Before the close of the session, the report of Dr. Arthur Renwick, President of the State Children's Relief Department, was laid before the Assembly. From a portion of the ...
Article : 1,128 wordsThe following letter, from the chairman of the honorary commissioners for Victoria at the Bordeaux Exhibition, to Dr. L. L. Smith, will be read with interest: ...
Article : 427 wordsSIR,—In your issue of the Maitland Mercury dated April 28th, there appears an advertisement bearing the signature of James M'Donnell and Mathew Wills, and as that advertisement refers to certain proceedings that took place at the ...
Article : 180 wordsSIR,—It seems strange that there are some people who will persist in poking their noses into other people's business, but it always has been so, and I suppose always will. At a very large meeting of Commoners held in the ...
Article : 220 wordsCRUELLY ILLTREATING A HORSE.—Laurence M'Keon was convicted of having illtreated a horse by working it while in an unfit condition, and was fined 10[?], or three days' imprisonment. ...
Article : 265 wordsMay 2.—Eugene M. Brown, of Redfern, tailor. Liabilities, £26 19s 11d. Assets, £12. Mr. Stephen, official assignee. 2—Sidney Benson, of Cook's River, writing clerk. ...
Article : 84 wordsEXTRA SHEETS TO THE "MERCURY."—The third sheet of this day's paper contains: Advertisements; Terrible and Fatal Shipwreck: What men need wives for; Queensland Stock Movements and State ...
Article : 2,048 wordsMr. James N. Brunker, M.L.A. for East Maitland, has received the following letters from the Department of Public Instruction, from which it will be seen that the honorable gentleman has been ...
Article : 242 wordsFlour, £11 15s to £13 12s 6d per [?]on; maize, 3s to 3s 1d per bushel. Cattle: Small supply in, and mar[?]et up; best beef worth 20s per 100 lbs. S[?]eep[?] ...
Article : 1,324 wordsMr. Frew, contractor for the Albury railway extension, has been pushing ahead with the work steadily, and, making allowance for certain difficulties with which he has had to ...
Article : 462 wordsThe following is the order of musical service at St. Mary's Church to-morrow, Sunday, 6th instant:- MORNING SERVICES.—Te Deum and Jubilate, Whit[?]eld; hymns—No 74: Hall [?] the day that sees Him rise, Hallelujah; ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Commission of the Presbyterian General Assembly sat again to-day, when it was announced that the Rev. J. Gardiner, of Queenscliff, had been chosen Moderator of the next Assembly. The report of the committee on the Defence of ...
Article : 222 wordsA match was played on Saturday afternoon, the 28th ultimo, between the above mentioned clubs, on the Oakhamption cricket ground (Moylan's paddock). There not being sufficient time to play the game out, ...
Article : 304 wordsHis Excellency the Governor and Miss Kennedy left for Sydney by the steamer Ranelagh to[?]day, at noon. There was an immense and enthusiastic crowd assembled in the neighborhood of the A. S. N. Company's Wharf to witness the departure ...
Article : 307 wordsThere are no animals about which so many stories have been told as the monkey. All the tricks and rascalities of the animal kingdom have been laid at his door. The Englishman who wrote to his ...
Article : 434 wordsThe weather is all that can be reasonably desired. GEOGRAPHICAL STUPIDITY.—It appears that our adjacent neighbours of Tasmania know about as much as a Papuan or Chocktaw Indian. There is a letter now in the hands of ...
Article : 289 wordsThe following cricket match was played on the Underbank cricket ground on the 28th of April, and resulted in a win for the Eccleston C.C[?] by 22 runs. The scores on both sides were very small, it being ...
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893), Sat 5 May 1883, Page 4
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