Tanker Fire Steamer Standing By: Engine-room Gone New York
The French ship Petit Terre is standing by the British oil-tanker Valverda (8807 tons), which has been on fire in the Atlantic 1000 miles…
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All-Night Ordeal In Launch Steamer Rescues 3 Men Frozen, Hungry Motor Useless 'Plane Missed Them
A DRIFT all yesterday afternoon and throughout the night in a 27ft. launch, and so completely lost that even an aeroplane search failed to locate them, three Vaucluse residents suffered a terrible ordeal…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →By Explosion Building Wrecked HOBART
A terrific explosion, heard in all central parts of Hobart, partially wrecked early to-day the premises occupied by the Port Huon…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Mission Ketch Sailing for Pacific Islands
Seven members of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society will to-day sall from Sydney on board the ketch Lightbearer, on a voyage to the Eastern Pacific islands…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Brave Governor Phillip Come Ashore
IN seventeen hundred and eighty eight, Sydney was born--you know that date?…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ketch Lightbearer Leaves on Evangelical Mission
Late yesterday afternoon the mission craft Lightbearer left Sydney. The ketch is destined for Evangelical and mission work in the East Indies, under the auspices of the Watchtower…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Jewels Stolen on Steamer Wellington, N.Z.
TRAVELLING on the Monterey, between Honoluluand Page Page, Mrs. Thorold Fink, of Melbourne, discover…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Shaken By Lightning In Storm Wellington (N.z.)
A TERRIFYING experience befel those aboard the steamer Tees, when on route from Chathams to Lyttelton…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stolen and Wrecked
Before Mr. Thomas Hartigan, of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Charles Street, Erskineville, knew that his car had been stolen on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm Damage Houses Wrecked at Cloncurry
CLONCURRY, Friday.--A thousand pounds damage was caused by a severe storm which struck the town this afternoon. The wind…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Autogyro Wrecked In Crash Hit Fence, Pilot Badly Hurt Lucky Escape at Gunnedah Melbourne, Saturday.--
George Colman was seriously injured when an autogyro he was piloting crashed at the Mornington air pageant this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Steamer Leaves England. London, Jan. 26
The steamer Taroona, recently built at Clyde for the [?] Strail service, sailed to-day for Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steward Missing From Steamer Kalingo. AUCKLAND
A wireless message received from tne steamer Kailngo, which left Sydney on January 21 for Auckland, states that R. Fuller, an assistant steward, is missing from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →12 Unaccounted for After Wreck New York
THERE are still 12 persons unaccounted for as a result of the foundering of the Mohawk after a collision with the Talisman, in which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Autogyro Wrecked in Smash Pilot Operated On After Serious Injuries Struck Fence Melbourne
WHEN an autogyro which he was flying struck a fence at the Mornington air pageant yesterday, the pilot, George Colman, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Explosion Near Swansea Attempt to Wreck Bridge Newcastle
No arrests have so far been made in the attempt early this morning to wreck a small bridge near the Aberfield Colliery at Swansea…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Nor'-west. Yampi Sound by Schooner
The Japanese proposal to lease Yampi Sounds and the neighbourhood from the Commonwealth will awaken some general interest in this scarcely known locality—a veritable…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mission Ketch. Repair Work Almost Completed
The engine trouble which forced the mission ketch Llghtbearer to return to port on Monday, after setting out for the East Indies, necessitated the dismantling of the engine…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Last of Her Kind. The Schooner Alma Doepel
Although the tall, graceful sailing-ship is fast disappearing from the highways of the ocean, Melbourne still provides a haven…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →World Cruise in Small Ketch: a Collector of Teapots: Snow Daisies at Mt. Kosciusko
Above and at right: some of the 258 [?] of all shapes sizes and designs and varied hisories which…
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