For the method adopted by the people of Sydney and suburbs of marking the closing day of the year namely, by rendering the streets a vast promenade, the weather could not have been more ...
Article : 350 wordsIn reply to a largely-signed petition from the North Coast Anti-Alieu League, recently presented to the chairman of the Colonial Sugar Company, asking the company to discountenance the ...
Article : 132 wordsAt a meeting of the Executive Council this afternoon an order was passed proclaiming Heathco[?]e, where phylloxera was recently discovered, to be a vine-diseased district under the Vine Diseases ...
Article : 92 wordsThe mere fact that we celebrate the close of the Old Year and the beginning of the New as an occasion for joyous festivity is, I take it, a sign of the desperate optimism and buoyant ...
Article : 1,436 wordsThe Indian Congress has declared that the famine is due to poverty, which is the result of excessive taxation and overassessment for many years. It has also ...
Article : 74 wordsThe bubonic plague is making terrible ravages in Bombay. In one street 20 funerals took place in 20 minutes. ...
Article : 66 wordsIn former years as a general rule there was a "watch-night" service held at St. James' Church on New Year's Eve, when a collection was taken up in furtherance of the objects of the Melanesian ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Right Hon. Faudel-Phillips, Lord Mayor of London, has refused to open an Indian Famine Relief Fund until he is authorised to do so by the Government. ...
Article : 33 wordsA conference was held at the Town Hall yesterday between the trustees of the common and about a dozen of the neighbouring landowners to devise means for exterminating the rabbits, which have ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Customs collections in Brisbane for the quarter ended to-day amounted to —176,321, being a decrease of £113 as compared with the previous corresponding period. The collections for ...
Article : 196 wordsAt the "watch-night" service held at St. Philip's Arch[?]con Langley preached. The sermon was based on 1st Samuel, 7th chap., v. 12; "Hitherto bath the Lord helped us." Reference ...
Article : 97 wordsThe members of the Stock Exchanges of Berlin and Stettin have abandoned the practice of attending meetings of the Exchanges, as a protest against the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe trial at Sofia in connection with the murder of M. Stambouloff in July, 1895, has resulted in two of the accused, Tafekschieff and Atzow, being found ...
Article : 63 wordsYesterday evening a deputation consisting of the Mayor, the aldermen, and the committee of the agricultural society waited upon Hon. J. Cook (Postmaster-General) and Hon. J. H. Young ...
Article : 153 wordsAt the service held last night at Scots Church appropriate hymns were sung. The Rev. W. M. Dill Macky preached from the 19th Psalm, 1st verse, "Lord, Thou [?] been our dwelling-place from all ...
Article : 285 wordsThe New Year crowd in Pitt-street last night was very dense, especially between King and Market streets 'Buses found difficulty in passing between these two points, and at the intersection of King and ...
Article : 171 wordsReports have been received from Bombay stating that trouble is brewing between the Mohmands and the Khangawagai people, on the British side ...
Article : 53 wordsThe southern coal trade during the year which [?] to-day has surpassed all previous records. The official figures are not yet available, but it is known that the quantity exported represents a very ...
Article : 55 wordsGreat Britain has asked Bulgaria to conclude the parleyings for a commercial [?]reaty between the two countries by the [?]3th January next. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe boat by which two men deserted from the ship Cormorant at Albany on Sunday last was picked up at Rabbit Island. The men are still missing. ...
Article : 71 wordsThis morning a tramp, apparently about 50 years old dropped dead suddenly on the road near Mullet Creek. He was carried immediately to the Horse Hotel. When the police examined the swag and the ...
Article : 2,046 wordsThe members of the Irish party in the House of Commons intend to move an amendment on the Address-in-Reply at the opening of the approaching session of ...
Article : 42 wordsGeorge-street was completely given over to revelry. Many people went t[?]ther in the expectation of seeing exhibitions of inanity, and they were not disappointed. The central section of this ...
Article : 310 wordsA drilling vessel which was engaged in deepening the Devonport dockyard has met with an extraordinary accident. A gale was blowing, and after a charge of ...
Article : 84 wordsTwo open-air services were held last night in George-street in connection with the watchnight service of the Bathurst-street Baptist Church. Both were addressed by the Rev. F. E. Harry, pastor of ...
Article : 138 wordsThe consent of all the Premiers has now been obtained to the holding of the conference in Hobart on the 2nd February. ...
Article : 26 wordsPleasure-seekers cannot complain of the want of variety in the character of the attractions offered for to-day's holiday or of the quality of the programmes to be submitted. ...
Article : 1,052 wordsDisastrous bush fires are raging in the Wellington Province in the Masterton district. About 20 residences of small settlers and several sawmills have been destroyed. A number of ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Queen has sent a message of sympathy to the sufferers by the great bog slide in Ireland. ...
Article : 33 wordsAt the Centenary Hall there was a large congregation, fully 500 persons attending the service. The music, led by the Central Methodist Mission Choir, was appropriate to the occasion. The Rev. W. ...
Article : 92 wordsA progress report from the Cable Commission states that all arrangements have been completed, and that everything now depends on the amount of the Imperial ...
Article : 35 wordsThe marriage of Captain R. J. Strachey, of the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, with Miss Grace Norman, daughter of Sir Henry Norman, formerly Governor of ...
Article : 34 wordsA good many holiday-makers spared an hour from the merry-making and sight-seeing in the streets to attend the city organist's New Year's Eve recital. Mr. Wiegand opened with Gu[?]mant's "Grand ...
Article : 206 wordsA shipping strike of a serious character is threatened in connection with the whole of the intercolonial steamers, the engineers having made certain demands upon the owners ...
Article : 570 wordsIt would be impossible to estimate the number of people that congregated in King-street last evening. In former years George-street was regarded as the principal "happy hunting ...
Article : 221 wordsMr. Cecil Rhodos has returned to Cape[?]own. He was accorded an ovation, ...
Article : 24 wordsThe steamer Taupo arrived from the Islands today. With reference to the Swanhilda incident, inquiries made on board the steamer elicited the following facts:—On the ship being sighted she ...
Article : 553 wordsMr. J. Henniker Heaton, M.P., who recently visited Australia and who is returning to England, has arrived at Colombo. He has there stated that he is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 wordsEarly in the evening the Strand Arcade was thronged from end to end. One shop which was set apart for the sale of musical instruments did a "roaring" trade while it was possible to effect an ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Republicans at Washington propose to empower the President to appoint delegates to the next International Bimetallic Conference. ...
Article : 27 wordsNew Year's Eve in the eastern suburbs was ushered in by the usual din and noise of the blowing of trumpets and other musical instruments, which foretold the approaching festive day. The principal ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. Joseph Mitchell, who recently came to England for the purpose of forming a syndicate to undertake the manufacture of iron from the native ores of New South ...
Article : 86 wordsProceedings incidental to the ushering-in of the New Year were of a lively character in the Western suburbs, particularly in those more remote from the city. While running along in the midnight train ...
Article : 114 wordsMr. Louis Pulver has just completed a ride from Sydney to Melbourne on a tricycle. He found the Victorian roads, on the whole, better than those of New South Wales, for they were of more equal quality. ...
Article : 158 wordsThe traffic on the harbour last night was fully as heavy as that of last year. On the Norht Shore line the steamers both to and from the city were crowded till past midnight, and a similar state of things ...
Article : 71 wordsThe annual report of the North British Australasian Company, Limited, shows a profit for the year of £1493. A sum of £244 is carried forward. ...
Article : 34 wordsNews from the islands state that the native schooner Takatimu, after a voyage of four months from Raratonga and Penrhyn, has arrived. The barque Jabez, which put in leaking ...
Article : 62 wordsThis morning Sub-inspector James Smith, the officer in charge of the Narrabri police district, was found dead. A report of a shot was heard and deceased's son, who rushed into the room, found his ...
Article : 275 wordsMany thousands of people marched through while others clustered about the principal streets until midnight, which were more brilliantly illuminated up till within a few minutes of the advent of the ...
Article : 256 wordsThe R.M.S. Alameda arrived from San Francisco at 4 a.m. to-day. The following are the saloon passengers for Sydney:—Mr. Charles Audlum, Mr. J. Auer, Mr. E. R. Callan, Mrs. ...
Article : 195 wordsA telegram received from Pooncarie, on the Lower Darling, states that a magisterial inquiry has been held touching the death of William Dunlop, whose body was found by Senior-constable Beck, of ...
Article : 235 wordsThe management of Nobel's Explosives Company, Limited, has expressed its willingness to establish a cordite factory in Melbourne. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe ruined state of the town in parts is now [?] being changed. About 30 carpenters and bricklayers are busily engaged in placing the walls in plumb line, in erecting chimneys, and in restoring ...
Article : 184 wordsLyceum Theatre; "Lady Blarney." Theatre Royal: "Tommy Atkins," 8 p.m. Her Majesty's Theatre: "Sinbad the Sailor," afternoon and evening. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Western Australian Land Company has signed the contract for the sale of its railway. ...
Article : 22 wordsA strong programme of instrumental and vocal music of a national character will be performed at the Highland Society's concert at the Town Hall to-night. Misses Lottie Hyam, Bessie Fraser, ...
Article : 60 wordsThe "watch-night" service at St. Andrew's Cathedral was attended by a large congregation. The proceedings opened with the "[?] Corpus" (Stabat Mater), played by Mr. Monrague Younger, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 1 Jan 1897, Page 5
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