An Island Wreck
News was received from Fiji on Saturday that the schooner Fedora, which was recently purchased at Auckland for the inter-island trade, had been wrecked at Mango. The Medora…
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Shipwreck Relief
The secretary of the National Shipwreck Relief Society (Captain A. W. Webber) has received from Captain H. J. Richardson, of the Union Company's steamer Waikare, which arrived on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The San Francisco Wreck. Captain and Pilot Censured. Employment of Chinese
LONDON, Friday Afternoon.—Tho inquest upon the victims of the recent disaster at San Francisco, when the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steamer City of Rio de Janeiro…
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Particulars were received from FIJI on Saturday of the loss of the auxiliary schooner Medora, recently purchased at Auckland for the inter- island trade. Tho Medora took her departure…
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The Canadian liner Aorangi, from Vancouver to Sydney, via ports left Brisbane for Sydney on Saturday. She is due here to-morrow, and will berth on arrival at Circular Quay…
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HOBART, Monday.--The steamer Tambo during a dense fog yesterday morning, ran on the Hen and Chickens Rocks, off Schouten Island, and sustained severe damage. Some of the bow…
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The steamer British Princess was released yesterday afternoon from quarantine…
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Eleven seamen and firemen from the steamer Richmond were brought before Mr. D. S. Donaldson, S.M., at Newcastle Court, yesterday, on charges of being absent from the steamer without…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Death on Board A, Steamer. a Woman Arrested. y Purcj-ias13 of Poison in New Zealand. 4 a Mysterious Affair
Last night a most Important development took place in connection with the death of Patrick Conway, who expired suddenly on board the [?] during a recent passage from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Ketch Ashore
Information came to hand yesterday from Camden Haven to the effect that the well-known coaster S.A. Hayward was in trouble there. The vessel was being towed to sea on Tuesday, when she…
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Information was received from Camden Haven yesterday to the effect that the ketch S. A. Hayward, while being towed to sea on Tuesday last, grounded on the rocks near the end…
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A wire from Camden Haven yesterday reported that the ketch S. A. Hayward, while being towed to sea, went aground on the rocks. The vessel, however, floated off again,…
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The steamer Adelaide has left Watson's Bay, having been granted permission to proceed to Johnstone's Bay, and there put out her cargo of bananas by means of lighters. Her outward…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The White Star Line. the 12,400-Ton Steamer Runic
The White Star line is at present represented at the port by the Runic, a fine stamp of the combined cargo and passenger liner, with a gross of 12,400 tons. The Runic occupies a…
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The contest which has been going on for the last few years between British and German steamship companies for the possession of the largest and swiftest ocean steamer has additional interest given to it by the…
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At the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. F. S. Isaacs, S.M., June Smith (32), married, was charged with causing the death of one, Patrick Conway, on the high seas on February 19…
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A punt for the Tweed harbour works when in tow of the tug Protector from the Richmond River, was abandoned yesterday waterlogged. Mr. Brooks, engineer in charge here, chartered the tug Terranora,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Steamer in a Storm. Brisbane
Somo startling incidents marked the voyage of the R.M.S. Duke of Westminster from London. While in the Bay of Biscay the vessel encountered a terrific hurricane, during…
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The Duke of Westminster arrived at Brisbane to-day. The vessel had a very trying experience in the Bay of Biscay on the night of January 8 and early on the following morning. A terr[?] hurricane was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suspected Poisoning Case. Patrick Conway's Singular Death. on a New Zealand Steamer. a Young Married Woman Arrested. Poison Purchased at Christchurch. Witnesses Coming to Sydney
The police have now little doubt that Patrick Conway, the young New Zealander who died suddenly on the steamer Talune on the night of the 19th February, when 300 miles off the…
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