The death is announced of Baron Dowse, the well-known Irish judge, in his 66th year. The cause of death was disease of the heart. ...
Article : 339 wordsTo-morrow the postponed programme of pony racing will be run off at Moorefield, providing the weather keeps fine, of which there now seems every probability, special ...
Article : 342 wordsM'LAUGHLIN v. Bennett is an action for libel by John M'Laughlin, a pretty-well- known solicitor of Sydney, and Alfred Bennett and "others" (Penny Postage Henniker ...
Article : 525 wordsA MOST mysterious affair happened on Saturday night. A young lady in a good social position, and respected wherever she was known, was in company with a friend ...
Article : 1,142 wordsTOOLE has been having un unexampled round of entertainments prior to his departure for Australia. There has hardly been a club of any note into which the literary or theatrical ...
Article : 968 wordsThe French in Dahomey, Wost Africa, have bombarded Abomey, the capital of the kingdom, and also the town of Kalavy. A panic has occurred amongst the troops ...
Article : 49 wordsThe authorities of San Francisco have ordered all the Chinese residents to at once remove from the central portions of the city. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day the Premier, the Marquis of Salisbury, gave notice of motion to the effect that the thanks of the House be accorded to the Judges of the ...
Article : 104 wordsSir Arthur Elibank Havelock has been gazetted Governor of the island of Ceylon, in succession to Sir Arthur H. Gordon. ...
Article : 31 wordsA trial has taken place of the Zalinski dynamite gun ordered by the Victorian Government. The experiments were a splendid success. The gun was fitted with ...
Article : 35 wordsTho Privy Council have allowed the appeal in the New South Wales ease of Brown v. Dibbs. ...
Article : 29 wordsFloods of unequalled extent have occurred on the Mississippi River, in the United States of America, but the damage done was ...
Article : 33 wordsIncreasing indignation is being expressed in Great Britain in consequence of the further revelations made regarding the reported Siberian atrocities. The Government ...
Article : 44 wordsSilver is now quoted at 3s. 7¾d. per oz. The market is declining. Lead is quoted at. L12 8s. The market is firm. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Gower, the Gladstone Liberal candidate, has been elected member of Parliament Stoke-upon-Trent, in place of Mr. W. Leatham Bright, resigned. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Carrington 100 Yards Handicap will be concluded this evening, and should furnish some very fair sport. Entries close to-night for the Carrington ...
Article : 70 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsOur Bourke correspondent writes :--The final" boat of the four-oared contest, under the auspices as the Bourke Rowing Club, was rowed on the river on Saturday ...
Article : 58 wordsComplaints are being made in commercial and other circles that the Christian names of the passengers and crew missing from the wreck of the mail steamer Quetta have not ...
Article : 43 wordsIn an article on the subject of the West Australian Enabling Bill the Economist considers it desirable that the British Government should reserve the greatest ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Cambridge Rowing Club has elected Mr. Muttlebury president for the ensuing year. ...
Article : 32 wordsON Wednesday, January 22, a great Liberal demonstration was held at the music hall, Chester, at which the principal speaker was Mr. W. E. Gladstone. During his speech ...
Article : 727 wordsMOST nationalities have their own particular feast day in the year, hut it is very doubtful if any keep it up with that exuberant jollity and Joyousness that the Royal ...
Article : 452 words"Billy" Murphy, the Australian champion lightweight pugilist, has defeated Warren, of America, in a fight which took place at San Francisco. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe new cruisers intended for the Australian Auxiliary Squadron are taking in stores and shipping their armaments. They are to undertake trial trips at Devonport, ...
Article : 41 wordsPrince Bismarck, the German Chancellor, has had an interview with Herr Ludwig Windhorst, tho Parliamentary leader of the Catholic party in Germany, with a view to ...
Article : 68 wordsThe report that Sir E. Baldwin Malet had been appointed a British delegate at tho International Labor Conference is unfounded. It is Understood ...
Article : 155 wordsThe union laborers employed in the metropolitan gasworks are employing a stringent system of picketing to prevent the employment of "blacklegs." ...
Article : 29 wordsM. Pasteur complains bitterly of the "perfidy of the Government of New South Wales" in denying to him the reward of L25,000 offered for the best means of ...
Article : 67 wordsAt the inquest held on the body of the shunter, Edward Collingwood, who was killed at the Waratah railway station, the jury returned a verdict of accidentally ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. E. G. Scott Naylor, an inmate of the Woogaroo Asylum, formerly well known in Brisbane commercial circles, was being removed by boat from the asylum with others ...
Article : 48 wordsTenders are to be called on Friday next, March 21, for a Queensland 3½ per cont. loan of L2,265,000. The minimum is fixed at 97. In a loading article the STATIST ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Government coal hulk, Jemima, broke her moorings during the flood, and stopped in the vicinity of Mr. Brown's Wharf, where she fouled with the wharf, and when the ...
Article : 44 wordsDom Carles, the King of Portugal, in reply to a deputation of students at Oporto who demanded the removal of the British Consul there, thanked them heartily for ...
Article : 81 wordsWITH the exception of a few fish-porters, all the union men engaged at Billingsgate .Market were on strike on January 21, but it was evident outside help had been ...
Article : 157 wordsThe body of the man Evans was found yesterday near Waterloo Hotel, Fortitude Valley. He was drowned while taking an excursion in a punt with a number of ...
Article : 54 wordsThe shipment of potatoes from Australia brought by the R.M.S. Orient fetched at auction 40s. per ton. The shipment of potatoes by the P. and O. mail steamer ...
Article : 75 wordsGEORGE SPLATT and William Jones were charged at the Central to-day with riotous conduct in George-street. The riotous behavior consisted of war which the parties ...
Article : 102 wordsIt is reported that another outbreak has occurred in Afghanistan against the rule of the Ameer, Abdurrahman Khan, and that a number of courtiers, supposed to have been ...
Article : 80 wordsTHE Premier and the Minister for Mines intend to carry out their original arrangements in connection with the proposed visit to Broken Hill. Sir Henry Parkes has ...
Article : 104 wordsJOSEPH ABRAHAM, a coal-black Indian, was charged at the Central to-day with having stolen 7s. 6d. and Borne articles from William Caltman. The prosecutor lay down in ...
Article : 96 wordsNEWCASTLE, Monday.-- The Customs revenue for the past week amounted to L1592 15s. 9d. ...
Article : 18 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 75 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 64 wordsNEWCASTLE, Monday.--The journeymen bakers held a meeting oil Saturday night, and decided to form a union. Mr. C. Brazill was elected president; Mr. W. ...
Article : 67 wordsNEWCASTLE, Monday. -- A valuable bullock was run over and killed by the northern mail train at Ourimbah station last night. The animal was tcrribly ...
Article : 46 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 22 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909), Mon 17 Mar 1890, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: