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  2. AUSTRALIAN WEATHER.

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 words
  3. ENGLAND V TASMANIA.

    The English cricket team arrived at Launceston from Melbourne by the Loongana on Saturday morning, and were met at the wharf by Mr. F. C. Hobkirk (chairman Northern ...

    Article : 481 words
  4. MIXED MARRIAGES.

    Yesterday morning, at St. Patrick's Church, Sydney, the preacher, the Rev. Father Chateley, dealt at some length with the law of the Roman Catholic Church in regard to ...

    Article : 396 words
  5. NEWCASTLE.

    Surf-bathing and surf clubs are booming. It is a sombre fact that the fatalities at Newcastle called the clubs into being. A strong surf club has been formedat Newcastle, and ...

    Article : 515 words
  6. SHIPPING.

    Century, s, 4220 tons. Captain Rowlands, from Adelaide Howard Smith Company, agents. Hunter, a, 1840 tons. Captain H. Warne, from Newcastle Newcastle and H. R. S.S. Company, agents. ...

    Article : 611 words
  7. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    Considerable indignation is expressed at a statement appearing in southern exchanges regarding the prevalence of the drink habit and the abnormal numbor of grog shops ...

    Article : 65 words
  8. QUEENSLAND.

    The sixth wool sales of the present series of Brisbane sales were held on Saturday. There was an excellent attendance, and 10,264 bales, were catalogued. Competition for greasy wool ...

    Article : 85 words
  9. NEW ZEALAND.

    The total value of butter and cheese by the steamer Paparoa, which left for London on Saturday, was £180,837. The cheese shipment was valued at £70,207, a record for New ...

    Article : 42 words
  10. RECORD BUTTER SHIPMENT.

    The R.M.S. Ormuz took 19,718 boxes of butter for oversea ports, a record tor Brisbane. ...

    Article : 20 words
  11. TASMANIA.

    In the Mount Magnet trouble a settlement was arrived at to-day. It is stated that the men will receive 9s per day for six weeks, at the end of which time the directors will again ...

    Article : 56 words
  12. INDUNA AT NORFOLK ISLAND.

    The steamer Induna arrived at 8 a.m. being detained on account of adverse head weather. Everything was quiet at the Islands. Through passengers are:—Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, ...

    Article : 67 words
  13. A BIG BUSH FIRE.

    A bush fire raged in the vicinity of Mount Magnet railway station and the ore sheds on Friday. ...

    Article : 23 words
  14. A NEW GUN.

    There are several gentlemen now in Sydney who will have a distinct recollection of a crude working model of a machine gun, made in Sydney many years ago, the invention of ...

    Article : 733 words
  15. CASUALTIES.

    The lighthouse-keeper at Hornby Ught, South Head, named Warran, was ascending a ladder yesterday afternoon when he lost his footing and fell down the cliff a distance of ...

    Article : 60 words
  16. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 635 words
  17. A SEAMAN HURT.

    Albert Ulrich, 32, a seaman, belonging to the steamer Altona, was knocked down by a tram in Oxford-street, last night. Constable Hickey, of No, 3 police station, took him to ...

    Article : 46 words
  18. AN ANGLICAN VIEW.

    The Rev. W. S. Carr-Smith, preaching at St. James's Church, Phillip-street, last night, upon the subject of marriage and courtship, touched incidentally upon the new law of the ...

    Article : 262 words
  19. CAPSIZE IN THE HARBOUR.

    Saturday's breeze caused the capsize of a sailing boat near the lightship. The occupants, four in number, were picked up by the port health officer's launch, and the boat was ...

    Article : 40 words
  20. FELL FROM A TRAM.

    Harold Norton, 20, living at Oxford-street, Paddington, was boarding a tram at Rockdale early yesterday morning, when he slipped and fell beneath the footboard. It was found ...

    Article : 41 words
  21. DEPARTURES.—Jan. 18.

    Victoria, R.M.S., for London, via ports. Yawata Maru, J.M.S., for Melbourne. Riverina, s, for Fremantle, via ports. Peregrine, s, for Melbourne. ...

    Article : 75 words
  22. SHIFTMEN AND WHEELERS' WAGES.

    The shiftmen and wheelers in the Newcastle district met in conference yesterday to discuss the scale of rates as arranged at a mass meeting held a few weeks ago. ...

    Article : 102 words
  23. THE HEAT WAVE.

    The maximum reading on Saturday was 104.1 degrees, and yesterday, when there were also hot winds, it reached 105.7 degrees. The Commonwealth Meteorologist, Mr. Hunt, when seen to-night, held out no hope ...

    Article : 144 words
  24. SWIMMING BATH BURNT OUT.

    The public swimming baths in Sugarloaf Bay, Middle Harbour, belonging to Mr. J. K. Smith (who resides at the Willoughby Hotel, Willoughby), from some cause unknown caught ...

    Article : 71 words
  25. PROJECTED DEPARTURES.—Jan. 20.

    Aorangi, R.M.S., for Vancouver, via ports; Ottensen, s, for Singapore; Yulgibar, s, and Kemp[?]cy, s, for Macleay River; Pyrmont, s, for Port Macquarie; Bellinger, s. for Camden Haven; Tuncurry, s, for Cape ...

    Article : 42 words
  26. COAL AND OTHER EXPORTS.

    The following vessels cleared at the Customs-house yesterday:—Period, s, for Port Pirie, via Wallaroo, with 4350 tons coal; Marian Woodside, bq, tor Antofagasta, with ...

    Article : 102 words
  27. CLEARANCES.—Jan. 18.

    Warrimoo, s, 3328 tons. Captain M'Donald, for Wellington. Passengers:—Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and child, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. ...

    Article : 261 words
  28. DEATH FROM TRAM ACCIDENTT.

    Edward Smith, of 608 Darling-street, Rozelle, who was run over by a tram in Balmain on January 11, died at the Balmain Cottage Hospital on Saturday. ...

    Article : 33 words
  29. FATAL FALL FROM SCAFFOLD.

    Charles Bradley, 46, plasterer, who fell from a scaffolding in Oxford-street, on Thursday, died on Friday night. ...

    Article : 23 words
  30. THE PORT JACKSON, FROM LONDON.

    The four-masted barque Port Jackson, now being utilised as a training ship for officers and sailors, arrived at Sydney at midday on Saturday, 102 days out from London, and after passing the heatlth ...

    Article : 802 words
  31. OREGON RABBIT DISEASE.

    Professor Starr Jordan, of the Lciana Stanford University, at the request of a Sydney friend, has been seeking information relative to the Oregon rabbit disease, which a New ...

    Article : 391 words
  32. FOUND IN BELMORE PARK.

    James Hynes, 52, residing at the Metropolitan Hotel, Pitt-street, was discovered at 5 a.m. on Saturday in Belmore Park in an unconscious condition. He was taken by ...

    Article : 90 words
  33. ALLEGED ILLICIT GOLD TRAFFIC.

    The campaign of the police in the suppression of alleged Illicit traffic in gold amongst Chinese in Bendigo has been practically brought to a close for the present. The ...

    Article : 180 words
  34. GENERAL CEMETERY BLOCKED.

    The number of deaths in Melbourne dunng the hot weather has been so great that a block han occurred at the general cemetery. Undertakers making application for burials to take ...

    Article : 70 words
  35. STUDENT'S CAREER CUT OFF.

    A student of Wollongbar State Farm, named Charles Morgan, 21 years of age, who had arrived only 10 days ago, was taken suddenly ill on Friday. He was brought to the ...

    Article : 58 words
  36. ENTERED OUTWARD.—Jan. 18.

    Mararoa, s, for Hobart. ...

    Article : 8 words
  37. HIGH READINGS IN THE INTEEIOR.

    Intense heat continued in the interior on Saturday and yesterday, and as a result several deaths are reported. According to reports received by the Meteorological-Department the highest temperatures recorded ...

    Article : 113 words
  38. AFTER A FUNERAL.

    Whilst returning from a funeral Mr. Thos. Daley's horse bolted, capsized the buggy, and broke Mr. Daley's ankle. ...

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  39. IMPORTS.—Jan. 18.

    Port Jackson, sh, from London: 501 tons old cast-— iron chairs,, 142 cs whisky, 156 hhds rum, 1395 on beer, 579 cs gin, 734 slate slabe, 50 gs pitch, 100 cs wine, 3707 cs fish, 52 bdls shovels, 100 bls twine, £5 ...

    Article : 587 words
  40. KILLED BY A TRAM.

    Two accidents occurred on the Government tram service to-night, one with fatal results. The first accident was to R. Shields, an oldsman, who got under the tram at ...

    Article : 105 words
  41. THE CITY SOLICITOR.

    Sir,—The question raised by Mr. O'sullivan appears to have been summarily disposed of. I think, however, he is right, but I go furjther, and say that the time has now arrived ...

    Article : 91 words
  42. SOUTHERN COLLIERIES.

    At a special meeting of the Helensburgh Lodge of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association, the special actuarial examination of the owners' books, which brought the ...

    Article : 171 words
  43. BROKEN HILL'S TRIALS.

    BROKEN HILL.—Saturday and Sunday were the two hottest days of the reason. The official thermometer registered 107 degrees in ihe shadec. The heat last night was dreadful, and the majority of the citizens ...

    Article : 107 words
  44. THE MAILS.

    South Australia.—Overland, 5.30 p.m. Victoria.—Overland, 5.30 and 7 p.m. Queensland.—Overland, 3.45 p.m. Eden.—Allowrie, 9 a.m. ...

    Article : 220 words
  45. CAUGHT IN A CHAFFCUTTER.

    A man named Oliver to-day, while feeding a chaffcutter, got the tops of the fingers of the right hand in the cogs, three being severely crushed. They had to be amputated at the ...

    Article : 51 words
  46. A CONTRAST.

    LISMORE.—The weather is beautifully cool. On Friday morning it was actually cold. The country everywhere is a perfect picture of verdure. BARMEDMAN.—On Saturday the thermometer ...

    Article : 147 words
  47. A JOCKEY INJURED.

    A Jockey named Lewis met with a serious accident on the Bathurst racecourse yesterday while engaged schooling a horse at the starting barrier for the forthcoming races. ...

    Article : 73 words
  48. YOUNG WOMAN'S SUICIDE.

    Miss Rose Adams, a young woman residing with her parents, at Iceton-street, Burwood, at about 11 o'clock on Saturday morning took a dose of "Rough on Rats." She had been ...

    Article : 114 words
  49. SHORTAGE OF RAILWAY TRUCKS.

    Work at the Metropolitan Mine had to be again suspended for want ot waggons from 11 a.m. to 1 p m. yesterday. This state of affairs causes a great deal of inconveniece ...

    Article : 231 words
  50. A FALL FROM ALOFT.

    During the voyage of the barque Formosa, which arrived at Port Pirie last Wednesday, J. Major, a native of Belfast, while attending to sails aloft, tell, through a guyrope giving ...

    Article : 64 words
  51. THE BRUNNER FROM THE ISLANDS.

    The small steamer Brunner, belonging to Messrs. On Chong and Co., arrived from the Gilbert Islands late on Saturday night, and proceeded to Neutral Bay. Captain Dillamore reports that everything i[?] quiet in ...

    Article : 77 words
  52. ALMOST STIFLED.

    The intense heat prevailing lately has caused the usual bush fires. Last night and to-day the town was completely enveloped in dense smoke. Shortly after midday yesterday a fire sprang up on the eastern ...

    Article : 196 words
  53. EXPORTS.

    Victoria, R.M.S., for Londonm, via ports; 1429 [?] meats, 10 bxs gold, 6595 i ngots tin, 51 bgs wolfram, 13,757 bxs butter, 70 br[?] silver, 9 bullon, 53 bgs ore, 6 bxs sovereigns (value £30,000), 329 bls wool. ...

    Article : 69 words
  54. THE COLOUR LINE.

    It is interesting to note (says a London exchange) at the present Juncture, when there is so much feeling against the Japanese in America, that a Japanese officer has been ...

    Article : 136 words
  55. WANSTEAD'S WANTS.

    Sir,—The president of the Water and Sewerage Board (Mr. Keele) states he does not know what the residents of Wanstead have to complain about. Well, for the information ...

    Article : 377 words
  56. THE BOVERIC FROM SAN FRANCISCO.

    The Weir liner Bowrie, with the San Francisco mails, arrived at Sydney yesterday, and berthed at the Howard Smith Company's wharf in addition to general cargo the Boveric has a deck cargo of nearly ...

    Article : 83 words
  57. MOVEMENTS OF MAIL STEAMERS.

    The R.M.S. Mooltan left Suez for Australia on January 16. The R.M.S. Moldavia arrived at Plymouth from Australia on January 17. ...

    Article : 64 words
  58. DESPATCH OF MAILS FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OTHER PLACES.

    Overland to Adelaide and thence per P. and O. Company's steamer Victoria, 51st January. Letters.—Registered, 8.30 p.m.; ordinary. 5.30 p.m. 2d the ½oz for United Kingdom, Canada, Ceylon, India, ...

    Article : 163 words
  59. DISMASTED VESSEL SIGHTED.

    The captain of the steamer Boveric, which [?] rived here yesterday, reports having sighted at noon on Saturday a small barque with her main topgallant mast carried sway. He also passed a large ship, and ...

    Article : 51 words
  60. PASSENGERS BY THE A[?].

    The following is a list of the passengers booked b, the R.M.S. Aorangi, of the Canadian-Australian Royal Mail Line, which sails from Flood's Wharf to-day at 1 p.m., for Vancouver, via Brisbane, Suva (Fiji), ...

    Article : 334 words
  61. ORANGE BRANCH, FROM VLADIVOSTOCK.

    The steamer Orange Branch, from Vladivostock, via ports, was among the arrivals at Sydney yesterday, and she anchored below Garden Island. She left the Russian port in ballast, and called on the 13th at ...

    Article : 53 words
  62. SHIRE COUNCILS.

    BLA[?]LAND.—A meeting of the council was held fist week. The Works Department wrote that the ordinances regulating the procedure at council meetings had been reduced from 200 to 68, and that a ...

    Article : 240 words
  63. CONGESTION AT NEWCASTLE.

    "I have received a note from the Chief Commissioner to-day," said the Premier on Saturday, "to the effect that all those vessels waiting coal cargoes at Newcastle, which ...

    Article : 184 words
  64. THE SALAHANDER'S COUNTEY.

    The temperature on Saturday as 110 in the shade, and to-day it was 110.9. This is the seventh consecutive day of over 100 in the shade, and the fifth of over 110. ...

    Article : 63 words
  65. THE CHELMSFORD, FROM VALPARAISO,.

    The four-masted barque Chelmsford, 74 days out from Valparaiso in ballast, arrived here yesterday and anchored below Garden Island. She sailed on November 11, and met with fine weather until November 23, when ...

    Article : 71 words
  66. Advertising

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    Advertising : 169 words
  67. THE BAR HARBOURS.[?]

    The following telegrams were received last night respecting the conditions of the bar harbours:—Clarence heads, 17ft 9in, tide 5ft 3in, crossing 13ft, tide 2ft 3in; Sooth-west Rocks, 11ft; Camden Haven, 7ft 3in; ...

    Article : 59 words
  68. SUICIDE EPIDEMIC.

    There is a question whether we can trace definite scientific connection between hot weather and the number of deaths by suicide in a community, in all countries there are ...

    Article : 119 words
  69. TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

    POINT ARCHER.—Passed: Jan. 17, Zamora, s, bound to Newcastle. TOWNSVILLE (1370 miles).—Dep: Jan. 18, Buninyong, s, for Sydney. ...

    Article : 1,549 words
  70. THE HOUGOMONT FROM LIVERPOOL.

    After an uneventful passage of 110 days from Liverpool with a cargo of general merchandise, the four-masted barque Hougom[?] arrived at Sydney on Saturday, and anchored in Athel Right. Captain M'Millan ...

    Article : 98 words
  71. Advertising

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    Advertising : 39 words
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