Nothing could have been more fortunate than the weather which greeted the annual Eight-hours Demonstration of the assembled trades yesterday. Holiday seekers were treated to the delights of a ...
Article : 305 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 1?d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe schooner Omega, which was stranded in the west channel, is still a ground. Most of the cargo has been lightered, and when all has been removed an attempt will be made to pump out the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe force which is to proceed to Tirah to crush the revolt of the tribesmen, and which is to be under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir W. S. A. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board was held at the offices, Bolton-street, Newcastle, this morning. The President (Mr. H. D. Walsh), occupied the chair, ...
Article : 242 wordsTelegraphic advices from Cairo state that the railway to Abu Hamed, in the bend of the Nile between the fourth and fifth cataracts, has been practically ...
Article : 108 wordsJust before 3 o'clock this morning a fire was discovered in a shop in Clarence-street, occupied by Mr. W. H. Goulding, tailor. The M. F. Fire Brigade received a call, and getting quickly to work, ...
Article : 49 wordsA return has been prepared giving particulars of the shipping and trade of the port from the year 1887 up to the present time. The largest number of vessels visited the port in 1888, ...
Article : 270 wordsMr. Harry Pengelly, a well-known bookseller and news agent, dropped dead in his shop, Talbragarstreet, whilst conversing with two friends this morning. Death was the result of heart disease. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Greek Chamber of Deputies has tacitly acquiesced in the treaty of peace with Turkey. A new Ministry has been formed, with ...
Article : 133 wordsThe quantity of coal shipped at the Government wharfs and cranes for home, intercolonial, and foreign consumption during the week ended this morning totalled 60,813 tons as compared with ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. A. J. Peisley, assistant in the Dubbo district surveyor's office, who was amongst the successful candidates in the police magistrates' examination last June, has been appointed police magistrate at ...
Article : 40 wordsThe contract with the Allan Mail Line for the conveyance of the Canadian mails will terminate in November. The Canadian Government has invited ...
Article : 61 wordsAt an early hour yesterday morning people, taking advantage of the special transit arrangements, swarmed into the city in thousands from the suburbs to witness the usual procession held on ...
Article : 1,581 wordsWith regard to the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Act Amendment Bill, which has the approval of Parliament, with the single exception of the clause relative to the recovery of rates by ...
Article : 106 wordsTwo brothers named Makin, aged respectively 11 and 13 years, whilst driving home yesterday in a cart, ran against a log, overturning the cart and killing the eldest boy. The other was only slightly ...
Article : 1,989 wordsMr. J.M. Sinclair, the representative in London of the Victorian Agricultural Department, who is on a visit to Melbourne, had a long interview to-day with the Premier regarding ...
Article : 90 wordsA letter was received from the Board of Health at to-day's meeting of the Water and Sewerage Board covering a report from the Government Analyst (Mr. Hamlet) on recent samples of water submitted ...
Article : 122 wordsA statement has been published showing the trade between Germany and Great Britain during 1896, and also between Germany and India and Australia during ...
Article : 93 wordsA telegram from Madrid states that Senor Sagasta has succeeded in forming a strong Liberal Government. The New York newspapers approve of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,133 wordsThe furnacemen engaged at the sulphide corporation works at Cockle Creek, to the number of 36, came out on strike to-day owing to new regulations which have been issued by the management in ...
Article : 181 wordsA large number of members of the legal profession attended the Banco Court to-day to welcome Mr. Justice Williams on his return to the bench after a prolonged absence caused by illness. ...
Article : 325 wordsAnti-Jewish riots have taken place at Algiers. Eighteen persons have been arrested. ...
Article : 19 wordsOne hundred thousand colliers in South Wales and Monmouthshire have given notice to the coalowners of their intention to terminate the sliding scale, by which ...
Article : 106 wordsThe second annual meeting of the members of the Pirates' Swimming Club was held at the Royal Hotel to-night. Mr. D. C. Caddy presided, and there was a large attendance of members. The annual ...
Article : 137 wordsShortly after 1 o'clock a number of visitors were entertained at luncheon in the committee—room. The chair was occupied by Mr. F. Brennan, chairman of the Eight-hours Demonstration committee, who had ...
Article : 2,439 wordsThe Peak Hill Goldfields Company, New South Wales, has been formed with a capital of £250,000, of which £138,000 will be offered for public subscription. ...
Article : 32 wordsBarcaldine reports that 800 travelling sheep have been poisoned near Alice by the poison bush. The second and third games of chess for the ...
Article : 197 wordsA miner named Hezekish Williams, lately residing at Broadmeadow, died in the Newcastle Hospital to-night from the effects of injuries received whilst engaged in coal-mining. It appears that a few days ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Belgian Miners' Congress has passed a resolution demanding an increase of 15 percent, in wages before November 15, otherwise a general strike will be ...
Article : 36 wordsThe weekly meeting of the committee of the Newcastle Branch League of Wheelmen was held at the rooms, Ceutennial Hotel, to-night Arrangements were completed for the carnival to be held on ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. S. G. Kingston, solicitor, shot himself this afternoon with a sporting rifle. He said to his office boy, "I am going to shoot myself," and before help could be rendered he committed the ...
Article : 90 wordsThere is nothing further to record in connection with the recent pitfall in the old workings of the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery. The management states that a thorough examination ...
Article : 78 wordsIntelligence has been received from India stating that Mr. Savage Landor, a grandson of Walter Savage Landor, the poet, has had a narrow escape from being ...
Article : 132 wordsThe annual Rifle Association matches were begun to-day. The weather was not very favourable. The most important event was the teams' match, open to the members of any British rifle club of ...
Article : 208 wordsDuring the past few days numbers of burglaries have been reported from the suburban districts. On Thursday night the Bellvue Hotel, at the corner of Hannell and Charlton streets, was entered, and a ...
Article : 143 wordsMatters continue quiet at Lucknow. On Sunday evening a party of gentlemen, including Mr. Lock, superintendent, came out of the mining enclosure, and attended church. This is said to be the first ...
Article : 63 wordsThe members of the Newcastle Marine Board, accompanied by the Harbour Master and Lloyd's Surveyor, made their annual inspection of the Hunter River on Saturday afternoon. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 540 wordsThe Minister for Education, Dr. Cockburn, states that the number of applications for space for butter shipments indicates that the season this year will be much better than last one, when ...
Article : 41 wordsDr. W. J. Leyds, the Transvaal Secretary of State, is conferring with the Portuguese Governor of Lorenzo Marques, in the Delagon Bay territory. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Kingston, as President of the Federal Convention, has received the following letter from Sir Horace Tozer, Acting Premier of Queensland:—"Sir,—Referring to our previous ...
Article : 168 wordsThe race for the Hundred Yards Amateur Championship was swum at Hornsey Baths yesterday. In the preliminary heats J. H. Tyers, of Manchester, the English ...
Article : 142 wordsThe wheat market opened weaker in tone to-day, but in the absence of any sales of magnitude it is difficult to arrive at exact values. Reports from the country since the last fall of rain are continuing ...
Article : 329 wordsAt the Circuit Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Cohen, W. H. Edmondson, of Corowa, was charged with criminal libel concerning Edmund Daniel O'Dwyer, auctioneer, of Berrigan. The jury ...
Article : 274 wordsMr. Walter Turnbull, formerly one of the leading merchants of this colony, was found dead in bed at Wellington this morning. ...
Article : 26 wordsSenior-constable Morrow, of No. 4 Station, while attempting to arrest a man in the vicinity of Argylestreet, yesterday, fell to the ground, and was stunned. He sustained a scalp wound, and was ...
Article : 80 wordsThe comparatively open spaces adjoining the Redfern station were early occupied by the crowd, and for at least an hour before the foremost banner of the procession came in sight locomotion of any ...
Article : 945 words[?] Guinea Gold are a pure silk-out Cigarette. Try them; you'll be delighted.—Advt. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 5 Oct 1897, Page 5
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