The Imperial Parliament will be prorogued on Friday, the 15th instant. ...
Article : 37 wordsCandidates for Parliamentary honours generally manage to feel pretty accurately the popular pulse, and lay out their strength to prove themselves in harmony with public ...
Article : 3,883 wordsAt the final meeting of the International Committee, to-day, about 40 exhibitors sent in lists. Mr. G. P. Kerrison was appointed Commissioner to represent the district at the Exhibition. The exhibits comprise ...
Article : 52 wordsSir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a statement on behalf of the Government in the House of Commons to-night in regard to the present and future ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Mr. Berry stated that, in the new Electoral Bill, arrangements would be made for alteration of boundaries. Notice of motion was given by Mr. Berry in favour of Government business ...
Article : 735 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, the Government Bill for the establishment of a Roman Catholic University in Ireland was read a third time and passed. ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is estimated that the English crop of wheat will prove to be about 25 per cent. below the average yield. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the Assembly, this afternoon, Mr. Griffiths in moving his want of confidence resolution, blamed the Government for not stating clearly the direction in which they intended to extend the trunk lines. He ...
Article : 150 wordsThe decision lately arrived at by the miners' delegates, that the men locked out at Waratah Colliery should be supported out of the union fund for the first fortnight, and subsequently by a levy of 4s. 6d. per man ...
Article : 158 wordsSir,—While the public mind is agitated about recreation grounds, would it not be wise to draw attention to the need of a Building Act, preventing the possibility of tenements being erected which are more fir for rabbit warrens than ...
Article : 313 wordsHeavy rains set in on Wednesday, causing the Wallamba to rise very rapidly. On Thursday, most of the farms were submerged, and in some instances the water was several feet deep in the [?]ouses. The settlers ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Oddfellows' Lodge, Manchester Unity, was opened here last week with the usual ceremonies. At the dinner afterwards the Mayor took the chair. An enthusiastic meeting was held in accordance with ...
Article : 115 wordsA very heavy shower of rain fell about 1 o'clock this morning. A very fine day followed, but a cold wind blew. ...
Article : 26 wordsSir,—There seem to be at present some evidences, whether caused by our Exhibition or the Mayor's visit to Melbourne, that we are becoming alive to our deficiencies in the matter of paving, &c. Time is wanting before the opening of the ...
Article : 213 wordsA letter, signed by all the business people in town, was addressed to the Police Magistrate here, asking, in consequence of the impassable state of the roads between here and Breeza, that he would communicate ...
Article : 330 wordsSir Arthur Gordon (Governor of Fiji) is not a pas senger by the mail steamer. A silver cup, specially made at Steiner's for the Sydney Exhibition, has been presented to the Hu[?] ...
Article : 185 wordsSir,—I notice a letter in your issue of this day on the manufacture of locomotives in the colony, on the subject of labour and material to be used in their construction, and that Messrs. Davy and Co. state that they are prepared to supply ...
Article : 346 wordsTHE bill introduced into tho Imperial Parliament by the Beaconsfield Government for the establishment of a Roman Catholic University in Ireland has passed the House of Commons, and ...
Article : 3,961 wordsAt Pitman diggings the miners are getting about an ounce a week. Provisions are scarce. Fresh discoveries of gold bearing reefs have been made at Brandy Creek. ...
Article : 474 wordsThe first snipe (two brace) were shot on Saturday by Mr. W. A. B. Greaves. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe mail is one day behind time on account of Reedy Creek being a banker, and also the Castlereagh at Bylong. The weather is now fine. ...
Article : 30 wordsBANQUET.—The joint reception committee of the Post Office and the Telegraph Companies gave a banquet, on June 17 (says the Standard), at the Freemasons' Tavern, to the Conference delegates. Mr. John Pender, M.P., was ...
Article : 372 wordsThe miners of the Vale of Clwydd mine have struck through the negligence of one of the employers, in allowing some of the workings to get flooded. Some of the men are willing to return, but the majority ...
Article : 138 wordsPursuant to an advertisement, a public meeting was held in the Council-house this evening to take steps for the proper representation of this district at the International Exhibition. The Mayor of Kiama ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 13 Aug 1879, Page 5
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