The delay in calling for tenders for the new bridge at Lawrence causes considerable comment upon the dilatoriness of the department. The resignation of another alderman of the Grafton ...
Article : 78 wordsThe P.M.S. City of Sydney arrived here this morning. The following is her list of passengers:— Mesdames Greig, [?]avanagh, Deabourn (2), Roche, ...
Article : 80 wordsAt the Avoca races, to-day, Bar One won the Stewards' Cup by half a neck from Perseverance, while a head only separated the second and third horses. Exile won the Turf Club Shire Handicap. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 85 wordsAn important case of sly-grog selling was finished to-day, before Mr. T. H. Neale, police magistrate. The police prosecuted Mr. Biles, lessee of the Mount Victori a refreshment rooms, and made a seizure of a large ...
Article : 102 wordsGreat improvements have been effected at the Hawkesbury, which now offers the best training ground in the colony to owners and trainers. A new training ground has been formed outside the course proper, which, by continued ...
Article : 453 wordsThe rush to Temora is giving an impetus to business in this town. Numbers of teams are being loaded daily. Over 300 people arrived at Cootamundra this morning, by train, bound for the rush. Two banks ...
Article : 56 wordsThe London papers condemn the injustice of visiting the unfortunate dispute in Sydney upon the Australian cricketing eleven now in England. Admiral Lesscosky will assume the command of the ...
Article : 69 wordsWright and party report having struck pay-able all[?] vial gold at Four-Mile Creek, Canoblas; several prospecting parties are out in various directions. Business is generally regarded as good for this time ...
Article : 72 wordsParliament was opened to-day, by the Governor, with the usual formalities. There was a large attendance of strangers, and the Bishops of Newcastle and Ballarat were present, The speech was very short, and ...
Article : 313 wordsThe third annual exhibition in connection with the above society was opened yesterday afternoon, at the Temperante Hall. The public were admitted from 1 o'clock, but the formal opening did not take place until shortly after three ...
Article : 3,167 wordsGreat numbers are leaving here for the Temora rush. Mining affaire are quiet. Jones and party, of Currajong, have had a very good orushing. They cleaned up yesterday 111 tons for over 120 oz. St. Croix and ...
Article : 119 wordsA meeting of the printing trades was held last evening, at Little's Hotel, Pitt and Market streets, for the purpose of inaugurating the second annual regatta, in connection with the trade. Alderman S. E. Lees was voted to the chair, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 445 wordsAn inquest was held to-day before the District Coroner and a jury of nine touching the death of Mary Ann M'Nally, wife of a Chinese named Wilkie Chaung. It appeared that deceased's clothes caught fire at noon ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Brisbane Courier of Saturday says that the Allcomers' Match occupied the whole of Friday forenoon. As was anticipated, the Rigby match ritles proved too much for the Mar[?]iui-Henrys, the first three prizes falling to them. ...
Article : 249 wordsIn the Assembly, this evening, in Committee on the mail contract, Mr. M'llwraith made a long speech in reply to the arguments against the service. Mr. Douglas moved an amendment,—"That this ...
Article : 121 wordsBurnand's adaptation "Betsy," preceded by Madison Morton's farce "Betsy Baker," was repeated last night at the Theatre Royal to a large audience. The programme is so inherently good, and so well acted, that it will run for ...
Article : 202 wordsThe following notifications appear in yesterday's Government Gazette:— TRUSTEE.—Angus Cameron, Esq., M.L.A., is appointed a trustee ot the "Victoria Park, vice Sir E. Deas Thomson, ...
Article : 335 wordsJ. G. Do[?]harty and G. Sharpe were nominated today for the eastern province. Two young women, aged respectively l8 and 21, and daughters of a respectable farmer at Box Forest, while ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. Grattan Riggs appeared last night at this theatre as O'Brien, the Irish Emigrant, and later as Barney O'Tool[?] In the first he played with a quiet bumour and pathos which impressed the audience and attested his own great talent an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 504 wordsThe Minister for Education and Mr. Townsend, members for Sturt, were entertained at a banquet by their constituents, at Goodwood, to-night. They were enthusiastically received. ...
Article : 264 wordsA deputation waited upon the Hon the Colonial Secretary yesterday morning, to bring under his notice a point in which the administration of the Real Property Act could be improved. It consisted of the Hon. James ...
Article : 376 wordsThis distinguished pianist gives the first of the two recitals in Kelly and Leon's Opera House to-night. The programme shows that Mr. Ketten's repertoire was not exhausted during his season here; it contains the famous ...
Article : 518 wordsThe natives in parties of four a day continue fencing and are regularly arrested. Upwards of 80 are now in custody. The City of Sydney will leave for Sydney at one ...
Article : 40 wordsA correspondent of the Fiji Argus, who lately visited the above group of islands, which he about 60 miles east of Lyttelton, New Zealand, gives the following description of their scenery and vegetation:— "A stranger upon ...
Article : 369 wordsSoot after 2 o'clock this morning information was brought to the city that a fire was raging at Johnston's wootwashing establishment, Waterloo, and the men of the various fire companies at one proceeded to the locality. At ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 28 Jul 1880, Page 6
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