The Orient Company's steamship John Elder arrived yesterday morning from London with dates to Jnly 16. The following are her passengers for Sydney:—Mr. ...
Article : 301 wordsUlysses Grant, late President of the United States, has intimated his willingness to accept the chairmanship of a company which it is proposed to form, to construct a canal from ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the Assembly to-night Mr. Berry stated that it was intended that a portion of Ways and Means should he derived from stamp duties, and the Government would be prepared to raise £70,000 from stamp duties. ...
Article : 330 wordsALTHOUGH the company which was being formed a short time back, under the auspices of Baron Lesseps, to construct a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, did not succeed in obtaining the requisite capital, ...
Article : 3,790 wordsThe second anniversary of the Kiama branch of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society was celebrated last night by a concert in the Temperance Hall, at which 500 persons were present. ...
Article : 32 words380,000 sovereigns have been withdrawn, from the Bank of England for North America ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. James, hydraulic engineer, has been here for the last two months to form a water supply for the town, and he has nearly completed the plans. IIe estimates that a daily supply of 40 gallons per head for about 5000 ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Haytian revolution, which broke out two months ago, is suppressed. ...
Article : 18 wordsA successor to Count Andrassy, as Prime Minister of Austria, has not yet been appointed. Count Andrassy is now visiting Prince ...
Article : 59 wordsIt is understood that Lord Normanby will be present at the opening of the Sydney Exhibition. He will be joined here by Governor Weld, from Tasmania, and proceed overland. Sir William Jervois will also be ...
Article : 653 wordsThe Australian July Suez mails via Brindisi were delivered to-day. The mails by the Orient steamship Aconcagua were also delivered to-day. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Committee of the House of Commons finally passed the Army Discipline Bill last night, after sitting twenty-one days. This protracted debate was caused partly by the persistent obstruction of the ...
Article : 2,118 wordsThe Lambton miners were locked out to-day, and a notice posted up that they will be paid off to-morrow. The company has let a contract for the building of 150 houses on their land to accommodate fresh hands, ...
Article : 102 wordsThe train from Newcastle was nearly an hour late in arriving here to-day in consequence of the increased traffic resulting from the Singleton Show. ...
Article : 35 wordsSir John Robertson has consented to lay the foundation-stone of the Gunnedah Mechanics' Institute at the time of the opening of the railway line. The contractor for the building has commenced work. ...
Article : 131 wordsThe weather has been exceedingly wet during the last two days, and nearly five inches of rain fell in Brisbane last night and yesterday. The creeks and rivers are flooded in all directions. A heavy wind is ...
Article : 111 wordsThe prospecting claim, Melbourne Reef (Reed and Massie) crushed 28 tons of quartz at the Rainbow reachine, yielding five ounces per ton. The reef is about a foot in widtb. Burley's machine is still ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 199 wordsAt a public meeting hold in the Court-house last night, the Police Magistrate presiding, the following persons were appointed trustees for the expenditure of the grant for Market-square, viz., Messrs. D. Hurley, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe services in connection with the opening of the new Church of England concluded yesterday. The Bishop of Bathurst preached on Monday, and Canon Smith preached on Tuesday and Wednesday. The latter ...
Article : 260 wordsIt has been raining heavily since yesterday, and the river is rising fast. NEWCASTLE, THURSDAY. The weather is wet, and the rain promises to continue. ...
Article : 487 wordsQuay, a brewer of Mount Barker, fell into a vat of nearly scalding water, and scalded his legs. He caught hold of a beam and saved his body. The warm weather has brought the vines and figs ...
Article : 120 wordsNearly 3000 acres have been selected this week, chiefly in the Bland district. ...
Article : 16 wordsAny rush to the reported now discovery of gold, six miles from Forbes, would be premature. The prospectors are in the neighbourhood of the Queen's lead, prospected some 16 years ago. They have got ...
Article : 94 wordsA large and important meeting of farmers was held at the courthouse last night to consider the subject of railway extension to Forbes. The Mayor was in the chair, and the meeting was addressed by Messrs. Bodel, ...
Article : 302 wordsAn explosion took place to-day in the big tunnel on the Warwick and Stanthorpe railway, owing to the use of steel tamping rods. One man was killed, and seven seriously injured. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe school at Burrowa Flats, formerly a Provisional, but recently established as a Public school, was, until a few weeks ago, under a Catholic female teacher. The parents of the majority of the ...
Article : 119 wordsA rumour from Sandhurst, contained in a letter from the Kelly country, states that on the 11th instant a man professing to be Byrne rode up to the house of a farmer named Flack, at Strathmorton, and said the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe bazaar in aid of the fund for the enlargement of St. Clement's Church of England has realized over £300. The Rev. Father O'Keefe, on Sunday next, in St. ...
Article : 43 wordsGeneral dissatisfaction is expressed in Shoalhaven at the manner in which the efforts of the local committee to represent the produce of this district at the International have been crippled by Mr. Morris's ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 29 Aug 1879, Page 5
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