Mrs. Barlow, homestead les[?]ee on the Bidur[?] pastoral holding, was brought to town yesterday suffering from burns caused through her skirts catching fire whilst she was preparing dinner on Saturday. ...
Article : 96 wordsRains still hold off, and the s[?]rcity of water is having the dual effect of sending diggers back from the newer fields to Coolgardie, and making it difficult to get to the former through the ...
Article : 1,828 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-day, the Hon. E. B. Forrest, president, read a lengthy paper on the subject of the proposals to send the Messageries Maritimes ...
Article : 296 wordsEarthquake shocks continue to be felt in Greece, following the recent disastrous earthquakes which destroyed much property and rendered hundreds of thousands ...
Article : 88 wordsAn Imperial Federation Defence Committee has been formed, including Lord Reay, Captain Sir John Colomb, and Mr. W. Pritchard Morgan, ...
Article : 82 wordsTHE Colonial Treasurer states that of the £3,000,000 authorised to be issued by the Funded Stock Act £2,300,000 has been taken up. It is intended to withdraw the remaining £700,000 ...
Article : 9,196 wordsA large number of diggers returned to Melbourne to-day from the Western Australia goldfields by the steamers Adelaide and Bulimba. Some diggers by the Adelaide possessed a good deal of gold, but the ...
Article : 144 wordsA public meeting, conv[?]ned by requisition to the Mayor, was held to-night to make arrangements for welcoming the Premier on his proposed visit to Wagga Wagga, and to recognise his services as ...
Article : 136 wordsThe consignments of stone at the Barmedman battery from the Wyalong Goldfield are increasing in quantity and improving in quality. Over 20 teams, fully laden with quartz, were to-day on the ...
Article : 518 wordsMr. Gladstone, in a letter to M. Leon Say, the well-known French statesman and political economist, who once held the post of Ambassador to London, laments ...
Article : 63 wordsIn consequence of the recent strike of coalminers there is a coal famine in the States of Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Missouri, and many factories are on the ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the railway demonstration committee meeting to-night it was reported that the subscriptions amounted to £271. The acceptances of invitations included a fair sprinkling of members of Parliament, ...
Article : 70 wordsWhat nearly proved a disastrous conflagration took place here on Sunday morning. About2 o'clock an empty wooden building in William-street was discovered to ba on fire. An alarm was quickly ...
Article : 1,565 wordsThe usual May Day and Eight-Hour meetings in Hyde Park, London, and in the provinces, which were held on Sunday, were orderly. ...
Article : 44 wordsA Cooktown telegram states that when the steamer Taiyuan arrived from Hongkong this morning the health officer found a case of smallpox on board, and would not grant pratique. The ...
Article : 48 wordsColonel Colville, who is in command of the operations against the chief Kabarega, of Unyora, on Lake Albert Nyanza, in equatorial Africa, has, after defeating ...
Article : 46 wordsThe missing boat Whybee arrived yesterday, having be[?]h 15 days coming from Rocky Islet. She had bad weather, and had to anchor several times. She arrived at Cape Flattery last ...
Article : 405 wordsA Royal Commission has recommended the draining of the Zuyder Zee at a cost of £16,000,000. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Cologne Colonial Society has demanded that Germany shall establish a protectorate over Samoa. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe North British and New Zealand Investment Company has declared a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum. ...
Article : 26 wordsCount Caprivi, Chancellor of the German Empire, has been urged to annex the Friendly Islands, in addition to Samoa. There are conflicting reports regarding ...
Article : 38 wordsGeneral Ferron, formerly of New Caledonia, has been accidentally killed at Lyons. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Mines Department is making an effort to establish village settlements on the upper portions of the Thomson and Mitchell rivers, Gippsland, where numbers of auriferous gullies exist. ...
Article : 65 wordsStephani, a town in Russia, has been destroyed by fire. The goods which had been saved from the fire were afterwards destroyed by a cyclone. They had been ...
Article : 44 wordsWith a view to completing the federation of the seamen's unions throughout the world, delegates from Great Britain and America arrived in Sydney during the past week to confer with the ...
Article : 633 wordsThe French Minister of Marine and Colonies places the colonies of Guiana, Oceana, and Caledonia in one section, and insists on the necessity for a closer union ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the County Court to-day Judge Gaunt delivered the reserved decision in the action brought by A. B. Gabri[?]son, a sailor, to recover £99 damages from W. Howard Smith and Sons, ...
Article : 115 wordsThe seamen of the Royal Tar were paid off at Port Adelaide on Saturday morning. The boatswain, who was the only member of the original crew which sailed from Adelaide, proceeded to ...
Article : 91 wordsThe recent outbreak of Malays in the Phillipine Islands, a dependency of Spain, for the suppression of which General Blanco was despatched with a body of ...
Article : 53 wordsAn ingenious swindle was reported to the police to-day. William Webb, a bricklayer, who was about to visit England, stumbled across the advertisement of one Henry Smithson Jones, who ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 217 wordsThe Treasurer has received the following cablegram from Sir John Bray:—"I propose returning shortly." Beyond this the Government have had no intimation as to Sir John's ...
Article : 277 wordsAt a meeting of the University Council to-day the committee appointed to confer with Professor Marshall Hall upon the proposal to form a practical school or conservatoire of music in ...
Article : 86 wordsHorticultural Society of N.S.W.: Meeting, School of Arts, 7.30 p. m. Unitarian Literary Society: Lecture, with reading, by Rev. George Walters, 8 p.m. ...
Article : 228 wordsWhile a mixed train was running near Gordon's station, between Ballarat and Melbourne, on Saturday afternoon, eight trucks broke away and followed the train until they ran into it; but, ...
Article : 270 wordsThis evening, by special request, Mrs. Harrison Lee gave another address on total abstinence at the Masonic Hall, Newcastle, before her final departure. Long before the proceedings commenced the hall ...
Article : 133 wordsMessrs. E. M. Fisher and Jules Joubert leave here on Thursday to tour the colonies in the interests of the Hobart Exhibition. The Southern mill owners and shipowners ...
Article : 177 wordsLast evening the deputation appointed by the Trades and Labour Council to endeavour to effect a re[?]onciliation between the Parliamentary Labour Party and the labour leagues waited upon the central ...
Article : 249 wordsThe R.M.S. Valetta, Briscoo commander, arrived from Colombo at 11.20 last night. The following is a list of her passengers:— For ALBANY: Messrs. Wills, Coire, Mrs. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe decision of the London board of directors to close the colliery unless the miners accept a reduction is causing great excitement, and an aggregate meeting is to be held next Saturday. On account of the ...
Article : 161 wordsThere is considerable distress among the unemployed in Wellington and Christchurch. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 8 May 1894, Page 5
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