Tornado Wrecks Many Ho Uses -- Craftsmen of the Melbourne -- Cruiser in Dock
THE DRIVING FORCE. -- One of the four propellers of H.M.A.S. Melbourne photographed under the ship as she lies in dry dock at Cockatoo…
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Trade with Italy. Improved Steamer Service
The Australia-Italia line has decided that three of the passenger steamers trading between Genoa and Australian ports, will be replaced by modern liners. The Palermo,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Murderer Pardoned Hero of Wreck Paris
Maurice Courbier, the hero of the wreck of the Principessa Mafalda, has been pardoned. Courbier had been sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Prayer Book May Wreck a Church
EVERY now and again the Church make a gesture -- some poor, feeble, unconvincing gesture. We have grown to look upon them as futile, hopeless, and unpractical. The Church itself is to blame…
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The Captain Cook going to the rescue of Lieutenant Q'viller. The crowd on Ben Buckler anxiously watched the spot where the parachutist was last seen…
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Yesterday afternoon an 18-foot motor yacht, which was being sailed by Mr. E. Collett, of Mosman Bay, and a boy, was blown ashore at South Reef, and badly damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rifles for China. Steamer Attacked. Shanghai, Jan. 27
The Czecho-Slovakian steamer Praga, on its voyage from Manila to Tsingtao, was attacked by a Cantonese gunboat off the Shantung coast, and a running fight ensued, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Steamer Laid Up. No Crew for Murada. Melbourne
Job control has resulted in the holding up of the A.U.S.N. cargo steamer Murada. On Friday, when a call was made for a crew for the Murada, a certain man offered with the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →14,000 Miles' Trip in 60-Ton Schooner Yacht Sir Alexander MacCormick Arrives Home After Pleasure Trip 'Matter of Seamanship'
13,849 miles! Majestically -- almost contemptuously cleaving her way through the still waters of port Jackson,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leapt Into Space Among Rain Bloated Clouds Lt. Quiller Thrills Bondi Thousands Landed From Parachute Six Miles Out At Sea! Picked Up By Cargo Steamer. Sharks His Only Fear
Lieut. Haakon Quiller thrilled a crowd of 150,000 at Bondi on Saturday. Launching himself head first into space, he descended from the "Daily Telegraph Pictorial" 'plane…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stayed Ashore Fireman Delays Montoro
One hundred travellers to Rabaul by the Montoro were inconvenienced by one fireman to -day. The fireman left the steamer five…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Steamer Delayed. Melbourne
The interstate cargo steamer Murada is still held up, owing to trouble with the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Auxiliary Schooner for Sydney. Joseph Sims Leaves St. Helens
Previously trading between Melbourne and Tasmania, the auxiliary schooner Joseph Sims left St. Helens (Tasmania) on Saturday last, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Berrima Delayed. Trouble at Adelaide. Firemen Walk Ashore. Adelaide
The P. and O. passenger steamer Berrima was delayed on its passage to the eastern States. The ship was about to depart when the stokehold crew objected that two men had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Total Wreck. Ocean Transport Ashore at Ocean Island
Private advices were received in Sydney last evening to the effect that the British steamer Ocean Transport was a total wreck on the coast of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Auxiliary Schooner for Sydney. Joseph Sims Leaves St. Helens
Previously trading between Melbourne and Tasmania, the auxiliary schooner Joseph Sims left St. Helens (Tasmania) on Saturday last, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Tied Up. Alleged Victimisation
Alleging that one of their mates has been victimised members of the Seamen's Union have refused to offer for work on the Interstate steamer Murada. Last…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Wrecked in Island Gale Ocean Transport Crew Believed Safe
THE British steamer, Ocean Transport, was wrecked on the coast of Ocean Island according to private messages…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ketch Defender Sold
After having been idle at .Melbourne since September last year, the ketch Defender has been sold. Formerly a unit of the Tasmanian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Honeymoon Cruise Lifeboat Battles on Calcutta
The ship's lifeboat "Laughingwater," in which Capt. Bugg and two companions are sailing to Australia has arrived at Port Blair in the…
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