The Commissioner of Public Works returned to the city to-day from a visit extending over Saturday and Sunday to Quorn and the surrounding districts. Mr. Forster says ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. Justice Hodges to-day heard an argument in support of the application of Robert Lee F[?]dd[?]n, who was recently convicted of forgery, to have the question reserved for the ...
Article : 82 wordsNews reached town this mor[?]ing that last night at Ca[?]da during a quarrel between two men concerning a woman one was severely injured. He has had a large splinter extracted from his forehead and ...
Article : 61 wordsMajor Roth has been banqueted by the English Consul and residents. A cable message in yesterday's "Herald" stated that Major Roth, who was the bearer ...
Article : 364 wordsSt. Louis, s. 1[?]3 tons, Captain [?]roux, from Noumea, via Newcastle, W.S. Tait and Co., agents. Nymboida, s[?] [?] tons, Captain E. Balfour, from Clarence River, North Coast S. N. Company, Limited, ...
Article : 178 wordsMr. Nicholas J. Brown, Speaker of the House of Assembly, died this morning. He had been a conspicuous figure in Tasmanian political life for many years. He was a native of Hobart, [?]orn in 1838, ...
Article : 151 wordsMr. S. Phillips, M.L.A., has notified the progress association that the Minister for Education will probably leave Sydney for Dubbo on the 27th inst. to inquire into the Public school ...
Article : 78 wordsAn application for a s[?]ay of proceedings was made to-day in the first Civil Court on behalf of John Norton, who was recently ordered to pay £500 damages to J. C. H. Og[?]r for libel. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Mundaring Reservoir overflowed at 12 o'clock last night. Its holding capacity is 4,600,[?]00,000 gallons. This morning the Full Court suspended ...
Article : 78 wordsChil[?]e, s[?] for Townsville, via Newcastle. Fernanda, Italian [?] for Melbourne. [?]o, s[?] for Auckland via Newcastle. Oonah, s[?] for Newcastle. ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Prime Minister cabled to-day to Mrs. Brown, widow of the late Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly:—"This Government deeply sympathises with Tasmania in the loss of an honourable ...
Article : 63 wordsThe council has decided to take a referendum on the amended water supply proposed for Katoomba. Mr. J. Pr[?]dhams, of the Works Department, estimated the cost at ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Rev. Dr. Abrahams prefaced his new year's day sermon at the Jewish Synagogue this morning by alluding to the fact that the differences between himself and his ...
Article : 90 wordsIn connection with the fete recently held at Cranbrook, the residence of the State Governor, in aid of the District Nursing Association, a croqu[?]t tournament took place at the Rushcutter Bay oval ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Anglican Bishop arrived here on Saturday afternoon. He confirmed 30 candidates on Sunday, and preached to large congregations both morning and evening. ...
Article : 66 wordsAt the police court to-day Margaret Brown was committed for trial for having murdered the infant male child of her daughter, Ida Brown. The evidence was of a sensational ...
Article : 92 wordsManapouri, [?] for Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga; Wakatipu, s. for Launceston and north-west ports, via Eden; Buninyong, s. for Western Australian ports, via Melbourne and Adelaide; F[?]ship, [?] and Wollumbin, [?] for Tweed ...
Article : 93 wordsSuffolk, s, 7[?]17 tons. Captain Priske, for Capetown, via Fremantle. Passengers: Mesdames Carroll, Christian and son, and Jennings and 4 children, Mi[?]s Stephans, Scott, and Carroll Messrs. August, Hickson, Jennings, E. ...
Article : 121 wordsWhile passing along Irvin[?]-road, Toorak, [?] Sunday evening, a young woman employed as a domestic servant was garrotted by a ruffian, who sprang upon her from behind a ...
Article : 48 wordsThe mailman from Cobbedah, Moree, had a narrow escape from being drowned while crossing Rocky Creek. His horse was carried under by the current. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn Austrian named F. Sch[?]n, 35, watchm[?]ker, boarding in Victori[?]-street, Darlinghurst, attempted to commit suicide last night. At 7.30 [?] entered his bedroom, and shortly afterwards a shot was heard. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe hearing of an action by John Herman S[?]edel, grocer, against the Commercial Travellers' Association is still occupying the attention of Mr. Justice Hodges and a jury of ...
Article : 67 wordsAt the Kempsey Quarter Sessions Judge Armstrong presided, and Mr. Browning acted as Crown Prosecutor. William Mulvehill was found guilty of stealing four bottles of ...
Article : 127 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day replying to a question, the Minister for Lands stated that he had appointed [?] expert to draw up a report with a view to thoroughly reorganising the forestry ba[?]ch of the ...
Article : 449 wordsSt. Louis, [?] from Noumea, via Newcastle: 4720 scks cobalt ore, 18 b[?]ls hides, 10 empty acid cases, [?]8 bgs copra, 153 bgs shells, and sundries. Barwon, [?] f[?]m Melbourne, via Geelong: 83 empty fruit ...
Article : 130 wordsSir,—Since the holding of a fete at Cranbrook in aid of the above the question has been repeatedly asked What is the D.N.A., what work does it do? It is this, a society for sending out trained and ...
Article : 857 wordsAt a meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works this afternoon, it was decided to dispense with the services of several clerks who had either got into debt or backed hills. One ...
Article : 58 wordsIn a football match played here between a combined visiting team and the local club Frederick Inskip, one of the Cobargo players, fell, breaking his collarbone. ...
Article : 37 wordsSuffolk, [?] for Capetown, via Fremantle: 870 [?] meats, 100 [?] jam, 10 t[?] apple p[?]ddings, 28 bgs flour, 100 cylinders ammonia, 10 [?] heep wash, 19 bls leather, 20 cs butter, 417 [?]s stores, 4000 live sheep, 22,000 [?] mutton, 100 crfs and 50 ...
Article : 189 wordsThe local council has decided to combine the duties of town clerk, surveyor, and rate collector in one, for which applications are being invited. The salary to be paid is £108 ...
Article : 63 wordsAt a meeting of the committee of the Melbourne Hospital this afternoon, a recommendation from the staff committee that arrangements should be made to have the whole ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. W. L. Jeffrey, while driving his milkcart to the local factory, was thrown out through the horse stumbling and falling. The driver sustained a n[?]sty scalp wound and a broken arm. ...
Article : 39 wordsYesterday a boy named William Large fell from the top bar of a butcher's gallows at the slaughteryards. In falling his arm was caught on a hook, and Large hung in agony for several seconds, his ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Nowra Council has adopted the lighting committee's report recommending the establishment of gasworks at an estimated cost of £5500, and the appointment of Mr. James C. ...
Article : 386 wordsBLUFF (1107 miles}.—Arr: Sept. 22, Victoria, s, from Melbourne. ...
Article : 16 wordsAt the Adelaide Hospital this afternoon, at the bedside of Constable George Donovan, who has made satisfactory progress towards recovery, two young men, Thomas Grant and Arthur Davoren, were ...
Article : 182 wordsAt Hamburg: Elbing, s (German-Australian S.S. Company's line), from Newcastle and Sydnet, via Singapore, Colombo, and Bombay; sailed from Sydney June 22. Departures. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe R.M.S. Arcadia, from London via ports, arrived, at Fremantle at 6.20 p.m. yesterday. The R.M.S. India, which left Sydney for London on Saturday, left Melbourne yesterday, in ...
Article : 118 wordsMiss Jean Cowper, daughter of Mr. H. P. Cowper, of Brigalows, Horton River, while driving a four-in-hand [?]ross a gully, was thrown out, and had both her jaws broken. She was also badly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 689 wordsA sad double fatality occurred late yesterday at Broadwater, five miles from Pambula. Two children, about 4 and 5 years of age, sons of Mr. Is[?]ac Beveridge, were playing near their home at a ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Japanese mail steamer Kumano Maru, from Yokohama, bound to Sydney, arrived at Thursday Island yesterday, and is due here on the [?]0th inst. The Kasuga Maru, of the same line, outward bound for ...
Article : 45 wordsThe ship Yallaroi, now 12 days out from London, with a general cargo of merchandise consigned to Sydney, passed Wilson's Promontory at 3.25 p.m. yesterday. She comes here to the agency of Messrs. ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day Mr. Barlow announced the formation of a new Ministry. A short debate ensued. A bill to prohibit children under 16 years of age smoking was read the first time on the ...
Article : 112 wordsLast week Edmund Barker, a resident of Ded[?]rang, Upper Murray, was missed from his home under circumstances leading to the suspicion that he had committed suicide. A search being made his ...
Article : 120 wordsThe following telegrams were yesterday received regarding the condition of the bars at high water:— Manning Heads: Heavy sea on bar, falling; no soundings taken. Tweed Heads: Too much sea for ...
Article : 100 wordsThe little barquentine Kate Tatham, employed in the timber trade between New Zealand and Sydney, was caught in the terrific gales which have been raging along the coast, and for a time was in imminent peril. ...
Article : 684 wordsMessrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, agents for the White Star line, yesterday received a cable [?]e notifying the arrival of the Persic at Capetown on Sunday last. She left Sydney on August 2[?] and ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day on the motion to go into committee to consider the taxation proposals of the Government, which suggest the reinstatement of higher land and income t[?]xes proposed ...
Article : 170 wordsAn old man named Frederick E[?]gleman was accidentatly drowned in the creek near the waterworks. Deceased, who was a basketmaker, had to cross a narrow and [?]neven log bridge to reach his home, ...
Article : 122 wordsThe agents for the Aberdeen line, Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, are in receipt of a cable advice stating that the steamer Aberdeen left Plymouth for Australia, via South Africa, on Monday last. She is ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Union Company's steamer Rotokino has been selected to relieve the Ta[?]i on the Eastern Pacific service. She completed discharging her cargo of produce from Devonport early yesterday morning, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 370 wordsThe departure of Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co.'s steamer Zealand[?] has been postponed until noon on Friday, the 2[?]th instant, as she is undergoing a very complete and extensive overhaul. She has been docked ...
Article : 113 wordsA man named William Bateman, employed at Hawthorn Brickworks, was killed to-day by a fall of the upper part of an open earth face into winch he was boring. The mass of earth which fell is ...
Article : 75 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly this afternoon Mr. [?]lingworth moved an amendment to the first schedule of the Redistribution of Seats Bill with the object of the amalgamation of two agricultural electorates and ...
Article : 234 wordsSouth Australia.—Overland, 5.[?]0 p.m. Victoria.—Overland, 5.30 and 7 p.m. Letters for Melbourne only will be accepted without late [?] for the express from 5.30 to 6.30 p.m.[?] if posted in ...
Article : 479 wordsMessrs. Birt and Co., Limited, agents for the Federal line of steamers, will despatch the 7000-ton liner Suffolk early this morning for Capetown, via Fremantle. At New Zealand she shipped a large quantity of through ...
Article : 87 wordsOn the R.M.S. Orient arriving from the eastern States at Fremantle last night a youth named George Buckley, aged 18, was killed; and his mate, Charles Scullen, aged l6, had his right thigh badly ...
Article : 522 wordsThe Ha[?]rota arrived at Auckland from the South Sea Islands on Sunday, and [?]s at [?] a.m. to-morrow for Sydney, via [?]sland ports. The Waikare left Auckland at noon yesterday for ...
Article : 80 wordsA French journal gives some interesting particulars of the occupations of women in France Out of a work,ng population of 18,000,000, 12,000,000 are men and 6,000,000 women. Agriculture and farming claim the ...
Article : 184 wordsThe following are the movements of Messrs. Archibald Currie and Co.'s Australian and Indian line of steamships:- The Argus pased Thursday Island on the 9th instant en ...
Article : 120 wordsA meeting of the Women's Liberal League of New South Wales was held at St. Mary's Hall, Waverley, last night and was well attended. Mrs. Molyneux Parkes (president) was in the chair. Mr. James ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsThe French steamer St. Louis which arrived at Newcastle on Sunday from Nou[?]a, reached Sydney yesterday, and anchored in Neutral Bay. She encountered heavy gales on Friday and Saturday last. The St. Louis brings ...
Article : 65 wordsSir,—Before the Australian people declare themselves in favour of Mr. Chamberlain's preferential trade proposal, would it not he as well to consider what effect the inclusion of india in this Imperial [?]ollvereing ...
Article : 282 wordsThe barque Auldgirth arrived at Brisbane to-day, [?]r a sensational voyage from Bu[?]nos Ayres. The vessel left the latter place on July 7. All went well till July 18, when a south to south-south-west ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsThe Ocean S.S. Company's steamer M[?], from Glasgow, left Melbourne yesterday in [?]ation of her voyage to Sydney, and may be expected here to-morrow. ...
Article : 33 wordsJ[?]ss[?]p Brothers to-day deposited with the Commercial Bank a cake of gold weighing [?]0oz. the result of crushing 21 tons of stone fr[?] their claim at Lonsdale's Creek, Nerrigund[?]h. Several parcels ...
Article : 47 wordsMessrs. Burns, Philp, and Co.'s steamer T[?]s, which was displaced in the [?]on Island service by the Ov[?]lan, and has been laid up at Sydney since the end of June, will leave Sydney to-day for Newcastle, and from there will proceed ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Car and Waggon Department of Railway Employees celebrated its [?]l picnic on Monday at Clonta[?]. The gathering, which was attended by upwards of 2000 persons, proved in every way successful. ...
Article : 117 wordsParcels addressed to the United Kingdom, Egypt, via the United Kingdom, will be received at the Parcels Office, 1[?]1 Castlereagh-street, for transmission per Orient Company's steamer [?] up to [?].30 a.m. on SATURDAY, ...
Article : 160 wordsTHURSDAY ISLAND (2[?]60 miles),—Arr[?] Sept 22, Ku[?] Mar[?], J.M.S., from Japan. COOK[?]OWN ([?]0 miles.—Passed: Sept. 22, Kas[?]ga M[?], J.M.S., north. ...
Article : 1,204 wordsThe half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Wallaroo and Moonla M[?]g and Smelting Company was held this morning. The chairman of directors (Mr. James B[?]y) p[?]d, and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 23 Sep 1903, Page 10
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