At the police-court, to-day, a seaman named James Chapman was committed for trial on a charge of stabbing another seaman named Garrett. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Wickham ...
Article : 56 wordsSome of the people who have called out lustily against excise, do not seem to be aware that we have excise already in the colony, and have had it for many years, and ...
Article : 3,432 wordsTattersall's was numerously attended last evening, and a fair amount of business was done on Tattersall's Cup. The market was clear at 5 to 1 about Mabel, and a point less was the best offer to money. Soothsayer was backed to win a ...
Article : 99 wordsA dreadful accident occurred at the tunnel on the railway between here and Uralla. A man named Jones sustained fearful injuries by a gunpowder explosion. He is insensible and not expected to survive. ...
Article : 63 wordsM'Kay, the Scottish long-distance pedestrian, continued at the English Circus last night his task of walking 210 miles in 40 hours. At 6 p.m. when he took the track he had accomplished 36 miles, and at midnight he had swelled ...
Article : 75 wordsOn Saturday evening, during a heavy thunderstorm at Quirindi, the lightning struck a tree near Mr. John Domeyer's residence, when a falling limb broke his arm. He lingered for an hour and a half, when he died from ...
Article : 140 wordsOn the occasion of the closing of the Sydney Juvenile Industrial Exhibition, a concert, to which the majority of the contributors were amateurs of no very exalted rank, took place in the Temperance Hall last night. The ...
Article : 386 wordsAn influential meeting was held here last night to consider the desirableness of altering the Hartley electorate by separating the Rylstone portion therefrom, and adding the same to Mudgee. A committee was formed ...
Article : 56 wordsThe escort left this morning with 1276 oz. gold, about half of which was from Mudgee and half from Gulgong. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Christmas amusements have been well patronized. Upwards of a thousand attended the Oddfellows' pionic. The contractors for the Western Railway generously ...
Article : 68 words"My Grandfathers Clock" has afforded the subject for a new pianoforte piece, written by Mr. Luscombe Searrell, and dedicated to Mr. Charles Packer. In this solo there is good evidence that the conductor of Messrs. Kelly and ...
Article : 176 wordsThe weather has been splendid for the holidays. The sports on Boxing-day on the racecourse, in aid of the Parkes Hospital funds, were a great success. A temporary escort left on Saturday, taking 870 oz. ...
Article : 58 wordsAnother heavy thunderstorm occurred to-day, and 95 points of rain fell. ...
Article : 13 wordsVery destructive hail fell here on Sunday; large lumps of ice fell, and cut up the gardens entirely, and broke the fruit trees down. It was worse in the south; and at North Braidwood only rain fell. ...
Article : 75 wordsSir,—Allow me to correct an inaccuracy in your subleader of the 29th instant, on the question of the additional omnibus, fare to be charged on the Newtown line, in consequence of the tolls about to be imposed. ...
Article : 1,015 wordsTHE R. M. S. Siam, with the inward English mails via Suez, reached Melbourne, on Monday night. The letter portion of our English mails brought by her, dated London, 21st November, will be received in time ...
Article : 4,851 wordsThe police report that the man found dead on the railway line, as wired yesterday, was Philip M'Lean, employed on O'Donnell's cutting. He went to lie under a tree which had been cut down, but rested on ...
Article : 241 wordsSir,—The present cool weather has given rise to so many inquiries that I have been induced to send you the enclosed table, showing the highest and lowest readings of the thermometer on Christmas day, the day before, ...
Article : 350 wordsTwo children, named Duncanson, were drowned while bathing in a lagoon near their residence. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Opposition have elected a Committee of six members to deal with the elections, with Mr. Service as Chairman, and Mr. Bent as Secretary. Active operations will be commenced at once. ...
Article : 247 wordsSir,—Owing to clouds, the eclipse of the 29th instant was only occasionally seen. The time of first contact was lost, but the greatest phase and the last contact were pretty well observed. The conspicuous crater known as Tycho was ...
Article : 291 wordsThe Hon. John Colton stands for Noarlunga; Mr. Moodie, proprietor of the Portonian, is also a candidate. A drover has arrived from Bourke Town. with 200 head cattle. They travelled in a straight line to Lake ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 31 Dec 1879, Page 5
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