A special meeting of the municipal council was held last night to consider the sanitary condition of the town. Dr. Kane, medical officer, attributed the prevalence of disease in the town to contaminated water. The ...
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Article : 843 wordsSir George Grey arrived from Melbourne this morning. Although rain was falling heavily when the train arrived there were several thousands at the station to witness his arrival, including the ...
Article : 532 wordsThe Executive to-day considered the cases of Fatti Chand and Bourke, now lying under sentence of death for murder. Bourke will be hanged on the 20th, and Fatti Chand on the 27th. ...
Article : 270 wordsThe total sum subscribed for the Victorian £3,000,000 loan was £2,000,000, the price being about 2s premium. Three hundred and fifty-two tenders ...
Article : 633 wordsProfessor Herkomer and Mr. Middleton, members of the London Board of Advice to the trustees of the Melbourne National Gallery, have had a serious disagreement, ...
Article : 71 wordsTHE Governor and Lady Jersey leave Sydney this morning for West Maitland. THE polling for East Sydney yesterday resulted in the return of Mr. Bradley, with Mr. Pulsford ...
Article : 10,443 wordsMr. Nicholas Chevalier declines to assist Mr. Fagan in selecting a successor to the late Mr. G. F. Folingsby as head of the Victorian Art School. ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is expected that the prospectus of the Broken Hill East Consols, an offshoot of the Australian Broken Hill Consols, will be issued shortly. The capital will be ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, expects to make his budget speech in the House of Commons on the 23rd instant. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe R.M.S. Britannia has been detained all day in close quarantine. Nineteen Adelaide passengers were landed and have gone into the quarantine station. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Imperial Federation League considers that the proposal for summoning a conference to promote a policy of common interests between Great Britain and the ...
Article : 45 wordsA fire has taken place at Madame Melba's residence in Paris, and the Australian prima donna was forced to escape by means of a ladder. She was only attired ...
Article : 57 wordsThe census for Launceston shows that the population of the city is 17,000, being an increase of 4500 in 10 years. The suburbs show a population of about 8000. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe confession of Polity, one of the Sicilians lynched at New Orleans, has heen published. From this it appears that the men who were lynched were guilty of the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe police magistrate at Thargomindah wires that the manager of Mount Margaret station is very anxious for special constables to be sworn in to protect the wool and shed there. Two trains left Rockhampton ...
Article : 784 wordsReuben Smith was extradited to-day to Sydney on a charge of wilful perjury at Wallsend last December. Lady Charles Scott left for Sydney in the ...
Article : 147 wordsThe council of the Shipping Federation has decided that the existing shilling ticket of the association for registration purposes shall insure the holder for £25 ...
Article : 65 wordsSome days ago heavy rain, with floods in places, was reported northward from Adelaide, and on Sunday the wet weather reached this colony, and after travelling steadily from the extreme west it has gradually ...
Article : 805 wordsThe practice of lynching is becoming of frequent occurrence in America. ...
Article : 22 wordsAt a meeting of the Victorian Cricketers' Association to-night the report of the sub-committee was adopted approving of the scheme proposed by the New South Wales Cricket Association ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Australian auxiliary cruiser Katoomba has performed a successful trial. She attained a speed of 18 knots. ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is expected that Portugal will ratify the new Convention drafted by Lord Salisbury. ...
Article : 26 wordsLieutenant Boileau, one of the officers who escaped from the massacre at Manipur, denies the charges of Juhraj to the effect that the British burned ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Star of this evening asserts that warranta have been issued against two members of the House of Commons, one representing an English, ...
Article : 84 wordsThis afternoon, before Mr. F. K. Pater, P.M., and 19 justices, 31 men, who were charged with gambling at Solomon's tobacoonist shop on Sunday morning last, were dealt with. A fine of £250, or ...
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Article : 68 wordsWith a view to cope with the Miranzai outbreak in Northern India, 10,000 AngloIndian troops are massed at Kohat in the Punjaub. ...
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Article : 190 wordsThe ravages of influenza in New York and Brooklyn are shocking. The deaths are so numerous that wholesale buryings are taking place, and ordinary waggons ...
Article : 75 wordsA largely-attended meeting of Crown lessees was held here to-day for the purpose of appealing against the rents imposed by the Land Board at the recent sitting. The following resolutions were carried unanimously:— ...
Article : 255 wordsSir Harry Atkinson and Captain Russell, on arrival here to-day, were interviewed by the press representatives. The former said that the Convention had materrirally aided federation. His view as ...
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Article : 78 wordsThe electric light contractor attended the council meeting last night, and explained that the cause of the partial failure of the light at Moss Vale was due to the inadequate supply of water and the small distributing ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Bullos River has risen 12in, since Friday. On Saturday it fell, and began rising again the following afternoon. We are now getting the Adavale water, and the river will probably continue to rise until about ...
Article : 80 wordsThe crossing on the bar continues bad. The steamer Tomki was towed out with difficulty. The Wyoming slightly improved hor position last night. The Oakland has been got off. ...
Article : 41 wordsA man named George Robinson, 62, a carpenter, residing at 332 Crown-street, Surry Hills, was knocked down and run over by a cab at the corner of Oxford and Liverpool atreels, yesterday. When admitted to the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 15 Apr 1891, Page 7
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