The most thrilling and dreadful experiences, peculiar, at times, to those who brave the dangers of the deep for a livelihood are unhappily associated with the foundering of ...
Article : 935 wordsEx-Water-police Constable Brown and his wife were passengers by the Maitland. Mrs. Brown is confined to her bed. She is suffering acute agony, being braised all over the ...
Article : 1,158 wordsJones, a fireman, and Lyne, a seamen, arrived in Sydney last evening. Jones was admitted to the Sydney Hospital suffering from a bad leg. ...
Article : 60 wordsOne of the most disastrous gales, and one too which very nearly takes the record for severity, has at last expended itself. On all hands the effects of the disturbance are ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 70 wordsThe terrible gate from the south-east was severely felt here during the last three days. The ketches Coral,. Merlin, Lena and Lilian, schooner Amelia White, and stoamer Ethel, ...
Article : 617 wordsMr. John Limeburner, son of Mr. Harly Limeburner, a waterman, and nephew of Mr. John Limeburner, of the Centennial Hotel, states:—When the vessel struck the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 95 wordsWay and Vankinscot the other two survivors, reached Newcastle at 10.15 last night, having come round from Telligerry Creek, distant 15 miles from Stockton, in a spring cart in ...
Article : 354 wordsBenjamin Norton, second steward of the wrecked steamer Maitland, arrived with others who were saved by train at 10 45 last night, and gave the following information ...
Article : 360 wordsSenior-sergeant M'Vane wiring last evening, stated that the wrecked steamer was lying on a lint ledge of rook. The sergeant added that from what he could ascertain there ...
Article : 39 wordsSenior-sergeant M'Vane wired last evening from the scene of the wreck:—"The body of a woman was washed up on the beach this afternoon. There was no one ...
Article : 91 wordsMessrs. J. and A. Brown's steamer Duckenfield, which left for Sydney on Thursday night, and for whose safety great fears were entertained because of the fact ...
Article : 186 wordsInspector Lynch and Sub-inspector Saunders have had an exceptionally busy time over since the week of the Maitland was first reported. The police office has been besieged ...
Article : 73 wordsYesterday morning there was a very touching scene in the police office. A Mrs. Moss called upon Sub inspector Saunders, asking for some information respecting her ...
Article : 120 wordsThe captains of the steamers Ashley and Maritta found the violence of the gale too strong to cope with so they decided to put into Jervis Bay for shelter. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe steamer Newcastle took up the running on Saturday night, and reached here yesterday morning in charge of Capt. Martin Thompson, who was absent on leave at the ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. M'Nichol made his statement while being propped up with pillows, and his narrative was somewhat disjointed owing to his extreme weakness. He said: "We ...
Article : 3,094 wordsPeter O'Sullivan, a youth of 16 years of age, who belongs to Prospect, near Port Adelaide was coming on to Newcastle to get a boat for Port Pirie He is the son of an old ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsOne of the survivors has signed the following statement made before Sub-inspector Saunders and Captain Newton, harbourmaster. John Johnson states:—I am an able seaman, ...
Article : 918 wordsSub inspector Saunders received information yesterday from Mr. Button, who reported the wreak of the steamer Fitzroy, that a large ship and a steamer were ashore a short ...
Article : 130 wordsConstable Duffel yesterday wired to headquarters that David M'Geachie, colliery manager at Killingworth, Apple Tree Flat, had been drowned through falling into a ...
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Advertising : 227 wordsThe Maitland is an iron steamer, of 450 horse-power, 880 tons, 231.5ft long, 27.1ft broad, and 19.5ft depth of hold. She was built at Glasgow in 1870, and was brought ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Mon 9 May 1898, Page 5
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