Throughout Friday night and Saturday morning rain fell almost as heavily as it had done for a week previous. The fall has been very severe in many parts, and has resulted in terrible ...
Article : 1,289 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday Mr. Munro will ask the House generally to approve of the draft bill to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia. When this is agreed to he will move ...
Article : 685 wordsThe persecution of the Jews in Russia continues with unabated severity. Forty thousand Jews are about leaving Southern Russia. ...
Article : 40 wordsIN consequence of the serious washaway on the Goulburn and Cooma railway line, the Sydney mails for Tarago, Bungendore, Queanbeyan, Michelago, Colinton, Bunyan, Cooma, Bega, ...
Article : 3,518 wordsThe United States Cabinet has decided to coin 5,000,000 trade dollars and 20,000,000 fractional silver into standard dollars. Meanwhile other coinage will be ...
Article : 37 wordsThere is an increasing agitation in Germany for the repeal of the corn duties. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Sultan of Turkey is not favourably disposed towards the arrangements for facilitating the settlement of the Jews in Palestine. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Pringle, a Tasmanian vocalist, has been engaged by the Carl Rosa Opera Company. ...
Article : 21 wordsIn reference to the charge of corruption brought against a member of the Canadian Cabinet, a contractor has testified that he paid the Hon. Sir Hector L. Langeven, ...
Article : 59 wordsA Berlin journal, devoted to the cause of Prince Bismarck, publishes an article upon the approaching visit of the Emperor William to England. It warns the ...
Article : 63 wordsLord Brooke has threatened to institute criminal proceedings against any person connecting the name of Lady Brooke with the incidents arising out of the late ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is understood that every soldier in the armies of Germany, Austria, and Italy will shortly be provided with a steel cuirass impenetrable to rifle shots. ...
Article : 45 wordsPrince Alexander of Battenberg, the late ruler of Bulgaria, is in a critical state of health. He is suffering from an ulcer in the gastric region. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe opposition of the Radical party in the House of Commons to the Education Bill is increasing. ...
Article : 26 wordsDon Claudio Vicuna, the Premier of Chili, has been elected by Congress to succeed Don Jose Manuel Balmaceda as President. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe proposition brought forward in the House of Lords by Lord Denman for the rejection of the Irish Land Purchase Bill has been negatived. The bill was read a ...
Article : 39 wordsPortugal has declined to sell to England her colonies in East Africa or her settlement at Goa. ...
Article : 24 wordsAn outside broker, who attempted to effect a heavy "bull" in Australian Broken Hill Consols, has failed. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the case brought by Mrs. Benson against Mr. Knox D'Arcy, a leading shareholder in the Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company, to recover the value of 6000 ...
Article : 56 wordsYesterday evening the telegraph office received the following from Port Albert:—"Captain Hannah, of the schooner Elsmore, reports a ship wrecked off Port Albert to-day. Wreckage ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Hon. B. B. Moreton has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council to contest the seat for Burnett in the Assembly. Messrs. William Brookes and Hugh Mosman ...
Article : 59 wordsFor the second time in a period of six months Wagga has suffered a flood. In January last the Murrumbidgee here was 30ft. 4in. above summer level. At 10 o'clock this morning the river was within ...
Article : 384 wordsScrip of the late Queensland loan is now quoted at 92. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe site fixed upon by Mr. Kellett, the geologist, for the Midland Railway Company, for boring operations, is between Mount Budda and Mount Scratch, about 20 miles south of the coal seam. ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Cambridge University has conferred the degree of Doctor of Letters (Litt.D.) upon Professor Tucker, of the Melbourne University. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Westminster Aquarium Company has recovered £250 damages from Mr. W. C. Parkinson, member of the London County Council for North Islington, for ...
Article : 42 wordsThe local Marine Board commenced an inquiry yesterday afternoon into the cause of the wreck of the schooner Ranger. The inquiry is not yet concluded. The evidence of Captain Lunge, the ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Share market yesterday closed dull. Sales included Melbourne Proprietary, 4s; Melbourne Proprietary, contributing, 3s 7d; Rennison Bell, £18 7s 6d. ...
Article : 52 wordsSixty free labourers and shearers left by Saturday morning's train for western stations. As on previous occasions there was a number of men waiting on the platform ready to take the places of any who might ...
Article : 148 wordsA revolution has broken out in the province of Catamarca, in the Argentine Republic. The Provincial Government has been overthrown. ...
Article : 34 wordsIn reply to a deputation from the New Zealand Alliance, the Premier said that he did not think the hotels should be closed on election days, as elections were becoming more and more temperate. ...
Article : 83 wordsIt is feared we are going to have a terrible flood. Last night the water went down considerably, and at 9 o'clock this morning the river was only a banker, but it immediately started to rise again, and whole ...
Article : 1,735 wordsThe largest flood since 1874 is now upon us. The river came over in three places at 2.30 this morning, and the whole town was soon submerged to a depth of 3ft., the water rising quickly. Farm produce, pigs, ...
Article : 209 wordsThe death is announced, at Mentone, of Sir George Macleay, K.C.M.G., eldest son of the late Hon. Alexr. Macleay, F.R.S., formerly Colonial Secretary and Speaker ...
Article : 136 wordsStock passing through by train: 10 trucks cattle, Dubbo to Albury, Wilson and De Lauret, to Pearson, Rowe, and Son; [?] trucks cattle, Carcoar to Homebush, T. Fitzpatrick to Hill and Clark: 1 truck horses, ...
Article : 434 wordsLatest news of the pursuit of the blacks alleged to be the Dora Dora murderers is that Constables Gallagher and Barter and George Goodfellow have found fresh tracks made by ...
Article : 178 wordsAn inquest was held this afternoon at Yarrunga, before Mr. A. D. Badgery, the district coroner, and a jury of seven, on the body of a man named William James, who was found dead in a hut on the selection ...
Article : 119 wordsThe grain trophy of the Victorian Agricultural Department which was displayed at the Royal Agricultural Show at Doncaster, and which received the praise of the ...
Article : 78 wordsIt has been raining for the last 24 hours, and the rivers are very high, over the banks and still rising. The Queanbeyan mails returned to town, the driver not being able to cross the creeks. The Murrumbidgee ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Thompson, the Government valuer, is now in Kiama in connection with the railway resumption. He is accompanied by the district railway engineer. Mr. Thompson viewed several of the town properties ...
Article : 94 wordsThe case against the two Frenchmen, Everard or Voltaire, and August, who are charged with uttering forged notes on the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney was resumed to-day before Mr. Giles, Police ...
Article : 141 wordsThe water in Pambula River and on the flat continued to rise yesterday evening, and one family left their home for the night fearing a flood. The fall of rain during the night, however, was small, but it is ...
Article : 48 wordsThe river, which was falling yesterday afternoon, has commenced to rise again. Heavy rain is falling. ...
Article : 23 wordsA boat race in best and best boats took place over the local course this afternoon between Ford, of Raymond Terrace, and Hickey, of Hexham, for £100. Ford started the favourite, and won with the greatest ...
Article : 49 wordsAt Walhalla, the heaviest flood since the settlement of the place is being experienced. The lower end of the township was submerged for several hours without material damage being done to property. The ...
Article : 2,168 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 36 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 29 Jun 1891, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: