The tender for the erection of new Parliament buildings at Wellington has been let to Hansford, Mills, and Hardy, Christ church, at £151,639. The work is to be completed by ...
Article : 60 wordsAt 8.30 a.m. yesterday the body of a man was found in a sitting posture on a, ledge of rock near the northern side of Pyrmont Bridge. There was a slight discolouration of the left ...
Article : 111 wordsWork on the Waterfall-Otford deviation is progressing at a good pace, and platelayers are busy from Waterfall to Cawley. Work is to be started shortly on the last section ...
Article : 54 wordsThe record of the Stock Exchange yesterday morning showed the following limited business:—Copper stocks, one sale; silver stocks, no sales; gold stocks, two sales; and tin ...
Article : 995 wordsAt a no-license rally last night Mr. Toombes, organiser, said that so far as he could judge from the figures available Goulburn had made a greater no-license gain than ...
Article : 70 wordsThere was a large attendance at the Coronation Hall, Bondi Junction, last night, when the scheme for the establishment of an eastern suburbs hospital was successfully ...
Article : 259 wordsThe City Coroner recorded on Monday that James Kemp, 61, a plasterer, accidentally tell downstairs at his residence, 37 Goold-street, city, on December 9, and died the following ...
Article : 32 wordsA dentist in Macquarie-street had a startling experience yesterday atternoon. Miss Edith M. Havard. 41, of Ipswich (Q.), called on him to have her teeth examined. She sat ...
Article : 74 wordsSince the Lockhart-Oaklands branch line has been opened the Railway Commissioners find that they considerably under-estimated the possibilities of the country served. Last year ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. H. C. Sticht, general manager of the Mount Lyell Mines, is at present in Hobart, and in an interview to-day he was very optimistic about the future of the West Coast ...
Article : 477 wordsA man, about 30 years of age, was run over and killed yesterday while attempting to Jump on to a moving tramcar at Narrabeen. The accident occurred at 7.30 p.m., opposite ...
Article : 71 wordsOn Tuesday, December 1. a carpenter named jack Foran, 50, arrived here from Armidale to commence work, at Eleanora mines. He did not report next morning for work, and ...
Article : 95 wordsOn Monday the Acting City Coroner (Mr. T. H. Wilkinson. S.M.) recorded a verdict of accidental drowning in the case of Frank William Nelson, 16, an apprentice, who lost his ...
Article : 59 wordsWilliam Noble, employed as a labourer at the State brick works, Auburn, on Saturday night, at 10.30 o'clock, lett a friend at the Central Station to return to his temporary home at ...
Article : 94 wordsAustralia's best immigrant is the Australian baby, and, as over 12,000 of these little ones were born at the Royal Hospital for Women during the past 10 years, this ...
Article : 156 wordsThis year the annual reunion of the commercial travellers on the southern line took place at the Albion Hotel, Cootamunara. About 60 members attended. Many toasts ...
Article : 58 wordsMrs. J. W. Morgan had an unpleasant experience on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Morgan was standing in the garden, when a shot was fired some distance away.. It is supposed ...
Article : 65 wordsAs a result of bush fires H. Hayman, a share farmer at Cumnock, was burnt out, the whole of his belongings being destroyed, including a fair amount of chaff and some ...
Article : 65 wordsThe man who was arrested on a charge of being drunk on Saturday night, and who was the next morning taken to the hospital, where he died a few hours alter admittance, has ...
Article : 101 wordsA rustic fair, held on Mrs. Scott's grounds, Milton, Cootamundra, was very well attended, both in the afternoon and evening. Church funds will benefit by about £50. The fair ...
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Article : 96 wordsHenry Deline, 35, a snake charmer, who. was bitten by a tiger snake at Luna Park last night, died in the Alfred Hospital to-day. This was the second time within a week and ...
Article : 53 wordsJ. F. Parr, postmaster at Gosford for over' 30 years, and Mrs. Parr were entertained by the townspeople on Satuday evening. Mr. Parr was presented with an illuminated ...
Article : 587 wordsOn Friday, Robert Tait, a young man employed by Messrs. Wilkinson Bros., was driving a horse attached to a dray, when the horse bolted, and the driver was thrown out. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 250 wordsJames Pringle, a married man, residing at Bundanoon, while doing his run on Mr. Greason's butcher's cart, was killed in attempting to stop his runaway horse. He was pulled ...
Article : 49 wordsWhile crossing Ormond-road, Elwood, on her way to church on Sunday, Lyla Broach, 15, was knocked down and killed by a motor. ...
Article : 28 wordsEarly on Sunday morning Mr. Cooke, locomotive driver at the Manning River Harbour works, Harrington, was fatally burnt in his tent. He was taken to the Manning River ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsRichard Waine, a shunter, was early this morning jammed between trucks that he was shunting. He was removed to the hospital, where lt was decided to amputate his right arm. ...
Article : 48 wordsA Norweglan named William Peterson, about 40, was found dead in his camp beneath a dray and a tarpaulin at Erina on Saturday afternoon. The deceased recently ...
Article : 78 wordsLacmalac Gold-mining Company, Dec. 13.--Sinking operations somewhat slow owing to hard country and making a fair amount of water. Very nice stone in sink, and in breaking (lown reef it showed some ...
Article : 243 wordsThe inquest on Alfred Edward Smith, victim of the Metters shooting case at Subiaco, was held last week. The jury found that deceased died as the result of hemorrhage and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsThe following lodges of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia have accepted the B.M.A. agreement:—No. 1 Pioneer, No. 21 Prince Alfred, and No. 73 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 492 wordsThe department in charge of the Scaffold and Lifts Act has of late taken stringent action in regard to the cranes in use on buildings and other places in the Stale, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsThe manager of the Cope's Creek Dredging company reports for week ended December 13, as follows:—"All work going along smoothly. Boxes were run down for a recovery ...
Article : 294 wordsAlthough instructors, mechanics, and aeroplanes for the Australian Flying Corps, have been in Melbourne for several months, no flights have yet been made. It is now ...
Article : 80 wordsIt was ascertained yesterday that 500 blaes of jute were damaged—some destroyed—by fire and water aboard the British India steamer Janus on Tuesdaymorning. The ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 17 Dec 1913, Page 23
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