The plaintiffs, in this action, claimed from the defendant a sum of £126 3s due to them for work and labour done under an agreement, signed by the defendant, by which they agreed to sink a well for the ...
Article : 135 wordsCOOKTOWN, Wednesday.—A telegram from Palmerville states that payable gold is being got for 100 miles along both sides of the Palmer River, besides in the river bed. The party for the other ...
Article : 123 wordsThe English and the French Commissioners at the Paris Exhibtion, have been banquetted by Mr. Edward Combes, the representative commissioner of New South Wales. Most ...
Article : 76 wordsCOOKTOWN, Wednesday,—A thrilling account has been received here of a mishap to a small vessel bound for New Guinea, and the hardships which her crew were forced to endure ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 911 wordsIf anyone entertained the belief that the English Ministers won a diplomatic victory at Berlin, they will surely be undeceived by the news brought by the Suez mail. For one point scored by Lord ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsQUYANBRYAN, Tuesday.—A meeting of the Free Selectors Association was held to-day at the Oddfellows Hall (J.J.Wright in the chair) to elect representatives to the forthcoming conference. ...
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Advertising : 15 wordsA discussion arose in Parliament to-day as to when the Russian occupation of Turkey would terminate. Reference was particularly made to Roumelia, and the neighbourhood of ...
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Family Notices : 148 wordsCOOKTOWN, Tuesday.—The following are the acceptances for the forthcoming races at Cooktown:—Town Plate; Wanderer, Blue Peter Playboy, Coquette, Bowstring, and Jibboom. For the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe reading of the evidence in this case was continued. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn the case of William Thomas Asprey, indicted on an information charging him with the commission of a capital offence at Bombala on the 12th day of May, the evidence in chief was entirely inadmissible to ...
Article : 661 wordsThe occupation of Batoum by the Russians is causing great excitement amongst the inhabitants of the town and the district. They fear that their religion will be destroyed, and that their ...
Article : 72 wordsGLOUCESTER, Tuesday.—Fifty three tons stone from p.c. Anderson's reef, crushed at the new machine, averaged one ounce and a half to the ton. Twelve tons from Sawyers Reef, at the Rainbow ...
Article : 64 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—News has been received from England that the health of the Rev. Thomas Jones (incumbent of All Saints' Church, Brisbane) is not restored and he consequently, has resigned. ...
Article : 154 wordsA HEAVY storm at sea is often followed by a prolonged swell, subsiding so slowly as to cause no little trouble and even danger to those who have escaped the fury of the tempest. And now, ...
Article : 730 wordsThe opposition that Austria has met with in the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has caused her to proceed rapidly with a fresh mobilisation of her army. The Transylvanian corps have been ...
Article : 107 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Mr. John Robb, contractor for the North-West Bend and Murray Railway is the successful tenderer for the Port Victor Breakwater and screw-pile jetty, at a total cost ...
Article : 143 wordsTwenty thousand of the Mahometan population at Batoum have assembled to resist the Russian occupation of that town. ...
Article : 27 wordsAT the general meeting of the Political Reform Association last night, the question of the University in relation to the working class was considered. The gentlemen who addressed themselves on the subject ...
Article : 976 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Sir Stafford Northcote, the Chancellor of the Excequer, replying to a question, said that the British ironclad squadron would quit the Sea of Marmora as soon ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Indian Government has received despatches from the mission at Cabul, stating that the Russian mission has arrived. LONDON, August 12. ...
Article : 198 wordsNEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—An extraordinary occurances took place between 3 and 4 o'clock this afternoon. As the ketch Ben was proceeding on her voyage to Lake Macquarie, the master James ...
Article : 370 wordsThe young Australian actress, Miss Beatrice, begins a star engagement at the Theatre Royal in a new and entirely original play of English home life and manners entitled "Never Forgotten." This brilliant ...
Article : 53 wordsGeorge Frederick Wells of J, Globe-street, near Circular Quay, insmith, Cause of sequestration: sickness of wife and want of employment, Liabilities £68 6s 1d; assets £25. Assignee. Mr. S. Lyons. ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is ten thousand pities that another judge of the Supreme Court is not appointed, for as the matter now stands, the judges are over-worked, and, of consequence, much worried, which being the case, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 849 wordsMargaret Stewart was convicted of having stolen a watch, the property of John Campbell, and was sentenced to be imprisoned for eighteen months. UNLAWFULLY WOUNDING. ...
Article : 271 wordsCOOKTOWN, Tuesday.—A letter from Captain Webb, of the Pride of Logan, fishing party, states that in consequence of the misconduct of Pitt and Blakesley's fishing party towards the natives, they ...
Article : 253 wordsIn a letter to a gentleman in Sydney, Mr. M'Farlane thus refers to the New Guinea expedition and Mr. Goldie's responsibility:—"Here is a sad state of things; only two out of the fifty diggers have ...
Article : 258 wordsThe proceedings at the Water Police Court yesterday were very lively the business being whether a house opposite Dr. M'Gibbons church, in Palmer Street, should be licensed or not. Thirty-five ...
Article : 274 wordsMr. William J. Davis, the special agent of the American overland route for England takes his departure for home per P.M.S.S. Australia, sailing tomorrow afternoon. Mr. Davis has made the tour ...
Article : 69 wordsWe have received the following letter, dated London, May 28, from a London correspondent:—Sir,—Mr. and Mdms. Larchie arrived in England early this month, after an eighteen months most ...
Article : 297 wordsAn inquest was held this morning, at the Double Bay Hotel, on the body of Annie Eggers, aged eighteen years, who died at the residence of Mr. William Lee, No.2, Bayswater Villas, Double Bay. ...
Article : 280 wordsThe City Coroner this morning held in inquest at the Brecknock Arms, Lower George-street respecting the death of a male infant, whose body was found last Monday afternoon in a drain ...
Article : 128 wordsA single wicket match at cricket was placed on the Carlton cricket ground, Moore Park between Mr. A. Evans, of the Warwick Cricket Club, and Messrs. J. Player and W. Player, of the Penrith Club, the ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Wed 14 Aug 1878, Page 2
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