Theatres and Cinemas "The Wrecker" Scores
"The Wrecker," at the Royal, is proving tremendously popular, and as it is thrilling and has an unusual plot it should have an excellent…
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1,111 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 56
Laboratory on Research Steamer Dana
DR. McANDERSON EXAMINING A SPECIMEN…
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The coastal steamer Casino, 425 tons, while approaching the Warrnambool port on Tuesday night, struck a submerged object and ripped a hole in her plates. The vessel was…
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The search thai is still going on at South Head for the bodies of the victims of the wreck of the Annie M. Miller has its perilous moments. Men have to climb up and down the crags with the aid of ropes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Federal Government Saved By The Speaker's Casting Vote Closest Issue Coalition Mas Yet Had Ministry Nearly Wrecked Over Twenty Postal Employees Opposition May Yet Beat It
CANBERRA, Wednesday.--Twenty Post and Telegraph employees nearly wrecked the Federal Government in the House of Representatives this afternoon. Mr. Bruce owes his survival to the man whom a week or…
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The Greek steamer Dionyssios Stathatos, which brought a cargo of coke from, the Tyne to Noumea, completed discharge last week, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deckeand Drowned Fell Prom Ferry Steamer
A deckhand on the ferry steamer Lady Rawson, William Smith, of Rosen-street, Balmain, fell from the deck of the vessel yesterday afternoon, and was drowned…
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The Sun Shipping Co.'s steamer Cape Recife was attached on her arrival from Australia. An action is to be instituted by a Capetown company for £552 for the alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Theatre Royal.—"the Wrecker."
Arnold Ridley, the author of "The Ghost Train," wrote "The Wrecker." which is now entering on its second week at the Theatre Royal. Mr. Clayton Greene produced the play. It is full of melodramatic…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ketch for Papua
To enter the service of the Steamship Trading Company, Port Moresby, the auxiliary ketch H. and S., built by Mr. W. Holmes, of McMahon's…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Kanowna Ashore. Near Wilson's Promontory. Passengers Safely Transhipped. Steamer Leaking Badly
The interstate passenger steamer Kanowna went ashore on Cleft Island, several miles west of Wilson's Promontoryf at 7 o'clock last night. An appeal for assistance was broadcast immediately. The…
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THE KANOWNA, WHICH IS ON THE ROCKS NEAR WILSON'S PROMONTORY…
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LISMORE, Sunday.--Five inches of water falling, in a little more than an hour in Beaurie Creek sent a wall of water six feet high tearing down the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Planes and Dogs Schooner for Antarctic Dunedin (N.z.)
After a strenuous voyage from the Antarctic, lasting 12 days 23 hours, the schooner Elinor Boiling berthed at Dunedin on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Knives Deawn. Quarrel on Steamer. Two Men Arrested. Melbourne
During a disturbance on board the steamer Golden Coast at Victoria Dock, John Calvin Mcinnes, 25, a greaser, received a deep wound in the face. Another member of the crew,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Kanowna on the Rocks Ashore at Cleft Island Passengers Safe Mackarra Takes Them to Melbourne
RUNNING into a heavy fog off the road of Victoria last night, the Fremantle budged passenger and large steamer, Kanowna of the A.U.S.N…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fierce Brawl on Steamer Seamen Stabbed Two Others Arrested Melbourne
During a brawl on the steamer Golden Coast, at Victoria Docks on Saturday, two men were wounded. Injured are: --…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Kanowna Plunges to Her Doom Slips Off Rocks Sinks in Deep Water Passengers : Crew Safe Vessel Disappears at 7.10 A.m
SLIDING off the rock, at Cleft Island, near Wilson's Promontory, where she struck at 7 p.m. yesterday, the A.U.S.N. steamer Kanowna sank in deep water at 7-10 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Kanowna Aground--Dangerous Leak Three Vessels at Full Steam to the Rescue Passengers Tsiken on Board Mackarra While Stricken Ship, With Engine-room Filling, Listed Dangerously "Situation Precarious," Says Message
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--With about 200 passengers on board the steamer Kanowna ran aground to-night on Cleft Island, seven miles south of Wilson's Promontory, sending out repeated appeals for urgent assistance. Every steamer in the vicinity raced at top speed to the stricken vessel, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Claims for New Lifeboat
This surf boat of the Brighton Club it modelled on the principles of the lifeboat which two Sydney inventors, Messvs. F. A. Hammer and D. Douglas, arm to submit to the International Shipping Conference in London. It is claimed that the invention will revolutionise life…
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