THIS morning a deputation of Chinese merchants accompanied by Mr. Burton Bradley and Mr. Thomas Buckland, waited on the Colonial Secretary to office their services and influence to the Government for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 828 wordsAlbert Grant, commonly known as Baron Grant, the notorious financial schemer and company promoter, who presented Leicester Square to the people of London, has become bankrupt, with ...
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Family Notices : 250 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The principal object of the visit of the Hon. Mr. Lalor, commissioner of customs, to Sydney, was to endeavour to come to some arrangement with the New South Wales ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Czar of Russia is seriously unwell, suffering severely from an attack of asthma. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Colonial Office is making all arrangements for the collection of exhibits for the Sydney International Exhibition, and they will probably be forwarded to Port Jackson by one of Her ...
Article : 41 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The following players bare been chosen by the Victorian, Cricketers' Association to play in the return match against Lord Harris's team, on the ...
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Advertising : 240 wordsThere are no changes to report in the money or metal markets of to-day. The colonial securities are also unaltered, excepting the 5 per cent. New Zealand loan, which is quoted 1 higher, viz., 103; ...
Article : 56 wordsIf it were not for the supplementary remarks of Sir Henry Parkee, Mr. Lackey's statement last night respecting the railway into Sydney, would nave been very unsatisfactory. The Minister for ...
Article : 514 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Mr. Michie intimates that he will resign the Agent-Generalship and return to the colony at the end of three months. ...
Article : 27 wordsWEST MAITLAND, Wednesday:—The following candidates were nominated yesterday for the Municipal Council:—Messrs, William Henry Smith, James Wolstenholme, John Riley, James ...
Article : 65 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The weather is dreadfully dry all over the colony, and in some places not a drop of rain has fallen for five months. Much suffering is being caused thereby, and ...
Article : 68 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Both the wheat and flour market show a downward tendency. Up country wheat deliveries are very large, and one firm last week purchased 100,000 bushels. ...
Article : 33 wordsGRAFTON, Tuesday:—The nomination for alderman for East and West Wards took place at noon to-day in the School of Arts. All the aspirants for office except Mr. Attwater were new to fame. ...
Article : 230 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The Government will in future insist, that in all contracts provision shall be made to exclude the employment of Chinese. ...
Article : 28 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesdny.—Messrs. Martin and Co, ironfounders, of Gawler Town, have announced to their men that on and after the 7th February they will be expected to work nine hours per day, ...
Article : 54 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The private secretary to his Excellency Sir William Jervois (Mr.Snow) has obtained leave of absence, and will take a trip to Sydney in H.M.S. [?]. ...
Article : 40 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The Government of South Australia are making the necessary arrangements for having the colony represented at the forthcoming International Exhibition at ...
Article : 51 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—A writ has been issued for Town ville in the room of Mr. Deane, who has resigned in favour of Mr. Macrossan. Mr. W. P. Morgan will also probably contest the election. ...
Article : 37 wordsDURING the past six months failures for vast sums have been so common that even a bankruptcy with liabilities amounting to upwards of three-quarters of a million would scarcely call for ...
Article : 1,119 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Active measures are being taken to extirpate rabbits, and a large number of parties are engaged destroying them. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 611 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—The Hon. A. H. Palmer has been appointed director of the Queensland National Bank in the room of the Hon. T. M'llwraith. ...
Article : 28 wordsFrancis Joseph Weight, of Moncur-street, [?] builder. Cause of sequestration: Losses in building speculations and building contracts also a [?] in possession under a writ of fi. fa. Liabilities, £13266s 8d. Assets, ...
Article : 396 wordsA paragraph, originating in a telegram to a Newcastle paper, reporting the sale of the EVENING NEWS and TOWN and COUNTRY, has been copied into many journals in this and the neighbouring colonies. We ...
Article : 78 wordsAUCKLAND, Wednesday.—The dead body of Mr. Coombes, of Messrs. Coombes and Daldy, was found this morning in a well, and it is supposed , that he had committed suicide. ...
Article : 57 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—The people of Aramac have sent £30 towards the Anti-Chinese fund, and express a hope that the contest will be continued. ...
Article : 25 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—The man Quail has been convicted for cruelly beating his daughter with a strap and buckle, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. ...
Article : 32 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Mr. J. Mackenzie Shaw, Registrar of the Supreme Court of Queensland has tendered his resignation. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the open-boat race for the Mayor's Cup at the N.S.W. National Regatta, a protest was lodged against the Lottie which came in first, for foul sailing. The judge has taken evidence in the case, and ...
Article : 54 wordsAUCKLAND, Tuesday.—A rebellion of the natives in Samoa is pending. Matestoa has been proclaimed King of Taimu, and Fairule has dennounced him as a rebel. It is feared that there ...
Article : 109 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Mr. A. F. J. Hirst died yesterday from lockjaw, which was brought on through his being out on the hand by a whip when riding in an omnibus. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Newtown Volunteer Fire Brigade, wishing to improve their plant, conceived the idea of purchasing a new fire engine, with all the most modern improvements, and to attain this object set on foot an active ...
Article : 141 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Judgments have been given in the cases of the Normanby Copper Mining Co. v. Corfield, and v. Palmer and Southerden, shareholders. They are all in favour of the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe annual meeting of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was held last night in the large hall of the institution. There was a very large attendance of members, and the proceedings lasted from 8 to 11 ...
Article : 520 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—The committee of the Anti-Chinese Relief Fund waited on the manager of the company here, Mr. Williams, yesterday afternoon. In reply to questions, he said it was ...
Article : 116 wordsThe executive commissioner of the Sydney International Exhibition has received a despatch through the principal Secretary of State, from Her Majesty's Ambassador at St. Petersburg, stating that, owing to ...
Article : 194 wordsOn Monday, at the Water Police Court, William, Corkhill, a son of most respectable parents, was charged with obtaining goods under false pretences. The case, as before the court, disclosed a loose state ...
Article : 393 wordsMELBOURNE. Tuesday.—It is said that the Kellys have been joined by two more men, who will make the gang six in number. A story is current that a quarrel occurred between Ned ...
Article : 59 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—On New Year's Day Mr. James Graham's house at Rankin's Springs, near Marrandera, was entered by burglars, who stole money and cheques to the value of £250. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 wordsThe band of the French ship of war, La Victorieuse, performed various selections of music yesterday afternoon, in the Botanical Gardens in the presence of a large concourse of people, who were ...
Article : 235 wordsAbout a quarter past 5 yesterday afternoon, James M'Laughlin, stonebreaker, living in a tent off the Globe Island-road, Pyrmont, found the dead body of a newly born female child, in a small waterhole, ...
Article : 173 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Breadstuffs are unsettled; good country brands of flour are quoted at from £10 to £10 2s 6d to £10 5s per ton. Wheat is 4s 6½d. Maize has further declined to ...
Article : 52 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—It is stated that the ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Wed 5 Feb 1879, Page 2
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