A Court of Appeal, under the Crown Lands Act of 1884, was held by the Minister for Lands, at the Lands Office, yesterday morning. The following appeals were heard:— Leah Augusta Splatt appealed against the disallowance ...
Article : 1,800 wordsThe Marine Board sat yesterday, at the offices, in the Custom House; Captain Hixson presiding. The board delivered its reserved decision in the Pelican case, on which evidence had been taken at a previous ...
Article : 941 wordsThe meeting of the third session of the seventh synod of the diocese of Sydney was continued at the Chapter House yesterday evening, under the presidency of the Primate. The President opened the proceedings with prayer. ...
Article : 1,811 wordsThe first sitting of the Royal Commission representing the colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, New Zealand, and Tasmania, appointed to inquire "as to whether the introduction of disease ...
Article : 733 wordsThe monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Prince Alfred Hospital was held on Thursday last. There were present—Mr. I. J. Josephson (in the chair), Sir Alfred Roberts (hon. secretary), Mr. Robert Hunt (hon. ...
Article : 858 wordsSir,—Your correspondent, Mr. E. Flynn, apparently only differs from me in the main with regard to question whether our bush cavalry should be cavalry in the usual acceptation of the term or mounted infantry, fighting ...
Article : 670 wordsSir,—Having read Mr. Flynn's letter in your paper of 13th instant, I would like to make a few remarks upon portions of it. I agree with his letter as far as part 2; there we begin to differ. Mr. Flynn writes:—"If an ...
Article : 690 wordsSir,—Your correspondent by telegraph from Tamworth informs us, that, at the circuit court held there on the 11th instant, before Mr. Justice Stephen, "James Williams, for stealing 15s. from a Chinaman, was found guilty and ...
Article : 1,315 wordsMr. C. Dolohery, D.S.M., dealt with the business at the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday. Mary Anderson, 17, was fined 10s., in default three days' gaol, for being drunk and disorderly in Haymarket-square. For a similar offence, ...
Article : 771 wordsThe City Coronor, Mr. H. Shiell, J. P., held an inquest at the South Sydney morgue, yesterday, touching the death of a man named Richard Pilbean, a wharf labourer, who, on Saturday night last, died very suddenly at ...
Article : 202 wordsAn inquest was held by the City Coroner at the South Sydney morgue, yesterday, concerning the death of a man, name unknown, about 35 years of age, who was found dead in the bush at Rockdale on Saturday morning ...
Article : 143 wordsSir,—Kindly permit me a few lines to mention a nuisance which church-goers are sometimes subjected to on the suburban lines on Sundays. Last Sunday two boy musicians with harp and violin took possession of a seat in ...
Article : 379 wordsThe City Coroner held an inquest yesterday at Aldum House, Liverpool-street, regarding the death of a girl named Vashti Wilks, seven years of age, who died on Sunday last from the effects of burns receiving on the ...
Article : 221 wordsSir.—On the 14th instant I received a ballot-paper with the names of 10 gentlemen proposed for directors of the above society, of which only three can be elected. I have a deep interest in the society, and I would be sorry to see ...
Article : 142 wordsSir,—I beg leave to draw public attention to what consider a great breach of decorum at Coogee Bay. I visited this charming place this afternoon between 2 and 4 o'clock with my wife, and we walked along the rocks past ...
Article : 273 wordsSir.—Having received my voting papers in connection with the above society for the election of three directors at the next annual meeting, on which there are ten candidates proposed, and very few members in this colony know more ...
Article : 222 wordsSir,—As there appears to exist much misapprehension as to whether or not the "Neptune" really did got in unperceived on Easter Monday night, which is likely to create a false feeling of mistrust in our defences and the ...
Article : 255 wordsWe have received a copy of the March number of Australian Arts a monthly magazine and journal published by Messrs. George Collingridge and Co., of North Shore. In addition to the usual full-page engraving, for frontispiece, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 17 Apr 1888, Page 4
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