A very heavy storm, which extended only a few miles on the line, took place between the two stations, Wallendbeen and Nubba, about fourteen miles from Cootamundra, on Saturday evening. It began shortly ...
Article : 1,358 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—The wharf laborers' strike has begun in real earnest. The lumpers had their pickets on the wharves on Saturday, and they also rolled up themselves in great numbers. The Edwin ...
Article : 777 wordsShortly after 2 o'clock this morning a disastrous fire occurred in the most central part of the city (Hunter-street), by which six places of business were gutted and destroyed. Senior-constable M'Vane saw ...
Article : 510 wordsNothing fresh, has transpired in connection with the stonemasons' strike at Manly Beach. There were five men unemployed on Thursday, but all had been promised employment on now works to be started. ...
Article : 56 wordsCaptain Strachan, who went to New Guinea on a commercial expedition, passed here on Wednesday, The schooner Herald had a few cedar logs on board. No land could be purchased. ...
Article : 471 wordsThe revenue for the quarter ended December 31 amounted to £1,569,857, a decrease of £19,218 as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year. For the 12 months ended December 31 the ...
Article : 94 wordsA comparative statement of the revenue and expenditure for the quarter and half-year just ended, has been publishod. The revenue for the quarter was £642,197, being an increase on ...
Article : 115 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—On Monday 250 plasterers struck work for forty-four hours labor per week, or eight hours daily, except on Saturday, without a reduction in wages. The stonemasons are ...
Article : 63 wordsBy a telegram from a Cooktown correspondent we learn that Mr. Anderson has returned to Port Moresby from Shagary Camp, seriously invalided, and that he gives an unfavorable account of the ...
Article : 226 wordsThe total approximate receipts from taxation for the quarter ended December 31 amounted to £286,411; from public works and services rendered, £247,357. Other sources of receipts gave £23,665. The ...
Article : 119 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—The plasterers' strike has succeeded, except with large firms. The millers have negotiated with the masters, who have consented to a conference. It is said that ...
Article : 102 wordsMITCHELL, Monday.—The secretary of the Minors' Union roports: At 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon when the change of shifts took place at the Sunny Corner Mine, the mining manager informed ...
Article : 235 wordsIn consequence of the recent discussion in the press, relative to the condition of the cells in the city look-up, a representative of the BRISBAND COURIER shammed drunkenness on New Year's ...
Article : 190 wordsFrederick Morell, a seaman, who murdered John Anderson, mate of the American ship Nicolas, by stabbing him recently on the Sandridge Pier, was excutod in the Melbourne Gaol this morning. ...
Article : 72 wordsJohn King and John Mullins, both farmers of Nunawading, have roported to the police that they were stuck up by an armed man, on Tuesday night. while they were returning from Hawthorn. The man ...
Article : 61 wordsIn regard to the "unemployed" difficulty which has arisen in New Zealand, a Dunedin correspondent writing on Decombor 17 said:—Work has been provides by the Govornment in Auckland and Dunedin ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 9 Jan 1886, Page 12
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