News by Cable. The Weather in England More Snowstorms. The Ramsgate Lifeboat
LONDON, February 1. - Further heavy snowstorms have occurred in London and the provinces. The Bamsgate lifeboat, which it…
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Wreck at Trial Bay. the Margaret Jane Goes to Pieces. the Schooner Victoria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Kempsey
The schooner Margaret Jane has become a complete wreck. She broke away yesterday afternoon and drove on near to entrance of the Macleay River. She was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Narrabeen Fatality. The Headless Trunk of a Man Washed Ashore. the Remains Identified
On Saturday morning between 7 and 8 o’clock as a storekeeper named Donald McLean was walking along the Collaroy Beach at Narrabeen, he saw an object being tossed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Small-pox Sensation. the Spook Editor Scared. Excitement on a Ferry Steamer
THE Spook Editor was travelling on a North Shore ferry-boat the other evening, when an exciting adventure occurred to him. He had taken his seat on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer Cloncurry in Quarantine. A Case of Smallpox on Board. MELBOURNE
A telegram, from Queenscliff states {hat the steamer Cloncurry arrived and anchored in quarantine during last night. Apparently she was inspected by the health officer this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 250 →News by Cable. The Shipping Disaster. The Colliding Steamer. Statement by the Captain. Inquiry by the Queen
LONDON, February 1.-The steamer Craithie, of Aberdeen, was the vessel which, collided with the North German Lloyd mail steamer Elbe,…
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A telegram from Broken Bay was received in Sydney yesterday stating that a piece of board was found on the ocean beach that morning with the end…
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KEMPSET, February 1.Captain Jamieson, the pilot at Macleay Heads, reports that the Margaret Jane was first sighted dragging her. anchors at 7.15 p.m. on…
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A piece of board was found on the ocean beach this morning, with the end of a name "hra" or "hka" on it. BERRY, Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wreck at Macleay The Victoria Adrift The Margaret Jane Going. A Strong Gale Blowing--Henry[?]fall KEMPSEY
The ketch Victoria, coal laden from Nambucca, lost her boat last night, and broke away from her moorings at Trial Bay when sheltering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Star's Special Cables the Wreck of the Elbe. The Search for the Bodies London, February 1
The lifeboats and tugs sent out to search for bodies from the sunken steamer Elbe have been compelled to return owing to a violent gale, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sinking of the Steamer Elbe. LONDON, Friday Night
There is little doubt now that the steamer Craithie, of Aberdeen, 475 tons, was the vessel which collided with the North German Lloyd mail steamer Elbe,…
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"WHILST the Co-operative Company's boat Cygnet was coming from Manly between 5 and 6 o'clock a passenger named Fred Flowers, who lives at Riverstone, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Schooner Vale Dismasted. a Perilous Time
BRISBANE, Sunday, Midnight.--The Otter arrived in town to-night towing the dismasted schooner Vale, from Sydney, Captain Lelliott. The owner is Mr. Langley,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Steamer Bucephalus in Heavy Weather
A rough passage from Melbourne was experienced by the steamer Bucephalus, which arrived in Port Jackson yesterday. The vessel left Melbourne on the 29th ult.,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tasmania. Mishap to the Steamer Herbert
HOBART, Sunday.--The steamer Herbert, bound from Devonport to Melbourne, with 1400 bags of outs, collided with the breakwater at Emu Bay on Friday. A large…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Gales in England. Heavy Snowstorms. the Ramsgate Lifeboat Safe. London, Feb. 1
Further heavy snowstorms have occurred in London and the provinces. The Ramsgate lifeboat, which it was feared had been lost during a heavy gale,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to a Steamer. Collision with a Breakwater
HOBART, February 4.-An accident happened to the steamer Herbert on Friday. The vessel was bound from-Devonport to Melbourne with 1400 bags of oats, when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Other Boats in the Gales. the Experience of the Steamer South Australian
BRISBANE, Sunday.--The Adelaide Steamship Company's liner South Australian arrived here from the north last night, and the Leura, of W. Howard Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At Wollongong. the Steamer Mount Kembla Adrift. Sunk in the Harbor-- the Crew Safe
WOLLONGONG, Sunday.--One of the Heaviest gales experienced here raged on Friday and Saturday, and resulted in the sinking of the steam collier Mount Kembla…
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