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  2. PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE.

    The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works met yesterday under the presidency of the Hon. W. J. Tricket, M.L.C. Mr. G. Marshall, surveyor, Department of Public ...

    Article : 642 words
  3. THE WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES.

    Files of the "Manila Times" to hand state:- "Heavy rainstorms have delayed the advance of the American forces against Tarla[?], the insurgent capital. The locomotives on the line have been ...

    Article : 764 words
  4. PARRAMATTA DISTRICT.

    A concert was given in the Town Hall, Auburn, on Monday evening by the Auburn Amateur Orchestral Society, under the direction of Mr. H[?]rbert Burgess, in aid of St. Joseph's Hospital. The orchestra ...

    Article : 106 words
  5. COUNTRY NEWS.

    The rainfall for October was 5·69 inches in 13 days BOWRAL, Tuesday. A tea and a public meeting in connection with the ...

    Article : 1,179 words
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  7. PARRAMATTA COUNCIL.

    A meeting of this council was held on Monday evening, Alderman Saunders (ni the absence of the Mayor presiding. A report of the finance committee recommending the payment of accounts and salaries ...

    Article : 332 words
  8. CHURCH NEWS.

    The united ch[?]irs of St. Jude's and St. Mary's, Waverley, held a ch[?]ir festival last night in St. Jude's Church, Randwick, to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the incumbency of the Rev. William ...

    Article : 190 words
  9. THE MAYORESS'S RECEPTION.

    Yesterday afternoon the Mayoress of Sydney (Lady Harris) held a reception in the Town Hall, which was largely attended. Lady Harris received her visitors upstairs in the suite of ...

    Article : 315 words
  10. S. THOMAS'S CHURCH, LEWISHAM.

    The annual picnic of S. Thomas's R.C. Church, Lewisham, took place at Correy's Gardens, Cabari[?]a, on Monday, and was a successful function. About 850 persons attended. The picnic committee ...

    Article : 122 words
  11. NORTH SHORE FERRY COMPANY.

    At the half-yearly meeting of the North Shore Ferry Company, Limited, held at the Exchange yesterday, Mr. W. C. Goddard presided. In moving the adoption of the report and balance-sheet the ...

    Article : 409 words
  12. RANDWICK WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL.

    The sixteenth anniversary services in connection with this Sunday school were held on Sunday and continued last night, when the annual public meeting was held in the church. On Sunday morning the ...

    Article : 160 words
  13. A TERRIBLE VISITATION.

    Another violent storm has (says the "Englishman" of October 5) visited Japan. followed by the destruction of thousands of houses and great loss of life. A telegram from Takamatsu, September 1. ...

    Article : 208 words
  14. THE AUSTRALIAN CHURCH.

    The first annual meeting of the members of the Australian Church in Sydney wan held on Monday evening in the large hall of the I.O.O.F. Temple, when there was a numerous gathering of members ...

    Article : 341 words
  15. A DRIFTING CORPORATION.

    Sir,—Does it not strike the ratepayers of Sydney that, while their aldermen are squabbling, the affairs of the city are drifting into serious difficulties, materially as well as financially? My reason for writing this ...

    Article : 383 words
  16. THE CYCLONE IN BENGAL.

    From the accounts which we are enabled to publish from various correspondents in Behar (says the "Englishman") it transpire that the great cyclone which raged over a large part of Bengal on Sunday, ...

    Article : 366 words
  17. A SCHOOLMISTRESS ASSAULTED.

    Miss Hughie, the teacher of the Wellesley Public School, situated about five miles from Delegate, and near the Victorian border, was brutally assaulted Last evening by a supposed swagman. She had ...

    Article : 325 words
  18. WESLEYAN SYNODS.

    The Grafton Wesleyan District Synod concluded its sittings to-day. All the reports submitted were satisfactory and encouraging. An animated debate on the question of the extension of itinerancy from ...

    Article : 89 words
  19. RIVERINA.

    The Riverina District Wesleyan Synod has concluded its sittings. A resolution was corned deploring the efforts being made to open public-houses on Sunday and legalise gambling, and pledging the ...

    Article : 184 words
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  21. EMPLOYEES' PICNIC.

    The annual picnic of the employees of John Vicars and Co.'s Woollen Mills, Marrickville, was held on Saturday last at Clontar[?]. The steamer Greybound, which had been engaged to convey the pleasure-seekers thither, left ...

    Article : 266 words
  22. THE TUMUT-GUNDAGAI RAILWAY.

    Mr. Usher, a railway inspector, arrived in Tumut from Adelong this morning to collect information for the Railway Commissioners as to the area of country to be served by the proposed railway from ...

    Article : 118 words
  23. THE CIVIL SERVICE ACT.

    Sir,—As the Government is about to amend the Public Service Act, may I crave leave to mention a matter in connection therewith, which has apparently been overlooked by the framers of the Act as well an by the lately ...

    Article : 250 words
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