An official inquiry was held this morning by departmental officers as to the cause of yesterday's accident at the Zigzag. Evidence was taken. ...
Article : 39 wordsTo Mme. Gough is due the credit of the vivacious adaptation of the famous French comedy performed for the first time in Australia at the Railway Institute last night. Edouard Pailleron's brilliant ...
Article : 601 wordsA case of leprosy of an unusual character has made its appearance in Brisbane. It appears that the parents of a boy, 11 years of ago, noticing an eruption on the lad which they did ...
Article : 226 wordsIt is generally believed that the Right Hon. Henry Campbell-Bannerman, M.P. for Stirling, Secretary of State for War, will allow himself to be nominated for the ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the House of Commons to-night Mr. Edmund Robertson, M.P. for Dundeo, and one of the Lords of the Admiralty, introduced the Navy Estimates. In the ...
Article : 197 wordsAs there was very little formal business to engage the attention of the Legislative Council last night, the House almost immediately after meeting went into committee on the Land Bill, and ...
Article : 1,878 wordsIN the Legislative Assembly yesterday the despatch of extra police to maintain order at Miami was debated on a motion for adjournment, and the consideration in committee of the Land ...
Article : 8,747 wordsThe miners employed at the Zigzag pit have received notice of a further reduction of 2d per ton in the hewing rate. This, coming after so many previous reductions, has caused a ...
Article : 958 wordsSir Charles Todd has received a telegram from the stationmaster at Port Darwin stating that heavy floods have occurred at Powell's Creek. The rainfall at Alexandria station during January ...
Article : 110 wordsIn the French Chamber of Deputies last night Admiral Besnard, the Minister for Marine, delivered a speech in which he refuted the pessimistic remarks of M. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe labour schooner Sybil, having been thoroughly fumigatod, was released from quarantine this afternoon. Eleven kanakas suffered from dysentery, and two died bofore the schooner ...
Article : 86 wordsThe funeral of the late Ismail Pasha, ex-Khedive of Egypt, took place at Cairo to-day, and was carried out with great pomp. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Kingston, the Premier, has addressed a long and important letter to Mr. Turner, Premier of Victoria, contending that the reciprocity treaty with New Zealand is calculated to promote ...
Article : 69 wordsDuring the past week 473 deaths have occurred in London from the effects of influenza. A remarkably high rate of mortality from the same cause is shown in ...
Article : 44 wordsThe directors of the Queensland Meat Export Agency Company are considering the advisableness of throwing open all the spare room in the works at Townsville and Brisbane as a publio ...
Article : 42 wordsA serious outbreak has occurred at New Orleans, United States, between bodies of the white and coloured inhabitants. Tho colomed dock labourers were ...
Article : 66 wordsAt the police court this morning a young man named John Charles Henry Horrocks, a labourer at Thebarton, was charged with attempting to administer to his wife, Amy Horrocks, a certain ...
Article : 224 wordsMiss Josephine Jacombs, who purposes leaving Sydney at once for London, where she will enter the Royal Academy of Music in June, made her farewell appearance at the Y.M.C.A Hall last night. ...
Article : 383 wordsThe steamer Merkara, which left for London yesterday, took the ground in the north channel of the river, and had to return to port for inspection. The steamer discloses to the eye but little damage, ...
Article : 264 wordsWhile nine Italians were being conveyed to gaol in Colorado, United States, for murdering a deputy sheriff, they were seized by an infuriated mob and lynched. ...
Article : 40 wordsA Spanish, man-of-war has repeatedly fired at the American steamer Allian[?]a off the coast of Cuba, in which country a rebellion has broken out. The Allian[?]a ...
Article : 60 wordsThe report that Mr. James Huddart had entered into an agreement with the North German Lloyd Steamship Company for the establishment of a fast Atlantic service ...
Article : 38 wordsRegarding the intended reductions at the East Greta Colliery, Mr. Thomas, the manager, who has been interviewed on the subject, said he regretted the necessity for such a course, but for ...
Article : 276 wordsThe Premier announced to-day that he expected that Mr. Williamson, M.L.C., and Mr. Coutts, M.L.C., would join the Cabinet as honorary members. These gentlemen, if they accept office, ...
Article : 84 wordsThere is reason to believe that all of the Oroya's cargo will be saved. The ship's bottom is damaged. The Liguria is to start for Australia ...
Article : 75 wordsThe recital of the City Organist yesterday afternoon was devoted to representative German composers, so that a programme of unusual excellence was placed before the audience. "With one exception ...
Article : 209 wordsThe English cricketers aimed by express from Launceston to-day, and were driven to the Town Hall, where the "Mayor, "Mr. Watchhorn, welcomed them. ...
Article : 214 wordsThe retrenchment committee of the Cabinet to-day commenced an inquiry into the expenditure of the Law Department and the question of amalgamating the offices of Attorney-General ...
Article : 38 wordsSir Thomas M'Ilwraith, Chief Secretary and Minister for Railways in Queensland, who recently arrived in London, is seriously ill. ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is probable that, acting upon the suggestion of the Secretary for Mines, a number of the unemployed will be sent to the State forests at Burmah and Gunbower on the Murray, to thin out the ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. and Mrs. Robert Brough left by yesterday'[?] express for Melbourne en route for Adelaide, where they will join the Austral on Wednesday next. Nearly all the members of the Brough-Bou[?] ...
Article : 75 wordsA large number of persons visited the East Melbourne Cricket Ground this afternoon to see a ladies' cricket match, which was arranged in aid of the charities. The players were attired ...
Article : 116 wordsThe cablegram with reference to the illness of Sir Thomas M'Ilwraith has caused great surprise, as the Premier received a cablegram on the 10th instant to the effect that after receiving medical ...
Article : 48 wordsA well-attended and representative meeting of dairy farmers was held in the council-chambers last night to consider a scheme for controlling the butter market and the exportation of the surplus. ...
Article : 305 wordsMr. Garland presided, on Tuesday night, at the first meeting of the committee interested in the proposed benefit concert to Mr. Arthur Deane. Mr. David Fell (hon. secretary) stated that already at ...
Article : 64 wordsLake View clenned up on Saturday, the return being 624oz. from 180 tons. A serious difficulty has arisen over the survey of the London rich mine recently discovered beyond 25-Mile. A good deal ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Right Hon. Sir John T. Hibbert, M.P. for Oldham, has informed the Associated Chambers of Commerce that the national revenue for the current year is ...
Article : 47 wordsA miner named Robert Milligan, aged 39, was killed yesterday by a fall of stone in the Princess Alice mine, Bendigo. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe annual picnic of the above was held at Correy'[?] Gardens yesterday. A programme of sport wa[?] carried out, and at 6 p.m. about 130 persons sat down to dinner in the pavilion. Mr. C. Gibson occupied ...
Article : 46 wordsA serious stabbing affray took place at Albert Park last night. James Williamson, aged 23, was walking with a young lady along M'Farlane-street, and when passing a piece of fenced land ...
Article : 210 wordsList evening a ball took place in the Town Hall, Leichhardt, for the purpose of raising funds for the extension of a road to connect Balmam and Abbotsford. The arrangements were successfully carried ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. Arthur Arnold has been elected chairman of the London County Council, and Mr. J. W. Benn, M.P., vice-chairman. Mr. W. H. Dickinson was ...
Article : 57 wordsAt the Minmi Police Court this morning, before Mr. Henry, P.M., several cases brought by Richard Thomas, agent for J. and A. Brown, in which the tenants of certain cottages on the estate ...
Article : 153 wordsThe beautiful steam yacht John Williams, of the London Missionary Society, is just completing [?] loading of missionary stores for New Guinea and the S.S. Islands. House-building materials, ...
Article : 402 wordsThe sixth annual show of the Tumberumba (Upper Murray) Pastoral and Agricultural Society was opened yesterday, but was somewhat spoiled owing to a change in the weather about 6 ...
Article : 117 wordsShortly after 10 o'clock last night a fire was discovered in No. 9 store of the Adelaide Bond, Smith's Wharf, Miller's Point. It was 10 minutes past 10 o'clock when the call for the fire was ...
Article : 292 wordsSalesmen estimate that the Maori King's turkeys, brought from Australia, are worth about 4½d per lb. ...
Article : 24 wordsBourke stock passings:—March 4th, 4000 fat sheep, from Multagoona to Bourke meat works, Wilson and Jones owners; March 5th, 3400 owes, from Warraweena to Mulga Downs (Q.), ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Austral Venture Mining Syndicate, with a capital of £50,000, has been registered. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe first annual meeting, of St. Matthias's Band of Hope was held at St. Matthias's Hall, Paddington, on Tuesday night. The Rev. J. W. Gillett, B. A. (president), occupied the chair, and there was a ...
Article : 187 wordsSir John Thurston, who arrived by the Taviuni to-night, says that the reports of the hurricane in Fiji as published were substantially correct, if taken as having reference to ...
Article : 111 wordsPresbyterian Church of New South Wales: General Assembly, 10 a.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. Australian Wesleyan Methodist Church Conference: 9 a.m., Pastoral Session, third reading of Stations: 2.30 ...
Article : 92 wordsFrank Slavin, who defeated Frank Craig the middle-weight champion, has challenged Peter Jackson for £1000 a side. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 14 Mar 1895, Page 5
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