A meeting of the Town Hall Committee of the City Council was held yesterday, when there were present the Mayor (Mr. John Young), and Aldermen Hart, Moore, Palmer, M. Harris, Bryen, Dean, Hardie, J. D. Young, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsA police constable, recently put on active duty, has been dismissed from the force for haying (so it was said) attempted to blackmail Mr. Gallagher, landlord of the National Hotel, Bourke-street. It ...
Article : 80 wordsA man named Richard Fox was admitted into the hospital on Saturday, suffering from injuries received by a heavy log rolling over him at Kirkwood's sawmill. His shoulder was dislocated, and he is much ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. Robert Cohen, one of the oldest residents of the Mudgee district, died on Monday. He was close upon 83 years of age, and has left a widow and grown-wp family. The deceased was of the Jewish ...
Article : 80 wordsThe principal matter argued was that of Huenerbein v. Gerber, a District Court appeal. The point in question was whether a pianoforte, lent by the plaintiff to a lodger, could be distrained upon for ...
Article : 196 wordsThe corporation laborers have gone on strike for eight hours. The works committee will meet this afternoon to decide whether it can compel the contractors to give the eight hours. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 458 wordsJohn Exill, contractor, has sued the Goulburn Shire Council for £3000 damages, for injury to his spine, owing to a fall on a badly-made road. Exill crested a scene by singing in court, professing that ...
Article : 48 wordsLITHGOW, Tuesday.—An inquest into the colliery disaster was opened to-day by Mr. T. H. Neale, district coroner, in the Royal Hotel assembly room. A jury of twelve having been sworn, they proceeded ...
Article : 748 wordsExtensive preparations are being made for the Taree show, to be opened to-morrow, and it is fully expected that it will be one of the best ever held in the district, there being no fewer than 830 entries, ...
Article : 113 wordsANOTHER VICTIM.—An unfortunate seaman, was fined 10s, or fourteen days, for haying "offended against decency in Moore Park." ASSAULTING A CONSTABLE.—William James, 32, ...
Article : 423 wordsSub-inspector Garvan, accompanied by Constable Redmond, arrived in this morning's, river boat from Chatsworth with Liddiard and his wife in custody. The prisoners have their children with them, two ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. Roberts, traffic manager, is this morning prosecuting Lobell, a late employs of the railway, on a charge of neglect of duty in not "scotching" the wheels of the trucks on the loop line at Culcairn, whereby an ...
Article : 142 wordsCertificates were granted upon the usual terms to the following insolvents;—Thomas Dawson, James Tingle, John Philip Deane, Henry Hilder, Wm. Hutton Taylor, Mayer Mandell, and William ...
Article : 420 wordsTo-night there is to be a public meeting to consider whether Lord Carrington shall be invited here to open the new post-office. The Mayor (Mr. Tribe) will preside, and he is in favor of the project. ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Shannon, general manager, and Mr. Crondace, local manager of Lambton Colliery, received a deputation yesterday, consisting of Mr. Thos. Caddy, president of the Trades and Labor Council; Mr. Symons, secretary; Mr. Strong, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsA sad accident happened here to a girl named Wood on Monday night. It appears that as a goods train was shunting at the Tamworth station at about a quarter to 9 o'clock, a couple of tracks got away ...
Article : 233 wordsNEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—The fortnightly general meeting of the members of the Newcastle Coal Trimmers Provident Union was held on Monday night in the All Nations Hotel, Bullock Island, where the ...
Article : 1,401 wordsBATHURST, Tuesday.—Much unpleasantness has arisen over the cup given by Mr. L. Lloyd, M.L.A., to the Geranium Race Club, which is new merged into the Bathurst Turf Club. The Cup was recently handed by ...
Article : 178 wordsA SOLITARY DRUNK.—Harry Rodgers, drunk in King-street, was fined 5s, or twenty-four hours. BATHING.—John Russell, for having bathed within view of Mary-street, Camperdown, was fined 5s, or ...
Article : 156 wordsThus our Orange correspondent: The entrances in connection with the annual meeting of the Orange Jockey Club for the Opening Handicap, Railway Handicap, Town Plate, Stewards' Purse, and Orange Jockey Club Handicap will ...
Article : 232 wordsThe body of a well-known farmer, named Gottlieb Grosse, was found by some children going to school, at 9 o'clock to-day. Grosse was alive then, but expired soon after he was removed to the house. He ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Salvation "Army," which up to the present time has nightly paraded the streets without interception, was, on Monday evening, subjected to the howls and insults of scores of larrikins, who were not ...
Article : 90 wordsDRUNKS.—Thomas Kirby, 66, a stonemason, charged with drunkenness in Berry-street, was fined 5s, or imprisonment until the rising of the court. Catherine Flaville, 45, a married woman, was fined ...
Article : 436 wordsPHILLIPS V. ANDERSON.—Mr. Asher Phillips, of Annandale, sued Mr. Chas. Anderson, coachbuilder, near Messrs. Toohey's brewery, Elizabeth-street, for £18 10s for buggy fixtures, &c. supplied. Judgment ...
Article : 166 wordsIn District Court yesterday Dr. G. H. M'Sweeney, of Petersham, sued Messrs. Brown and Co., local auctioneers, for £20, the value of a horse alleged to have been intrusted to the defendants for the purpose ...
Article : 209 wordsA general meeting of the Silver King Mining Co. was held on Monday in Tattersall's-buildings. Mr. F. C. Griffiths presided. The report and balance-sheet, which were adopted, showed £9496 at the ...
Article : 127 wordsThe coronet has received a telegram notifying that on Sunday morning a fixe occurred at Angledool station, the property of the late Mr. H. Newcomen. Two buildings with their contents were destroyed. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe export of coal for the week was about 26,000 tons. The Regent Murray arrived from London on Monday afternoon, one hundred and six days out. ...
Article : 260 wordsThe seventh half-yearly meeting of the Ravenswood Silver-mining Company was held on Tuesday, February 16—Mr. Russell Barton presided. The report and the balance-sheet were adopted. It was ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Cabinet had before it yesterday the question of making a tramway line from the Darling Harbor goods station to the meat market at Ultimo, and agreed to the construction of the line. ...
Article : 35 wordsIn the summons division of the Water Police Court yesterday, the Inspector of Fisheries at Hawkesbury River appeared against Sidney Cole, William Cole, and James William Cole, on a charge of having ...
Article : 135 wordsA woman named Julia Hawkins, 28, residing in Palmer-street, died suddenly yesterday. She had been ailing for some time, and on Saturday she became worse and took to her bed. Tuesday morning, when ...
Article : 53 wordsThe "new members' party" met in the Parliamentary Buildings yesterday afternoon. Considerable discussion took place, mainly in consequence of a number of gentlemen whom the Opposition had ...
Article : 67 wordsAt a meeting of the Miners' Executive, held at the Swan with Two Necks Hotel on Tuesday, it was decided to reduce the strike levy now made upon the Hunter River miners from 3s to 2s per fortnight. ...
Article : 160 wordsIn the Central Licensing Court on Tuesday, before Messrs. Johnson and Fisher, S.Ms., and Macintosh, J.P., transfers of licences were granted in the following cases: John Henry little to William ...
Article : 351 wordsCases attended to date:—Feb. 13: James Junn, 16, laborer, from Surry Hills, with a cut hand from sharpening tools on a grindstone; attended and sent home. William Welsh, 16, laborer, from Cook ...
Article : 384 wordsThe case against Mr. J. T. M'Kinlay, publican, charged with having kept a bagatelle table without a licence, was brought on again to-day. Six magistrates were on the bench, and the majority decided ...
Article : 72 wordsA new method of disposing of the human body after death has been proposed by M. Kergovatz, a chemist of Brest. His system is an antiseptic one, said to be much simpler and less expensive than the ...
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Advertising : 323 wordsThe Furracabad homestead, the property of the Haymarket Land and Building Company, comprising 1270 acres of purchased land, was sold privately [?] Mrs. Gunn, of Clareyaulx, at £6 per acre. The ...
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Advertising : 245 words[?]n aged woman named Mrs. Jackson had one of her [?] broken in Maitland on Monday very simply. She was [?]ning after a fowl in her yard, when her foot [?]isted under her, causing her to fall. The sufferer ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Wed 17 Feb 1886, Page 6
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