At a meeting of the committee for the presentation of gifts to the Prince and Princess of Wales on the occasion of their silver wedding, it was reported that the subscriptions received amounted to £544. ...
Article : 187 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Lord Randolph Churchill supported the motion of Sir W. B. Barttelot, M.P. for Horsham, for the appointment of a Royal Commission to ...
Article : 102 wordsThe P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Ormuz, Captain Charlton, arrived from Plymouth at 1 a.m. The following are the passengers:- FOR ADELAIDE: Mr. Rigge, Misses Bates, Osborne. ...
Article : 197 wordsThe question of the supply or manufacture of locomotives for use on the railways of the colony, whioh has engaged the attention of the Government for some time past was decided at a meeting of the ...
Article : 824 wordsMessrs. John Kidd, ex-M.L.A., and Septimus Pryce, Commissioners for the Melbourne International Exhibition, have been promised good support from this district. The magnificent collection of farm produce from Camden ...
Article : 433 wordsCUSTOM HOUSE.—Entered Outwards: March 9, Abergel[?] ship, 1152 tons, Captain A. Levie, for London; Victoria (s.), [?] tons, Captain J. E. Butcher, for Cooktown, via ports; Fitzroy (s.), 504 tons, Captain J. E. Meaburn, for Rockhampton, [?] ...
Article : 1,501 wordsThe Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 12 per cent., and carried forward £12,800. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Premier and party, who have gone on a visit to the central districts, arrived at Rockhampton this morning. The British-India Company's steamer Chyebassa ...
Article : 166 wordsThe syndicate which was formed to purchase Rowe Brothers' goldmine at Fryerstown, Victoria, has withdrawn from the contract. Mr. James Thomson is parleying with other ...
Article : 50 wordsThe dry weather which pertinaciously continues is causing not a little anxiety to the garden proprietors as all the good months are passing without giving a chance to plant anything in safety. The Irish potatoes ...
Article : 298 wordsThe ship Ranoma, bound from Launceston to London went ashore in the English Channel, and has since broken up. Seven of the crew were drowned. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe French military journals are constantly insulting the King of Italy and the Italian nation. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe directors of the Macdonnell Range Ruby Company have decided to accept the offer of the London syndicate to purchase the property of the company. The price paid will be £100,000 in cash, and a similar ...
Article : 107 wordsA sad fatality occutred last night on the railway line about four miles from here. A farmer named Cornelius Grady, living at Yarralumia, was proceeding home on horseback, and it is conjectured he missed the truck at ...
Article : 181 wordsMr. R. Burdett Smith, Commissioner for New South Wales, visited the Exhibition buildings to-day, and expressed himself highly pleased with the position allotted to his colony. He spent the whole of the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe steamer Pukaki, which left Lyttelton for Brisbane a week ago, has put into Wellington. When 500 miles out her shaft broke, and she stood for Wellington under canvas. ...
Article : 35 wordsSir,—Whilst writing on the above my statements have been challenged by various anonymous writers, most of whom have shown so much contracted vision and such an amount of intolerable unreasoning prejudice that I ...
Article : 843 wordsA large and enthusiastic public meeting of the residents of West Maitland and district was held in the School of Arts last evening, in furtherance of the objects of the North and North-Western Decentralisation League, lately formed ...
Article : 591 wordsThe portmaster at Brisbane has received the following telegram from the Harbourmaster at Rockhampton, dated Cape Capricorn, this morning:—"Since yesterday I have thoroughly searched every island, and ...
Article : 122 wordsThe following have passsed through:- For Melbourne (by express on Friday): J. M. Johnston, Hon. W. Bates, Mrs. Bates, Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. A. Dampier, Gehnstall, Captain Harris, Vincent, Pyke, ...
Article : 450 wordsA youth named Georgo Ryan, 15 years of age, a labourer, residing at No. 31, Washington-street, was treated at the Sydney Hospital yesterday evening for a laceration of the right wrist, caused by some broken crockery that he had ...
Article : 444 wordsMr. C. L. Garland addressed to-day outside the court-house about 150 navvies in reference to their not having received their pay. He mentioned that Mr. Jeanneret and himself yesterday signed a bond with the Government for ...
Article : 112 wordsSir,—When I first arrived in this colony, A.D. 1826, the circumstances surrounding the arrest of Governor Bligh by the officers commanding the 102nd Regiment were compar[?] tively fresh in the memory of many residents of Sydney, ...
Article : 317 wordsA special general meeting of the members of the Grafton School of Arts was held in the lecture hall this evening for the purpose of considering rule 20, that the reading room shall be open to members every day, Sundays, Christmas ...
Article : 222 wordsSir,—I was very pleased to notice a couple of letters referring the above last week. I, having been a constant Visitor, was pleased to notice the gradual development of the different classifications, many of which were highly ...
Article : 305 wordsSir,—I note your remarks anent my letter in this day's Herald, in which you gently take me to task for the peculiarity of my present fiscal creed. As matter of fact, in my intercourse with colonial-born men generally, I find ...
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Advertising : 448 wordsSir,—The latest proclamation by his Excellency [?] vernor has no doubt taken many by surprise, and will [?] an immense amount of inconvenience in the county districts. The Government, surely, had not considered the ...
Article : 358 wordsA great fire took place at Braggett's training stables at Coolah last night. Six racehorses were destroyed, viz:— Western Monarch, Mermaid, Romahy, Killarney, Kangaroo, and Saracen. None of them were insured. A ...
Article : 88 wordsSir,—There can be no doubt that protection is gaining ground in this district, but, I do not think I am uncharitable when I say its new supporters are largely recruited from the ranks of the unthinking. One argument has ...
Article : 231 wordsSir,—In your issue of to-day (Thursday) Burton Bradley has favoured your renders with a list of the members in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in the year 1856. If any intelligent man were asked the question as to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 10 Mar 1888, Page 14
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