The work of repairing the Centennial, which I reported as having been let for an hotel, is proceeding. Several men arrived last Saturday. The painters alone expect to take three months to do their share, ...
Article : 196 wordsThe following sheep were trucked here yesterday for Flemington: -- 950 for E. Vickery and Sons, Kanimbla station, consigned to Pitt, Son, and Badgery: 300 Liddleton station (western agents), Hill, ...
Article : 174 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 264 wordsThere are altogether about 200 people employed in and about the smelting works at Dapto. Last week the prospectus of a company, to be called the Cobar Smelting and Exploration Co., ...
Article : 86 wordsThe rain has come at last, and come in good measure, too. Yesterday evening it was raining over the greater part of the colony, the Murrumbidgee and adjoining country excepted. Of course, ...
Article : 541 wordsOn account of the prolonged drought the management of the Burraga copper mine has been compelled to knock off a large number of carriers who were drawing wood. The mines otherwise are working ...
Article : 54 wordsThe municipal appeal court will be held in Lithgow next Wednesday, the 11th inst. New business: -- Mr. A. G. Jones, hairdresser and tobacconist, in Dr. Asher's buildings, ...
Article : 969 wordsWith regard to the debating society spoken of in last issue, the secretary pro tern informs us that he has obtained the names of fourteen gentlemen who have agreed to become members. ...
Article : 312 wordsOur Rockley correspondent writes under date 2nd May : -- "It is reported that the directors of the Mt. David G.M. Co. are so satisfied with their prospects, the result of last crushing, that they have decided to ...
Article : 71 wordsThe usual fortnightly social in connection with the above society took place on Tuesday evening last. The function took the form of a mock banquet, and went off very successfully. The attendance was ...
Article : 241 wordsMilling in this locality is generally retarded, owing to the continued drought, as little or no water is available for washing purposes. About ten days ago a report readied here that Messrs. Hart and party ...
Article : 76 wordsMilling is almost at a standstill here owing to the want of water. There are now five batteries hung up on that account. Numbers of local miners have gone off to try their luck in the various wet creeks ...
Article : 183 wordsAt the Police Court on Monday a travelling tinker with his machine was run in for being drunk, and was fined 5s or seven clays. The Katoomba Council met on Wednesday evening, ...
Article : 212 wordsSir, -- In asking you to allow me to address the electors through your columns, will you let me explain that my intention was to address public meetings in various parts of this ...
Article : 1,104 wordsMining matters are very much mixed. All wages men have been knocked off at Ashton (late Homeward Bound) mine ; con tractors only kept on. About half a dozen above wages men were given work ...
Article : 291 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 275 wordsA dance, promoted by three travelling musicians, took place in the local hall last Friday night. Though the attendance was not as numerous as might have boon expected, those present spent a most enjoyable ...
Article : 92 wordsThe following letter, addressed to the trustees of the School of Arts, was received here early in the week, and sent on to Mr. Kerr by the first mail: -- Department of Public Instruction, ...
Article : 261 wordsThe A.K.O. Company have just completed loading a cargo of shale, somewhere about 4000 tons having been dispatched, so that the stack on hand has a diminished appearance. A number of hands at this ...
Article : 98 wordsContentment now reigns supreme in the heart of the miner, as we have our own medical adviser in the person of Dr. Brennan, late of Murrundi. Like his predecessor, lie is residing at Capertee, but visits the ...
Article : 128 wordsLONDON, April 30. -- The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has dismissed, with costs, the appeal in the case of Adams v. Young. [This was a declaration against the Hon. J. H. ...
Article : 299 wordsSir, -- In reading your last issue I observed a report headed "Williewa and Jew's Creek," in which " a correspondent undertakes to comment on "Hart and party's claim " at Jew's Creek. Being the first ...
Article : 165 wordsSome people will say the ground about here is too poor to grow much, but results achieved at Mr. Hackney's Buckburraga station show that with proper tilling wonderful results can be obtained. Three ...
Article : 123 wordsThe prospect of amicably settling the coal weighing difficulty docs not appear particularly bright. Both in the Newcastle and Illawarra districts the miners appear to be almost unanimous in their ...
Article : 613 wordsA "Rockley" match is announced for Rydal to-morrow. It seems questionable if the weather or the ground will be fit for playing. ...
Article : 25 wordsSUNNY CORNER, Saturday. -- Further dastardly nets have been committed at Yetholme. Mrs. Boyd was driving to Bathurst on Tuesday night, when the axle tree of the buggy broke. She left the buggy on ...
Article : 73 wordsQuotations yesterday were : Maize, 2s 3d per bushel. Flour, to £12 per ton. Prime wheat, 4s 9d per bushel. Bran and pollard, 10d and 10½d per bushel. Hay, £3 10s to £4 10s per ton. Straw, £2 to £2 10s per ...
Article : 231 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 136 wordsA fresh entrance is being made to the Imperial Cave, which will be a great boon to elderly visitors. During the winter the post only runs three times a week, via Oberon. If it were dispatched via Mount ...
Article : 98 wordsSir, -- With reference to your communication of the 25th ultimo, respecting an application for a grant of money to fence the general cemetery, Rydal, I have the honor to inform you that the district ...
Article : 77 wordsI am pleased to record that Miss A. A. Hunt, the ex-pupil teacher of the Oberon public school, has been promoted to take charge of the Curban public school, and, as she has been hon, organist of St. ...
Article : 145 wordsAt Sunny Corner on Wednesday, Cornelius Ryan appeared before Messrs. Wilson and Bather, Js.P., charged with firing through the window of the residence of A. McDonald, of Thorp's Pinch, with ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. John Philip Thomas Caulfield appeared yesterday before the Full Court and moved for a rule nisi calling upon Mr. John Norton, editor of Truth, to show cause why he should not be committed for ...
Article : 113 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 24 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Fri 6 May 1898, Page 4
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: