These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
1,337 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 67
TRENCHANT criticism of the action of the Queensland Government in giving a contract for a pilot steamer to a Scotch firm, instead of to a local…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a stop-work meeting of the Victorian Seamen's Union to-day it was announced that the Sydney Trades Hall Council was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"OUT of the blackness from somewhere near at hand, a wireless call for help reached us, but we could not help. We were almost blown…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →With 4,200,100 super feet of timber to discharge the Japanese steamer Koyo Maru arrived at Melbourne yesterday from portland (Orepon). Although fine weather was experienced during the greater part…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →CAPTAIN PATRICK has ordered another freighter for the coastal trade Next Monday, all shippers in Sydney and Melbourne, and possibly Brisl[?]ane,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our New Zealand correspondent cables that the F.S.N. steamer Northumberland, en route from Auckland to Napier, struck a submerged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There was a little trouble on the steamer Changte on her last voyage from China to Sydney. White passengers objected to the presence in the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A wireless message was received to-day by the Acting Deputy Director of Navigation (Captain Shaw) that the steamer Cooma, which has been stranded on North Reef, off the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two deaths have occurred among the smallpox patients in quarantine from the steamer Ganges, on which the disease broke out while on a voyage from India…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Acting Deputy Director of Navigation, Captain H. G. Shaw, received a radio message to-day, stating that the steamer Cooma, which is on North…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The streamer Kowree, which sought [?] New York Harber for New Zealand and [?] was [?] at the pier to present the fire [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The German-Australian liner Menes, which is due here on Monday next, is an her maiden voyage. The Menes has accommodation for 30 passengers, but only a few were carried on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Carina, which was sold by the Autralian Commonwealth line recently to Greek buyers. is shortly to be renamed. Her new owners are Vergoitis and Co., of Argostoli, Greece, and when the stemaer is moved…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →It was rumoured in shipping circles yesterday that the contract between the Federal Government and H. C. Sleigh, for the provision of a steamer service in the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Delayed by the southerly weather, the Newcastle steamer Gwydir arrived lit Sydney at 9.10 a.m. to-day, about three hours behind heir usual time of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The sailing of the Adelaide Company's steamer junee from Cairns is still indefinite. When it was fully loaded and ready to depart on Tuesday night the chief cook walked off…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Laranah, a small coastal trading steamer, bound from Melbourne to Launceston, rammed the Queen's Bridge head-on at 1.30 p.m to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Owing to the flooded state of the river an accident occurred which might have resulted in serious consequences. Nothing but inconvenience…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrific tornado, which at one stage reached a velocity of 90 miles an hour, battered Glasgow throughout the day, until parts of the city appeared as if stricken by an artillery bombardment. Eight people were killed and over 100 taken to hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →