Nature Notes Bush Wrecker
THE pied bell-magpie is the most destructive bird in the bush for pulling small birds' nests to pieces. Yellow-tailed tit-warblers fare the worst and…
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842 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 43
Yacht Ashore at Watson's Bay Caught by Southerly
CAUGHT by the strong southerly that sprang up early thin morning the ketch-rigged yacht, silver Lining the property of Mr. R…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Army Launch Sunk. Officers of Chinese Steamer Blameless
At a Marine Court of Enquiry, presided over by the Harbour Master, Hongkong, investigations were made into the circumstances attending the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Fire Big Motor Launch Destroyed Men Swim Ashore
PLUNGING into the water from a blazing motor boat in Kogarah Bay, Sans Souci, yesterday afternoon. Clarrie Ryan, of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Eventful Trip Small Steamer Is Knocked About
The crew of the North Coastal steamer Cobaki will remember its initial Brisbane- Richmond trip…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →RAILWAYS v. Steamer Casino
A fast goods train service daily between Brisbane, Lismore and intermediate stations to Ballina and Murwillumbah, will be inaugurated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Menace Steamer Cut Loose From Wharf AUCKLAND
So sudden was an outbreak of fire which threatened the American steamer Golden Cloud, when loading for Australia at British Columbia…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Launched on Tyne. New Steamer for Gdynia-Hull Service
The first launch on the Tyne this year was the single-screw steamer Lech, built to the order of the Polish-British Steamship Co., Ltd., of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Telegraph Late News Jap Steamer Has Bad List to Starboard
BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Japanese steamer Taiho Maru reached Pile Light to-night with a bad list to starboard and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Not in Danger Darwin Man Wrecked At Caledon Bay DARWIN
Frederick H. Gray, the Darwin trepang fisherman, who was at Caledon Bay in September, 1932, when five Japanese were murdered there, has…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Echo Sounding. Experience on Canadian National Steamer
Despite visibility being reduced to a minimum along the coast of Nova Scotia during a recent voyage, the steamer Lady Somers, owned by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Paid Off Crew of Steamer Melb. Trouble Fireman Lost Job Melbourne
AN industrial dispute, which threatens to assume serious proportions, has occurred on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Crew Walked Ashore
MELBOURNE, Friday.--Because the owners refused to re-engage a trimmer, the crew of the Huddart, Parker freighter Goulburn walked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prince George Goes Ashore
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS LEAVING THE CARNARVON CASTLE TO GO ASHORE DURING HIS VISIT TO MADEIRA…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Lugger Wrecked in Caledon Bay. Darwin
Constable Morey, of the Groote Eyla[?] police patrol, has received word from Fred Grey, a trepanger that the lugger Lolanthe has been wrecked in Caledon Bay, but all on…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Waterside Workers Walk Off Steamer. Dispute Over "Smoke-ohs." Adelaide
Because they were refused an extra "smoke-oh," four gangs of waterside-workers walked off the steamer Allara at Port Adelaide, at 5 a.m. yesterday. They were engaged to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fishing Vessel Sinks At Sea: Crew Saved By Passing Steamer Seven Men Quit Leaking Ship
WHEN their sea-net fishing boat, an old tug named the Unique, of 58 tons, foundered seven miles off the Shoalhaven…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wrecked in Caledon Bay
Word has been received at Darwin that the lugger Iolanthe has been wrecked in Caledon Bay. The message sent by Constable Morey of the Groote…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ketch on Board. Built for Jamaica Sailing
The steamer Colombia of the Colombian Line on a recent voyage to Haiti, Jamaica, Colombia and Panama, carried a 19-foot double-ended ketch…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Destroys Steamer. Coroner's Open Finding. Raymond Terrace
An inquiry was held by the coroner (Mr. C. W. Adam) this morning into the cause of the burning of the steamer Currumbene at Sea[?]am on January 9…
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