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A telegram from Byron Bay received at the head office yesterday stated that the stranded steamer Tweed is still in the same position as last reported. The secretary to the Sydney Underwriters' Association, Mr. Woodthorpe,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A small fire was discovered at about 9 o'clock last night on board the s.s. Ouraka, lying at Circular Quay. The M.F.B. turned out with two steamers, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Harry Gollan, master of the steamer Magnet, was drowned at Woodburn on Saturday night through falling off a plank when going aboard. Deceased was a splendid swimmer, and must have suddenly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, February 7.-The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's R.M.S. City of Peking, about which some anxiety was felt, she being some days overdue from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Cook, 42, was sentenced to two weeks exactly for being absent two days without leave from the s.s. Cuzco. A pair of German sailors who were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's R.M.S. City of Peking, which was reported as overdue from Yokohama, has arrived at San Francisco…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. City of Pekin, which was missing, and fears for the safety of which were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TOOWOOMBA, Wednesday.--By strenuous efforts a copy of Tuesday's Brisbane Courier has been obtained, from which the following particulars are taken:--…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.--News has boon received of the total wreck of the Anchor Liner Trinacria, a steamer of 1418 tons, off Capo Villano, Spain. Thirty-two of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Rockton, which arrived here yesterday from the New Hebrides, brings news that a severe hurricane swept over the New Hebrides last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Trinacria, of the Anchor Line, has become a total wreck off Cape Villano, Spain. Thirty-one of those on board were drowned. The Trinacria was a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. G. J. Waterhouse yesterday received a telegram from Brisbane announcing the loss of the schooner Foam. The message is dated the 9th inst., and states that the Foam…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The statement in Free Russia that a Russian convict steamer, fitted with iron cages for "Siberian Exile Trade," was being built on the Clyde turns out to be correct. Messrs. Denny and Co.,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The A.U.S.N.C mpany's steamer Wodonga, which in the ordinary course of events would have left Brisbane last Saturday, the 3rd, was owing to the great floods in the Brisbane River only able to get away on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →News has been received of the wreck of a fishing fleet at the Lo[?]odon Islands, off the coast of Norway. The vessels were caught in a gale and driven ashore, many of them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With reference to the wreck of the steamer Trinacria, of the Anchor Line, at Cape Villano, Spain, by which 32 lives were lost, further particulars show that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Friday.--A terrible disaster is reported from Lofodden, a group of islands on the north-west coast of Norway, where a large fleet of fishing vessels…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another coasting vessel has come to grief on the south coast of this colony. The ketch White Cloud went ashore at the north point of Broulce Harbor, just north of Moruya…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →From the first mate news has reached here of the wreck of the steamer Dicky, which left the Fitzroy River on the 1st February. She had proceeded safely against strong winds and a heavy sea…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. George W. Nicoll's steamer Tweed, which during bad weather some time ago was beached at Byron Bay, has been abandoned. Captain John Hall, representing the Sydney underwriters, with a salvage crew, went up from…
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