Mr. M. O'Shanassey has made the Public Library a present of the complete library of his father, the late Sir John O'Shanassey, the donor thinking it only right, that they should be returned to the people ...
Article : 1,006 wordsWhen we went to press with our first edition, the debatE on the motion respecting the leasing of the tramways was proceeding. Mr. LEVIEN detailed a conversation which he some ...
Article : 2,524 wordsThe A. U. S. N. steamer Eurimbla, which left Bundaberg on Wednesday afternoon, on the way to Brisbane and Rockhampton, has come to grief. The ship struck upon the rocks, passing from Burnott ...
Article : 228 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, the Banking Companies Registration Bill was read the second time and passed through committee. The second reading of the Chinese Immigration Restriction Bill was moved by ...
Article : 544 wordsThe Golf of Venice and the Gulf of Corcovado are now on their way homeward as wool carriers, and there is now due here another of the same line, the Gulf of Guinea, with London cargo. The line is owned by the Greenock Steamship Company, Limited, ...
Article : 301 wordsOne of the effects of the la [?] coal strike at Newcastle has been to disorganise the labour market as to sailors. Ships with crews shipped just for the run round from Melbourne or from other neighbouring ports gradually crowded the port of Newcastle; ...
Article : 319 wordsAt the inquest on the late fire at Plattsburg, Mr. Jenkins, whose premises were destroyed by fire, stated that he was sure that everything was all right when he left his business premises. He lived a ...
Article : 680 wordsThe Alfred Graving Dock at Melbourne has done good service for the past 20 years, but according to the opinions it is not sufficiently up to the requirements of the present day in point of size. Its length is 450ft.; breadth, 80ft.; and depth on sill, 24ft. ...
Article : 213 wordsTaking the date of our London cable, the 12th instant, as the day of her arrival, the steamer Princess Josephine, from Sydney, Geelong, and Melbourne, was 76 days from the last-named port. This included her detention at Gibraltar, into which port it may ...
Article : 114 wordsThis afternoon Sir James M'Bain, president of the executive commissioners for the Exhibition, entertained a number of gentlemen at luncheon in the Exhibition building. Amongst the guests were M. Noel Pardon, ...
Article : 165 wordsThe barque Langstone, which took fire at Napier, N. Z., lately, while loading wool for London, has not been so badly damaged as was first supposed. It is alleged that the fire was caused by combustion of the wool being shipped in a damp state, but this is of ...
Article : 136 wordsThe R.M.S. Alameda is due here to-day. The weather between this coast and the North Cape of New Zealand has been reported the past week as favourable to vessels bound west, and as the Alameda stayed at Auckland very much longer than she usually ...
Article : 87 wordsSeveral vessels have reported upon their arrival here lately a remarkably strong current setting to the southward. Captain Tulloch, of the Sedwell Jane, an experienced coasting master, yesterday mentioned it as being phenomenally fast. When ...
Article : 98 wordsThe water reservoir at Thackaringa is almost finished. The residents state that they see nothing for the townspeople and miners but a general clear-out unless a supply comes speedily. The continued dry weather is the ...
Article : 137 wordsThe steamer Queen of the South crossed the Richmond bar at 2.30 p.m. on the 11th, and arrived in Sydney at 9.30 a.m. on the 13th instant. Cargo: 800 sacks sugar, 300 mats, 321 bags maize, 55 kegs butter, 20 cases eggs, 4 coops fowls, 13 bags oysters, 55 ...
Article : 1,129 wordsCaptain Facke, of the German barque Orion, is deserving of some sympathy. His experience of voyaging to Australia has been emphatically trying. It is over eight months since he left Hamburg for Brisbane, and he is now in Newcastle, baring put ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 687 wordsThe cricket match between the Australian Eleven and Eighteen of Bendigo was coutinued at Sandhurst to-day. Bendigo started fairly, but in the latter half the wickets fell rapidly, the innings closing, for 129. The principal ...
Article : 100 wordsThe P. and O. Company's R.M.S.S. Massilia arrived at Adelaide at 9 o'clock last night from London. She was to leave there at 2 a.m. to-day for Melbourne, en route to Sydney, and the mails by her were to be forwarded on to Melbourne by to-day's ...
Article : 51 words3Home papers have for months past fairly teemed with articles and correspondence upon the subject of the increase of Her Majesty's first line of defence. The Jubilee manœuvres set the ball going, if, indeed, Lord Beresford had not previously ...
Article : 194 wordsThe following wool has been forwarded to Sydney:— Coomburoah, 46 bales wool; Kara, 44; Muckerawa, 26; Bunna, 37; Milroy, 43; Moorabilla, 13; Multagoona, 24; Boorooma, 15; Weilmoringle, 45. ...
Article : 40 wordsYesterday some particulars were published in these columns of the strikingly courageous cunduct of the master (Guthrie) and mate (Cameron) of the all but sinking ship Ardencaple, in sticking by her and eventually by themselves succeeding in steering her ...
Article : 97 wordsRich gold is reported to have been discovered at Grasstree Mountain, on the coast, 20 miles south of Mackay. A number of protection areas have been taken up. One assay of surface quartz is reported to have ...
Article : 186 wordsSir,—The question of improving the bar or entrance to the Richmond River has been for some considerable time before the public and the country, and as the time is apparently drawing near when something may be done, the ...
Article : 602 wordsWhen that collision occurred in the South Atlantic the other day, and the ship which survived it had a prospect of being safely taken into port (as was done) her crew refused to stand by her. An Admiral in the British Navy, Sir George Elliott, calls ...
Article : 159 wordsTo-day Messrs. Eddy and Oliver, Railway Commissioners, passed through the town. They came unexpected[?], and were met by Mr. William H. Oram, hon. secretary of the Progress Committee, who presented ...
Article : 239 wordsA strong South Australian team of cricketers will leave by the express on the 21st instant to meet the Victorians on Boxing Day, on the Melbourne Club ground. ...
Article : 53 wordsH.M.S. Raven arrived at Wellington to-day. The weather is exceptionally cold and wet. Speaking at Christchurch to-night, the Minister for Education said the colony was about to experience a ...
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Advertising : 33 wordsThree of the union Steamship Company's steamers left New Zealand ports yesterday with cargoes of produce—the Pukaki, from Bluff, due next Tuesday; Wai[?]ra, from Wellington, due Tuesday; and the Rotomahana, from Auckland, via Russell, due ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 14 Dec 1888, Page 8
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