A young man named Thomas Downie, carrying on business in Hunter-street as tobacconist, attempted to commit suicide this evening by shooting himself in the month with a revolver. Downie had been to East Maitland Races ...
Article : 771 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on the body of a young man named Benjamin Spain, a tailor's cutter, found under very suspicious circumstances in a bedroom of the Yarra Bank Hotel. The evidence proved that ...
Article : 411 wordsMr. Bradlaugh has notified to the Speaker of the House of Commons that as the Government has announced its intention of abandoning the bill to amend the law relating ...
Article : 83 wordsIn the Legislative Council, yesterday, Sir GEORGE INNES moved,—"That the House do now proceed to Government House, there to present to his Excellency the Governor the address in reply to ...
Article : 4,586 wordsTHE P. and O. Company's steamship Venetia, with the English mails via Suez to June 3, arrived at King George's Sound yesterday morning. The Sydney portion of her mails will probably reach here in time to be ...
Article : 3,136 wordsThe census returns for the city of Bombay show the population to be 755,000. ...
Article : 22 wordsAt a military review at Aldershott yesterday, forty soldiers suffered from sunstroke, four cases proving fatal. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe latest bulletin issued from the White HOuse this morning states that President Garfield passed a better night, and has been able to take sufficient nourishment; also, that he slept ...
Article : 62 wordsNews has been received to-day that, acting under instructions from the Government, the French fleet, which recently proceeded to Sfax, on the Tunisian coast, have bombarded ...
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Article : 420 wordsThe Australian and New Zealand mails, via Brindisi, have been delivered. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Princes will proceed on to Sydney by the flagship Inconstant. She sails with the other vessels of the squadron at 1 p.m. His Excellency the Marquis of Normanby will probably visit Sydney during the stay ...
Article : 140 wordsThe new loan has been successfully floated on the London market. The gross amount of the loan, which was divided into two sums, is£1,370,000. Applications to the extent of£2,009,800 were received, at an ...
Article : 377 wordsThe third annual show of the Brewarrina Pastoral Association was held to-day. Last year's show was held at Bourke, and for the convenience of stockbreeders they alternate between the two above-mentioned places. To-day ...
Article : 383 wordsThe trial of Stirling for libel is now proceeding at the Supreme Court. Good specimens of gold have been brought from the neighbourhood of Newcastle. ...
Article : 134 wordsSir,—However much I may wonder at your attaching so much importance to a trivial subject in your elaborate notice of to-day of my brief conversation with a few friends and constituents at Gundagai, I must admit that there is a ...
Article : 465 wordsThe Chinese Immigration Bill has been finally passed. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 wordsMr. Berry waited on his Excellency the Governor at 11 o'clock this morning, and handed in the formal resignation of the Government. His Excellency sent for Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, the mover of the want of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 7 Jul 1881, Page 5
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