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Early this morning the steamer Captain Cook, formerly engaged in the pilot service at Sydney, but now used in connection with the sanitary service, ran on a mad bank in the Brisbane River just after…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Norwegian steamer Avona has been lost off the coast of Denmark. Her crew of 24 hands were drowned. The steamer Avona was of 2889 tons gross. She…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A sensational report, having reference to the whereabouts of Henry Jones, the man who is alleged to have murdered Constable Long at Auburn, is being investigated by the police…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wreck Abstract for the year ended June 30. 1901, recently issued, shows, as regards the vessels of the United Kingdom, both a reduction in the aggregate number of sea casualties of all descriptions,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the Wafer Police Court, before Mr. A.N. Burnett, D.S.M., Thomas Douglas (80), laborer, was charged with stealing a coat, vest, trousers, hat. and braces valued at [?]1, from the steamer Arawatta, the property of Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Wednesday.---The Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, Limited, has purchased the steamer Scarisbrick, and renamed it the Katapo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There seems to be undoubted proof of increasing trade between Sydney and the Northern rivers. In addition to steamers plying under the North Coast S.N. Company's flag, Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The official trial under the direction and supervision of the Navigation Department inspectors of Messrs. Allen Taylor and Co.'s new coastal steamer, Pyrmont, was made…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Captain Golding, of the British steamer Afridi, which arrived at Hongkong just before the steamer Eastern, which arrived here yesterday, sailed for Sydney, tells a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The steamer Pyrmont,. the latest acquisition to Allen Taylor and Co.'s line, was out for a trial run yesterday, morning. The officers of the Navigation Department were present, also the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jow Nue (20) a fireman on the China, steamer Chingtu, appeared before Mr. A. N. Barnett. D.S.M., at the Water Police Court on a charge of smuggling 160 cigars from the vessel. He pleaded guilty, and was lined £5 or, in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fireman named Kier or Keogh on the steamer Flora, who, it is alleged, had been imbibing freely, assaulted the two cooks just before the departure of the vessel for Melbourne to-day. The cooks, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamship Sealda, which arrived here on Wednesday, is one of the five new vessels recently built for the BritishIndia Steam Navigation Company. She presents a remarkably smart appearance, with her shining white decks,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The two steel cables, 24,000ft in each, which were recovered from the hold of the stranded barque Inverlochy last week, were offered by auction at Port Melbourne on Tuesday, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The recent change in the weather brought with it gales and high seas along the southern coast, and these have, during the past two or throe days, had a very damaging effect on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A violent hurricane was met by the island trading schooner Ysabel, which arrived at Auckland recently from the Friendly Group, and Captain Ross is of opinion that the islands of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The new steamer Kapiti, a vessel of 80 tons, bound from Glasgow to Wellington, N.Z., was an unexpected arrival at Fremantle on the 27th ultimo. She was specially built at Paisley for Captain W. Williams, of Wellington, and is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In Novembor a cablegram was received stating that a collision had occurred at St. Vincent, in which the steamer Edderton was badly damaged. The Edderton reached Fremantle on Thursday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Amongst yesterday's arrivals in port was the Nordde[?] Lloyd steamer Stettin from Singapore, New Britain, and other Island ports. She sailed from Singapore on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →At a few minutes after half-past [?] this morning, the startling alarm of fire at the Hotel Australia, in Castlereaghstreet, between King and Moore streets, city, was received at the fire…
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