Ellerman-bucknall Line. New Steamer
Particulars have been received from London by the Melbourne agents for the Ellerman and Bucknall line steamers of the new vessels which have been…
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New Steamer for Australian Trade
The [?] of the Ellerman Bucknall line, due at Sydney shortly. She is the first of three sister ships, which have been fitted with different types of engines for purposes of comparison…
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The New Zealand Shipping Co. has sold the Opawa for £20,000 to a Norwegian buyer, for conversion into a whaling factory. The Opawa is a steel twin-screw steamer, of 9306…
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The Dee Why, the [?] of the two steamers being constructed for the Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company, leaving the ways at Old Kilpatrick, on the Clyde, on December 28. 1927…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Child's Escape Pram Smashed Fruit Stall Wrecked
When a motor car, driven by S. Greenberg, of Hunter Street, Sydney, ran into a fruit stall on Quarry Hill, on Sunday afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Wrecks Roof Electric Light Off Junee
This afternoon a terrific windstorm, accompanied by heavy thunder and lightning and a little rain, passed over the town…
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Owing to the very large number of applications received for berths on the Bay steamers for the coming passenger season, the Australian Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Homes Wrecked by Cruel Migrant Policy Human Wastage Englishman's Pitiful Struggle for Bread in "Land of Promise": Doctors Recommend Australia Pennies As Prisoners
"Australia wants men." Highly placed nonentities have bleated the phrase with tedious monotony. Alfred John Holloway ex-stretcher bearer in the Imperial Army, heard them in London. He came, he saw,…
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A pal and myself one day decided to explore on old wreck lying on the rocks near the shore. The air was hot and oppressive, and a…
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FIVE lives were lost and several people were injured in the great gale which swept over Britain on Friday night. The gale, which continued intermittently, but with decreasing violence, until yesterday afternoon, was one of the…
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Years ago, in the "silly season" in London, a newspaper and its correspondents spent weeks arguing the question: "What would be the best single book to take on a desert island?"…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lifeboat "V.c." Won Twice. Heroes Who Rescued 15 Men
Henry Blogg, coxswain of Cromer lifeboat, has been awarded the Royal National Life-boat Institution's gold medal—the V.C. of the lifeboat service—for the second time, and will…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Steamer Dupleix. Delayed on Account of Rough Weather
The agents have received a radio, dated 13th instant, from the master (Captain Chambon) of M.M. Steamer, Duplelx which sailed from Sydney last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gales in Britain. Steamer Founders. Air Services Maintained. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Feb. 12
The great gale which swept over Britain on Friday night and continued intermittently, but with decreasing violence, until yesterday afternoon, was one of the worst ever…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →'Plane Wrecked; Pilot and Passengers Uninjured
The Golden Aircraft Company s 'plane, "Golden Wasp" (D.H. 51), stalled owing to engine failure at Bathurst on Sunday moning when…
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The steamer Kalingo, which was constructed by the Clyde Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, for Messrs. R. S. Lamb and Co., passes Wilson's Promontory at 2.50 p.m. yesterday, en route to Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →French Whaler Goes Ashore Crew Abandon Vessel
PERTH, Wednesday.--Wireless messages received from the Themistocles give the information that a French whaler has gone ashore at Kerguelen…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ABANDONED. Steamer Lozere. Aground on Kerguelen Island. Fremantle
The Navigation Department has received a [?]lb message from the Themistocies, which is on a voyage from London to Albany, stating that a message had been picked up from the…
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Forty passengers were killed and twenty-eight injured in a train disaster in Burma recently. The mail train from Rangoon to Mandalay left…
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