ST. John's Anglican Church, erected at a cost over £3500, was opened yesterday. Archdeacon Puddicombe preached in the morning, and Canon Druitt in the evening. The collections in aid of the building ...
Article : 51 wordsA MEETING of graziers, bankers, and others interested in pastoral pursuits, was held at Orbell's Royal Hotel, Dubbo, on Friday afternoon. There was a considerable attendance, most of the pricipal pastoral tenants of the district being ...
Article : 1,709 wordsMY present letter leaves in the midst of an extraordinary condition of society. Few communities—I may say no English community—have ever seen themselves in the position which we occupy at this moment. ...
Article : 2,053 wordsFALL FROM THE ROOF OF A HOUSE.—Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock, a man named Alexander Martin, plumber and gasfitter, residing in Duke-street, [?]ell off the roof of a house in course of erection in ...
Article : 3,367 wordsThe annual meeting of the Mudgee Turf Club was held this afternoon. The Hon. George Rouse was elected president, and the Hon G. H. Cox, vicepresident, for the ensuing year. Other officers, and ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. John Fagan, of Carcoar, has purchased to-day 9000 acres of Coombing Park from Mr. Icely, and intends cutting it up into farms, which will greatly benefit the district. ...
Article : 40 wordsA young man named Arthur Scott was drowned yesterday while bathing in the Wollondilly River. The weather is very hot. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe weather during the past seven days has been oppressively hot, and the thermometer has ranged u[?] to 112 degrees in the shade. A gentleman just returned from the Bland district describes the country ...
Article : 60 wordsWE understand that the investigations of the Honorable John Sutherland into the traffic and other branches of the Railway Department have led him to make a number of important changes in the staff of the Department, and to ...
Article : 723 wordsYesterday the thermometer was 114 in the shade. To-day it is 109. The escort to-day takes 312 ounces of gold, ...
Article : 23 wordsJames Cunningham was executed in Brisbane gaol this morning, for the murder of Frank Steinbrecker the packer, at Cairns. He confessed his guilt yesterday, and said that his victim died instantly after the ...
Article : 59 wordsSeveral instances of inconvenience, resulting from the dismissal of officers in the Civil Service, are reported. Two small fires occurred last night, one at Emerald ...
Article : 188 wordsTHE Argus, in a leader to-day, on the recent reductions, says:—"The retrenchment plea is so shallow, that it deceives no one; and it is questionable whether Ministers themselves will no any way countenance it. ...
Article : 737 wordsARRIVED.—Shannon, brig, from Newcastle; at 2 p.m., You Yangs (s.), and at 5 p.m., City of Melbourne (s.), from Sydney. SAILED.—At 6 p.m., Wotonga (s.), for Sydney. ...
Article : 32 wordsTHE usual half-yearly tea and public meetings of the above society were held last night in the upper room of the Temperance Hall. There was a very fair attendance of subscribers and those interested in the progress of the ...
Article : 736 wordsThe western station al report the heat as being intense ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Legislative Council will meet pro forma tomorrow. The construction of the Dunolly and St. Arnaud railway is likely to be delayed for a short time, owing, ...
Article : 44 wordsAT the cricket match played between twenty-two of Dunedin and the Australian Eleven, the local team scored 124 runs in their first innings, including 10 sundries. The Australians are all out to-day for 92 ...
Article : 384 wordsTHE export of coal from the port of Newcastle, for the year 1877 exceeds that of the previous year by over 62,000 tons. At the commencement of, and during last year, we were told by those who profess to understand the coal trade ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 15 Jan 1878, Page 5
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