Mr. Forster, M.P. opened the session of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institute yesterday, with an address on the Colonial Empire. He pleaded in favour of an impartial policy being pursued in the Colonial office, and ...
Article : 81 wordsTHERE is not much to write about here since the holidays. Owing to the fine weather the people generally have done their share of holiday-making, and as a natural consequence ...
Article : 1,140 wordsON Thursday a commencement was made to clear the main road to Newcastle. The contract of 80 chains has been taken by Messrs. J. Johnston, T. Thorne and Co., for ...
Article : 489 wordsAnd old colliery mechanic, who had scarcely ever known sickness, at length became so worn out as to be in a state of extreme weakness. Shortly before his death he expressed a wish to have the doctor. ...
Article : 81 wordsTo relieve the monotony of life in this deserted village, Mr. Chapman, the other evening, exhibited, (in the Wesleyan Church) his magic lantern to the children of the Anvil Creek and ...
Article : 239 wordsW. Perkins, the champion of England, has lately accomplished the feat of walking seven-and-a-half miles in 58½ minutes. The stake was £100 to £50 against him doing it in one hour. As the ground was wet on ...
Article : 80 wordsH. M. S. Serapis, with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on board, entered Bombay harbour to-day amid royal salutes from the squadron. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales landed ...
Article : 261 wordsA spelling bee was held in the school room at Minmi, on Tuesday evening last. There was a good attendance, and it being the first of these entertainments in Minmi, there was a ...
Article : 105 wordsOne day, a miner belonging to the Gosse Colliery, Gateshead, was going home drunk, when he met a minister, who accosted him by saying. "My dear fellow, I think you have had too much of that stuff ...
Article : 151 wordsFrom the deep sea dredgings of the Challenger it would appear that the ocean is a world complete in itself, and that all the conditions for a diversified existence exist there as well as on dry land. At stated depths crabs ...
Article : 138 wordsAT a general meeting of the Waratah Miners, held on Monday evening last, it was decided to present John Dickford with the sum of £20 from the Accident Fund. ...
Article : 325 wordsWallsend colliery has worked four days this week, and the Co-operative four days. Both pits, of course, being idle on Tuesday. ...
Article : 28 wordsA meeting of these miners was held in Harris' Rooms, on Thursday evening last for the purpose of considering the doctor's agreement and electing a committee.—The agreement, which had been previously consented to by ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Wealth of Nations Quartz Mining Company at Inangua, Beefton (says a Greymouth telegram to the New Zealand Times) has cleared up for the month of October 526 ounces of retorted gold, of ...
Article : 119 wordsAn accident occurred at this colliery yesterday (Friday) afternoon, by which a miner, named Christopher Thornton, was severely hurt about the lower portions of his body. It appears that he was engaged in his bord when ...
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Advertising : 1,547 wordsMr. Surveyor Carver, according to the Wollongong Mercury, and a staff of men have been camped on the Barkeley estate, near the late residence of Mr. Turkington, during the last week or fortnight. This ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Bowling Alley Point correspondent to the Tamworth News says:—"The Newcastle Co.'s property (Opossum Reef) is likely to be well tried, eight practical miners having arrived here to work ...
Article : 83 wordsThe current number is to hand and the cartoon represents the present ministry as a mammoth company, all seated in the orthodox circus carriage. Mr. Robertson is driver. Behind him is Mr. Lucas, with one leg in the ...
Article : 201 wordsDr. Riley, who succeeded Dr. Wades, as doctor for Wallsend colliery, is now in full practice, and resides in the premises lately occupied by his predecessor.—Dr. Nash, late of Victoria, &c., and who was for nine years ...
Article : 81 wordsTHE Noble Testimonial Committee are exerting themselves to make the affair as complete as possible. A splendid silver watch and gold chain have been purchased in Sydney, and will ...
Article : 539 wordsBy advertisement elsewhere it will be seen that Mr. Gibbs, practical pyrotchnist, intends "astonishing the natives," by a grand fireworks display in Wallsend, on Tuesday evening next, when a balloon ascent, ...
Article : 75 wordsA distressing accident occurred on September 11th at Dounington Wood Colliery, Shropshire, England, by which eleven miners met almost instantaneous death. These men went down the pit at six in the morning, ...
Article : 83 wordsA deputation waited upon the Hon. John Robertson to-day, urging the desirability of the Government purchasing Pyrmont bridge, and thowing it open for the public to pass ...
Article : 175 wordsSteps have at last been taken to decide the fate of this colliery, as a petition has been lodged in the Supreme Court for winding up the same. The petition is entered by Messrs. J. Fairfax, Mort, Montefiore, Vickery, and ...
Article : 82 wordsThe following extraordinary challenge appeared in the Sunderland Echo of Wednesday:—"I, George Fullard, of Sunderland, am open to swim across the Channel with any man. Reference that he can do ...
Article : 72 wordsBy fresh arrangements since the extension to Gunning the overland mails to Melbourne reach that city in two days, and are delivered in the early morning of the third. The success of the Postal ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Press is inundated with complaints as to the disgraceful arrangements in regard to the railway excursion trains yesterday. It is considered probable that the law officials will be ...
Article : 33 wordsWe observe from Bells Life in London that several important races are on the tapis. A race for the championship has been arranged for between R. W. Boyd, of the Tyne, and J. H. Sadler, of the Thames; ...
Article : 117 wordsBrown, the aborigine, has been committed for trial on the, charge of murdering John Baker. The nominations for the Thousand Pounds ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsA polo match, in which Sir Hercules Robinson, the Hon. Hely Hutchinson, Mr. Want, and Mr. Sullivan played against a similar, number of Victorians, the former won ...
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Miners' Advocate and Northumberland Recorder (Newcastle, NSW : 1873 - 1876), Sat 13 Nov 1875, Page 3
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