The machinery of one of the auxiliary warships equipped in New York for Marshal P[?]ixoto, President of Brazil, has been wilfully disabled. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe acceptance of briefs by the Attorney-General and the Minister for Justice on behalf of the plaintiff[?] in the case instituted by Messrs. Proudfoot and Co. against the Railway Commissioners has ...
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Article : 35 wordsTHE Government sustained a defeat in the Legislative Assembly last night, when a motion for adjournment, moved by Mr. Lee, for the purpose of discussing the declaration made by the ...
Article : 7,556 wordsA fair amount of progress was made by the Legislative Council yesterday with the business on the paper, although the House did not sit very long after the dinner hour. The second reading of ...
Article : 2,243 wordsMr. Wise said he thought the division list meant that the Government had been playing fast and loose with the constituencies, and this was a necessary protest. Practically, the promises of the Government to ...
Article : 145 wordsIt has transpired that the death of Professor John Tyndall, F.R.S., was the result of a fatal mistake on the part of his wife. Mrs. Tyndall it appears, gave her husband ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is reported that the Admiralty has given orders for the immediate construction of a first-class cruiser, four line-of-battle ships, and 14 vessels of the same ...
Article : 50 wordsA serious accident occurred on the Proprietary mine this afternoon at the 4 o'clock change of shifts. The men were, as usual, congregated at the various shafts in readiness to proceed below. At ...
Article : 541 wordsThe Daily News announces that the report of Sir Gerald Portal, the Imperial Commissioner to Uganda, recommends that Uganda be included in the British ...
Article : 37 wordsTo-day's price of bar silver is 2s 8¼d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe v[?]xed question of the disputed territory between Victoria and South Australia has again been brought into prominence by the action of the Legislative Assembly of South Australia ...
Article : 133 wordsSir George Dibbs, when seen after the division, declared emphatically that the Government had decided on nothing. "You can just go to a place lined with hot bricks. ...
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Article : 35 wordsThe strike of railway employees on the Lehigh Valley railway, in Pennsylvania, which recently led to serious riots between the strikers and the non-unionists, has ...
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Article : 78 wordsThe leader of the Opposition, on being spoken to by a representative of the Herald, asked not to be pressed for an opinion as to what the Government ought to do under the circumstances. If the question ...
Article : 140 wordsThe commission which was appointed to inquire into the action of the military in Sring upon a mob of strikers at Featherstone, in Yorkshire, during the late ...
Article : 60 wordsA meeting was held this atternoon at the Chamber of Commerce on the invitation of the council of the chamber for the purpose of conferring upon the practical steps to be taken towards ...
Article : 119 wordsAbout half-past 11 o'clock last night a fire was discovered on board the s.s. Adelaide, lying at Gillespie's wharf, at the foot of Bathurst-street. Word was sent through the wharf ...
Article : 442 wordsA general meeting of shareholders of the Broken Hill Junction S. M. Company was held to-day. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. Mr. Greenway, one of the directors, forwarded his ...
Article : 180 wordsMr. M'Mil[?]an, who was seen by a representative of the S. M. Herald as he was hurrying away from the House after the division had been taken, was at first evidently disinclined to say anything whatever ...
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Article : 29 wordsA special meeting of the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board was held this afternoon, for the purpose of opening tenders for a new loan of £30,000 at 5 per ...
Article : 450 wordsDebentures of the Queensland Invest[?]ent and Land Mortgage Company have [?]llen 12½. The present quotation is [?]5. ...
Article : 28 wordsAt the meeting of the Union Mortgage and Agency Company of Australia the report showed that [?]he profit for the past year amounted ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. C. M. Muirhead, in the course of a form[?] application to the Chief Justice to-day, on beh[?] of the official liquidators of the Federal Bank, sa[?] that if an equally good result could be shown ...
Article : 90 wordsTrinity College (London): Distribution of Awards by Lady D[?]ff, Town Hall, 3 p.m. Highland Society: Burns Club Meeting, School of Arts, 8 p.m. ...
Article : 131 wordsThe barque Royal Tar arrived at Port Adelaide shortly after 10 this morning. Great interest centred in her arrival, and crowds gathered at the wharf to view her. Captain Logan is in ...
Article : 194 wordsA general meeting of the shareholders and supporters of the Manly Co-operative Steam Ferry Company, Limited, was held last night in the Aquarium Hall, Cors[?], Manly, the hall being filled. ...
Article : 322 wordsSyeaking at Masterton last night the Premier Mr. Seddon, expressed delight at the results of th[?] general election, and said that the women of the colony had falsified the prediction of those who ...
Article : 198 wordsMr. Saville Kent, Commissioner of Fisheries, will shortly visit the Eastern colonies to secure ova of fish best adapted in his opinion, to the climate and character of the rivers of the colony. ...
Article : 135 wordsSir Henry Parkes, when asked for his opinion on the situation, said:—"I know nothing about it. I can form no opinion. You newspapers are responsible for it. You did not call the Government to account ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Cook, the leader of the labour party, was in company with Dr. Hollis when our representative saw him, and the first query that was put to Mr. Cook promptly met the rejoinder that no ...
Article : 571 wordsThere was a large crowd in the Supreme Court to-day to bear the proceedings in reference to the Attorney-General's objection to Mr. Symon, Q.C., appearing to prosecute in a case of ...
Article : 358 wordsMr. William Allen, president of the Pastoralists' Association, who was interviewed to-day, was asked if any reduction in the shearing rates in the Central, Warrego, and Nara[?]da districts was to ...
Article : 54 wordsIn an interview with a press representative to-day, Mr. James Tyson expressed unbounded confidence in the salubrity and dormant agricultural wealth of inland Australia. He urges that ...
Article : 257 wordsA meeting of persons opposed to the granting of compensation to publicans was held in the Oddf[?]llows' Hall, Ashfield, last night. Mr. W. L. Dash, J.P., G.C.T., occupied the chair. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe question of exemption from pilotage has lately caused some commotion in shipping circles. The Government having been deprived of much revenue for pilotage, in consequence of exempted masters of ...
Article : 282 wordsA fire broke out early this morning in the machine-room of the Telegraph newspaper office. About 100 r[?]els of printing paper were destroyed, but the other damage was not serious. The ...
Article : 72 wordsFitzroy (s.), 870 tons, Captain J. E. Butcher, from Adelaide and Melbourne. Passengers—M[?]dames T. J. Smith, [?]den and three children, Jones, Lewis and infant, H. Em[?]son, Mis[?] E. Richardson, M'Culloch, Jones, ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, after a protracted debate, the Factories Bill was read the second time, the Government having accep[?] the amendments of the country party, which greatly restrict the ...
Article : 64 wordsFitzroy (s.), from Melbourne and Adelaide: 61 cases medicine, 100 cases hops, 63 bales leather, 100 cases [?]l[?], [?] cases glass bottles, 13 sacks beans, 15 bales kapok, 25 cases insecticide, [?]0 sacks flour, and sundries; and 2[?]0 tons ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 8 Dec 1893, Page 5
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