The trial of the action, W. R. Merry v. The Queen and the Board of Land and Works, to recover £500,000 damages for alleged breaches of contract in connection with the construction of ...
Article : 360 wordsThe late King of Portugal (Dom Luis) was buried yesterday in the Pantheon of St. Vincent, Lisbon. The Papal Nuncio and 300 clergy, and ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Board of Trade has warned all railway companies to fix their points and signals under the interlocking system, to adopt continuous brakes, and to print the ...
Article : 63 wordsTHE Queen intends to pass the winter at Florence. THE King of Portugal has been buried in the Pantheon of St. Vincent, Lisbon. A MASS meeting of 60,000 labourers at Bristol ...
Article : 8,948 wordsMr. Lund's new steamer Bungaree, built for the Australian trade, attained a speed of 13¾ knots an hour on a trial trip to-day. ...
Article : 143 wordsIntelligence has reached New York of the wreck of the ship Earnmoor, while on the voyage to Rio de Janeiro. Two survivors of the crew have returned ...
Article : 114 wordsThe election for Brighton, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sir William Tindal Robertson, who committed suicide during a period of mental depression, took ...
Article : 57 wordsAn open air mass meeting of unemployed, convened at the request of a deputation from the unemployed by the Australian Labour Federation, was called for Saturday afternoon, but only about 100 persons ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Dicknell Mining Syndicate, Queensland, with a capital of £30,000, has been registered. ...
Article : 19 wordsA great labour demonstration has taken place at Bristol, 60,000 workingmen being present. The meeting passed a resolution ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is estimated that the wheat crop in the United Kingdom this season will amount to 8¾ million quarters. Nearly 19,000,000 quarters will require to be ...
Article : 38 wordsNews has reached here to the effect that the force under Captain Wissmann, operating against the rebel tribes in East Africa, has defeated 5000 men under Bushiri, the ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly the stonewalling by the Opposition upon the Government loan vote proposal was continued all day on Saturday. In the evening the House was crowded. Mr. Barlow, ...
Article : 242 wordsThe brickmakers' strike at Hindmarsh has almost been brought to a conclusion. The masters have granted the terms demanded by the men on condition that all yards in the district pay the same ...
Article : 50 wordsHer Majesty the Queen will shortly proceed to Italy, and will spend the winter at Florence. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe heavy rain which fell at Launceston on Saturday put a stop to the bicycle races. The championship of Tasmania, which was to have been competed for, was postponed for a week. ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. Gladstone, in opening a workmen's institute at Saltly, reviewed the progress made in the ranks of labour during the past half-century. He paid a tribute of ...
Article : 64 wordsFourteen hundred bales of New Zealand hemp sold at full rates. OCT. 26. The English wheat market is dull; the ...
Article : 103 wordsAt a conference of wharf labourers held at Dunedin, a union was formed for the whole of New Zealand, under the title of the Federated Wharf Labourers, New Zealand. Up to the ...
Article : 91 wordsMajor-General Tulloch, Commandant of the Victorian Military Forces, arrived by the Orizaba to-day. He was interviewed with regard to the European situation, and said it was very ...
Article : 239 wordsWhile a locomotive attached to a goods train, which left Spencer-street for Ballarat on Thursday night, was shunting a truck at Lethbridge station early on Friday morning the other trucks, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe New York Herald announces that Great Britain and the United States have agreed to a new extradition treaty. ...
Article : 38 wordsHarry Parker, one of the original prospectors of Temora, was killed yesterday by a fall of earth. Parker had been working in the same claim ever since the start of the Temora rush. Deceased was well and ...
Article : 62 wordsIn his address before the resumed sittings of the Times-Parnell Commission, Mr. Michael Davitt stated that Pigott admitted to his servant having confessed ...
Article : 49 wordsShortly after 10 o'clock last night a fire broke out at the Nundah Carriage Works. The alarm was raised by men employed in the works, who, living in the locality, were successful in saving a large ...
Article : 151 wordsNews was received in town last night that the Kenllworth woolshed has been burnt down. The alarm was given about 10.30 p.m. on Thursday. The manager had that day paid off the shearers. About 20 bales of wool ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. John Pinney Bear, formerly a member of the Legislative Conncil, died at Tahbilk, on the Goulburn River, this morning. He was a very old colonist, having arrived in Victoria in ...
Article : 200 wordsFor the New Zealand 3½ per cent conversion loan of £2,700,000, tenders to the amount of £4,900,000 were received. Those at £95 8s. 6d. will receive 21 per cent. of ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Quarter Sessions were concluded yesterday before Judge Fitzhardinge, the Crown Prosecutor being Mr. J. Armstrong. Jemmy Ty Sing was found guilty of unlawfully wounding, and was sentenced to ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. Crick, M.L.A., visited Perth last night and addressed a large meeting. He went over much the same ground as he did at Bathurst a fortnight ago, referring to the recent scene in the House. At the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 28 Oct 1889, Page 7
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