The autumn of 1880, a season which Australia is now experiencing, promises to be fairly mo[?]st and unmistakably favourable to graziers and agriculturists. The coast districts have received ample falls of rain, ...
Article : 303 wordsMRS. CLEMENTS.—Mrs. Clements, widow of the late Licutenant Hanbury Clements, R. N., and mother of Mr. J. F. Clements, of Bathurst, died on the 6th April. The remains were taken to Bathurst by train, and were interred ...
Article : 250 wordsDr. Murray, Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland, was lately presented, by Mr. Robert Hyndes, on behalf of the Catholic laity of Maitland, with a purse of 500 sovereigns; and Mr. Samuel Chapman also made a further ...
Article : 433 wordsDonald Lang, leader ot a private prospecting party, returned to Cooktown. He reports that he reached Coen River December 4, and had prospected northward to Archer and Peach Rivers without success. He proceeded north on ...
Article : 2,178 wordsThe most important event in connection with the trade and labour of the colony is the offort that is being made to put the relations between the colliery proprietors and the colliers of Newcastle on a satisfactory basis. The coal trade ...
Article : 219 wordsOur correspondent writes from Upolu on March 12:—"On the arrival of the Danae affairs were found to be in a very unsatisfactory state, the chiefs of Atua repudiating the treaty made at the conclusion of the late war, and refused to ...
Article : 290 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 : 931 wordsThe International Exhibition was formally closed on the 20th April; but the noble Art Gallery in connection with it will remain open for some time longer, and the exhibits in it will not be returned for some weeks at least. ...
Article : 451 wordsThe high rates of discount which were imperatively called for when money was scarce and interest rates unusually high are still maintained, though money is more plentiful and the banks are paying 1 per cent. less for deposits. ...
Article : 2,517 wordsBaron F. Von Mueller has just published, with a short Latin preface, a complete index of the species of plants described by the celebrated Linnæus. The peculiar merit of this work is that the Baron has brought to light again ...
Article : 368 wordsMessrs. Lyster and Garner's London Comedy Company, which came to us heralded by most favourable reports, has fully justified the good opinions entertained of it. As they produced it, the brilliant comedy "Friends" has held ...
Article : 252 wordsTHE EXPORT MARKETS.—London advices both by mail and wire have induced strong competition for all the odds and ends of wool submitted at public sales, and even for the smallest and most unimportant lots prices have been ...
Article : 2,314 wordsA conference between the Associated Colliery masters and the miners was held at Newcastle on the 10th instant, at which it was determined that work should be at once begun by the miners at 3s. 9d. per ton, and that they should ...
Article : 555 wordsThe Sydney Amateur Turf Club held a meeting, at Randwick, on the 10th April, when the principal events were won by Middlesex, by Kelpie (imported), a son of Weatherbit; Black Swan, by Yattendon; Otira, by Maribyrnong, ...
Article : 187 wordsRICHARDSON AND W[?]ENCH.—A full average amount of business has been transacted during the last four weeks, the most noticeable feature of which has been the increased value ot property in first-class positions in the city. There cannot be a doubt that ...
Article : 2,356 wordsA disastrous fire occurred at Bathurst on the night of Wednesday, the 14th instant. The conflagration broke out at Lord's-buildings, Howick-street, and a row of shops, occupying the third of one side of a block, was destroyed, the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 22 Apr 1880, Page 10
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