Yesterday afternoon Sir Henry Parkes met with [?] serious accident, which only by a miracle escaped being worse than it is in result. The Premier, with Lady Parkes, left his residence, Hampton, at Balmain, and ...
Article : 452 wordsThe conference of shippers, squatters, and delegates, adjourned from Monday last, was resumed at the offices of the B. I. and Q. A. Company on Saturday, when the following representatives were ...
Article : 933 wordsThe great success which attended the floating of the "Victorian loan came as a surprise, even to the most sanguine friends of the colony, especially as the Victorian Government had fixed both the price ...
Article : 601 wordsThe labourers at Mildura have struck work for eight hours. The Parliamentary party reached Mildura shortly after noon on Friday. Owing to the low state of ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Emperor William, in the course of an address which he delivered at Konigsberg, said that Germany would maintain peace because the army was able to enforce ...
Article : 102 wordsThe match between the Australian Eleven and Mr. H. H. Laverton's Eleven, which was commenced at Westbury on Thursday, was resumed to-day. The home ...
Article : 313 wordsIt is reported that the Mayor of Perth will be created a Knight Bachelor, and that Sir Thomas Cockburn-Campbell, one of the delegates now in England, in ...
Article : 64 wordsSIR HENRY PARKES was thrown out of a cab in Margaret-street yesterday, through the horse shying, and sustained a double fracture of the right leg. The shock to the system is slight, but it is ...
Article : 8,392 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Company has declared a dividend of 5 per cent, on preferred shares, and an interim dividend of 7 per cent, on deferred shares. ...
Article : 37 wordsRingmaster is quoted at 20 to 1 for the Manchester Cup. ...
Article : 20 wordsIt is rumoured that the United States abandon their claim to the exclusive rights of seal-fishing in Behring Sea. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe refrigerating cars, Howlin's and The Ipswich, arrived from Charleville on Saturday. The temperature on the trial trip of each car when opened was 41 degrees. When the ice was weighed ...
Article : 95 wordsIn the appeal to the Privy Council in the caso of O'Rourke and M'Sharry v. the Comissioner of Railways, New South Wales, judgment has been reserved. The ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Reichstag has referred the German Army Bill to a committee. It is considered that the bill is certain to pass. ...
Article : 30 wordsFrank Sawyer, who was remanded from May 16 for having £320 resonably supposed to have been stolen, was brought up this morning in the police court at Kingston. For the defence he made a ...
Article : 122 wordsM. Ribot, the French Minister of Marine, has quite decided to maintain the rights of France in regard to the Newfoundland fisheries, but a modus vivendi will be ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Newton, the solicitor, who supplied money to a witness, in the recent scandal case, for the purpose of enabling him to leave the country, has pleaded guilty to a ...
Article : 49 wordsThe river continues to rise, and is now 29ft. [?]in. above summer level. The half-dozen dwelling plans situated on the flat in front of the telegraph office are now flooded, as is Mr. Gaffney's, on the opposite side ...
Article : 560 wordsThe American House of Representatives has agreed to a compromise upon the bill dealing with the tariff on carpet wools, so as to make tbird-class wools, valued at ...
Article : 68 wordsDavid Scott, husband of the woman recently found dead at Fremantle, has been arrested, charged with the manslaughter of his wife. A splendid seam of coal has been discovered in ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Marquis of Salisbury, on behalf of the British Government, insists upsn the Zambezi and Shire rivers in South-east Africa being recognised as international ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Tasmanian Land Exploration Company has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. ...
Article : 21 wordsNottingham scored 590 runs in a matoh against Sussex. Shrewsbury made 267, and Gunn 196. These players got together at the fall of the second wicket, and ...
Article : 57 wordsA murder was committed in Flinders-street, about 2 o'clock this morning, by a man named Joseph M'Grath, his victim being Conrad Ratzlsff. It is supposed that the crime ...
Article : 321 wordsThe New Zealand apples shipped by the Tainui were of an inferior kind. Tasmanian apples averaged 9s a case, and pears 15s 6d. Owing to the high freights ...
Article : 61 wordsThe new steamer Santon, from London, entered the Tamar to-day. ...
Article : 14 wordsSpeaking at Invercargill on the subject of federation, Sir Robert Stout said that what the colonies more urgently required was the perfection of the present system of government. ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Boulangist National Committee has been dissolved. General Boulanger has announced his intention to retire into private life. ...
Article : 39 wordsA bill was introduced in the House of Commons by Mr. B. A. Yerbargh, M.P. for Chester, with the object of preventing the sale of frozen meat from the colonies as ...
Article : 47 wordsThe statement published in the Pall Mall Gazette, to the effect that Lord Salisbury contemplated the surrender to Germany of an extensive area of country ...
Article : 57 wordsAt yesterday's public auction of Australasian tallow the number of casks offered was 1950, of which 1500 were sold. Prices are unchanged. Bar gold is quoted at 77s 9¼d per oz,, bar silver 3s ...
Article : 175 wordsA further expression of opinion has been obtained from Mr. Gladstone upon his recent utterance in regard to the Chinese question. He admits that deplorable ...
Article : 55 wordsRivers reports Bourke [?] iin., falling three inches daily, having fallen 3ft.[?]n, since April 22, when it was at its highest; Walgett, 27ft. 6in. falling fast; Mungundi, 7ft. 6in., stationary; Mogi, 7 ft., stationary, ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Arabs of Dongola have expelled an Emir who tried to raise a force of recruits to make an attack upon Wady Halfa. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Hon. Daniel O'Connor, Postmaster-General of New South Wales, with Mr. H. H. Lambton and Mr. Cracknell, Superintendent of Telegraphs, and also Mr. Powers, Postmaster-General of ...
Article : 193 wordsMr. Fenton, one of the leaders of the Opposition, addressing his constituents at Stanley, said that whilst expressing a desire to secure federation, he objected to the action of the Tasmanian delegates ...
Article : 178 wordsSir John Pender, chairman of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, has published in the Times his letter to the Australian Agents-General, embodying the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe engine-drivers at the Farley railway disaster are still confined to their houses at Wickham. 'Farnham, however, is expected to be able to attend the inquest on Monday. Saunderson is not yet out of danger, his ...
Article : 92 wordsThe trial has commenced at Sofia of Major Panitza, who is charged with being concerned in a plot for the overthrow of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, which is ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. H. M. Stanley is engaged to marry Miss Dorothy Tennant, the well-known artiste. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe river has fallen 1ft, Hin., and is now falling very slowly. The Warrego is reported coming down very high. The steamer Excelsior arrived from Bourke yesterday and left down stream this morning. ...
Article : 568 wordsA ferry boat capsized while crossing the River Oder, at Ratibor, in Silesia. The boat was laden with 42 children, who were proceeding to a confirmation service, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe monthly meeting of the committee of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held yesterday evening. There was a large attendance, and the president ...
Article : 321 wordsThe Orient Company's R.M.S. Oroya, Captain Studdart, arrived at King George's Sound from Colombo at 6 a.m. to-day. The following are the passengers:— ...
Article : 114 wordsThe publication of Mr. David Hean's report on the affairs of the Bank of New Zealand has caused a fall of 15s in the value of the shares. ...
Article : 226 wordsAt a ball given by the local Mounted Infantry, last night, Major Lassetter, the commanding officer, presented Captain Antill, the officers, and non-commissioned officers, and men of the Picton Company ...
Article : 205 wordsOn Saturday night Aaron Grant, a fireman on board the steamer Bungaree, fell into the Port river from M'Laron's Wharf. His body was recovered after half an hour's dragging. How it ...
Article : 212 wordsMr. W. S. Caine's amendment in Lord Randolph Churchill's new Licensing Bill, to the effect that no compensation be granted to publicans, on the extinction of ...
Article : 80 wordsThis, afternoon Adolphus Ballan, aged 42, of Footscray, went in company with a friend to proceed to Williamstown by train, arriving just as the train was leaving the Footscray platform. Ballan told ...
Article : 173 wordsIt will likely be some days before the ballot of the railway servants for or against the adoption of extreme measures will be completed. Where the ballot has been completed the returns show an ...
Article : 143 wordsOn Saturday afternoon a fatal accident happened to a boy named William Charles Hope Capper, 12 years of age, residing with his mother at Burwood. The boy was seen by a servant named Rachel Bartlett ...
Article : 116 wordsOne thousand mixed cattle, for sale, passed to-day, Reynolds in charge. WILCANNIA, SATURDAY. Tibooburra reports following stock movements:—340 ...
Article : 222 wordsThe schoonor Meta, 19 days out from Adelaide, bound for Port Natal, with a cargo of flour, put into King George's Sound severely damaged. When nine days out, off Cape Leuwin, the vessel was ...
Article : 137 wordsThe jubilee of the inauguration of the penny postage was celebrated by a conversazione at the Guildhall last night. There was a brilliant gathering, including ...
Article : 71 wordsThe principal aggregates of the whole of the Australasian banking returns for the quarter ended March compares with those of the previous quarter as follows —Deposits for the quarter ended ...
Article : 92 wordsOn Saturday afternoon a woman named Mary Main, 21 years of age, died at the Sydney Hospital shortly after being admitted. Deceassed was a domestic servant, and resided with Mrs. Galvin at 31 Gipps-street, Surry ...
Article : 137 wordsLast evening there was a large attendance at the complimentary concert given to Jessie Spring, t[?] Richmond River musical genius. The child, only seven years old, played a [?] ...
Article : 107 wordsThadeus O'Kane, of the Northern Miner, and one of the best known Queensland journalists, died this morning, at Ipswich, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 19 May 1890, Page 5
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