Collision at Sea. a Steamer Cut in Two
The French armored cruiser Ernest Renan collided with an Italian steamer at sea, cutting it in two. One hundred and fifteen passenger were picked up, but…
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Fire on a Steamer. Perth (W.a.)
Captain Winmear, Chief Harbour-master, who recently conducted an inquiry into the fire on the State steamer Bambra, has reported to the Minister that the outbreak was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Missing Schooner. Brisbane
The portmaster, Captain Forrester, has received a telegram from the Harbour Master at Rockhampton stating that at 5 p.m. on Tuesday the flood water in the Fitzroy River…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mishap to a Steamer. Newcastle
When the Adelaide Co.'s steamer Nardoo was leaving the port this morning with 5000 tons of coal aboard for Port Pirie her steering gear broke down and the tow line…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Union Liner Lost. Wreck of the Maitai
The U.S.S. Co. Maitai (3393 tons), formerly the Miowera, engaged in passenger and good traffic between San Francisco and Wellington, N.Z., is reported to have…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Schooner Swordfish. No Trace of the Missing Vessel
The Brisbane postmaster has received a telegram from the harbor master at Mackay (Q.), stating that the Government relief steamer, which had been'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wharf-laborer's Fatal Fall While Working on Steamer
Mr. Jamieson held an inquiry at the City Coroner's Court concerning the death of Henry Anderson, 64, a wharf-laborer, who had lived at 157 York-street North, City…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shipwreck Relief Society
The monthly meeting of the committee of the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society of New South Wales was held yesterday. Awards for bravery in saving life were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yacht Driven Ashore
One of the yachts moored in the vicinity of the wharf at Manly dragged from her moorings during the southerly this morning and was washed up on the beach. Some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Sunk
LONDON, Friday.--The British steamer Hudworth, 3900 tons, has been sunk. The State Military Band will play, in Hyde Park to-morrow (Sunday) evening at 7.30…
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Pukaki, from Ocean Island…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Smallpox on a Steamer. Brisbane
As a result of an inspection of those on board a steamer from the East yesterday, the Chief Quarantine Officer for Queensland —Dr. Elkington—stated that a member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Steamer Delayed. Effect of the Heat on Coal-lumpers
The intense heat of yesterday was responsible for the coal-lumpers engaged in loading the Australian Steamship Company's steamer Burwah knocking off work…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Australian Freights Oceans Raked for Ships One Steamer and Six Sailers Melbourne
That the action of the Commonwealth Government in declaring a maximum fixed rate of freight for the export of Australian produce is responsible to some extent for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Touching Pen Picture of Baltic Exchange of Human Flotsam When the Dead Awake Wrecks From War Prisons Cargo of Consumptives
I have experienced much on many fronts (says the New York Times correspondent, Cyril Brown), but never so poignantly the pure essence of tragedy as "when the dead awaken"— the moment when hopelessly war-damaged prisoners are metamorphosed by the illusory hope of a new existence from dumb brutes,…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Sir John Forrest's Curios Relics of Sixteenth Century Wrecked Dutch Transports Melbourne
It is not generally known among those who are blind to all but politics that Sir John Forrest, the bulky Liberal who represents the Swan (W.A.) in the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Floods Inkeman Bridge Wrecked Brisbane
A telegram from Towasville states that about one-third of the Inkerman Bridge, over the Burdekin River -- the longest bridge in Queensland -- was washed away in the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schooner Safe. London, saturday. BRISBANE
The schooner Swordfish, concerning the safely of which a good deat of anxiety has been felt, is reported to have passed Cape Capr[?]corn yesterday evening, bound south…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cruiser Milwaukee. Ashore on Californian Coast
WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The cruiser Milwaukee is ashore on the Californian coast. She went ashore while attempting to salvage a submarine. Three hundred members of the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Cruiser. Ashore Off California. Washington, Jan. 14
The cruiser Milwaukee went ashore on the Californian coast while attempting to salvage a submarine. Tree hundred of the crew were removed…
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