We have been favoured with a copy of the annual report for the year 1879, of Superintendent Charles Bown, to the Board of Management of the Associated Insurance Companies Fire Brigade. The principal items contained in it are ...
Article : 1,223 wordsA meeting of members of the Sydney School of Arts was held last night, in the large room of the building, for the purpose of considering the desirableness of rescinding the resolution arrived at about a fortnight ago to open the ...
Article : 2,636 wordsThe German Court is the only one at the Exhibition in which the work of packing up and removing the goods is being carried on to any large extent, and even there the inconvenience to the public is not great, ...
Article : 330 wordsYesterday morning a deputation consisting of Mr. G. A. Mansfield, Mr. J. J. Davey, Mr. T. Rowe, Mr. D. W. Ryan, Mr F. H. Reuss, Mr. J. H. Hunt, Mr. Atchison, and Mr. Parrott, representing the professions of architects ...
Article : 2,170 wordsYesterday morning Mr. Lackey was waited on by Messrs. Docker, Hordern, Hardie, and Stewart, for the purpose of urging the Government to construct the tramway to Darlinghurst along Victoria-street, instead of Darlinghurst ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Lackey, yesterday, received a deputation introduced by Mr. M'Culloch, consisting of Messrs. Haigh (Mayor of Liverpool), Senior, Murton, Lane, Pearce, Marsden, Holland, and Moore, who attended to advocate ...
Article : 189 wordsThe judges have made the following recommendations in reference to metallurgical products exhibited in the Garden Palace:— Belgium: The Cockerill Company, iron and steel—above ...
Article : 673 wordsYesterday morning Major Jaques, representing the Rifle Association, waited upon the Colonial Secretary with a view to ask the Government to purchase 50 Martini-Henry rifles for the use of New South Wales riflemen in contests ...
Article : 128 wordsAn Art Union will shortly be organized here by Mr. Gracous C. Brown, who, after traversing Victoria, South Australia, and Queensland in search of the picturesque and lovely in the way of scenery, has come to transfer ...
Article : 600 wordsThe following notifications appear in yesterday's Government Gazette:— APPOINTMENT.—Mr. William Henry Nash, to be a second-class surveyor. ...
Article : 520 wordsSir,—Captain Hixson, in your issue of Monday, states I am in error as to the date of the new rules coming into force. My authority for so doing is the Eastern Morning News, ...
Article : 857 wordsThe City Coroner held an inquest, yesterday, at the Brecknock Arms, George-street North, on the body of a man named Benjamin Williams, whose body was found floating in the water at the Circular Quay on Thursday ...
Article : 332 wordsBetween thirty and forty gentlemen were present yesterday at a luncheon given at the Exhibition Commission offices, Macquarie-street, by Mr. Herbert Kaeppel, of Schmedes, Erbslöh and Co., for the purpose of testing the ...
Article : 539 wordsSir,—Your instructive essay on ice machines, which appeared in Friday's Herald, entitled, "Among the Machinery.—XXVI," contains at the end an incorrect enumeration of the principal parts of the ice machine ...
Article : 104 wordsA crane, Grus Australasianus, from Mr. Charles Moore, F.L.S., Director of the Botanic Gardens. Two crayfish, Astacopais sp., locality Mount Wilson, from Dr. Cox, Hunter-street. Crab with sponges, Hiastenus diacanthus, locality ...
Article : 184 wordsSir,—On behalf of an exhibitor of biscuits (Mr. William Arnott, of Newcastle) we beg to draw attention to the absurd way in which the biscuits were treated. Instead of being judged when first placed in the Exhibition six months ...
Article : 229 wordsSir,—Your correspondent "Resident" appears to be unaware of the fact that there is such a plane as Blue's Point. If tramways are ever constructed for the North Shore I ...
Article : 228 wordsSir,—In order to prevent any misconception which might arise from a perusal of my letter in your issue of the 17th, and in justice to the judges of the threshing machines, will you kindly permit me to state—First, that I was misinformed ...
Article : 175 wordsSir,—It is fully three weeks since an influential deputation waited upon the Mayor and Aldermen of this city urging upon them the necessity of establishing a "meat market" in this city in connection with machinery for chilling and ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 20 Mar 1880, Page 3
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