A most violent outrage in connection with the strike occurred at Port Melbourne early on Saturday morning. The plan adopted by the police for the protection of free labourers has been for detachments of police to ...
Article : 1,945 wordsThe V. A. T. C. Spring Meeting, which opened at Caulfield on Saturday, was in marked contrast to "Guineas Day" last year, when the weather was delightfully fine, but yesterday afternoon the sky was ...
Article : 2,381 wordsMessrs. Brough and Boucicault and the playgoers of Sydney, are to be congratulated on the production of "A Pair of Spectacles." The managers are to be praised for staging a pure and wholesome comedy, ...
Article : 2,033 wordsSir,—In common with everyone else, I look upon this deplorable strife with the greatest sorrow. There is no sufficient cause for it; that is to say, no cause which could not be disposed of if each side would listen ...
Article : 778 wordsThere was a crowded house at the School of Arts on Saturday night, when the Rickards Company presented a new programme, The first part of the entertainment consisted of the vaudeville "Loan of a Lover." It ...
Article : 215 wordsMr. Thomas Baird, of Undullimal, has crossed with 8000 maiden shorn ewes on route to his Wooleina station in Queensland. He received a telegram from his Cluny station, Herbert River station, Queensland. ...
Article : 96 wordsSir,—The present phase of the strike is exactly what might have been predicted, and Mr. Pigott re-echoes the words used in my last letter that it would become "dangerous to society," and therefore illegal. ...
Article : 643 wordsIn the Centenary Hall this evening will take place the first public demonstration in Sydney of the cape bilities of Edison's perfected phonograph. There will be a descriptive lecture by professor Archibald, ...
Article : 92 wordsShare Report.—Sales: Baker's, 28s. 27s 6d: Block 10, £13 18s, £13 12s; Broken, £13, £12 18s; Central, paid. £6 9s 6d, £6 7s 9d; Round, £6 6s, £6 17s, £6 14s. £6 10s, £6 8s; Block 14, £5 17s, £5 16s; South, ...
Article : 114 wordsA concert in aid of the prize fund was given by the friends and pupils of the Croydon Public school, in the St. James's schoolroom, Croydon, on Friday evening. There was a crowded attendance, and the various items rendered ...
Article : 196 wordsThe results of Saturday's racing caused a decided change to take place in the aspect of affairs for the V. R. C. Derby, layers of odds shortening the prices against The Admiral and Annesley, whilst ...
Article : 288 wordsA meeting of the Glebe Borough Council was held in the local Town Hall on October 7, when there were present:—The Mayor (Alderman Burcher), Aldermen Conlon. Meeks, Dunn, Duncan, Seamer, and Law. ...
Article : 549 wordsThe management of the Coogee Aquarium pr[?] well. Last week the building was fairly attended, and on Saturday the turnstiles showed the admission of a great number of visitors. Lilian, the child shot, gave ...
Article : 110 wordsSir,—Your correspondent "Non-unionist" accuses me of "endeavouring to make the burdens of them (the unionists) insupportable." and quotes against me the Scriptural injunction, "Bear ye one another's ...
Article : 324 wordsA very large number of people were attracted to the Bondi Aquarium on Saturday afternoon with the [?] mise of a good programme of amusements. Is weather was fine, but there was a strong [?] ...
Article : 581 wordsThe annual meeting of the Parramatta Rifle Reserve Company was held at the local School of Arts on Friday evening, the president, Captain Barnett, presided. The report showed that the corps had a credit balance ...
Article : 146 wordsThe orchestral concert on Saturday afternoon at the Centennial Hall was well attended, the galleries as well as the floor being fairly filled. The programme was one of the most popular in kind that has been ...
Article : 1,335 wordsSir,—In no less than three of the letters in your issue of this day openings are given for enlightening the readers of the Herald on the labour question, and with your permission I will undertake that duty. No ...
Article : 1,221 wordsAbout 6.30 a.m. yesterday the dead body of a man named Nicholas Lean, 36 years of age, a native of England, was found lying at the bottom of a pit in Messrs. Edward and Gardiner's brickyard, Oakley, by ...
Article : 128 wordsSir,—I was much surprised and rather regretted the tone of your sub-leader upon the strike yesterday, 9th instant. You appear to consider the employers (to use a mild term) aggressive. I, as a true friend of both ...
Article : 737 wordsSir,—On my return trip from the Jenolan Caves— walking there and back from Katoomba—I previously had sent a letter to Sydney with instructions to post me to Katoomba a money-order for a sum of money. I ...
Article : 220 wordsA man named John Kenny, gardener, 60 years of age, was found dead in his tent off M'Pherson-street, Mossman's Bay, on Saturday. He was of intemperate habits. The body was viewed by a medical man, who ...
Article : 82 wordsSir,—In last Monday's Herald "A Country Student" makes a good suggestion about the University extension lectures. It is that they be printed in pamphlet form, and sent to students in remote country ...
Article : 135 wordsSir,—The thanks of the theatre-going public are due to your correspondent "J. E. S." for again calling attention to the discomfort suffered by patrons of the stalls in consequence of ladies wearing their hats ...
Article : 198 wordsSir,—Permit me to draw your attention in a matter affecting one of the largest sections of our community, and without whose aid the commercial world, would be at a standstill. I ...
Article : 365 wordsSir,—Will you kindly allow me a short space to call attention to the protective system in the carriage of farm produce on the railways instituted by the Commissioners from August 1 last. By the present tariff ...
Article : 198 wordsSir,—I can characterise the attempt of Mr. J. H. Want, M.L.A., in proposing this measure as a piece of vandalism. He tells us he was influenced by the "remarks" of Sir. F. Darley, Chief Justice, ...
Article : 285 wordsSir,—On several occasions I had the misfortune to attend as a witness for the prosecution the sessions at Darlinghurst, and being in business, the loss of time and the bother are very vexatious. One is never sure of ...
Article : 403 wordsSir,—Permit me to say, in a very few words, that if the Labour Defence Committee are as anxious as they profess to be to have a conference in order to a settlement of the present unhappy strife, it lies in their own ...
Article : 182 wordsSir,—In reply to a letter in your issue of Saturday last signed "A Mother," kindly permit me to explain that the silver medal, referred to are additioaal local prizes presented to the candidates obtaining the ...
Article : 129 wordsMadame Patey's concert on Saturday evening took place in the Centennial Town Hall instead of at the Centenary Hall, in York-street, where the previous four concerts had been given. Long before 8 o'clock it was ...
Article : 1,044 wordsSir,—I have read with much interest the whole of the late suggestions in the correspondence published in your columns for the termination of the present strife betwixt unionism and capital, paying particulars ...
Article : 470 wordsSir,—My attention has been drawn to the fact, that on some of the runs in this neighbourhood where salt is used for sheep to lick, rabbits also pay a good deal of attention to it. Would any of your scientific readers ...
Article : 108 wordsSir,—Mr. W. E. Abbott, is this morning's Herald, points out that the employers and the trades-union leaders both declare that the one thing they want is "freedom of contract between employer and employed," ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 13 Oct 1890, Page 6
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