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  2. London Gossip

    London is about to lose one of its most characteristic noises. The milk trade is going silent. Possibly there has been some potent economic reason ...

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  3. NEW GUINEA EXPLORATION

    Fifty years ago, in 1884, a chapter in our history was writen in the exploration of New Guinea by an expedition organised on behalf of "The Age" and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. THE "COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER."

    He was a picturesque old native. A shock of wavy hair and a long grey beard gave him a benevolent, patriarchal appearance, but anyone to whom he ...

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  5. SHIPS OF THE PAST

    Sir,--Of all the famous ships that sailed to this port we must place the old Marco Polo very close to the head of the list on the roll of honor. Until ...

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  6. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I have often heard my parents speak of tho John and Lucy. They arrived by her in Geelong in 1854 from County Clare, Ireland. My parents are ...

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  7. The St. Osyth.

    Sir,--I should like to know if there are left any passengers who came out in the St. Osyth. Wo landed at Sandridge in June, 1876. If I remember rightly, it was ...

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  8. Landings at Portland.

    Sir,--As a native of Victoria, now in my 76 th year, I have been greatly interested in your columns Ships of the Past. Recently I have noticed some ...

    Article : 156 words
  9. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--My father arrived on the Marco Polo before the Eureka "battle," and I have heard him speak of some mishap which caused some confusion in the ...

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  10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I was very Interested to read E. H. Acficeld's letter, in which he mentioned the Lady Jocelyn as one of the ships he remembered about the years ...

    Article : 74 words
  11. Kobenhavn.

    Sir,--Mr. G. R. Frost appeared in doubt as to the rigs of ships and barques. The total number of masts a sailing vessel carries would finally decide her ...

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  12. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Inquiries wore made regarding the fate of the Ducal line steamer Duke of Sutherland. As I was one of the crew during the year 1897, on a ten months' ...

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  13. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--As a child of 6 years I arrived with my family in the sailing ship Indian Ocean at Portland in 1854. Could any of your readers tell me anything ...

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    THE SHANNON. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  15. Fate of Various Ships.

    Sir,--Naiad, 1787 tons, built as the Sierra Ventana in 1889, by Potter and Son, Liverpool, for Thompson, Anderson and Co., London, was sunk by a German ...

    Article : 222 words
  16. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Re Severn. She was a unit of Devitt and Moore's fleet, and therefore it may bo token for granted that she was stoutly built, well found and ...

    Article : 182 words
  17. THE TRIUMPHS OF LIBERALISM.

    Some of the striking beneficient results of the principles of historic political Liberalism in action arc eloquently summarised by a recent contributor to ...

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  18. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE

    Sir,--In reference to the ship Marpesia, as mentioned by J. w. Butler (Thornbury), in your issue of 24th March, I desire to state that I can ...

    Article : 107 words
  19. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--The clipper brig Drover, owned by the into Jas. Hemphill, my father, took a full complement of diggers to the Port Curtis gold rush in the early sixties. ...

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  20. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Is there any record of a ship called Joseph Cunard (or Kinniard) I think she was a whaling ship. My late father is supposed to have run away ...

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  21. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--"Shenandoah," in naming the five masks of the Kobenhavn, calls the fourth a spanker. Unfortunately this most happens to be square-rigged, ...

    Article : 247 words
  22. Shannon.

    Sir.--In answer to inquiries, the Shannon was one of Griove's ships, commonly known as the Blackwallers, running to Melbourne from the late fifties or ...

    Article : 148 words
  23. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--There was a Duke of Sutherland Which lay ashore in Moreton Bay (Q.) for some time. She was refloated and overhauled, and renamed the Warrego. ...

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  24. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--My parents, with three children, and also my aunt, from Scotland, arrived in Melbourne and anchored in Hobson's Bay,on the 58th October, 1841. ...

    Article : 94 words
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    ­­Exploration in New Guinea fifty years ago. "The Age" Expedition attacked by natives on the Max Kasa River. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  26. Eric the Red.

    Sir,--With reference to the wreck of the Eric the Red, one writer states that the captain, some officers and men of the rescuing steamer Dawn received ...

    Article : 104 words
  27. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Will someone tell me what became of the old Orient (Orient line), which left Tilbury on 31st April, 1908, for Australia ? I heard she had been sold ...

    Article : 71 words
  28. The Tasmnnin

    Sir,--The accounts in "The Age" of 5th inst. I have read with, much interest, and note the Tasmania is mentioned In one of the letters. My father, ...

    Article : 133 words
  29. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I would like to know if there were any fellow-passengers living in Melbourne or Victoria who came to Australia in the good ship Glenmark, arriving here ...

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  30. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I was a lad about sixteen at the time of the wreck of the Eric the Red. Two years later I was working at Mt. Bute station. in the Western district. ...

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  31. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Having seen the Thyatira mentioned in your columns on several occasions. I might say that I came out "before the must" in the above ship. It ...

    Article : 125 words
  32. Leaves from a Diary.

    Sir,--From an old diary I have obtained the following information, which may interest some renders of your popular Ships of the Past columns. Amongst ...

    Article : 179 words
  33. William Wallace.

    Sir,--My mother came out in the forties in the ship William Wallacand my father in the ship Wardshipman. Do any of your numerous ...

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  34. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Before this very interesting discussion of tho ships of early days closes I would like to know if any reader knows anything about a ship called the ...

    Article : 78 words
  35. Land Not Sighted.

    Sir,--My father, Mr. J. H. Callaway, of Cobden, came to tills country about September, 1809, as a boy of 14, with his parents on the vessel Highflyer, Capt. J. ...

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  36. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--In "The Age" of 24th March Mrs. G. E. Everilt asks for information re file nailing ship Midlothian. My wife and family came out to Victoria on 30th ...

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  37. John and Lucy.

    Sir,--My mother and a young daughter travelled by the John and Lucy from England to Australia, I think, however, it must have been on a later trip than ...

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  38. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE

    Sir,--I have watched the lists, but have failed to see any account of the ship called the Harpley, which cams out in 1853. As the daughter of an ' old pioneer, ...

    Article : 85 words
  39. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--My parents sailed from Plymouth in the Blur of India, a sailing vessel, in March. 1871, and reached Melbourne in June, making a passage of eighty-four ...

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  40. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--My father. Mr. Robert Z. Poole, was a passenger on the Marco Polo from England lo Australia In 1854. After a short period in Melbourne, he crossed to ...

    Article : 69 words
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