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  2. MUNICIPAL COUNCILS. SYDNEY.

    A meeting of the finance committee in connection with the Sydney Municipal Council was held at the Town Hall yesterday. The Mayor occupied the chair, and there was a fair attendance of aldermen. ...

    Article : 940 words
  3. MAIL NEWS.

    The following items of news are taken from our files by the last English mail:— IRELAND. The Dublin correspondent of the Times says that the ...

    Article : 631 words
  4. FIJI.

    I referred in my last to a disturbance in the Rakiraki district (mellifluously called Raggyrag by the average European in Fiji) created by an old chief of no particular consequence, but who was evincing a curious ...

    Article : 816 words
  5. SINGULAR ROBBERY.

    A tradesman named Blud, who lives near Nantwich, Cheshire, was in the habit of keeping a large sum of money in gold in a secret drawer at the bottom of a box in his bedroom. In December, when there was about £4000 in ...

    Article : 140 words
  6. TREATMENT OF HOUSE REFUSE AND NIGHTSOIL.

    A meeting of Mayors and Aldermen of Sydney and the various suburban municipalities was held last night in the Town Hall, for the purpose of considering a scheme submitted by Mr. V. Petherick for dealing with the city and ...

    Article : 1,966 words
  7. MARRYING THE WRONG WOMAN.

    An extraordinary application was made to the magistrate at the Worship-street Police Court by a well-dressed young woman, who said that she was married at Christmas, and that she and her husband afterwards leftfor Brighton. Her ...

    Article : 109 words
  8. VITAL STATISTICS OF NEW YORK.

    The Deputy-Registrar of Vital Statistics in New York has furnished some interesting details concerning the mortality from so-called plagues in the city and the mortality from other diseases. There have been five ...

    Article : 390 words
  9. BELGIUM.

    Brussels, January 13.—A private bill has been introduced in the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, providing for an increase of the duties imposed upon cotton imports into Bolgium. The Government has notified the Chamber that ...

    Article : 193 words
  10. The SAVINGS BANK of NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The annual statements of the Savings Bank of New South Wales for the past year have just been published, and show a most gratifying result. During the past year there has, we learn, been an actual ...

    Article : 503 words
  11. A YOUNG LADY BURNED TO DEATH.

    The Paris correspondent of the Daily News writes:— "A tragical accident has plunged a wealthy and amiable family named Sipière into the deepest affliction, and made it the object of universal sympathy. M. and Mdme. ...

    Article : 287 words
  12. We make the following extracts from our San Francisco files:— GERMANY.

    Berlin, January 1.—The Pope has conferred upon Prince Bismarck the decoration of the Order of Christ. Baron Schlizer, the Prussian Minister to the Vatican, has been similarly decorated. Emperor William has conferred upon ...

    Article : 1,016 words
  13. SUICIDES IN PARIS.

    The statistics of the number of suicides which have taken place in the Department of the Seine during 1885 show that a very large percentage of the inhabitants of the ville lumiere find life an insupportable burden. During the past ...

    Article : 133 words
  14. LIVERPOOL.

    The monthly meeting of the Liverpool Council was held on Monday evening, when there were present the Mayor (Alderman Smith), Aldermen Bull, Scrivener, Taylor, Brown, Christiansen, and Ashcroft. Accounts amounting ...

    Article : 210 words
  15. INTERCOLONIAL ITEMS.

    The Melbourne Age states that the board appointed by the Minister of Lands to report on the reclamation of Lake Condah has finished its work, and recommends the excavation of a main channel capable of discharging 200,000,000 ...

    Article : 598 words
  16. BISHOP HANNINGTON.

    A telegram from Zanzibar, dated January 1, states that Bishop Hannington, who left Mombassa in June last in order to find, if possible, a now road to the "Victoria which will obviate the long detour by Unyanyembe, has been ...

    Article : 277 words
  17. UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY.

    A meeting of the Senate of the University was held on Monday last, at the rooms of the Royal Society. There were present: The Chancellor (the Hon. Sir W. M. Manning), the Vice-Chancellor (the Hon. Mr. Justice ...

    Article : 588 words
  18. MACDONALDTOWN.

    The fortnightly meeting of the Macdonaldtown council was held on Monday evening, there being present the Mayor (Alderman Goddard), Aldermen Elliott, Fallick, Bryan, Croker, Lind, and Bloomfield. Accounts ...

    Article : 257 words
  19. THE UNEMPLOYED IN BIRMINGHAM.

    The unemployed at Birmingham (says the St. James's Gazette of January 7) will not long be without employment of a useful and profitable character. They are to assemble at a mass meeting next Monday, ...

    Article : 206 words
  20. NEWTOWN.

    The election of a Mayor for the current year at Newtown took place under poculiar circumstances Alderman Bellomey proposed Alderman Wheatley, and finding there was no seconder, Alderman J. F. Smith, the retiring Mayor, ...

    Article : 549 words
  21. MILITARY PRECAUTIONS IN GERMANY.

    The Russian Liberal orgin Novoste publishes a sensational article respecting the German troops on the Russian frontier. Within the last two years, says the Novosti, the garrisons of East Prussia have been increased ...

    Article : 254 words
  22. STATE CHILDREN'S RELIEF BOARD.

    Sir,—Father Petre has again drawn attention to the lonely position of the Roman Catholic Home at Mittagong. Now that the residence of the Rev. J. Dark has been burnt down, no one will surely have the hardihood to deny ...

    Article : 375 words
  23. THE WATER SUPPLY.

    Sir,—Will you allow me to give expression to my grievance in connection with the present want of water supply. Among many other long-suffering ones, I should have maintained silence had the authorities supplied me ...

    Article : 154 words
  24. SPAIN.

    Madrid, January 1.—At a banquet given by the Republicans in honour of Senor Zorilla, speakers representing a majority of those present urged a revolution against the Government. The minority, l[?]eaded b Senor Sahneron, the ...

    Article : 561 words
  25. MANIFESTO OF SPANISH BISHOPS.

    The Madrid correspondent of the Times says that the manifesto sent by the Spanish bishops to the Pope, on the occasion of the death of the late Knig Alfonso, and which was kept a profound sceret ...

    Article : 260 words
  26. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—The inhabitants of Newtown are well aware that the water has to be turned off on certain days in the week, but they were surprised when they found it tutned off at 3 p.m. to-day, the consequence being that the public have ...

    Article : 141 words
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