New Orient Steamer
LONDON, April 13.—The s.s. Ophir, the new steamer for the Orient Co., has been launched…
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The Stranded Steamer Wanaka
A week ago to-day a cable message from our New Zealand correspondent stated that an attempt would be made to float the stranded Union liner Wanaka, at New Plymouth. The Wanaka came to grief on the 2nd instant, under…
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The s.s, Ophir, the new steamer for the Orient Company, has been successfully launched…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Critical Position of Tee Steamer Tomki. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Coraki
The steamer Tomki arrived here on Saturday night. The captain reports that an accident occurred on the bar, due to the tug Protector carrying away her rudder and lying in the trough of a heavy sea across the Tomki's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eastern News. Wrecks, Collisions, and Fevers. Thursday Island
The Tsinan arrived here on Saturday from Hong Kong, and brings files to March 25. A disease known as Beri Beri is raging terribly at Java, and cholera is raging at…
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WILCANNIA, Tuesday.--The steamers Hero and Murrumbidgee have left Wentworth for Wilcannia; the Florence Annie left up, the Excelsior down stream, this morning…
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THIS morning about 5.45 the bar of Cooper's Family Hotel, 106 Regent- street, Redfern, occupied by John Cooper, and owned by Mr. Macaroni, of Summer Hill, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Items. [By Telegraph.] The Aino Ashore
LONDON, April 15.—The Norwegian, barque Aino, 574 tons, Captain Olsen, from Newcastle January 20, for Valparaiso, with 843 tons of coal, has been run ashore by order…
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The Guaynean, from Valparaiso, will be granted pratique on Wednesday next if no sickness occurs to the crew before then. The vessel is lying in quarantine, and the resorts reecived from there have been so far of a satisfactory nature…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Civil War in Chili. a Coalship Run Ashore. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, April 1[?]
The barque Aino, bound from Newcastle to Valparaiso, has been run ashore on the Chilian coast by order of the Government of President Balmaceda, with the view of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand. the Wreck of the Wanaka
AUCKLAND, Thursday.--The court of inquiry decided, with reference to the wreck of the steamer Wanaka, that the captain was guilty of an error of judgment in not slowing during the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Australia. Wreck of a Steamer
PERTH, Friday.--The steamer Maid of Lincoln, built in South Australia in 1885, was wrecked near Jurien Bay, eight miles north of Fremantle yesterday. All hands were saved…
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For the second time during her coastal career the steamer Boomerang has had the misfortune to become totally disabled whilst bound to this port from Newcastle. On the first occasion,…
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A telegram from the Adelaide Board of Health was read at the meeting of the local health board on Friday, stating that the health officer at Port Adelaide was satisfied that the patient from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crounding of the Schooner Eliza Allen. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Ballina
The schooner Eliza Alien, in tow of the tug Protector, crossed the bar safely this afternoon, but ran on the East Beacon rocks. All attempts to get her off were unavailing. There is no danger at present. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Summary of News for Europe, Per Orient Mail Steamer Orotava. Political
With the close of the Federation Convention public attention is directed to the reassembling of Parliament, which must take place at an early date, and to the Government programme…
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LONDON, April 18.— The Union Co.'s R.M.S. Monowai, which has arrived at San Francisco from Sydney, reports that a vessel named the St. Catherine has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Rioting in Benares. the English Station Wrecked. the Treasure Chest Plundered
LONDON, April 7.— The rioting in Benares has assumed, most serious dimensions, and resulted in great destruction of property. The riotous natives of the city…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck at the Caroline Islands. Ninety Lives Lost. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, April 18
The Union Company's R.M.S. Monowai, which has arrived at San Francisco from Sydney, brings the intelligence that a vessel named the St. Catherine has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coastal Shipping Disasters Abandonment Op the Barran Garry. Wreck Op the Eliza Allan
Captain John Hall, of the Sydney Underwriters' Association, was a passenger by the steamer Wellington, which arrived yesterday from Port Macquarie. Captain Hall, it will be…
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