A wet Christmas Day served only to make Boxing Day more agreeable. The rains had freshened the grass, cooled the air, and kept the dart from flying, and the people took advantage of the beautiful ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 199 wordsA body was found hanging to a sapling about 150 yards from the Yarra track to Woods's Point, on Thursday, by a man looking for cattle. The body had evidently been hanging there four or five weeks, ...
Article : 97 wordsA lad named Corbin was accidentally killed on Thursday. He was out shooting with other lads, when a hare started. The deceased ran across the line of fire, and received the contents of a gun in his ...
Article : 45 wordsThe sports advertised to take place on the Agricultural Society's Ground on Saturday, were postponed till to-day, owing to the very poor attendance. Good as the programme was, the counter attraction at Randwick was a ...
Article : 169 wordsThe codlin moth has been discovered in three gardens, viz., Mrs. Thomas' and Mr. Scammel's at Unley, and Mr. Hardy's at Bankside. The Government is taking prompt measures to eradicate the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 84 wordsThe intercolonial cricket match began on the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday. The weather was cool and cloudy. The turf was in excellent order, and the attendance of spectators was good. Baanerman, Davis and Ferris stood ...
Article : 1,051 wordsThe grand Eisteddfoid, which was held on Friday a Wallsend, was a great success. Prizes were competed for in Welsh and English. The barque Gogoburn, from London with a large ...
Article : 165 wordsGRAFTON, Saturday.—The shareholders of the Band of Hope Mine, Solferino, presented Mr. Paulo Marcolino, on Thursday, with a handsome gold pendant, manufactured from a portion of the yield of the ...
Article : 71 wordsOn Thursday afternoon, as a man named William Greef was working at Parbury's Wharf, he discovered the body of a man, floating face downward. The body was recovered and removed to the Circular ...
Article : 211 wordsAbout 3000 persons visited Mr. Frank Smith's grounds at Botany on Saturday. A string band of ten performers, under the leadership of Mr. Charles Austin performed good music for dancing in the large ...
Article : 252 wordsMessrs. Gresley Lukin and Co. have received the following report from the manager of the Victoria Silver Mine under date 22nd instant:—The main tunnel has been driven a farther ...
Article : 112 wordsThree children were drowned this afternoon, While all the townspeople were at the Wodonga races. Two of the children were sons of the verger of the Anglican Church of England, and were named Samuel ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 wordsWAVERLEY.—A special meeting of this council was held on Tuesday, December 22. The Mayor was in the chair. A suggestion was made by Mr. A. B. Stone, a ratepayer, to the council, to erect saltwater baths on the Waverley ...
Article : 1,239 wordsThe North Queen, Charters Towers, crushed 240 tons of stone for 737oz of gold, and a dividend of 1[?] has been declared. The Wyndham Tribute crushed 127 tons for 145oz. The local banks purchased during ...
Article : 198 wordsThis strange medley of the ingenious and varied ways in which susceptible victims can be induced to empty their pockets before the not-to-be-denied tro[?]ps of importuning ladies, is approaching its close. Soon ...
Article : 323 words[?]wing probably to the Sawyers' and Millworkers' Union having been called for Christmas Eve, there was such a poor attendance of members that it was decided to postpone the meeting. ...
Article : 38 wordsA meeting of delegates of the Brickmakers' Union was held in the Botany View Hotel on Wednesday evening, to make arrangements for the trade demonstration and picnic, which is to take place on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 words[?] meeting of the Stonemasons' Society was held in [?]ne Swan with Two Necks Hotel, on Thursday evening, to discuss the situation of affairs in connection with the Manly Beach strike. After a brief ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the "Zoo" some 5000 persons, many of whom were undeniably country folk, appeared to enjoy themselves to the utmost; and Jumbo and Jessie certainly earned their tucker, if they did nothing else. The ...
Article : 123 wordsMELBOURNE, Saturday.—Matters in connection with the threatened strike of wharf laborers are still in an unsettled condition. An offer was made by the shipowners to pay a penny per ton extra on coal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,149 wordsOf inflictions hard to bear At this festive time of year, Though the charge sheets in police courts rarely show it; ...
Article : 212 wordsMr. F. G. Stuart, of Paddington, has addressed as on the subject of the paragraph that appeared in Wednesday's EVENING News respecting the dro[?]vning of the lad Northen, near the Association Cricket ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 242 wordsThe town of Gosford, which is now the capital, so to speak, of the wide Wollimbi electroate, is making its demand for just consideration in the matter of the public expenditure; and already Mr. Scott, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,426 wordsA " grand session," by the children of the Sydne Progressive Lyceum, or "the Sunday School of this future," as it is called, was held in the Gaiety Theatre on Sunday night. It was conducted by Mr. ...
Article : 170 wordsThe following casualties nave been medically attended in the Sydney Hospital:—Patrick Kelly, residing in Church Hill, sustained an incised wound of the face, three inches in length caused by a fall. ...
Article : 196 wordsThere were not any charges to be dealt with in the North Shore Police Court on Saturday. Raining on Saturday in Tenterfield, Casino, Ballina, Grafton, Clarence Heads, Taree, Manning ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Mon 28 Dec 1885, Page 6
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