Ireland has now suffered from three had years in succession. The districts this winter will be so great that the unfortunate peasantry will have neither fuel nor food. The turn is as dear as coal, and the latter is about 25s per ...
Article : 1,963 wordsA match was arranged on Tuesday night, at Punch's Hotel, between Power, of Twofold Bay, and M'Leor, of Syney, for £100 aside, to take place on Saturday, 24th, on the Parramatta River, the course being the usual one ...
Article : 63 wordsTHIS wonderful undertaking has just been finished, which will enable tourists to second by it to the very edge of the enter. The line has been constructed with great care upon a solid ...
Article : 170 wordsThe most disgraceful sight and smell about Sydney are daily encountered by hundreds of residents and thousands of passers by on Old South Head-road at Rushcutter's Bay. The open drain there is indeed ...
Article : 105 wordsThe attendance at the Garden Palace this morning is only a moderate one, but the intense best to-day is quite sufficient to kee[ numbers of people indoors. Should the afternoon be fine, with the musical ...
Article : 101 wordsSIR,—With your kind permission I will take advantage of the present favourable opportunity, to impress upon the community the desirability of [?]doning capital punishment deterrent against crime, and to offer some reasons ...
Article : 1,640 wordsA foot race is arranged between P. Callaghan and J. Murphy, £25 a side, 150 yards, to take place on Saturday afternoon on the Association Cricket Ground, between 6 and 6 o'clock. Martin O'Grady and W. Chapman also try ...
Article : 187 wordsSIR,—Your London correspondent lately pointed out in your columns how well the Elective School Board system worked in the mother country, and wondered why it was not advocated for our State schools here. Probably no ...
Article : 1,028 wordsA very neat little brochure ia the catalogue of the Italian Court, which has been compiled and just issued by Signor Oscar Moyer, the commissioner for Italy. It is of a very convenient size for the pocket, ...
Article : 161 wordsTHE usual monthly meeting wm held on Tuesday in St. Andrew's Presbyterian church. The following gentlemen ware present:—Rev. Dr. Fullerton, moderator; Revs, Dr. W. M. White, Principal ...
Article : 454 wordsOF all the articles subject to adulteration ground coffee has, perhaps, been the subject of more ingenuity than any other. An enterprising grocer in London some years ago published a list of the ...
Article : 241 wordsThe success that attended the "Captain Cook Handicap." got up a few weeks ago by Mr. J. J. Rochester, has led to the conditions of another one being put forward, and a cold medal is to be given for the first prize, in ...
Article : 69 wordsA meeting of the finance committee of the Sydney Municipal Council was held in the Town Hall to-day, the Major (Mr. Fowler) presiding. The following tenders for the annual supplies to the council were ...
Article : 276 wordsThe pantomime at the Victoria Theatre has proved a faeces, and the attendance have been very large on each of occasion since its first production. Mr. Hall's portion of the piece is admirably done, and with a clever company ...
Article : 486 wordsTHE proprietors of forests and the purveyors of deer-stalking have evidently been doing a profitable business of late. According to a correspondent to a contemporary, the red deer are increasing ...
Article : 463 wordsThe latest American papers to hand contain full particulars of the new great theatrical sensation in New York which has surprised "Pinsfore" in popularity and success. The opening part of the ...
Article : 377 wordsWe learn that the celebrated violinist, Madame Camilla Urso, will five five or six concerts in this city on her return from Victoria and South Australia, and prior to her departure for America by the City of ...
Article : 71 wordsThe committee are making all arrangements for the convenience of those attending the grand complimentary picnic to be given by the citizens on Thursday next to the ex-mayor and ...
Article : 88 wordsThe usual monthly meeting of the council of the above society was held the rooms yesterday (Wednesday) forenoon, for the purpose of considering a draft of the annual report, but without anything ...
Article : 79 wordsWe regret to hear that Mr. James Fullford, Mayor of West Maitland, has been taken suddenly and seriously ill. Mr. Fullford (as we learn from a private source) attended the funeral of his deceased ...
Article : 170 wordsThe prisoners belonging to the B and C divisions at the Pontridge Stockade were permitted by the inspector-general to amuse themselves on Thursday (New Year's Day) by having a concert, which was ...
Article : 146 wordsAbout 9 p.m. on Tuesday, December 30, the town of Glen Innes was convulsed with excitement on it being noised abroad that Mr. S. J. Marshall, an auctioneer, and the keeper of a wine shop, had shot\ ...
Article : 781 wordsThe truth of the adage that "the fool and his money are soon parted" was strikingly demonstrated yesterday afternoon, at the Water Police Court. It was a case of mistakes confidence, in which the ...
Article : 847 wordsAn accident which terminated fatally happened about 11 o'clock yesterday morning on board H.M.S. Danae, now lying in the harbour, causing the death of a diver named Robert Chambers, one of the ship's ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Ritualist.—Suspension of Mr. Mackonochie.—Mr. Mackonochie, the rector of St. Alban's, Hol[?]orn, has at last been dislodged from his stronghold, after keeping his assailants at bay for ...
Article : 618 wordsThe GEELONG ADVERTISES, Writing of the necessity for aiding the distress in Ireland, says:—For the piteous account to reach us here should be sufficient to make every heart in the country throb ...
Article : 252 wordsWe beg to call the attention of our readers to a very excellent letter on Sydney as a port for the shipment of the surplus meat of Australia, which will appear in to-morrow's TOWN AND COUNTRY ...
Article : 443 wordsMr. P. E. G. Lunny, port and telegraph master at Charleville, Queensland, says the WEEK, was charged on the information of Mr. C. H. Millar, before the police magistrate of Roma, on the 12th instant, with ...
Article : 440 wordsSIR,—I read with surprise and indignation in your issue of the 5th instant a letter signed "M.R.C.S." It would have been manly and professional in the writer to append his name to it, and not leave the public to infer from its ...
Article : 294 wordsThe first board meeting of the Australian Benevolant Society of Blues under the new rules was held at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, on Wednesday evening. The attendance was very good, ...
Article : 111 wordsSIR,—If the train causing this accident had been supplied with a more officient [?] would the [?] have occurred? Any one acquainted with the circumstances or reading the account in the daily papers, would, without ...
Article : 270 wordsBut little change is apparent in the demeanour of the two condemned men. Scot and Rogan. The former is burily engaged in writing a history of his earlier life, which he intends to have published after ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Thu 8 Jan 1880, Page 3
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