The amount of money which has been expended by the present and the preceding Governments upon the unemployed is no less than £138,405 1s. 2d. Of this the late Government spent £7O,643 17s. 2d., and the ...
Article : 227 wordsThroughout the whole of to-day a heavy fog hung over the city and the low-lying lands in the vicinity. During the early hours of the morning it was so dense that the semaphores ...
Article : 132 wordsA Greek sailor, who arrived at Cooktown to-day overland from Gape Bedford, reports the murder of Junius Von Valkenburg. It appears that the latter and the Greek left Cooktown on Wednesday morning ...
Article : 227 wordsLarge numbers of visitors, principally from Melbourne, attracted by the Exhibition, arrive daily. A special train to-day brought the Hon. D. Gillies. Premier, and many other members of Parliament from ...
Article : 112 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Municipal Association of New South Wales, held on Monday afternoon, it was resolved to communicate the opinion to the Hon. the Minister for Lands that the proposal to discontinue ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Supreme Court delivered the verdict in the libel case Gribble v. the West Australian yesterday. A general verdict was given for the defendants. The Judges Stone ...
Article : 180 wordsA serious shooting case occurred at Fremantle on Thursday night An hotelkeeper named Conroy was refused admittance by Councillor Snook to the Children's Jubilee Fancy Dress Ball given by the Mayor and corporation. ...
Article : 81 wordsConsiderable sensation was occasioned in the city on Saturday by the publication of a telegram from Cobargo, to the effect that human remains bad been found buried in the sand about half a mile from the town of Bermagui, ...
Article : 1,053 wordsIt has been decided by the Government that civil proceedings shall be instituted against the whole of the defendants alleged to have been concerned in the alleged wool frauds. This action has been taken under ...
Article : 94 wordsA peculiar ceremony took place on Friday evening at the festivity celebrated by the Mahomedans of Melbourne. It had been discovered that an influential Mahomedan had lost caste by marrying a European ...
Article : 114 wordsSergeant Sherry, in charge of the gold escort, reports that on May 5 the prospects of the Kimberley gold- fields were still very good. The newly-discovered reefs exceed expectation, and the miners on the field are most ...
Article : 141 wordsA SERIES of frauds of serious and systematic character have been discovered in connection with the stamp duties branch of the Treasury department These frauds are believed to have been carried on by ...
Article : 241 wordsIt is estimated that the cost of the scheme for taking flood-waters from the River Murray to augment the irrigation supply from the Goulburn, by means of gravitation, will be ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Chinese Commissioners arrived at Sandhurst from Ballarat this afternoon. They were met at the station by a large number of their countrymen, who were dressed in gorgeous attire. ...
Article : 98 wordsA telegram from Bruthen states that the schooner Ann and Mary, bound from the Mersey River, Tasmania to Queensland, foundered at sea on Saturday afternoon. The captain and the rest of the crew, not ...
Article : 257 wordsMr. Thomas Chirnside, the well-known pastoralist and sportsman, committed suicide at his residence at Werribee Park on Saturday afternoon. He had been suffering from melancholia for some time past. After ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Government has decided, in response to the representations of Mr. Haynes, M.L.A., to purchase the great a Ugget of gold, weighing over 350oz., which was found at Maitland Bar, in the Mudgee district, a ...
Article : 175 wordsA letter received by Mr. P. C. Hawkes, of Bundaberg, from Colonel H. P. Hawkes, Commissary-General-in-Chief of the forces in India, says:—"We are about to send to Australia for 200,0001b. weight of preserved ...
Article : 74 wordsIt will probably be of interest to state that at the Mahomedan "Eedul-Feler Ramzan Festival," which was celebrated on the 24th ult, at the house of a prominent Mussulman residing in Bourke-street, Surry Hills, ...
Article : 234 wordsA tragic affair occurred on the farm of Hugh M'Gilton, near Redhill, to-day. Henry Holland, a supposed suitor of the victim, visited the house during M'Gilton's absence, and felled Mrs. M'Gilton to the ...
Article : 140 wordsThe scheme of the Government for the celebration of the centenary of the colony was laid before Parliament on Monday by Sir Henry Parkes. It consists of the conversion of the Lachlan Swamp into a magnificent park ...
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), Sat 2 Jul 1887, Page 28
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