Christmas Eve in Sydney was celebrated in a joyous manner. The principal thoroughfares were crowded with pedestrians, and during the earlier portion of the day the business of ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Australian who when doing the world does not spend a November in London misses many very interesting experiences. His idea regarding fogs, grey, yellow, brown, and black, ...
Article : 1,675 wordsMr.C.E.Borchgrevink, a member of the last expedition to the South Polar regions, and the author of papers on the subject of Antarctic Exploration which ...
Article : 294 wordsTwo Ashantee chiefs, who are supposed to be traitors, are proceeding to the Gold Coast Colony to interview the Governor of the colony. ...
Article : 57 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday at the hospital, bofore Mr.A.D. Badgery, coroner, and a jury of 12, touching the death of John Barr, who had been fatally injured at the railway ...
Article : 210 wordsThe service at St.Andrew's Cathedral last evening was somewhat of a departure from what has been the vogue on previous Christmas Eves. The evensong was almost dispensed with, and in its place ...
Article : 221 wordsA meeting of the Metropolitan Transit Commission was held yesterday. The president (the Hon. S.E Lees, Mayor of Sydney) occupied the chair, and there were also present Inspector-General ...
Article : 122 wordsIt is scarcely too much to say that George-street was crowded with an excited and animated throng from early in the afternoon until late in the evening. Of all the busy thoroughfares in the city yesterday ...
Article : 456 wordsSir Augustus Hemining, K.C.M.G., formerly principal clerk in the Colonial Office, who served on special missions to Paris and Berlin in 1879, 1881, 1887, and ...
Article : 55 wordsThe final executive meeting of the above committee, previous to the sports, was held last night in the New Masonio Hall, under the presidency of Alderman J.F. Smith, when the official programme ...
Article : 160 wordsThe ship Durisdeer is now breaking up. Every effort has been made in the direction of salvage. The vessel is rapidly going to pieces. A Marine Board inquiry will be held on Friday. ...
Article : 1,481 wordsThe annual distribution of goods to the poor was made yesterday, in St.Vincent's Convent, Victoriastreet, by the members of St.Vincent's Society for the Relief of the Poor, which works separately from ...
Article : 148 wordsThe death is announced of the Duke of Leeds at the age of 67 years. His eldest son, the Marquis of Carmarthen, M.P. for Brixton, succeeds him in ...
Article : 41 wordsA public meeting of the residents of Paddington, Waverley, and Woollahra waa held at the Oddfellows' Hall, Queen-street, Woollahra, on Monday night, to decide the best means of making ...
Article : 347 wordsThe body of a man named William Macintosh, one of the crew of the pilot steamer Laura, was picked out of the mud in the river this morning. It is supposed that the man was going on board ...
Article : 70 wordsThe superintendent of the above mission reports that the response to the appeal made by the mission this year to enable them to present their annual Christmas gifts to the poor has been exceptionally ...
Article : 306 wordsM.Sergius Michael Dragomanoff Stepniak, the Russian patriot and exile, has been run over by a train and killed at a level crossing at Chiswick, a suburb of ...
Article : 325 wordsNothing is doing in the Bradford market. Holders are not anxious to sell. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe R.M.S. Orient arrived from London shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon. The mails for the other colonies will leave Adelaide by Wednesday's express. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Hon.John Douglas has telegraphed to the Colonial Secretary that he has just returned in the Albatross from examining two large rivers recently discovered. They are likely to prove of ...
Article : 73 wordsSo far as Pitt-street was concerned last evening seemed to be only a sort of emphasised Saturday night. The lower part of the thoroughfare—that is, from King-street to Circular Quay—is mainly ...
Article : 355 wordsThe last of the Australien's passengers who were quarantined were released to-day. They were a woman and her child who declined to be vaccinated with the others. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe balance of the purchase money has been paid to Mr.Pherm for the Etraweenie and Erraweenie North. These mines are situated a mile east of the township, and adjoin the Kalgoorlie ...
Article : 302 wordsAs the result of the inquiries that have been made by Mr.George Lewis and his band of assistants, last night 300 who had received orders for Christmas fare assembled in the Mission Church. Mr.Lewis ...
Article : 84 wordsMr.Walter Douglas, cyclist, who went on a trip to the Lake Darlot country, and who was reported overdue a few days ago, has not yet put in an appearance. He was last seen alive near ...
Article : 92 wordsOn Monday evening a meeting of ratepayers was held in the Parramatta Town Hall to discuss the nuisance in the Parramatta River, caused principally from the drainage from the Government institutions. ...
Article : 212 wordsFor the Christmas distribution of gifts the mode adopted by the missionaries now for many years, and found to work well, has been to supply various poor families personally known to the missionaries ...
Article : 138 wordsKing-street presented throughout the day an essentially festive aspect, not because of the street decorations, which for some reason are gradually disappearing, but because of the animated throngs of ...
Article : 477 wordsMr.Gabbott and Mr.J.Tremberth arrived to-day from beyond Kurnalpie, and report the murder of a prospector by blacks. The body was found under a tree at a spot about four miles from ...
Article : 251 wordsLord Lamington, the new Governor of Queensland, will sail for Brisbane in the British India Company's steamer India on the 5th February. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr.J.B.Jaquet, geological survevor, has forwarded to the Mines Department a report upon the newly-discovered platinum deposits at Fifield, about 26 miles north-east of Condobolin and 54 north-east ...
Article : 516 wordsUsually Tuesday night at the Salvation Army barracks is devoted to a soldiers' meeting, but in consequence of Christmas the meeting last night was thrown open to the public and every effort was made ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Western Australian Government has accepted the tender of Neilson and Co.,of the Springburn Works, Glasgow, for the supply of 10 railway engines. The ...
Article : 47 wordsThe arrangements to celebrate the Christmas season at the Home of Hope were not concluded yesterday, the inmates of the institution being busy in finishing the laundry work before the ceremonies ...
Article : 206 wordsNews has just been received to the effect that the Western mail train left the rails at Springwood to-night. The engine ran off the line and took three of ...
Article : 307 wordsIt is reported that the committee of the New York Yacht Club has considered the statements made recently by the Earl of Dunraven in regard to tho measurement ...
Article : 80 wordsThe scene at the City Night Refuge and Soup Kitchen in Kent-street was not an unusual one last evening; in fact, there was a considerable decrease in the number of applicants for admission. Th[?] ...
Article : 252 wordsLiutenant A.A.St.Hill, of the Southern Tasmania Artillery, has passed his final examination for a commission in the Imperial army, and the Premier has received a cable from the ...
Article : 139 wordsMarket-street, so far as holiday occasions are concerned, cannot boast of many attractions. It is mainly a highway from George-street to the trams in Elizabeth-street, and is used accordingly. At the ...
Article : 119 wordsMessrs. Turquand and Young, the firm of which Mr.Young, the late auditor of [?]he New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, is a member, have ...
Article : 141 wordsA meeting of the council of the borough of Lane Cove was held in the council-chambers, Longueville, on the 23rd instant. The Mayor presided. Three motions standing in the name of Alderman Landers ...
Article : 151 wordsTo only two of the arcades was a Christmas-like aspect imparted, one being the Sydney and the other the Strand. The Strand especially lends itself to the art of decoration, its galleries on either side, ...
Article : 251 wordsLate last night the officers of the Tramway department made an encouraging statement of the amount of traffic yesterday. As compared with last year the results were most favourable. The size of the trams ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Star and Garter Hotel, Coromandel, and 13 other buildings were destroyed by fire early this morning. Two bodies were found amidst the debris of the hotel. It is feared that other lives ...
Article : 70 wordsAlthough the crash was great at Redfern railway station yesterday afternoon and evening little inconvenience was experienced by travellers. Excellent order was preserved, and all the trains were able to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 wordsAn adjourned meeting of the Willoughby Council was held in the council-chambers on the 23rd instant to consider the gas committee's report and the proposed contract with the North Shore Gas Company ...
Article : 120 wordsThe award in the Midland railway arbitration case was delivered to-day. The costs are marked at £6800, of which £2100 goes to Mr.Blake, the umpire. The award, which is in a sealed envelope, ...
Article : 103 wordsA crew from the Enterprise Rowing Club wi[?] travel to Grafton on Saturday next to take part in a four-oared race on the Clarence, in connection with the Caledonian sports to be held there on New Year's ...
Article : 86 wordsThe National Bank of New Zealand pays a dividend at the rate of 5 per oent. per annum. ...
Article : 26 wordsThere was a fine attendance at the Christmas Eve recital by the City Organiet last night. In place of the somewhat solemn "Rock of Ages," Mr.Wiegand substituted Grison's popular "Communion in ...
Article : 77 wordsIt was not till after nightfall that Oxford-street became any way crowded, and even then it did not approach the crowded state of George-street, or the popular part of King-strset. In many places there ...
Article : 229 wordsThe full programme for the Anniversary Regatt[?] has been issued by the hon.secretaries, Messrs. W, C.Shipway and W.T.Woods,and it will be advertised in due course. Entries will close at the ...
Article : 49 wordsA meeting was held on Thursday evening. The Mayor (Alderman J. J. Cooper), presided over a full council. It was notified that the 11th January had been fixed for the hearing of appeals against the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 25 Dec 1895, Page 5
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