London, December 29.—The congratulations received by Mr. Gladstone to-day on the occasion of his birthday were worldwide. The veteran statesman is 84 years of ...
Article : 57 wordsA very important development in the position of affairs as affecting the northern district miners took place yesterday, as the outcome of several communications which passed ...
Article : 707 wordsMr. N. Johnson, a Sydney resident, with a friend named John. Johnson, had a fearful experience of the sea on Thursday morning. They had embarked in Mr. Johnson's boat, the Irex, ...
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Advertising : 449 wordsLondon, December 29.—At a meeting of shareholders in the Greta collieries held to-day the accounts furnished were rejected. They show a debit balance of £26,000. ...
Article : 82 wordsA very mean theft was committed on Thursday night last, when the Home for the Aged Poor, conducted at Randwick by the Little Sisters of the Poor, was robbed. The thief had got ...
Article : 139 wordsLondon, December 29.—Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the proprietor of the Homestead Ironworks at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, has signified his intention of making a large ...
Article : 79 wordsLondon, December 20.—Mr. W. Weddel, of Messrs. Weddel and Company, agent for the Queensland Meat Export Company, has issued a review of the frozen meat ...
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Advertising : 17 wordsHobart, Saturday.—Yesterday a coroner's inquiry was held concerning the death of Mr. Farrelly, who died from injuries received during a quarrel with Mr. Shillington. A verdict was ...
Article : 81 wordsWe yesterday remarked that the invitation to the Duke and Duchess of York to visit Australia had a suspicious appearance of not being unconnected with a design to once ...
Article : 1,834 wordsLondon, December 29.—A few days since it was announced that the Corporation of the City of Chicago was unable to pay its employees, and that there was a deficit ...
Article : 60 wordsAt the Parramatta Police Court on Friday Peter Grace and Michael Grace were summoned by Abraham Backhouse, and Peter Grace summoned Backhouse for assaulting him. The ...
Article : 199 wordsLondon, December 29.—There are over 100 candidates for the Chair of Mathematics at Auckland University College, rendered vacant by the resignation of Professor ...
Article : 61 wordsLondon, December 28.—The money market is firmer. The open market rate of discount for three months' bills is unchanged, at 2½ per cent. Consols, 2¾-2½ per ...
Article : 44 wordsLondon, December 28.—Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 29s 9d, business restricted; Victorian, 29s 3d, business restricted; New Zealand long-berried, 29s, market flat. ...
Article : 37 wordsLondon, December 29.—The news of the appointment of Mr. Duncan Gillies as Agent-General for Victoria has been received with general approval. ...
Article : 70 wordsLondon, December 28.—The Bradford market shows no change. Tops unaltered. 60's, faulty, 19d; do, good, 20d; 66's, 20½d; 70's, 21d ; 80's, 23d. ...
Article : 29 wordsJames Magner was charged on remand, before Mr. Edwards, D.S.M., at the Central Police Court to-day, with having stolen a purse containing 4s 6d and a handkerchief from the person of Madeline ...
Article : 289 wordsLondon, December 28.—German beet sugar, 88 per cent., 12s 6d per cwt.; Java, No.14,15s 6d; market quiet. ...
Article : 26 wordsAuckland, Saturday.—A sale of trotting horses, sent here by Mr. Samuel Hordern, of Sydney, took place to-day. There were 15 in all, and the whole were ...
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Family Notices : 543 wordsLondon, December 29.—The yield of gold from the Transvaal (South Africa) gold fields for 1893 amounted to l,500,000oz. ...
Article : 22 wordsLondon, December 29.—Mr. R. S. Smythe, the "much travelled" entrepreneur, who has been lying dangerously ill at the Savage Club, has recovered, and will sail for ...
Article : 45 wordsNewcastle, Saturday.—There was much satisfaction and relief among all members of the community when the news came to hand last night from Sydney that the proprietors of a majority ...
Article : 237 wordsLondon, December 28—Chili copper at £42¼ per ton. Straits tin, three months, £75¼, cash £74½. Pig iron, Glasgow warrants No.1, cash 43s 3d. Foreign lead £9 ...
Article : 38 wordsLondon, December 28.—Broken Hill Pro-prietary shares closed on the Stock Exchange to-day "at £2 12s 6d. ...
Article : 25 wordsLondon, December 28.—To-day's price of bar silver is 2s 7¾d per oz standard. ...
Article : 17 wordsBrisbane, Saturday.—The following special ocean forecast was issued by Mr. C. L. Wragge last evening: Very squally and tempestuous weather is anticipated in the neighborhood of ...
Article : 51 wordsLondon, December 28.—According to the weekly return of the Bank of England, the issue department stock of gold coin and bullion is £22,506,000 ; banking ...
Article : 71 wordsAll through the holidays there has been a systematic robbing of hen roosts and poultry yards around Rookwood. Geese have been taken by the half-dozen from the yards of those fattening them ...
Article : 143 wordsMolong, Saturday.—In consequence of the high freights charged by the commissioners on the new railway extension from Molong to Forbes and Parkes a contract has been entered ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 wordsBulli, Saturday.—The miners at Woonona Colliery yesterday brought out their tools, and the South Bulli and Mount Kembla miners will follow suit this afternoon. This is the beginning ...
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Advertising : 23 wordsA peculiar and rather dangerous specimen of the finny tribe was captured near the Parramatta boundary on Thursday last. A man named Williams caught the fish, which was about 5in in ...
Article : 146 wordsA coroner's inquiry has been held at Lismore in reference to the fire discovered in a private dwelling on the 18th instant. The occupier and his family were away at Ballina, and the place is ...
Article : 309 wordsWith the advent of summer there is always a large number of sharks seen in the harbor and its many bays. The neighborhood of the Balmain Rowing Club's shed is just ...
Article : 135 wordsThe chief clerk of the Agricultural Department recently visited the experimental farm at Wagga, and he has found that the wheat sown has been harvested and produced excellent results. The ...
Article : 64 wordsNewcastle, Saturday.—At the police court, yesterday, Dr. R. B. Ludlow was proceeded against by the Board of Health on a charge of having neglected to report that a Madrassee, ...
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Advertising : 134 wordsWith a thoughtfulness not always considered as connected with Officialdom, the railway authorities have arranged to provide for to-night's extra traffic by special trams to the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Treasurer (Mr. See) states that when the Premier made the Financial Statement to the Assembly he anticipated a deficiency of £201,000, but up to the present £56,000 more than was ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Sat 30 Dec 1893, Page 4
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