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There is little movement in the political life of New South Wales just now, the Federation Convention sitting in Sydney absorbing the attention of both local and Australasian politicians. The past…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWS of two disasters to shipping on or hear the New South Wales coast-line have reached the city. At 10 o'clock on Saturday night two open boats, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A large quantity, of wreekage has been washed ashore at Crescent Head, 25 miles below the Macleay Heads. The beach is strewn for fully a mile. Amongst the wreckage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following telegram has been received from Kempsey, Macleay River, dated 21st instant: A man arrived in town to-night reports a large schooner or barque washed ashore, bottom up,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Word was received yesterday by the French mail steamer Yarra that the A.U.S.N. Company's s.s. Victoria had met with terrible weather hence to Noumea. The vessel left Grafton Wharf at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, and carried…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A schooner named the Eudor[?] is reported to have been lost on a voyage from sydney to Ralune, New Britain. The vessel arrived here from New Britain on October 19 last year, She left Sydney on the eturn voyage in December,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Strathairls (P Strathairly) has been wrecked off the coast of Carolina, in the United States. Nineteen lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A VESSEL foundered at sea between 400 and 500 miles from Sydney a week prior to on the 20th, and the crew, in two small boats, arrived off Sydney Heads late last Saturday night last. Heavy gales…
Continued on Trove, page 688 →LONDON, March. 26.—The steamer Strathairls has been wrecked off the Caroline Islands. Nineteen lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The accounts from Gibraltar state that the emigrant steamer Utopia collided with the British ironclad Anson, flagship of the Channel squadron, the ram of the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 694 →Captain Fairchild, of the New Zealand Government steamer Hinemoa, has supplied some interesting information regarding the Macquarie Islands, which have acquired a little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AUCKLAND, Saturday. -- News has been received of the wreck, at Howland Island, of the Norwegian barque Pusness, Captain Nalo[?]elsen. The vessel was driven ashore during a gale, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Rose of Sharon went aground at 6 o'clock last night at Footer, and sank at 2 o'clock this morning at the mouth of the channel of the Franklin River. All hands were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Electric Telegraphic Department received the following message last evening from Foster, Victoria:—"Steamer rese of Sharon went aground at 6.40 o'clock last night (Sunday); sank this morning at 2 a.m. at the mouth of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telegram from Queenscliff to hand yesterday states that a barque, name unknown, has gone ashore on the southern bank of the South Channel, near No. 2 buoy, off Sorrento. No damage has been done and the vessel is not in danger…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AUCKLAND, April 2.—Intelligence has been, received that the steamer Wanaka struck on a reef and became a wreck off Taranaki, New Zealand, last night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A wreck which cannot be identical with the wreck of the schooner George Noble, of Sydney, as that vessel was lost in October last at Gilbert Islands, is reported by the San Francisco mail steamer. The Almy, Captain Suttrell, had arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The same day that the Jessomenc, from Newcastle N.S.W., tried to enter the port of San Francisco namely, February 21st, the American ship Elizaboth, from New York,attempted to enter with the result that the captain and 18 men lost…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AUCKLAND, Thursday.--The Union Company's steamer Wanaka, bound from Onehunnga to Taranaki, struck this morning at 2 o'clock on the Paketapu Reef, seven miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Daring a thick fog on the west coast early this morning the Union Company's steamer Wanaka struck on Puketapu Reef, about three miles south of Waitara and eight miles from New Plymouth…
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