Steady rain fell all this morning, giving 60 points, and making a total for the two days of 108 points. It is still raining lightly and steadily. At Tilpa 50 points fell; the river is 5ft. 6in. and falling; at Walgett, 95 points fell; ...
Article : 681 wordsThe following quotations were received in the mining market up to 1 o'clock yesterday:—Burwood Coal,3ls. 6d.; Stockton Coal, 35s.; Waratah Coal, 17; Great Cobar Copper, 5s.; Broken Hill Junction Silver, 30s., 28s.; ...
Article : 683 wordsSir Henry Holland has decided to await the receipt of the New Guinea Act, which has been pasaed by the Queensland Legislature, before taking any definite steps for the ...
Article : 56 wordsCUSTOM HOUSE.—Entered Outwards: November 30, Syren, brig, 137 tons, Captain G. Stewart, for Newcastle; Queensland, 309 tons, Captain Sherriff, for Townsville; Tenterden (s.), 867 tons, Captain W. C. Thomson, for Townsville; Martha, barque, ...
Article : 1,645 wordsMr. Steinfeldt, president of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures, suggests to the Register that an Australian centennial juvenile exhibition of science and art be opened in the present Jubilee Exhibition ...
Article : 217 wordsH.M.S. Thalia, having on board the relief crews for H.M. ships Myrmidon and Rapid, on the Australian station, has sailed for Sydney. ...
Article : 31 wordsShare Report.—Sales: Broken Hill Proprietary, £186, £186 10s.; Broken Hill, Block 14, £7 13s., £7 17s.; Broken Hill Junction, 28s., 29s.; Broken Hill North, 15s., 14s. 7½d.; Central Broken Hill, 25s. 9d., 26s. 6d.; Central ...
Article : 303 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company has declared a dividend and bonus equal to 6 per cent. A sum of £45,000 has been withdrawn from the renewal fund, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Hon. N. J. Brown has declined to establish a precedent by resigning his seat on the Federal Council at the demand of the Ministry. It has transpired that the steamer Flinders had a ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. John Henry Smith has left a legacy of £20,000 to his Excellency Lord Carrington. ...
Article : 23 wordsLord Lyons, late British Ambassador in Paris, who fell down in a fit in London yesterday, is suffering from a paralytic stroke. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Wesleyan District Meeting, which is being held in Auckland, passed a motion to-day by 36 votes to 8 against New Zealand being constituted a separate and independent conference from Australia. ...
Article : 38 wordsBaron Hirsch has given £2,000,000 for the purpose of founding schools for Jews throughout Russia. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, a motion was brought forward affirming the desirability of adopting the South Australian system of distributing young trees from the State nurseries to farmers and others ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsMr. Taylor, of Prahran, Melbourne, has given a sum of £1000 towards the founding of a college for Calvinistic Methodists in Wales. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Board of Trade recommends that Dr. Ingersoll, veterinary surgeon, should be appointed to inspect all stock shipped to the Australian colonies. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Manchester exhibitors have applied for 100,000 cubic feet of space at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition. ...
Article : 25 wordsSir,—While in Sydney a week or more since I had the honour of an interview with the Minister for Lands, re his proposals with regard to the Far West, and the necessity for special legislation. I greatly regret to find the honorable ...
Article : 1,207 wordsCentral Broken Hill Silver-mining Company.—Messrs. Watt and Dodds have received the following report from the mining manager, under date November 23:—The shaft has been cut down 10ft. and timbered 30ft. during the Week, ...
Article : 1,498 wordsIn replying to a deputation from the London Trades and Labour Council, Baron de Worms, Secretary to the Board of Trade, expressed his belief that the conference at ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the Court of Quarter Sessions to-day, before Judge Backhouse, Thomas M'Gee, for bigamy, was sentenced to three years; William May, for horse stealing, to eight months; and W. T. Park, for horse stealing, to two years. ...
Article : 110 wordsM. Pasteur, the eminent French physician, has written a letter on the subject of the Australian rabbit pest. He recommends the Australian Governments to adopt ...
Article : 82 wordsA general meeting of the Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held last night. It was unanimously decided that the next show should be held on the 1st and 2nd August, 1888. Notice of motion was given to amend the ...
Article : 108 wordsIn the Council to-day the Supply Bill for a quarter of a million was received from the Lower House and read the first time. The plans for the North Coast Railway extension from Brisbane to Gympie were referred ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Messageries Maritimes steamship Oceanien, from Melbourne, November 2, left here to-day. ...
Article : 18 wordsConsidering the close connection by marriage between the Crown Prince of Germany and thp Royal Family, the Bishop of Melbourne has suggested that the clergy of his diocese should invite their congregations on ...
Article : 276 wordsTwenty thousand wethers (Fisher's) from Terayinnia, passed here. COONAMBLE, WEDNESDAY. Two hundred and two fat cattle, from Youenmah to ...
Article : 294 wordsYesterday morning, at the Atlas Engineering Company's Works, Woolwich, the first half of the Iron floating dock was Successfully launched into the bay, and, notwithstanding its awkward form and great weight, it glided down the wayw in a ...
Article : 340 wordsThe Legislative Council to-day carried the Anglepole Railway Bill through all its stages, and likewise the Australasian Naval Forces Bill, almost without discussion. The Northern Territery Representation Bill was ...
Article : 136 wordsAccidents have been painfully frequent in the mines lately, Yesterday two men, named W. Murray and James Bruce, working in the Newcastle Coal Company's pit, were filling[?] skip, and a mass of the top band of coal fell upon both ...
Article : 137 wordsThe total Customs collections at the port of Brisbane for the month of November amounted to £53,704. showing an increase of £9762 over the corresponding period of last year. ...
Article : 331 wordsThe following have passed through:- For Melbourne (by express): Mrs. G. Isaacs, Mrs. Theodore Fink, E. L. Isaacs, Plant, P. H. Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, J. Adams, Francis Stewart, Anthony ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Legislative Council passed a resolution requiring the Assembly to reconsider the Defence vote, on the grounds that the funds were not sufficient to pay the ordinary expense of the Volunteer Force. There is a ...
Article : 51 wordsA public meeting was held on Tuesday evening at the Great Southern Hotel, at which a resolution was passed unanimously expressing regret at the excessive estimate by the Department of the cost of the proposed Be[?]a to Eden ...
Article : 176 wordsThe cavalry tournament that has been on the lavis [?] Prince of Wales Birthday took place at Marsden Hill today. The Government having proclaimed a public holiday in honour of the event, no business was done, and the bank[?] ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 1 Dec 1887, Page 8
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