An important conference has been held here. The question was in connection with the new proposed Townsville Harbor Board. The Townsville Chamber of Commerce had drawn up a ...
Article : 473 wordsThe work of the Electoral Commissioners has progressed so far as to enable them to issue maps giving the proposed boundaries of the new electorates, together with a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 693 wordsCriminal summonses against all the Mercantile Bank directors excepting Berry, applied for by Charles Cox, a depositor, were issued on August 19 by Mr. W. J. Lormer, J.P., bookseller, of ...
Article : 88 wordsAll the banks have decided to pay the same rates of interest on fixed deposits, viz., 5 per cent, interest on the year, 4 per cent, for six months, and 3 per cent, for three months. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Chief Justice has ruled that the salary of Captain Parker, commander of the batteries, who was engaged by the Agent-General in England at a stated sum for five years, cannot be ...
Article : 46 wordsAn accident occurred near Portland, at a place called Narrawong. Jamea Milla, a schoolmaster at Narrawong, after enjoying a day's shooting, returned home with a breech-loading gun loaded ...
Article : 90 wordsSome correspondence has recently passed between the Premiers of Victoria and this country in regard to the proposed Customs union. Mr. Kingston telegraphed to Mr. J. B. ...
Article : 246 wordsIn consequence of the collapse of the Sydney potato market, business in some parts of the country is at a standstill. At Devonport buyers for the past few days have bought rashly ...
Article : 79 wordsIt was resolved at a meeting held in Melbourne recently of persons interested in the woollen trade, including tailors, clothiers, outfitters, and manufacturers, to u[?]ge upon the Government ...
Article : 446 wordsUnprecedented success has attended a 10 days' temperance mission, commenced on August 13 by Mr. E. Tennyson Smith, the English temperance orator, popularly known as the Second Gough, now ...
Article : 79 wordsHeavy rain has fallen all over the country. Viscountess Gormanston's first" at home" was given on August 21, and was largely attended. The R.M.S. Tainui, from London, arrived on ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Hon. Thomas Playford had some unpleasant experiences recently. On reaching the Government offices he found a message from a leading butcher stating that he had received a written ...
Article : 200 wordsG. E. Howard appeared before the police court on August 18, charged on suspicion with causing the recent explosion on the Aramac Some evidence was taken, including that of the Government ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Government have agreed to give a bonus of £2500 to the contractor of the Yilgarn railway if the line ia completed by June 30, 1894, five months in advance of contract time. In order to ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Premier, has intimated to the Midland Railway Company that work on the railway can be proceeded with, the Government will pay for the lines on a certificate from the ...
Article : 56 wordsA Mackay paper, reviewing the prospects of the sugar crop, estimates the probable output at 77,100 tons. The results of the Bundaberg crop are doubtful, but will probably reach 25,000 tons. ...
Article : 422 wordsThe following is an extract from a letter from a merchant in West Australia, received at Adelaide recently: You have noticed, I expect, the great rush of miners to West Australia. ...
Article : 222 wordsA fatal explosion took place at the Woolwonga Mine battery, Port Darwin, on Monday night, owing to the boiler bursting, resulting in the death of a Chinaman. The battery, which was ...
Article : 43 wordsTwo Sisters of Mercy belonging to the Reefton Convent, while driving home on August 18 were precipitated 8ft over an embankment by the trap capsizing. One was killed on the spot and the ...
Article : 60 wordsAt the quarter sessions at Albury on August 17, Richard William Woolcott, for criminally assaulting his daughter, a child under 12 years of age, was sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. H. Austey, an old gold prospector, has been appointed to a vacancy in the Legislative Council. Alexander Lucas, who had just been sentenced ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Liverpool (Eng.) barque Achievement, 499 tons register, and owned by Doward, Dickson, and Company, when leaving Wellington on August 17 for Dunedin, anchored in Worser Bay, ...
Article : 94 wordsA fatal explosion took place at the Woolwonga mine battery, Port Darwin, on Monday night, owing to the boiler bursting, resulting in the death of a Chinaman. ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Government has introduced the Liquor Control Bill into the House of Representatives. It provides for the restriction of licences by a three-fifths majority of the electors every three ...
Article : 61 wordsA young man from Christchurch, named William Watt, while on a visit to his friends at New Plymouth ascended the Sugarloaf Peak, near the Breakwater, and falling from a height of 30ft was ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 26 Aug 1893, Page 14
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