Bar Blocked. the Curlew Wreck
The Navigation Department received a telegram to-day stating that, all the cargo has been washed from the wreck of the Curlew. The hardwood timber sank, and it is…
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Explorer's Privations. Wrecked at Hudson's Bay. London
The Norwegian Arctic explorer, M. Leden, who started out with an expedition to study the ethnographical problems of the Eskimos of the extreme north of Canada…
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NAMBUCCA HEADS, Thursday. -- The schooner Curlew, which, when attempting to cross out on Monday, struck the north spit, was last night, owing to a high sea, driven on the south…
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The secretary of the Department of Navigation has received a message from the Nambucca pilot stating that the ketch Curlew, which went aground at the Nambucca Heads on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tramcar Wrecked. Passengers' Narrow Escapes
About 6.30 this morning an alarming tram smash occurred at the intersection of Elizabeth and Liverpool streets. A car was leaving the spare road when a tram from Bondi…
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A Norwegian vessel named Mexico was stranded at Saltsea in a tempest. Two of her crew reached shore, badly injured…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Mexico Wreck. Lifeboat Crew Perish. Seven Corpses Washed Ashore. Storm Drives Tug Back. London, Sunday Night
Further [?] of the week of Nor[?]…
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A wife inquired the whereabouts of her husband last week. She described him as a stoker on one of the coastal boats, of fair hair and complexion, but usually very black…
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A privately-owned motor boat went ashore on the north side of Banks' Point, near the Heads, on Saturday night. About half-past nine three men left Manly…
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Latest advices relative to the steamer Aberlour, which went ashoore at Azalea Reef, whilst bound to Antwerp from Nauru, indicate that there…
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Referring to the ill-fated steamer Moa, which was burnt off Wanganui Pleads on Monday, an exchange states that the vessel was built (or put…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Terrible Plight. Shipwreck Grew Cling to Rock. Small Hope of Rescue London, Sunday Evening
The Norwegian vessel Mexico has been stranded on the [?] inlands, off the irish coast during a storm. Two of the cera got ashore, badly injured…
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A telegram received by the Department of Navigation from the pilot at Camden Haven [?] states that some wreckage has been picked up there. Among the articles recovered…
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In regard to the disastrous explosion which occurred in the mixing-house at Nobel's dynamite factory at Ardeer, Ayrshire, this morning, it appears that the mixing-house…
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Three residents of North- Sydney, who secured a motor launch from Mr. Sandeman, of Neutral Bay, for a pleasure trip on Saturday, had an exciting experience, and only escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Launch Wrecked. Farrer Scholarship
A telegram posted at the G.P.O. this morning stated that the small launch Mavis, which left Long Reef, Broken Bay, yesterday morning, had been wrecked at Lake Macquarie At a meeting of the trustees of the Fatrre Memorial Fund held at the Department, of Agriculture on Monday, February 16, It was decided to Invite applications for the…
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Seeing that for the last week rough weather has been experienced on the northern coast an announcement that wreckage hag been found naturally causes uneasiness…
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This has been one of the most tempestuous week-ends that have been experienced for some time, the whole British coast being swept by gales…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steamer Wimmera Delayed. Trouble with Firemen
The steamer Wimmera, which was delayed owing to trouble with the firemen on board, cleared the Heads at 12.50 p.m. to-day, bound for Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Held Up. Firemen Refuse to Sign Articles. Promotion Objected To. Wimmera's Sailing Delayed
Messrs. Huddart, Parker's steamer Wimmera was to have left the company's what at the foot of Margaret-street, city, on Monday evening for Newcastle, to bunker, preparatory…
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