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The  GUIDING STAR Fierce Competition On The Australian Run The fast clipper ships Red Jacket , Lightning  and James Baines  at rest in Hobson's Bay, 1856   ACTUAL TIMES ACHIEVED FROM LIVERPOOL TO MELBOURNE 1855                  JAMES BAINES            63 Days to Hobson's Bay    "                         LIGHTNING              73   Days   "        "            "      "                        RED  JACKET              87  Days   "        "            "               ...

  HANG THE HOUSE IN BLACK: The Catastrophes "On the re-assembling of parliament the case will no doubt undergo a searching investigation, and we would recommend to the assembled wisdom of the nation that in common respect for the feelings of the relatives of the dead in England, the House of Commons should during that investigation, be hung with black." ( From the Australia and New Zealand Gazette , TROVE, nla.news-article3715257, Aug 1853) The Fever Ship TICONDEROGA  ― 1852 'The Ticonderoga, from Liverpool, with 811 souls on board, entered Port Phillip Heads on November 4, 1852, after a voyage of 91 days. She reported 96 deaths from typhus fever. Nearly every person on board was sick. She anchored off the black buoy at Williamstown, but was sent back to the then newly established quarantine ground at Point Nepean, and during the six weeks of her quarantine 82 more deaths were incurred.' ( From the Melbourne Age , TROVE, nla.news-article205621967, Sat 13 May 1939) The...