"The Old Guard" has now been on active service for some years, as the original work, "Les Voltigeurs de la 32-ieme," was brought out at the Renaissance, Paris, in 1880. The life of the opera in England, ...
Article : 813 wordsAt a meeting of representatives from the various miners' lodges and the Progress Committees, held at Woonona last evening, five additional delegates were appointed to act in conjunction with the Wollongong ...
Article : 227 wordsA large body of coalminers on strike, estimated to number fully 20,000 men, is marching to the Merthyr and Treharris collieries, in South Wales, to compel the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe match between the Australian Eleven and Gloucestershire was resumed at Cheltenham to-day. The weather was hot and sultry. The ...
Article : 259 wordsMr. Gladstone states that it is the intention of the Government to apply the closure to the Home Rule Bill on the 25th instant. ...
Article : 260 wordsMR. GLADSTONE states that it is the intention of the Government to apply the closure to the discussion on the Home Rule Bill on the 25th instant. ...
Article : 7,369 wordsAnother shipment of gold to the amount of £860,000 has been despatched to New York. Gold is a drug in the market in Chicago, ...
Article : 60 wordsThere have been 460 financial and mercantile failures in America within the past week, as against 195 last year. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe magistrates in the disturbed colliery districts in Wales are ready night and day to read the Riot Act if deemed necessary. The ...
Article : 112 wordsFour banks in Des Moines, State of Iowa, have suspended payment. ...
Article : 17 wordsLast Sterling Concert: Town Hall, 8 p.m. Political Meeting: Town Hall, Newtown, 8 p.m. Boys' Brigade Annual Meeting: 24 Campbell-Street, Haymarket, 8 p.m. ...
Article : 119 wordsMr. James Hull addressed a meeting of electors in the interests of labour to-night from the Club House balcony. Mr. F. Woods was chairman, and between 300 and 400 persons were present. The address was ...
Article : 119 wordsThirty-three per cent, of the cotton mills in America are closed on account of the depression. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe condition of financial affairs in America has a depressing effect on the wheat market, despite the unfavourable reports concerning the crops and the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe annual general meeting of the Bega District Farmers' Co-operative Company was held this afternoon, 30 members being present. The report and balance-sheet, which were satisfactory, were adopted. ...
Article : 88 wordsA large party of ladies and gentlement went down the bay in the Government steamer Lucinda on Saturday to visit the French cable steamer Francois Arago, and were entertained at luncheon ...
Article : 252 wordsIt is reported that a serious conflict has taken place between the strikers and the working miners at Dowlais, in Glamorganshire. Ten thousand miners are said to ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Finance Committee of the United States Senate has reported favourably upon the bill for the repeal of the Sherman Act. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Z. Lane, manager of Block 14, to-day received a communication from his directors to the effect that the agreement now in force will terminate at the end of next month. This means that Mr. ...
Article : 125 wordsAll the miners employed at the collieries in the counties of Fife and Kinross, Scotland, have struck work. The Scotch ironmasters intend to shut ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Gladstone's new form of closure excludes the putting of any amendment except such as may be expressly sanctioned by the Government. ...
Article : 67 wordsFurther particulars of the melee which took place at Nimes, in the south of France, between French workmen and Italian labourers, indicate that the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Observer says that the Australian cricketers have scarcely succeeded in convincing experts that they are better than the ordinary second-class county elevens. ...
Article : 58 wordsThis morning great excitement was caused by the discovery of the clothes of Mr. John Dickson on the centre of the Edward's River Bridge. It appears that he had been suffering from melancholia ...
Article : 127 wordsLady Duff hold an "At Home" at Government House on Saturday evening. The choice of Saturday for a vice-regal entertainment was an innovation, but, judging from the present instance, one that was ...
Article : 737 wordsMr. George Darrell's matured experience has enabled him to make a very considerable improvement, both in manner and matter, upon his earlier efforts, and his literary ability aud constructive skill are ...
Article : 969 wordsThe Australians will probably play a match against the South of England at the Crystal Palace, and also a match against Mr. Aubrey Harcourt's Eleven at ...
Article : 41 wordsThe motion for the third reading of the Home Rule Bill will be taken in the House of Commons on the 28th instant. Another great fight is expected. ...
Article : 34 wordsAs the outcome of the attack by a number of French workmen on a body of Italian labourers at Nimes, in the south of France, a hostile demonstration was made ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Frank Cotton, M.L.A. for Newtown, addressed a meeting in the Town Hall on Thursday night upon the land tax question. Mr. Robert Jones, M.L.A., presided. Mr. Cotton placed before his audience ...
Article : 494 wordsThe Orient Company's R.M.S. Orotava, Linklater commander, arrived from Colombo at 1 p.m. The following are the passengers:- ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsColonol T. Waring, Conservative member for the North Division of Down, will present to her Majesty the Queen the resolutions passed by the Orange Lodge ...
Article : 46 wordsOwing to the great heat, the military manoeuvres at Aldershot have been stopped. AUG. 19. ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is believed that the result of the general elections in France, which take place on the 20th instant, will not disturb the existing Ministry. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe military manoeuvres which were about to take place in Belgium have been countermanded in consequence of a prevailing epidemic of dysentery and other ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Mercantile Bank case was advanced another stage yesterday, when criminal summonses asked for by Mr. Charles Cox, a depositor and creditor of the bank, and which were refused by ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Government has despatched an officer with a boring party to Coolgardie, and is taking steps towards coping with the water difficulty on the Eastern goldfields. ...
Article : 182 wordsAn explosion of firedamp has taken place in a colliery at Dortmund, in Westphalia, Prussia. Fifty miners were killed. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe hot weather now prevailing helps the harvesting operations in Britain. The grain is excellent. ...
Article : 26 wordsSir Edward Braddon, Agent-General for Tasmania, will sail for Australia, via India, by the R.M.S. Himalaya on 6th October. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe wheat harvest in France is finished. The total yield is estimated at 35,000,000 quarters. ...
Article : 22 wordsAlderman William Webster delivered an address in the Excelsior Hall, Marrickville, on Saturday evening, on the subject of "Parkes, Dibbs, and Reid versus Grey, Ballance, and Seddon, or a Glimpse into ...
Article : 499 wordsThe intense heat has ripened the grapes in the Medoc and Bordeaux districts in four days. The vintage in France is unusually large. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Countess of Stolzberg has committed suicide in New York. The deed was the result of a love affair. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Port Darwin authorities have notified the steamship companies that the strictest interpretation of the Chinese Restriction Act will in future be carried out. This being so, no steamer can enter ...
Article : 177 wordsThe flood prevention scheme is assuming a definite shape. Messrs. S. Verge and A. Cochrane, who practically own entire Central Kempsey, have expressed their willingness to give £500 each in aid of ...
Article : 233 wordsThe first wool of the present season passed through on Friday. It was from Currawillinghi. Shearing is not yet general. A nice steady rain seems setting in, and will do ...
Article : 284 wordsThe Manchester Ship Canal is to be opened in January. This great engineering scheme, which is to convert the cotton metropolis, Manchester, into a seaport, was ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Government of Manitoba, in Canada, estimates the crop of cereals in that province at 40,000,000 bushels, including 21,000,000 bushels of wheat. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe report on the fruit which arrived from Adelaide per the R.M.S. Cuzco, and was placed in the Imperial Institute, is to the effect that the apples are useless. ...
Article : 69 words"The World Against Him" was presented at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night for the first time in Sydney, and proved a source of attraction to a very good house. The drama, which is by George ...
Article : 837 wordsMr. James Newton, M.L.A., addressed his constituents last night. There was a large attendance, and he was well received. The Mayor occupied the chair. Mr. Newton dealt with a number of matters, ...
Article : 164 wordsThe barque Achievement, which went ashore at Worser Bay, Wellington Heads, was successfully floated off yesterday. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Geelong hay which arrived by the R.M.S. Britannia is valued at from 70s to 90s per ton. Brokers are asking over 100s per ton. ...
Article : 32 wordsSteve O'Donnell, of Sydney, has defeated Callenach in four rounds at Coney Island, New York, in a match for a purse of 2500dol. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 21 Aug 1893, Page 5
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