When the circumstances of the wreck of the Rodondo were made known through the columns of the Herald yesterday the excitement in the city became intense. It was ...
Article : 397 wordsYesterday the Pastoralists' Union received several telegrams from Tamworth and the Upper Hunter asking the union not to engage any men for stations in those districts, as local shearers ...
Article : 870 wordsA special meeting of the City Council was held at noon, wHen Councillor Snowden was elected Mayor for the municipal year commencing on the 9th proximo, this making his third year in ...
Article : 92 wordsItaly has decided to reinforce her squadron on the China station. ...
Article : 33 wordsFURTHER details concerning the loss of the steamer Rodondo through striking on Pollock Reef, on the Western Australian coast, show that with the exception of four passengers all those ...
Article : 7,891 wordsThe schooner Grace Darling arrived at Israelite Bay at 4.30 p. m., bringing Mrs. Consten and two children, one being the sick infant. Mrs. Ryan, the telegraph master's wife, took them into her ...
Article : 384 wordsThe European women and children at Pekin are quitting the city for Shanghai in consequence of the fear of a rising. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Bogong election was held to-day. The Attorney-General, Mr. Isaacs, polled 965 votes as against Mr. Joseph Ferguson 197. The latter saved his deposit of £50 by five votes. ...
Article : 34 wordsThere is a discrepancy between the telegram sent by Captain Hill and that published yesterday in the Herald with reference to the conduct of the firemen of the steamer. The captain does not ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is reported from Yokohama that the Japanese have captured Cheefoo, one of the treaty ports in the province of Shantung. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Executive Council to-day considered the case of Martha Needle, who is lying under sentence of death for the murder of Louis Juncken by poisoning. It was decided to allow the law to ...
Article : 120 wordsThe first thought of the agents was to devise measure for the relief of the shipwrecked passengers and crew. The steamer Derwent, of the same line, which is engaged in the Gulf trade, sailed from ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Japanese army in Manchuria is encamped north of the Yalu River, and a battle is imminent. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn official letter, intimating the willingness of the employers in the boot trade to meet the men in conference on the basis of a minimum wage of £2 per week, was posted this ...
Article : 82 wordsLi Hung Chang, the Viceroy, has degraded his nephew, Sheng, Governor of Tientsin, for corruption in having purchased from Germany on behalf of the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe boat left South East Island with the chief officer, Mr. Halse, the third officer, Mr. Coe, the chief engineer, Mr. Wagner, the second engineer, Mr. Johnson, the donkey-man, Muir, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Rodondo cleared out from Port Adelaide with sufficient boats and rafts to accommodate all the persons on board. During the stay of the vessel at Port Adelaide ...
Article : 89 wordsIn consequence of certain alleged infringements of the rules of the Hatmakers' Union, the hands employed at T. Shelmerdine's factory at Abbotsford went out on strike this afternoon. ...
Article : 121 wordsIt is reported that Great Britain, France, Russia, and Germany have agreed to joint action in regard to China. ...
Article : 28 wordsA fact which stands out in very bold relief in connection with the loss of the Rodondo is the life-saving equipment. " There was," says the captain, "ample boat accommodation." That ...
Article : 159 wordsAll the officers and the seamen loudly praised the intrepid conduct of young Andrews, whose skill and pluck they declare they have never seen equalled. He is used to handling a dingy on ...
Article : 395 wordsThe Marine Board up till this afternoon had received no official notification of the disaster. As the crew and passengers, who would be needed as witnesses at the Marine Board inquiry, are ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Czar of Russia is slightly better. LATER. The Czar has had a sudden relapse, rendering an operation immediately ...
Article : 48 wordsSouth-east Island is one of the very few places on the coast on which water is to be found. A few wallaby were run down, and a seul clubbed, which provided mouthfuls for ...
Article : 90 wordsAt the meeting of the Congregational Union today it was proposed that the Rev. J. W. Platt, who has accepted the pastorate of the College Park Congregational Church, be admitted and ...
Article : 218 wordsEverything points to efficiency in the hour of the crisis on board the Rodondo on the part of Captain Hill, his officers, and men. Captain Hill is a servant of six or seven years' Service in ...
Article : 94 wordsA disastrous railway collision has taken place at Chatham, in Kent. A train conveying a large number of hoppickers ran into the waggon of a goods ...
Article : 49 wordsThe following is a list of passengers by the Rodondo when she cleared for Albany from Port Adelaide:—From Melbourne: Messrs. Clissold, Couston, Mrs. Couston, Misses Couston (2), ...
Article : 239 wordsM'Neill-Burke United Mission, Exhibition Building, 7.30p. m. Centenary Hall, 1 p. m. Industrial Exhibition, Town Hall, Leichhardt. Opening Ceremony, 3 p.m. ...
Article : 217 wordsIt appears from the manifest at the Customhouse that the cargo of the Rodondo was chiefly taken in at other ports than Sydney, if 600 tons of coal from Newcastle be excepted. There was ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Portuguese Government has decided to despatch four regiments to Lorenzo Marquez, in Portuguese South Africa, to assist in suppressing the native revolt at ...
Article : 32 wordsWhen the second reading of the Land Bill was passed at an early hour last Friday morning the Speaker, it will be remembered, availed himself of his power under the 213th Standing Order, and ...
Article : 1,555 wordsNew York telegrams announce that Oliver Wendell Holmes, the eminent author, whose death was reported yester day, died suddenly in his armchair while ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Hall, one of the Wilson Syndicate's prospectors, who went out to Menzies' new find, has just returned. He was first on the spot, although there were many out ...
Article : 189 wordsIn consequence of the Christian Brothers in charge, of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic school, Perth, insisting upon using their own books, the Government has withdrawn the grant in aid. ...
Article : 63 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the Minister for Mines announced his intention to introduce a bill to provide for the establishment of a School of Mines. A bill to amend the Probate Act was read the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Full Court to-day granted leave to the defendant and plaintiff in the action Brabant and Co. v. J. M'King to prose[?]nte their respective appeals before the Privy Council against the ...
Article : 130 wordsAn extensive plot organised by a prominent anarchist named Albani has been discovered in Italy. Outrages had been arranged to take place simultaneously in ...
Article : 57 wordsAn inquiry was made yesterday at the offices of the owners of the steamer, when it was ascertained that the insurances upon the ship and freight are effected in London. The company take a good ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 wordsA brutal murder was committed to-day in Napier-street, South Melbourne. George Morrison, aged 40, a coachbuilder, in a sudden fit of temper, first stabbed his wife in the face with a ...
Article : 220 wordsOn Monday morning Messrs. Howard Smith and Sons received a telegram from Captain H. E. Hill, at Israelite Bay, confirming the news of the loss of the Rodondo on Pollock's Reef. The telegram ...
Article : 252 wordsReports received from Buenos Ayres, the capital of the Argentine Republic, state that Jabez Spencer Balfour, the defaulting director of the Liberator ...
Article : 45 wordsOwing to the drastic amendments made to the Consols and Cheap Money Bills in the Council, the Treasurer stated in the House to-day that the Council's action threatened to seriously interfere ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. Creagh arrived at Israelite Bay from Point Malcolm at 7.30 this morning on horseback. He reports that the officers and cr[?]w and all the passengers of the Rodondo were landed by 8. 30 ...
Article : 454 wordsThe committee of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce resumed its inquiry to-day into the best method of loading and stowing cargoes of coal. Mr. D. J. M'Lean presided. There was a ...
Article : 318 wordsA meeting of the Victorian Cricketers' Association was held to-night. Mr. R. W. Best, M. L.A., presided Correspondence was read inspecting the dispute caused by Blackham's alleged comments ...
Article : 301 wordsThe shares in Abbot's Gold-mining Company, Murchison, Western Australia, have been allotted. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Assembly rejected, by 14 to 11, a motion by Mr. Simpson affirming the desirability of not further extending monetary aid to voluntary schools. The Government voted with the noes. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company has declared an interim dividend of 7½ per cent. ...
Article : 26 wordsDuring to-day about 200 letters and telegrams of condolence on the death of Dean Macartney were received at the Deanery. Among them was one from the Primate. The funeral will take ...
Article : 90 wordsTo-day notice was served by the Greta Colliery Company on persons residing on the company's leasehold that they must vacate their houses within seven days. Twenty-three persons were served ...
Article : 168 wordsCaptain Hill gives the names of the drowned as Messrs. Fills, Perry, Wormwood, and White. All these are steerage passengers, who came on by the boat from Melbourne. ...
Article : 32 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 5?d per ounce, being a fall of 3-16d since the last quotation. ...
Article : 23 wordsThis was the first trip of the Rodondo to Western Australia, and Captain Hill, who has seen long service with the company, was asked whether he required the assistance of any officer ...
Article : 130 wordsIt is reported that there is a great [?]earcity of capable miners on the Zeehan field. Seven men have gone prospecting to the west coast with six weeks' rations and tools provided by the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Metropolitan Fire Brigade received an alarm at 1.43 this morning from Woollahra for a fire in Bayswater-road, near Rushcutter Bay. Steamers were immediately despatched, together with the ...
Article : 67 wordsA large seven-ton engine which was carried on deck as part cargo, and which is supposed to have affected the compasses, was shipped by the Cue Victory Gold-mining Company at Port Adelaide. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 10 Oct 1894, Page 7
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