At the weekly auctions of Australasian tallow 1375 casks were offered, of which 300 were sold. Fine mutton, 19s 9d; medium mutton, 17s 9d; fine beef, 18s 3d; ...
Article : 46 wordsAn industrial exhibition and bazaar, organised by the ladies of Wickham for the purpose of raising sufficient funds to carry out a number of necessary additions and improvements to the local School of ...
Article : 492 wordsThe time appointed for the reception of nominations for the general elections expired this evening. All the retiring members of the Legislative Assembly seek re-election except two—Mr. ...
Article : 500 wordsPresident Kruger is using his influence to postpone the decision of the Transvaal Executive with regard to the report of the Industrial Commission until after the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Mahmonds who on Sunday surrounded Brigadier- General Jeffrey's brigade after it had destroyed the forts at Badelai jeeringly expressed their ...
Article : 300 wordsNo formal business intervening, the Legislative Council yesterday proceeded at once with the Land and Income Tax Amendment Bill, and the Attorney-General in moving the second reading ...
Article : 1,714 wordsFurther news regrading the barque Kassa, now in Spring Bay disabled, shows that during Saturday's gale the vessel was thrown on her beam ends, and, ballast shiftnig, the main and ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Princess Royal output for the last fortnight of September was 350oz. from 265 tons, making a total for the month of 827oz. from 465 tons. Tailings for the month average 16dwt. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe United States has invited Canada to send delegates to Washington to discuss the subject of trade relations between the two countries, and the promotion of ...
Article : 45 wordsThe man Campbell, who was last night admitted to the Sydney Hospital in a critical condition, died in that institution early this morning. ...
Article : 28 wordsAt a meeting of the municipal council this afternoon the Mayor tabled a minute directing the attention of the council to the conduct of Alderman Jabez Wright at the last meeting, in persistently ...
Article : 126 wordsSenor Sagasta, the new Spanish Premier, intends to recall General Weyler, the Spanish Commander-in-Chief in Cuba, unless he resigns. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Miller has been elected Speaker of the Legislative Council by a majority of one. ...
Article : 21 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, the Land Bill was further considered in committee. An amendment dividing the colony into three divisions was negatived. Another, to divide it into four, with local ...
Article : 93 wordsA telegram has been received by Reuter's Agency stating that further excavations at Ternovsky, in Russia, have revealed six fresh cases of living burials. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 281 wordsThe revenue received at the Coonamble Land Office for last quarter was £5927. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe quarterly meeting of the ladies' committee of the Newcastle and Northumberland Benevolent Society was held at the Newcastle Town Hall this afternoon. Mr. W. Arnott (president) occupied the ...
Article : 343 wordsThe aunnal ploughing matches under the auspices of the Ulladulla Agricultural Society were held to-day in Ingold's paddocks. The attendance of the public was not large. Competition in the first and ...
Article : 2,147 wordsIn the Legislative Council a private bill to empower a company to illuminate Adelaide by electricity was read a second time and referred to a select committee. The Northern Territory ...
Article : 215 wordsMr. Edward Langtry, husband of Mrs. Lily Langtry, the well-known "society" actress, who recently obtained a divorce from him in California, returned from ...
Article : 58 wordsThe directors of the London and Westminster Bank yesterday entertained Sir Saul Samuel at luncheon. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe strike committee held a caucus meeting yesterday in reference to overtures made to some men. It is alleged that a number of men have been offered 7s a day and no classification, ...
Article : 114 wordsFurther particulars of the voyage of the Powys Castle state that the ship left Hamburg on June 1 with a full cargo consigned to Brisbane. The outward voyage was favourable until the Cape of ...
Article : 394 wordsThe Greek Chamber of Deputies has unanimously decided to entrust to the Government the settlement of the peace arrangements, as well as the duty of ...
Article : 36 wordsOfficials and bankers who have been consulted consider the premises near London Bridge proposed to be taken for the Victorian Agency-General to be ...
Article : 50 wordsThe A. and A. route steamer Mariposa, in command of Captain H. M. Hayward, arrived from San Francisco to-day. She was due to-morrow. The passengers are:— ...
Article : 138 wordsThe work of effecting repairs to the barque Highlands, which was recently severely damaged by fire, was commenced to-day by the firm of Messrs. M'Alan and Co. Tenders were invited, in the first ...
Article : 139 wordsThe epidemic of typhoid fever at Maidstone, in Kent, continues to increase. 1400 cases have now been reported. Oct. 6. ...
Article : 53 wordsTo-day's Stock Exchange sales and quotations were:—Band of Hope, paid, seller 27s 6d; Brilliant Central, buyer 7s 2d, seller 7s 8d; Brilliant, buyer 16s 3d; seller 16s 9d; Brilliant Block, paid, ...
Article : 325 wordsAt the coroner's inquest upon the victims of the explosion which occurred on board H.M.S. Thrasher, a torpedo-boat-destroyer, when she recently grounded ...
Article : 62 wordsThe captain of the barque Allora, which arrived in port from Table Bay last night, reports having experienced a series of gales and exceptionally heavy weather. During the course of the passage here on ...
Article : 149 wordsThe executive committee of the Employers' Federation has passed a resolution declaring that the conditions of the engineering and allied trades do not admit ...
Article : 124 wordsSome time ago the Government exchanged with Mr. Osborne, of Currandooley, a permanent town common dedicated to the people of Bungendore for a piece of land more convenient to the town. Now, ...
Article : 214 wordsAt the colonial wool sales this evening prices were firm but unchanged. Operations were chiefly confined to home buyers. ...
Article : 56 wordsA meeting of delegates appointed by the various friendly societies of the district to make arrangements for the annual Hospital Saturday demonstration, to take place on November 6, was held at the ...
Article : 125 wordsMusical amateurs were provided with a delightful programme of music at the Amy Sherwin matinee yesterday. The distinguished soprano herself introduced here. "Unto Thy Heart," a new song by ...
Article : 599 wordsThe annual matches of the Rifle Association were concluded to-day under unfavourable conditions. The morning was showery, and a fishtail wind was blowing in the afternoon. ...
Article : 213 wordsAt the annual meeting of shareholders of the Northern Investment Company of New Zealand held at Edinburgh yesterday, Mr. J. Balfour-Melville, chairman of ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Sydney Liedertafel gave their 94th smoke concert at the pavilion (Clifton Gardens) last night, this departure from their usual practice neing partly due to some difficulty in securing ...
Article : 596 wordsThe majority of the employers of the cotton spinners in England favour a reduction in the wages of the operatives. ...
Article : 33 wordsA special meeting of the Wickham and Bullock Island Miners' Lodge was held at Islington to-day, for the purpose of considering what attitude should be adopted in view of the recent pitfall at the ...
Article : 214 wordsThe personalty of the late Barnoy Barnato has been sworn at £960,119. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe death is announced of Professor Francis William Newman, a writer on religious and other subjects, and younger brother of the late Cardinal Newman, ...
Article : 89 wordsAt the meeting of the National Temperance Convention yesterday, on the motion of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a resolution in favour of the closing of hotels in ...
Article : 40 wordsThe adjourned meeting of the recently formed Newcastle East Borough Cricket Club was held, under the presidency of the Mayor of Newcastle, at the Town Hall to-night. The following were ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Customs returns for the quarter ended September show a not revenue of £9431. The value of imports was £41,176; the exports £42,111, including staple products and gold valued at ...
Article : 70 wordsIn a 120 yards scratch race at St. George's Baths yesterday J. Hellings, the Sydney amateur swimmer, with a flying start, won the first heat easily, with A. ...
Article : 83 wordsJohn Humphreys, chief mate of the barque Pengwen, was admitted to the Newcastle Hospital at an early hour this morning suffering from injuries to both hands. It was found that several of his fingers ...
Article : 155 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. G. C. Boase, the antiquarian. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. J. B. Watt, the head of the firm of Gilchrist, Watt, and Co., of Sydney and London. An intimation of the death of Mr. J. B. Watt ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. W. Ponton, a well-known pastoralist, of the Eucla district, in a report of a top from Fowler's Bay to Balladonia, states that out of the 450 miles he travelled on the trip 300 are ...
Article : 91 wordsOur South Head correspondent wires:—"The steamer Fiado, from Noumea, anchored in Watson's Bay at 12.30 a.m." DOCTORS DON'T KNOW what the vermiform ...
Article : 67 words"Messrs. JOSHUA BROTHERS, of Melbourne, have been awarded TWO GOLD MEDALS for ...
Article : 26 wordsThe various municipal councils of the district have decided to take combined action with a view to inducing the Government to establish telephonic communication between the fire brigades of the ...
Article : 519 wordsby the industry of cigarette making. Ogden's Guinea Golds are English made, and unsurpassed.— Advt. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 7 Oct 1897, Page 5
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