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  2. Supreme Court.

    Mr. Pilcher, instructed by Mr. C. B. Pitt, appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. Darley and Mr. Windeyer, instructed by Mr. Levy, for the defendant. This case which was an action for slander, was of ...

    Article : 187 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 617 words
  4. Electric Light for South Head.

    Mr. Morrison, of the Telegraph Department and Torpedo Corps, has been very successful in experimenting with the apparatus for producing light by electricity. This apparatus was recently imported ...

    Article : 327 words
  5. Death and Funeral of the Great Scottish Giant.

    MR. WILLIAM CAMPBELL, landlord of the Duke of Wellington public-house, High Bridge, Newcastle, and widely known as the Scottish Giant, died at that establishment late in June. He had been ill about ...

    Article : 651 words
  6. Important about New Caledonia.

    WE ere informed from private sources that the mail just arrived from Europe, brings news from Paris to the following effect:—The first business the Government at Versailles will attend to on ...

    Article : 557 words
  7. DANIEL LAMBERT.

    The most corpulent man ever known previous to the death of William Campbell, the Scottish giant, was Daniel Lambert, a native of Leicester, who died on the 21st June, 1809. He measured 3ft lin round ...

    Article : 165 words
  8. JURY COURT.

    This was an action for slander. The facts were of no public interest, and unfit for publication. After the addresses of counsel and his Honor's summing up the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £50 ...

    Article : 70 words
  9. A Troublesome instrument.

    AFTER various experiments had been given in the coarse of a lecture by Professor Smith, at a meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, in June last, with the Microphone (an instrument illustrated and ...

    Article : 436 words
  10. DIVORCE COURT.

    Mr. C. J. Manning, instructed by Mr. Brennan, appeared for the petitioner (the husband). Mr. Link later, instructed by Mr. Greer, for the respondent (the wife). ...

    Article : 177 words
  11. Mr. Harold Stephen on Spiritulism.

    Mr. Harold W.H. Stephen will deliver a lecture this evening in the Oddfellows' Hall, Woolahra, at S.p.m. By mistake the advertisement of this lecture was inserted yesterday, so as to cause the impression ...

    Article : 117 words
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    Advertising : 62 words
  13. Advertising

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    Advertising : 604 words
  14. Central Criminal Court.

    Michael Finn pleaded not guilty to an information filed against him, for having on the 28th July last garotted and robbed one Daniel Morgan of one watch and albert, and a locket, his property. In a second ...

    Article : 654 words
  15. Our Newcastle Letter.

    The following is the output for the week ending August 16,1878, viz. 29,273 tons, being 6197 from the A. A. Company, 2612 from Wallsend Co. 4l70 from Co-operative Colliery, £390 from Lambton Colliery, 2904 from Waratah. 4061 from ...

    Article : 156 words
  16. THE FUNERAL.

    The remains of the deceased were interred on Tuesday in Jesmond Cemetery, Newcastle, in presence of a vast concourse of spectators. Campbell, while confined to his bed, occupied a room on the third ...

    Article : 1,326 words
  17. Advertising

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    Advertising : 609 words
  18. The Sydneian. No. XL

    The present number of the Grammar School Magazine is full of interesting school newt, and appears well adapted to promote the esprit do corps which the editor seems to think wanting. It is a ...

    Article : 63 words
  19. IMPORTS, &c.

    The duties received at the customs for the week ending August 16 are as follow:—Duty, £1015 2s 6d; pilotage, £129 11s; removals, £27 5s; harbour and light rates, £31 17s 8d; total, £1206 16s 2d. ...

    Article : 40 words
  20. Transit Board Tricks.

    The Transit Commissioners were engaged on Thursday afternoon inspecting a large number of waggonettes plying on the Enmore and Kingston routes. All were approved of with the exception of ...

    Article : 102 words
  21. PEDESTRIANISM.—CARVER V. PRENTICE.

    The match between Carver (late of Mores), and Charles Prentice (of Gunnedah) has been finally settled. The distance is probably to be 200 yards, and the stakes £200 aside. Carver was the conqueror in the last match, and has now the ...

    Article : 49 words
  22. Notorious Rascal Convicted of Garotting.

    At, the Central Criminal Court this afternoon, Michael Finn was indicted under Terry's Act with having at Sydney on the 23th July garotted and robbed, and on a second count under the old statute ...

    Article : 90 words
  23. Railway Employees' Grievance.

    Considerable indignation is expressed by a great number of the railway employees at the recent proclamation of the Government, to the effect that all employees who required railway accommodation in ...

    Article : 177 words
  24. New South Wales Successful.

    The following is an extract from a letter received by Mr. P. N. Trebeck from Mr. Jules Joubert:—"Paris, July 2, 1878. My dear Trebeck.—We have the juries at work nearly all day long. They consist ...

    Article : 264 words
  25. Suspicious Affair near Dubbo.

    In a recent issue we (Dubbo Dispatch) stated that owing to certain suspicious circumstances—to whispers of foul play—the relatives determined to have the body of the late Alexander Cameron, of ...

    Article : 612 words
  26. Insolvency Court.—This Day.

    Charles Lorenzen, commission agent, Sydney. Liabilities, £286 5s 6d, Assets, £10 14s 6d, Deficiency, £276 11s. Mr. Samuel Lyons, official assignee. John Johnston, of Sydney, drayman. Liabilities. ...

    Article : 89 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 543 words
  28. Morning Gallops.

    ALTHOUGH it was expected that something good would be done this morning, and very early too, the good thing didn't come off; and notwithstanding that the "touts" were on the qui nine long before daylight, work did not commence until ...

    Article : 279 words
  29. Advertising

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    Advertising : 175 words
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