The complimentary banquet to Mr. G. H. Reid, at the Australia Hotel last night, was largely attended, and passed off successfully. The dinner was served in first-class style in the large dining-room, the ...
Article : 4,864 wordsA monthly meeting of the Senate of the University was held yesterday at the University-chambers, Phillip-street. There were present the Vice-chancellor (Judge Backhouse). Professors Scott, Butler, ...
Article : 418 wordsSir,—The letter on "Taxation," signed "Cornstalk," which you published yesterday, is typical of the lack of knowledge so largely prevalent among a considerable section of otherwise fairly well-informed ...
Article : 459 wordsA meeting of this council was held on Thursday last. The secretary of the Board of Health wrote forwarding copy of the Noxious Trades Act, which came into operation—so far as relates to part 1, ...
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Advertising : 500 wordsMr.Arthur Griffith addressed a large meeting of his constituents at Jesmont on Saturday evening. After thanking the men of Jesmont for their almost solid vote at the late election, he went on to express ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsThere was a good attendance at the Paddington Town Hall last night, when a concert was given in aid of the Paddington Borough Brass Band. All the items on a lengthy programme were well received. ...
Article : 108 wordsA concert will be given at the Y.M.C.A. Hall tonight by the pupils of Mr. E. Stevenson, and by the pupils of Mrs. E. D. Stevenson (harpist), when Mine. Foster, Mr. Harrison White, Herr ...
Article : 52 wordsAt the last meeting of this council the finance committee recommonded payment of £140 1s 5d, after which there would remain a credit balance at the bank of £5S 1s 8d. The Australian Gas ...
Article : 79 wordsThis league met at the Federal Hotel, North Sydney, on Friday evening, when the following resolutions were passed,—"That the central executive be requested to alter the name from the ...
Article : 167 wordsThe annual meeting of the Victoria Racing Club was held to-day. About 150 members were present. Mr.C.B.Fisher occupied the chair, and in moving the adoption of the report—particulars of which ...
Article : 438 wordsReferring to the Adelaide Company's Barrier, which has, by the way, got mixed up in the Brisbane papers with the chartered steamers of the A. S. Company, though so long running under their flag and ownership, it seems that she ...
Article : 58 wordsA largely attended meeting of the united labourers was held in the Trades Hall, Dixon-street, last night. Mr. Boole presided. Alderman Banner was nominated as delegate to the Arbitration and Conciliation ...
Article : 104 wordsThere was a full meeting of the members of the Metropolitan Fire Brigades' Board at its regular fortnightly meeting on the 2nd instant. A request from the Woollahra Volunteer Fire Company for the ...
Article : 154 wordsCaptain D. Calder arrived with the Victoria last night in Watson's Bay, from the Islands. He reports having left Sydney at 9.45 p.m. on 11th July, and arrived at Noumea at 10 p.m. on the 16th; left again at 2 p.m. on the 18th, ...
Article : 175 wordsSir,—Some of your correspondents are very anxious to minimise the influence of land value taxation, and point to the defeat of noted single-taxers to show that this new plank did not secure the return ...
Article : 410 wordsA meeting of the above league was held at the Mertonville Hotel on Friday evening. The president (Mr. P. M'Lachlan) presided. The half-yearly balance-sheet was presented, and taking into ...
Article : 155 wordsThe members of the Carpenters and Joiners Society met in the Trades Hall. Dixon-street, last night. Mr. Turner occupied the chair. A member of the society, Mr. Wagg, was nominated as delegate to the ...
Article : 251 wordsLast evening a meeting was held at Northam's hotel, North Sydney, for the purpose of considering the advisability of forming an electoral cricket club. There was a large attendance of representatives of ...
Article : 508 wordsThe schooner Kenilworth, picked up outside Cape Moreton in a dismasted condition by the captain of the Pacific and towed into port by that boat, was [?] up for sale by auction at Mr.G.T.Bell's salerooms, Brisbane. ...
Article : 57 wordsOn Thursday evening a public meeting was held in the Granville School of Arts under the auspices of the local Womanhood Suffrage League to hear addresses in favour of the principle. Mr. G. W. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe iron barquentino Jasper, 268 tons, Captain Burton, from Lyttelton, New Zealand, which arrived in Brisbane, has left for Bundaberg. The Jasper discharged 2000 sacks of produce—namely, potatoes, oats, catmeal, and peas—in ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Yallaroi passed Gabo at 5 p.m. yesterday, bound from London to Sydney. The wind was W.S.W. and W. on the coast. The Yallaroi is 84 days out to-day and comes with Messrs. Dalgety and Company's consignment. ...
Article : 40 wordsA well-attended meeting of the Denison Labour Electoral League was held last evening at Glasgow Arms Hotel, Harris-street. The president, Mr. Ferd, Glynn, occupied the chair. Mr Moroney, delegate to ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Massilia, which arrived from London yesterday, berthed at the Circular Quay, taking up the Australia's place. A report of her voyage to Adelaide has appeared. After landing mails and passengers, the Massilia left the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe monthly meeting of the executive committee of the above association was held on Friday. There were present—Dr. Vandeleur Kelly. Mr. Hanbury Davies, Captain Broughton (hon. treasurer), and Dr. ...
Article : 198 wordsLast evening about 120 gentlemen representing the commercial and political life of the city tendered a complimentary banquet to Mr. Henry Clarke, J. P., who had continuously represented the Eden ...
Article : 1,424 wordsNine thousand four hundred wethers left Momba on the 20th ultimo for Adelaide, Momba Pastoral Company owners, Peter Dow in charge; 6000 wethers left Kallara on the 26th ultimo for Sydney, ...
Article : 345 wordsThis M.M.[?]iner berthed at the quav yesterday morning from Marseilles. The Australien left Marseilles on the evening of the 3rd July at 5 o'clock, with mails and passengers for all the ports of the Australian line. After a ...
Article : 515 wordsA largely-attended meeting of the members of the King Division branch of the Labour Electoral League was held in the new clubrooms of the league, Kidman's-buildings, George and Market ...
Article : 169 wordsThe third competios for the Cooper Cup by members of the Civilian Rifle Club took place last Saturday. The following are the scores:— F. Winser, 65, handicap 5, total 70: W. Robey, 59, ...
Article : 93 wordsSir,—I was much interested in reading in your issue of this morning some remarks from the Pall Mall Gazette on the effect of light on disease germs, and more particularly the effect of different coloured ...
Article : 479 wordsThis association of junior members of both branches of the legal profession held its fortnightly meeting at the room, King-street, on Thursday evening last. The attendance was good, and ...
Article : 221 wordsSir,—If the "labour" party be not demented, or stricken with blindness, in the face of the overwhelming verdict of the country in favour of freetrade, its members should halt in opposing the ...
Article : 383 wordsLast evening in connection with the Redfern Labour League a Literary and Debating Society was inaugurated in their rooms, Redfern. Mr. A. Harper, sen., occupied the chair. The business of the ...
Article : 85 wordsSir,—The elections are now past, the would-be members of Parliament and the members elected have had their eloquence aired, and have not been slow in putting before the country their various fads ...
Article : 924 wordsA lecture on "Chicago and its White City, illustrated with limelight views, was given by Sir Arthur Renwick, K.B., in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association, last evening. The ...
Article : 774 wordsThe above society held a meeting on Friday evening in St. Paul's schoolroom, Cleveland-street, Redfern. Mr. E. Wilson was in the chair. Five new members were elected, and Mr.J. P.Strom was ...
Article : 83 wordsOne of the Angier line of steamers, to which the Colonist, Angers, and other occasional traders in these waters belong, the Specialist, a steel screw boat of 2800 tons, is due here from Java, via Melbourne. A report ...
Article : 241 wordsSir,—Will you let me say a few words in reference to Messrs. Brown and Witherford's letters which appear in your issue of to-day. These letters for the most part deal with matters of opinion which ...
Article : 370 wordsThe monthly meeting was held in the Temperance Hall. Pitt-street, Sydney, on Saturday afternoon. The Grand Chief presided during the session. The attendance was very large, the room being crowded. ...
Article : 329 wordsReferring to the late Captain Kirkpatrick a correspondent sends the following:—"Captain kirkpatrick was a resident 20 years in the colony, being in Clarence and Richmond Company and the Hunter River Company. Then he ...
Article : 124 wordsSir,—Permit me, in answer to your editorial foot-note to my letter of 3rd instant, to point out that if the same latitude is to be allowed the chairman in putting a question to the meeting in future as was ...
Article : 289 wordsSir,—During the past year a very marked endeavour has been made in Sydney to bring before the public notice the value of our New South Wales hardwoods as a product for export to be utilised for ...
Article : 522 wordsThe Elizabeth Graham sailed yesterday from Kalpara for Melbourne; Adelaide, schooner, for Sydney from Thames. ...
Article : 3 wordsA June San Francisco report to hand says:—"Sixteen vessels coal-laden will arrive here from Newcastle, New South Wales, within the next 30 days, to add their tonnage to the already long list of discugaged vessels. Twenty-five ...
Article : 214 wordsA meeting of the Girls' Friendly Society Diocesan Council was held on Wednesday. There were present Mrs. A. J.Riley (president), Mesdames Hillyar, Holme, Docker, M'Keown, De Montemas, and Miss ...
Article : 80 wordsSir,—From this time forth the sale of one inch of any of our city lands now in the possession of either the Government or the Corporation of Sydney should be prohibited and made for all time secure by a hard ...
Article : 144 wordsMessrs. Thorneycroft have once more come to the front, having with their latest production—the torpedo-boat destroyer Daring—attained the remarkable speed of 29½ knots per hour at her trial trip at the mouth of the Thames, ...
Article : 65 wordsThe above association held its quarterly meeting in the G.U.O.O.F. Hall, Castlereagh-street, on Tuesday. A large attendance of delegates was present. Bro. J. Lang presided. The principal business was ...
Article : 70 wordsCaptain Walden has forwarded the following report of his voyage. He is due here in a day or two to Messrs. A. M'Arthur and Company:—"The steamship Gulf of Lions, which left Liverpool on 9th June, made a very satisfactory ...
Article : 201 wordsSir,—Now that the question of electorate cricket promises to become an established fact in this colony, might I be permitted to ask, in view of what happened at the association meeting last week, upon ...
Article : 257 wordsThe quarterly special general meeting of the Cromwell Lodge, No. 12, Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia, was held on Thursday evening in the Balmain Oddfellows' Hall, ...
Article : 115 wordsSir,—After reading the paragraph in last Saturday's Herald with reference to the action of the authorities at the Clerkenwell Free Library in allowing readers to select books from the shelves, ...
Article : 159 wordsAccording to the annual report for 1893 the [?]t of the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes now consists of 57 vessels, having a total gross measurement of 197,255 tons. The earnings fell off considerably last year owing to the ...
Article : 68 wordsA meeting of delegates from the various temperance societies of Parramatta was held in the Congregational Hall on Friday evening, when a temperance alliance was formed and the following officers ...
Article : 92 wordsYesterday Major-General Hutton, C.B., paid an official visit to Mr.G. H.Reid, Premier, at his office. The interview was of a confidential nature. An inspection of A battery, Brigade Division Field ...
Article : 51 wordsThe barque Alfred Hawley, now at Melbourne, was yesterday reported fixed for copra-loading at the Friendly Islands. The Isabelle will, it is said, load coal at Newcastle for Townsville, and benedust thence to Dunedin. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 7 Aug 1894, Page 6
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