MR. FLOOD'S acceptance of the office of Minister of Public Works will add strength to the Ministry—in one respect at least. Hitherto Mr. Flood's conduct in the late election, and ...
Article : 431 wordsWe learn from enquiry that the court-house, East Maitland, in steadily progressing, and that about £500 worth of work has been already executed by the contractor, Mr. Cains. The police station at Newcastle has been marked out, and the ...
Article : 129 wordsThe SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three o'clock. PUBLIC WORKS. Mr. COWPER reported that the resolution of the house for the ...
Article : 1,990 wordsMELBOURNE, MONDAY MORNING, SEPT. 26.—Hippomsnia, or rather stadiomania, has stricken all Melbourne. In plain English the Great Race of Saturday is in everybody's mouth. Like the pleuro-pneumonia amongst Mr. Bosdie's cattle, the ...
Article : 2,735 wordsBy rail, yesterday afternoon, we received the Sydney papers of yesterday, Monday. The matters of most general interest, the result of the Champion race, and further intelligence as to the fatal ...
Article : 147 wordsThe steamer Yarra Yarra, which arrived yesterday from Moreton Bay, brought up as a passenger Captain Paddon, who (with two other Englishmen and three South Sea Islanders) had made his escape from the French colony of New Caledonia ...
Article : 730 wordsThe Tasmanian telegraph cable is perfected. Messages have passed freely to-day between Melbourne and Circular Head. The banks have lowered the rates of exchange on England to 1 per cent. premium. ...
Article : 160 wordsA RATHER remarkable document was published by our contemporary, the Melbourne Argus, on the 26th September. It was the written summing-up of the Melbourne coroner, on the ...
Article : 834 wordsThere has been a great trial of the Government versus the contractors for the Torrens Pier, for work costing £5000, now pulled down as useless. In the action for damages against, the contractors a verdict was returned for the Government, damages ...
Article : 194 wordsBy His Excellency Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor-General in and over all Her Majesty's Colonies of New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia ...
Article : 343 wordsWe have not many changes to report this week. The arrivals of produce still continue few. Hay is in better demand, and has slightly advanced in price. Maize is in pretty good demand. Flour is lower if anything. Bran is in good demand. B[?] ...
Article : 158 wordsSept. 29.—James Steel, the younger, of Newcastle, engine driver. Liabilities, £128 17s [?]d. Assets—value of personal property, £15. Deficit, £113 17s. [?]d. Mr. Mackenzie official assignee. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 384 wordsThe SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-six minutes past three. MR. FLOOD. A motion by Mr. COWPER, for the issue of a writ for the ...
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893), Tue 4 Oct 1859, Page 1
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