Sighted Flying Very Low Cargo Steamer's Message to "Pictorial"
The cargo steamer Kaiwarra, of the U.S.S. Company of New Zealand, which left Wellington on Tuesday night for Sydeny, sent the following…
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Hole in Bow Oil Tender's Bump Collision in Harbor Steamer Undamaged
A collision between the North Coast steamer Nambucca and the oil tender Tigi occurred between Goat Island…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Saw His Mate Over the Steamer Floating Past Vessel Body Disappears Newcastle
Leaning over the bulwark of the steamer Karetu on her voyage from Lyttelton, N. Z, to Newcastle on Monday, a seaman was amazed to observe the body of James…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dominion Profoundly Moved. Lost Heroic Airmen. Fears That Flight Ended in Tragedy. Hundreds of Miles at Sea. Anxious Search by Steamer and Aeroplane
Our cable and wireless news from New Zealand shows that the Dominion has been deeply moved by what is now generally believed to be a tragic ending to the heroic attempt of Captain Hood and Lieutenant Moncrieff to fly across the Tasman Sea. Efforts made to trace the monoplane have not resulted in the discovery of anything to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Shipwreck Inquiry
At the Marine Court inquiry at Calcutta which investigated the foundering of the s.s. Tukaman off Bombay, evidence was given by five…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Moving Picture Show The Home-wrecker
Hollywood husbands haying beaten a Hindu who calls himself a Swami, and had been teaching ladles on top of a high Californian mountain, for a fee at £10,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mother's Pathetic Vigil for Lost Airman Son Wives and Three Sisters Wait Until Midnight Captain Kight Thinks that Fliers May Have Gone Into Nose-dive While Changing Seats; Despair Growing Cargo Steamer's Radio to "Pictorial"
The New Zealand airmen have vanished. No whisper came out of the void of the Tasman Sea yesterday to sustain hope or allay anxiety that has deepened almost into despair. Captain Kight, who, but for the toss of a coin, would now be missing with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Belgian Youths Wreck Exhibition Amid Cries of "Down With The Soviets" the Lie to "Ideal" Brussels
Scores of Fascists invaded the Soviet exhibition, and when their leader blew a whistle portion of the gang pinned the attendants while the remainder…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Is Wreckage on Mountain That of the N.Z. Plane? H H O in the Nude Society Girls and Doctors Encourage Daring Dancing Girl Darlinghurst Party's Bloomer
Who were the doctors and the married women and the four unmarried members of the younger smart set of Sydney who motored to one of the biggest metropolitan hospitals in the wee small hours one day the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Is It Aeroplane Wreckage? Forest Ranger Sights Strange' Objects Auckland
This afternoon the secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department received the following statement from Mr. Phillips, the forest ranger at Kaitoke: "I have seen what I consider might be the remains of an airship on the slopes of Omega, close to the Grey town-Otaki track. One object has the appearance of a tent, two feet wide by four feet high another has the appearance of a grey-white flat object."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Sinks Ketch Adelaide
While carrying lime and gypsum from Edithburg to Port Adelaide, the Ketch Napperly caught fire on Friday afternoon, but managed to reach port…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collision with Giant Sunfish Impaled on Steamer's Bow
AUCKLAND, Sunday.--A collision with a giant sunfish, 14ft. long, is reported by the Kairanga. The vessel, when a day out from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer on Fire at Tweed Heads Tweed Heads
The North Coast Company's river steamer Cudgen was badly damaged by a fire discovered at 4 o'clock this morning. The Cudgen was moored at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Schooner Adrift. Privations of Crew. Rescued by Canadian Transporter
A story of the privations and hardships endured hy the crew of the schooner Santa Rosa, which was adrift in a sinking condition 400 miles east of New York, was told by officers…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Steamer Elbereeld. Total Loss Feared
According to mall advices received in Sydney yesterday, the German cargo steamer Elberfeld, which became stranded near Cape Trafalgar, on the south const of Spain, in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Malake. New Steamer for the Islands
The Grangemouth Dockyard Company, of Grangemouth, launched the steamer Malake on the 8th December, for Burns, Philp & Co., for their Island…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Giant Sunfish. Killed by Steamer. Auckland
The steamer Kairanga collided with what is thought to have been a giant sunfish a day after leaving Melbourne. The fish, which was about 14ft long, was impaled across the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Afire. At Tweed Heads. Superstructure Burnt. Tweed Heads
At 4 o'clock this morning the North Coast Steam Navigation Company's cargo steamer Cudgen, which was lying at the Norco creamery's wharf at Tweed Heads, was found…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Afire at Her Moorings River Steamer Cudgen Tweed Reads
The North Coast Steamship Company's steamer Cudgen, was badly damaged by a fire discovered at 4 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Search by Sea for Airmen Is Abandoned Tug Finds no Trace of 'Plane or Wreckage Gale Off N.Z. COAST
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday. -- The sea search for the missing airmen has been abandoned. Police and trampers, however, are…
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