The Legislative Council has only met once since our last summary, and the business transacted was unimportant. In the Assembly the discussions have been in some instances rather protracted, but on no occasion has the House ...
Article : 414 wordsConsequent upon the dry weather and the intense heat of the last few weeks, bush fires have been numerous and destructive. The Goulburn Herald reports that on Thursday an extensive fire was burning near the Run-of-Water, ...
Article : 412 wordsYesterday, the 26th January, was the anniversary of the foundation of the colony, and, as usual, was observed as a general holiday. Full reports of the various festivities will be found in other parts of to-day's issue. ...
Article : 2,228 wordsThe Mount Kembla Coal Mining Company have commenced preliminary work at the Five Island Point, preparatory to the erection of a jetty. A contract has been taken by a local contractor for the supply of timber for the ...
Article : 286 wordsSince the 13th instant the weather has been of the average summer character, the heat in some localities being over 100 in the shade. The 20th proved the warmest day experienced in Sydney during the season. Rain came to ...
Article : 236 wordsThe first meeting of the Intercolonial Conference was held on Thursday. January 13, in the Executive Council-room, at the Colonial Secretary's office. There were present: Mr. Graham B[?]rry (Chief Secretary) and Mr. Vale ...
Article : 2,462 wordsThe following are the prices paid for labour in some of the principal trades of the colony. In compiling the list regard has been had, in setting down the minimum and maximum, to the circumstance that the earnings of some ...
Article : 894 wordsThe Christmas entertainments have so far had their day that only one theatre, the Queen's, still draws crowded houses with the pantomime, "Jack the Giant Killer; the old tale is so attractively surrounded that there is little ...
Article : 534 wordsThe following brief telegram was received on the 9th instant, by Mr. Du Faur:—"Blackall, Queensland, January 8, 1881—Have found Classan's grave, and fate of Leichhardt.—JOHN RICHARD SKUTHORPE." On the ...
Article : 423 wordsA shocking accident by burning happened at the Royal Standard Hotel, Newcastle, kept by Captain Colin Chadwick. One of Chadwick's children, a little girl, aged five, accidentally set fire to the clothes of a bed upstairs, where ...
Article : 691 wordsThe new refrigerating apparatus which some time ago the Colonial Treasurer ordered from England, in accordance with the recommendations which were made for the improvement of the Sydney meat supply by the Glebe Island ...
Article : 146 wordsA meeting of Irishmen was held on January, 18 to sympathise with Mr. Parnell and the Land Leaguers. Mr. Longmore presided, and made an excited speech. He complained that Ireland never got anything but bayonets from ...
Article : 3,505 wordsThe eighth session of the New South Wales and Queensland wesl[?]yan Conference commenced its sittings on the 19th January. The Rev. G. Woolnough, M.A., was [?] ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 27 Jan 1881, Page 7
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