Lifeboat for Brighton
The Ports and Harbours Department of Victoria has agreed to supply a lifeboat, completely equipped, providing that the residents will…
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1,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 54
The Schooner Mahukona Wrecked
Further advices received in Sydney during the week from San Francisco state that the American four-masted schooner Mahukona was wrecked on…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.--Wreckage, apparently of a three-masted schooner, was found ashore on a bench a hundred miles north of Gisborne. It was a wooden vessel, with a length of 124…
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According to a message from Auckland, the Collector of Customs has received a telegram from Te Arawa, about a hundred, miles north of…
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The auxiliary schooner crete (says a Brisbane manages), owned by Rooneys, Limited at Towneville, is re[?] to be a total wreck of Pine, [?] Oaly one of the crew of six—a cook…
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A constable at T[?] a hundred miles north of Gisborne, telegraphs that part of a wrecked vessel is on the beach, and is apparently from a three-masted wooden…
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A boat was washed ashore between Catherine Hill Bay and Belmont on Saturday last. The boat is 12 feet long, painted white, and has no name…
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Camira, from Adelaide…
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A steamer in port at Newcastle, which it was intended should leave on Saturday, was held up owing to the crew, consisting of 37 Filippinos…
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A Spanish steamer arrived at Cape Town on Dec. 25 bringing part of the crew of the Japanese steamer s.s. Mayori Maru (Captain Z. Tauno), 3756…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Orete Wrecked. Brisbane
The postmaster received a massage from the harbour-master at Rockhampton stating that the steamer Timaru, returned from Iron Island, reports that the schooner Orete is a…
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The Secretary to the Adelaide Marine Board received the following message on Thursday night from the harbourmaster at Port Jullia:—…
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An invention, which, it is claimed, will locate the position of vessels wrecked and sunk in any depth of water is now being constructed at…
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The auxiliary schooner' Orete, owned by Rooneys, Liimited, at Towrisville, is reported to be a total wreck off Pine Islet. Only one of the crew of six…
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Further particulars of the schooner Teararoa, which is believed to have been wrecked, have been received from Gisborne. The indications are that the vessel was burned to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The schooner Mahukona, which was wrecked on the outer reef at Apia
While the schooner Mahukona was being towed out of the harbor at Apia the rope parted, and before another could be passed to the vessel she was swept on to the outer reef at Apia and wrecked. Her cargo of copra was lost. The Mahukona was a four-masted wooden schooner, of 738 tons, built in 1901, and owned by J. O. Davenport, Market-street, San Francisco (U.S.A.). She had made several…
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The sole survivor of the wreck of the schooner Orete is D. McKenzie, the cook and steward, and his home is at Carlton Hill, Gympie. Other members of the crew were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Orete Wreck. Survivor's Thrilling Story. Nineteen Days on an Island. Rockhampton
The full story of the wrick of the Orcle by the sole surviver of that ill-fated vessel came to hand through Captain Brown, of the steamer Timaru, who left Rockhampton…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Torpedoed. French Steamer's Fate. Believed 110 Persons are Missing. PARIS, Thursday Evening
While on her way from [?] the steamer Vivas was [?] She had on board 339 [?] and the crew[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wrecking Wheel Cycling Makes Postmen 111 Union Protest
The Letter Carriers' Association and the Postal Sorters' Union of Australia are protesting against the use of bicycles for the delivery of letters by postmen. At the…
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