EASY indeed is the descent to the lower regions. Every day as it passes proves the truth of the old Virgilian axiom, and somehow it is those who promise most that fall ...
Article : 1,857 wordsTHE ratepayers in the Borough of Newcastle will to-day be called upon to record their votes for the election of three members to the council, and on the local option ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON, Friday.—There is a growing scepticism regarding the alleged settlement of the Irish leadership question, despite the rumours that Mr. Gladstone has given written pledges ...
Article : 37 wordsTHE sugar-cane crop on certain parts of the Richmond River is diseased from some unknown cause. DURING Saturday and yesterday 19 vessels ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsIN Begg-street last evening, a little boy, named Sidney Hart Stowall, seven years of ago, was run over by a cart, and killed. The boy was playing with some companions in ...
Article : 411 wordsLONDON, Friday.—A serious republican agitation has arisen in Spain, consequent on the Government repressing republican electoral meetings and demonstrations. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 38 wordsLONDON, Friday Evening—The Cardiff strikers have appealed to the railway employees to block all goods forwarded by the owners of the Shipping Federation. The ...
Article : 56 wordsIN another column we publish the prospectus of the company which is being formed in Sydney for the purpose of carrying out the works of the Mulgoa irrigation colony at ...
Article : 249 wordsManager's Report, 31st Jan.:—"Crushed 90 tons for 56oz. bullion of the usual quality; also treated 30 tons of old battery blanketings for 58oz. inferior bullion. Some 50 tons ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 22 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The Ballaarat left Suez on the morning, and the Austral arrived at Plymouth on the afternoon, of Friday. ...
Article : 21 wordsTHE Government has decided that the colony shall be represented at the Federal Convention. ...
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The wool sales have been postponed on account of a fog. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe price of silver is 3s 10d per oz. ...
Article : 12 wordsA MAN named James Martin was found under a bush fence, 22 miles east of Burra, in an unconscious state. He had been without food or drink for eight days. He was nearly ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The balance of the South Australian loan is being slowly taken up. The Economist reassures the public of the Adelaide loan, which, however, ...
Article : 57 wordsMR. CLEMENT WRAGGE has issued the following special forecast:—"Shipping interests are advised that a steep barometric gradient exists between Smoky Cape and Townsville, ...
Article : 58 wordsTHE usual monthly meeting of the Newcastle Benevolent Society was held in the council chambers on Thursday last. Present: Mrs. J. C. Ellis (president), Mesdames Aird, ...
Article : 688 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Baron Hirsch has given half a million sterling to promote the emigration of Jews to America. ...
Article : 22 wordsStanley Keyson, a watchmaker at South Melbourne, was arrested yesterday, charged with receiving £500 worth of goods from a wine merchant on false pretences. He is ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Sir W. G. Gordon-Cumming, Colonel of the Scots Guards, has instituted an action against five persons well known in society for imputing to him ...
Article : 36 wordsTHE annual assembly of the Primitive Methodist Churches in the Newcastle district opened its session in the Brown-street Church on Saturday morning. A goodly ...
Article : 573 wordsTHE barque Thornebank, 1200 tons, from Scotland, lying in the Ganges Roads, Fremantle, was completely gutted last night. The flames were fanned by a strong wind ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Mr. Cecil Rhodes, Premier of Cape Colony, repudiates the idea of granting any concession to Portugal in regard to Manicaland. He refuses to grant ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, Friday—In connection with the Chilian revolt, severe fighting has taken place in the streets of Castro and Chilean, when numbers of the contestants were killed. ...
Article : 71 wordsA TUNNEL at Battery Flat caved in on Thursday morning, and the accident reminded undiscovered until the men were missed for dinner. A messenger came to ...
Article : 86 wordsThis afternoon the police were informed by some boys that they had found some clothes on the banks of the Torrens, near the railway bridge The police, after dragging ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, Friday.—A rumour has been put in circulation to the effect that an arrangement has been concluded between France and Portugal, whereby the Republic acquires ...
Article : 87 wordsTHE Postmaster-General (Mr. Daniel O'Connor) issued instructions this morning to the officers of his department to confiscate all copies of a new weekly newspaper passing ...
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Terrible floods have taken place in certain districts of China, and have spread desolation in their course. At present it is estimated that no less than 1000 ...
Article : 37 wordsThe superintendent of telegraphs at Bowen wires that the cable steamer Recorder got her anchor fouled in the hulk's anchor, while leaving Thursday Island. Both went ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Friday.—It is considered probable that the decision of Mr. Justice North, as to the power of the dockowners to compel shipowners to discharge their own vessels in ...
Article : 83 wordsA SENSATION has been created in the ranks of the public service by the publication of an announcement to the effect that Mr. George Evans Labertouche, the clerk in ...
Article : 184 wordsLONDON, Friday.—In the House of Commons last night Mr. John Morley, the senior member for Newcastle-on-Tyne, gave notice of a motion for next Thursday with ...
Article : 65 wordsTHE steamer Despatch and Elingamite collided in the river yesterday, doing no harm to themselves, but smashing to pieces a small boat in which were two sailors. One, named ...
Article : 81 wordsTHE Judge in the Criminal Court yesterday passed a very severe sentence on prisoners convicted of robberies and burglaries. One fellow, for robbery in company, was ...
Article : 74 wordsIN compliance with the resolution passed at the last annual meeting of members, the committee have decided to open the institution on all public holidays in future, except ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Mon 9 Feb 1891, Page 5
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