Pacific Cable Steamer
The Pacific Cable Board's steamer iris arrived at Sydney yesterday. She is under orders to carry out some repairs to one of the Pacific cables, and will leave port again at 4 o'clock…
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Lifeboat Launching
Captain Hayman, who has had 44 years of sea-going experience, claims to have an invention which solves difficulties in launching lifeboats in case of shipwreck. Two men, he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Foundered. in a Gale. Helen B. Sterling. Crew Rescued
The four-masted schooner Helen B. Sterling foundered yesterday morning off the Three Kings. The whole of her crew were rescued by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Smallpox Steamer Victoria Quarantined
On arrival at Sydney from Hongkong and poris to-day the steamer Victoria has been to an [?] in the Quaran-line ares under North Head. as a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on a Steamer Adelaide
A fire broke out to-day on the steamer Helmsloch, which arrived at Port Adelaide from Colombo to load coal and wheat. The fire occurred in the bunker coal, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Warning to Shipping Cable Steamer at Work
A fault developed in one of the Eastern Extension Company's cables between Australia and New Zealand recently and the cable repair steamer. Iris, was sent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on Steamer. Coal Bunker Alight. Adelaide
A fire broke out this morning on the steamer Helmlock, which arrived at Port A[?]elaide in ballast from Colombo to load wheat. She called on her way round at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coaster Ashore Mishap to Mokau
With a cargo of silica, and in a leaking audition, the coasting steamer Mokan if ashore on a sandy bottom between the coast and a reef near Sussex inlet, about 96 miles south of Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Smallpox. Steamer Victoria
The China-Australia mail line steamer Victoria arrived here yesterday from Hongkong, and owing to a case of smallpox being discovered at Thursduy Island went into…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Quarantined Steamer
The quarantine [?] to-day that there are no forther develp-ments aboard the steamer [?] which…
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The Union Company's steamer Kokirt, grounded yesterday on a sandbank in the channel at Macquarle Heads, was towed oft this morning by the steamer Waratah…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Kokiri Aground. Hobart
Word reached Zechan last night that the steamer Kokiri is aground near Strahan. A fresh wind is blewing. No particulars are available owing to the lack of telegraphic…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Cooma. Arrives in Sydney. Story of Her Grounding
The Australian Steamship Co.'s steamer Cooma, which went aground at Breaksea Spit, off the Queensland coast, arrived here yesterday under her own stram…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stranded Mokau Driven Further Ashore
The coaster Mokau, which sprang a leak, and was beached on January 19 at Sussex Inlet (near Ulladulla), was driven further toward the shore by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on Steamer Helmslock
A fire broke out on the steamer Helmslock at Adelaide on Monday morning. The vessel arrived at Port Adelaide in ballast from Colombo the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Mokau. Abandoned at Wreck Bay. Well-known Coaster
The coastal steamer Mokau, a wooden vessel of 194 tons, which was beached in Wreck Bay on January 19, has been abandoned to the underwriters…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Contrasts in a Mail Steamer's Life
On Thursday the P. and O. steamer M[?]alwa was spick and span and gay with bunting. She was then moored in Athol Bight as flagship to the Anniversary Regatta. Yesterday she was moored at the bunkering depot where she took in coal, and was smothered in coal dust. To-day she is back again at her wharf at Circular Quay, getting cleaned up…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London Letter Beautiful Australian Birds in England Brave Lifeboat Woman of Seventy December
The [?] in London last week of [?] pure-bred Australians created a big sensation in Regent's park, which is to be their temporary residence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW P. AND O. Steamer. London, Jan. 27
The Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Company's steamer Bendige, for the Australian trade, via the Cape, was launched at Greenock to-day…
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