A handicap match for a silver fever patent watch came off at Mr. Punton's Hotel, Plattsburg, on Saturday. There were eight entries for the prize, viv., J. Cunningham, Thos. Robinson, G. Conn, H. Laverick, Thos. ...
Article : 174 wordsA grand supper was held at the above hotel, Wallsend, on Friday evening last to inaugurate the opening of the hotel by Mr. Wilcox. The friends and well-wishers of that gentleman responded in a most liberal manner ...
Article : 124 wordsAll true lovers of this fine old sport will be delighted to learn than there is every prospect of another match coming off shortly for £50 aside, in West Maitland, between a well-known "upholsterer" and a "portly ...
Article : 128 wordsWe would remind our readers that the Spring Meeting of the Australian Jockey Club commences on Saturday next. The Echo says:—The easy victory of the Valetta colt in "The Guineas" has had the effect of ...
Article : 187 wordsA correspondent of the Tamworth News, says:—What with the auriferous lands all locked up, measles, throat disease, and other ailments poor mortals are subject to, we really are in about as pretty a plight as it is possible ...
Article : 139 wordsWe have previously referred to the dangerous practice of persons leaving their clothes lines stretched across the numerous tracks in the unsurveyed portion of this and other townships. Dr. Wades, of Wallsend, nearly ...
Article : 151 wordsThe kind-hearted people of Greta, Anvil Creek, and neighbourhood, will have another most worthy subject to administer to, (without at the seine time injuring themselves) in a few days. We allude to Mr. William ...
Article : 131 wordsThe announcement that Mr. Forster is about proceed to England to enquire into the iron contracts has taken no one by surprise, and, should our worthy Treasurer conclude to finally pitch his tent on English soil and ...
Article : 224 wordsIn the Supreme Court, Sydney on Monday, a motion for a rule misi for a new trial of this action for trover and detinue, tried last sittings at Sydney, before his Honor the Chief Justice Sir James Martin and a jury of four, ...
Article : 139 wordsEssad Pacha has resigned his office of Grand Vizier. Garibaldi has requested his son Menotti Garibaldi to open subscriptions in aid of the wounded Herzegovinians. ...
Article : 97 wordsA deputation from the Borough Council of Wallsend, consisting of the Mayor (Mr. J. Fletcher), and Aldermen Harris and Berrill, waited on the Minister for Works, on Friday last, for the purpose of bringing the ...
Article : 145 wordsA correspondent to the Melbourne Age forwards the following:—'A miner having returned from the Palmer would give a few words of caution to diggers wishing to proceed to the northern gold-fields. In ...
Article : 494 wordsIN consequence of the line having been carried away between Wiseman's Ferry and Wollombi, by the late storm, we are not in receipt of our usual telegram. ...
Article : 36 wordsAn accident happened on Saturday last, to a young man named James Henderson, of Wallsend, by which he received some severe injuries on the head. The young man, who is a son of the landlord of the Travellers' Rest ...
Article : 169 wordsTwo Chinamen, working in the Band of Hope claim an Stawell, were smothered by the falling in of the drift. Numbers of miners are trying to get them out. ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Ballarat Courier is quite jubilant about the present condition and future prospects of Quartz-mining in the city and neighbourhood. Several lines of reef which have been working for some years past with only ...
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Advertising : 2,558 wordsSIR,—I beg leave to correct an error in your issue of Saturday, 28th inst., respecting the debate at Waratah between Mr. Bull and Mr. Rodgers. There was no show of hands taken the first night of debate; the ...
Article : 158 wordsAt an anniversary meeting of one of the great Church of England Societies last week, the Earl of Shaftesbury thanked God that Mr. Mood had not been educated at Oxford. He had a wonderful influence of getting at ...
Article : 188 wordsSIR,—It is unfortunate for the interests of the Wallsend Choral Union that their chairman should have been advised to reply to my criticism on their performance on the 16th inst. Had a disinterested person, and on ...
Article : 880 wordsIt will be seen by advertisement that a public meeting will be held in Harris' Rooms, this (Wednesday) evening, for the purpose of hearing the report of the deputation to the Minister for Works on the stoppage of the ...
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Miners' Advocate and Northumberland Recorder (Newcastle, NSW : 1873 - 1876), Wed 1 Sep 1875, Page 3
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