The deputy coroner, Mr. Hall, has received information from the police description that the body of a man was found near Langawirra station on 29th February. His age was about 50. A ...
Article : 103 wordsThe chairman of the board of directors of the Wickham and Bullock Island Colliery received a telegram on Saturday from the mine manager stating that the men had given 11 days' notice of their ...
Article : 188 wordsThe R.M.S. Valetta, G. W. Atkinson, commander, arrived from Colombo at 8.30 p.m. yesterday. The following are the passengers:— For ALBANY: Messrs. Fowler, Scott and two ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Government has decided that the 10th March, heretofore observed as Eight Hours Demonstration Day, shall no longer be observed as a public holiday, the movement being practically ...
Article : 77 wordsA fatal accident occurred in the railway station yard at Lancefield yesterday morning. A young man named John Norman while shunting a train stopped, out from between two trucks which he ...
Article : 100 wordsReports have been received in Italy from General Baldishera, the new commander-in-chief of the Italian forces operating in Abyssinia, who was recently ...
Article : 696 wordsThe Sultan of Turkey recently sent an officer to Egypt to watch the movements of Murad Effendi, his eldest brother, who fled from Constantinople, and who was ...
Article : 136 wordsThe manager of De Beer's diamond mines at Kimberley has been arrested on a charge of having assisted Mr. Jameson in his attempted raid on the ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. A. Thomas, manager of the East Greta, Colliery, has just returned from a trip to Victoria and Tasmania in connection with some extensive developments it is proposed to make in the colliery ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Victoria Bridge was opened for light vehicular traffic yesterday morning. Tram and omnibus traffic was excluded. ...
Article : 28 wordsA message from Mildura states that the holders of special issue of 1891 Chaffey Brothers, Limited, £10 shares have received notice to pay the uncalled balance of £9 per share immediately ...
Article : 125 wordsA special meeting of the Hetton miners was held at the lodgeroom, Albion Hotel, Wickham, this morning, at 10 o'clock. Mr. Thomas Sample, chairman of the lodge, presided. There was a large ...
Article : 1,784 wordsThe colliery has not been worked a stroke for the fortnight ended to-day, and there is still no prospect of any work in the immediate future, although there are vague rumours as to a start being made ...
Article : 173 wordsAt Miles yesterday the Premier, Mr. Nelson, addressed a large meeting, including a good number of ladies. The schoolroom was crowded. The Premier said that the disastors of 1893 made ...
Article : 1,280 wordsOn Saturday the Rev. D. Clement Scott, B.D., head of the Blantyre Mission of the Church of Scotland in Africa, arrived from Melbourne by the express train, and was welcomed by the Rev. John ...
Article : 1,864 wordsA Parliamentary Blue Book dealing with the Venezuelan boundary question has been published. It shows that the British case is stronger ...
Article : 69 wordsA remarkably rich quartz reef has been discovered at Rogers Hill, in the Ballarat district, by five brothers named O'Keefe, who have been out prospecting for a couple of years. Some ...
Article : 54 wordsThe enormous increase which has lately taken place in the strength of the Russian squadron in the Pacific is attracting much attention in Europe. ...
Article : 35 wordsA case of considerable importance to municipal councils throughout the colony has just been settled here. The borough council sued Peder Frederiksen to recover £1 12s, being rates due on property of ...
Article : 207 wordsA special meeting of the Executive Council was held at Parliament House on Saturday, at which an order was passed for the appointment of a board to investigate the charges recently made ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Radical and Labour members of the Liboral Federation assert that the intimate relations which exist between the officials of the federation and the whips ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Spanish Government is seeking to purchase four cruisers in England, with the view of strengthening Spain's fleet in Cuban waters. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the sitting of the Wesleyan Conference yesterday the need for a recognised order of church service was referred to, and a committee was appointed to draw up an order of service to be ...
Article : 56 wordsA large meeting of the Selectors' Association was held to-day. It was decided to petition the Minister for Lands to suspend payments on all selections in the Western district for five years, to be added on to ...
Article : 100 wordsThe will of the late Right Hon. H. C. E. Childers has been proved, the amount of his personal estate being sworn at £15,225. ...
Article : 31 wordsAn example of great liberal support was reported to the Wesleyan Conference at its sitting yesterday. It was stated that two gentlemen in Tasmania, who preferred not to allow their names ...
Article : 108 wordsSir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, G.O.B., late Secretary of State for War, has given notice of his intention to move in the House of Commons that the pension ...
Article : 84 wordsThe St. James's Gazette states that hundreds of firms in the colonies and elsewhere have telegraphed to their London agents to refuse to submit to the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe local land board, Mr. C. E. Finch presiding, after a sitting extending over 11 days, concluded its business yesterday, which comprised between 70 and 80 cases in connection with special area ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Premier has received from the Agent-General a despatoh enclosing a [?]tter from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in which Mr. Chamberlain mentions the joint [?]er of ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. E. Burney Young, the manager of the South Australian Wine and Produce Depot in London, has obtained a reduction of £100 a year in the Customs expenses ...
Article : 48 wordsDrovers, carriers, and the travelling public are bitterly complaining of the action of the Minister for Lands in throwing open the travelling stock routes and camping reserves to settlement. The lessees ...
Article : 139 wordsAccording to the returns of the Board of Trade for February, the imports into the United Kingdom show an increase in value for the month of £7,342,247, and ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Ballington Booth, second son of General Booth, who was recently superseded in the command of the Salvation Army in the United States by his younger ...
Article : 85 wordsStatistics show that the imports from Germany have increased from £6547 in 1884 to £68,163 in 1894. ...
Article : 30 wordsA number of persons in this district who will be called upon to make returns of the land and income taxes have not yet been supplied with the necessary forms, which only reached here this week. It is ...
Article : 64 wordsNews from Berlin states that Count Goluchowski, the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, is at present on a visit to Prince Hohenlohe, the German ...
Article : 86 wordsA very successful meeting in connection with the formation of a rifle reserve club was held last evening at Contral Wyalong at the Shearers' Hotel, when Staff-Major Bailey was in attendance, and ...
Article : 124 wordsFurther results from the crushings from the Little Wonder mine are to hand. The mine is situated 15 miles from Doyle's Well, near Mount Malcolm. The first crushing of half a ton from the ...
Article : 548 wordsSir John Colton has resigned from the board of the Adelaide Hospital. The chief cause is the re-engagement of Nurse Graham. The decesion of the Wesleyan Conference to ...
Article : 198 wordsA death by lightning has occurred at Bamboo Creek. Two men named John Gilroy and George Loy were together in their tent on the 6th February. After supper the latter went over to the ...
Article : 124 wordsA resident of Mount Victoria vouches to having seen an English trout some Sez. in weight that was caught in the River Lett, Hartley, a few days since. He states he caught some there himself 12 years ago. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe French Budget Committee rejects any income tax based upon aggregate receipts as being vexations and iniquitous. It has asked that a new ...
Article : 45 wordsThe coal Trade during the week has been somewhat slack. For the past fortnight the Mount Pleasant colliery has worked only 3[?] days, while the Keira miners were paid to-day for 3½ days for the ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Campbell, M.L.A., has received a communication from the Under Secretary for Finance and Trade with reference to the proposod remission of the dues charged at the Wollongong Harbour, which ...
Article : 1,130 wordsA messenger has arrived from Doubtful Island with the news that the steamer Macgregor is still ashore in Mary Ann Harbour. All hands are safe. The steamer is fast on a sandbank, but ...
Article : 58 wordsA disastrous fire has broken out in a colliery at Kattowitz, in Silesia. The minors at work beneath the surface were unable to escape, and up to the present ...
Article : 48 wordsParliament was prorogued yesterday with the customary ceremonial. The Governor's Speech spoke of federation as being the most momentous of all questions, and gratification was expressed ...
Article : 248 wordsIt has been definitely decided to held the opening of the railway on the 23rd March, and 500 invitations are being sent out. A banquet is being arranged. The festivities will continue for ...
Article : 42 wordsAt the wool sales to-day the bidding was excited. Prices are hardening. MARCH 8. As compared with the closing rates of ...
Article : 99 wordsA telegram has been received from Melbourne stating that a test of one section of Jobson's water-condensing plant had been made, and that the result had exceeded expectations, the output ...
Article : 189 wordsNEWS from Tonga states that the trading stores of Messrs. Forsyth, Schlitz, and Co. were destroyed by fire on the 8th instant, together with their contents. The damage is estimated at £7000, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 9 Mar 1896, Page 5
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