In the total absence of anything of local political importance we are enabled to take the greater interest in the doings of our Premier, Sir Henry Parkes, in his holiday tour through America and Europe. Our readers will ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 wordsA meeting of the parishioners of SS. Simon and Jude's was held on February 14, in the church, for the purpose of considering the question of a separation of that church from St. David's parish and making it a separate incumbency. ...
Article : 463 wordsThe voting on the question of local option, so far as it affected the different wards in the municipality of Sydney, took place on Wednesday, February 15th. With the exception of a slight stir in ...
Article : 347 wordsOn the 17th instant the Victorian Ministers (Messrs. Bent and Graves) met the Minister for Works (the Hon. John Lackay) to discuss the conditions upon which the railway systems of the two colonies are to be connected. It ...
Article : 377 wordsMR. HENRY PRINCE.—Mr. Henry Prince, of the firm of Prince, Ogg, and Co., merchants, died on February 15. Mr. Prince had been unwell for some time, though not so ill as to cause any alarm to his family or friends; but his ...
Article : 583 wordsSince our last summary nothing of importance has occurred as far as music is concerned, and it is not likely that until Easter there will be anything very interesting to chronicle. Dr. Sullivan's musical drama, "The Martyr of ...
Article : 457 wordsSome doubt has been expressed, it appears, as to whether it would be necessary for steamers and ships coming on to this port, after touching at the other colonies, and having been there quarantined on account of smallpox, to undergo ...
Article : 3,212 wordsDry, warm weather has followed the rainfall, and again summer is in full force. There are several districts which have received no rains since the opening of the year. Of these we may mention Wilcannia, Wentworth, ...
Article : 350 wordsThe twenty-eighth Intercolonial cricket match was this year decided on the Association Ground, Sydney, and was one of the most extraordinary over recorded in cricketing annals. It was commenced on Friday, the 10th February. ...
Article : 2,454 wordsA horrible tragedy took place at Morpoth during the early morning of February 16. A man named Charles Grimley, residing at East Maitland, went to the house of a girl named Ann Pettit about 3 o'clock, and fired two shots at her while ...
Article : 553 wordsAt the Central Criminal Court, on February 16, before his Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer, William Howson, a sailon belonging to the barque Manhegan, was charged with having, on the 3rd January last, at Newcastle, feloniously, ...
Article : 649 wordsThe great cricket match between Shaw's English eleven and the team representing this colony and Victoria, was commenced on February 17 on the Association Ground, Moore Park. The Englishmen won the toss, and elected to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 23 Feb 1882, Page 9
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