THE year commences with a great " sensation" in our colonial history, consequent on the contemplated trials of skill between the English and the Australian cricketers. When it became known in Sydney that ...
Article : 900 wordsThe premises of Messrs. Row, wholesale druggists, situate in Bank-court, King-street, destroyed by fire. Upwards of £15,000 worth of property destroyed. The orangeries in the Cumberland districts attacked ...
Article : 551 wordsSunday, 2nd, strictly observed as a day of mourning for the late Prince Consort, At most of the churches appropriate sermons were preached. The Maitland and Morpeth Railway Company ...
Article : 681 wordsGold discovered in the ranges on the Murray River. The Rev. Alexander Rae inducted to the pulpit of the Balmain Congregational church. A public meeting held to consider the propriety of ...
Article : 427 wordsThe Rev. Dr. Ross, senior Congregational minister of the colony, dies, at his residence, Edgecliffe Cottage, Double Bay, in the seventy-first year of his age. Seven members of the Legislative Council enter a ...
Article : 530 wordsNews arrives by the month's mail that her Majesty has been pleased to confer the honour of K.C.B, upon Major-General Macarthur, and of C.B., upon the Chief Justice, Sir Alfred Stephen. ...
Article : 543 wordsMajor-General Pratt reviews the Volunteer forces in the Sydney Domain. The Great Western Railway opened as far as the Cross roads, about a quarter of a mile from the town ...
Article : 574 wordsThe Rev. Mr. Watt convicted of perjury, and sentenced to five years' hard labour on the roads. St. Andrew's Day partially kept os a public holiday. ...
Article : 2,251 wordsThe first contest between the English and Colonial cricketers terminates. The All-England Eleven score 241, and the New South Wales Twenty-two 192, thus the Eleven won with forty-eight runs to spare. ...
Article : 714 wordsHeavy gales along the coast, attended with loss of life and great damage to the shipping. The schooner Cumberland, from Newcastle to Sydney, struck by a heavy sea during a terrific gale, ...
Article : 431 wordsThe lessee of the Pitt-street tramway commenced running the passenger-cars and goods-tracks. Total loss of the steamer Prince of Wales, off Camden Head. ...
Article : 541 wordsThe opening of the Great Westorn Railway, as far as South Creek, takes place. The ship Queen of England struck on a rock, near Nobby's, at Newcastle, and received very severe ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 31 Dec 1862, Page 3
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