WHEN the steamship Sultana, which arrived in Hull on November 12, was passing the island of Sicily, while homeward bouno, the look-out caught sight of a boat with a man ...
Article : 123 wordsON Tuesday last a social tea meeting was held at the School of Arts on the occasion of the Rev. James Terms leaving the Greta charge of the Hunter Presbytery for ...
Article : 376 wordsEXCURSIONISTS were favoured with Queen's weather on Saturday, and the various outings therefore proved most enjoyable. The list of attractions was remarkably large, and the ...
Article : 350 wordsCONTRARY to Christmas custom, has ended for the present, and the actors upon the legislative stage, unlike their brethren of the drama, are, in the words of the non-engaged ...
Article : 1,240 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The income of the London hospitals for 1891 shows a decline of £150,000 upon the previous year, chiefly owing to the fact that many donations were ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—The St. Louis and Magaro express trains collided and the debris ignited. Nine persons were killed and many were scalded. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe attractions to the holiday-seeker which Lake Macquarie offers are numerous, and, not including the crowds which visited the Toronto Regatta, there were thousands on ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, who has been seriously ill, is recovering. ...
Article : 19 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—The Malay miners at Patang, Malay Peninsula, have revolted. Daring the conflict with the officials the overseer was shot, several being injured and ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Italy has made a concession to England of £4100 per annum in connection with the mails via Brindisi. ...
Article : 22 wordsGENERAL Baron Joseph Doepfner, of Vienna, has died rather suddenly in his sixty first year. His death is believed to have boon due to a rather strange accident. In his ...
Article : 140 wordsMR. WILLIAM HANN, one of the oldest native born residents of the Clarence district, and Mr. A. V. leach, orchardist, died ne Grafton. Both deaths were caused by ...
Article : 269 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—The Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee at Washington favours the framing of a bill freeing wool, not woolens, from duty. It is believed that ...
Article : 34 wordsFully four thousand people witnessed the Toronto regatta, on Lake Macquarie, on Saturday. The railway department laid on special trains, and visitors were enabled to ...
Article : 241 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Mrs. Osborne, for obtaining a cheque under false pretences. She has absconded. The police have ...
Article : 38 wordsAN inquest was held at Windhill, near Brad" ford, upon the bodies of two girls named Minnio Toulmin, aged 15 years, of Baildon, and Alice Worrall, aged 14 years, of ...
Article : 158 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—Two Englishmen have been sentenced at St. Etienne to fifteen and two month imprisonment respectively an alleged attempt to obtain ...
Article : 27 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—The winter rye wheat which has been sown in the central and northern districts of Russia is in a favourable condition, but not in the southern ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—Sir Robert Morier has been appointed Ambassador at Rome. ...
Article : 13 wordsOne of the principal events on Boxing Day was the picnic to Tomago arranged by the Primitive Methodists of the Burwood circuit. The steamers Goolwa and Emu commenced ...
Article : 488 wordsWE have received the following appeal for the poor waifs and strays in London. While we are enjoying sunny skies and bright, happy weather, many of them are hungry ...
Article : 105 wordsThe various excursions and picnics up the Hunter River on Saturday were well attended, it being estimated that some 6000 found their way to Tomago and the other ...
Article : 129 wordsTHOMAS PEED, Of Talse Hill, last August sent 14 pigeons to a show near Bradford, and on their return a porter at King's Crocs station, London, mistaking them for carrier ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Mr. Edward Field, a partner in the firm of Field and Lindley, of New York, which recently failed, and who was arrested on a charge of having stolen bonds ...
Article : 55 wordsYesterday the weather was simply magnificent. The day was kept as a public holiday and strictly observed. Sports of all kinds were largely attended. Twelve ...
Article : 175 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The visible supply of American wheat, according to "Brad-street's," is 64,000,000 bushels. ...
Article : 17 wordsA CORRESPONDENT at San Antonio, Texas, describes a desperate duel jut fought in that city between two Mexican residents. These young men, Victoriano Velasco and Espinoro ...
Article : 149 wordsONE of the largest and most enthusiastio audiences that has ever assembled in the Victoria Theatre was present on Saturday night, to see Mr. William Rignold's production of ...
Article : 233 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—A Turkish Commission is at present [?]ing at Constantinople to arrange the terms upon which representations should be made to Lord Salisbury for ...
Article : 37 wordsThe beauties of the beach attracted a very large gathering of city and district residents, besides a great number of visitors from Maitland and Singleton, who came to enjoy the ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—A terrible calamity [?] a Portuguese expedition at In[?], Africa. A quantity of gunpowder exploded, killing 60 of the expedition ...
Article : 41 wordsThe railway employees were kept very busily engaged throughout the day in dispatching and receiving trains, and it is very pleasing to state that, although they worked ...
Article : 202 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Dr. Karl Peters, the leader of the German expedition in East Africa, has reported that he has had a conflict with the natives in the Kilimanjaro ...
Article : 40 wordsTHERE has just been launched from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. A. and J. Inglis, Glasgow, the Dunmora, a steel screw steamer of about 5500 tons, built to the ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—A number of the Russian convicts engaged in the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway have revolted and made their escape to Vladivostock. ...
Article : 45 wordsChristmas Eve passed off very quietly. It was one of the worst for tradesmen yet known in Brisbane. UNION SHEARERS. ...
Article : 139 wordsINTELLIGENCE received at Madrid from the Canary Islands announces the loss of a British vessel and the whole of her crew except one man. The Spanish sailing ship ...
Article : 169 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Large numbers of workmen have been arrested in the mills and factories of St. Petersburg on suspicion of being Nihilists. Many who were arrested ...
Article : 41 wordsMR. THOMAS A. EDISON, the inventor, announces that his motor electric system has now been perfected, and that the time has at length arrived when ...
Article : 110 wordsThe tram traffic was also very great, and it was found necessary to bring every available motor and car into requisition. Those from Wallsend and Lambton to the city during ...
Article : 182 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Nine of the members of the Coinage Committee of the American House of Representatives are in favour of the free coinage of silver, and four oppose it. ...
Article : 29 wordsOn Boxing Day the Bethel and Mariners' Lodges of Independent Order of Good Templars held their annual picnic, the scene of pleasure on the occasion being ...
Article : 176 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Owing to the unusual severity of the weather in Northern Finland, 12,000 of the inhabitants are in a starving condition. ...
Article : 25 wordsAN immense number of people assembled in the Centennial Hall on Christmas night to hear the rendition of "The Messiah" by the Sydney Philharmonic Society. It is ...
Article : 281 wordsA PANIC was caused in Prague by a fire which broke out at the convent in that city. The convent has a large hospital for incurables, and these patients were carried into the ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—A Chilian Judge has concluded an inquiry on board the United States flagship Baltimore, at Valparaise, as to the cause of the recent riots in that city ...
Article : 57 wordsAT a late hour on 8th November, the population of Nanticoke, in Pennsylvania, U.S.A., were startled by the dull, rumbling noise, which only too ...
Article : 145 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Lord Carrington declares that although Lord Knutsford is satisfied himself with the Colonial Office as at present, there must be a change in its policy ...
Article : 31 wordsThe annual picnic in connection with the Tighe's Hill Primitive Methodist Sabbath School was held in Fleming's paddock on Boxing Day, and was a very successful affair, ...
Article : 76 wordsABOUT 25 minutes to 11 o'clock last evening the firebells rang out their unwelcome sound. The cause was an explosion of ammonia in the premises of Mr. J. Ireland in ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—M. Jules Simon, the French statesman and philosopher, died to-day. ...
Article : 16 wordsWILLIAM JOHN M'CULLAGH, car proprietor, of Newry, died on October 10 from lockjaw, at his residence, The Mall, Newry. The deceased and his father, Edward M'Cullagh, ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The members of the English Club at Biarritz, the favourite watering place in the south of France, have refused to admit Mr. Gladstone, who ...
Article : 60 wordsThe lovely weather and the excellent sailing qualities of the H.R.N.S.N. Company's steamer Namoi attracted an immense number of young people to indulge in an outing ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Mon 28 Dec 1891, Page 5
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