At a meeting of the Hospital Committee to-day, a report was received from the committee appointed to collect contributions towards the centennial gift, showing that £10,700 had been subscribed. It was decided ...
Article : 678 wordsThe Rev. Father Sheridan, curate at Bega for the past eighteen months, who is now leaving to take charge of the Pambula parish, was presented with a purse of sovereigns subscribed by a few parishioners. Mr. Edward Brown ...
Article : 453 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day Sir James Lorimer presented the report of the Elections and Qualifications Committee upholding the petition of Mr. Butters against the return of Mr. Turner for the North-Eastern ...
Article : 285 wordsMr. W. P. Morgan, who has been returned to the House of Commons for Merthyr Tydvil by a large majority, was elected in defiance of the advice given by Mr. Gladstone to the ...
Article : 53 wordsCUSTOM HOUSE.—Entered Ouwards: October 30, [?] schooner, 223 tons, Captain R. Cable, for Solomon Islands; [?] ings, schooner, 88 tons, Captain A. von Barm, for Brisbane, [?] Port Macquarie; Elingamite (s.), 1675 tons, Captain P. W. [?] ...
Article : 1,305 wordsMr. Sheehan, M.P. for Kerry, has been arrested for inciting the Irish tenants to resist payment of rent. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Hazara tribes, in the Black Mountain district of the Punjaub, have been crushed in their hostility to the British forces operating against them, and they are now reported to ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Moin T. Stormont Darling, a Scotch advocate, has been appointed Solicitor-General of Scotland, in succession to Mr. J. P. R. Robertson, Q.C. ...
Article : 31 wordsNews has been received to the effect that the barque Robertsjors, a Swedish vessel of 764 tons, bound from Antwerp for Melbourne, put into the Cape of Good Hope in a leaking ...
Article : 44 wordsA Nihilist, disguised as a Corsack officer, has been arrested at Kutais with explosives in his possession. It is believed that it was the intention of the prisoner to make an ...
Article : 58 wordsThe eldest son of Sir William C. F. Robinson, Governor of South Australia, has been married to Miss Gertrude Hughes. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe principal business in the Legislative Council to-day was the passing of the Chinese Restriction Bill through committee. A good deal of discussion took place on the new clause inserted in the Assembly, to the ...
Article : 323 wordsThe Duke of Westminster has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of the new county of London. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Right Hon. John Bright is seriously unwell, having had a relapse of the illness from which he was suffering some little time back. ...
Article : 39 wordsAn aggregate sum of £477,000 has been tendered for the £200,000 worth of 4 per cent. debentures issued by the Union Mortgage and Agency Company. ...
Article : 34 wordsIn consequence of the great demand for water from the Rathole tank, the trustees of the reservior find they will be unable to issue any more tickets for a couple of days. This is necessary, as the tramway company are unable to bring ...
Article : 416 wordsThe strike of colliers in Yorkshire and other mining districts has ended, the masters having conceded the demands of the men for an advance in wages. ...
Article : 42 wordsBishop Sandford, of Tasmania, has accepted the position of Coadjutor to the Bishop of Durham. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's steamship Tainui, has arrived at Plymouth from New Zealand. The following cablegrams appeared in our ...
Article : 678 wordsThe Messageries Maritimes steamer Yarra arrived at 3 o'clock this afternoon, from Marseilles. The following are the passengers:— For ADELAIDE: Messrs. Erie and Farquharson. ...
Article : 148 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Chinese Restriction Bill was discussed. The Council had previously decided that the tonnage limitation should be altered for the Northern Territory to 100 tons. ...
Article : 223 wordsCaptain Gavin, of the Scottish Rifles, has been instructed to hold an inquiry into the recent mutiny of the A. Company of the Defence Force at Rockhampton. ...
Article : 32 wordsA meeting of wharfingers was held to-day relative to the recent action of the Broken Hill directors in visiting Port Adelaide regarding the selection, if possible, of a site for their desilvering works. The meeting ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 826 wordsArrangements have been made for an alteration in some of the channel lights on and after November 30. In the south channel No. 15 black buoy will be changed to a gas buoy, upon which will be exhibited a green ...
Article : 93 wordsThe North German Lloyd's Imperial mail steamer Nur[?] arrived yesterday from Bremen, via ports, having completed[?] of the most successful trips that she has yet made [?] Germany. There have been no changes among the [?] ...
Article : 415 wordsThe annual meetings of the Congregational Union were opened to-day. The Rev. Walter Jones, of Gawler, was appointed chairman elect. Very good reports were presented. In the evening the Rev. ...
Article : 58 wordsA daring robbery is reported to have been committed on the premises of two Chinamen named Chew Youke and Ah Sing at Perth during their absence. The shop was broken into and about £45 in money and £135 ...
Article : 139 wordsA preliminary meeting of representatives to the Contennial Congress of the Australian Chambers of Commerce was held to-day in the Town Hall, for the purpose of finally agreeing upon the rules and order of ...
Article : 141 wordsA cable has been received in Melbourne from Aden to-day, stating that the Thyra had been stranded, and become a total wreck. The vessel was sold for 4800 rupees. The Thyra, was bound from Port Darwin to ...
Article : 51 wordsThe s.s. Aorangi arrived to-day from London. She brings 287 passengers, of whom 176 landed here for Australian ports. Two deaths occurred on the voyage, The Aorangi sailed again for New Zealand this ...
Article : 127 wordsAn extraordinary fracas took place on the Caulfield racecourse early this morning. Mr. W. Dargin, the popular Sydney sportsman, was watching the gallops and witnessed the work done by M[?]ua and the New ...
Article : 88 wordsThe National line steamar Spain, from New York, which arrivd [?] at Queenstown on September 23 (says European Mail), brin[?] intelligence that an aged gentleman named Murtagh, residing [?] Brooklyn, received a letter on September 11 from one of the [?] ...
Article : 382 wordsAn extraordinary case occurred at Kew early this morning, when a youth named John Botsman, employed at the bakery establishment of Hugh Fraser, in the Bulleen-road, set fire to the stable loft at the rear ...
Article : 252 wordsSir F. Whitaker has resigned his position as a director of the Bank of New Zealand. ...
Article : 20 wordsA telegram from Bordertown states that Slader, a district foreman of permanent way, fired three revolver shots at his wife, and then shot himself in the forehead. His condition is dangerous, but his wife escaped ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Railway Department of this colony has been in communication with the departments of New South Wales and Victoria regarding the issue of through excursion tickets to Melbourne for persons attending ...
Article : 137 wordsThe most brilliant artificial light that has ever shone on the world is (says the Spectator) that in the recently completed St. Catherine's Lighthouse, at the southernmost extremity of the Isle of Wight, which burns with an illuminating power of over ...
Article : 247 wordsFlora Oermann, a single woman, committed suicide by drowning herself in a dam at Marocara. Her mother had only left her for a few minutes, and on her return she found that her daughter had given birth to a child, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 31 Oct 1888, Page 10
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