The Comt[?] de Paris celebrated his silver wedding in London yesterday. He held a brilliant reception. Her Majesty the Queen, their Royal ...
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Article : 396 wordsThe proposal to build a Monumontal Chapel as a kind of mortuary [?] to Westminster Abbey has (says the Morning Post) now been reduced to shape in the form of a Parliamentary Bill. The somewhat ...
Article : 725 wordsYesterday the 4-masted American schooner Douglas D[?]born, was towed from Gibbs, Bright's wharf to an [?] in the stream, and the ship [?]es was moved from her berth at the Circular Quay to Neutral Bay, and the [?] ...
Article : 815 wordsThroughout yesterday in Sydney and the suburbs cloudy and at times threatening weather prevailed. Towards night the clouds dissolved into a general haze, and a heavy dowy moisturedescended. During the ...
Article : 354 wordsA very disastrous flood occurred hero and also one at M'Donald River on Monday last. At noon the water commenced running across the [?]t from the hotel, and at 6 o'clock in the evening the people living on the flat ...
Article : 1,085 wordsA correspondent writing from Kangaroo Valley, on Wednesday, says:—The first mail since Sundey last arrived here at 11 o'clock this morning, the mail r[?]d being blocked near Moss Vale by the [?]ooded state of ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Wraggo, the Government meteorologist, issued the following forecast this evening:—New South Wales, west and south-west districts are specially warned that heavy rain seems probable, which may ...
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Article : 61 wordsIt is 16 or 17 years since theroewas such a flood at Marrickville as the one which has made this week remarkable. Then, as now, Tramvale, though not known by that name, was the land submerged. In those days ...
Article : 1,130 wordsMr. Henry Vizetelly, the well-known London publisher of English translations of continental (and especially French) literature, has been brought before a London ...
Article : 88 wordsA team of Rockhampton footballers arrived yesterday to play a series of matches with the local teams. The first heats of the Norman Sheffield ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Orient Steam Navigation Company's steamer R.M.S. Oroya, Captain R. Studdsrt, is to, leave at l p.m. to-day. Passengers, booked:—From Sydney for London: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Want, ...
Article : 281 wordsThe Gundagai local land board commenced its sitting yesterday, before Mr. F. W. Watt, J.P., chairman, and Mr. J. M'Inernoy, J.P., member. An important decision was given regarding the application of the ...
Article : 465 wordsThe river continues falling slowly, but it will be some days yet before the whole of the Horseshoe Bend and similar low localities are free from the flood waters. A great deal of misery and distress exist in ...
Article : 454 wordsMr. Saville Kent, the recently appointed Commissioner of Fisheries, will proceed to Thursday Island and Torres Straits, to make special investigation, and report upon the pearlshell ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Orient Company's R.M.S, Lusitania, hence to London via ports, left Albany at 12.45 a.m. yesterday. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe correspondent of an exchange upon the charges levied at Paget Sound on shipping says:—The investigations of the United States Grand Jury have, it is claimed, brought out the fact that vessels have been overcharged, and from ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. William Parkin has' died at the age of 87. Deceased was formerly member of the Legislative Council. He gave between £80,000 and £40,000 to religious objects, chiefly through the ...
Article : 187 wordsA report was received lately stating that H.M.S. Amphion had arrived at Coquimbo, and left, it was supposed, for Samoa. Some doubt was felt at the time as to the destination, and it now appears that the Amphion proceeded ...
Article : 199 wordsDr. Ashe, the District Coroner, assisted by a jury of seven residents of Jamberoo, held an inquest there this morning touching the death by drowning on Monday evening last or Patrick Casey, whose remains ...
Article : 136 wordsThe April sailings from New York and Boston for colonial ports are as followw:—April 3, J. M, Clerk, barque, 690 tons, from Boston for Sydney; 9, Troop, ship, 1526 tons, from New York for Melbourne; 13, Ruby, ship, 1392 tons, from ...
Article : 241 wordsSir,—Mr. Molville has introduced a bill in Parliament to, as you report, "better regulate the supply and delivery of electricity in Sydney and its suburbs." Is this simply a regulating bill? Does it give no ...
Article : 639 wordsThe revised district rules of the Hunter River Miners' Association were r[?]ad before the Lambton miners last evening by Mr. James Curley, the general secretary. ...
Article : 298 wordsThe Legislative Council has been further prorogued till July 10, when it will meet for the despatch of business. A crashing of 6 tons of stone from the Jubilee ...
Article : 45 wordsNews is just to hand from Constable Gilbert, Wiseman's Ferry, that the court-house and police-station at St. Albans have been washed awany; also that nearly all the houses in the [?]at have been similarly treated. The ...
Article : 117 wordsSir,—Mr. Walker is very severe on the astronomers and meteorologists as to alleged failures of their predictions of the weather and floods. It is not my purpose to enter into any controversy with your correspondent ...
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Article : 85 wordsMost distressing news from St. Albans has reached Wiseman's Ferry. They have had the highest flood ever known in the M'Donnld. The river rose over 40ft. between Sunday evening and Monday at midnight. ...
Article : 169 wordsAnother successful trip has been accomplished by the Lund's Lina steamer Yeoman, which arrived here yesterday forenoon, from London, via potts. The Yeoman left the South West India Dooks on [?]arch 27, and anchored below ...
Article : 551 wordsThe railway returns for the first four weeks of the financial year exceed all anticipations. The net profit during that period was £44,500. If this average is maintained it will give a return of 4½ ...
Article : 218 wordsThe annual meeting of the Berrima District Agricultural Society was held to-day. The balance-sheet showed that the society was in a good financial position. The officers elected were:—Patron, Lord Carrington; ...
Article : 211 wordsThe flood waters are slowly going down. To-day slight showers fell early, and the people were afraid they were about to have a downpour similar to those which fell at the beginning of the week; but the ...
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Advertising : 150 wordsThe total rainfall registered at Ryde during the month of May has been 26in. 86 points, of which quantity 26in. 37 points fell between May 24 and 28. The heaviest rainfall for these five days fell between ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Railway Commissioners are expected to reach Gundagai by the ordinary train on Wednesday next, en route for Tumut, for the purpose of inspection and to collect statistics in reference to the Gundagai to ...
Article : 52 wordsA Pitt Town correspondent, writing on Thursday, says:—The rainfall since 9 a.m. on Tuesday, 28th, was: 9 a.m. Wednesday, 86: 9 a.m. Thursday, l5[?]: total since Friday last, 26·01in. The water commenced ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 1 Jun 1889, Page 12
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