On Saturday morning the Ministerial party left Byerock for Bourke in a couple of vehicles. The distance is 50 miles, and the road goes through some of the worst country it is possible to conceive. The ...
Article : 1,093 wordsIt is reported that the master boot manufacturers, acting on legal opinion, contemplate issuing writs against the officers of the Boot Makers' Union, charging them with libel. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,359 wordsLondon, December 6.—There is no truth in the statement recently made public that the Government of New South Wales had ordered the construction of two gunboats for the defence of that ...
Article : 43 wordsLondon, December 6.—The committee of the French Chamber of Deputies recommended a heavy increase in the duties on flour and corn imported into France. ...
Article : 29 wordsLondon, December 6.—M. Leon Say is organising a powerful free-trade party in France. ...
Article : 20 wordsLondon, December 6.—An "off coast" cargo of wheat was sold on the continent at 35s 3d per 4961b. Nine cargoes, forward shipment, averaged 35s per 4961b. ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, December 7.—The French Senate has rejected the amendment which was passed by the Chamber of Deputies that the members of the Senate should be elected by universal suffrage. ...
Article : 34 wordsIn commemoration with the opening of the Maitland Park to-day as a recreation ground, the mayor's wife, Mrs. R. Hyndes, will be presented with a neat silver trowel, with which to plant a ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, December 7.—The committee of investigation in connection with the consolidated telephone company has re-affirmed that Sir Julius Vogel, a director, enriched himself, and has ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Chief Justice has given orders that the traffic around the Supreme Court is to be stopped during the present sitting, as the noise is disagreable, and it is difficult to hear the ...
Article : 495 wordsLONDON, December 6.—In the House of Lords last night the bill for the extension of the franchise was finally passed, and the House adjourned until February. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe big land sale on Saturday was successful. The two frontage blocks of the Raman Catholic Church ground realised over £5 per foot. Other blocks were submitted. Some realised fair values, ...
Article : 147 wordsPARIS, December 6.—Admiral Miot has sent dispatches to the Government announcing that he has again opened negotiations With the Hovas. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe lines of some of the officers in the Lands Department do not appear to have fallen in pleasant, places. The exigencies of the new Land Act require the removal of many of ...
Article : 756 wordsBERLIN, December 7.—The result of the negotiations between the Spanish Government and the West African Convention is that Spain is pledged to support the decision arrived at by the ...
Article : 47 wordsCAIRO, December 7.—Advices have been received from General Lord Wolseley announcing that a detachment of the 19th Hussars and the first battalion of the South Staffordshire ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Mudgee people have not yet joined in the general scramble for a lands office, although the position of Mudgee is such that it is fully entitled to this boon. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 75 wordsLONDON, December 5.—Quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom, 1,780,000 quarters. Chilian copper, £49 15s per ton. Tin: Straits and Australian, £75 per ton. New Zealand ...
Article : 38 wordsAn important meeting of the members of the Mechanics' Institute was held on Friday night, in order to consider the recommendations from the Committee as to the better means of exit from ...
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Family Notices : 278 wordsLondon, December 7.—The bill for the extension of the Franchise has received the royal assent. ...
Article : 24 wordsLONDON, December 7.—Mr. Upington, the Premier of the Cape Government, has been mobbed in Kimberley, the capital of the Diamond Fields, in consequence of his expressed sympathy ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, December 7.—The Suez Conal Commission has approved of the recommendation made by Sir Andrew Clark, vice-president of the Commission, and has decided to widen the Canal. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe adjourned inquest on the body of James Graham, who was fatally stabbed in the neck by a selector named Killen, living at the 12-Mile Quarries, near Narrandera, ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, December 7.—A number of diamonds which were recently received in London from Australian diamond fields have been examined and tested by experts, and pronounced to be of ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the Legislative Council, the amendments of the Assembly in the Pharmacy Bill were approved of. The Divisional Boards and Agricultural Drainage Bill was passed through committee ...
Article : 608 wordsMr. Henden, an English aeronaut, made a successful ascent from Prince Alfred Park on Saturday afternoon. He is an active, intelligent man, and an enthusiast in ballooning. "The Gem," the ballon in ...
Article : 364 wordsLONDON, December 7.—Off coast cargoes of Australasian wheat are quoted at from 34s 6d to 35s. New Australasian wheat (January to February bills of lading) is selling freely at from 34s ...
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Advertising : 288 wordsSenior-sergeant Cornett, with a couple of policemen, made another successful raid on the shanty-keepers. It resulted in the arrest of the Frenchman Lukis, who was lately convicted and fined ...
Article : 90 wordsWe have to publish the unsatisfactory news that two more cases of samll-pox have occurred; but the unpleasant nature of the item is somewhat qualified by the fact that both the patients are at the ...
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Advertising : 212 wordsLast night Remenyi, the violinist, had a narrow escape from a fearful death. The eminent musician was a passenger by the tram which left Randwick at 8.30, having embarked with some ladies and another ...
Article : 459 wordsJohn Casey, 33 years of age, a journeyman butcher, residing at 12 Ada-street, off Quarry-street, Ultimo, was removed to the quarantine hospital yesterday, as a small-pox patient. The inmates of the house (eight ...
Article : 57 wordsSir,—On reaching Goulburn, on my return to Sydney this morning, a copy of your paper of the 5th instant, fell into my hands. I read—I cannot say with any surprise—an article in this paper on a ...
Article : 277 wordsMr. Samuel G. Wyatt, of the Windsor Police Station, wrote to Mr. William Land, dairyman, of Palmer-street, Woolloomooloo, on December 7, as follows:—"There is no truth in the report that ...
Article : 329 wordsA little boy named M'Duffy was knocked down and run over by a 'bus in High-street, Maitland, on Saturday night. The accident is attributed to the Salvation Army band, which makes it a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 927 wordsThe tide surveyor seized 1800 contraband cigars on board the steamer Whampoa, and 8600 aboard the Corisbrook. The week's Customs revenue was £2926 ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Mon 8 Dec 1884, Page 4
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