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Further particulars are to hand regarding the speaking of the Swanhilda by the steamer Taupo. On arrival here Captain M'Beth, of the Taupo, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Much interest is being evinced in the maiden voyage of the Norddeutscher-Lloyd mall steamer Friedrich der Grosse, inasmuch as she is the largest vesel that has ever been in Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the year 1896 the wrecks reported to the Marine Board of New South Wales comprise 32 vessels, involving a loss of five lives. The list is as follow:--January 23--Aldinga, steamer,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The schooner Louisa Lamont, whilst outward bound on a ceasting trip, at 4 p.m. yesterday, missed stays when off Allison's Point. Both anchors were dropped, and in dragging got foul…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A collision took place in the Brisbane River late last night. As the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Maranoa was coming up the river completing her vo[?]age from…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Recently there was launched at the Cail Engineering Works at St. Denis, France, a steamer which marks a new departure in shipbuilding. The innovation consists of the employment of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ALBANY, Friday.—The M.M. steamer Polynesien, Commander Boulard, arrived from Marseilles at 9.30 a.m. to-day. The passengers in the saloon are as follow:—…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Orient Company's R.M.S. Ormitz arrived at Plymouth on December 29, six days ahead of contract time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s steamer Ruapehu, bound from London to Wellington, has stranded on a somewhat dangerous position on Firewell…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Intelligence was received in Wellington early this morning from Farewell Spit that the New Zealand Shipping Company's direct liner Ruapehu, bound from London to Wellington, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Monday.—News has reached here from Wellington that the New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Ruapehu, bound from London to Wellington with some 200 passengers on board, had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A cablegram was received yesterday from our correspondent at Wellington stating that the R.M.S. Ruapehu, from Hobart, hound to Wellington, went ashore on Farewell Spit during…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The board also delivered its reserved decision in regard to the abandonment of the barque Carrick, which took place on December 22. It found that the abandonment was justifiable, as the vessel,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last night a terrific strom of wind and rain burst over Mullaley, 24 miles from here, carrying away several tenements, and toppling one house over into Cox's Creek. Nowland's mail coach station at Basin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Tuesday.—The New Zealand Shipping Company's B.M.S. Ruapehu, which ran ashore on New Year's evening near Farewell Spit, was successfully floated off yesterday morning, apparently…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Orient Company's R.M.S. Ormuz arrived at Plymouth on December 29, six days ahead of contract time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following is the freight of the Japan mail steamer Tokio Maru which arrived from Japan and Hongkong yesterday afternoon:--2976 packages tea, 1000 bags rice,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By an opinion handed down by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, the British steamer Coquitlan, with 6190 sealskins, which was seized 'by the revenue steamer Corwin in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, January 4.—The United States steamer Commodore, which cleared from Jacksonville, Florida, for Cuba, with a large cargo of dynamite, rifles, and ammunition for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, January 4.—Later reports from New York with regard to the foundering of the filibustering steamer Commodore, while on the voyage from Jacksonville, Florida,…
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