night of December 30. All hands, numbering 28, reached…
Continued on Trove, page 144 →BRISBANE, Jan. 10.—About 9 o'clock on Tuesday night the powder magazine at the Cloncurry Copper Mine works, over a mile from the town, exploded. For some minutes before, smoke was…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →LONDON, January 18.—The Colonial Office is arranging for the purchase of a stern wheel steamer built, for the Nile expedition, for use on New Guinea rivers…
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