Favoured by perfect weather, with a fresh southeasterly breeze to temper the rays of an Australian Christmas sun, Boxing Day of 1891 passed off in the most successful manner. With these most fortunate ...
Article : 351 wordsBoxing Day was favoured with delightful weather. The various holiday resorts were thronged. The principal amusements were the intercolonial cricket match, the Caledonian sports, ...
Article : 563 wordsYesterday the body of a man named Brig was found in the river. It is supposed to be a case of suicide. GLEN INNES, SATURDAY. ...
Article : 564 wordsIt is officially announced that the marriage of the Duke of Clarence with Princess Victoria of Teck will be celebrated in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, ...
Article : 47 wordsSEVENTEEN Liberal and 13 Conservative members of the Canadian House of Commons have been unseated upon charges of corruption. A SERIOUS rising has taken place amongst the ...
Article : 7,021 wordsSir Robert Morier, British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, has been appointed to Rome, in succession to the Marquis of Dufferin, who succeeds the late Lord Lytton ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Czarina of Russia is suffering from an attack of influenza. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Right Rev. J. Wareing Bardsley, D.D., Bishop of Sodor and Man, has been translated to the See of Carlisle, vacant by the death of Dr. Harvey Goodwin. ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. F. O. Licht, the Magdeburg expert, has reduced his estimate of the European beet crop by 100,000 tons. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe London Gaiety Company made its reappearance last night, after its return from Australia, in "Cinder Ellen." The performance was a great success, and the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Northumberland miners have decided by a majority of four to one against boys working eight hours in the mines instead of 10. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Treasurer of the new Conservative Administration in Quebec formed by Mr. C. E. B. de Boucherville, has discovered a deficit of 2,250,000 dollars in the finances ...
Article : 46 wordsThe fog is still very severe in London. Twenty-five persons have been drowned in the docks. DEC. 26. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe funeral obsequies of the late Duke of Devonshire took place at Edensor, in Derbyshire, on Saturday. Among those who attended the funeral, besides the ...
Article : 81 words"The Forty Thieves" was staged at the Theatre Royal on Saturday with such exceptional splendour that the ballet in the fairy wood in the first act, the evolutions of the dazzling forty in the second, and the ...
Article : 2,072 words"The Babes in the Wood" attracted a large audience to Her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday afternoon, and the laughter at Mr. Ayrton's clever harlequinade was loud and long. In the evening a surging ...
Article : 73 wordsRussia is building a military railway from Odessa to Kilia, in Bessarabia. [Kilia, or Kilianova, is a fortified town of Russia, in Bessarabia, on the river Kilia, or north arm of the ...
Article : 49 wordsA disastrous railway collision occurred yesterday at Lowestoft, the well-known watering-place in the east of England. Three passengers were killed and 30 ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Messrs. Cogill Brothers, with their comedy burlesque company, are drawing large houses at the Garrick Theatre, and on Boxing Night the building was crowded. The programme commenced with ...
Article : 168 wordsThe report that Mr. Gladstone's nomination as a member of the club at Biarritz, in the south of France, had been refused, is contradicted. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Russian Minister of the Interior has insisted that the Governors of provinces, in sending in their official reports to the Czar, shall suppress the serious features ...
Article : 42 wordsGreece is arranging for a new gold issue of from 3,000,000 fr. to 5,000,000 fr. ...
Article : 23 wordsCount von Caprivi, the German Chancellor, is inquiring of the German Chambers of Commerce if the time is opportune to abolish the duty on English cotton ...
Article : 40 wordsA collision took place at Hastings, United States, between the Buffalo and St. Louis express trains. The disaster was caused by a brake-man, who was sent to ...
Article : 95 wordsIt is now a considerable time since Miss Maggis Moore took the Sydney theatre-going public by storm as Bettina in "La Mascotte," and later on Miss Nellie Stewart charmed them by her admirable ...
Article : 400 wordsThere was extremely hot weather here the early part of the week, caused by the fearful bush fires round the district. News was brought to town yesterday by the Mount Elliott mailman that a fire ...
Article : 304 wordsThe R.M.S. Oruba, Captain Hay, commander, arrived from Colombo at 6 a.m. The following are the passengers:— For ADELAIDE.—Mr. Crozier and wife, Messrs. ...
Article : 195 wordsArthur Fay, 15 years of age, was charged at the City Police Court on Saturday morning, with having murdered William Dobson, in George-street, on Christmas Eve. After the evidence of ...
Article : 181 wordsMr. Springen, chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means in the American House of Representatives, proposes to introduce a bill making imported wool ...
Article : 45 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies has agreed to the Senate's amendment granting bounties for the production of hemp and silk. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is likely that the Czar of Russia will banish his brother, the Grand Duke Sergius, owing to his alleged tyranny at Moscow. It is believed, however, that the ...
Article : 76 wordsIt is considered that there is little prospect of a radical change in the direction of free silver coinage in the United States. The Democrats, who have hitherto ...
Article : 48 wordsAn exceptionally cool and pleasant weather marked the Christmas season here. Christmas Day was quietly observed. Sacred concerts were given by the Italian Opera Company and the Adelaide ...
Article : 163 wordsThe following are the stock movements:—10,000 sheep, Armstrong Brothers owners, from Ginlagong, Kiandra, via Gundagai, Bourke in charge; 700 sheep, Alexander Rochford owner, from Junee going to ...
Article : 164 wordsThe German Chambers of Commerce are n favour of an international exhibition being held in Berlin at an early date. ...
Article : 28 wordsA holiday programme arranged by Whiterod's English and American Comedy and Specialty Company drew a fairly large audience to the Royal Standard Theatre on Saturday night, and frequent ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsMr. Mansergh, C.E., has been entrusted with a scheme for increasing the water supply of Birmingham, at a cost of £6,000,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsA serious rising has taken place amongst the miners employed at the Raub Mine at Pahang, in the Malay Peninsula. Thirteen policemen are in the hands of the rioters, ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. John F. Sheridan has added another venture to his list. At present the name of Sheridan calls up pleasant reminiscences of "Fun on the Bristol" and "Bridget O'Brien, Esquire;" but, judging from what ...
Article : 1,074 wordsThe P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Victoria, with Sir Graham and Lady Berry on board, has sailed for Victoria. The Victoria had been detained in the ...
Article : 51 wordsFine weather prevailed for the holidays. There were thousands of visitors to the Exhibition on Friday and Saturday. The North v. South cricket match was ...
Article : 83 wordsThe foundation-stone of the new Roman Catholic school-church of St. Joseph, at Rockdale, was laid with religious ceremony by Cardinal Moran yesterday afternoon. The assemblage brought together by the ...
Article : 650 wordsGreat complaints have been made in Adelaide that nothing definite has been done towards selecting the team to represent Australia in the first match with the Englishmen, commencing in ...
Article : 151 wordsFurther riots have taken place at Pernambuco, in Brazil. Several of the rioters were killed. The Governor of the province has been expelled by the rioters. ...
Article : 37 wordsGeneral Montt has been proclaimed President of the Chilian republic. An amnesty has been granted to the minor officials under the Balmaceda régime. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe industrial depression is being very severely felt in Brunswick, and quite an exodus of brickmakers and carters has taken place to the country districts. Many brickyards have closed altogether, ...
Article : 176 wordsDuring midnight mass on Christmas eve at a church in Valencia, Spain, four bombs were exploded within the building, wrecking the altar and injuring several persons. ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. J. E. Redmond, the leader of the Parnellite section of the Home Rule party, has defeated Mr. Michael Davitt by nearly 500 votes in the contest for the ...
Article : 59 wordsSixteen Liberals and 13 Conservatives, members of the Canadian House of Commons, have been unseated on charges of corruption. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Caledonian Society of Melbourne altered the date of its annual gathering from the 26th January to Boxing Day this year at the Exhibition, where a programme of sports was carried out ...
Article : 118 wordsIt is reported that Great Britain has failed to arrange the carriage of the Indian mails via Salonica, instead of via Brindisi. ...
Article : 31 wordsAnother bush fire broke out yesterday at Tuppal. The fire swept easterly towards Murray Hut. It is reported that Moodie's, of Springfield, was completely swept, and that stacks and crops were burnt. ...
Article : 257 wordsIn consequence of the protective policy in France having raised the prices of bread and meat, M. de Freycinet, the Minister for War, has asked for an additional ...
Article : 104 wordsAn epidemic of yellow fever in a virulent form has broken out at Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil. Ninety per cent. of the patients die. ...
Article : 37 wordsA sensational attempt to commit suicide and to cause the death of a child at the same time occurred in Gertrude-street this afternoon. A married woman named Georgina Denham, leading a boy ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Czar of Russia has imprisoned Baron Stakelberg, and ordered him to be deprived of his rank, owing to his cruelty while Governor of Esthonia. ...
Article : 33 wordsTwo Englishmen have been prosecuted by the French authorities at St. Etienne for trying to obtain patterns of French rifles. One was sentenced to 15 months' and the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 28 Dec 1891, Page 5
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