The suspense in which shipping and commercial circles were held yesterday with respect to the condition of the steamer Riverina, reported ashore near Gabo Island, was most intense. ...
Article : 222 wordsNo mails for India, China, or the East will be dispatched by the mail steamer Lusitania leaving on Friday, but correspondence will be forwarded to these places by steamer leaving on February 7. ...
Article : 287 wordsThe R.M.S. Lusitania, which arrived to-day from Sydney, rounded Gabo at 6.30 yesterday morning. Two hours later a ship's boat was seen under sail flying the Union Jack. The Lusitania stopped and ...
Article : 385 wordsA shocking railway disaster has taken place at Louisville, in the United States. A train ran off the rails, and some of the carriages caught fire. ...
Article : 59 wordsMonsignor D. M. Jacobini, Secretary of the Propaganda at Rome, is in a critical condition. ...
Article : 28 wordsBY a railway disaster at Louisville, in America, six passengers were burnt to death and others injured. AN attempt has been made to shoot the Bishop ...
Article : 7,408 wordsThe London and Australasian Debenture Corporation have appointed Mr. W. A. Harper their managing director in Australia. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe epidemic of influenza, which has been prevalent in the Atlantic provinces of the United States, has sptead to Canada. The disease has assumed much intensity ...
Article : 109 wordsA man named Tom Mann was arrested for inciting the Bermondsey dock lubourers now on strike to commit acts of violence. Upon the inquiry at the police ...
Article : 44 wordsThe London and Westminster Bank will shortly issue the shares of the ImperialColonial Finance Agency Association with a capital of two million pound. The ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Riverina left Melbourne at 8 p.m. on Saturday last for Sydney, and passed the Promontory at 9 a.m. on Sunday. The weather was hazy and smoky from bush fires. All went well, however, until 0.35 a.m. on ...
Article : 234 wordsHeavy rains have fallen in some of the country districts. At Riverton over 3in. fell in 24 hours. At many stations over an inch fell. The railway ballast between Hamley Bridge and Balaclava was ...
Article : 407 wordsThe steamer Paris, which left Dieppe for Newhaven, but did not arrive at the usual time, in consequence of which fears were entertained that she had suffered from the ...
Article : 42 wordsA banquet was given last night to Miss Myra Kermble, the Australian actress. It was a great success. Sir Saul Samuel, who presided, proposed the ...
Article : 110 wordsScholefield and Company, G. H. Adams, J. Blackwood and Son, Tooth and Co., J. J. Kelly, J. S. Sayers, E. M. S. Eddy, Scott, Henderson, and Co., Union S.S. Company, W. S. Strong, Thomoson and ...
Article : 230 wordsA fanatic attempted to shoot the Bishop of Pennsylvania during service on Sunday last. ...
Article : 22 wordsNo excitement of any particular kind took place amongst either passengers or crew. There was ample time 'to land every one, and the sea was moderately smooth. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Marquis of Salisbury and the Marquis of Hartington have recovered from their recent indisposition. ...
Article : 25 wordsFrom the position of the Riverina it is not expected that she can be readily floated. So long as the weather continues from the northwards and N.W. or westerly, she is not likely to suffer further damage, but is ...
Article : 52 wordsRegarding the Victorian loan which is to be shortly placed on the London Market, it is the opinion in the city that it will be best for Victoria to borrow £1,600,000 ...
Article : 47 wordsDirectly the news of the mishap reached Sydney, the secretary to the Underwriters' Association arranged for the Aiding to proceed in charge of Captain Hall, their marine surveyor, but no steps were taken until ...
Article : 78 wordsInspector Casey, with a detachment of police, has scoured the bush round Copmanhurst to capture Tommy Ryan, the escaped aboriginal. Last evening they searched the scrub near the Orara in the direction of ...
Article : 322 wordsThe meeting of the Federation Conference has been postponed till February 6. Mr. Gillies to-day received a telegram from Sir Henry Parkes stating that the Premier of New Zealand had advised him ...
Article : 226 wordsThe cargo of wheat ex Nanny was sold at 35s. 9d. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe following statement made by Captain La Neveu, of the Wendouree:—"When off Cape Everad at 11 a.m. on the 27th instant spoke the s.s. Fiado, bound for Melbourne. She reported that the s.s. Riverina ...
Article : 441 wordsThe Loch Moidart, bound to Iquique, from Hamburg, was wrecked at Callandsoog. Thirty of the crew were drowned. JAN. 28. ...
Article : 75 wordsA meeting was held in the Mining Exchange yesterday which resulted in the formation of a looal company under the name of the Lady Alice Amalgamated, to work five gold claims on the Lady ...
Article : 114 wordsTo-day was observed as a holiday to commemorate the foundation of Australian settlement and also the discovery of Tasmania by Tasman in 1642. ...
Article : 80 wordsAll on board the barque Thorne, which was wrecked in Douglas Bay, Isle of Man, at an early hour on the morning of the 25th, while on the voyage from Liverpool ...
Article : 61 wordsThe highest flood ever recorded here was experienced on Saturday and to-day. Many houses were washedaway, and immense damage done to low-lying parts of the town which were covered ...
Article : 269 wordsJohn Chisholm, a young man of about 20 years of age, relieving Mr. Nunn, telegraph master at Cundletown, jumped into the river this morning about 4 o'clock. The body was dragged for and recovered about ...
Article : 179 wordsAt a conference of the Chambers of Commerce held in Dunedin. a paper, written by Mr. Pulsford, of Sydney, on "Commercial Federation," was read and discussed. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe funeral of the late Canon A cocks took place to-day in the Albury Cemetery, and was numerously attended by the leading residents of the town and district. The cortege extended over a quarter of a mile in ...
Article : 610 wordsThe strike in the Liverpool docks, by the men employed there, for an increase of wages is spreading, and other bodies of men are engaging in similar movements. ...
Article : 42 wordsLast night two brothers named George and Charles. Chamberlain were arrested ona charge of stealing goods the property of Messrs. Alfred Fenton and Bons, china merchants, of Bourke-street. The ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Agricultural Society's committee has drafted a prize schedule, and appointed judges and stewards. Complaints were made at the delay in payment of the Government subsidy, and the secretary was ordered to ...
Article : 72 wordsLord Carrington and the Earl of Onslow arrived in Auckland to-day for the purpose of taking part in the Jubilee celebrations. They were accorded an enthusiastic reception. Rewi, the ...
Article : 51 wordsSir William D. Jervois and Mr. James Hora have been appointed directors of the Greta Coal-mining Company. ...
Article : 30 wordsSenior-constable Ogden received intelligence on Friday evening that a horse was found drowned with a buggy attached on the Upper Manning, the couipage belonging to Mr. George Edward Homewood. The ...
Article : 118 wordsA relic found at the Auckland Islands has been identifie, as forming part of the wreckage of the Berry Castle. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe opening session of the Wesleyan Conference began in the Pirie-street church this morning, in the presence of a large number of ministerial and lay representatives, the Rev. H. T. Burgess presiding. ...
Article : 122 wordsWilliam O'Connor, the American sculler, has started for Australia. ...
Article : 23 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions which opened to-day before Judge Docker, Edward Williams and Thos. Jones, charged with forging and uttering a cheque for £4 11s. to a local publican, were convicted of uttering. The ...
Article : 136 wordsAt the Wesleyan Conference at Christchurch, it was resolved to celebrate the jubilee of New Zealand Methodism by raising a fund of £15,000. ...
Article : 36 wordsProfessor Van Tassell made a most successful balloon ascent and parachute jump, d la Baldwin, to-day. When a height of about 3000ft. had been reached, Van Tassel severed the parachute from the balloon, and landed ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 29 Jan 1890, Page 7
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