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  2. Country News.

    A public meeting of the members of the School of Arts was held to-night, for the purpose of discussing a motion that the library should be opened on Sunday afternoons. Mr. J. Rutherford, the president, was in the chair. There ...

    Article : 1,467 words
  3. Parkes.

    For seven or eight years the subject of forming the town of Parkes into a municipality has engrossed public attention, and the inhabitants have been about equally divided as to the desirability or otherwise of incorporation. After mature reflection and ...

    Article : 452 words
  4. Water Supply at Liverpool.

    A public meeting was held this evening in the Town Hall, Liverpool, to consider the best means to obtain an abundant and permanent supply of water for manufacturing and domestic purposes; also, to arrange for united action ...

    Article : 408 words
  5. West Maitland.

    The ratepayers of the annexed area, ever since the introduction of gas lamps to our thoroughfares, have had to bear the burden of part of the cost of the undertaking in the shape of a gas rate, and from first to last they grumbled about the unjustness of the tax, ...

    Article : 855 words
  6. Forbes.

    Jupiter Pluvius still remains obdurate, and we have week after week of hot, disagreeable weather. The country, in consequence, is looking anything but verdant, and businesses almost, if not altogether, extinct. February is just fading into "the infinite ...

    Article : 1,139 words
  7. Reception of Mr. J. E. Redmond, M.P., at Orange,

    It has been announced by advertisement in the local papers that Mr. Redmond will on Tuesday evening next, in Messrs. Bourke, Coulson, and Naylor's auction-room, deliver a lecture on the aims of the Irish Land League. ...

    Article : 134 words
  8. Moss Vale.

    An important meeting of the members of the Burrawang and West Camden Farmers' Club and Agricultural Society took place at Burrawang recently, fully 60 members being present. The principal business was to consider where the show for 1883 ...

    Article : 1,286 words
  9. Railway Meeting at Carcoar.

    A largo and enthusiastic meeting was held this afternoon at the Academy of Music. A number of residents from different parts of the district were present. The Mayor (Mr. W. B. Warner) was in the chair. The first resolution, ...

    Article : 247 words
  10. Hanging Rock and Peel River.

    There is nothing fresh in mining news, except that the Kanaka Bowling Alley is flooded, and the steam pump choked. Several parties are awaiting the re-erection of the steam crashing plant of the Price's Hill Reef Company's machine to get their stone put ...

    Article : 194 words
  11. Northumberland.

    One of the most important social movements now on the tapis is the agitation for a new Public school on Cook's Hill, near the borders of the city, and contiguous to Wickham, Hamilton, and the Glebe, or Burwood. What is known as Cook's ...

    Article : 1,019 words
  12. Grafton.

    The event of the week has been the arrival of Sir Henry Parkes who came here on his return from Tenterfield. He travelled via the Richmond, having visited Casino, Lismore, Coraki, Alstonville, Ballina, and Woodburn. From the latter place he came by coach ...

    Article : 1,311 words
  13. Warren.

    The annual races came off on the 1st of March, and with them the usual influx of racing people. All the hotels were unusually crowded, and the place altogether presented a very lively appearance. ...

    Article : 389 words
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