Friday, 1[?] p.m.—The weather is rather doubtful this morning, but up to the time of going to the course the rain held off. There will not be a large attendance. The weather is very cold. ...
Article : 72 wordsCOOKTOWN, Thursday.—A deputation from the Chinese in this district offered the prospectors of the new goldfield £1000 if they would lead 400 Chinese to the find. The prospectors have not yet ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Hon. John Sutherland, Minister for Works, and Mr. Goodchap, Commissioner for Hallways, left Sydney this morning by special train on a tour of general inspection of the stations and works along the ...
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Family Notices : 146 wordsThe Assembly; last night very wisely rejected all the causes of the Government Bill on the privilege of Parliament, and substituted a declaratory measure, clothing the Parliament with "the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 853 wordsThis was a divorce suit brought up Margaret King, formerly Margaret Walsh, of King-street, Sydney, theatrical, against her husband John David Wild Brown King. Mr. ...
Article : 239 wordsIt is reported (according to the Brisbane Patriot) that the bank authorities have no intention of taking further criminal proceedings against the young man Fry, who was arrested in Sydney, as an accomplice of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—The cable conference commenced its sittings to-day. The business, so far, is merely preliminary. Mr. Berry presides.—A writ has been issued for the Warrnambool ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Wentworth steamer puts us in possession of Fijian files to the 26th April, from which we extract the following :—EARTHQUAKE AT TANNA.—Captain Kilgour reports that on the 10th January a severe ...
Article : 223 wordsTHE transmission last evening, in one case from the Legislative Council to the Assembly, and in the other from the Assembly to the Council, of two Bills dealing with the reclamation of land. ...
Article : 741 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Union Bank takes up the City Council's 5 per cent loan of £ 100,000 at 97. This bank lately introduced new capital from England. The money market is extremely tight. ...
Article : 78 wordsSERIOUS CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. William Elkington was brought up before Messrs. Jolly, Reading, and Parnell, this morning, and charged by Senior Sergeant Larkins with having ...
Article : 304 wordsMARYBAROUGH, Wednesday.—A dreadful accident occurred at the Bristol Hill claim yesterday. Two miner, named Henry Martin and Richard Conway, were engaged in sinking the shaft at a depth of 480 ...
Article : 163 wordsThe cry from the Rewa is "More mills ! more mills!" With thousands of acres of magnificent land capable of producing sufficient sugar for the supply of the whole of the adjacent colonies lying waste, and in ...
Article : 189 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—The foundation-stone of the new Eastern Market was laid to-day by the Mayor of Melbourne, who was attended by the members of the City Council. There was a large ...
Article : 149 wordsThe committee of the New Guinea Colonisation League met on Monday evening at the Reform Club Hotel, Elizabeth-street, to receive a report drawn up by the secretary, Mr. Dode. This report (says the ...
Article : 191 wordsA man named George Broadhead, fell into the hands of the Philistines, opposite the Public School, in Sussex-street, last night. It was his first night in Sydney, and he had taken lodgings in some street near the ...
Article : 273 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—An [?]cit still has been discovered at Gourie, on the residence of a publican who had riven a roaring trade in connection with the railway works.—In the Assembly ...
Article : 111 wordsSpeaking of the American treaty with Samoa, a Levuka journal states:—"It's utter one-sidedness is so sure to speedily become apparent to the Samoans, as to induce them to give notice of its termination to the ...
Article : 83 wordsON Thursday afternoon an announcement was made in Sydney, which must be regarded in all parts of Australia with great regret. Mr. Thomas Sutclille Mort, after a severe illness of eleven days, died at his ...
Article : 485 wordsGRENBELL, Thursady.—Gold is reported to have been struck at the Seven-mile. The stone from the Consol Company's new vein yielded 28dwts to the ton. The company intend continuing operations. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 446 wordsThe water Police Court Bench, yesterday afternoon, committed Roger Reynolds for trial for inflicting grievous bodily harm upon his wife, Mary Reynolds. The prosecutrix endeavoured to shield her husband, ...
Article : 78 wordsYesterday afternoon about a quarter to four, six or seven men were employed on Liverpool-street in front of Hyde Park Terrace, seraping the street, when two gentlemen drove down the street in a gig with a ...
Article : 131 wordsHAY, Thursday.—A man named White, undergoing a sentence of nine months, escaped from the lock-up when there happened to be no police at hand. He has since been hotly pursued but is not yet ...
Article : 75 wordsA committee mooting of the City Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Town Hall, Present—The acting mayor (Alderman Chapman), Aldermen Oatley, Green, Roberts, Taylor, Maze, O'Connor, Kippax, ...
Article : 234 wordsMELBURNE, Friday.—It is now definitely announced that Mr. J. H. Craig will contest Warrnambool in the interest of the Governemt.—It has been decided at the Cable Conference that ...
Article : 94 wordsA correspondent writes to the Ballarat Star as follows :—"In your leader of the 2nd May you state that money is leaving the colony for New South Wales, and you seem at a loss to account for it. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 129 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—The Government have determined to erect a line of telegraph with iron poles, from Kapunda to the north-west bend on the River Murray.—Professor Tate, while ...
Article : 111 wordsThe questions of contraband of war, and the neutral flag (says the Mebourne HERALD), seriously occupy the mercantile world of this city. To [?] the protection of the neutral flag for cargo, it only ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Legislative Assembly has dealt in the most prompt and decisive manner with the Bill introduced by the Government to declare and define the powers and privileges of Parliament. The Bill, after a debate ...
Article : 331 wordsDuring the past fortnight a number of extra hands, among whom are several new one, have been taken on at the railway works in Blane-street, Newcastle, in the engine cleaning department. The ...
Article : 210 wordsThe Second gaol delivery commences at Darlinghurst next Monday before his Honor Mr. Justice Hargrave. The list comprises nearly fifty cases, the ...
Article : 341 wordsThe members of the New South Wales Engineering Association met last evening at the School of Arts, to discuss Mr. Humphrey's paper on the rock drill. The president (Mr. Selfe) occupied the chair. Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsSome clever swindling has (according to the Melbourne ARGUS) been perpetrated recently upon various mercantile and auctioneering firms in Melbourne by a man about 35 years of age, giving the ...
Article : 342 wordsThere appears to be a change in the weather all over the colonies. Bountiful rains are reported from Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria, and already the weather in the country districts of this ...
Article : 105 wordsAt the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Fork-street, last evening, an address in connection with the General Conference, now bing held, was delivered by the Rev. Gervase Smith, D.D., the ...
Article : 220 words"Atlas," in the World, says:—"There is a certain amount of grim and ghastly humour in the following circular received last week by a famous physician from an undertaker in a large way of business. 'Dear ...
Article : 218 wordsInformation was received in Melbourne by last mail that Messrs. Harland and Wolfe, of Belfast, builders of the White Star liners, had almost completed the British Empire for the Australian trade, ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Fri 10 May 1878, Page 2
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