The Chimborazo, which left Plymouth last Sunday, encountered a terrific gale 60 miles south-west of Ushant yesterday. The sea swept the decks, and carried away the rails, ...
Article : 119 wordsIn the Legislative Council, yesterday. The PRESIDENT reported the receipt of messages from the Governor, conveying assent to the Acts to increase the duties on imported wines and spirits, and ...
Article : 4,098 wordsA public meeting was held yesternight, at Houghton, when the Government were blamed for allowing building stone from Sydney to be used for the new Government offices, as it was said that this is detrimental to ...
Article : 302 wordsMr. Berry held a meeting at Stawell to-night. He said the Ministry had been accused of altering their Reform Bill as previously submitted, but all that was done was to change the machinery and to perfect what ...
Article : 144 wordsIn the House of Commons, the debate on the amendment moved by Irish members on the Address in reply to the Queen's Speech has been proceeding, but was to-day again ...
Article : 94 wordsSydney has certainly striven to show that if in musical matters generally there has been retrogression within the last few years, the love of the divine art is by no means dead—that it has been latent is not the fault of the public ...
Article : 1,169 wordsThe Chimborazo (s.), shortly after her departure from Plymouth on Sunday, the 8th instant, encountered severe weather, and was compelled to return to port, after losing four ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Legislative Council, yesternight, agreed to the second reading of the Real and Personal Estate Duties Bill, and in committee the tax on dividends was passed by a majority of one. ...
Article : 57 wordsTwo of the Melbourne Steamship Company's steamers, the Barrabool and Macedon, have been laid up here, and their officers and crews paid off, and a third, the Cheviot, will be also laid up on her ...
Article : 150 wordsDiplomatic correspondence has recently been exchanged between the Courts of London and Teheran, with the result that the English Government has released Persia from the ...
Article : 96 wordsAbout seventy men are now on the rush at Tucker's Creek, and are almost all from Copeland, and many more intend going from here. All like the look of the country, but no work has been done yet by ...
Article : 218 wordsTHE accident to the steamship Hankow, reported in our cable messages of yesterday, has been closely followed by the disaster which has befallen the Orient Company's steamship Chimborazo, when off the ...
Article : 4,192 wordsDuring the progress of a jête held in the soldiers' barracks here, the building collapsed, in which 200 were killed, and a great number injured. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Theatre Royal, Dublin, was, last night, destroyed by fire. Six persons lost their lives, and several others sustained injuries. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe P. and O. Company's R. M. S. Siam, which left Melbourne on the 23rd January, arrived to-day with the homeward Australian mails. ...
Article : 32 wordsSir,—In justice to the Board of Examiners, and to the gentlemen charged with preparing the official lists, I hasten to inform you that I alone am responsible for the unfortunate mistake on which you have thought proper to ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Aconcagua, from Australia, arrived at Plymouth yesterday. ...
Article : 13 wordsIt has been raining for the last three weeks, and the roads are in a shocking state. The river is rising, but little timber is coming out. Sugar-making, with the exception of clearing up, is ...
Article : 107 wordsSir,—The arguments used by you in behalf of "Cookery' classes have struck me so forcibly that I cannot resist giving vent to a hope that the suggestion may be adopted. How the mass of women manage in homes of their own I ...
Article : 129 wordsA meeting of wheat growers was held this afternoon to discuss the question of the surplus quantity of wheat grown in the district. It was resolved to form a wheat growers association. The farmers are much ...
Article : 54 wordsSir,—I desire to bring under the notice of the public, through your columns, one of the grandest revolutions of the present age in the above subject. It is little known to everybody that each household almost possesses a ...
Article : 402 wordsThe Rev. Ralph Brown, of Victoria, delivered a lecture on "Heads and Faces" last evening. There was a large and attentive audience, and the lecturer was warmly applauded. The lecture was full of ...
Article : 58 wordsSir,—Allow me to bring under the notice of the "powers that be" the alarming increase in the city and suburbs of the dog nuisance. A remedy, I humbly suggest, would be the quadrupling of the present absurdly low tax. ...
Article : 295 wordsThe annual meeting of the Queensland Turf Club was held yesterday. The report was adopted, and the Hon. J. P. Bell was unanimously elected President. A telegram from Cape Moreton reports a ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Committee of the V. R. C. have decided to postpone the first day of the Autumn Meeting from Saturday, the 28th instant, to Tuesday, 2nd March. All the Ministers, except the Attorney-General, are ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 12 Feb 1880, Page 5
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