It is not every day that a real live king is to be seen and stared at for nothing; but the public of Sydney have had this treat afforded them during the week. Last Monday a Moari chief, King Tawhaio ...
Article : 920 wordsOn Good Friday the employees in the various departments of the EVENING NEWS and the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL, together with their wives and families, were invited by Mrs. Samuel Bennett to a ...
Article : 900 wordsAt a meeting of the Executive Council the Hon. J. Campbell, M.L.C., was sworn in as a member and as Postmaster-General. The Hon. N. Thornley, M.L.C., who accepts a seat in the Council ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,522 wordsPARIS, April 9.—Jules Ferry, President of the Council, announced in Chambers to-day that a complete rupture had occurred with Madagascar. Negotiations have broken off, and the French ...
Article : 48 wordsCALCUTTA, April 9.—News has been received of a great fire which occurred at Mandalay, the capital of Burmah, and a place of 100,000 inhabitants. Half the entire city was burned to the ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is no new thing to hear that frauds are committed in connection with the operations of the Land Act, and that in order to successfully carry them out men resort to perjury, without any ...
Article : 1,368 wordsCAIRO, April 9 (evening).—News has been received by the Government direct from General Gordon, under date of 13th March, stating that the Soudanese, who are in an open state ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 678 wordsCAIRO, April 11.—It is announced that Nubar Pasha and Mr. Clifford Lloyd have withdrawn their resignations, and have consented to retain office as President of the Council of ...
Article : 50 wordsSUEZ, April 8.—The Q.S.M. Roma left yesterday homewards. ...
Article : 12 wordsLONDON, April 8.—Market rate of discount 2 per cent., or 1/2 per cent. below the minimum bank rate. New South Wales 4 per cent. Loan 1903-1905, £103 5s; Queensland 4 per cent. Loan 1913-1915, ...
Article : 207 wordsJudgment was given by the Supreme court on Thursday on an application for a new trial in the action of Shallue v the Long Tunnel Company. The plaintiff was the father of one Michael ...
Article : 144 wordsPatrick J. Murray, an elderly man, was charged in the City police court on Thursday with bigamy. He engaged at a labour office a woman named Carlan to accompany him to a station in New ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, April 10.—The frozen meat ex Garonne, from Melbourne, has been separately examined, and the condition of the meat is considered doubtful. ...
Article : 27 wordsCOLOMBO, April 10. The P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Shannon sailed for Albany last night, with the London mails to March 21. ...
Article : 26 wordsLONDON, April 10.—The B.I.S.N. Company's steamer Roma left Port Said to-day. homewards. The Merkara left Plymouth yesterday for Queensland. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe land returns for March show that the total area of land sold for cash was 1218 acres, and the amount bid was £2155. The month's credit sales amounted to £78,416, representing an area of ...
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Family Notices : 130 wordsLONDON, April 9.—The first portion of the mutton by the Doric was placed on the Smithfieid market to-day. The condition of the meat was good, and the mutton realised an ...
Article : 62 wordsA mass meeting (the largest ever held in Quirindi) took place on Wednesday night. Mr. E. Underwood, J.P., the senior district magistrate, occupied the chair ; and the object of the ...
Article : 210 wordsThe vital statistics for the last year show the births to be 11,173, being 329 more than the preceding year. The deaths numbered 4435, exceeding the previous year by 42, while the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe artillery encampment at Middle Head is in full operation, all the men being now under canvas, and true military regulations being observed. The regulars are encamped to the east of the Military. ...
Article : 580 wordsLONDON, April 11.—The latest intelligence from Cairo states that the town of Shendy is besieged by the insurgent Arabs. ...
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Advertising : 720 wordsIt is understood that the new regulations under the Pacific Islands Labourers' Act will be issued next week. A large wooden building will be erected ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, April 11.—The Parliament of the Dominion of Canada has passed a resolution disallowing the bill adopted by the Legislature of the Province of British Columbia excluding ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, April 9.—The Australian Mortgage, Land and Finance Company propose to double their existing capital. ...
Article : 20 wordsLONDON, April 9.—The STANDARD expresses itself sceptical as to the ultimate success of the shipment of ova sent to Adelaide by the steamship Glenelg. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe COURIER libel case concluded on Thursday afternoon. Judge Harding summed up strongly in favour of the defendant. The jury, after 12 minutes' deliberation, brought in a ...
Article : 65 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, Lord Augustus Lottos, Leaves for Norfolk Island to-day, in Her Majesty's ship Miranda. His Excellency will be accompanied by his private secretary. The trip is ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions on Thursday three young men, of the larrikin type, were charged with attempting to commit a rape upon one Ellen Dyer, a middle-aged woman, in Lackey-street on the night of ...
Article : 199 wordsWe regret to announce the sudden demise of Mr. J.S. Jones, who for a number of years has held an important position in the public school service, formerly as master and more recently as an inspector of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 951 wordsYesterday morning Dr. Barry preached at St. John's Darlinghurst, from the text Phillippians ii., v. 9,10,11—"Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above ...
Article : 411 wordsIn the Assembly on Wednesday Mr. Sydney Smith. M.P., when discussing the railway estimates, pointed out that the strict enforcement of the staff regulations on Victorian railways would probably ...
Article : 387 wordsBefore His Honor Judge Wilkinson, on Thursday afternoon, the following appeals were heard:—Edward Seymour and Petar Walsh appealed against a decision of Mr. Crane, S.M., by which they were ...
Article : 301 wordsThe arrangements for continuous training at Windsor are in full swing, and yesterday morning broke gloriously fine, a fact which caused a generous feeling of pleasure and thankfulness all round, for as ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Sat 12 Apr 1884, Page 4
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