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Detailed lists, results, guides : 737 wordsA country attorney writes to the London Times to say that an old woman has just died at Ashcott, Somersetshire, aged 104 years and 8 months, who for the last 40 years was found in gin by one of his clients ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Australian Eleven met the Marylebone team, containing some of the best cricketers in England, in a match to-day, and the result was a grand victory for the Australians. The Maryle[?] team was ...
Article : 141 wordsTHE task devolves, not unfrequently, upon Ministers of the Crown to reconcile popular enthusiasm for grand objects with reasonable consideration of the difficulties, and sometimes the impossibilities ...
Article : 801 wordsFor five successive Sundays the New York Herald has issued what it terms "quintuple sheets," containing twenty pages of six column each. From a typographical point of view, aside from all other ...
Article : 226 wordsAn action of considerable importance to free selectors and others terminated yesterday, after a trial extending over six days, in the Jury Court, before Mr. Justice Faucett and a jury of four. The ...
Article : 777 wordsBATHURST, Tuesday.—A meeting of the friends of Mr. D. Mayne, called by advertisement, was held at Tattersall's Hotel, to raise funds to defray the expenses incurred by the defendant in the late ...
Article : 421 wordsThe Government have announced, in answer to questions in both Houses, that the prospects of a congress have materially improved. The feeling throughout Europe has undergone a great change. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Cooktown Herald on the 15th instant reports that Mr. Fahey, sub-collector of Customs and harbourmaster, had received a communication from the lighthouse-keeper at Clermont, yesterday ...
Article : 408 wordsThe naval preparations at Chatham have been relaxed. ...
Article : 17 wordsThere has been sharp and continuous fighting at the Cape. The British troops were successful. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn the House of Commons, to-day, Sir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to a question, said that he was not at present prepared to give details of the negotiations which ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsOne of our mine owners recently contracted with a couple of brawny miners to sink a shaft on his claim to a depth of 100 feet. The men went to work with a vim, and at the end of a month reported ...
Article : 285 wordsGOULBURN, Tuesday.—Ing Chee, for the murder of Li Hock, a cookshop-keeper, was executed at five minutes past 9 o'clock this morning. Chee became a Christian yesterday, and was baptised ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 669 wordsPrince Bismarck invites the European Powers to Congress. The Congress is expected to meet on the 11th June, when the whole treaty of Sun Stefano will be submitted. It was officially ...
Article : 48 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—The breadstuffs market here is falling. Wheat declined more than one penny per bushel to-day, and flour fell a little over half-a-crown. ...
Article : 30 wordsA correspondent writes:—As the 20 past 4 mail train from Sydney was approaching the Orange terminus on Tuesday, it ran off the main line on to a siding, the points having been left open by the ...
Article : 454 wordsYesterday the city coroner held an inquest at the Infirmary, respecting the death of William Hilder, one of the men who were injured by the explosion at the Atlas iron works, at the head of Darling Harbour, on ...
Article : 352 wordsLast evening a little boy named Bertie Woolf, aged 5, was brought to the Infirmary, suffering from a scalp wound. The little follow was playing near Hyde Park, when another boy threw a piece of road ...
Article : 97 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—An unusual event has just been reported. A Mrs. Lloyd residing at Maitland, gave birth to three children. All are doing well. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is very natural that the town populations of New South Wales should wish for increased facilities for investing in the lands of the colony, especially as alienation is proceeding at such a rapid ...
Article : 788 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Colonel Downes, commandant, strongly urges on the Council of Education the desirability of making drill compulsory among the teachers and pupils of the public ...
Article : 63 wordsThe progress of the work in connection with the re-construction of the Holy Trinity Church, Argyle-street, Miller's Point, during the last few weeks, has been considerable. The gable end and [?] of the ...
Article : 175 wordsHOBART TOWN, Wednesday.—Tasmanian harbour defences are being vigorously pushed forward. Captain Boddam has arrived here under instructions from Colonel Scratchley, to superintendent ...
Article : 29 wordsCOOKTOWN, Tuesday.—News just received from Port Douglas shows that the settlement is suffering dreadfully from fever. The whole town is down with it. Many deaths have already ...
Article : 65 wordsThe President of the Legislative Council, the Hon. Sir John Hay, K.C.M.G., invited a large number of gentlemen, including many members of both Houses, to a a banquet on Monday, in the ...
Article : 282 wordsCOOKTOWN, Wednesday.—The steamer William M'Kinnon arrived yesterday afternoon.—A private and numerous party leave with the prospectors for the Cowen River. They have three ...
Article : 38 wordsA prisoner was indicted under Terry's Flogging Act this morning, at Darlinghurst, for garette robbery. The frequency of assaults and robberies with violence necessitates stringent repressive measures. ...
Article : 391 wordsROCKHAMPTON, Tuesday.—Henry Tause, charged at Charters Towers with robbery under arms, was acquitted and discharged without a stain on his character. An alibi was successfully proved. ...
Article : 85 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A lively contest is anticipated at Castlemaine. Professor Pearson and Messrs. Champman and Gaunson will be the candidates.—June I will be the last day upon ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—A meeting was held here in the Town Hall, yesterday evening, the Mayor in the chair. The object of the meeting was to consider Mr. Groom's amendment regarding the ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. H. O. T. Cowdroy, of Nerrigondah, submitted two samples of stone from the Dromedary Reef for assay at the Sydney branch of the Royal Mint, during the early part of last week. Each sample ...
Article : 240 wordsA meeting of the Chinese residents, comprising the names of all the principal merchants belonging to their community, was held on Monday night, when it was decided to open subscription lists, to which ...
Article : 140 words"King Lear" was reproduced at the Victoria Theatre last night with the same cast as when it was first presented by Mr. Cr[?]wick, and the play will be repeated to-night for the last time. To-morrow ...
Article : 105 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Tenders have been called for the 25th of June, for the construction of the Geelong and Queenscliff Railway.—In the construction of the Warrenhelp and Gordon line ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Wed 29 May 1878, Page 2
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