About 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon a telegram was received at the Electric Telegraph Office, advising that Captain Ussher, of the s.s. South Australian, had reported a vessel ...
Article : 318 wordsA certain Monsieur A —was taking a stroll in a public gardens in Paris when a welldressed stranger came up and shook him by the hand. ...
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Article : 50 wordsAn old gentleman, apparently from the country, one day entered the room of a medium and expressed a desire for a "sperit communication." He was toll to take a seat at the ...
Article : 264 wordsCaptain Fison opened a subscription list on board the Miner on Tuesday afternoon to provide for the necessities of the survivors of the Cambuswallace, which was at once headed ...
Article : 255 wordsOn Monday evening news of the wreek having reached the Port Office authorities, Captain Gruer was despached to Swan Bay in the Government steamer Miner, with Captain ...
Article : 172 words"So long as a woman retains her maiden name," says a philosopher, "it is her maiden aim to change it." Mrs. D.: "Just think, Mary, how terrible: ...
Article : 545 wordsFrom the explanations of Captain Lengat, who has, however, lost his log book and all his papers, some idea may be formed of the cause of the wreck. He navigated his vessel ...
Article : 170 wordsDr. Brockway, along with Sergeant Murray, came along during the morning from Southport. Four dead bodies were lying together a little way from the camp; and after Dr. ...
Article : 70 wordsCaptain Ussher, of the Adelaide Steamship Company's South Australian, when interviewed, stated that he first saw the wreck at about 11 o'clock on Monday morning ...
Article : 230 wordsOn one side of the camp was lying an ciderly seaman, Archibald Peebles, in a state of collapse. He had come ashore at an early hour after the wreck, and although injured, he ...
Article : 104 wordsCaptain Almond, Portmaster, complains that we did his department an injustice, and says that very prompt measures were taken. The first telegram did not stste the kind of ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Cambuswallace came ashore apparently broadside on to the beach, and what remains of her now lies about 50 yards from the sand ridge at Jumping Pin. All that could be seen ...
Article : 191 wordsThe barque Cambuswallace was built of steel, of 1,651 tons register, by Russell and Co., of Port Glasgow, to the order of the Cambuswallace Sailing Ship Company, Limited (R. ...
Article : 101 wordsAppended id the narratives of our special representative at the scene of the wreck:—The fine new steel barque Cambuswallace, 1.592 tons, built by Russell, of Port Glasgow, ...
Article : 571 wordsThe carge of the Cambuswallace amounted to about 2,867 tons, of which 1,800 tons was salt. There was a good deal of paper and pigiron, besides a considerable quantity of goods ...
Article : 98 wordsCaptain Leggrat gives the greatest praise to his crow for their conduct during the voyage and after the wreck. There were 27 on board, including three mates, Messrs. George Paul, ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 7 Sep 1894, Page 28
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