ALBURY, Wednesday.—The following are extracts from a letter from Mr. Gordon Fleming, formerly of Albury, who is in the Rhodesian Mounted Troops, dated Tuli Forts, December 18, 1899: As ...
Article : 776 wordsThe Newtown Council appears to be in a some-what awkward fix with regard to the election of Mayor for the current year. When the meeting was held on the 15th instant to elect a Mayor. ...
Article : 484 wordsAt half-past 9 oclock on Tuesday night the plague claimed its second victim, the patient John Makins, 36, lately residing at No. 4 Murray-street, Pynnont, dying at that hour. Makins was ...
Article : 366 wordsThe Civic authorities are busily engaged in making a strict inquiry into the cause of the outbreaks of typhoid in various parts of the city. It has been assumed on many sides that ...
Article : 423 wordsLONDON, February 27, 6.55 p.m.—Lord Roberts in a further dispatch, explains that the defeat of the Boer reinforcements so demoralised the enemy that he rapidly ...
Article : 78 wordsGLEN INNES, Wednesday.—The news of the capitulation of Cronje was received here with expressions of unbounded delight. HAY, Wednesday.—There is great local ...
Article : 215 words'A send-off was on Monday night given at the National Athletic Club, Pitt-street, to Mr. P. Bourke, well known on the Clarence for many years, and who joined the Bushmen's ...
Article : 1,042 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday Afternoon.—The Government has declared a public half-holiday on next Tuesday, when the Bushmen's Corps will embark. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Postmaster-General has received a notification from Adelaide of the restoration of telegraphic communication with Kimberley. ...
Article : 22 wordsMAITLAND, Wednesday.—Captain Markwell, of the Maitland Half-squadron Lancers, who has been acting as agent for the Imperial Government in the purchase of horses for military ...
Article : 77 wordsA special meeting of the Balmain Council was held on Monday night, when Dr. Armstrong, health officer for the metropolitan district, attended, at the Mayor's invitation, and addressed the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 680 wordsAfter puzzling considerably over the case of the old man Dark, whose dimness of sight and "hardness" of hearing had placed justice in a quandary on Tuesday morning at the Central Police Court, ...
Article : 133 wordsNEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—The Mayor of Lambton (Alderman Thornton) and Aldermen Hubbuck and Metcalfe, who were arrested on Saturday for not paying the fines imposed on them ...
Article : 183 wordsAt the Redfern Police Court on Tuesday, Alice Russell, who keeps a fish and fruit shop at 1 Raglan-street, Alexandria, was proceeded against for having on February 18 kept her shop open ...
Article : 242 wordsSamuel Thomas, 42, second cook on the transport Maplemore, fell from the spar deck to the main deck of the vessel shortly before 1 o'clock yesterday, a distance of about 12ft. He ...
Article : 58 wordsThe youth Alfred Ernest Childs, Who on Sunday week last was seriously injured by the accidental discharge of a pea rifle at Upper Bankstown, is making a quick recovery at the Auburn Hospital ...
Article : 201 wordsThe St. George's Horticultural Society held a very successful show in the Hurstville Hall on Saturday night in aid of the local branch of the Patriotic Fund. A large number of magnificent ...
Article : 691 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Transit Commission was held at the board's office, 153 phillip-street, Sydney, yesterday, there being present: Sir Matthew Harris, M.L.A. (chairman), ...
Article : 201 wordsSir,—Knowing that you are obliging enough to answer difficult questions in connection with the above, I beg to ask the following, as it interests dozens of others similarly situated. My father is the ...
Article : 260 wordsPICTON, Wednesday Morning.—Smith's general store was burnt to the ground this morning. Everything was destroyed. After great efforts, Mr. A. Skellett's residence and the public school ...
Article : 43 wordsBARBER'S CREEK, Wednesday.—Mr. A. Oliver, federal capital commissioner, accompanied by Messrs. Hopkins and Rumsey, representing Barber's Creek, and Jobson, from Towrang, drove ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 641 wordsWEST MAINLAND, Wednesday.—There was a good supply forward at to-day's sales of produce. A large quantity of lucerne hay was forward, farmers rushing their stocks into the market, fearing a ...
Article : 543 wordsLIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—A strong local committee is making the necessary arrangements for the entertainment of the Minister for Works and his colleagues on the occasion of his visit to this ...
Article : 426 wordsAdditional subscriptions to the fund have been received as follows: Collected by R. J. Moore, Angledool Station. £4; G. Allen Mansfield, Elizabeth Bay, £2 2s: collected by Chas. Toohey; ...
Article : 465 wordsWOLLONGONG, Wednesday.—The district collieries worked the following times for the week ended Saturday last: Metropolitan (Helensburg), 6 days; Woonona, 6; Corrimal, 6; Mount Keira, 5½; ...
Article : 262 wordsA small fire occurred shortly before noon yesterday at 74 Marion-st, Enmore, the residence of Mr. R. W. Craggs, by which the contents of a bedroom were damaged. The outbreak is said to have ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Thu 1 Mar 1900, Page 6
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