The discussion which took place in Parliament early yesterday morning with regard to the impending return to New South Wales of some members of the Lancers contingent has led to a ...
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Advertising : 344 wordsThe city coroner, Mr. G. C. Marlin, J.P., conducted an inquest at the Royal Standard Hotel. Adamstown, to-day on the body of a child named Edward Hill, 6 years of age, who was killed by the ...
Article : 616 wordsCustom-house.—Entered outwards: November 8, Damascus, s., 3711 tons, Captain R.M'Killian, for Capetown and London, via Newcastle; Afric, s., 11,816 tons, Captain W. H. Alford, for Capetown and London, via ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 567 wordsSome interesting information about the position of affairs in the Transvsal immediately prior to the commencement of the war, as well as particulars with reference to some of the chief actors on the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Morning Post" at Pietermaritzburg, in the course of an interesting letter, says:—Let me tell you two anecdotes showing the spirit of the Dutch. One comes from Newcastle, ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Snow and Burgess, barque, was yesterday floated into Mort's Dock. The steamer Lubra, after overhaul in Mort's Jubilee D[?]ck, came off, and the Friendship was taken on. ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Minister for Works (Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan) [?]id on the table of the Legislative Assembly last night the report of the committee appointed to report on the delay in opening for traffic the George ...
Article : 1,095 wordsIt will be of interest to note the dates on which the British and Indian troops embarked respectively at Southampton and Bombay for service in South Africa. Hereunder we give a list of the departures. ...
Article : 518 wordsSamuel Plimsoll, ship, from Sydney to London. Prince Robert, four-masted barque, from Newcastle to Acapalco. [?]ugo, barque, Newcastle to West Coast. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe China Navigation Company's steamer Tsinan, from Japan and China ports, left Manilla on the 4th instant for Sydney, via usual. ...
Article : 27 wordsAberystwith Cas[?]que (PHKS), from Frederikstad—121 days. Eurasia, ship(K[?]om Liverpool—103 days. General Robert[?]ted barque (JPLM), from ...
Article : 125 wordsThe barque Ca[?]ich [?] Newcastle on July 21 for Antofagasta, arriva[?] destionation on October 4, after a passage of 75[?] Eight guineas reinsurance had been paid on this vessel. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 484 wordsThe Newcastle Marine Board delivered its reserved decision this afternoon in connection with the recent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the total loss of the steamer Mermaid on the beach ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Swedish barquentine Carin proceeds from Sydney to Kaipara in ballast to load timber for Launceston. The barque Devonport, at Melbourne, will leave this week for Greymouth, where she will load timber back to ...
Article : 127 wordsThw council met on Monday evening. Present the Mayor, Alderman J. R. R. Gibbons, and Aldermen Sidney, Lambeth, Stevenson, and Franklin. The Railway Commissioners wrote in reply to a ...
Article : 399 wordsThe barque C[?]mone[?]y, which left London on September 23 for Sydney, put back to Gravesend on September 30 in [?]ow of the tug Manila. The captain reported that the cranes on the fore-yard ...
Article : 99 wordsThe barque Brodrick Bay arrivod to-day from Mauritius to load a cargo of coal from the Greta colliery for A[?]a. The four-masted barque Tasmania sailed to-day for Valparaiso with 3341 tons ...
Article : 189 wordsMarine insurance news to hand by the English mail, [?] London date October 5, states that during the week a fair amount of business was transacted on the Liverpool ship Sokoto, Port Pirie, May 3, for Tyne, with a cargo of ore, but ...
Article : 97 wordsImportant evidence was given at an inquiry held some time ago into the less of the steamer Mohegan. One of the witnesses, Mr. C. J. May, boatman of the coastguard stationed at Coverack, said that he found a wooden boat ...
Article : 136 wordsThe British War Office has arranged for the des patch of the following infantry battalions to South Africa, and before Saturday next they will probably have brought up the number of Imperial troops there ...
Article : 205 wordsThe anniversary services in connection with the Paddington Wesleyan Sunday School were continued in the church on Tuesday evening, when there was a large attendance at the public meeting, which was ...
Article : 166 wordsA curious item was noted in the insurance reports at Lloyd's just before the English mail by the Ormuz closed on the 6th ultimo. It ran as follows:—"On the steamer Aslo[?]n, which sailed from London August 4, and Las ...
Article : 157 wordsThe twelfth annual Eisteddfod, under the auspices of the Newcastle and District Cambrian Society, was opened at the Victoria Theatre to-night. Mr. Evan R[?] presuded, and there was a crowded house. Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 386 wordsAt the Parramatta Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. T. E. MacNevin, P.M., and Mr. F. J. Waller, J.P., Henry William Thompson, who had been arrested on warrant ...
Article : 156 wordsDuring September Scotch ship-builders launchedb 42 vessels of 47,81[?] tons gross, against 25 vessels of about 41,350 tons gross in August, and 27 vessels of about 42,[?]37 tons gross in September last year. For the year, so far, there ...
Article : 211 wordsThe units whom the War Office authorities mobilised last month for South African service belong to the following regiments:- 6th Dragoon Guards, 1st Drigoons, 2nd Dragoons, 6th ...
Article : 190 wordsDr. W. J. Ansorge, medical office[?] Protectorate (says the London "[?] has arrived in London after a jour[?] Africa, gives some interesting par[?] ...
Article : 362 wordsThere was a well attended meeting at the Parramatta Council Chambers on Tuesday evening, in support of a proposal to establish technical classes in Parramatta. Some years back classes were held in ...
Article : 344 wordsThe recent launch of the Cunard boat Invernia from Swan and Hunter's yard on the Tyne, the fourth largest steamer at present afloat, induces the "Hamburgische Borsenhalle" to compile a list of the 20 largest steamers ...
Article : 367 wordsThere are nearly 2000 volunteer troops of all arms in Natal, and though some of them—notably the mounted rifles raised in Umvoti—are not thoroughly trustworthy, the large majority know their business ...
Article : 134 wordsNon-inflammable wood is (says the "St. James's Gazette") sure to be a great boon, and in the future it will be classed amongst the great benefits which war has brought in its train, for the inventor ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 192 wordsThere is matter for surprise in the statement cabled from London to the effect that Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal Plenipotentiary in Europe, is engaged in "nobbling" the Continental press. Here, so the ...
Article : 404 wordsThere wero no sales on Change to-day. CHARTERS TOWERS, Wednesday. There were sales on Change to-day. The Victoria and Caledonia Block has crushed 246 ...
Article : 160 wordsA remarkable change has come over the marine world during the past 20 or 30 years in connection with reinsurances. In London to-day a reinsurance is about as readily placed as an original insurance. In the earlier period ...
Article : 261 wordsUnder the auspices of the Womanhood Suffrage League, the Rev. G. Walters lectured at the School of Arts last evening upon the subject, "Woman's Influence upon Men of Genius." In the course of his remarks the speaker, ...
Article : 173 wordsLast night, in celebration of the sixtieth of the present series of popular entertainments arranged by the committee of the Central Methodist Mission in the Centenary Hall, a concert of more than usual merit was held. There was an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 810 wordsShortly before 12 o'clock yesterday John M'Manus, an employee of the Federal Timber Company and the Kiama Blue Metal Company, was found in a lavatory at 359 George-street with a ballet wound in the head. The ...
Article : 300 wordsThe Aberdeen, with the New South Wales conlingent on board, sails this afternoon for South Africa. Lieutenaut-Colonel Umphelby, Captain Bruche, and Captain Johnston, of the Victorian ...
Article : 48 wordsThe returns of shipbuilding in English yards during September came to hand yesterday by the English mail. They show that English builders put into the water 29 vessels aggregating about 93,140 tons gross, against 21 vessels ...
Article : 247 wordsAfter the Western Australian horses had been slung aboard the Medic some of them gave a lot of trouble in getting them into the stables provided, one animal taking half an hour before he was ...
Article : 93 wordsThe team selected by the Sydney Chess Club will try conclusions with a representative Queensland team to-day. The local team will consist of Messrs. Crane, Hall, Jones, Miles, Kirkpatrick, Trasey, Taylour, Wallis, Lee, and ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Marrickville Congregational Sunday School held the scholars' annual picnic on Saturday last at Clontarf, Middle Harbour. The scholars were taken to and from Sydney by special trams, and together with the teachers, ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Woosung, once a tea clipper, has just made a voyage to Baker Island. The Woosung is consigned with a [?] cargo to Lyttelton, and arrived there on the 29th ultimo. She reports: Baker Island is a sandy islet situated close ...
Article : 169 wordsIn order to relieve the pressure always experienced at the Cyclorama on holiday evenings, the management will give exactly the same programme at 3 p.m. to-day as will be given at 8 p.m. This will include ...
Article : 65 wordsAn Irish corps has been organised at Pretoria by John M'Bride, the well-known agitator. He issued a call to arms in the form of a manifesto, which has been posted in prominent places throughout the city, ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Boers have got the best sort of artillery, but, as was generally expected would be the case, they are not able to use it with effect. Thus we learn to-day that their heavy bombardment of Ladysmith has ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 9 Nov 1899, Page 6
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