Shipping Disasters. Steamer Burnt at Sea. Fifteen Lives Lost
LONDON, Tuesday Evening.—A steamer rescued 36 of the crew of the steamer St. Cuthbert, which had been burnt at sea. off Cape Sable, Canada…
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Japanese Mail Steamer. Nikko Maru at Thursday Island. Smallpox Patients Landed at Manila
THURSDAY ISLAND, Wednesday.—The Japanese mail steamer Nikko Maru has arrived from Japan, via Manila, one day late. The vessel was not granted pratique because…
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PERTH, Wednesday.--Geraldton telegrams report the total wreck of the steamer Windsor at the Abrolhos Islands. The windsor left Fremantle on Saturday for…
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FREMANTLE. Thursday.—No further news has been received concerning the wreck of the steamer Windsor on Abrolhos Islands. The Collector of Customs says he is taking every…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →S.S. Windsor Wrecked. Off the Coast of Western Australia. Portion of the Crew Landed. Lifeboat to the Rescue. Perth
The steamer Windsor, bound from Fremantle to Hongkong with sandalwood, struck on a reef two miles west of Pelsart Island, one of the Abrolhos Group, at 10.10 on Sunday night,…
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BRISBANE,Wednesday.--A telegram has been received from Thursday Island stating that the Japanese liner Nikko Maru proceeded south in quarantine, two cases of smallpox having…
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LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--A steamer rescued 35 of the crew of the steamer St. Cuthbert, which had been burned at sea off Cape Sable, Canada. Fifteen others…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Alfhild Wreck. No Track of Missing Men. Depots in Tee Scrub
HOBART, Wednesday.--Lindsay, the well-know West Coast explorer, has just returned from Port Davey. He states that he found no traces, of the lost men from tho barque Alfhild,…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.--The harbermaster at Thursday Island wired to the Marine Department as follows this afternoon:-- Yawata Mara reports that the A.U.S.N…
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LONDON, Thursday Evening.—The German battleship Hessen is ashore at Cuxhaven. Four tugs are assisting in attempting to get the ship off…
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The Japanese mail steamer Yawatu Maru, which arrived here to-day from Sydney, via ports, bound to China and Japan, reports having sighted the A.U.S.N. Company's…
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The big German warship Hessen has gone ashore at Cruxhaven. Four tugs are now engaged in an effort to get her afloat again…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sensational Voyage. Steamer Moeraki Damaged. Passenger Injured. Wellington (N.z.)
The Union Steamship Company's Moeraki had a very rough passage from Sydney On Monday heavy seas broke on board the vessel, carried away part of the deck cargo, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Is He An Australian? a Chinaman's Claim. Detained on a Steamer
Mr. Justice Street had before aim in Chambers this morning an application in respect of the previsions of the Immigration Restriction Acts of 1301 and 1905. Mr. Boyce (instructed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Counting the Passengers. Was the Manly Steamer Overcrowd? Master of the Brighton Summoned
In the gammons division of. the Water Police Court, this morning, William Michelmors (master of the ferry steamer Brighton), was proceeded against on an information charging…
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The steamer Windsor which was totally lost on Abrolhos Reef, off the west coast of Western Australia, was insured for £20,000…
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LONDON, Thursday.--The steamer Windsor, which left Fremantle (W.A.) on Saturday, with a cargo of sandalwood for Hongkong,has been totally lost, ship and cargo,…
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PERTH (W.A.), Friday.-- Geraldton telegrams report that the Government steamer Penguin left there for the wrecked Windsor on Pelsart Island, Abrolhos group, at 2.30 this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Shipping Casualties. Schooner Willinga Floated. Moruya Still Aground
The schooner Willinga, which went aground on Tuncurry crossing, Cape Hawke, on Wednesday last, floated off yesterday morning. The pilot in his report to Captain Newton,…
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Further details received yesterday regarding the hurricane at the Fiji Group show that extensive losses occurred at Loma Loma. Much damage was done to the native houses, more particularly those on the northern and…
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