AT the military tournament, on Saturday, the N.S.W. mounted rifles defeated a detachment of the British regular cavalry in wrestling on horseback. ...
Article : 52 wordsMAIZE advanced to-day to 2s. 10d. per bushel. ...
Article : 22 wordsON Saturday night the Lismore railway station was broken, into and the safe abstracted. Having carried the safe away a short distance it was broken open, the ...
Article : 43 wordsGLEN INNES. — The ladies of the Benevolent Society have made their first attack on the public for subscriptions towards the proposed cottage homes for the poor in the ...
Article : 3,063 wordsTHE following tenders have been accepted for roads in the Armidale district:—Armidale to Hillgrove, J. C. Miller, Armidale, £240 9s. 0d.; Armidale to Hillgrove, M. ...
Article : 36 wordsHEAVY rain commenced on Saturday afternoon and continued throughout Sunday. It is fine to-day. ...
Article : 21 wordsIN committee, in the House of Commons John Redmond, J. J. Clancy, W. Field, and W. Redmond, were named by the Chairman, and were afterwards suspended ...
Article : 103 wordsMR. JOHN M. CAHALAN, Council Clerk at Liverpool, died suddenly to-day, after a few days' illness, from an affection of the brain and head. ...
Article : 29 wordsTHE eldest sons of Dr. Bateman and Mr. William Shepherd were both drowned on Saturday whilst boating at Lake Illawarra. ...
Article : 26 wordsRAIN again set in this afternoon. The Government astronomer says that although the rain affected practically half the colony, yet it had not broken up the ...
Article : 40 wordsWITH reference to the proposal of the Minister of Agriculture to award special prizes at societies' shows, the Minister says this is entirely distinct from and in ...
Article : 79 wordsACCIARITO, who attempted to stab KingHumber, of Italy, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. ...
Article : 24 wordsANOTHER batch of bookmakers were to-day fined £10 each and costs, or one month's imprisonment, for betting at Randwick. The fines amounted to £400. ...
Article : 30 wordsAN allowance of £30 was the other night voted to the Mayor of Granville for the year. It is understood that the Mayor will expend the money in connection with the ...
Article : 2,208 wordsAT the inquest on the body of Hilton Pittman, who was found dead near Moree, with a rifle bullet through his forehead, his rifle being found eighty-five yards away ...
Article : 66 wordsTHE Khalif has massed 16,000 camels at Omdurman, his head-quarters, and a great council of Soudan chiefs is to be held in the middle of June. ...
Article : 60 wordsAT the Criminal Court, to-day, the case of alleged libel against John Norton was postponed until to-morrow to allow defendant to amend his plea. ...
Article : 32 wordsISAAC JOHN JOSEPHSON, a well-known citizen, died to-day at his residence, Macquariestreet, aged 73 years. ...
Article : 21 wordsTHE Inspector General of Police has opposed the proposal that the Salvation Army be given access at any time during the day to Pentridge for the purpose of ...
Article : 39 wordsSIX petty officers belonging to H.M.S. Collingwood have been drowned in Ireland owing to the capsizing of a boat. ...
Article : 28 wordsA STORM having cyclonic force passed over a portion of the Newcastle district between five and six o'clock this morning, causing considerable consternation among the ...
Article : 38 wordsPROF. MARYANSKI has discovered what is supposed to he native silver in a boulder at the Perseverance Mine. The amalgam contains hundreds of ounces of gold, ...
Article : 61 wordsTHE fund inaugurated by the LONDON DAILY CHRONICLE in aid of the Greek sick and wounded is closed, the amount subscribed being £10,000. ...
Article : 34 wordsTHE Sultan of Turkey has presented the Emperor of Germany with a battery of six guns recently captured from the Greeks by the Turks. ...
Article : 32 wordsOPEN your ears, for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks. —SHAKESPEARE. THERE is apparently very little chance of ...
Article : 719 wordsA TERRIBLE catastrophe occurred at Pisa, in Italy, during the ceremony of uncovering the image of the Madonna. There was an enormous crowd at the ...
Article : 74 wordsJAMES WRAY, the Australian sculler, haschallenged Jacob Gaudaar to uphold the sculling championship of the world, or to resign it. ...
Article : 142 wordsA PROCLAMATION is issued under the provisions of the "Country Towns Water and Sewerage Act of 1880" defining the area comprised within the catchment area for ...
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