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  2. MUNICIPAL.

    At the last meeting of the Kogarah Borough Council Alderman Sheppard asked why it was that the local School of Arts had not been rated in past years and appeared likely to escape rating during the present term. ...

    Article : 200 words
  3. MINING DEVELOPMENT IN VICTORIA.

    Among the visitors present at the opening of Parliament yesterday was Mr. H. Foster, the Victorian Minister for Mines and Water Supply. He is visiting the colony more especially with the ...

    Article : 1,301 words
  4. NOTES OF THE DAY.

    "I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please." -- AS YOU LIKE IT. ...

    Article : 1,545 words
  5. NEWCASTLE.

    Matters in connection with the coal-weighing difficulty are very quiet at present. So far some six or seven of the lodges have considered the latest offer of the proprietors, with the result ...

    Article : 350 words
  6. THE COUNTRY.

    WOLLONGONG, Tuesday. -- The Court of Quarter Sessions opened this morning before his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge. John Bernard M'Cormack and James Vincent M'Cormack, two small boys, ...

    Article : 526 words
  7. THE TERRAGONG COMMON.

    KIAMA, Tuesday. -- A conference of the Kiama, Jomberoo, and Shellharbor councils was held this afternoon to consider the advisability of approaching the Minister for Lands, with a view to having ...

    Article : 207 words
  8. AN IMPOUNDING DIFFICULTY.

    The question of dealing with the impounding of cattle in the Kogarah district has become somewhat mixed. At the last meeting of the council the inspector, in his report, stated that he had impounded a number of horses ...

    Article : 156 words
  9. OBLIGING COROWA PETITIONERS.

    COROWA, Tuesday. -- Mr. M'Intyre, Chief Electoral Officer, opened an inquiry at the Court-house to-day into the proposed municipal area for Corowa. Two petitions were presented, one ...

    Article : 114 words
  10. IMPROVED MUNICIPAL BOOKKEEPING.

    In replying to a vote of thanks passed to him for his attendance at a meeting of the St. Peters Council on Monday, Alderman W. Rigg, M.P., late Mayor of Newtown, made some remarks about the improvement which ...

    Article : 168 words
  11. DISTRICT FOOTBALL.

    In furtherance of the scheme adopted by the committee of the Northern Rugby Union for the institution of a system of district football during the coming season, in preference to the hitherto ...

    Article : 159 words
  12. CATTLE AFFLICTED WITH OPTHALMIA.

    TENTERFIELD, Tuesday. -- A peculiar disease in the shape of an eye affection has attacked a number of cattle on Cheviot-hills station. From observations taken it seems that the pupil of the ...

    Article : 2,171 words
  13. ASHFIELD DRAINAGE.

    Dissatisfied ratepayers continue to write to the Ashfield Council with regard to the condition of the drainage of the municipality. Notwithstanding that the officers give all reasonable attention to any nuisances ...

    Article : 152 words
  14. LIEUTENANT HOBSON.

    Lieutenant Hobson, the here of the Merrimac, passed through Honolulu on December 31, on his way to join the Manila fleet. Soon after he came ashore from the Gaelic he was taken to ...

    Article : 249 words
  15. SHIPPING ITEMS.

    Three vessels were added to the list of oversea tonnage in port for coal cargoes yesterday, the four-masted schooner William Bowden, and the barque Quilpue, arriving from Sydney; and ...

    Article : 494 words
  16. A PETERSHAM TRAMWAY.

    An endeavor is being made to prevail upon the Railway Commissioners to extend the tramline from the Enmore terminus along the Stanmore-road and Crystal-street to Parramatta-road, where a junction will be made ...

    Article : 136 words
  17. MOLONG LAND BOARD DECISIONS.

    MOLONG, Tuesday. -- After a six days' sitting, the local land board finished its labors this afternoon. In the matter of Thomas Collins as to the hona-fides of his selection, close to Molong, the ...

    Article : 272 words
  18. POSTAL FACILITIES AT TEMPE PARK.

    The need of a branch post-office at Tempe Park. St. Peters, was discussed at some length at the meeting of the local council on Monday. Alderman Rowe said the present postal arrangements, consisting of a ...

    Article : 203 words
  19. A POLYGAMOUS CONGRESSMAN

    The American press has been considerably exercised by the election of Mr. B. H. Roberts as the Mormon representative of Utah to Congress. The San Francisco "Chronicle" publishes a photo, ...

    Article : 299 words
  20. SUGGESTED AMALGAMATION OF MUNICIPALITIES

    The disadvantage, evil, and loss attendant on having a number of small municipalities, and the need of amalgamation, or of something in the nature of a County Council, was dwelt upon by Alderman Farr, the ex-Mayor, ...

    Article : 166 words
  21. IRRIGATION AT MUDGEE.

    MUDGEE, Tuesday. -- Mr. Dawson, who recently leased a block of land on the Lawson Estate, adjoining the Cudgegong River, is erecting a Californian pump, and intends by this means to ...

    Article : 142 words
  22. ENFIELD MAYORAL MINUTE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 293 words
  23. A STRANGE OUTRAGE.

    GOSFORD, Tuesday. -- An old man, who has resided here many years, was arrested at Narara early this morning by the Gosford police. It is alleged that he last night visited a ...

    Article : 113 words
  24. CREED OF THE PIOUS JINGO.

    Mr. Morley has defined "a Jingo," or, rather, "Jingoism." He told an audience at Montrose that he had received a prepaid message from a London newspaper, running thus: -- ...

    Article : 266 words
  25. PRESENTATION TO MR. JOSEPH VALLENTINE.

    Mr. Joseph Vallentine, who for upwards of a quarter of a century has been connected with the firm of Farmer and Company, Limited, and who, with Mrs. and Miss Vallentine, leaves for London ...

    Article : 273 words
  26. TRAFFIC IN CHINESE.

    Leong Quan Sing, Chinese interpreter on the steamship China, gave himself up to the Federal authorities (says the San Francisco "Chronicle") on the charge of illegally lauding a Chinese. ...

    Article : 312 words
  27. WOMBEYAN CAVES ROAD.

    MITTAGONG, Tuesday. -- When the construction of this new road was commenced last July, it was freely stated that the work would be finished some time in the present month ...

    Article : 123 words
  28. THREATENING A COUNCIL.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 words
  29. ABERDEEN STATION IMPROVEMENTS.

    SINGLETON, Tuesday. -- Great improvements are being effected at the Aberdeen railway station. Over 120 men are employed at the work. The old station buildings have been pulled down ...

    Article : 114 words
  30. RESPONSIBILITY OF SUN-SPOTS.

    The spots that appear on the sun's face in greater or less number periodically have exercised speculative intellects for years. The ordinary astronomical explanation concerning them have ...

    Article : 199 words
  31. LONG COVE CANAL.

    The insanitary condition of Long Cove Canal was under the consideration of the Ashfield Council at its meeting last night, consequent upon the receipt of a communication from Mr. W. Mainer on the subject. The ...

    Article : 254 words
  32. DEATH OF A VETERAN MINISTER.

    Our London correspondent writes, January 20: -- "By the sudden death last week at Blackheath of the Rev. Joseph Beazley in his 87th year, the oldest survivor of the first band of English ...

    Article : 106 words
  33. TROUBLE IN THE LIVERPOOL COUNCIL.

    LIVERPOOL, Tuesday. -- During the appointment of committees at the meeting of the Liverpool Council, Alderman Christiansen, in proposing that Aldermen Tillett, Chapman, and himself ...

    Article : 199 words
  34. A NICE POINT.

    In connection with a fashionable divorce case which has recently been entered, a story in being told that the husband kicked the wife's dog, the wife kicking the husband's dog in return. After ...

    Article : 66 words
  35. SUDDEN DEATH AT DARLING HURST.

    Charles Warner, a man of about 50 years of age, died somewhat suddenly last evening at No. 270 Victoria-street, Darlinghurst. The place had been a boardinghouse, and Warner had been staying ...

    Article : 146 words
  36. OCEAN CURRENTS REPORTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 241 words
  37. LOITERING 'BUSES.

    At the meeting of the St. Peters Council on Monday, Alderman E. G. Harbor brought under notice the inconvenience caused by 'buses loitering on the Newtown-road on Sunday evenings. It appeared from the ...

    Article : 90 words
  38. CHINESE CONSUMPTION CURE.

    An industry which is but little known, says the "Revue Sc[?]entifique," is that which is carried on in China in dried lizards. Pakhoi is the port from which these animals are ...

    Article : 97 words
  39. THE ALLEGED MAYORAL DISCOURTESY.

    The Mayor and aldermen of St. Peters still manifest considerable soreness because their confreres of Marrickville recently invited the Minister for Works to inspect the improvements at Cook's River, and whilst ...

    Article : 159 words
  40. MURRUMBIDGEE PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 273 words
  41. A CHILD BURNT TO DEATH.

    A girl named Alice Daisy Williams (5), who had resided with her parents at 20 Mitchell-street, Glebe, died at the Hospital for Sick Children, Glebe, last evening, consequent upon injuries ...

    Article : 194 words
  42. MR. ALEX. WILSON'S' OCTOPUS.

    Sir, -- Mr. Alex. Wilson's map re the Federal capital should have been drawn out in the shape of a huge octopus, with Sydney as a swelled head, and a great big fierce and greedy eye. ...

    Article : 159 words
  43. ACCIDENT AT A COOPERAGE.

    Charles M'Gregor (18), cooper, residing at Forsyth-street, Willoughby, was admitted to Sydney Hospital yesterday, suffering from severe injuries to his right hand. He was employed at ...

    Article : 143 words
  44. HOMING PIGEON SOCIETY.

    A meeting was held last evening at Hendry's Hotel, Kogarah for the purpose of forming a Homing Pigeon Society. Rules were adopted, and the membership fee fixed at £1 per annum. Mr. C. Kavanagh was appointed ...

    Article : 64 words
  45. ST. PETERS TRAMWAY ARRANGEMENTS.

    When, until a few months ago, the St. Peters horse tram was a distinct service, running between the St. Peters and Newtown railway bridges, it was timed to start so as to pick up passengers who came by the ...

    Article : 768 words
  46. LATE SHIPPING.

    ADELAIDE. -- Arrived, February 20: Main Bhan, ship, from Hamburg. February 21: Albany, str., from Wyndham; Cambusdoon, bqe., from Table Bay. Sailed, February 20: Gabo, str., for Albany. ...

    Article : 32 words
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