The debentures for the Melbourne Gas Company's loan of £60,000 were issued today. The sum asked for was fully subscribed, and the allotments were made at an ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the Legislative Council, yesterday, Mr. DALLEY and Sir JOHN ROBERTSON presented, petitions from Roman Catholic colonists in various places against the Education Bill. ...
Article : 5,854 wordsIt is reported, on what is believed to be good authority, that a quarrel has arisen between the Czar and Czarevitch. The latter demands that a Constitution should be ...
Article : 64 wordsJohn Whelan has been committed for trial for the witful murder of his wife, at Copperfield, on the 4th of December. The schooner Lucy and Adelaide, which left on ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Australian mails, via Brindisi, which left Sydney on October 29th, and Melbourne on November 1st, were delivered here yesterday. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe competition for the Government bonus of £4000 for the best machine that can reap and clean wheat fit for bagging, took place to-day, on Rigg's farm, a mile on the Adelaide side of Gawler. The weather ...
Article : 221 wordsMr. Ernest Chester, agent for the receiver of the New Lambton colliery, has arrived here to manage the business of that mine, pending a settlement of the dispute between Messrs. Brown and Dibbs. An ...
Article : 119 wordsA large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the School of Arts last night in favour of the Education Bill. Mr. James Fullford was moved to the chair, and consented to occupy it not as Mayor but as a ...
Article : 174 wordsFurther details were received from Cabul to-day regarding the fighting on the 14th. The Afghans numbered no less than 30,000 men, and their attacks on the British ...
Article : 58 wordsTHE election for a member to represent the electorate of East Sydney, in the room of Mr. Alexander Stuart, who has resigned his seat in conscquence of having accopted the position of Agent-General, took place in ...
Article : 4,443 wordsThe booths, stalls, and race-books for the Hawkesbury races, to take place on the 26th and 27th December, were sold to-day. The prices were very satisfactory. A fine meeting is anticipated. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe escort leaves to-morrow, taking 958 oz. gold. The Australian Joint Stock Bank sends 773 oz. 16 dwts. 6 grs. Another crushing from the Prince Charlie stone is going through the rainbow machine, ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Entries for the City Handicap are as follows:— Crusader, Coronet, Lothair, Persephone, Clarendon, Kaffir, Young Chester, Pinafore, Rosebud (late Wild Flower), Plevna, Erin's Isle, Proserpine, Recherche, Trevellyn, ...
Article : 84 wordsThe weather is unprecedentedly cold for the season. The appearance of the crops is magnificent. A large number of passengers left by the City of Grafton to-day. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe manager of the Eelipse Company, Yalwal, lodged in the bank here to-day a 225 oz. 15 dwts. cake of gold, the result of crushing of 61 tons of stone, being an average of 8 oz. 14 dwts. per ton. The ...
Article : 65 wordsLately, a large number of sheep have been most mysteriously and feloniously shorn. About ten days ago the police received information that 74 sheep had been stolen from a settler named ...
Article : 117 wordsNumerous entries have been received for the Moss Vale Races on Boxing Day. There are eight in the Maiden Plate, eight in the Moss Vale Handicap, and twelve in the Ladies.' Purse. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsAt a public meeting held last night at the Mechanics' Institute, Mr. W. R. Blackman, J.P., in the chair, it was decided on the motion of Mr. Cassin, seconded by Mr. W. Wilton, J.P., that the Borough Council be ...
Article : 108 wordsA committee meeting of the New South Wales National Regatta was held at the Exchange Hotel, on Tuesday evening. Correspondence was read from Mr. Alexander Olliver, asking if centreboard yachts were eligible to enter ...
Article : 337 wordsA very large and enthusiastic meeting was held at Horton's Hotel, Bethungra, last night, when constable Wiles was presented with a handsome chain and medal, in recognition of the tact and bravery exhibited ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. Moriarty, Government Engineer, reached here this morning, and inspected Mr. James's plan for a water supply for the township. He approves of the plan, and expresses his opinion that the water supply ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 wordsThe Orient (s.) arrived in the bay this afternoon, and was an object of great attraction. She leaves for Sydney to-morrow. The Governor, to-day, gave his assent to the Customs ...
Article : 260 wordsSir,—I cordially endorse the remarks of your correspondent, "E.M.S.", in to-day's Herald, but I go still further, and say that for one day in the year we can afford to go without our letters, and allow the carriers that rest and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 18 Dec 1879, Page 5
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