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The sensational news reached Sydney yesterday that the well-known four-masted barque Mayfield, which sailed from Gcelong but a few days ago with a cargo of wheat for the United…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The barque Mayfield, from Geelong for England on February 3, is a total wreck on the banks of the Straits off the Tasmanian coast…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LAUNCESTON, Wednesday.--Shortly after midnight the steamer Koonookarra arrived from Hobart bringing 28 of the crew of the barque Mayfield, which was totally wrecked on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Court of Marine inquiry, presided over by Judge Backhouse, sat to-day in the District Court, to investigate the circumstances attending the foundering of the schooner Violet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Advice received from Thursday Island states that H.M.S. Pylades, which left Sydney on the 28th ult. for Cha[?]ham via ports, with the time-expired officers and men from the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Court of Marine Inquiry (Judge Backhouse, with Captains Boldchild and M'Gibbon as assessors) inquired to-day into the foundering of the schooner Violet Doepel off…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The local agents for the barque Mayfield paid off her crew to-day. Most of them are returning to Melbourne per the steamer Loongana. Six of the crew who shipped at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LAUNCESTON, Thursday.--Captain Roberts, of the ill-fated barque Mayfield, to-day submitted a report of the wreck to tho Sub-Collector of Customs, but it will not be known for a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In last week's issue we told of the fearful plight of the crew of a doomed steamer on Fire Island, near New York. The men could be seen clinging to the rigging, great waves heating over them…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Wonga Fell, one of the latest and best acquisitions to the fleet of Australian traders, is expected to arrive at Sydney tomorrow. The new vessel, which was built by…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The three-masted schooner Ysabel, of Auckland, has just passed through as severe an experience as a craft of her size could stand…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Friday. -- The British steamer Wyefield, which was recently captured by the Japanese while proceeding to Vladivostoek with a cargo of contraband, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →News reached Sydney on Wednesday that the well-known four-masted. barque Mayfield, which sailed from Geelong but a few days ago with a cargo of wheat for Queenstown, Ireland, had…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AUCKLAND, Saturday.--The schooner Conn toss of Ranfurly, which arrived here to-day from tha Islands, had a perilous time in a hurricane on January M. All her sails were blown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain J. E. Butcher brought the A.U.S.N. liner Wodonga into port at 5.19 a.m to-day from Cooktown, via ports, with 83 saloon and 72 second cabin passengers. She had fresh S.E. winds front Cooktown to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Oceana, a Swedish steamer, was completing the reception of a cargo of grain at the Williamstown Railway Pier about mid-night on Friday last, when an alarm of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Monday.--The Japanese have captured off Hokkaido (Yezo) Island the German steamer Paros, which was carrying shipbuilding material and foodstuffs to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The schooner Essington arrived on Saturday from Bowen Straits, bringing eight natives from the Eastern Archipelage who had been beaten ashore there by stress of weather…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Steamer [?] arrived form the New Herbir[?] at 5 o'clock this afternoon, and sails again at 10 p.m. for Sydney. Her through passeners are Mr. and Mrs. Man[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Court of Marine Inquiry commonced an inquiry to-day into the wreck of the barque Mayfield, off Swan Island, on February 5. The witnesses examined were the…
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