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  2. Voluntary Reduction in the Price of Gas.

    The Sydney Gas Company have voluntarily reduced the change for Corporation street lamps from £7 2s 6d to £6 12s 6d per lamp per annum. This determination was made known at the Council meeting this ...

    Article : 47 words
  3. SHIPPING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 649 words
  4. Freemasonry.

    A cable message from New Zealand announces the installation of Sir Donald M'Lean as District Grand Master of the Lodge of Freemason, at Wellington, on Saturday night. The gathering of brothers ...

    Article : 92 words
  5. WILLIAMS AND MURRAY,

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 22 words
  6. TELEGRAMS THIS DAY

    The Blackall takes a cargo of fat sheep to Sydney. The nomination for Balimba is fixed for the 30th instant; the polling day 7th July. ...

    Article : 112 words
  7. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    The Albury Banner of Saturday informs us:—"The crushing plant purchased by Mr. Davis for the B[?]thanga Reefs, was seized yesterday morning by the Victorian Customs officials, an account of an alleged ...

    Article : 52 words
  8. Advertising

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    Advertising : 84 words
  9. The Scab Act and the Scarcity of Mutton.

    In reference to the existing scarcity of mutton it was stated by his Worship the Mayor, at the City Council meeting this forenoon, that there were plenty of sheep now in Sydney Harbour waiting to be landed, ...

    Article : 89 words
  10. The Suez Mails.

    As it was thought that the mails from England via Suez and Melbourne would reach here by the branch boat Avoca in ample time for reply, the bags were not sent overland. Unfortunately there was a dense fog in ...

    Article : 89 words
  11. Telegraphic Communication.

    A dinner was given on Monday evening, the 8th May, by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company at Willis's-rroms, to celebrate the completion of telegraphic communication between Australia and ...

    Article : 81 words
  12. Infirmary Items.

    A man named Lamotte was admitted into the Infirmary this morning in a dying state, suffering from heart disease. Yesterday afternoon a man named Burridge, engaged driving Summons and Co.'s cordial and ...

    Article : 65 words
  13. ALBURY.

    The man Frederick Johnston, charged with assaulting and robbing a Chinaman, was arrested yesterday. The [?]case now assumes a different aspect. It appears that the Chinaman went to ...

    Article : 177 words
  14. The Post-office Fire at Singleton.

    We (Argus) understand that an official is now in Singleton pursuing investigations with regard to this [?]re, and that a rigid Government inquiry and inquest will be forthwith instituted. In the meantime, Mr. J. ...

    Article : 79 words
  15. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 253 words
  16. The Second Cable.

    The following is a copy of a telegram, dated 26th June, 1870, from Sir Henry Ayers, of Adelaide, to the Hon. Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, Sydney:—" Letter of this day in reply to your ...

    Article : 227 words
  17. An Immense Shark.

    Mr. O'Donnell, of Port Piric, reports to the South Australian Register that "on Friday night, June 9, between 1[?] and 12 an immense shark, at least 25 feet long, struck his boat with his tail, shooting her round ...

    Article : 101 words
  18. Suspected Murder at Deniliquin.

    Owen Walsh, charged with wilful murder, was brought up at the police-court, Deniliquin, on Wednesday, and further remanded fer eight days. The police (says the Riverine Advertiser) have not yet ...

    Article : 144 words
  19. Accident at Cameron's Tobacco Factory.

    About noon to-day a serious accident happened to a lad named John Neill, aged 20 years, at Cameron's tobacco factory. at the corner of Liverpool and Pitt streets. The unfortunate lad was pushing some ...

    Article : 115 words
  20. The Convict Connelly.

    The lost dread sentence of the law will on Wednesday next in all probability (says the Tamworth News) be carried into effect on the body of Michael Connelly, convicted of the murder of his wife, on the ...

    Article : 148 words
  21. Fatal Accident at Bega.

    We learn from the Bega Standard that an accident, resulting fatally,occurred at Mr. Gilbert Warren's farm, at Nu[?]bugga, on the 22nd June. The deceased, Charles Oberry, in company with M'Grath, Kelly, and ...

    Article : 157 words
  22. Manufacturing an Outrage.

    A young man named J. L. Berry, created some excitement in Toowoomba on last week, by reporting that he had been brutally assaulted on the Ruthven-street bridge, and two shots fired at him—one of the ...

    Article : 385 words
  23. DIARY. JUNE 26.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 words
  24. MELBOURNE.

    The Hon John Robertson's proposal for running a steamer between Port Darwin and Bataria, was agreed to by the Cabinet yesterday. Roberts played a local amateur at Geelong, ...

    Article : 69 words
  25. Madame Goddard.

    Mine. Arabella Goddard has (says the New York Herald) during the past three years, or, to speak more accurately, three years, one month and seventeen days, since her departure from England, appeared ...

    Article : 142 words
  26. DUNGOG.

    I have just returned from the Back Creek diggings, near Gloucester; there are 67 to 70 men at work, averaging 10s to 12s a day, with only primitive appliances. I purchased one nugget, ...

    Article : 82 words
  27. Accident with Firearms.

    About noon to-day a boy named Ralph Ramsay met with a serious gunshot wound in his right arm while playing with some boys who were shooting sea-gulls on the Ultimo Estate. According to young ...

    Article : 178 words
  28. COMMERCIAL.

    The wet weather has continued to preveut all outdoor operations, including the loading and discharge of vessels, so that busiuess has been extremely dull, and is not likely to improve until after the departure of ...

    Article : 77 words
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    It was but reasonable that public criticism should be evoked at the real or apparent apaty with which the Ministry and the Parliament allowed their declared intention to legislate for the ...

    Article : 742 words
  30. YASS.

    Through one misturning of a point an-engiDe and several trucks smashed through the door of the goods-shed at Bowning yesterday, doing damage to the amount of £50: one man is said to be some-what injured. ...

    Article : 39 words
  31. Stock and Share Market.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 words
  32. Capture of a Young Thief.

    Yesterday evening Mr. W. Smith, boot manufacturer, Lower George-street, observed a young man of rather suspicious behaviour and appearance outside his establishment, and thinking he was intent on stealing, ...

    Article : 183 words
  33. BRISBANE.

    There have been heavy sautherly rains since midnight on Saturday; they ceased at dusk. The sea is now boisterous. The steamer Alexandra, for Sydney, put to sea ...

    Article : 91 words
  34. Government Gazette.

    APPOINTMENTS.—His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to make the following changes and appointments in the Electric Telegraph Department, viz.:—Mr. Francis Bussell, junior operator at ...

    Article : 887 words
  35. Sculling Championship.

    The match for the championship of the world between J. H. Sadler, of London, the present holder of the championship, and Edward Trickett, of Sydney, was, according to the latest advices, to take place ...

    Article : 410 words
  36. Action against a Roman Catholic Bishop.

    It is but seldom (says the Melbourne Age, of the 24th June) that courts of law are resorted by clergymen in order to settle a difference in accounts, Yesterday, however, a case appeared in the County ...

    Article : 237 words
  37. MELBOURNE.

    A testimonial of five hundred sovereigns has been presented to Sir. Mr. H. Lowry, by the Masonic body. Further proceedings against the Stevensons in ...

    Article : 181 words
  38. Wesleyan School, Newtown.

    On Saturday the Newtown Wesleyan Denominational School broke up for the holidays, to celebrate which event, so important in the eyes of juveniles, an exhibition ,and distribution at prizes, were held. The ...

    Article : 211 words
  39. The Hawthorn Mystery.

    With the discovery of Mrs. Thompson at Eagle-hawk all interest in the Hawthorn tragedy has dropped. So far as the police are concerned there is no charge against the unfortunate woman, and the probabilities ...

    Article : 229 words
  40. Amusements.

    The rain interfered greatly with the attendances at the theatres last night. "Pygmalion" was received at the Royal with no less enthusiasm, the apparent intelligence and intense feeling with which Miss Carey ...

    Article : 246 words
  41. Accident to a Wesleyan Minister.

    We gather from the Times that there was some sensation in Murrurundi on Sunday [?]e'nnight, when the Rev. Mr. Danne, Wesleyan minister of that town, was missing from his pulpit. It was subsequently ...

    Article : 526 words
  42. ADELAIDE.

    Sawell was arrested at the port; he was at breakfast at Ford's Hotel when some one read aloud the telegram as to his embezzlement; he disappeared and gave himself into custody. His ...

    Article : 240 words
  43. The Stevenson Case.

    The Argus of Friday, informs us that the trial of Mr George Stevenson, of the firm of L Stevenson and Sons, and Messrs. Brind, Wilkinson, Macfarlane, and Macnamara, charged with assaulting and resisting ...

    Article : 507 words
  44. Stabbing by a Youth.

    A youth named William Padbury was charged at the Water Police Court this morning with feloniously cutting and wounding one William Dole, with intent to do him grievously bodily harm. It appeared from the ...

    Article : 332 words
  45. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The cutter Gem foundered near Freemantle with all hands. Kenneth Brown, for wife-murder, was found guilty and executed. ...

    Article : 21 words
  46. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Union Steam Company have purchased the New Zealand Company's boats, Phoebe, Taranaki, Wellington, and Ladybird, for £48,000. £20.O0O to be taken in shares, and the balance in cash. The ...

    Article : 97 words
  47. Java and Port Darwin Steamer.

    The following is a copy of a telegram from the Chief Secretary of Victoria to the Colonial Secretary, Sydney, dated 26th June, 1876:—"Referring to my telegram of the 22nd instant, this Government is willing ...

    Article : 58 words
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