There has not been any complaint of the scarcity of labour in this district. Farmers are not taking on hands just now, as the harvest operations are finished, and no new works are in progress. Burning-off ...
Article : 1,327 wordsSir,—What is the meaning of the frequent pettioning of the Legislative Council latterly? Is it that the people have no confidence in what is morally the highest authority in the land, namely, the ...
Article : 581 wordsA fine collection of these remains is now being made at Washington, and a corrospondent of the St. Louis Globe-Denocrat writes thus concerning them:— ...
Article : 2,168 wordsGreat preparations are being made for the Governor's reception BOWRAL, FRIDAY. The president of the Water Board, accompanied by ...
Article : 3,256 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday at Matheson's Hotel, Enfield, on the body of Joseph Archio Mighell, which was found lying in the creek at Redbank with his skull shattered. Dr. Helsham gave evidence to the ...
Article : 194 wordsThe following aunoucements appeared in the Government Gazatte issued yesterday:— PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.—Hartley. 16th instant: the Nepean and the Hawkesbury, 17th instant; Forhes ...
Article : 595 wordsSir,—I have just read in your issue of the 6th instant a letter from Mr. W. E. Abbott. He uses some brave words about the Bourke pastoralists. "Concentrated imbecility, inconsistency, and illogical ...
Article : 1,373 wordsWilliam Cecil has been committed for trial at the next Circuit Court at Wagga Wagga for the wilful murder of Mrs. Sarah Ann Bloomfield, the wife of a selector at Rosewood. It is supposed that he shot the ...
Article : 71 wordsBush fires are raging furiously here. Mr. Mate's woolshed, the homestead yards, fences, and grass have been burnt completely by a bushfire on his land south of the town. Two dogs tied up on ...
Article : 137 wordsThe following is the number of rabbits destroyed during the past year in the Riverina district:—Kooba, 5,90,000; Gogeldrie, 280,000; Benerembah, 233,000: Ballandry, 154,000; Keranbury, 100,000. During ...
Article : 70 wordsSir,—It is a matter of considerable surprise to me that the citizens of Sydney patiently submit to the Water and Sewerage Board disfiguring the buildings of the fair city by erecting those hideous ventilating ...
Article : 243 wordsFrom Angus and Robertson, Castloreagh-street, we have received a copy of Professor Drummond;s "Banter's Second Innings" a cariously bound little volume, conveyiug a moral under the guise of an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsSir,—Knowing how your sympathics are enlisted, and your generous indulgence on behalf of the sufferers by municipal mismanagement, 1 feel it my duty, unpleasant though it be, to crave the publicity ...
Article : 435 wordsThe following are the stock movements:—2260 merino wethers, from Albury to Cootamundra, W. Reardon owner; 620 merino owes, from Mugwee to Wangaratta, J. H. M'Mahon owner. ...
Article : 865 wordsSir,—Your special reporter's account of the visit of the Vice-Regal party to the rabbit infested districts has made the question of rabbit destruction a public one, for it is now very clear that if better means for ...
Article : 657 wordsSir,—Another of the countless instances in which protection increases the price of food to the consumer is contained in the special cablegram in your this day's issue, which informs us that "in Paris mutton ...
Article : 352 wordsSir,—It appears to me that freetrade has never been thoroughly understood by the people of New South Wales, or that they have associated the name freetrade so much with Parkesism, viz., the policy ...
Article : 531 wordsA meeting of the Pastures Protection Board was held to-day at the Stuck office, Mr. Purtell, J.P., chairman, and all the other members being present The secretary reported that the Treasury had written ...
Article : 278 wordsBOURKE.—A meeting of the council was held on Thursday night for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the ensuing year. The late Mayor, Mr. Alderman Gray, was unanimously re-elected for the current ...
Article : 576 wordsSir,—I would suggest that chloride of jime (chloaching powder)be placed on the free list, I lnfer that it is now on the 10 por cent, schedule, as it is not named in the free list as published in Thursday's ...
Article : 357 wordsSir,—With your permission I would like to bring forward an idea which occurs to mein connection with the important topic that is now roceiving considerable attention. The "land value" of a good business ...
Article : 290 wordsSir,—I have often been astonished and wondered at the many reports of "officialism" and "despotism" in our Government offices, but until yesterday I may say I have so far escaped from the consequences. ...
Article : 202 wordsSir,—In reference to the statement made under the heading "Proposed Newcastle Coal Trust," I desire to state that this company is no party thereto. On the contrary, the promotors of the trust were informed ...
Article : 112 wordsThe ballot for the election of office-bearers of the Federated Seamen's Union for the ensuing term has resulted as follows:—President, Mr. William Wallace; vico-presidents, Messrs. William Musto and William ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 13 Feb 1892, Page 10
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