On Wednesday evening, the people of Sydney, and indeed of the colony generally it may be presumed, were preparing for their Christmas round of festivities. On Christmas Day they devoted their energies in gastronomic ...
Article : 1,368 wordsNo better proof could be adduced in support of the contention that the International Exhibition still retains its hold on the public interest than the record of the attendance at the Garden Palace yesterday, which ...
Article : 737 wordsTHE Agricultural Show in connection with the International Exhibition is, in is gratifying to state, creating interest in various parts of the colonies, and there are good prospects that the scheme prepared by ...
Article : 2,355 wordsThe Australian mails, via San Francisco, which left Sydney on Novemher 6th, were delivered yesterday, contract date. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe first serious case of " telescoping " in connection with the railway system of the colony took place at Parramatta yesterday afternoon, and it is almost miraculous that it was not attended with fatal consequences. Hitherto the ...
Article : 1,607 wordsThe Stock Exchange is closed to-day, and will continue closed to-morrow, for the Christmas holidays. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe American Government has issued regulations placing restrictions upon the importation of Australian cattle into the United States. The motive of the Government for ...
Article : 46 wordsLater advices received from the Cape state that Secoccoeni was not taken prisoner, but voluntarily surrendered himself to the British. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe trains from here have been crowded for some days past with excursionists. ...
Article : 20 wordsLight rain fell to-day. The weather yesterday and a great part of to-day was beautiful. ...
Article : 19 wordsThere was a very large attendance at the races to-day. Near the racecourse two horses collided and were killed instantly. One rider was badly hurt. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe stables and back premises of Mr. M'Lennan, produce merchant, of Elizabeth-street, were destroyed by fire yesternight. All the horses were saved, also a prize bull, which was in the stables. ...
Article : 41 wordsThousands left Melbourne to-day for the holiday excursions. All the trains were crowded, especially those to Brighton and the Williamstown races. The temperance gala in the Agricultural Society's ...
Article : 139 wordsThe judges at the trials of harvesters report that no machine so thoroughly fulfilled the conditions as to entitle it to the bonus. They recommend the following awards:—G. Marshall, £100; J. H. Adamson, ...
Article : 973 wordsThe throng of visitors, yesterday, continually moving about made the pianoforte recitals little more than nominal in a musical sense. At the Brinsmead platform, in front of the orchestra, Madame ...
Article : 339 wordsGeneral Gough, with his force, arrived at Cabul yesterday, and effected a junction with Colonel Roberts's force without meeting any opposition from the enemy. ...
Article : 86 wordsSir,—I am visitor to your colony, and read with pleasure the words of Captain Mathieu in your columns on Friday, conveying the thanks and acknowledgments of France, for the care and respect bestowed upon the grave of ...
Article : 493 wordsIt will, we believe, be generally conceded that in the German Court of the Art Gallery there is as fine, if not a finer collection of paintings, taking them as a whole, than are to be found in the whole of the ...
Article : 2,119 wordsIt has been our duty to comment frequently of late upon the crowded houses at the Royal, but the multitude who thronged every corner of the building last night exceeds any we could have imagined, far less described. From ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 27 Dec 1879, Page 5
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