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The Brisbane Courier
1 June 1872
Wreck of the Young Australia
MESSRS J. AND G. Harris received a telegram from Cape Moreton yesterday, to tho effect that the ship Young Australia had gone ashore and that all the passengers had been landed on Moreton Island, and were badly off for provisions and other necessaries. Messrs Harris, on receipt of the news, at once dispatched the Francis Cadell, s., to the scene of the wreck, with an ample supply of necessaries of all kinds.
We telegraphed to Superintendent Brayden, at Cape Moreton, for further particulars, and at half past 6 o’clock last night received the following reply –
Cape Moleton, May 31
The Young Australia is on shore on the north point of the island. She went ashore about 11 o’clock this morning. All the passengers and crew are on shore at the North Point. The vessel is breaking up, and it