The latest particulars to hand in connection with the robbery from the Walgett coach mail bags show that three bags had been opened. The Walgett to Sydney, the Pilliga to Sydney, and the Wee Waa to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 288 wordsMessrs. Fehon and Oliver (Railway Commissioners), accompanied by Messrs. W. Thow (mechanical engineer), David Kirkcaldie (Chief Traffic Inspector), H. Richardson (outdoor superintendent), ...
Article : 410 wordsTo-day's price of bar silver is 2s 2[?]d per ounce standard, being a fall of ½d since last quotation. ...
Article : 26 wordsAn Executive Council meeting was held this morning, when the death sentence passed upon Peter, an aboriginal, for the murder of Thomas Augustus Perry, a white settler at Creswell Downs ...
Article : 264 wordsIn presenting the Navy Estimates in the House of Commons, last night, Mr. G. J. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated that it was proposed to ...
Article : 200 wordsThe British camp at Malakand, in the State of Chitral, on the north-west frontier of India, has been attacked by a force of Chitralese. ...
Article : 191 wordsA deputation of Central District members of Parliament waited on the Queensland Stock Board to day to ask that the quarantine regulations be relaxed as regards certain portions of the Central ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsThe latest particulars to hand in connection with the washaways on the Morce-Narrabri line show that the breakaways occurred at a great number of places. The approaches to the bridge near the ...
Article : 248 wordsA supposed case of drowning has occurred in the Macquarie River: Miss Adams, aged 20, a pupil teacher at the Dubbo Public school, went for her customary walk at 7 o'clock this morning, but did ...
Article : 145 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions to day, before Judge Coffey, what are known as the Lucknow gold cases were before the Court, when Isaac Green was charged with stealing on 30th June 4[?]oz. of ...
Article : 1,082 wordsHis Excellency the Governor and suite will witness the performance of "My Friend from India" at Her Majesty's Theatre to-night. Mr. Harry Paulton and Miss Alma Stanley will appear for the ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, on the motion of Mr. Robert William Hanbury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, the Anglo-Australian mail ...
Article : 37 wordsAs in former years on similar occasions, the fourth annual concert by the pupils of Mr. Frank E. Down, given before a crowded audience at the Y.M.C.A. Hall last night, was remarkable for the richness of ...
Article : 436 wordsThe sixty-second half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the City of Newcastle Gas aud Coke Company, Limited, was held at the offices of the company at noon to-day. Mr. W. K. Lochhead ...
Article : 272 wordsIt is unlikely that the Agent-General for Victoria will succeed in obtaining accommodation in the city which will comprise showroom, agency, and offices for the ...
Article : 101 wordsJoseph May, aged 60, whilst scrub-cutting at Barbigal station yesterday, was seized with a fit of coughing, and burst a blood-vessel. He died instantly. The coroner, Mr. R. G. Dulhunty, and ...
Article : 80 wordsIn the Assembly yesterday the Minister for Lands (Mr. Carruthers) introduced a bill to amend the law relating to the determination of values of improvements, the re[?]ission of reservations of water ...
Article : 592 wordsAt the Launceston Police Court this morning, A. C. Houland was fined in the minimum penalty of £50, under the Contagious Diseases Act, for importing a bull from Flinders Island without ...
Article : 90 wordsThe chief of the Afrikanders in Damaraland, German South-west Africa, has revolted, and defeated a small force of German troops sent against him. ...
Article : 41 wordsA fire broke out at Mr. Curtin's Frankfield Hotel shortly after 2 o'clock this morning, and rapidly destroyed the building, which was one of two stories and about 40 rooms. The fire occurred in an upper ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Fish, member for Dunedin in the House of Representatives, is suffering from cancer, and little hope is entertained of his recovery. An action by the Customs against an Assyrian ...
Article : 123 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, Colonol Sir E. S. Hill, M.P. for Bristol South, and president of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. J. M. Sinclair, the Superintendent of Victorian Exports, gave evidence yesterday before the committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the ...
Article : 249 wordsThe engineering scheme recently set forth by Mr. Price for the mitigation of the effects of flood in the Hunter by the construction of a large dam near the head of the river has given rise ...
Article : 130 wordsThe third annual meeting of the members of the Newcastle District Public School Teachers' Association was held in the Bolton-street schoolroom tonight. The president (Mr. C. O. Flashman, ...
Article : 236 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, the House having resumed the consideration of the Commonwealth Bill in committee, further discussion ensued on an amendment by Mr. Higgins in favour of ...
Article : 418 wordsA public meeting was held last night to consider the question of the site selected for the technical college. It was convened by the council, and the Mayor presided. A resolution was carried by a ...
Article : 880 wordsLast night Professor Andrew Harper, of Ormond College, Melbourne, visited Balmain, and delivered an interesting lecture on the subject of "Armenia and the Armenians." The lecture was delivered in ...
Article : 761 wordsThe New Zealand riflemen who took part in the Bisley meeting will return to Wellington in the steamer Mataura. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe final meeting of the citizens' committee appointed to carry out the celebrations in connection with the Diamond Jubilee was held at the Town Hall to-night for the purpose of receiving ...
Article : 121 wordsThe annual meeting of subscribers and governors of the Melbourne Hospital was held to-day. The report showed the revenue to be £19,930, and the expenditure £24,402, which with the ...
Article : 62 words"We have come across to Sydney with our new ship specially to meet Lord Ranfurly and his family and to convey them to New Zealand'' said, to a "Herald" reporter, the tall, grey-whiskered, ...
Article : 388 wordsAt the last meeting of the Waratah Council a report waa tabled showing that during the past year nearly, 8000 head of cattle had been slaughtered in the municipality. ...
Article : 99 wordsHis Excellency the Governor was a witness to-day at the meeting of the Royal Commission on old-age pensions, and placed the commission in possession of a quantity of information gathered ...
Article : 435 wordsThe Canadian Government has decided to impose a royalty upon all gold won from the Placer mines in the Yukon River district, British Columbia. ...
Article : 66 wordsAt the half-yearly meeting of members of the Wallsend and Plattsburg A.H.P.P. and C. Society held at the Agricultural Hall, Wallsend, on Monday last, it was decided to affiliate with the Poultry Club ...
Article : 76 wordsAt a special meeting of the Glebe Miners' Lodge a deputation was appointed to wait on the manager of the colliery with a view to discussing the small coal question. It was resolved to open an investment ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly the Fencing Bill was passed through committee without amendment. The Local Government Bill was taken in committee. The debate was resumed upon the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe 4 per cent. debentures to the amount of £160,000 at 98, offered to the public by the New South Wales Mortgage, Loan, and Agency Company, have ...
Article : 38 wordsAdditional evidence was taken yesterday afternoon by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works respecting the proposal to extend the railway system of the colony from the present terminus ...
Article : 513 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Newcastle Marine Board was held at the offices, Custom-house buildings, this afternoon. Captain H. R. Cross (president) occupied the chair, and there were also present— ...
Article : 231 wordsThe seventeenth annual meeting of the Art Society of New South Wales was held at the rooms, 70 Pittstreet, last night. The acting president (Mr. W. Lister Lister) was in the chair. There was a very ...
Article : 362 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day Mr. Russell, in debating Mr. M'Gregor's motion for a free breakfast table, moved to remit the duties on tea, cocoa, and coffee, and to increase the progressive ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 wordsAn impression has got abroad that the result of research made by the officers of the Legislative Assembly regarding the practice of the House of Commons was to find that although there was in ...
Article : 363 wordsA disastrous fire occurred here about 2 o'clock this morning, when four shops and dwellings in Mainstreet were totally destroyed. The premises consisted of a weatherboard shop and dwelling, ...
Article : 215 wordsThe fourth annual ball in connection with the New South Wales Chemists' Assistants' Association took place in the Paddington Town Hall last evening, and was a success, the attendance numbering ...
Article : 199 wordsThe interest taken in the approaching testimonial benefit which will be tendered to Miss Elsie Adair in the Theatre Royal on Wednesday afternoon next is clearly shown by the fact that nearly every seat in ...
Article : 188 wordsThese manufactures have obtained the highest [?]wards at every exhibition, and have gained twenty prize medals. They are the best and safest in this climate for the home, the bush, and the mine. ...
Article : 80 wordsMessrs. Lovel[?]k and Dent's "Premier Juvenile Company" gave a variety entertainment to the inmates of the Benevolent Asylum at the institution last night. With Mr. Dent as interlocutor, Messrs. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 29 Jul 1897, Page 5
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