As we were going to press word was received that the Petersham Arcade, Parramatta-road, was ablaze. The place was well alight, the brigades had turned out, and there appeared every prospect of a big ...
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Article : 1,288 wordsAbout half-past 2 yesterday morning Constable Chisholm, while on duty in Victoria-street, heard the report of firearms, and soon afterwards a springcart containing five men was ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Premier has received a cable from the Agent-General intimating that the Earl of Hopetoun will leave England by the mail steamer Britannia on October 18. He is expected to arrive at Melbourne ...
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Article : 176 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales will open on the 27th instant, and close on September 4th. The total quantity available for the series is 17,111 bales, of which. 1000 bales ...
Article : 43 wordsAt yesterday's public auction of Australian tallow there were 1800 casks offered for sale, of which 1475 casks were sold. Mutton, medium, realised 26s. 6d.; beef, medium, 24s. 6d. ...
Article : 160 wordsMessrs. J. P. Abbott and Wall, Ms.L.A., addressed a meeting here on Saturday night, on protection; Mr. E. S. Cox, J.P., in the chair. There was a fair attendance, fully one-half being freetraders, and a ...
Article : 446 wordsThomas Charles Stephenson, a young married man, was charged in the Police Court, to-day, with having embezzled £40 10s. 11d. from the A. J. S. Bank at Parkes. The accused, who was the accountant, had ...
Article : 338 wordsThe Speaker of the House of Commons, the Eight Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, has ruled that the alterations proposed by the Government in the Tithes Bill constitute ...
Article : 165 wordsThe shipwrecked crew of the barque Mallsgate left for Sydney on Saturday. They have been provided with all the necessaries here, having arrived in a destitute condition. A sum of £810 has been ...
Article : 131 wordsA man named Thomas Carr was brought before the Police Court to-day, charged with assaulting Mr. Froom, the manager of Wanganella station. The evidence was to the effect that Carr was a union shearer, ...
Article : 238 wordsAn imposing monument having been erected in the Church of England Cemetery at Bulli, by miners who had been in his employment, and several friends, in honour of Mr. Charles Harper, who, whilst manager of ...
Article : 179 wordsMr. E. M. Ashwir., resident manager of the South British Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand, has been elected chairman of the Adelaide Underwriters' Association for the ensuing ...
Article : 215 wordsSmith, the pugilist, has expressed his willingness to make a match with Slavin, of Australia, for £500 or £1000. AUG. 18. ...
Article : 70 wordsThere is much excitement throughout the district respecting the Shearers' Union. Sixty men struck at Edgeroi station yesterday, and about 40 formed a camp on the adjoining reserve. Police were despatched from ...
Article : 85 wordsOn Thursday night 40 bullocks, belonging to some teamsters camped near Newbridge, broke through the railway fence. The down mail train ran into the mob, killing two of the animals, besides injuring several ...
Article : 58 wordsAbout 80 members of the musical profession met last evening, and considered the proposed constitution of the recently-formed Musical Society of Australasia. The following motion ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Press Association state that the capital sentence passed upon Mrs. Florence Maybrick at Liverpool, for having caused the death of her husband by administering ...
Article : 73 wordsThe local representative of the fisheries states that about 10,000 baskets of fish are annually caught in Lake Illawaira and forwarded to Sydney market. Previously to portions of the lake boing closed by the ...
Article : 117 wordsA rifle match, between teams from the local volunteer and reserve rifle club, took place this afternoon at the Bowenfels range, the volunteers proving victorious by 18 points. The volunteer score was 474 points as ...
Article : 78 wordsFor Melbourne (by express) to-day:—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Blackwood (Toorak). W. J. Gollin (Adelaide), John Grieve (Bungowannah Park), D. M'Ritchie (Junee), J. T. Cudmore, Miss Heseltine (Adelaide), Mrs. White (Jolimont), G. W. ...
Article : 444 wordsThe Narracan Shire Council, at its meeting on Friday, pasted a resolution to the effect that, while recognising that the farming community are deserving of special assistance, it deems the present ...
Article : 261 wordsMr. John M'Ivor, assistaut teacher at Mr. Morton Syke's grammar-school, East Maitland, was accidentally drowned yesterday afternoon in a swamp at Richmondvale, which he entered for the purpose of ...
Article : 81 wordsA crowded meeting was held in the Assembly Rooms, Ewans' Albion Hotel, last evening, to protest against the Kiama to Nowra railway stopping at Bomaderry, two miles north of Nowra, on the Berry Estate. The Mayor ...
Article : 234 wordsTen thousand dock labourers are on strike in London for an advance in wages. The export trade is much disturbed in ...
Article : 40 wordsStock passing through by train: 14 trucks cattle, Nevertire to Albury, M'Quade to Dotigbarty and Co.; 14 trucks cattle, Dubbo to Albury, Skuthorpe to Trenchard and Co.: 5 trucks sheep, Cowra to ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Governor, Sir Fred. N. Broome, having informed the Secretary of State for the Colonies by telegraph that it was the desire of the Legislature that he be granted an extension of his term of ...
Article : 111 wordsWork at Mount Kembla mine was resumed on Thursday. With the exception of cavilling being granted for portions of the mine, no beneficial result has followed from the strike. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 19 Aug 1889, Page 5
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