After 1 o'clock this morning, when the moon went down, the comet was distinctly visible to the naked eye. Numerous meteors were seen during the night. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe ceremony of installing and enthroning Bishop Dawes, the first Anglican bishop of Rockhampton, took place yesterday, the Bishop of Brisbane officiating. ...
Article : 117 wordsM. Brisson will probably be Premier in the new French Cabinet. It is expected that M. Goblet will be Minister for Foreign Affairs, and M. de Freycinet Minister for ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Financial Times, in an article on the financial situation in Australia, censures Melbourne citizens in Loddon for circulating pessimistic views in reference to the ...
Article : 51 wordsM. BRISSON will probably be Premier in the new French Cabinet. It is expected that M. Goblet will be Minister for Foreign Affairs, and M. de Freycinet Minister for War. ...
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Article : 69 wordsMr. Guymer, caretaker of the "Took Over" Caves, Bungonia, while exploring under the cliff recently, came upon a new cave extending 100ft. into the rocks. On entering he found a human skull ...
Article : 57 wordsParleyings are proceeding between Great Britain and Italy relative to the reduction of the transit rate of mails. ...
Article : 27 wordsFive thousand persons, most of them adherents of Mr. Honoré Mercier, the exPremier of Quebec, who has been tried and acquitted on charges of corruption, ...
Article : 105 wordsWilliam Powell, chemist, of Auckland, was to-day sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude for an illegal act. A young man named Albert Thomas was ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Thomas Campbell, the leader of the batch of Sydney unemployed travelling south in search of work, paid a visit to Goulburn last week, but without obtaining employment. The men remained at ...
Article : 89 wordsMajor-General Sir Andrew Clarke, Acting Agent-General for Victoria, regards as ridiculous the rumour that he is likely to be despatched as Imperial British ...
Article : 35 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Mines Act Amendment Bill was passed through its remaining stages. The Barristers and Solicitors Admission Bill was passed through all its stages. The Ship ...
Article : 393 wordsThe criminal sittings of the Court of Quarter Sessions were concluded last night, before his Honor Judge Gibson, Mr. A. W. Robortson prosecuting for the Crown. The following cases were disposed ...
Article : 2,746 wordsThe election for Hexham' for which constituency Mr. N. Cr. Clayton (Conservative) was returned, has been declared null and void on the ground of ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. John Burns, the labour leader and member of the London County Council, has an article in the new number of the Nineteenth Century, in which he denounces ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Canadian Government is willing to subsidise, to the extent of 750,000del. (about £150,000), a five and a half days' mail service across the Atlantic, between ...
Article : 43 wordsJust as public interest had begun to wane in the Hawthorn mystery, owing to the absence of any discovery or clue, it was revived by the finding this morning of a pair of human arms in Fawkner ...
Article : 437 wordsMr. Cecil J. Rhodes, Premier of Cape Colony, has offered the British Government to build an overland telegraph line from Zambesia to Uganda, and ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Lord Mayor of London suggests that the Agents-General for the Australian colonies and the High Commissioner for Canada might form a committee to ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the Assembly this afternoon Mr. Cock moved a resolution to declare the whole colony a vermin district. The debate was adjourned for a week. Mr. Ash was granted a return as to the Murray ...
Article : 213 wordsFifteen hundredw Workrhen who wen t on strike at Carnegie and Co.'s Ironmills, Homestead, Pittsburg, and whose places were filled by non-unionists, have been ...
Article : 55 wordsMessrs. Guinness and Mahon, of Dublin, the solicitors, deny that they are prepared to guarantee the costs of a prosecution of the Melbourne directors and ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Constitution Act Amendment Bill has passed its second reading on division by 20 to 6. ...
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Article : 119 wordsA petition was presented by Harston, Partridge, and Co. to-day to Mr. Justice Williams praying that the voluntary winding up of the Mercantile Bank might be continued under the supervision of ...
Article : 161 wordsThe sittings of the Pastoralists' Federal Council begin on Thursday morning. Matters affecting the general interests of pastoralists throughout Australia will be dealt with. Representatives ...
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Article : 250 wordsWith regard to the question of money for railways and the statement made by Mr. Shiels that next year the Government hoped to proceed vigorously with railway-building, Mr. Shiels has ...
Article : 167 wordsAmerican financiers oppose a suggestion made by Mr. Alfred de Rothschild at the Monetary Conference, that America should continue to purchase silver. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of Block 14 Company was held to-day, Mr. E. N. Wigg, chairman of directors, presiding. The chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, stated that owing to the labour troubles ...
Article : 282 wordsBroken Hill Proprietary Silver-mining Company's shares are unchanged in price. ...
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Advertising : 175 wordsThe Governor, Sir R. Hamilton, and party left by the Coogee for Melbourne to-day, en route for London. There was a large assemblage on the wharf. The vice-regal party was loudly cheered ...
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Article : 65 wordsMr. Charles Shuckburgh will marry Miss Blanches Chirnside, daughter of Mr. J. B. Chirnside, of Victoria, on the 6th December. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 1 Dec 1892, Page 7
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