Schooner Ashore Melbourne
The schooner Woolamai was blown ashore at Drysdale, near Geelong, on Wednesday, and is still there. Yesterday's winds have blown her…
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1,070 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 54
FOUNDERED. British Steamer. Twenty-five Lives Lost. New York, Jan. 27
A wireless message from the German liner Bremen, picked up at Halifax (Nova Scotia). on Wednesday, indicated that the British freighter Lariston had gone to pieces…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →PIRATES. Thrilling Seizure. British Steamer
News of a thrilling attack by Chinese pirates on a British passenger ship in Chinese waters, and of the capture and looting of the vessel, was brought to Sydney yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Plane Overtakes Steamer. Delayed Passenger's Flight
In these days of rapid transit and serial navigation, such things as weddings in the air, doctors flying hundreds of miles to patients, and…
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Struck by heavy winds in the hay, the coastal schooner Woolami was blown ashore at Drysdale, near Geelong, on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schooner Wrecked. In Beagle Bay. 51 People Swim Ashore. Perth
A report from Beagle Bay. north of Broome states that the schooner Mina was wrecked during the recent cyclone, and that 51 persons who were aboard swam ashore, no…
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The schooner Mena, owned by Robinson and Norman, is reported a total wreck at Beagle Bay. No lives were lost…
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For some weeks wreckers have been at work on the steamer Buninyong, once one of the popular passenger ships on the coast. Stripped of everything of value, her shell is shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Greek Visitor 10,000 Miles for Wheat Tramp Steamer Arrives
Sydney is visited by ships of all nationalities, types and sizes, during the grain and wool export season, but it is seldom that a tramp flying the Greek…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rescue at Sea. Crew of British Steamer. New York, Jan. 28
A message has been received that during a lull in the storm in mld-Atiantic, in which the freighter Antinue had been wallowing for three days,with the liner President Rooseveit…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Young Shipowner Magnate From Norway on His Own Steamer Melbourne
Wilhelm Wilhelmson, Norway's biggest shipping magnate, who Is now in Melbourne, is 24 years of age. Young Wilhelmson was destined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Communal Life Wrecked. Rations Drawn and Wasted
A tragic deserted village in the Mohave Desert, California, is to-day all that remains of the city of Llano Del Rio, founded by Mr. Job Hariman. formerly, one of America's…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Danger of Being Wrecked the Butter Scheme Undercutting Is on Melbourne
The Paterson stabilisation scheme is in danger of being wrecked by strong financial concerns, principally concentrated bulk…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rod and Line "Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view!" "I shall no more to sea, to sea, Here shall I die ashore." the Week's Tides
A.M. P.M. Sunday, January 31 9.10 9.41 Monday, February 1 10.19 10.53 Tuesday, February 2 10.54 11.32…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Wrecking of a Romance a Digger, a War Bride, and a Gob Edgar Cavanagh's Sad Story
BACK of a tragic little tale of married unhappiness aired last Friday in the Central Police Court, when Edgar Clive Cavanagh, a war-broken Digger, proceeded against James Horatio Root, American citizen, for assault, there stands, like a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Steamer Held Up Hobart
It is becoming quite a common practice for firemen on iter-State vessels to hold up steamers. The latest instance was on the…
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WOMEN screaming, passengers rushing for safety and a scramble for life belts!…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An Old Wreck. in the Murrumbidgee. Wagga
The Murrumbidgee River is very low at Present and there were many interested spectators at the beach at the eastern end of kincald-street to view the bulk of some river…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →COLLISION. Off Circular Quay. Ferry Steamer Damaged
Considerable excitement was caused yesterday morning, when the interstate steamer Wear and the ferry steamer Kuramla came into collision off Circular Quay…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Crowded Ferry Steamer Struck by an Interstate Trader Off Milson's Point
THE KURAMIA, WHICH WAS DAMAGED THE SPLINTERED SPONSON…
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