The R. M. S. Siam left Galle for Australia on the 26th, with, the mails. ...
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Article : 134 wordsSATURDAY was the forty-first anniversary of the coronation of Queen Victoria. A Royal salute was fired from Dawes Battery, the Royal standard was hoisted at Government House, and flags were flying ...
Article : 3,182 wordsIt is seldom we are called upon to record so distressing and painful an occurence as that which happened on Saturday afternoon, namely, the drowning of two young girls in the ladies' baths at Woolloomooloo. Their names are ...
Article : 403 wordsThe second performance of "Maritana" on Saturday evening was a greater success than the first both on the score of attendance and the character of the singing. The whole of the music is so well known that the audience have less ...
Article : 390 wordsThe Orient steamship Chimborazo, which left Sydney May 5, arrived at Plymouth today. ...
Article : 23 wordsAt a public meeting held at the Oddfellows' Hall last evening, a deputation, consisting of the Mayor and Messrs. Gosper, Moss, and Collins, were appointed to wait upon the Minister for Works to request that three ...
Article : 117 wordsConstable Brown, from Curbin, while taking a prisoner, named Montgomery, to gaol here, on a charge of horse-stealing, shot him dead. Montgomery, it seems, tried to escape; the constable called upon him ...
Article : 100 wordsTo-day's crushings are as follow:—Hidden Treasure Company (Hicks, Cameron, and Company), 80 tons yielded 296 ounces gold; Mechanics' Prospecting Company, 63 tons, yielded 125 ounces; and No. 2 ...
Article : 61 wordsA party of five police from Corowa, together with constables from Beechworth, started from Corowa at 3 o'clock this morning in pursuit of five men who passed through the township on Friday night, and who are ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. Titheradge's real merits were not made fully apparent by the first piece with which he introduced himself to us. In Clancarty he exhibited a quiet strength in acting which was too quiet almost to be appreciated. In David ...
Article : 659 wordsSir,—I observe in your issue of this morning that the debate on the Land Bill in the Legislative Council has been adjourned, on the motion of Mr. Ogilvie, until Tuesday next. I am very glad to see this, as a matter of this kind ...
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Article : 82 wordsSir,—Mr. D. O'Connor in his place in the Assembly, as member for West Sydney, when moving the resolution condemning the public charities which have come under his wrath (namely, the Sydney Infirmary, Randwick ...
Article : 1,455 wordsThe adjourned inquest on the body of George Edward Wright was held this morning, and a verdict returned that deceased died of sanguineous apoplexy. ...
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Article : 43 wordsIn connection with the mission of Eather Henneberry, a procession, numbering 2000 persons of all ages and both sexes, marched from the Cathedral to-day, carrying banners with temperance and religious mottoes. ...
Article : 48 wordsAt a meeting of the unemployed, held yesterday, the Mayor said that the revenue of the city was £100,000 yearly, and that all this was expended. The Corporation were now employing 461 men, and besides this there ...
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Article : 111 wordsThe Academy of Music was well attended on Saturday night, particularly in the pit, to witness the performance of a drama entitled "Law, not Justice." The play was no conspicuous for anything very attractive, and was hardly ...
Article : 594 wordsWoolloomooloo Bay bore a very animated appearance on Saturday afternoon. Rowing and sailing boats darted hither and thither on its surface, and a large number of persons congregrated on its shores, who were desirous of ...
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Article : 266 wordsWe are requested to state that the folg address from the magistrates to his Excellency tieutenant-Governor is lying for signature at the Ce[?]nd Water Police Courts. It is purposed to present Sir Alfred ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 30 Jun 1879, Page 5
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