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The China Navigation Company's steamer Changsha, from Hongkong yesterday, is the bearer of particulars of the loss of several large steamers, involving hundreds of lives. The most shocking…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General, Political, Commercial, Mining, Shipping, Sporting, and Social News. Births, Marriages, and Deaths from date of departure of last mail per Orient line…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"When the day arrives at the port of Sydney that shipping is as thick in the fairway as it in the Thames perhaps even better methods for raising sunken vessels will be in vogue than are at present. In the meantime it is useful to refer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AUCKLAND, Wednesday. -- The inquiry into the loss of the barque Star of Erin, from Bluffs to London, at Waipapa Reef has just concluded. The court found that the wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General, Political, Commercial, Mining, Shipping, Sporting, and Social News. Births, Marriages, and Deaths from date of departure of last mail per Orient line…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Saturday Night. -- Lawrence Hennessey, first coxswain of the Hythe lifeboat, has been decorated with the second Albert medal by the Queen at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The first announcement made in the Legislative Council after the despatch of the last mail was the death of another of its members, the Hon. Alexander Dodds. The deceased gentleman was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London, February 19.—The Tamerlane, a whaling ship belonging to Hawaii, has been wrecked. The captain and 17 of the crew were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News has reached San Francisco that the Tamerlane, a whaling ship belonging to Hawaii, has been wrecked. The captain and 17 others on board were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday Night. -- News has been received that the whaler Tamerlane has been wrecked near the Hawaii Islands and the captain and 17 of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shipping records do not often contain accounts of steamers being sighted under circumstances similar to the following:—The steamer Indian Prince, which arrived at Rotterdam on the 21st December, reports that on the 13th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Monday.--The small steamer Zeus, with 13 excursionists and a crow of two on board, left Cairns on Saturday, intending to return on Sunday night. She has not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London, February 22.—Disastrous gales have taken place in the English ChanneL There have been many wrecks, attended with much loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disastrous gales have taken place in the English Channel. There have been many wrecks, attended with much loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.--During the past few days several wrecks have occurred in the English Channel, accompanied by loss of life…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London, February 28.—The North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II. for Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, has gone ashore in the River Scheldt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Norddeutscher-Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II. (Imperial German mail line) has gone ashore in the River Scheldt…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Monday Night.--News has been received of the total loss of the ship Fratelle on the Cornish coast, off Penzance. She sank during a heavy gale, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne, Saturday.—The disabled steamer Despatch arrived yesterday. The cause of her breaking down appears to have been the valve-spindle refusing to work. Owing to the strong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Kallatina, hence for Sydney, on Wednesday, broke down in the river, and is now lying at Harwood effecting repairs. She will probably get away to-day…
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