A gloom such as has not fallen upon Sydney for many years cast itself over the metropolis yesterday. While yet the wound in the public mind was fresh from the railway ...
Article : 757 wordsThe Czar of Russia has rallied slightly, and is now sleeping. NOVEMBER 1. A bulletin from Livadia states that the ...
Article : 50 wordsYesterday after a futile attempt in the Legislative Council on the part of the Vice-President of the Executive Council to secure the rejection of a formidable motion ...
Article : 1,714 wordsMany of the shipping houses and other business places in the city lowered the flags on their buildings to half-mast on receipt of the appalling news. Many letters of sympathy and condolence ...
Article : 141 wordsJames Charles White who is supposed to have been drowned was the father of the Hon. R. H. D. White, M.L.C. He was entering upon his 85th year the exact day of the wreck. The deceased ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsA Nihilist proclamation, couched in violent terms, has been issued in Switzerland, rejoicing over the Ozar's approaching end. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last evening the Premier Mr. G. H. Reid made a short reference to the disaster, in the course of which he said he was sun that the members of the House would ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Times this morning contains an article upon the proposed crusade against the House of Lords. It considers that the reform of the ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. A. J. Chamberlain, who represents Harman Brothers ond Houston, of Sheffeld, in the Australian colonies, was amongst the passengers by the fatal vessel. He says the trip across ...
Article : 802 wordsMr. G. H. Reid has sent the following telegram to Mr Seddon, Premier of New Zealand:— "The Government and people of this colony most deeply sympathise with those who have been ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. D. Dryborough was a comparatively young man, 36 years of age, and connected with the firm of Sandeman and Co., wine and spirit merchants, of Pitt-street, Sydney. He was a married man, ...
Article : 59 wordsCaptain Dreyfus, who holds a position in the French army, has been arrested for selling plans of the defence of the Alps to Italy, plans for the mobilisation of the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe captain was observed up to the last moment at his post, and as the bridge was carried away he was seen to plunge into the sea, but was not again observed. When daylight broke, and the sea had ...
Article : 175 wordsNever in the history of the Union Company in Sydney has such a rush taken place as that of yesterday. From the moment the office opened until 10 o'clock last night the office was besieged. ...
Article : 121 wordsMr. W. Ferguson is the chief engineer of the Wellington Harbour Board, New Zealand. ...
Article : 17 wordsMiss Jone Williams, one of the survivors, had a most thrilling experience, being in the water for 12 hours. For a part of the time she was clinging to a spar with her hair wound round it, ...
Article : 798 wordsMr. M. Smith is an articled clerk in the employ of Messrs. Laurence, M'Lachan, and Williams, solicitors of Sydney. ...
Article : 22 wordsMiss Buckleton is an assistant of Mr. Paterson, dentist, of Liverpool-street, Sydney, who stands, as it were, in loco parents to this young lady. Yesterday morning he received a cable message ...
Article : 65 wordsThe steamer Aloraca, of Newcastle-onTyne, has foundered in the Gulf of Finland. Sixteen persons were drowned. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe second officer of the Wairarapa says:— "We passed the Three Kings at 8 o'clock on Sunday morning, the weather being thick and foggy. At 12 o'clock we were off Spirits Bay, ...
Article : 395 wordsThere are few New Zealanders of late years' experience who do not know the late chief steward. Mr. Judd Indeed, there are few travellers from Sydney or Melbourne that have not ...
Article : 95 wordsMiss Knight, who is supposed to have been lost, was a young lady friend of Miss Buckleton's. She was a daughter of Mr. Godfrey Knight, actuary of the Equitable Life Assurance ...
Article : 35 wordsMrs Rowbotham was a sister-in-law of Mr Rowbotham, tea broker, of George-street, Sydney She was on a visit from England, and had gone down to New Zealand for a pleasure trip. ...
Article : 33 wordsAccording to a telegram from Shanghai it is alleged that the young Empress of China, Ye-ho-na-la, committed suicide, owing to her husband, the Emperor, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 262 wordsMiss Bullook was a sister-in-law of Mr Rowbotham's, on a visit from Melbourne. ...
Article : 16 wordsMr., Mrs., and Miss Scoular are understood to be well-known residents of Dunedin. Mr. Scoular is a prominent merchant of that city. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe management of the Empire Music Hall, which was closed last week in consequence of the London County Council refusing to renew the license unless the ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. H. Pounds is understood to be a son of the general manager of one of the banks in Auckland. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr A. Graham, of 84 George street, Eiskinoville, for very many years a resident of Sydney-brother of the late Alderman Graham, of Marrickville-told a representative of the Herald ...
Article : 201 wordsThe first tidings of the calamity that reached Sydney were contained in the following telegram:— [BY TELEGRAPH.] ...
Article : 284 wordsDisastrous floods have taken place in the Department of the Nord, France. The floods have thrown 100,000 persons temporarily out of employment. ...
Article : 28 wordsA passenger says:—"The vessel ran on rocks at Great Barrier on Sunday at midnight Captain M'Intosh and about 100 of the passengers and crow were lost. The weather was thick, with ...
Article : 417 wordsMr. W. Johnston was a horse dealer, going out out to New Zealand to purchase horses. He was a man of about 40 years of age ...
Article : 29 wordsFor the 4½per cent, debentures issued by the Land Mortgage Bank of Victoria £316,000 was subscribed. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. A. Gordon was a young man learning to be an engineer. He had been home to Glasgow for a visit, and was returning to his people in New Zealand. ...
Article : 33 wordsMi Dickson was the son of a Mr Diokson residing near Edinburgh. He was coming out to the colonies to try his fortune here. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Russian Ambassador in Vienna, Prince Lobanofi-Rostovski, has protested to the Austrian Government against the authorities in Vienna allowing Australian ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 wordsMr. and Mrs. Moella, James Mellicio, and A Terraboccio were four Italian people who joined the Austral at Naples. Mr Graham says that during the voyage out they kept much to ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. and Mrs. West and three boys. Mrs. West and her children came out from England in the Austral by the last trip and were joined at Naples by Mr. West. He was a land surveyor or ...
Article : 48 wordsThe careful character of the captain may in a sense be construed into one of the elements that led to the vessel's loss. He knew the coast as well as a Sydney man knows George-street, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 404 wordsThe Times says that the Victorian taxation proposals ought to be accompanied by a simultaneous reduction in the tariff, since protection has proved totally ...
Article : 41 wordsMiss T. M. Perry, Miss K. Wheatley, and Miss Read. Mr. Graham thinks that these three young ladies also came out on the Austral. ...
Article : 30 wordsWhere the vessel struck was a particularly dangerous locality, the only landing consisting of narrow shelves of rock at the base of the cliffs, which ran to a height of 600ft. or 800ft. Most of ...
Article : 87 wordsDr. and Mrs. Harris and T. Harris. Dr. Harns acted for some time in the capacity of locum tenens for Dr. Watson, of Newtown. These passengers claim some distant relationship ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is understood that negotiations have been passing between Mr. Eddy the Chief Railway Commissioner, and the Government with regard to his continuance in office after the period for ...
Article : 244 wordsMrs Waterhouse, who with her child is reported as drowned, was the wife of Mr. John Waterhouse, M.A., Inspeotor of Public Schools, residing at Dungog, N.S.W. She was taking a ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. M. C. Thomson considers that the cattle brought by the steamer Port Pirie from Sydney were landed in about as good a condition as when they started. ...
Article : 41 wordsWhen day light broke communication with the shore was effected by means of ropes, and those in the riggrag were hauled through the water, all being saved except 21, who let go their held and ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. H. M'Kinnon, late member for the Manning, had a providential escape from not being one of the passengers by the ill-fated Wairarapa. It appeard Mr. M'Kinnon had booked a passage ...
Article : 71 wordsOn inquiry at the various insurance offices in the city, it was generally admitted that the greater part of the insurance was held by companies in New Zealand. The amount, as far as ...
Article : 98 wordsThe news of the wreck of the Wairarapa caused a tremendous sensation here, and indeed throughout New Zealand. The survivors presented a pitiable sight; they were huddled together on the ...
Article : 582 wordsThe following new mining companies have been registered:—Gold Exploration Company of Western Australia, with a capital of £150,000; and the Kanowna ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 502 wordsThe master of the Wairarapa, says one who know him intimately, was a single man and a Highlander by birth. He had been on the New Zealand coast for a great number of years, and ...
Article : 246 wordsA prominent sea captain residing in Sydney, who is credited with the ability of negotiating the New Zealand coast blindfold, gives the following as his theory of the cause of the wreck:— ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Union Company has lost several steamers during its career on the New Zealand coast, but with the excoption of the Tarara, lost at Waipapa Point, few lives have perished ...
Article : 1,858 wordsBroken Hill Proprietary shares are quoted at £2 8s 9d. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 2 Nov 1894, Page 5
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