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  2. Railway Matters.

    A Ryde correspondent asks us to direct attention to what he considers the absurd alterations the new Sail dray Commissioners have made in the time-table, so far as his line is concerned. ...

    Article : 242 words
  3. Fire at Rodd Island.

    About midday on Wednesday, some of the sheds erected for the carrying on of M. Pasteur's experiments in rabbit extermination were destroyed by fire. The fire was first noticed as ...

    Article : 192 words
  4. The Disastrous Floods.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.-The reports of the effect of the floods in the country, on the railway lines, have been, it is alleged, greatly exaggerated. The railway authorities state that ...

    Article : 586 words
  5. Marine Disasters.

    There appears to be a sudden epidemic of marine disasters, information of which, are daily coining to hand. ...

    Article : 27 words
  6. News by Telegraph.

    NEWCASTLE, Thursday.-Alderman Lindas, who has held a position on the Wickham Council for over eight years, on Wednesday night gave notice of his intention to resign, and a hearty ...

    Article : 54 words
  7. THE SCHOONERS LIZZIE AND BUSTER.

    The following particulars of the dismasting and condemning of the schooner Lizzie, at Howlah, and the dismasting of the schooner Buster, off Gabo, appeared in yesterday's News:- ...

    Article : 333 words
  8. Alleged Larceny.

    NEWCASTLE, Thursday.-William Duggan, 24 years of age, was remanded to Unanderra, near Wollongong, by the local Bench, on a charge of stealing between £3 and £4 in money, and other ...

    Article : 44 words
  9. Justifiable Homicide.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.-An inquest was held at Pentridge prison on Wednesday, on the body of Long Chew, a Chinese prisoner, who died suddenly, as is supposed, from injuries received ...

    Article : 120 words
  10. Poisonous Tinned Fish.

    NEWCASTLE, Thursday.-A boy named was found on Wednesday evening lying under a track, suffering from symptoms of English cholera. Subsequently it was ascertained that ...

    Article : 58 words
  11. Lost in an Avalanche.

    There seems sow no hope of ever recovering the body of Professor Brown, of the Otago University, who was lost in the Otago lake country when exploring on December 15. A telegram to ...

    Article : 173 words
  12. To-day's Police Courts.

    Archibald Brown and Henry Woods were each fined 10s or three days for behaving riotously in the public streets. Ellen Tierney, who assisted Ann Tierney, was ...

    Article : 268 words
  13. A Buggey Accident.

    NEWCASTLE, Thursday.-Miss Golding, of Newcastle, while jumping out of a buggy her dress caught in a wheel, and falling to the ground, she had one of her arms broken. ...

    Article : 34 words
  14. The Customs' Revenue.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.-The customs revenue collected during December amounts to £238,745; and, after deducting drawbacks, left a net return of £221,779. ...

    Article : 26 words
  15. Death of a Maitland Resident.

    WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.-Mr. W. M. Christian, a well known and esteemed resident of Hinton, died on Wednesday from apoplexy in Sydney, where deceased was on a visit. Mr. ...

    Article : 48 words
  16. South Australian News.

    ADELAIDE, Thursday.-Dr. Powell, house surgeon at Mount Gambier Hospital, has been dismissed by the Government for applying for the sum of £15 to purchase a carpet for his house ...

    Article : 54 words
  17. A Suicidal Mania.

    INVERELL, Thursday.-News has been received that Prank Charles Lewin, of Pinehurst Vineyard, had been found with his throat cut in a cellar or outhouse a short distance from his ...

    Article : 274 words
  18. CAPTAIN CABLE'S REPORT.

    Captain Cable, late of the schooner Lizzie, reports as follows of his disastrous voyage: "On Wednesday, November 7, left Sydney. Experienced light variable winds and fine weather to ...

    Article : 488 words
  19. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,260 words
  20. Queensland News.

    CROYDON, Wednesday.-The weather is very hot, heavy rains holding off. The death rate is abnormally high, and the life insurance companies have instructed their agents here to issue no more ...

    Article : 66 words
  21. Attempted Murder and Suicide.

    BRISBANE, Wednesday.-Albert Pritchard, residing at Wollongabba, came home drunk on New Year's Eve, took the baby and attempted to cut its throat. His wife rescued the child and ran ...

    Article : 71 words
  22. Government Gazette.

    APPOINTMENTS.-J. Rae. M.A., J.P., to be a member of the Civil Service Board, in the room of the Hon. G. Eagar, who retires by rotation under the 12th section of the Civil Service Act. ...

    Article : 577 words
  23. Sad Bathing Fatality.

    Another sad drowning fatality occurred on Wednesday afternoon under similar circumstances to those cases which happened at Pyrmont and Leicbhardt on the previous day. ...

    Article : 149 words
  24. FURTHER PARTICULARS.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.-Further accounts of the floods at Castlemaine show that they have been productive of enormous damage to property as well as serious loss of life. Three Chinamen ...

    Article : 262 words
  25. Sudden Death.

    WILCANNIA, Thursday.-A man named Morley, alias Larkins, known as "Jack the Soldier," camped lately on the bend of the river below the hospital, complained to his mate on Wednesday ...

    Article : 96 words
  26. Irregular Running of Trains.

    WOLLONGONG, Thursday.-The irregularity of the arrival and departure of trains is becoming a grave scandal here. On Tuesday morning a special from Sydney was fifty minutes late. The ...

    Article : 158 words
  27. Syenitic Granite.

    Mr. Abigail, the Minister for Mines, has received a report from Mr. C. Wilkinson, the Geological Surveyor on the syenitic granite quarries at Gib Hill, near Bowral. The situation is in the ...

    Article : 160 words
  28. WRECK OF THE EMPRESS OF CHINA.

    A telegram received from Hobart lost evening announces that the barquentine Empress of China, belonging to Hobart, was totally wrecked on the Pyramid Rock, westward of Hunter's ...

    Article : 136 words
  29. A Magistrate's Rebuke.

    During the proceedings at the Central Police Court this morning a contretemps occurred between Mr. Abbott, S.M., who was on the Bench on the charge side, and Mr. T. M. Williamson ...

    Article : 234 words
  30. Fatal Accidents.

    TENTERFIELD, Thursday.-Thomas Bounds, a fettler on the railway line, accompanied by his wife, were in town on Tuesday at the Caledonian games. They left between. 10 and 11 for home. ...

    Article : 255 words
  31. The Commissionaires.

    Sergeant-Major John H. Armstrong says-There is not one word of truth in any of the statements recently made by Mr. Brennan, re the corps of commissionaires, whose industry, general ...

    Article : 534 words
  32. CUT TO THE WATER'S EDGE.

    During a heavy squall in Hobson's Bay yesterday the inward bound steamer Hauroto, from Fiji, struck the ship King Arthur, from Sharpness with a cargo of salt, lying at anchor ...

    Article : 114 words
  33. Householders Beware!

    There is at present going round the various suburbs a man plausible of speech, and intent upon duping credulous landladies of boarding-houses by means of false pretences. The modus ...

    Article : 187 words
  34. B.H. Proprietary Shares.

    BROKEN HILL, Wednesday-The highest market price paid during the year for proprietary shares was in February last, when sales were effected at £414 10s. During April, 1886, the same shares ...

    Article : 52 words
  35. Mails Delayed.

    In consequence of the railway line between Adelaide and Broken Hill being damaged by floods, through railway [?]affic has been suspended, and the mails despatched from here from 28th to ...

    Article : 135 words
  36. Supposed Poisoning.

    A dealer named Thomas Frazer, 51, residing at No, 1, Brent-street, Balmain west, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital this morning by Dr. Fisher. The man said he had taken poison of ...

    Article : 281 words
  37. Victorian News.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.-Farther particulars concerning the man who is supposed to have committed suicide off the Victoria Bridge, and whose name is Irvine D. Mitchell, a commercial ...

    Article : 141 words
  38. The Weather.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 words
  39. NIGHT CAB HORSES.

    Sir,-As your paper is always to the fore in all cases appertaining to the public good, might I ask yon to devote a small space calling the attention of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty ...

    Article : 132 words
  40. Death from Alcoholic Pneumonia

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-An inquest was held to-day on the body, of the woman Mary Ann Georgeson, who was alleged to have been kicked to death by a man in Hefferaan's-lane on ...

    Article : 56 words
  41. Intercolonial Medical Congress.

    MELBOURNE, Thursday.-The second session of the intercolonial medical congress, to be inaugurated on Monday, promises to be a pronounced success. Up to the present. 500 members have ...

    Article : 182 words
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