A largo and representative gathering of townspeople and a number of pastoralists assembled in the Bijou Theatre to-night for the purpose of protesting against the proposal to levy tolls on the ...
Article : 3,572 wordsThe various charitable organisations are endeavouring to cope with the immense amount of distress existing in our midst. The Salvation Army authorities last evening threw open the doors ...
Article : 271 wordsThe past month has been prolific of accidents and catastrephes. There have been three accidents through the explosion of powder or dynamite, and two boat accidents by which eight men ...
Article : 1,047 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the Pastoral Bill was advanced to the third reading stage. The whole day was occupied in the continued debate upon the second reading of the Mining Bill. The debate ...
Article : 91 wordsSince my last letter affairs in Samoa have been tolerably quiet About one-third of the capitation tax for 1893 has been paid by the natives. There in still a considerable amount unpaid, and judging ...
Article : 872 wordsThe Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works met yesterday. There were present.—Mr. Garraid, M.L.A. (presiding), Hons. John Davies, Humphery, W. H. Suttor, W. J. Trickett, Hoskins, ...
Article : 357 wordsSir,—Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan's letter under the above heading contains one or two errors regarding land taxation, and an entire misconception of its effect With your permission I would like to refer ...
Article : 805 wordsThe last performance of Leoncavallo's opera will be given at the Lyceum Theatre this evening. Signor Giraud was in particularly fine voice last night, and deeply touched ...
Article : 297 wordsA meeting was held in the Temperance Hall on Wednesday. Mr. J. C. Wilson, president of the Trides and labour Council, was in the chair. He said the object of the meeting was to solicit air for ...
Article : 318 wordsOn Sudnay last about 200 members of the Society of St. Vincent do Paul paid a visit to St. Aloysius' Home, Thomas-street, Five Dock, an institution recently affiliated with that society. A special tram ...
Article : 678 wordsMr. Thomas Smith reports:—No. 1 North Phoenix got coarse gold in the winze, at a depth of 30ft., on the eastern boundary, at the 666ft. level; sales 14s, 14s 5d, sellor 15s, buyer 14s 8d. Sales: Crown ...
Article : 104 wordsSir,—Has the Government—that is, the State, that is, the nation—any duty to its unemployed" I think it has: some people think it has not. Well, what is its duty? Let us look first at some duties ...
Article : 709 wordsOn Wednesday afternoon a floral and industrial exhibition was opened in St. Paul's C. E. Schoolroom, Burwood. The opening ceremony was performed by Mrs. Hutton, who, in a few words, ...
Article : 229 wordsSir,—Sir Benjamin Richardson, in the "Humanitarian" for September, advocates the reviving of a worhshop at Reading, England, where discharged prisoners were wont to be employed in the ...
Article : 416 wordsSir,—Of the three letters that have followed mine upon the above subject, that of Mrs. Wolstenholme, in Saturday's issue, is the only one that shows an apprecation of the exact point that my original ...
Article : 806 wordsThe Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board held its regular fortnightly meeting on Wednesday, all the members being present. The Mayor of Darlington (Alderman Spring) and Alderman Beale attended as ...
Article : 248 wordsSir,—In your Tuesday's issue appealed a vigorous article on the "Pitt Town Village Settlement," from the pen of Mr. T. C. Ewing, M.L.A., the outcome of a flying visit end a very hasty glance at the embry[?] ...
Article : 659 wordsMr. J. S. Elliott (an alderman of North Sydney) addressed the ratepayers of Gipps Ward from a window of the Captain Cook Hotel, Kont-street, last night. There was a large audience and the ...
Article : 362 wordsSir,—On the 25th of April there appeared in your columns a letter with regard to legal currency of negotiable paper, which, you were pleased to say, was coincident in idea with a suggestion of a ...
Article : 478 wordsSir,—In reference to your sub-leader of this morning, let me say that for some years I have been in the habit of counting the number of tramps to be seen in frequent journey on one of our mam roads. ...
Article : 521 wordsA largely-attended meeting of members of the above association was held on the 14th instant. Much discussion took place on a matter which represents a large annual outlay on the port of cordial and ...
Article : 164 wordsSir,—Your correspondent Mr. Thomas Ewing, M.L.A., evidently takes a pessimist's view of the abovenamed settlement, and especially so with regard to the quality of the land. If Mr. Ewing has ...
Article : 197 wordsA meeting of the council of the above was held at the offices, 14 Castlereagh-street, Sydney, on Wednesday. The president (Mr. G. H. Stayton) occupied the chair, and there were present ...
Article : 109 wordsSir,—It is with much surprise that I observe [?] omission of all refereace to the liquor question in the new labour platform. There is no other question [?] important or that so directly touches the best ...
Article : 364 wordsA public meeting, under the auspices of the Phillip Divivsion Labour Electoral League, was held at the corner of Dick and Abercrombie streets last night. There was a fair attendance, and Mr. James Watson ...
Article : 402 wordsA public meeting was held in the council-chambers, Auburn, on Tuesday evening, to urge upon the Government the necessity of providing employment for the unemployed in the district. There was a ...
Article : 142 wordsSir,—A sentence in a paragraph in your issue of to-day under the head "Electoral Commission" roads as follows:—"When a person resident in the colony has previously obtained a certificate of ...
Article : 314 wordsSir,—The proposed Darling River tolls are defended as being a payment for the services rendered in improving the navigation of that river. Has it never occurred to those who propose and support ...
Article : 260 wordsSir,—The Sydney University Senate his at present under consideration the advisability of altering the date for holding the Junior Public Examinastion to June, i.e., about three months earlier than the ...
Article : 227 wordsSir,—As, by instructions given to me several years age by the board of directors of the Sydney Benevolent Asylum and Lying-in Hospital not to write to the press on any matters pertaiing to the work of ...
Article : 141 wordsThe monthly meeting of the North Shore Cottage Hospital Committee was hold in the rooms of Messrs. M'Intyre and Horning, North Sydney, last evening Present—The Rev. Alfred Yarnold (in the chair), ...
Article : 130 wordsThe trustees of this park met on Monday afternoon. Mr. Jacob Garrad, M.L.A. (chairman), presided Mr. Edward Buchanan (hon. sec.) read a communication from a number of property owners ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 17 Nov 1893, Page 6
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