A Croydon telegram states that a terrible accident is reported from Mulligan's, where three men are said to have been blown to pieces by dynamite. The police magistrate and warden have gone out to investigate ...
Article : 100 wordsThe St. Kilda municipal loan of £361,000 has, been subscribed. Tenders at £105 8s. will receive 23 per cent, of the loan. The average is about £106. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Marquis of Normanby arrived from Sydney by this morning's express. The Cmmissioner for the Centennial Exhibition has appointed Messrs A. Zelman, A Plumpton, Rev. ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Royal Commission, consisting of the Hon. G. H. Cox, Major Penrose, and Mr. Woore, appointed to inquire into the construction of tanks and wells in the interior of the colony, met yesterday and concluded their labours so far ...
Article : 805 wordsThe Gaiety Theatre attracted a very large audience last evening, the occasion being the reproduction of Shakespeare's tragedy, " Othello" Mr. Dampier as Othello, Miss Dampier as Desdemona, and Mr. Edmund ...
Article : 314 wordsCUSTOM HOUSE.—Entered Outwards, April 2o: Edith May three-masted schooner, 214 tons, Captain J. Vos, for Wanganul via Newcastle; Franklin (s.), 397 tons, Captain J. Graham for Tort Pirie, Aberdeen (s.), 2371 tons, Cantain C. Taylor,for ...
Article : 1,065 wordsThe additional capital of £1,000,000 required by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has been fully subscribed. ...
Article : 31 wordsAn influential committee waited to-day upon the leading shopkeepers to induce them to agree to a weekly halfholiday. The movement is likely to be successful. Rain is badly needed in the country districts, th ground ...
Article : 503 wordsOwing to a breakdown in the machinery of the steamer Selembria, the captain put into Monte Video, where 12,000 damaged carcases of the cargo of frozen meat, shipped at ...
Article : 43 wordsThe report of Sir Herbert Sandford, the British Executive Commissioner at the late Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition, is ready for publication. He eulogises the management ...
Article : 35 words"Princess Ida " has attrncted excellent houses during the past week at the Royal, and it is likely to draw well up to the last night of'its representation. "Dorothy" is announced as in preparation, and it will be produced "on the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Parliamentary election contest is going on with unabated vigour. Numerous political meetings are held every night. Much excitement prevails. Mr. Hodgkinson, Minister for Mines, arrived at Croydon ...
Article : 158 words'Sophia " is still received with undiminished favour at the Criterion Theatre, and as the humourous and cleverly constructed comedy is to retain possession of the boards for only a week longer, the public will not have many more ...
Article : 129 wordsJem Smith, the English pugilist, has accepted the challenge of Peter Jackson, of Sydney, to an encounter for a stake of £1000. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies reassembled to-day. General Boulanger took his seat as the repres entative of the Department of the Nord. He received public ovations ...
Article : 160 wordsLarge audiences have been the rule at Her Majesty's during the week, and the claborate staging of Mr. Gilbert Parker's version of "Faust," and the principal rendering of the plot by Mr. Rignold's company have been the themo ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Premier, while on his way to Hergott, was met by the Commissioner of Public Works. The latter was interviewed at several stations with reference to improving the water supply for the settlers. The ...
Article : 165 wordsThe recent addition to the attractions of the Centenary Universal Exhibition, Prince Alfred Park, namely, the introduction of a skating-rink, was a source of amusement to many last evening. A large number of visitors availed ...
Article : 90 wordsAll the various aquariums which surround Sydney continue to be well patronised, and special attractions are announced at each one for this afternoon. At the Coogee Aquarium a grand aquatic carnival will be held in the ...
Article : 158 wordsAt a meeting to-night a company was started to carry on regular steam communication with the west coast. ...
Article : 21 wordsFather Macfadden, of Gweedore, who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in January last for having advocated the carrying out of the " plan of campaign," ...
Article : 90 wordsH.M.S. Swinger, after an absence of nine'months, returned to port yesterday, and brought np in Farm Cove. The Swinger left Sydney on the 20th of July last, and proceeded to Norfolk Island, thence to Fiji, to Noumea and the New Hebrides. A very ...
Article : 467 wordsThe fourteenth annual show held at. Casino yesterday and to-day is proving a great success, no less than 1507 entries having been made. The horse section is very strong in numbers, but weak in quality in several classes. There were ...
Article : 403 wordsRoller skating, as a from of amusement, seems to have taken a firm hold of the people of sydney, and quite a number of new skating rinks are seeking public pa[?]ronage. The City Skating Rink lately started in the old Masonic ...
Article : 760 wordsThe negotiations for the re-chartering of the steamer Bellinger by the Seamen's Union have fallen through. ...
Article : 20 wordsSeveral members of the Port Phillip Stevedore Labourers' Association to-day had an interview with the Commissioner of Trade ard Customs, with the object of bringing before him cerlain grievances ...
Article : 325 wordsMr. G. H. Reid delivered an address on Freelrade versus Restriction, in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute, this evening, to an audience of about 300. Mr. E. Ball, M.L.A., occupied the chair. The lecturer ridiculed the ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Orient R.M.S. Oroya, Studdart, commander, arrived from Plymouth at noon. The following are the passengers:— For ALBANY: Mr. Campbell. ...
Article : 134 wordsAt the local Police Court to-day the adjourned case against George Richards, farmer, of Bethunga, Victoria, was brought to a conclusion. Defendant was charged with obtaining from C. S. Griffiths and Co., stock agents, on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 540 wordsThe steamer Tweed, from Sydney, belonging to Mr. George no Nicoll, while crossing in yesterday, went ashore on the North Head. Efforts were made to get her off on last night's tide, but without success. Captain Tulloch intends ...
Article : 85 wordsThe annual meeting of the members of the Agriculteral Association was held last night, the president being in the chair. The secretary read a lengthy and elaborate report, detailing the year's operations and showing the ...
Article : 235 wordsThe committee of the Locomotive Engine-drivers Association have sent a reply to the Railway Commissioners letter, which declined to appoint a committee of experts to inquire into the cause of the Lancefield ...
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Advertising : 429 wordsInformation reached Bathurst. this morning that Mr. R. H. Oakes, J.P., an old resident of the district, shot himself at Bunnamooga. He left here yesterday to go to that station, of which he was part proprietor, and the next ...
Article : 89 wordsStock passings: One stallion and two stud bulls, bred by Mr. Lee, of Bathurst; to Corella station, Crosse and Fetherstonhaugh owners; 650 stud rams, Victoria to Nocolecto; 36 stud shorthorn bulls, Victoria to Norley station, ...
Article : 93 wordsSir,—In the interests of the labouring classes at this time of depression in trade, which presses most on those who have large families to support and educate, may I draw your attention to the common practice of teachers in the ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Assizes were opened to-day before his Honor Judge Foster. Mr. Harris was Crown Prosecutor. Priscilla Thompson, charged with larceny, was found not guilty. At the conclusion of the case, Margaret Harps, who had been ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 21 Apr 1888, Page 14
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