CANTERBURY.—A meeting of the Canterbury Borough Council was held on Wednesday night, when there were present the Mayor (Mr. B. Taylor), and Aldermen Sharp, Slocombe, Roberts, and Williams ...
Article : 659 wordsThus the caustic "Northumbrian" in REYNOLD'S NEWSPAPER.— Much has lately been said about a reform in the House of Lords, and we have only been ...
Article : 1,554 wordsThe thirty-third annual meeting of the society for the relief of destitute children was held in Hie asylum, Randwick, on Wednesday. The president, Mr. G. F. Wise, occupied the chair. Messrs. S. H. Pearce ...
Article : 1,161 wordsMr. W, L. Murdoch, is appears, does not intend to settle down and practise in Sandhurst. He has returned to his, business in Cootamundra, aud notified his intention to remain there. Except to lend a helping hand in local and ...
Article : 51 wordsShortly before 11 p.m. on Tuesday, a disastrous fire broke out in lower Church-street, and resulted in the total destruction of four valuable buildings and their contents. It was supposed that it was ...
Article : 210 wordsA large meeting was held on Tuesday, in Morrison's Assembly Rooms, re the Cobar railway. Mr. Lewis (the Mayor), was the chairman. The first resolution was moved by Mr. Brough ...
Article : 211 wordsIt is expected that the English cricketers will play 22 of Singleton on February 17 and 18. Following are the weights for the Workworth races, which will be run on the 26th instant:—Handicap—Caliph ...
Article : 98 wordsThe 46th report and balance-sheet of the New Zealand Insurance Company were considered at the general meeting of shareholders on Wednesday, the 14th instant. A dividend of 3s per share was ...
Article : 64 wordsThe acting-Colonial Secretary has adopted the recommendation of the Inspector of Charities, and made an order for the transfer of some 67 children from the Benevolent Asylum to the Randwick ...
Article : 68 wordsThe adjourned hearing of the case against John Fisher Cripps, charged with having wilfully set fire to the Coffee Palace Hotel, was proceeded with in the Water Police Court on Wednesday ...
Article : 984 wordsA man named Harry Young, who is well known in Bathurst, he having been a storeman in the employment off Messrs. Webb and Co. and Messrs. Meagher and Co., was charged in the police ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Whittingdale Johnson. D.S.M., presided in the charge court in the Water Police Court, Wednesday. William Thomas pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen a pair of compasses and a 2ft rule, the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe case of sly grog-selling which was brought against Jeremiah Q'Keefe, of Unbango, was dismissed. Two Chinamen, who played the part of informers, said that they purchased four ...
Article : 128 wordsIn the Balmain Police Court, Wednesday, three men named James Tupman, Henry Dubbo, and Patrick Kennedy, who were charged with riotous behaviour, were each fined 20s, with 2s 6d costs, by Mr. Yates ...
Article : 133 wordsThe tender of one of the shareholders (Mr. James) for the local flour will has been accepted at £300 a year for the first year, with the option of a further term of two years, at the yearly ...
Article : 176 wordsIn Central Police Court on Wednesday, Alice Butler, 15years of age, was charged with having beep containally in the company of common prostitutes. She was ordered to be sent to the Industrial School. Patrick ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Earl of Rosebery was entertained at dinner the other day by the Liverpool Reform Club. He expressed his satisfaction at the manner in which the recent settlement of the redistribution of seats had ...
Article : 123 wordsThus a correspondent:—"The proceedings in connection with the incorporation of the town of Lithgow are exciting a deal of comment. A public meeting was convened by advertisement in the local ...
Article : 135 wordsA distinct shock of earthquake was felt at 11.10 a.m., and lasted from 10 to 15 seconds. It took the direction of S.W. to N.E ...
Article : 31 wordsParents are greatly complaining of the absence of a school teacher. No school lias been held since just before Christmas, The residents consider that the slackness of the Education Department ...
Article : 38 wordsA young salesman for a wholesale house in the city had been to Brighton attending to business, and on his trip down got mashed on a very pretty girl who got in the train at East Croydon. He made her ...
Article : 290 wordsRichard Munro, licensee of Jones's Family Hotel, Darling-street, Balmain, was charged before Mr. Yates, in the Balmain Police Court, Wednesday, with having sold liquor on Sunday, December 28. Mr ...
Article : 144 wordsThe licensed victuallers of Newcastle held an important meeting in Buchanan's Hotel on Tuesday night, when the following resolution was carried:—"That the members separate themselves ...
Article : 106 wordsIn the Water Police Court, Wednesday, before Mr. Johnson, D.S.M., a young woman named Mary Kennedy, 19 years of age, and John S. Loise, a licensed cabman, were charged with having attempted ...
Article : 309 wordsThe weather is dull to-day. Much rain has fallen in the country near Singleton. Mr. William Foster, license of the White Swan Inn, was fined ,£5 on Tuesday for having sold ...
Article : 68 wordsThus the Newcastle (England) CHRONICLE:—Much amusement has been caused among people who travel in tramcars by the introduction of a new system of collecting the fares. The extraordinary implement ...
Article : 120 wordsSir,—In Tuesday's issue of the EVENING NEWS it is stated that the above disease had broken out in Beattie-lane, Redfern. This is utterly impossible, as no such place exists in Redfern. The actual locality ...
Article : 95 wordsIn the case of the Newton-Boyd assault, where in Mrs. Hume, licensee of the hotel in that place, was roughly handled by two men named Scott and Wilson some time ago, the former prisoner was ...
Article : 109 wordsA woman named Euphemia Maudsley was charged in the Balmain Police Courton Wednesday, before Mr. Leopold Yates, with having caused the death of Mary Elisabeth Grant who resided in Foucart-street ...
Article : 124 words"Tye frozen meat trade," wrote the London Correspondent of the Melbourne ARGUS on December 12, "shows decided indications of depression, and prices have declined considerably. The supplies ...
Article : 445 wordsSir,—At intervals of about a fortnight [?] has been, communicating to you certain alleged "reports" from Molong, to the effect that the surveyors of the Forbee-Borenbre line of railway had ...
Article : 85 wordsIt has been announced that Sunday trains will be run to Geelong after the 1st proximo ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. Hanna, road superintendent, in the Wilcannia district, reports that water for teams, &c., is obtainable at the following places on the Wilcannia and Mount Browne road;—Dry Lake tank, 20 miles from ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. Service has announced that he does not consider objectionable any of the minor amendments of the Federation Bill which have been sugested by Lord Derby but, with regard to ...
Article : 57 wordsSir,—Your esteemed paper of last night brings the intelligence of the suicide of Mr. Max Hamburger, of Berlin. Would you allow me to state, for the information of my numerous acquaintances and those of ...
Article : 90 wordsFor some time a gave of men has been employed by the City Engineer on the Brickfield-hill lowering the sewer, in order to make preparation for laying the street with wooden blocks; but as the work has been ...
Article : 112 wordsAn elopement of a romantic character occurred lately in Tibberton, a village about six miles from Worcester. A young lady, 27 years of age, who is possesed of considerable means in her own right ...
Article : 258 wordsCARCOAR, Wednesday.—An escort from Mount M'Donald brought [?] gold from Oliver's freehold and lensehold property. Mining at Mount M'Donald has been [?] carried on since ...
Article : 32 wordsOn the 13th of November an inquest was held on the body of a child which had been sent to the Home Secretary London. The evidence showed that the body had been forwarded without the consent of the ...
Article : 130 wordsA respectably-dressed man named Thomas Hockings was charged, in the Water Police Court, Wednesday, with having obtained the sum of £2 14s by means of false pretences from Maria [?]. Detective ...
Article : 48 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Mercantile Bank of Sydney was held on Tuesday, Sir John Hay presided. A divident at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum was declared. The expenses of management ...
Article : 43 wordsCoraki, steamer, 326 tons, Captain H. Jackson, from Macleay River. Passengers—M[?] Ryan, Thompson, Verge, nurse, and four children. Misses Burns, Thompson Connelly, Messrs Riles, Ryan Issacs, Watson, Reeves ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Thu 22 Jan 1885, Page 6
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