Although the session opens on Tuesday next, the Government have as yet given no indication of the measures they intend to bring forward, beyond the few hints they have from time to time let drop in reply to deputations. We ...
Article : 1,564 wordsMr. E. C. Cracknell, the Superintendent of Telegraphs in New South Wales, in a letter to a Melbourne contemporary, gives the following particulars concerning certain experiments he made with torpedoes in Sydney harbour. ...
Article : 359 wordsThe German war schooner Nautilus, from Tahiti, reports having experienced a very tempestuous voyage. During the passage the vessel fell in with an extraordinary atmospheric disturbance. On May 11 the whole heavens, in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 382 wordsThe drought in the vicinity of Warwick has caused serious alarm for the wheat and grain crops. Already a large area has been sown again, and even this in many instances has not come up.—The whole of the Crown lands ...
Article : 2,261 wordsA telegram has been received by the Governor of Victoria from Lord Kimberley, stating that Henderson, Wallace, and Wright, charged with stealing the steamer Ferret, are to be prosecuted in Scotland for stealing the ship. ...
Article : 191 wordsThe case of legitimacy in the now celebrated Linden case again came before the Supreme Court, on appeal from the decision of the Primary Judge in Equity, Mr. Justice Hargrave. The point in this case was the legitimacy or ...
Article : 375 wordsOn the 17th June Eugene Steinenger, Paul Juliat Nazan, Gustav Fou[?]ald, and Henri Monlean were charged with larceny. William Eugene Chapman, a gentleman lately arrived in Sydney from America, en route for Melbourne, ...
Article : 636 wordsSignor Simonetti has just completed his clay model of "Labour," the first of the triad of freestone statues which will decorate the niches in the Government offices at the corner of Bridge-street and Phillip-street; and if its two ...
Article : 294 wordsOn Saturday, June 18, at 1 o'clock, the opening of the National Art Gallery of Adelaide took place. The Governor was absent through indisposition. About 3000 people were present inside and outside the building. The Royal party ...
Article : 820 wordsAn inquiry has been held by the Marine Board into the cause of the wreek of the above vessel. Captain Bacho was called, but did not appear, though he had been notified that the investigation would proceed whether he was present or ...
Article : 1,055 wordsThe city has been will supplied lately with entertainments of a musical and dramatic character. The Montague-Turner Opera Company, comprising Miss Annis Montague, one of the most perfect sopranos heard here, Mr. Charles ...
Article : 333 wordsThe following letter from Mr. A. Goldic has been received by a resident in Sydney. It bears date Port Moresby, May 24, 1881:—"I send this letter by H.M.S. Sandly, which returns direct to Cookrown. They will be ...
Article : 699 wordsThe severe weather experienced nearly all through June consequent upon westerly winds prevailing, was displaced on the 29th ultimo by a mild north easter, which soon materially heightened the temperature. The change was ...
Article : 450 wordsOwing to the energetic measures taken by the Government and the Mayor of Sydney, what threatened to become a serious outbreak of small-pox has been checked, for the present at least. The infected people, and all ...
Article : 365 wordsThe forty-fourth anniversary of her Majesty's accession to the Throne was observed on June 20, by the firing of the usual salute from the battery at Dawes Point. The ships of war in the harbour displayed a considerable quantity of ...
Article : 1,282 wordsThe Bacchante and Clcopatra arrived in Hobson's Bay from King George's Sound on the 19th June. The examination of the rudder of the former vessel took place at the latter place. The ponderous thing had first to be unshipped ...
Article : 492 wordsNews has beenm received at Noumea that on the 29th May the May Queen anchored there for the purpose on landing one returned labourer, and to recruit for others. Having landed the one man, the boats were on their return to the ...
Article : 354 wordsThe Synod of the diocese of Sydney commenced its sittings on June 21, when there was a large attendance of clergymen and lay representatives of parishes. In the absence of the Bishop of Sydney the opening address was ...
Article : 839 wordsNearly twenty-seven inches of rain have fallen in the vicinity of the metropolts during the present year. This, however, has made but little change in the appearance of the Botany dams. It has brightened the verdure on the ...
Article : 496 wordsThe Government, we are informed, have made arrangements for sending to Port Said the two officers who formed part of the Marquis do Rays' expedition to New Ireland, by the P. and O. steamer. The officers in question arrived ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 1 Jul 1881, Page 7
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