When the two boats were launched Captain English and Mr Bourke, the chief officer, were standing on the bridge. Lamb called to them to come ...
Article : 95 wordsThe worst fears respecting the fate of the steamer Glenelg were only too strongly confirmed yesterday morning when word arrived from Lake Tyers ...
Article : 203 wordsColonel Powell reports that Mafeking was still safe on 12th inst. On that day he made an attack on the nearest Boer trenches and after a gallant fight. ...
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Advertising : 1,257 wordsGeneral Gatacre is in hot pursuit of Commandant Olivier and his column of 800 wagons. Olivier succeeded in reaching Clocolan, north of Ladybrand ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is estimated that 30 persons are missing. Lamb says that all except the captain and mate were in the small boat. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe owners of the vessel, on learning of the disaster, at once arranged for the steamer Despatch to visit he coast in the vicinity of Lake Tyers to ...
Article : 156 wordsThe summer has broken up in South Africa and heavy rains are falling all over. Many of the camps have been converted into swamps. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe ratepayers of Wy Yung were addressed on Tuesday evening by Messrs Ambrose Boyce and Herbert Brooks, the candidates for the seat in ...
Article : 1,866 wordsOn learning that a man from the Glenelg had been picked up near Lake Tyers I at once proceeded there and found the man, Ernest Thorn, ...
Article : 215 wordsOwing to the filthy surroundings of the camps in which they have been living over 100 of the Boer prisoners now at Simonstown are laid up with ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Glenelg's complement of passengers on her last fatal trip was 15 Though we have succeeded in ascertaining the names of several of them ...
Article : 230 wordsA careful search of several of the farmhouses at Springfontein have resulted in the discovery and capture of a machine gun and a large quantity of ...
Article : 37 wordsValentine Bundy said:—"After leaving the Entrance the ship rolled very heavily. I was thrown all over the bunk, end came to ...
Article : 282 wordsA carrier's license was granted to Wm. Hardy. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Harold Melville was charge with ...
Article : 1,648 wordsWe are compelled to hold over leading and other matter owing to the heavy pressure on our space. Of the £1925 allocated to the ...
Article : 248 wordsWe tried to get to some of the other boats, but the sea was too rough. I have no idea of how long I was in the boat or how I landed on the beach. I ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsOur special reporter wires that whilst whilst on his way back to Cuninghame he met two more survivors of the wreck. These were ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Glenelg called at Metung for R tons of hark and reached here at 5 p.m., taking on board four piles, 30 bags of maize and 2½ tons of honey, ...
Article : 144 wordsThe cargo carried by the Glenelg was as under:—From Bairnsdale—30 tons general cargo, comprising hides, wattle bark, ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Despatch signals having searched the Ninety Miles Beach to the Entrance, and coasted from Port Albert, calling in at Refuge Cove this ...
Article : 50 wordsLamb's statement was as follows:—I was an able seamen on the Glenelg. At a quarter past 4 on Sunday morning it was my watch on deck. ...
Article : 657 wordsThe Charlotte Fenwick leaves at 4 a.m. to search for the missing passengers and crew. Little hope is entertained of any success. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe mystery surrounding the leak so suddenly sprung by the Glenelg has been explained by the survivors. They state that shortly after 4 a.m. on ...
Article : 125 wordsThe attention of pedestrians and yachtsmen is directed to the programme of sports to be held at Metung on Easter Monday. ...
Article : 176 wordsMrs. Parker, of Bairnsdale, intended to have gone to Melbourne by the Glenelg on Saturday. She sent her furniture, including her piano, but at ...
Article : 117 wordsLamb is now nearly all right. He says that when the captain found the Glenelg sinking he put her at the shore with the intention of beaching ...
Article : 49 wordsJudging by conversations several local residents have had with Captain English during his last visit here, he seems to have had a presentiment of ...
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Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle (Vic. : 1882 - 1946), Thu 29 Mar 1900, Page 2
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