Application is being made to the Postal Department to have the mail via Swan Hill altered so that the coaches may travel during the day, as the flooded state of the rivers is a source of danger to passengers and mails in travelling ...
Article : 709 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, the Exhibition Bill was read a third time and passed. Objection was taken to the large number of gentlemen placed on the Commission. The House went into ...
Article : 447 wordsThe first of a series of lectures on literature was delivered at the School of Arts yesterday evening by the Rev. Canon Kemmis. The chair was occupied by Mr. John Osborne, and there was a large attendance of the public. ...
Article : 945 wordsThe river is again rising rapidly, and this morning it attained a height of 13ft. 6in., being within 3in. of the height reached last month. Heavy rain fell last night and at intervals to-day, and the temperature being high, it is ...
Article : 967 wordsThe Joran Family gave their, final concert last night at the Y. M. C. A. Hall, previous to their departure for America by the mail steamer which starts to-day. During their short season they have earned the highest opinions as ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 715 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Premier introduced the Redistribution Bill, which provides for an increase of electorates to 57, returning 68 members, the northern division sending 14, the central 11, and ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Legislative Council to-day passed the second reading of the Offenders Probation Bill. In the Assembly, Sir R. D. Ross, the Speaker, was too ill to attend, and his place was filled by Mr. ...
Article : 145 wordsExtensive preparations are being made for the opening of the railway, and a large number of visitors are expected. At a meeting of the demonstration committee it was decided to hold the banquet in the goods-shed in place of the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe people of Parramatta had an opportunity of hearing Major Dane last night, when he appeared at the Victorian Theatre to give his famous lecture, "Up the Rhine and over the Alps with a Knapsack." Mr. Archibald [?]orbes and ...
Article : 316 wordsCUSTOM HOESE.—Entered Outwards: September 6, Flora (s.), 838, tons, Captain H. Bennison, for Hobart, via Newcastle and Eden; Tsinau (s.), 1460 tons, Captain Allison, for Hongkong; Glanworth (s.), 588 tons, Captain T. L. Johnston, for ...
Article : 1,631 wordsIn the Assembly to-night the house tax of 9d. in the £ on the annual value exceeding £15, to be paid by those exempt from taxes other than duty on the capital value of land and buildings, was carried. The absentee ...
Article : 138 wordsA general meeting of members of the Albion Park Agricultural and Horticultural Society was held last night. A code of rules and bylaws was adopted, and a liberal prize-list, with the exception of the special prizes, was drawn up ...
Article : 96 wordsSir,—As bearing on the comparison instituted by Mr. Pulsford between New South Wales and Victoria, in respect to the "accumulated wealth" of each, and from which he demonstrates (?) to his own satisfaction and that ...
Article : 783 wordsThe Congregational jubilee meetings were opened to-day. After a devotional service and the introduction of delegates in the Stow Lecture Hall, a public luncheon was given in the Town Hall banqueting room. The ...
Article : 90 wordsMessrs. Ewing, Crouch, and Garvan, Ms.P., addressed a large meeting of electors here on Saturday sight. They all spoke in favour of protection. The speeches received the thorough approval of a large majority. They were ...
Article : 128 wordsLast night the fourth anniversary of the establishment of the Bathurst branch of the Irish National League was celebrated at the Oddfellows' Hall. An address was delivered by the Rev. Father M. P. Walsh, and a concert was held ...
Article : 127 wordsSir,—In your issue of the 3rd instant appeares a short leader on the former subject. As we are likely to have a number of such vessels on this coast and North and South Pacific, some attention might ...
Article : 295 wordsA terrible accident occurred at Brogan's Creek, on the Mudgee line, this morning. A fettler named William Turner was out as usual on his railway tricycle as night watchman, on the look-out for landslips. The driver of the ...
Article : 241 wordsA telegram has been received announcing the resignation of Mr. W. P. M'Gregor as M.L.A. for this province. ...
Article : 36 wordsAt the Gundagai Quarter Sessions yesterday Judge Forbes presided. The barristers present were Mr. Pitcairn, Crown Prosecutor, and Mr. R. Colonnu-Close; and the solicitors, Messrs. Griffin and Summerville, of Gundagai; ...
Article : 123 wordsStock Passings:—7000 young wethers passed Moulamein on Sunday, from Murray Downs, for Narraham; 7000 young wethers, from Noorong, passed on the same date for Borambill; 9000 wethers left Nyang on Saturday, for ...
Article : 358 wordsSir,—May one, through your valued columns, call attention to the manner in which our cattle are treated here before their slaughtering takes place. To take a sample paddock, where the poor beasts are kept from Mondays till ...
Article : 355 wordsThe following have passed through:— For Melbourne (by express on Tuesday): J. L. Leeman, Scrovens, Vonwell, Dufoyl, Prendergast, Millson, G. W. Burson, Ferdinand Duval, G. A. Adams, P. F. ...
Article : 267 wordsAn inquest was held by Warden Brown, Police Magistrate, this afternoon on the bodies of the two men burned on Monday morning in the Duke of Cornwall Hotel. The evidence adduced proved that the men were Thomas ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Murga shearers' cases were heard at Moulamein to-day before Mr. Rowling, P.M. John Henry Jubb was fined £10, besides £4 8s. 10d. costs; Joseph Blair, John V[?]n, Frank M'Dermitt, Thomas Dunlop, and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 7 Sep 1887, Page 10
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