It is understood that Lieutenant-Colonel Watchorn has applied for the command of the Tasmanian Contingent for South Africa. ALBURY, Friday. ...
Article : 337 wordsIn connection with the above, the folllowing letter was forwarded yesterday by the Builders and Contractors' Association to the Carpenters and Joiners' Society:— ...
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Advertising : 272 wordsSpecial meetings of both the Cabinet and the Executive Council were held yesterday, mainly for the purpose of adopting measures with the object of stamping out the plague. Ministers were in ...
Article : 1,192 wordsUnder date February 20 Trooper M. H. Reynolds, of D Company, Second Contingent of the Mounted Infantry, under Lieutenant-Colonel Knight, writes from Maitland, six miles from Capetown. It was ...
Article : 1,587 wordsTo the ordinary passenger by any of the ferries whose entrance to the city crossed Sussex-street yesterday, that thoroughfare presented a rather more than usually busy appearance—an appearance, in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 805 wordsNo time was lost yesterday by the shipping companies who have to "shift quarters" for the isolation which is to take effect this morning. The following announcement was issued during the morning:— ...
Article : 108 wordsAt the local land board sitting to-day Mr. J. W. Smith, representing American capital, applied for special leases for the erection of sawmills at Coff's Harbour, also for tramway purposes. The applicant ...
Article : 160 wordsOne suspicious case of sickness was reported yesterday to the Health Department, and the investigation resulted in its being declared a case of true plague. The patient, William Hayden, aged 21 ...
Article : 924 wordsLast night the scene at the ferry wharfs at the foot of Erskine-street was one of desolation. At the New and Old Balmain wharfs all fixings were being removed, fumigated, and taken to Circular ...
Article : 272 wordsAs a precaution against the plague, householders have been doing a general clearing up of back yards and burning all the rubbish. At the asylums and other public institutions there has been a crusade ...
Article : 94 wordsA statement has been prepared by the Federal Capital Association dealing with the climatic conditions and other advantages claimed for Albury as a federal capital site. The area under various forms of ...
Article : 98 wordsA correspondent supplies us with the following extract from "Casoll's Saturday Journal" of December 6:— "While at the Russian port of Odessa," says a ...
Article : 273 wordsThe time for receiving entries for the N. R. A. meeting has been extended to the 27th instant. ...
Article : 24 wordsA proclamation is published in a supplement to the "Government Gazette" issued yesterday which is as follows:—"Whereas the infectious or contagions disease known as the bubome plague has ...
Article : 320 wordsThe cruel branding operations perpetrated upon the seals on the Pribyloff Islands by the United States Government is (says the "Canadian Gazette") the subject of a special report by ...
Article : 407 wordsAt the request of the Central Board of Health, the Chief Secretary has declared New South Wales an infected colony, thus bringing the Quarantine Act into operation. The board favoure five days' ...
Article : 241 wordsCustom-house.—Entered outwards: March 23, P[?] Regent Luitpold, G.M.S., 6289 tons, Captain II. Walter, for Bremen, via ports; Andania, s., 2876 tons, Captain D. L. Mills, for Port Pirie, via Newcastle; Zealandia, s., ...
Article : 336 wordsTaken altogether, the people of the western railway suburbs have risen to the occasion during the plague alarm, and instituted a vigorous crusade against rate, [?]tary spots, defective drains, and so on. ...
Article : 158 wordsAn attractive entertainment, arranged by Miss Edward Deano, was given on Wednesday in the School of Arts, Burwood, in aid of the Patriotic Fund. It consisted of a juvenile costume concert ...
Article : 52 wordsAt a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday it was decided to prohibit net fishing in certain portions of Port Jackson. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe committee of the Y.W.C.A. Rest and Luncheon Rooms, Queen Victoria Markets, met on Monday last. Miss Forbes, hon. secretary, gave an encouraging statement of the accounts, A library is ...
Article : 209 wordsThe mails which left Sydney per R.M.S. Mariposs on February 14 arrived in London on March 20. ...
Article : 19 wordsSir,—Mr. Lyne will earn the gratitude of the thousands whose necessities compel them to land from the steamers using the filthy foreshores of Darling Harbour if he will promptly carry out his ...
Article : 315 wordsA meeting of the Balmain branch committee of the Patriotic Fund was held at the Balmain Town Hall on Thursday. Mr. F. Chilcott occupied the chair, and there was a large number of ladies and ...
Article : 112 wordsIn no branch of trade has the injurious effect of the plague been more apparent than in the fish trade, but with Sydney Harbour closed to the netting of fish and prawns there is really little occasion for alarm. ...
Article : 257 wordsA grand four-masted steel barque of 2000 tons, full of cargo from New York, the Bannockburn, yesterday arrived in port, to Messrs. Arkell and Douglas. She made a capital passage of 90 days. She crossed the line on January 20, ...
Article : 67 wordsFollowing are the movements of the Union Company's line:— The Talune leaves Wellington this afternoon for Sydney. ...
Article : 71 wordsLate last night a suspected case of plague was reported in Quay-street, in No. 2 police division, the patient being a man named Walter Haynes. He is reported to have worked in Sussex-street, and ...
Article : 58 wordsOn the 17th instant a successful concert was given in the Town Hall in aid of the Patriotic Fund. Mr. D. M'Leod and Miss Connolly of the Public school were the promoters, and were ably assisted ...
Article : 58 wordsDuring yesterday considerable excitement prevailed in the minds of the residents of Sussex-street and its immediate neighbourhood as to what action the authorities would take to quarantine the area, ...
Article : 461 wordsMessrs. Davies and Fehon, the representatives of the above line in Australia, have been advised of the following charters:—The Norwegian steamer Horda will load lumber at Puget Sound for Port Pirie. The barque Sussex, now in ...
Article : 105 wordsYesterday Dr. Armstrong, from the Board of Health, attended at the Town Hall and inoculated a number of the officials with prophylactic serum as a precaution against the bubonic plague. It was ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. H. N. Southwell and Alderman E. Power, acting on behalf of the Waverley branch committee of the New South Wales Patriotic Fund, are arranging for a grand concert in aid of the funds to ...
Article : 83 wordsSir,—In the exercise of a wise discretion the Railway Commissioners under certain circumstances grant concessions, such as the issue of free passes, reduced fares during heat waves from certain localities, ...
Article : 351 wordsThe prejudice against oysters, on the ground that the oyster supply is derived from Sydney Harbour, it is pointed out by the agents for the bivalves, is utterly unjustifiable. No oysters in the shell get into ...
Article : 132 wordsMessrs. Burns, Philp, and Co., Limited, report the movements of the above line of steamers as follows:— The Miowera leaves Circular Quay on Tuesday, March 27, and due at Brisbane on March 29, Honolulu April 11, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe concert to be given by the combined Public schools on Wednesday, April 4, in aid of the Patriotic Fund, is causing considerable interest am[?] the children, who are busily preparing for the festival. ...
Article : 420 wordsSir,—I do not venture to advise the Board of Health, not being a medico, but as I am one who for many years has done business in Sussex-street, and I can confidently say that I am the second oldest ...
Article : 491 wordsThe following suggestion has been made by the Minister for Works (Hon. E. W. O'Sullivan) to the Premier:—"During the great plague in London, 1664-5, no less than 6000 persons died in one week. ...
Article : 173 wordsThe R.M.S. Victoria berthed at Circular Quay yesterday. The steamer Pacifique moved yesterday from Tivoli Bay to the Quay. The steamer Medic returned from Newcastle yesterday, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe tributors at the North Burgess mine have had a parcel of 40 tons of ore crushed for a yield of 136oz. 5dwt. 21gr. of gold. KALGOORLIE, Friday. ...
Article : 413 wordsReferring to the increased traffic that will occur through several of the ferry steamers running to Circular Quay instead of to their regular wharfs in Darling Harbour, the Superintendent of the ...
Article : 91 wordsMessrs. Burns, [?]lp, and Co., Limited advise the following movements of the steamers of the above line engaged in the trade between Australia, China, and Japan:— The Kasuga Maru, which leaves Sydney on the 29th ...
Article : 165 wordsAt a special meeting of the Balmain Council on Thursday night, called by the Mayor (Alderman H. Mills) to decide what steps should be taken in connection with the precautionary arrangements in the ...
Article : 756 wordsThere appeared yesterday to be a great deal of uncertainty amongst the business men of Erskine-street with reference to the intention of the Premier regarding the quarantining of the infected area. ...
Article : 345 wordsSir,—Pardon us troubling you; we don't often do it; but we can't help noticing with more than an ordinary degree of pleasure the Government's bulletin from time to time that we are likely shortly to ...
Article : 144 wordsMessrs. Birt and Co., Limited, managing agents for the Federal Steam Navigation Company, Limited, report steamers' movements for the week as follows:— The Cornwall left London for Capetown March 3, and ...
Article : 191 wordsThe material portions of the proclamation are as follow:—"Whereas by the Quarantine Act, 1897, it is enacted that the Governor may, by proclamation, published in the 'Gazette,' appoint places in New ...
Article : 487 wordsMr. C. B. Cairnes, the tresurer to Mrs. Fia[?]chi's fruit fund, announce[?] that the total amount received up to date is £20 8s. Mr. Cairnes states that eating apples will be sent, and the first 100 cases will be ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 24 Mar 1900, Page 10
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