The Minister for Works has recently had the question of defaulting contractors brought prominently before him. In many instances it has been found that contracts have been let and ...
Article : 325 wordsThe weather yesterday was exceptionally trying in Sydney. A hot wind blew all morning, and early in the afternoon there was every appearance of a fierce storm of wind ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Friday.--Mr. Gladstone delivered further addresses to his constituents in Edinburghshire yesterday. The right hon. gentleman referred to ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Thursday Night.--Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, the delegate appointed by the Sydney Trades and Labor Council to represent the facts of the Australian labor ...
Article : 1,590 wordsBULLI, Friday.--Everything has been quiet, and uneventful to-day. Satisfactory progress has been made with the work of repairing the damage to Mr. Mitchell's line, and he will be ...
Article : 428 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--A violent gale passed over Melbourne between 12 and 1 o'clock to-day, coming from the north-west. The full strength of the gale lasted only a few minutes, ...
Article : 204 wordsLONDON, Friday.--A number of Irish navvies who had been engaged to proceed to Australia refused at the last moment to start and have returned to Dublin in a ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Government notify in yesterday's Gazette that a reward of £200 will be paid for such information as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons ...
Article : 87 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.--Heavy gales are reported from the coast. The barque State, at the Port, was caught by the squall and driven broadside on to the wharf, tearing away a part of her ...
Article : 196 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The London dock-owners who propose to make no distinction in the employment of free laborers and unionists after the 4th prox. are friendly ...
Article : 58 wordsThe following letter has been addressed to Mr. Finch, the president of the Labor Defence Committee:-- "St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, October 21. ...
Article : 396 wordsThe two cruisers for the Australian squadron which are being constructed on the Clyde are rapidly approaching completion, writes the London correspondent of the Melbourne Argus ...
Article : 237 wordsNEWCASTLE, Friday.--At a public meeting held in the Carrington-hall last night it was resolved--" That in the opinion of this meeting it is highly desirable that organised branches of ...
Article : 520 wordsLONDON, Thursday Night.--The irritation caused by the operation of the M'Kinley tariff in the United States is increasing in Germany. It is hoped that the German ...
Article : 52 wordsPERTH, Friday.--Considerable land purchases are being made in anticipation of progress under the new state of things. Mr. Joseph Bradshaw, of Melbourne, has taken up a large ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The Countess of Jersey is suffering from a severe cold, which prevented her from leaving England with the Earl of Jersey yesterday. ...
Article : 36 wordsNEWCASTLE, Friday, Midnight.--Shortly before midnight Constables M'Kellar and Holmes arrested two men named Gallagher and Maguire for having stolen property in their possession. ...
Article : 202 wordsA conference to devise steps for putting an effectual stop to the importation of opium into Sydney is to be held at Quong Tart's rooms on Thursday morning next at haif-past 10. It is ...
Article : 154 wordsLONDON, Thursday Night,-- The land Company of Australia has decided to recommend its colonial board to limit the dividends to 10 per cent, until such time as the ...
Article : 46 wordsA labor meeting was held at the Southern Cross Hotel, Strawberry-hills, last night. A good local committee was formed, and a small amount added to the strike fund. Mr. Finch ...
Article : 75 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--Very little of importance transpired on the Flemington training ground this morning and that which did occur consisted in the main of half-mile spurts. ...
Article : 279 wordsHILLGROVE, Friday.--Mr. H. W. Tilley addressed a large meeting of miners last night on the subjects of free labor, trades-unions, co-operation and protection. The lecture was ...
Article : 83 wordsPERTH, Friday.--The writs for the elections to the Assembly were issued yesterday and made returnable early in December. The general impression is that Mr. John Forrest ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--A conference took place to-night between the representatives of the Slaughtermen's Unions and the Master Butchers' Association. There is every reason ...
Article : 37 wordsWOLLONGONG, Friday.--Work is still continued without any interruption at the three collieries at this end of the district. The Mount Kembla colliery to-day sent down a fair ...
Article : 794 wordsLITHGOW, Friday.--The work of coal-cutting and black-fiiling has gone on as usual to-day at the Vale, the Yale of Clwydd and the Hermitage Collieries and a good quantity has been turned ...
Article : 142 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--In the Criminal Court to-day, the trial of Robert Nicholson and John Stodart, which has occupied the Court two days, was concluded. Prisoners who wore ...
Article : 67 wordsThe old man, Charles N. Wilson, who took a fit while incarcerated in the Parramatta lockup as a vagrant, and was removed to the Parramatta District Hospital died in the institution ...
Article : 77 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. --A sad boating calamity, the direct consequence of tempestuous weather, occurred in Hobson's Bay to-night, the victims being two firemen from the R.M.S. ...
Article : 102 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--A fresh development took place in connection with the shipping trouble to-day. When the marine officers threw in their lot with the Trades-hall at the ...
Article : 809 wordsAt the colonists farewell banquet to be tendered to Lord Carrington on Tuesday next Sir Henry Parkes will propose the health of the departing Governor. ...
Article : 1,860 wordsA sad fatality happened yesterday afternoon during the great storm between 2 and 8 o'clock. It appears that four men engaged a boat for the purpose of having a fishing excursion off ...
Article : 99 wordsAlready the railway traffic between Sydney and Melbourne in connection with the races has become noticeable, and it is expected that next week it will be greatly increased. A special ...
Article : 424 wordsIt has transpired that the insurances on the cargo of the wrecked steamer Alberta amounted to £7700. Of this the Victoria Fire and Marine Insurance Company held a line of £4000, the ...
Article : 52 wordsA serious tram accident, which will not, it is hoped, prove fatal, occurred yesterday afternoon in Oxford-s, shortly after 6 o'clock, the victim being a little newsboy named ...
Article : 211 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--Tee Premier Permanent Building Society's cases cams on this morning, when the Chief Justice announced that he had overruled the objections made ...
Article : 117 wordsPERTH, Friday.--General Downs, commandant of the South Australian forces, will represent this colony at the conference relative to the defence of King George Bound. He will ...
Article : 45 wordsNEWCASTLE, Friday.--A little girl, 15 months old, named Gardner, whilst playing near her parents residence at Adamstown to-night, fell into a waterhole and was drowned. ...
Article : 30 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--At the inquest to-day on the body of Luke Connolly, watchman for Howard Smith and Sons, whose body was found in the Yarra an open verdict was returned, as ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Sat 25 Oct 1890, Page 5
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