Steamer in Trouble NEWCASTLE
About 10 o'clock this morning the lighthouse keeper at Point Stephens saw a Japanese steamer about due north-east, and well out, making to the westward. The vessel was going…
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Dinghy at Sea Picked Up by Steamer
When eight miles south of Sydney Heads at 7 a.m. yesterday the steamer Fraser, then on its way to Bull, picked up a dinghy with a pair of sculls in it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Delayed. Trouble with Firemen. Brisbane
The steamer Malmoa left this morning for Townsville and Cairns, after having been held up overnight by the refusal of the firemen to work. The men, who numbered 25, objected…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Just in Time Rescue From Wrecked Steamer Radio Brings Help Scientists and Sailors in Dire Peril
The value of wireless in saving life at sea was once more demonstrated during the week when S.O.S. calls and a story sent through the ether of the peril of a steamer wrecked off the rockbound coast of Alaska brought rescuing boats who were able to take…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Harbour Collision. Ferryboat and Steamer. Marine Court Inquiry
As the result of a collision off Bradley's Head on January 31 between the Manly ferry boat Binngarra and the interstate steamer Lady Isobel, the Commonwealth Court of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pilgrim's Panic Steamer Sines at Wharf Bishop's Bravery
a Steamer convoying seven hundred pilgrims, accompanying the sacred roue, the head of St. Aloysius, across Lake Como, began to sink when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shops Wrecked. Explosion at Redfern
Vivid flashes and a terrific explosion in the front of the shop of Ata Mohamed Khan, a Syrian draper, in Elizabeth Street, Redfern, created panic at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Infant Wreckage an Important Cause Pre-Natal Care
The amazing ignorance in Queensland, among mothers and the majority of the mld[?] nurses, for whose errors the medical pref[?] was…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Pillage From Steamer
Joseph Gray, 32, was sentenced to one month's hard labor at Central Police Court yesterday on a charge of having pillaged the cargo of the…
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Referring to "The Nervous Wreck," which he is to produce for the first time in Sydney at the Grand Opera House on March 12, Mr. Frank Neil says…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Master Drowned Capsize of Ketch Two Are Saved Launceston
GOERGE M'KAY, [?] of the [?] keith Dauntless, [?] divorced, while [?] other men, Frederick, Johnson and Davey…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Met on Steamer Scotsman Charged
GILBERT CRICHTON, a Scotsman, and George Hastings, an Englishman, met on the voyage to Australia from England a couple of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →20 Perish Steamer Founders One Survivor London, Sunday Night
Twenty people perished when the Greek steamer Stenies (1831 tons) foundered after striking a rock near Land's End…
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Frank Neil, who met with notable success last year at the Grand O[?]ra House in "Charley's Aunt" and "Are You a Mason?" will return to this theatre on Saturday, March 12. The play he has chosen is "The…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ashore at Auckland
The Duke of York and the [?] of New Zealand, Sir Charles Ferg[?] after his Royal [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ketch Dauntless Safe. Master Lost Overboard. Launceston
The report that the fishing ketch. Dauntless, foundered after leaving Newhaven is unfounded. The vessel lost her master, Captain William Mackay, on Thursday last, at Clarke…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Missionary Steamer John Williams. Port Moresby
The London Missionery Society's steamer, John Williams, arrived from Sydney on Friday with annual supplies for the missionery stations…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Steamer Held Up Trouble With Firemen NEWCASTLE, Monoday
The steamer Age has been held up in Newcastle owing to crew trouble. She was prepared to sail, when the engineer took exception to one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Job Control. Steamer Age. Crew Paid Off. Newcastle
Refusing to submit to job control tactics enforced by members of the crew of their interstate collier, Age, at present lying in Newcastle Harbour, the owners. Howard…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tourist Steamer. Franconia at Hobart. Passenger Dies at Sea. Hobart
As soon as the tourist steamer Franconla berthed at Hobart this morning from New York 400 tourists aboard came down the gangway, and left by car and steamer to inspect…
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