The Government Geologist, Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, has reported to the Minister for [?] of his inspection [?] of certain processes for the [?] ...
Article : 780 wordsWhen the proposal to grant a retiring allowance equal to his full salary to Mr. John Whitton, late Engineer-in-Chief for Railways, was under discussion in the Assembly an animated ...
Article : 1,184 wordsAn alarm was received at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade at about 20 minutes to 3 o'clock this morning, for a fire at No. 57 (late 69) York-street. Two steamers were at once ...
Article : 385 wordsBULLI, Wednesday.--The whole of the men formerly employed at Woonona Mine went to work yesterday, under the special terms already reported. No exceptions were made on account ...
Article : 231 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Secretary of Customs this morning received telegrams from Queenscliff stating that the Kelton, the smallpox stricken vessel which went ashore opposite ...
Article : 202 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Further particulars have been received from New York respecting the fighting between the American military force and the Sioux Indians ...
Article : 110 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--Mr. S. W. Brooks, of the Guardian, the trade protective paper has supplied the following summary of the insolvency business for the year:--The total ...
Article : 96 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--Sir Samuel Griffith was banqueted at Charters Towers last night, and had an enthusiastic reception. In the course of his speech he referred to the black ...
Article : 140 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Customs returns for December are again below anticipation, the amount being £221,894. The total for the half-year ended to-day was £1,378,425, ...
Article : 38 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The conference of the members of the Irish party met yesterday in Paris, the meeting of Mr. C. S. Parnell, M.P., and Mr. William O'Brien, ...
Article : 80 wordsBOURKE, Wednesday.--An accident befel Mr. Henry Peckitt, of this town, yesterday. It appears that Mr. Robertson, in the employment of Mr. M'Kenzie, rode a horse belonging to Mr. ...
Article : 153 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A deputation from the free laborers opposed to the closing of the Employers' Free Labor Bureau waited upon the Steamship-owners' Association this ...
Article : 143 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--The new arrangement between Howard Smith and Son and the A.U.S.N. Company comes into operation after this week. Four steamers per week will run ...
Article : 145 wordsGRAFTON, Wednesday.--Last night a woman named Harriett Woodleigh entered the Grafton Cemetery and lay down on the grave of a deaf and dumb child she had only recently buried ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--A disastrous fire occurred yesterday near Queen Victoria-street, London, and damage to the extent of £500,000 was done before it was ...
Article : 74 wordsA new time-table for the railways will come into force to-day. A number of alterations in the passenger trains have been made since the last time-table was issued, the changes on the ...
Article : 777 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Executive Council this afternoon passed an order renewing the engagements of Messrs. Speight and Ford as Commissioners of the Railway Department ...
Article : 77 wordsLITHGOW, Wednesday.--The supply of trucks for the mines during the present week to date has been fully equal to the demand and, in consequence, the output of coal has ...
Article : 48 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--The annual examinations for exhibitions to the universities began on November 27 and ended on December 8. The papers were set and have been valued by ...
Article : 144 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Matilda Ann Aston, aged 17, an inmate of the Victorian Asylum for the Blind, is announced as a successful candidate in the recent ...
Article : 82 wordsBATHURST, Wednesday.--The Railway Commissioners have written to Dean Marriott, secretary of the Lord's Day Observance Society, saying that the running of goods trains on ...
Article : 557 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Several philanthropists are interesting themselves in obtaining relief for the great distress which exists amongst the thousands of unemployed ...
Article : 58 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The total revenue for the half-year ended December 31, is £4,154,476, as compared with £4,371,085 for the corresponding period of 1889, showing a deficit ...
Article : 33 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--The following letter has been received from the Under-Colonial Secretary by the secretary of the Federated Employers' Union:--"Brisbane, December 30, 1890. ...
Article : 285 wordsThe hearing of the Premier Building society cases has (writes the Age) extended over 110 days, and as far as can be estimated the expenditure upon law costs has been from ...
Article : 1,035 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The new shearing agreements of the Federal Pastoralists' Union have just been printed and it is intended to simultaneously adopt them throughout ...
Article : 175 words[?] Wednesday.--The Scotch railway [?] is rapidly collapsing and large [?] the men have returned to work [?] for permission to do so. The ...
Article : 67 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Dr. J. E. Usher, F.R.G.S., who was one of the medical men scientifically watching the last of Felix Tanner, has written to the management and his ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--It is announced that French loans to the amount of [?] francs (£36,250,000) are to be [?] January 10. ...
Article : 32 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The Adelaide Steamship Company propose to extend their operations, and the fleet is to be increased by at least three new steamships. The company have ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--This year's meeting [?] Indian National Congress is being held in London. ...
Article : 23 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--The heat during the past few days has been intense. Five cases of sunstroke were reported throughout the colony yesterday, of which three were fatal. ...
Article : 109 wordsALBURY, Wednesday.--An officer from the Department of Agriculture has been engaged in the District during the week in making close [?] as to the habits of the locusts and ...
Article : 646 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--William Stoneham who was tried and acquitted for robbing the Bank of Australasia at Hahndorf, where he kept a public-house, committed suicide to-day at ...
Article : 56 wordsAt the conclusion of the business at the Water Police Court yesterday, the presiding magistrate, Mr. G. W. F. Addison, who is about to sail for England on leave, was highly ...
Article : 521 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.--Yesterday the first Parliament was opened by commission and adjourned for three weeks to admit of Ministers returning to their constituents. Previous to ...
Article : 150 wordsA party of gentlemen, including Messrs. John Davies, P. L. C. Shepherd, Dr. Mackellar, Ms.L.C., and P. A. Wright, M.P., visited Eveleigh yesterday afternoon, in company with the ...
Article : 522 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--A telegram from Port Darwin says that the police, acting on the information of a Chinaman, made a raid on a gambling-house there on Monday evening and ...
Article : 185 wordsTattersall's Summer Race Meeting will be brought to a conclusion at Randwick to-day. The Highland Society's annual demonstration will be held on the Association ground and the ...
Article : 379 wordsAUCKLAND, Wednesday.--A sale of thoroughbreds from Mr. Thomas Morrison's stud was held to-day, 10 lots being disposed of for a total of 8458gs. The principal figures obtained were:-- ...
Article : 101 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The approximate revenue returns of the colony for the quarter ended December 30, 1890, are as follows:--Taxation, £163,189; public works and service, ...
Article : 345 wordsEarly yesterday morning as a man named James Taylor, residing at Randwick, was digging in the Centennial Park he unearthed a piece of smelted metal, weighing about 30oz. ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Thu 1 Jan 1891, Page 5
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