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The latest reports show that the Penguin got out of her course in the Straits and struck a submerged rock a mile and a half from the shore, near Cape Tearawhiti…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Saturday.--At 10 o'clock on Friday night, in a heavy southerly gale, and enveloped by a thick, rain-laden fog, the Union Company's steamer Penguin struck, the rocks a little to the south-east of Cape Terawhiti, and within three-quarters of an hour disappeared under the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Owing to a storm having shifted a buoy, by which its course would have been guided, the steamer Forest Castle struck a rook in Brest Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Monday Afternoon,—The following passengers, supposed to have been in the Penguin, and to be missing, stayed over in Picton:—Rev. A. B. Chappell, Miss Jennings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BROKEN HILL, Monday Afternoon.—Further investigation by the police and the Proprietary Company's officials show that the explosion at the Proprietary dam paddock on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There has been a dreadful wreck at Tom's Rock, near Cape Terawhill. The Union S.S. Company's steamer Penguin was dashed on the rocks at about 10 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Another shipping disaster that has been attended with great loss of life happened in Cook's Straits, near the entrance to Wellington Harbour (N.Z.)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WELLINGTON, Sunday.--This is the second experience that Thompson, the purser of the Penguin, has had of being wrecked, for he was in a similar position on the Kawatiri, when that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WELLINGTON, Sunday.--When the first vague news of the wreck reached town the Union Company despatched a steamer to the scene; but on its arrival off, Terawhill it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Whoever or whatever may be found blamable for the appalling shipwreck reported from New Zealand this morning it is plain that the vessel would not have been lost…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WELLINGTON, Sunday.--Captain Naylor, master of the Penguin, was the last man to leave the ship, and had a severe handling by the waves while clinging to one of the broken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The wreck of the Penguin on the dangerous coast of New Zealand recalls to mind many other sad stories of the sea from that part most disastrous, perhaps, was that of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A new motor-cycle club has been formed at Ashfield, and will be known as the Western Suburbs Motor-cycle Club. Mr. F. Holloway has been appointed secretary. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Owing to a storm shifting a buoy, the British steamer Forest Castle--2788 tons, owned by the Forest Oak Steam Shipping Co.--struck a rock…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Adelaide S.S. Company's new Steamer Koombana, which is intended for the north-west trade of West Australia, in place of the steamer Bullara,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Howard Smith's new steamer Eumeralla, which was specially built for the company's service between Melbourne, Warrnambool, Port Fairey, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Captain W. Wills was in command of the Lady Mildred, and the crew consisted of:--J. A. Macarthur, first mate; W. Fowler, second mate; A. Johnson, A. G. Chambers, C. Sesare,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →We have received advices stating that Messrs. Osbourne, Graham and Company have just completed negotiations to build at their Hylton…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →MELBOURNE Monday.--The steamer Lady Mildred under charter to Messrs, J. and A.-- Brown for the inter-state trade, went ashore at midnight during a dense fog on the Promontory…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →News of still another shipping disaster reached Sydney yesterday morning, the well-known interstate collier Lady Mildred having been wrecked during the course of Sunday…
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