Constable Boon leaves here with his family for Orange on Tuesday next, and Mr. A. Cormack, with his family, also leaves on the same day for Newtown. ...
Article : 36 wordsFootball on Saturday afternoon proved a somewhat warm task, as, in addition to the players making things merry, climatic conditions also tended to make the game of football rather 4 ...
Article : 879 wordsSir,--In reply to your letter of 19th instant, I have the honour, by direction of the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, to inform you that thirty pairs of blankets were forwarded to the Relief ...
Article : 66 wordsDuring a trip down Caportee, Airly, and Torbane way this week, our representative heard Constable Scott everywhere spoken very highly of. This reminds us that it's about time ...
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Advertising : 340 wordsThe annual collection in aid of the hospital took place in Lithgow on Saturday. From early morn ladies, with red cross badges on thoir arms, and armed with boxes, laid siege to the pockets ...
Article : 558 wordsA shook of earthquake was felt here on Tuesday about noon. It appeared to start in the north and travel in an easterly direction. Wo are having beautiful warm days, with very ...
Article : 97 wordsSince the announcement in Inst Friday's Mercury that a Starr-Bowkott Benefit Building Society is about to be formed in Lithgow, considerable interest has been expressed and ...
Article : 144 wordsSpeaking on meteorological matters on Sunday evening, Mr. Russell (Government Astronomer) stated that May was the driest month ever experienced. For days and days over 200 stations ...
Article : 114 wordsThe weather continues dry. The days are lovely and warm, but the nights cold and frosty, During tho past month several carts and vans have been running daily from Rockley to Perth, ...
Article : 103 wordsMENINDIE, Saturday.--Senior constable Cole and Constable Hinde bad a bard day's tracking yesterday, after the man who stuck up the Wilcannia-Menindie mail. Eventually they found ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. John Hurley, with Mr. Mayor Spooner and Captain Bracey, waited on the Minister for Works on Thursday and urged the question of the duplication of pipes, and the necessity of an ...
Article : 176 wordsA vacancy has occurred in the Progress Committee, Dr. Innes having resigned. The election of a new member was fixed for last Saturday, but has been postponed until Wednesday night. ...
Article : 150 wordsAt last the mine water has arrived (says Saturday's Cobar Leafier). It came on Monday, as we stated it would in our last issue. On Monday afternoon there were nearly 200 persons ...
Article : 367 wordsThus Friday's Mountaineer:--"After the reform meeting on Monday night Mr. Hurley addressed himself to local matter. In reference to the Minister for Lands' promise to visit ...
Article : 252 wordsA special court was held yesterday before Mossrs. T. A. Smith, P.M., T. P. Hackney and J. D. Creer, Js.P. Beautiful weather prevails. ...
Article : 365 wordsOperations in connection with the erection of the Bank-Roy streets bridge are now well under weigh. The excavations for the foundations are being made, and several of the ...
Article : 83 wordsA wire from Hockley says:--Stock are in very low condition. Sheep are being boiled down for pig feed. At the local lauds office last week J. R. Hogan ...
Article : 615 wordsThe staff at the hospital have a very busy time at present, there being no loss than nine eases in the institution. Of these, there is one of erysipelas, one typhoid c[?]se, and three others which ...
Article : 85 wordsMiss Alice Bishop--bettor known as Edna Dean, of the Lithgow Empire Amateur Dramatic Club--passed away at her residence, Bank-street, on Saturday morning, after, a very short ...
Article : 252 wordsSir,--For more than thirty years in New South Wales every Parliament that has been, elected and every Government that has come into power has boon pledged to local ...
Article : 611 wordsHow often, especially during the winter months, does one read and hear of people contracting dangerous Bronchial and Chest ailments through the neglect of ordinary precautions to rid ...
Article : 113 wordsA meeting of the above club was held at Mr. W. Smith's hotel, on Tuesday night last. Mr. H. Bladon. presided over a 'largo gathering of members. After the usual business was disposed ...
Article : 334 wordsThere was a large attendance at the Masonichall, Katoomba, on Thursday evening last, the occasion being a grand minstrel entertainment given by the above troupe, the proceeds of which were in aid of the Katoomba A.H. and I. Society. ...
Article : 427 wordsThe first grand concert of the above society come off most successfully at the Oddfellows' [?]ball last night. The audience must have comprised 400 persons, whose unanimous verdict was ...
Article : 193 wordsAFTER enjoying some five months' respite from work, the Now South Wales legislators (that is the title which all members of Parliament can claim, unworthy of it though many of ...
Article : 872 wordsWilliam Henry Rodgers was charged with being a person deemed to be insane and not under proper care and control. Coast Road, of Mount Victoria, deposed: On ...
Article : 147 wordsSir,--Referring to Mr. Alderson's application for permission to build and also asking for street love's, which permission was withhold owing to his not parting with the necessary fee. The ...
Article : 201 wordsWith the MERCURY will be issued shortly a special supplement, having exclusive reference to the Coronation of his Majesty, King Edward VII. The supplement will be printed on highly ...
Article : 136 wordsSeven pupils only have been enrolled in the bookkeeping class to-date, only one of whom signed the requisition. Work has at last been resumed at the now ...
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Advertising : 18 wordsThe Mansion House Fund for the relief of sufferers by tho eruptions in the West Indies totals £49,000. The Paris fund totals 1156,000. Sarah Goodare, formerly Jones, obtained a ...
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Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Tue 3 Jun 1902, Page 2
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