The races to-day were only fairly successful. In the Steeplechase there occurred a series of mishaps to everything behind Moonlight und Mr. Power's old gelding, the former of which looked the winner till he fell ...
Article : 196 wordsIn the Council this evening the Postal Bill passed through committee. The House adjourned until next Wednesday. In the Assembly the Hon. A. L. Tucker, replying to ...
Article : 783 wordsThe Admiralty disapprove of the proposal to change the armament of H.M.C.S. Cerberus, Baron Alcester (Sir F. B. Seymour) approves of the Victorian defence scheme. ...
Article : 42 wordsTHE English and Scotch Tenants Compensation Bill passed its second reading on division in the House of Commons on Wednesday. The report of Mrs. Langtry's intended visit to Australia is confirmed, ...
Article : 6,976 wordsMr. C. G. Tindale's imported blood stallion Arcesilaus, recently arrived from England, was landed here safely to-day. It is reported that an extensive robbery has taken place at ...
Article : 966 wordsMrs. Langtry visits Australia at the end of the year. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe mortality amongst the British troops in Egypt from cholera is on the increase. Up to the present 85 of the British soldiers have succumbed to the effects of the disease. ...
Article : 46 wordsA large staff of Indian doctors and hospital assistants have received instructions from the Indian Government to proceed to Egypt, in order to attend upon the sufferers ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 302 wordsIn referring to the debate on Mr. Ebenezer Ward's motion on the Pacific annexation question in the Assembly the Register says:—"While the timid policy of the Government in regard to the annexation ...
Article : 358 wordsThe jurors in the Phœnix Park murder trials and the leading officials of the Court have again been compelled to seek the protection of the police, in consequence of ...
Article : 53 wordsIt has been ascertained beyond all doubt that O'Donnell, who shot the informer Carey on boord the steamer Melrose, off the coast of South Africa, is a member of the Irish ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Messageries Maritimes steamer Peluse has been placed in quarantine at Marseilles, two of her passengers from Egypt having died on board from cholera. ...
Article : 38 wordsAnother shock of earthquake has been experienced on the island of Ischia. ...
Article : 27 wordsThere was a large attendance at Randywick yesterday morning, and a lot of good work was done. Segenhoe, who is getting bettet each day, performed the gallop of the morning, and it all goes well will be very fit for the ...
Article : 187 wordsReports are current in this city that the witness Mottley, who gave evidence against Timothy Kelly in the recent Phœnix Park murder trials, has been murdered in ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Hon. John Douglas addressed a crowded and orderly meeting of electors to-night. The Mayor of Brisbane presided. Mr. Douglas defended himself against the accusation of being a political ...
Article : 348 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, a division took place on the second reading of tho English and Scotch Tenants Compensation Bill, with the result that the bill was ...
Article : 42 wordsThe annual general meeting of members of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron was held at the club rooms, Exchange Buildings, yesterday afternoon, under the presidency of the commodore, Mr. Edward W. Knox. The ...
Article : 362 wordsIn the Assembly this evening, the Chief Secretary announced that the Commissioner of Police had ascertained definitely that the Irish agitators who arrived by the steamer Pathan had all gone to other colonies ...
Article : 462 wordsThe prisoner O'Donnell, who shot James Carey, will be sent to England within the next few days, and placed upon his trial for the crime. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 wordsThe R.M.S. Indus, from Melbourne July 3, arrived on the 21st July. The R.M.S. Assam sailed for Australia to-day. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Orient Company's s.s. Chimborazo arrived here homewards on 1st instant. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe clearing of the new track to the Dark River Goldfield is expected to be finished by next Monday. Fifteen inches of snow fell there this week. An A mending Vaccination Bill is to be brought into ...
Article : 1,276 wordsThe public are manifesting great interest in the Champion Bicycle Meeting to-morrow, on the Association Cricket Ground, and if the weather be propitious there will be one of the largest attendances that have ever assembled ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsConsiderable excitement prevails here respecting the Pathan's passengers. Full particulars about the suspected men have been obtained. The Ministry has been in deliberation as to the various modes of dealing ...
Article : 172 wordsAt a representative meeting held at Moonta to-night it was resolved to endorse the taxation policy of the Government as indicated in the Budget speech. The meeting believed the time had arrived when property ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Oriental and Victoria teams met on Saturday last in Moore Park, the result being an easy win for the Orientals by 18 points to 2. The report sent in re the match between the Balmain ...
Article : 279 wordsSir,—Umpires of the Rugby game of football are very scarce in Sydney, partly because the duties are so thankless that most lovers of the game would decline to act, and partly because comparatively few of them are thoroughly ...
Article : 197 wordsThe annual statement of the Minister for Lands, in the Assembly, showed that the increased applications for land would probably be 300 in excess of last year. He proposed to make the conditions more liberal, to ...
Article : 238 wordsThe epidomic amongst the prisoners confined on Rettnest Island still continues to rage. Several of the victims died while the Governor was on the island yesterday. ...
Article : 68 wordsA general meeting of the Exhibition Commission was held to-day at Government House. The report of the building committee as to the proposed site selected on North-terrace, and fronting King William-road, ...
Article : 168 wordsSir,—In reading over the names of the 17 players, published in your columns this morning, selected by the Southern Rugby Union committee to take part in the approaching Queensland matches, I think that Rugby men ...
Article : 182 wordsThe annual meeting of the New Zealand Shipping Company took place to-day The report and balancesheet were adopted, and a dividend of 10 per cent. was declared. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Sydney Lacrosse Club will play on their ground, beyond Mount Rennie, Moore Park, on Saturday, at 3 sharp. Our Glen Innes correspondent telegraphs that yesterday ...
Article : 113 wordsSir,—Can you or any of your readers explain the delay in the delivery of the homeward mails, as shown lately in your London cablegrams? A few days ago the following cablegrams appeared:— ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 3 Aug 1883, Page 8
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