At the borough council meeting, last evening, the special lighting committee's report was submitted. It stated that six firms had tendered for supplying the electric light and plant to Grafton at prices ranging ...
Article : 921 wordsThe Intercolonial Cricket Match was resumed to-day. There was a good attendance, the stand made by the New South Wales team the previous day having caused a good deal of interest to be taken in the result of the ...
Article : 771 wordsYesterday addresses of welcome were presented to the Governor from the borough of Wangaratta and the shire of Alexandra. Mr. Deakin arrived in Melbourne to-day by the ...
Article : 517 wordsThe death is announced of Theresa Christina Maria, Ex-Empress of Brazil; sister of Francis I., late King of Naples. [The late Empress of Brazil was born in 1822, and ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. Gladstone and Mr. J. A. Froude have written to Sir Henry Parkes upon the question of granting responsible government to Western Australia. ...
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Article : 40 wordsEmin Pasha, who was reported to be recovering from the accident which happened to him at Bagamoyo, has had a serious relapse. ...
Article : 39 wordsRacial troubles have occurred in the Southern States of North America. In a drunken riot which took place at Jessup, in the State of Georgia, between the ...
Article : 70 wordsCaptain O'Shea, formerly the Home Rule member for Clare, has petitioned for a divorce from his wife on the ground of her alleged adultery with Mr. Parnell. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Patriotic Insurance Corporation has absorbed the business of the Federal Fire Insurance Company, except only in regard to the Australian liabilities of the latter ...
Article : 33 wordsA serious earthquake has occurred in Sicily. Several persons were killed. ...
Article : 18 wordsMr. Abington, believing that Slavin won the recent match with Smith, the English champion, has deposited £500 with the New York Herald to bind a match with ...
Article : 84 wordsThe capital required for establishing the agency for the exploration of Australasia has been subscribed. ...
Article : 23 wordsA French Colonial Congress is to be held in Paris in January to discuss the question of the introduction into New Caledonia of Rifflian Moors from Algiers, ...
Article : 77 wordsSir Samual Griffith, who left for Western Australia on Friday, will remain a few days in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, and although a holiday is the main object of his departure from Brisbane, ...
Article : 152 wordsWhat appears to have been a brutal murder was committed at Downfall Creek, a few miles from Brisbane, early this morning. Very few details bave transpired, but it appears that John Joseph ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Gas Stokers' Union intend to call out the stokers employed at the North London Gasworks unless the South London Gas Company expel the non-unionists in ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Mount Zeehan Silver and Lead Mining Company, Tasmania, with a capital of £275,000, has been registered. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the Bank of England the issue department stock of gold, coin, and bullion is £17,318,000. The banking department reserve in notes and coin is £8,876,000. ...
Article : 151 wordsA Port Darwin telegram states that the revenue of the Palmerston railway for the week ended December 21 was £857. The Customs revenue amounted to £204 received from Macarthur River, ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. T. H. Hassall, M.L.A., addressed his constituents here last night at the School of Arts. The hall was crowded, a large number of ladies being present. The greater portion of his speech was in ...
Article : 116 wordsA fire, attended with fatal results, occurred a little after midnight on Saturday. The fire broke out in a wood and iron building near Weir's public-house, in the railway township. The building was totally ...
Article : 137 wordsAt the Commercial Travellers' dinner at Dunedin, Mr. Fergus, Minister for Public Works, stated that the Government were about to enter into a reciprocal treaty with South Australia for the admission of ...
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Article : 354 wordsThe manager of the A. A. Company, Mr. W. Turnbull, has a number of men engaged in the Hamilton pit, where the late disaster occurred, endeavouring to recover the skips buried by the fall. It is expected that ...
Article : 104 wordsHis Excellency Lord Carrington has received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies the following despatch relative to the granting of responsible Government to Western Australia:— ...
Article : 429 wordsThe M.M.S. Sydney arrived at 3 p.m. from Marseillos; in quarantine, having had one case of typhoid fever on board. The patient is now convalescent. ...
Article : 41 wordsFour ironclads of the British Mediterranean squadron stationed at Malta have received instructions to proceed to Lisbon. DEC. 28. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe barque Apollo is ashore a few miles from Fort Augusta. The captain and two seamen took off a boat, intending to go to Port Augusta, but when some distance away from the ship the boat ...
Article : 398 wordsIn connection with the dispute in the iron trade the district committee of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers on Saturday evening considered a letter from the secretary of the Employers' ...
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Article : 39 wordsThe rate of mortality in Paris of late, from maladies indirectly the result of the prevailing influenza epidemic, is higher than during an epidemic of cholera. ...
Article : 42 wordsStock passings: Wednesday—7000 ewes from Mungadal and 7200 ewes from Gunbar, 272 rams and 53 ewes from Hay, en ronte from Trinkoy, C. W. Simpson and Son owners; 176 cows, 6 bullocks, fats, from ...
Article : 100 wordsA fall of earth occurred on Saturday, near Broadford on the North Carlton Railway line, at an excavation for a large building for Messrs. Sands and M'Dougall. Several workmen were buried in the ...
Article : 73 wordsJulia Jack, dressmaker, 26 years of ago, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital yesterday afternoon suffering from the effects of a dose of poison, taken by mistake. When admitted she was in an unconscious ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 30 Dec 1889, Page 5
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