A boiler explosion took place at Brewer's saw mills, High-street, this morning, resulting in the death of a man named Michael O'Brien. The deceased was loading his dray with refuse timber ...
Article : 92 wordsGlasgow has had a sensation. Shortly after 10 o'clock on the night of Saturday, January 20, a large gasometer, belonging to the Glasgow Corporation, exploded with a noise which was heard all over the ...
Article : 141 wordsMr. W. Cooper, of Sydney, who is Well known in coursing circles, has complained to the Victoria Coursing Club that on his trainer taking up quarters at Essendon the local municipal ...
Article : 429 wordsLONDON, April 20.—In the House of Lords, Lord Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, stated, in reply to a question, that recently, Mr. Archer, Agent-General for Queensland, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 725 wordsA cablegram has been received from New Zealand announcing that at the half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Bank of New Zealand, held at Auckland yesterday, the report and balance-sheet to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 645 wordsThe sitting of the Assembly, which commenced yesterday, was an extraordinary one, lasting as it did until close upon 11 o'clock this forenoon. The cause of this unusual proceeding was the Licensing Bill ...
Article : 154 wordsAt the Assizes yesterday, a man named Proctor was charged with having committed a capital offence upon his daughter, a girl of 17 years. The prisoner, with his two daughters and two sons (one ...
Article : 232 wordsLONDON, April 20.—A new steamer, built for the Port Jackson Steamship Company, to run between Manly and Sydney, has shown, on a trial trip, a speed of 15 knots an hour. ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, April 20.—The directors of the Oriental Bank have accepted a charter similar to that under which the colonial banks are incorporated. ...
Article : 32 words"In the last six months," says the chairman the North-London Railway, "10,549 persons have been convicted of travelling upon this line in a carriage of a superior class to that for which they took ...
Article : 209 wordsLONDON, April 19.—Those persons who have been arrested for being concerned in dynamite plots are to be charged with treason-felony. Norman, the Fenian, who turned informer, has ...
Article : 73 wordsMessrs. Kennedy and Shorten arrived in town yesterday with 275oz of gold, the result of a new find at Hanging Rock, between Biack Snake and Christmas reefs. Two men hare been working there ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON, April 20.—The strike of seamen and wharf labourers at Marseilles has been arranged, and the men have resumed work. ...
Article : 23 wordsWhen Mr. R. Burdett Smith was on Thursday night complaining that the supporters of the Government were not treated with courtesy by Ministers when they were speaking, there was so much confusion ...
Article : 229 wordsThe question asked by Mr. Lyne in the Assembly on Thursday night with regard to the probable advantage of dividing railway sheep trucks into four compartments will have effected some ...
Article : 978 wordsLONDON, April 20.—M. Tirard, Minister of Finance in the French Government, has submitted to the Chamber of Deputies a scheme for the conversion of 5 percent. rentes into 4½ ...
Article : 33 wordsA CABLEGRAM, dated London, April 16, has been received from the Agent-General in London, announcing that he has just returned from Amsterdam to London; that he found the New South Wales court ...
Article : 135 wordsThe trans-continental railway scheme is creating great interest. The Premier has published a vigorous letter in reply to the attacks made on the scheme. ...
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Family Notices : 170 wordsLONDON, April 20.—The Warsaw University has been closed by order of the Russian authorities, in consequence of a Nihilistic revolt having broken our amongst the students. ...
Article : 33 wordsFORT DENISON, APRIL 21.—High water, 7.27 a.m., 7.46 p.m. LONDON, April 19.—Arrivals: Lanoma, barque, from Launceston January 18; Glenochil, steamer, from Port Augusta ...
Article : 1,240 wordsST. PETERSBURG, April 19.—A number of prisoners who were arrested in connection with the recent revival of Nihilism in this country have been brought to trial. Six of the number ...
Article : 48 wordsThis morning Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., city coroner held an inquest on the body of John Addy, 15 years of age, who was killed yesterday forenoon at Cameron's Tobacco Factory, Liverpool-street. It ...
Article : 246 wordsAPPOINMENTS.—W. Clarke, M.L.A., J. Meyer-fleld, the Hon. C. Moore, M.L.C., and H. B. Wood-house, J.P., to be additional representative commissioners for this colony at the International Exhibition ...
Article : 223 wordsA novel case was heard at Lambton yesterday. Charles Mitchell, a boy, charged a companion named William Fenwick with having exploded gunpowder in his (Mitchell's) face. Mitchell ...
Article : 43 wordsBOMBAY, April 20.—News is to hand from Delhi of a disastrous conflagration which extended over a large portion of that city. No less than 2000 houses are estimated to have been ...
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Advertising : 230 wordsThe Barmedman United G.M. Company has got another cake of gold weighing lO2ozs. 12dwts. The burglar of the jewellery has been arrested ...
Article : 31 wordsQUEBEC, April 20.—A fire broke out last night in the building occupied by the Provincial Legislature of Quebec, in this city, and before the flames could be extinguished the edifice was ...
Article : 53 wordsThe inhabitants of the Tibooburra Field have held an indignation meeting to protest against the action of the Minister for Mines in cancelling the reservation of the nearest waterhole to the ...
Article : 153 wordsLONDON, April 20.—The question of the proposed pensions to Lords Wolseley and Alcester (Sir F. Beauchamp Seymour), in recognition of their services in the Egyptian war, were brought ...
Article : 47 wordsLady Frederick Cavendish.—A letter from Lady Frederick Cavendish was read at a recent meeting of the Skipton Liberal Association. It was written in answer to a request of the Rev. S. Lloyd, who had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsLONDON, April 20.—A watchman on duty at the "Times" office, last night, discovered a box containing gunpowder concealed at the back of the premises in Printing House-square. No doubt ...
Article : 49 wordsThere are several aquatic events of considerable interest coming off this afternoon. The Victorians and New South Wales eight-oar crews are to take trial pulls over the coarse, and the Association will ...
Article : 125 wordsA terrific hailstorm passed over Capertee yesterday afternoon, lasting an hour. It punched holes in galvanised iron, breaking windows in all directions. Several people were struck, one ...
Article : 71 wordsA man named Andrew Hulin, while assisting to coal the ship Fiery Cross, fell from the plank runner on to the deck, a distance of some 20ft. His face was much bruised, and the elbow of the left, a[?] ...
Article : 75 wordsONCE more has the CZAR of all the Russias to postpone putting his crown on for fear the exhibition of that kingly symbol should prove to be his last act on earth. Other men may wear their ...
Article : 876 wordsThe Dubbo Assizes began on Thursday. Mr. Justice Faucett presided, and Mr. H. R. M'Culloch acted as Crown Prosecutor. Messrs. D. Buchanan, F. Gibson, and R. Colonna Close, ...
Article : 114 wordsBenjamin Jones, 23, and William Downes, 29, were charged at the Central police court this morning with assaulting one James Graham, and robbing him of £13 12s 6d. Sergeant Broderick gave evidence to ...
Article : 98 wordsThe late Duke of A—was dining at a Highland anniversary dinner in full kilt dress, with his piper behind him. At dessert a very handsome and valuable snuffbox belonging to one of the guests was ...
Article : 428 wordsAt Milton,' Conn., immediately after the funeral services of one William Gregory, and before the mourners had left the room or the corpse had been removed, his daughter was married to one George ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Protection and political Reform League met at the Temperance Hall on Thursday evening, vice-president Mr. W. Richardson in the chair. After the minutes of the last meeting had been read and ...
Article : 310 wordsOn Thursday last Mr. Charles Malcolm, R.A.M., a pianist, who arrived in the colony recently, gave a recital at Mr. W. H. Paling's rooms, George-street, in the presence of a number of professional and A citizen of Paris claims to have produced, in a new compound which he calls panclastite, a means of destruction altogether eclipsing dynamite. Panclastite consists of hypoaxotic acid, which is one of the ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Sat 21 Apr 1883, Page 4
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