LAST evening, Just about the time that Mr, Fosbery, Inspector-General of Police, was penning a letter to Captain Standish, chief of the police in Victoria, expressing his conviction that ...
Article : 875 wordsCOCKTOWN, Monday.—Captain Bennett, late in the employ of the Queensland Lands Department, died suddenly from apoplexy yesterday. ...
Article : 23 wordsGLOUCESTER, Tuesday.—Three valuable discoveries have been made at Back Creek during the past few days. In No. 2 North Hidden Treasure Reef magnificent gold has been struck at a depth ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,039 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday, noon.—Intelligence has just been received that the greater portion of the town of Chiltern was destroyed by fire this morning. Of this township the " Australian Handbook" ...
Article : 223 wordsCOWRA, Tuesday.—Great interest was manifested in the case of Regina v. Bolton, for maliciously killing a mare. The court was crowded all day, Mr. Freehill prosecuting, and Mr. Scam[?]ll ...
Article : 45 wordsWEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.—Mr, James Fulford, jun., has been unanimously selected Mayor of West Maitland, on the motion of Alderman Wolstenholme, seconded by Alderman Riley. ...
Article : 29 wordsWEST MAITLAND, Monday.—The Rev. Robert Chapman expired at St. Mary's parsonage at a quarter past 7 o'clock. He has been ill for some time, and had obtained twelve months' leave of ...
Article : 85 wordsAUCKLAND, Tuesday.—The Canterbury cricketers, recently from Melbourne, played an Eleven of Otago yesterday, winning the match easily.—The Government have let contracts for an ...
Article : 71 wordsThere can be no mistake about it that the Kellys have crossed into New South Wales, and have commenced their depredations by a daring raid upon the branch bank of New South Wales ...
Article : 434 wordsBATHURST, Tuesday.—The votes for the Mayoralty of this city were equally divided between Alderman Thompson and Alderman Butler. They afterwards cast lots, which resulted in Alderman ...
Article : 43 wordsAT the Central Police Court, this morning, before Messrs. Perdr[?]eau and Hyam, a painter named John Walter Kelly, aged 20 years, was charged with shooting at Walter H. Cooper, with intent to murder ...
Article : 584 wordsGRAFTON, Monday.—The intelligence received here on Saturday that an attack, by a mob, had been made on the English cricketers, has been received by the public, and especially by natives of ...
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Family Notices : 229 wordsPARKES, Monday.—Four teams, with 17 tons of copper from Cobar, on route for Orange, passed through town to-day.—There is nothing fresh about the Scrubby Plains rush, except that some ...
Article : 54 wordsMURRURUNDI, Monday.—Early on Sunday morning a hut was burnt down at Haydonton, in the occupation of a woman named Ann Whitfield, whose remains were afterwards found in the ...
Article : 82 wordsWAGGA WAGGA, Tuesday.—A change took place in the weather to-day, steady showers falling during the morning, which it is hoped will continue. ...
Article : 26 wordsWELLINGTON, Monday.—A lunatic prisoner, named William Williams, escaped over the gaol walls this morning. A number of people, with Constables Chaplin and Connors, went in pursuit, ...
Article : 69 wordsHYDE Park on a Sunday has hitherto been one of the characteristic sights of Sydney, but now that a number of influential gentlemen have been appointed Trustees, it seems that it is to be ...
Article : 1,076 wordsThe foundation-stone of the International Exhibition building is to be laid on Thursday next, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, by the Hon. Lady Robinson. In order that the ceremony shall not in any way ...
Article : 511 wordsWILCANNIA, Monday.—Great indignation and regret is expressed here at the treatment of the English team of cricketers at the Association Grounds on Saturday. ...
Article : 27 wordsGRAFTON, Tuesday.—The largest and most influential public meeting that ever took place here was held last night, with regard to railway communication between the Clarence and New ...
Article : 146 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday, 1 p.m.—It is rumoured here that the Kelly gang have stuck up the inhabitants of the township of Tocumwai, and robbed the bank [?] there. ...
Article : 198 wordsAN adjourned meeting of the City Council was held this morning at the Town Hall. The meeting was convened for 11 o'clock, and precisely at that hour his Worship the Mayor commenced the business. Present: Aldermen Moore, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 523 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—A concert was given last evening in aid of the families of the two gunners who were recently killed in the volunteer accident at the Garden Battery. Colonel Scratchley, ...
Article : 50 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—An inquiry has been held into the stranding of the barque Scottish Hero off Keppel Bay, and the board find that Captain Lamb waa guilty of imprudence and great want ...
Article : 51 wordsAPPOINTMENTS.—The following appointments appear in to-day's Government Gazette:—The Honorable Ezekiel Alexander Baker, Esq., Secretary for Mines, to be the nominal defendatn in the matter of a petition prosecuted on the part ...
Article : 286 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—A grand banquet was given at Ipswich last evening to the Hon. J. M. Thompson. It was a great success, and over a hundred persons were present, including the ...
Article : 153 wordsThe following is the list of causes set down for trial during the ensuing sittings of the court, which commenced yesterday:—Banco Court: Braun v. Abrahams, Jones v. Lanbenfel, M'Kay v. Wright, ...
Article : 333 wordsCOCKTOWN, Monday.—The French war ship Allier arrived here on Sunday night. She is bound to New Caledonia with 228 troops. There has been great sickness on board, and there ...
Article : 80 wordsWe have received the following telegram through the Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association:—" Our Singapore agents telegraph, under date 7th February, that the Kate Waters, barque, of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 136 wordsCOCKTOWN, Monday.—A brutal murder has taken place at Oakey Creek, near Cocktown. Morgan Rees, a butcher, was assaulted by two men who are supposed to have been ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Tue 11 Feb 1879, Page 2
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