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  2. NEW YEAR'S EVE.

    In a city that has a population, including the suburbs, of nearly half a million, the circumstance that the streets were crowded does not count for much. However, the fact remains that the passing of ...

    Article : 515 words
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    Advertising : 54 words
  4. SEAMEN'S WAGES.

    The conference between the representatives of the Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation and the Federated Seamen's Union as to the proposed reduction of seamen's wages came to an end to-day at the ...

    Article : 1,148 words
  5. NEW YEAR'S DAY

    The new year will be ushered in to-day with rejoicings throughout the metropolis and the State generally. Every town, village, and hamlet, large or small, will celebrate in its own particular way the ...

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  6. VICTORIA.

    The work of the election of Bishops for the new dioceses of Bendigo and Wangaratta was carried out this afternoon by the committee appointed for that purpose. ...

    Article : 69 words
  7. COUNTRY NEWS.

    The year just closed for Broken Hill has been the most fruitful in fatalities of any for many years. The mines claimed 24 victims, zinc works one. Other statistics are: Sudden deaths, suicides, and child ...

    Article : 207 words
  8. CELEBRATION IN NEWCASTLE.

    Dense crowds paraded the main thoroughfares tonight, and the new year was ushered in with the cutsomary ringing of bells, whistling of steamships and railway locomotives, and other less harmonious ...

    Article : 143 words
  9. INTER-STATE CRICKET.

    The one great feature of the inter-state contest just concluded was the superiority of the bowling over the batting. The public is so much accustomed to hear of proposals to reduce the extent of ...

    Article : 800 words
  10. REVENUE RETURNS.

    The revenue returns for the first half of the financial year were issued to-inght. They are of a very satisfactory nature. The Victorian Commonwealth receipts amount to £1,628,494, showing an increase ...

    Article : 243 words
  11. INTERNATIONAL CRICKET.

    The second great trial between England and Australia will commence on the Melbourne Cricket Ground to-morrow at noon. This will be the fifty-eighth meeting between the two countries. The ...

    Article : 1,147 words
  12. A RAILWAY EMPLOYEE KILLED.

    A fatal accident happened at Orange railway station this afternoon. A man named William Bone, engaged as a fuelman, was riding on the step of an engine past the doors of the engine shed, when a ...

    Article : 76 words
  13. FATALITIES AND ACCIDENTS.

    A number of young men were skylarking on the banks of the River Murray yesterday evening, when two of them, King and M'Lennan, agreed to have a foot race. They had got on the mark, when one ...

    Article : 451 words
  14. PROPOSED WORKMEN'S SETTLEMENT.

    The Minister of Lands, after inspecting many sites in the vicinity of the city, has practically closed negotiations for the purchase of about 300 acres of land near Brunswick, to be set apart for the ...

    Article : 208 words
  15. THE EVOLUTION OF THE YEAR.

    All European countries have borrowed their calendar from that of the Romans. March was the beginning of the ancient Roman year. In the reign of Numa two months were added to the year, ...

    Article : 650 words
  16. ST. JAMES' BUILDING SOCIETY.

    A proposal by the directors for the realisation of the assets of St. James' Building Society was submitted this afternoon to a special meeting of depositors. Mr. Frederick Williams, the chairman, explained that in ...

    Article : 178 words
  17. PARRAMATTA DISTRICT.

    During the past few days specialists from the Public Health Department have been investigating a suspicious case at the Rookwood Asylum, and as a result of these investigations the case was pronounced ...

    Article : 168 words
  18. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY'S PURCHASE.

    A recommendation for the purchase of the business and assets of the United Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Company was submitted to-day for approval to a special general meeting of shareholders ...

    Article : 55 words
  19. BATHURST MUSICAL AND LITERARY COMPETITIONS.

    The musical and literary competitions commenced to-day, and notwithstanding the terrible heat and duststorm that prevailed there was a good attendance. The programme opened with a euphonium ...

    Article : 115 words
  20. NEW YEAR'S EVE.

    The new year was ushered in in time-honoured fashion. Church bells were rung, guns were fired. and hearty interchanges of greetings were given among the crowds who moved about the streets. ...

    Article : 187 words
  21. SCHOOL PROMOTIONS.

    Mr. W. M. Kennedy, of the Armidale Public School, and formerly headmaster of the Carlingford Public School, has been promoted to the position of headmaster of the Parramatta South Superior ...

    Article : 46 words
  22. SOUTH COAST.

    Nowra Fire Brigade, under Captain Marriott, had its annual torchlight procession to-night, headed by the Milton Brass Band. PAMBULA, Tuesday. ...

    Article : 72 words
  23. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHIPPING.

    Arrivals: West Australian, barque; Herbert Fuller, [?]hip; Severn, ship; Bungaree, s.; Paparoa, s.; Nor[?]egia, ship. Departures: Eurasia, for Sydney; Rostock, s., for ...

    Article : 134 words
  24. QUEENSLAND.

    On the arrival of the train from Brisbane at Nobby, near Clifton, last night a passenger informed the guard that a man had fallen from the train about four miles back. The man was found unconscious ...

    Article : 99 words
  25. NEWCASTLE.

    A record in towage on the Australian coast was established to-day by the steam tugboat Advance, the latest addition to the fleet of Messrs. Fenwick and Co., of Sydney and Newcastle. The Advance ...

    Article : 541 words
  26. THE ABERDEEN LINE.

    Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, report:— The Aberdeen left Sydney November 22, Melbourne November 27, arrived at Natal December 21, is due at London January 18. ...

    Article : 145 words
  27. THE CROWDS IN THE CITY.

    At an early hour last evening multitudes of people began to flock into the city. In the afternoon the streets were crowded; but in the evening they were packed. People came by train from the railway ...

    Article : 342 words
  28. THE WATER SUPPLY AT NORTH SYDNEY

    The fight against the water famine in the northern suburbs which the authorities of the Water and Sewerage Board have been waging during the last few days may now be said to have come to a close. ...

    Article : 174 words
  29. THE PREMIER ON THE FEDERAL CABINET.

    During the course of an address at Townsville today the Premier dealt rigorously with the Federal Cabinet, which he described as a band of lawyers with not one practical man amongst them. ...

    Article : 45 words
  30. WHITE STAR LINE.

    Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, agents, note:— The Afric, to leave Liverpool January 16, is due at Capetown on February 6. Adelaide on February 25, Melbourne on February 8, Sydney on March 5. ...

    Article : 140 words
  31. PRESENTATIONS TO MR. R. T. SCOTT.

    Mr. Robert T. Scott, who is at present in Brisbane, received several presentations to-day from the Post and Telegraph Department of ueensland. He received general congratulations on his recent ...

    Article : 276 words
  32. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The approximate revenue for the quarter ended December 31 is £556,028, and for six months £1,085,752, showing an apparent decrease for the half-year of £224,193. Of the latter amount £139,775 ...

    Article : 195 words
  33. RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.

    The railway arrangements for to-day give the public ample facilities for making a short stay in the highland and tourist districts. The Commissioners have arranged for cheap excursion trains to leave ...

    Article : 483 words
  34. THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW.

    The schedule of prizes issued by the Royal Agricultural Society for its next show contains several new features, which will be of interest to exhibitors. Taking the sections in the order in which they appear ...

    Article : 413 words
  35. BAR HARBOURS.

    The following reports were yesterday received by the Department of Navigation as to the bars along the coast:— Moruya.—Seven feet six inches on inner bar at high water. ...

    Article : 90 words
  36. FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. WM. G. SMITH.

    Mr. William Godfrey Smith, who has represented Messrs. Petersen, Boesen, and Co., York-street, on the northern rivers and the western line for several years past, died at his residence, Wood-street. ...

    Article : 266 words
  37. WATCHNIGHT SERVICES.

    [?] [?]hnight services were held [?] nearly all the [?] and suburban churches. In S[?] Andrew's Cathe[?]l, where the Archbishop preached, there was a [?]ge congregation. The service began with a ...

    Article : 526 words
  38. THE ST. GEORGE.

    The steamer St. George, which may shortly be expected at Sydney, arrived in Hobson's Bay from New York, via Adelaide, on Sunday afternoon. She left on October 28, and encountered a series of strong easterly gales during the ...

    Article : 92 words
  39. ALLEGED CRUELTY TO BOER WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

    Sir,—Never having myself beheved in the truth of the persistent rumours and reports in the foreign press, and even in our own, of the cruel and [?]arbaric treatment of Boer women and children in the ...

    Article : 404 words
  40. TASMANIA.

    A shocking accident, by which a young man named Otto Darko was instantly killed, occurred this afternoon at Lyall Reduction Works. Darko was engaged in getting the aerial ropeway into working order a ...

    Article : 103 words
  41. FATALITIES AND CASUALTIES.

    The circumstances connected with the death of a woman named Sarah Neilly, 78, who was found dead in a bedroom at her residence in Stanley-street, formed the subject of an inquest before the City ...

    Article : 59 words
  42. METHODIST UNION.

    The organic union of the Methodist Churches of the continent was consummated to-night. The services of the Methodist churches of the district were of an especially interesting character, as with the ...

    Article : 190 words
  43. ACCIDENT ON A STEAMER.

    A sailor named Albert Ditchfield, 44, was assisting to lower a gangway on the steamer Elingamite yesterday when it slipped and [?]ll upon his left leg, fracturing it. Ditchfield was removed by the Civil ...

    Article : 51 words
  44. LATE MINING.

    The diamond drill is still in active service at the 350ft. level of the Boomerang North-Western Associated, and the management are confident that boring operations will be successful. ...

    Article : 215 words
  45. THE WOOL SALES.

    There was a record wool sale in Hobart to-day, the lots sold [?]ning into four figures. Some Yorkshire and Continental buyers were present, thus filling up the recess between the Adelaide, the ...

    Article : 165 words
  46. FALL FROM A TRAIN.

    Yesterday, about 11.45 a.m., a woman named Alice Gately, a resident of Elizabeth-street, Sydney, fell from a train on the down fast side of the railway platform at Burwood. Upon being picked up it was ...

    Article : 193 words
  47. CALENDARS FOR 1902.

    W. E. Smith, Limited, of Bridge-street, have sent us a selection from their well-designed stock of calendars for 1902. These include a serviceable date flap in conjunction with an office blotting pad: a ...

    Article : 160 words
  48. POSTAL AND TELEGRAPHIC [?]NGEMENTS.

    The following arrangements will be observed in the Postal and Telegraphic Departments:—At the General Post Office the delivery office will be open from 8.45 to 10 a.m., but access to the private ...

    Article : 303 words
  49. SMART DISCHARGE OF A BARQUE.

    A smart piece of work has just been performed in connection with the barque Nellie Troop, now in Port Hunter. The vessel arrived here from New York, via Sydney, on December 24, and, according ...

    Article : 111 words
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