The directors of the British-India S. N. Co. deny the report that they have agreed to the adoption of a scheme for running mail steamers between England and ...
Article : 59 wordsThe midnight train to Blayney left the rails at Holmwood, lour miles from Cowra, and the engine is now lying down the embankment on its side, with the tender ...
Article : 75 wordsTHE City Coroner held an inquest this morning at the Town Hall Hotel, Marriekville, on the body of a woman named Sophia Kempener, who died under suspicious ...
Article : 903 wordsTHE terrible collapse of the Volunteer Artillery Hotel, with its accompanying lies of life, has been the one theme of discussion during the day, and, indeed, ...
Article : 1,067 wordsWITH regard to the military organisation and resources of China much might be written, but, to summarise the chief facts, it may be said that the military ...
Article : 1,050 wordsA FIERCE-LOOKING, powerful fellow named Robert, Black was called upon at the Central this afternoon to answer a charge of haying garroted one Patrick Sheehan on ...
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Article : 51 wordsA MAN named Julius Forst was at the Central to-day brought up on an information charging him that on December 20,1889, and on divers other days and times between that ...
Article : 136 wordsEliza Bishop, a married woman, made a a desperate effort to cut her throat this morning. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe complimentary meeting to Mr. A. Town is favored with splendid weather, but the attendance is hardly in keeping with the occasion. Following are the results:-- ...
Article : 209 wordsAN English book of musical anecdotes relates of Beethoven that, when he was a boy and played the organ at Bonn, a coxcomb, who was one of the choir singers, was ...
Article : 614 wordsFRANCIS WILLIAMS, 60, laborer ; James Cole, 68, dealer ; William Lawrence, 58, dealer ; and Archibald Campbell, 70, tailor, who were arrested yesterday by Constables ...
Article : 121 wordsDon Praxedes Mateo Sagasta, the Spanish Prime Minister and President of the Couneil, has resigned office. He. intends to effect a reconstruction of the Ministry. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 19 wordsTHE discovery of a sad drowning fatality was made this morning at Balmain. A little boy named Thomas Ross, aged 6 years, the son of Mr. Thomas Ross, ...
Article : 104 wordsThe black trackers have been closely at work this morning following up the traces of blood from where the body of the man Frost was found at Arden-street, Hothain. ...
Article : 124 wordsOur Kempsey correspondent wires:-- Great satisfaction is expressed at Mr. German Verge winning the Members' Cup at the Port Macquarie regatta. Mr. Verge ...
Article : 43 wordsThe ship Derwent, which sailed from Sydney on October 14, arrived here to-day. ...
Article : 27 wordsAn inquest has been held at Macquarie Farm, six miles from Carcoar, touching the. deaths by drowning of Annie and Rubina Arthur, daughters of Daniel Arthur, of ...
Article : 131 wordsSIR. HENRY PARKES received a telegram from Mr. Gillies yesterday evening agreeing to the Federation Conference being held in Melbourne on Tuesday, February 4. The ...
Article : 52 wordsAT the instance of Mr. Inspector Mackay a young man named Isaac Solomon was at the Central to-day charged under the Betting Houses Suppression Act with using ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Supreme Court has agreed to release Signor Castellano on his, finding L50 surety that he will not leave the colony till the legal proceedings are decided. ...
Article : 45 wordsWord comes to hand that affairs in connection with the stoppage of the North Bulli mine have now assumed a new phase. A week or so ago the ...
Article : 287 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--During a thunderstorm yesterday the driver of a Williamstown train was nearly blinded by a terrific flash of lightning, a thunderbolt exploding ...
Article : 52 wordsA PARAGRAPH, evidently having its foundation on the authority of the Treasury, appeared in a contemporary yesterday refer ring to payment of members. It was therein ...
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Article : 50 wordsA MEETING of the Water and Sewerage Board was held this afternoon at the new offices, 289 Pitt-street, when there were present Messrs. Rowe (chairman), ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 332 wordsAt the Water Police Court this morning Mary Ann Ross, a young servant girl, appeared, charged with stealing various articles of wearing apparel, the property of Amy ...
Article : 40 wordsA youth named Thomas Edwards, aged 17, met with an accident, on New Year's Day. It appears he was shooting hares with an old mazzle-loading gun, which ...
Article : 54 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.-- A representative of the Eureka sanitary burning process is now in Brisbane, and it is probable that some of the local authorities will be induced to try ...
Article : 41 wordsAn old resident of Windsor named James Mulliger was found dead in an outhouse attached to his premises early this morning. Mrs. Mullinger missed her husband, and on ...
Article : 48 wordsA BUTCHER named Henry E. Spinks rolled up at the Water Police Court this morning in answer to a charge of assaulting the partner of his joys and sorrows, ...
Article : 90 wordsLOUTH, Friday.--Charles Gillett was brought up before the police magistrate to-day on a charge of vagrancy, and sent to gaol for three months with hard labor. ...
Article : 53 wordsMaurice Franklin, a medical man, practising at Ballarat who disappeared from Fitzroy on December 10, has been found drowned in the. River Mersey, Tasmania. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe offer made by the A. A. Co. to widows of the men who met their death in the Hamilton pit recently has been accepted, and it will only bo a matter of a few ...
Article : 139 wordsTwenty-four inches of rain have fallen at Normanton, Carpentaria, since Christmas Day. The whole country is flooded. Three men, Joseph Crow, William Pinkerton, and ...
Article : 63 wordsWhile J. W. Marron, caretaker of Government House, and an orderly named Thomas Whetuall, were sitting at an open window at Government House yesterday a ...
Article : 57 wordsThe newly-found kaolin lode in Block 10 shows, more and more magnificently as the sinking proceeds. ...
Article : 31 wordsWHILE at work this morning on the old A.S.N. Co.'s.wharf, a seaman named Robt. Hulner, aged 57, received some painful injuries through a case of galvanised iron ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Bishop of Adelaide is endeavoring to have the execution of the aboriginal Jacky, who is condemned to death for the murder of a drover, postponed. ...
Article : 34 wordsA LITTLE surprise occurred to our new Mayor, Mr. S. Burdekiu, on New Year's Eve. Mr. Quong Tart, with his usual energy, got up an impromptu serenade ...
Article : 160 wordsA GOOD-LOOKING young girl named Florrie Higinbotham pleaded guilty at the Central to-day to having stolen a quantity of wearing apparel, valued at L6, from Mary Theresa ...
Article : 72 wordsALLEGED ABDUCTION.--Frederick Minors, a laborer, was remanded till Wednesday on a charge of having abducted. Annie Ferris. A Cool SPOT.--Out of the heat and dust ...
Article : 116 wordsThe first meeting of the Stockton Municipal Council was held last night for the purpose of electing the Mayor. Alderman O'Mara proposed and Alderman Thomas ...
Article : 172 wordsMARY WOODS, an ancient lady of the genus tough, Was found this morning with a lady's jacket in her possession. The astute constable reasoned that Mary was not in the ...
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Article : 84 wordsA baretaced case of larceny has just came to light in Brisbane. Two men representing themselves as laborers obtained a ladder and climbed the roofs of several Warehouses ...
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Advertising : 12 wordsbecame necessary for Constable Davis to fire Charles Dunkin, a drunken hod carrier, out of the Glebe Police Station, where he had been making himself objectionable. ...
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Article : 33 wordsA THOROUGH person named Elizabeth Ryan answered at the Central this afternoon to a summons charging her with keeping a disorderly and ill-conducted house, or brothel, ...
Article : 96 wordsAT the inquest held at Macdonaldtown today concerning the death of John Dawe, aged 77, who was discovered yesterday morning hanging by a rope in a buggy shed ...
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Advertising : 55 wordsA MAN named William Cane; at the Central to-day, owned up to having stolen a portmanteau from Anthony Hordern and Sons. The mode of working was simple. ...
Article : 56 wordsSURETIES.--George Bell, who is at present a guest of her Majesty for stealing boots, was ordered to find sureties, self in L10 and a premium in a like amount, for threatening to ...
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The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909), Sat 4 Jan 1890, Page 6
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