Between 10 and 11 on Saturday night a horrible tragedy was perpetrated in a house at the corner of Bourke and Burton streets, Woolloomooloo. The victim was a single woman named Emma Harrison, a ...
Article : 532 wordsA social was tendered at the Albert Hall on Saturday evening to the five railway employees who were dismissed last week on account of their candidature for Parliamentary honours. The hall ...
Article : 102 wordsDr. Wollaston, permanent head of the Customs Department, left yesterday for Wahgunyah to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the action of the Customs officer who erected ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt, a Berlin daily newspaper, has been expelled for alleging in a communication to his journal that President Carnot's son ...
Article : 103 wordsA SHOCKING tragedy was brought to light yesterday when a woman named Emma Harrison, aged 36 years, was found lying strangled on her hed at her residence at the corner of Bourke and ...
Article : 6,795 wordsThe motion of which Mr. A. J. Balfour, leader of the Opposition, has given notice, condemning the Government for its administration of the law in Ireland, has ...
Article : 73 wordsIt is reported that Dahomey is becoming a great drain upon the resources of France. General Dodds, who is in command of ...
Article : 137 wordsAs the outcome of communications which have passed between the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria with reference to the local coinage of silver and bronze, the Premier has ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Melbourne University has consented to the inclusion of Bayley, the stroke in the Adeluide eight. Mr. Halcomb received a telegram on Friday afternoon containing a notification to the ...
Article : 97 wordsWe thought ourselves very badly treated in December when we were visited by a gale and downpour of rain which did a considerable amount of damage, but since that time news of ...
Article : 525 wordsDuring to-day's sitting of the House of Commons the Speaker censured Mr. J. W. Lowther, M.P. for Penrith, for having been guilty of obstruction. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Colonies has written to the Premier, through the Governor, intimating that the Archduke Francis Ferdinand d'Este, of Austria, who is making a tour round ...
Article : 79 wordsThe British Legation at Washington has been raised to the rank of an Embassy. The British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the House of Commons last night a proposal in favour of payment of members, brought forward by Mr. William Allen, Gladstonian Liberal member for ...
Article : 78 wordsGreat regret is expressed in consequence of an announcement that Sir James F. Garrick, Agent-General for Queensland, is to be replaced, the Hon. Wm. Forrest, ...
Article : 60 wordsSeveral members of Parliament have signed a potition to the Premier protesting against the proposed reduction in the wages of the railway employees. They state that the bill to impose any ...
Article : 108 wordsA chapter of fatal ocourrences has to be recorded. Charles Dilworth, aged 27, a railway fireman, fell from his engine this morning on to his head, and died before the hospital could be ...
Article : 236 wordsNew South Wales will exhibit specimens of the timbers of the colony at the Forestry Exhibition to be held at Earlscourt, near Kensington. ...
Article : 31 wordsAn all-night sitting of the House of Commons has been held upon the Army Annual Bill. The debate was of a stormy character throughout. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Tasmanian 3½ per cent. loan of £800,000, which has been placed upon the market, is attracting but little attention. ...
Article : 27 wordsA Judge at New Orleans has decided that the action of labour organisations in ordering a general strike is unlawful, and that merchants are entitled to obtain an ...
Article : 40 wordsOwing to an accident to her propeller, the Mariposa was not able to get away untilian early hour this morning. Among the passengers from here were the Duchess of Buckingham, Sir ...
Article : 72 wordsA remarkable example of volcanic activity has occurred at the Solaric volcano, in the Republic of Colombia, the extreme north-western portion of South ...
Article : 98 wordsIt is likely that an autumn session will be held. The Government will seek to carry the Electoral Registration, the Parish ...
Article : 41 wordsInquiries were instituted by the police as soon as the matter was reported to them, but so far they acknowledge that the tragedy is shrouded in mystery. They have obtained a great deal of information ...
Article : 859 wordsLord Hastings has been charged with having attempted to assault a nursegirl in Regent's Park, London. He was fined £50. Notice of appeal was given. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe question of adding dressed poultry to the list of frozen exports has been receiving considerable attention of late. Instructions were forwarded some weeks ago to the Agent-General, ...
Article : 98 wordsWhen the Electoral Registration Bill comes before the House, Viscount Wolmer, M.P. for Edinburgh West, intends to move the addition of a clause allowing ...
Article : 41 wordsThe work of relieving the distress occasioned by the late calamitous flood still goes on, the flood relief committee having by the generous subscriptions of sympathetic friends all over the colony been ...
Article : 498 wordsThe Duke of Bedford's death was due to disease of the heart. The Duchess, on entering his room, found her husband dead. ...
Article : 35 wordsIt is estimated that the strike of cotton operatives in the Lancashire mills, which has just been brought to a close, resulted in a loss of two millions sterling, including ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Royal Agricultural Society's ground at Moore Park has been a scene of great activity during the last few days, the preparations for the forthcoming annual exhibition being energetically advanced in a ...
Article : 407 wordsThe monster meeting of Ulstermen, to be held at Bel[?]ast to protest against the Home Rule Bill, has been postponed till Whitsuntide. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is understood that the crew which will represent Victoria at the intercolonial eight[?]ar race on the Parramatta River next May will be composed as follows:—R. Nicolson, stroke; ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 104 wordsThe Marquis of Salisbury has left London for his country seat, Hatfield House, Herts. ...
Article : 19 wordsIt is rumoured that Mr. James Westland has been appointod Secretary for Finance and Commerce in the Government of India. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the Liverpool Spring Meeting to-day the following events were decided;— THE GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE of 2500 sovs. (inclusive, at the option of the winner, of ...
Article : 688 wordsIt is understood that the writs for the forthcoming general elections will be issued about the 5th April. The workers' political organisations are opening a vigorous campaign in connection ...
Article : 39 wordsMuch interest has been aroused in military circles by the discovery in Germany of bullet-proof cloth for the army. Its complete success, however, is ...
Article : 35 wordsThe annual Champion Eight-oar Race, promoted by the Victorian Rowing Association, and which decides the right of the various clubs to fly the premiership pennant, took place yesterday. A ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Postal Conference delegates left by special train at noon on Saturday, for Toowoomba. They were to be the guests of Sir Patrick Jennings at Westbrook to-day, proceeding south to-morrow ...
Article : 40 wordsThe pyrotechnic exhibition in the Newcastle Cricket Ground last evening by Messrs. Motherell, of Sydney, in aid of the Hunter River Flood Relief Fund, was a complete success. There were upwerds ...
Article : 407 wordsA caveat has been entered against probate of the will of the late Mr. G. A. Baird, better known as "Mr. Abington," the sportsman. It is reported that a ...
Article : 103 wordsThe weekly meeting of the committee of the Labor Home was held on Friday afternoon at 557 Harris-street, Ultime. The Rev. J. D. Langley presided, and there were present:—Rev. R. G. Read, Rev. D. ...
Article : 500 wordsThe Chief Justice, Sir Samuel Griffith, was entertained by the members of the legal profession at a picnic aboard the steamer Lucinda on Saturday. There was a large number present. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe steamer Croydon arrived from the New Hebrides on Saturday. Captain Munro[?], who was interviewed, gave an account of the recent disastrous hurricane there, but his statement is ...
Article : 298 wordsIt is the intention of Mr. Waddell, M.L.A., to accompany Mr. Boultbee, the superintendent, and Mr. M'Dougall, the inspector, of watering-places, and Mr. Kerry, a Sydney photographer, who leave ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Privy Council has deliverod its reserved judgment in the matter of the appeal by the Shire Council of Colac, Victoria, in the suit of Summerfield v. ...
Article : 161 wordsLast night John Osborne and his wife were interviewed concerning the terrible affair. Osborne gave a plain statement of the facts as far as he knew them. Miss Harrison, he said, had been lodging with them ...
Article : 412 wordsEnngonia stock passings: 300 bullocks, travelling to Boorooma, Messrs. G. A. and P. Main owners, A. A. M'Innia in charge. COOLAH, SATURDAY. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe s.s. Electra is almost high and dry. The Kallatina, with Messrs. Hall (the representative of the Insurance Company) and Richmond (consulting engineer to the N.C.S.N. Company) aboard, are ...
Article : 75 wordsSubscriptions continue to come in; but they are as a drop in the ocean compared with the distress to be relieved. Among the remittances received on Saturday were £105 from the Australian Joint Stock ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 27 Mar 1893, Page 5
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