Last evening the annual public meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association was held in the Protestant Hall, the Bishop of Sydney occupying the chair. Among those on the platform were the following gentlemen:—Sir ...
Article : 3,845 wordsA deputation consisting of delegates from various northern districts waited upon the Acting Minister for Works (Hon. G. R. Dibbs) yesterday, to advocate the construction of a railway from Narrabri to ...
Article : 1,058 wordsMr. SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS. Mr. DIBBS, in reply to Mr. Burdekin, gave particulars regarding railway station accommodation at Blacktown. ...
Article : 10,673 wordsOld colonists must have many recollections of the early days of New South Wales revived by the news published in yesterday's Herald of the death of Mr. Robert Lowe, J.P., of Wilbertree. For the last 50 years he had resided on ...
Article : 561 wordsMr. Melville to move.—That leave of absence for three weeks be granted to Richard Randolph Machattie, a member for Bourke, on account of urgent private business. Mr. P[?]v[?]s to move.—That the report from the select ...
Article : 535 wordsThe annual meeting of the Parramatta Benevolent Society was held in the council-chambers on Tuesday evening. There was only a limited attendance. The president, the Rev. Canon Gunther, occupied the chair. ...
Article : 386 wordsThe members of the Intercolonial Seamen's Conference sat [?]terday at the Town Hall to consider the proposails of the [?]hipowners made the previous day. Mr. J. Wright was in the chair, and Mr. Mansfield again occupied the position of ...
Article : 348 wordsIn connection with the Board of Technical Education, Mr. S. Herbert Cox, F.C.S., F.G.S., instructor in geology, mineralogy, and mining at the Sydney Technical College, gave the eleventh lecture of his course at the college hall, ...
Article : 491 wordsA very influential and representative meeting of tbe citizens of Newcastle and district was held at the City Hall, Newcastle, on Friday night, to consider the propriety of urging upon the Government the advisableness of ...
Article : 2,418 wordsSir,—In all civilised countries respect for existing rights is a principle of such general acceptance, and so commends itself to our natural instincts of justice, that it is unnecessary to occupy time or space in advocating its claims to ...
Article : 601 wordsA public meeting was held in the Town Hall last night to advocate the extension of the North-Western railway from Mudgee to the Queensland border via Coonamble. The Mayor, Mr. William Wilton, J.P., presided, and there was ...
Article : 571 wordsSir,—What a perverseness there is in benevolent intentions, and what a one-sided view the parsons are taking of the barmaid question. What a terrible earnestness there is in pourtraying the dangerous influence of the young ladies ...
Article : 445 wordsSir,—The Hon. the acting-Minister for Works appears, from statements made at a meeting held during the early part of last week, to have decided on causing soundings, borings, and other preliminary steps to be taken ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 31 Jul 1884, Page 5
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