The overland mails between Melbourne and Adelaide will be conveyed via Dimboola and Border Town, on and after Monday next, instead of via Casterton and Narracoorte, by utilising the intercolonial railway ...
Article : 240 wordsThe appointment of a successor to Dr. Moorhouse, as Bishop of Melbourne, has been deferred for a fortnight. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe proposal to form a metropolitan board of works has been revived, and the principle was affirmed at a conference of the municipal representatives to-day. The commission of the Presbyterian Assembly ...
Article : 509 wordsTHE principal portion of the sitting of the Legislative Council yesterday was devoted to a further consideration of the Divorce Extensio Bill, and the first clause was dealt with by substituting amended grounds of divorce for ...
Article : 5,758 wordsAt a meeting of the Executive Council to-day, the resignation of Mr. Justice Molesworth was officially accepted, and Mr. Webb, Q.C., was formally appointed to the vacant Puisno Judgeship of the Supreme Court. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 112 wordsThe International Conference which was about to be held in Paris, to discuss the subject of the protection of submarine cables in time of war, has been postponed until the 12th ...
Article : 59 wordsThe collections at the Albury Custom-house for the month of April amounted to £2460, being about £350 above the average of the previous 12 months. One of the principal items of new revenue at this port is the duty on ...
Article : 1,299 wordsTHE departure of the British-India Company's R.M.S. Merkara for Queensland ports has been delayed in consequence of an accident to the machinery, the piston rod having ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Newcastle second grand Sheffield Handicap was commenced to-day. The weather was all that could be desired, and the tracks were in good order. Upwards of 2000 spectators were present, a large number of whom patronised the ...
Article : 221 wordsThe body of the late Sir Euke Samuel Leeke, M.L.C., of West Australia, who recently died in London, will be conveyed to Perth. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Premier to-day received a cablegram from the Acting Agent-General, Sir Andrew Clarke, giving information with regard to the Anglo-German Western Pacific Convention. The Convention ...
Article : 170 wordsLater intelligence from Chicago with regard to the Socialist riots in that city states that 12 policoemen have been killed in the encounters between the police, and the rioters, ...
Article : 44 wordsJ. Pope of Sydney, who is at present a student in Edinburgh, has been appointed an emergency man in the Australian Cricket Eleven. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe second lawn tennis match between the above colonie was commenced on Thursday on the Association Ground, Moore Park, at 11 o'clock a.m. Owing to the rain which fell the previous night the ground was very heavy, and ...
Article : 650 wordsMr. R. C. Baker, who has taken an active part in connection with the new Federal Postal Service, leaves to-morrow on his return to South Australia. Tenders for the service ...
Article : 60 wordsThe following gentlemen have been elected to represent Victoria in the combined Australian rifle team who will take part in the shooting competitions at Wimbledon:—Lieutenant-Colonel Sleep, Captain ...
Article : 62 wordsThe London Chartered Bank of Australia has declared a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, and carried forward and placed to the reserve £9000. ...
Article : 49 wordsAn official inquiry into the railway accident which occurred on the South-Western line yesterday, was held to-day. Eight waggons were hurled over the bridge and smashed, and their contents, consisting of ...
Article : 296 wordsA miraculous escape from death occurred on Tuesday upon the main road from Kempsey to Armidale. Some timber-carters were driving their bullock teams along the cutting which runs through Mr. O'Sullivan's Pee Dee ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Socialist riots have now extended to the town of Milwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin, where the disturbances were of so serious a nature that the Militia were called ...
Article : 49 wordsCholera has broken out in the towns of Venice and Vicenza, where already several cases have been reported. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe directors of the Bank of England to-day raised the bank rate of discount to 3 per cent. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Joseph Chamberlain has expressed his willingness to support the second reading of the bill embodying Mr. Gladstone's Irish scheme on condition that the Government ...
Article : 108 wordsAt the Woods Flat rush, last night, No. 1 prospector's claim bottomed at 35 feet. The prospects, from three feet of wash gave five grains to the dish. A deal of pegging-out is going on in the neighborhood. It appears that the ...
Article : 452 wordsThe General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church last night strongly opposed the annexation of the New Hebrides by the French and resolved that a deputation, comprising the Moderator, the Revs. Angus, Paton, ...
Article : 408 wordsA meeting of the Pyrmont Rangers' Football Club, playing under the Southern British Association rules, was held at the Caledonian Hotel, Pyrmont, on Wednesday evening. After various correspondence being road by the secretary, ...
Article : 94 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has accepted from Mr. Lindt, photographer; of Melbourne, a collection of photographs illus trating the scenery and native life in New Guinea. ...
Article : 50 wordsOn Saturday last 36 birds, belonging to several members of the Sydney Homing Pigeon Society, were despatched to Douglas Park for the purpose of taking part on a race from that place for prizes presented by the ...
Article : 135 wordsA meeting of stockowners was held at Scott's Hotel this afternoon with reference to the importation of stock from the neighbouring colonies. Mr. T. F. Cumming, M.L.C., who was in the chair, said that the ...
Article : 337 wordsMany comments have been made upon the inaugural ode written by Lord Tennyson for the opening of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. The following lines; cORtained in ...
Article : 153 wordsAt a recent meeting of the committee of the Sydney Rifle Club, a handicap committee was appointed for the year ending March 31, 1887, viz., Messrs. John Fenn, John West, and J. J. Slade. The following dates have been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 359 wordsAllier, 4 guns, 1800 tons, Captain Lorimer, from Noumea, 30th ult. MAY 7. Konoowarra (s.), 1273 tons, Captain James Tozer, from ...
Article : 153 wordsA very disturbed state of affairs prevails at Mandalay, where another immense fire has occurred, resulting in the destruction of many of the houses which had escaped the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe inquiry into the loss of the steamer Esk will be held at Hobart, for the convenience of witnesses. The vessel as she lies on the reef has been sold at auction in Launceston for £80. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 wordsA collision occarred at South Port yesterday afternoon between the small steamers Natone and President. Both were full of passengers. It appears that each was trying to reach the jetty, when the Natone ran ...
Article : 82 wordsThe steamer Albany, which has arrived at Cossack, brings news that one man has returned to Derby from the Kimberley goldfields with 80oz. of gold. Up to the date of the Albany's departure 600oz. had been ...
Article : 76 wordsSir,—In my letter in to-day's Herlad I omitted finishing the sentence referring to the "emotional service and eloquent sermon." What I meant to imply was that the congregation should not have been ashed to sign the petition ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Great Powers have presented a further note to the Greek Government, demanding more precise assurances for the disarming of the Greek forces. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 7 May 1886, Page 8
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