In the Legislative Council, yesterday, Mr. MARKS laid on the table the report of the Sydney Grammar School for 1877, and by-laws under the Public Vehicles Act. ...
Article : 5,709 wordsLarge bodies of Russian troops are landing at Bourgas. ...
Article : 30 wordsSir John O'Shanassy, in the course of a long speech introducing his Amending Education Bill, assured the House that the Roman Catholics would never accept the Act, that they regarded the question as one of conscience, ...
Article : 372 wordsVice-Admiral Hornby has proceeded to Cyprus to meet the Secretary for War and the First Lord of the Admiralty. He will afterwards return with the fleet to the Gulf of ...
Article : 41 wordsTHE news we publish this morning, from our London correspondents, in regard to the Afghan difficulty is not of a very pacific tone. Shere Ali shows a somewhat unconciliatory spirit in his reply to the Sultan's ...
Article : 2,562 wordsThe bank directors, manager, and secretary of the Bank of Glasgow are remanded on a charge of falsifying the bank books, publishing fraudulent balance-sheets and statements, ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Cunliffe Owen has been created Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe reply of the Ameer of Afghanistan to the recent letter of the Sultan of Turkey, urging him to conclude an amicable arrangement with England, is couched in unfriendly ...
Article : 56 wordsAt an audience which Sir Austen Layard, British ambassador here, had to-day with the Sultan, the latter declared that he would never conclude a Russo-Turkish alliance. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Assembly has been engaged nearly all day is considering the Education Bill. The proposal for free education has been rejected by 14 to 9. B. H. Babbage, son of Calculating Babbage, died ...
Article : 82 wordsThe P. and O. Co.'s steamship Siam sailed for Australia on the 17th instant. ...
Article : 24 wordsAn ordinary meeting of the Associated Colliery Proprietors was held to-day at the A. A. Company's offices. The proceedings were of a strictly private nature, and details are therefore not available to the public; but it is ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Assembly, by a majority, passed the resolutions relating to property dividend, and mortgage taxes, but there will probably be a hard struggle between parties when the Taxing Bill comes on for ...
Article : 93 wordsThe City of Auckland is stern on to a good beach. It is thought that all the cargo will be saved, and it is likely that the vessel will be floated. No lives were lost. ...
Article : 72 wordsEx-priest C[?]iquy delivered one of his lectures here to-night, at the Presbyterian chapel. There was a crowded attendance. ...
Article : 22 wordsAt the Circuit Court, to-day, Alexander Boswald Armstrong, charged with fraudulently appropriating three sums of money while Clerk of Petty Sessions, at Parkes, was convicted, but was ...
Article : 93 wordsA meeting of the Coal Masters' Association was held to-day, at the A. A. Company's Office, to consider the question as to the price of coal. It is understood that their deliberations resulted in a decision that the selling ...
Article : 88 wordsAnother man is dangerously ill from a fall over the bridgework at Lord's Place. The work is being carried out by the Roads Department. It is in a principal thoroughfare, has been for a long time in hand, and is ...
Article : 58 wordsPreparations are being made to give Alderman M'Arthur, M.P., of London, a public banquet on his arrival in Melbourne, from New Zealand, in about a fortnight's time. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe escort to-day took 370 oz. of gold, the proceeds for the month. The weather is hot and dry. ...
Article : 22 wordsA public meeting was held yesterday, with Dr. Joseph F. Peers, J.P., in the chair, at which it was unanimously decided that Aberford-street was the best site for the proposed bridge over the Castlereagh. A ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Legislative Council have rejected the bill for a railway from Narracoorte to the Victorian boundary. Mr. Ross's motion for the revision of the Estimates has been accepted by the Government as one of want ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Bega bridge was formally opened to-day with great ceremony. At noon the public and Catholic schools mustered and formed in procession, with the Odd-fellows and other public bodies, and marched to the bridge. ...
Article : 146 wordsThe City of Auckland, with 250 immigrants for Napier, has gone ashore to-day, near the wreck of the Felix Stowe, at Otaki. The passengers have been landed. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe first out this morning were Vampire and Macaroni who went twice round at a moderate pace. Swiveller and Darriwell did a fair twice round; Device and Glenormiston went well, and so did Tolarno and ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Crown lands sale realised £9625. The river is 13 feet 6 inches and rising. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Atjeh arrived at Cooktown last night. She sailed thence this morning. She brought seven passengers, from Thursday Island, who arrived there by the Conflict from Port Moresby. All are sick, and five are gone ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Lieutenant has been floated, and is now anchored in the bay. It is denied that she is strained. It is now stated that the money raised by Peterson on fictitious deeds does not exceed £2000. ...
Article : 231 wordsThe races were well attended. WELTER STAKES.—Corinthian, 1; King Cole, 2; Snip, 3. SELLING RACE.—Volant 1, Brigham Young 2. Won easily. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 24 Oct 1878, Page 5
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