It is expected a large reduction will be made in the staff of Civil servants, especially amongst the police. It is not thought there will be a reduction of salaries. ...
Article : 61 wordsTHE WEATHER,—Since our last issne we have had one fine day, without any threatening—Sunday was a lovely day, warm, bright, and cheerful. But yesterday broke cloudy, and some rain fell in the forenoon. ...
Article : 4,800 wordsThe funeral of Mr. Spowers was largely attenaed by members of the Argus staff and personal friends. There have been heavy floods in Bairnsdale. Two and a half inches of rain fell since Thursday last. A ...
Article : 101 wordsThe continual wet weather furnishes the only topic on which to write, and the state of the roads conjointly, is a theme on which to vent a good deal of very strong opinion. The mail coach from ...
Article : 256 wordsThe billiard match between Cook and Kilkenn was won by the latter, by thirteen points. Ararat has been scratched for the Steeplechase. Banter and Richmond continue to be first ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Governor and Sir George Grey have gone to Taranaki. The chief Rewi has arrived at Auckland on his first visit, with Mr. Stephan, and was welcomed by ...
Article : 51 wordsDuring the past week the weather has been exceedingly disagreeable, heavy driving rain having fallen almost continuously Bince Tuesday night. The floods in the river, which on Sunday and ...
Article : 610 wordsReuben and Jones' store was burned to the ground last night between twelve and one o'clock. Nothing was saved. ...
Article : 26 wordsSIR,—Being a resident near East Maitland, and a constant traveller on the road between East Maitland and Mount Vincent, I trust that through your widely circulated newspaper the attention of ...
Article : 662 wordsMr. Myles M'Rae reports: Prime lucerne hay, £3 to £3 5s per ton; maize, 2s 7d per bushel; potatoes, £4 to £4 10s per ton. ...
Article : 35 wordsSir Garnet Wolseley has started for the Cape to£ day. The Oaks race was ran to-day—Wheel of Fortune 1; Coromandel, 2; Adventure, 3. ...
Article : 188 wordsIt is no use commenting on the weather, fon everybody in this district knows that it has been raining more or less for this past month, accompanied with cold bleak wind, ...
Article : 378 wordsThe dinner to the Victorian crew was well-attended. They attribute their loss to bad weather and rough water. The overdue ship Blan Hoyle has arrived from ...
Article : 431 wordsSince last writing ours has been an experience common with that of the majority in the northern districts—viz., one of almost continuous rains. As the result of them there is little improvement to be ...
Article : 219 wordsCatherine Ellis, aged 70, was burnt to death at Hall's Creek. She was literally roasted alive, having been in the fire about an hour before she was discovered. Drink is supposed to have been the ...
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Advertising : 684 wordsThe twenty-fourth annual (for 1878) report of the Post Office has been laid before Parliament. The Postmaster-General says that the new postal routes opened during the year ...
Article : 936 wordsOn Tuesday night last a purse containing £15 2s 6d was presented to Mr. Jerome Dowling, who has been for the last three years in the local post and telegraph office, and who left by coach the same evening ...
Article : 90 wordsFine weather is anxiously looked for, as our roads are in a wretched condition, owing to the continued heavy traffic, and parts being newly formed requiring time to consolidate. ...
Article : 193 wordsAn inquest was held at Ridgmount, on the 22nd inst., on the body of William Thomas Gowthrop, who had been absent from his home from the 1st May, before the coroner, Mr. Jas. M'Lean, and a jury of ...
Article : 789 wordsAt the police office, this day, before Mr. Brooks, P.M., the following business was transacted:— ASSAULT AND BATTERY.—Williams v. Downie.— This case (the plaintiff being a miner, and the ...
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893), Tue 3 Jun 1879, Page 5
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