The unbroken succession of fine days during the past few weeks was suddenly interrupted yesterday, when a sharp shower fell in the city about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The change to wet ...
Article : 4,160 wordsChristmas Day falls on Sunday this year. So, practically speaking, the holiday will be observed on Monday, which is Boxing Day. Owing to this circumstance Tuesday has been set aside as an ...
Article : 183 wordsThere is nothing fresh concerning the boot-box tragedy. The body of the woman was to-day interred as "unknown" in a spare grave in the paupers' division of the Melbourne Cemetery. ...
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Advertising : 29 wordsOn the New Year's Day there will be a great demonstration of sport and amusement at the Sydney Cricket Ground, when the Highland Society hold their 31st annual gathering, and, should ...
Article : 503 words"The Firm's" 17th Christmas annual will be opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on Monday night. Active rehearsals and general preparations have been in progress during the past ...
Article : 1,431 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Ltd., was held to-day at Menzies' Hotel, the chairman, Sir W. Zeal, M.L.C., occupying the chair. There was a fair attendance of ...
Article : 321 wordsHELENSBURGH, Friday. -- The coal trade continues as good as ever, and all the miners who wish to work and can work need not lose any time now. All other tradesmen in the town are also ...
Article : 174 wordsSINGLETON, Thursday. -- At a meeting of the members of the local Railway League last night several communications from municipal councils in the north were read, favorable to the proposed ...
Article : 139 wordsThe export of coal for the week ended yesterday has been comparatively heavy, 54,988 tons having gone forward to the various foreign and intercolonial ports, the respective quantities for each ...
Article : 157 wordsTo-day and again on Monday the summer meeting of the Australian Jockey Club will be held on the Randwick course. Good programmes have been prepared. ...
Article : 53 wordsTo-day the s.s. Newcastle, weather permitting, will make an excursion trip to the Hawkesbury River, leaving the wharf at the foot of Market-street at 2 p.m. A band has been engaged to ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Government decided to-day, after receiving a report from the Railway Commissioner on the subject, to accept the tender of the Pennsylvania and Maryland Company for the supply of an ...
Article : 298 wordsSINGLETON, Thursday. -- At a meeting of the local Civilian Rifle Club last evening a letter was received from the National Rifle Association, forwarding a copy of the letter that body had ...
Article : 112 wordsAlexander Math[?]eson, manager of the Hetton colliery, proceeded against Alexander Thornton, a deputy employed in the pit, at the Newcastle Court yesterday on an information charging him ...
Article : 284 wordsSpecial arrangements have been made by the Port Jackson Steamship Company to meet the extensive traffic which always takes place on holidays between Sydney and Manly. To-morrow ...
Article : 528 wordsGULGONG, Friday. -- Wheat harvesting is in full swing throughout the district; the earlysown crops are yielding well, but the late crops are pinched on account of the drought. ...
Article : 106 wordsDuring November 978 births were recorded in the metropolis, giving an excess of 303 over the 675 deaths. The births were 28 more than in November, 1897, but much below the figures for ...
Article : 91 wordsWEST MAITLAND, Friday. -- The rescue party at East Greta discovered some tools yesterday in the tunnel where the entombed men had been working prior to the accident which occurred on ...
Article : 101 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. -- The rainfall has been very general, in some places coming down so heavily as to submerge the crops, so that some damage has been done. Another fine change is ...
Article : 35 wordsAn elderly woman named Jane Buffard, who resides at Princes-hill, North Carlton, has been missing during the past three days, and this evening the police broke into her house, and found her ...
Article : 70 wordsWilliam Kluige, aged 14, was run over and killed by a passenger train from Claremont last night. He was in the act of crossing the line when the train overtook him. ...
Article : 35 wordsKEMPSEY, Friday. -- A sad case of drowning happened yesterday, when a young man named Percy Thompson lost his life at the beach at Crescent Head. A number of men were fishing ...
Article : 108 wordsA paper was tabled in the Legislative Assembly, giving the correspondence which passed between the Brisbane Newspaper Company, Limited, and the Postal Department. The company asked that ...
Article : 235 wordsIt is expected that at a late hour to-night the whole of the sheep belonging to the flock, some of which were affected with anthrax, will have been disposed of. There have been a few ...
Article : 77 wordsADELAIDE, Friday. -- Shortly after 11 o'clock last night the Assembly divided on the motion and the amendments with regard to the conflict with the Council on the franchise referendum. ...
Article : 247 wordsMACLEAN, Friday. -- A meeting of the Clarence River Farmers' Union was held here to-day to consider the proposal to recognise the services of Mr. John Macfarlane, M.P., to the Clarence ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture is trying to arrange a conference of colonial Ministers in Melbourne to discuss various matters of common concern to the agricultural and grazing interests ...
Article : 79 wordsMACLEAN, Friday. -- Mr. John Macfarlane, M.P., has telegraphed to the Mayor of Maclean that the Premier accepts the invitation to visit Maclean, and will fix a date as early as possible. ...
Article : 37 wordsDuring a gale this evening, the Gellibrand lightship broke away from her moorings, but was brought up off the Breakwater pier. The Government steamer Lady Loch will anchor off ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following mail arrangements will be observed on Monday and Tuesday: -- At the General Post-office the delivery, registration, and postage stamps sale offices will be open until 10 a.m. ...
Article : 264 wordsWEST MAITLAND, Friday. -- John Rylatt, who was injured while wrestling at Greta on Saturday night, died in the hospital this morning. A magisterial inquiry was held this afternoon. Dr. ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. John Holmes, New Zealand Flax Commissioner, who recently made an extensive tour through Europe and America, reports to the Government that he is convinced no permanent ...
Article : 85 wordsIn Chambers to-day Mr. Justice Clark dismissed the appeal of the Mount Lyell Company against the assessment of the commissioner. His Honor will deliver judgment on the other points involved ...
Article : 130 wordsWOLLONGONG, Friday. -- The coal trade of the district has been brisk during the week, and the collieries have been well employed. Loading operations at this port have been kept up with ...
Article : 319 wordsBOMBALA, Friday. -- The shearing season in this district is practically over; nearly all the sheds have cut out. Currawong, which is one of the largest sheds in the district, finished ...
Article : 76 wordsALBANY, Friday. -- The R.M.S. Rome, J. Cowie, commander, arrived from Colombo at 2.45 a.m. Passengers in the saloon: -- For Adelaide -- Mr. Cohen. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe following have been selected to form the New Zealand cricket team for the matches in Australia: -- Baker, Clarke, Downes, Fisher, from Otago; Pearce, Rees, and Coberoft, from ...
Article : 66 wordsBATHURST, Friday. -- The local bowlers will leave for Sydney to-morrow night to take part in matches against Waverley and other clubs. Those chosen to represent Bathurst are Messrs. ...
Article : 65 wordsTwenty-four Chinese landed at the Heads to-day from the steamer Chingtu. Two held naturalisation papers, and the others paid the poll tux. All were landed in the city. ...
Article : 193 wordsThe attention of passengers by rail is directed to the facilities which are afforded by the Railway Commissioners for those residents of the metropolis who are contemplating a visit to the ...
Article : 804 wordsTyrian, str., 1100 tons. Captain Easton, from Melbourne, Passengers: Mesdames Dash, Burgess, Beveridge, Smith, Curtis, Arthur and three children, Dellbridge, Pitts, Horn Crook, Coleman, Alexis, New, Durecks, Denicke, ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Government has intimated to the shipping companies of Sydney, who are in the habit of bringing Austrian immigrants to engage in gum-digging, that under the Kauri Gum Industry ...
Article : 133 wordsCORAKI, Friday. -- All the cane-cutters at the Broadwater Mill have been called in and paid off, and the mill closes the season to-morrow. The gumming disease in cane has made the ...
Article : 57 wordsBATHURST, Friday. -- During the week meetings were held through the district, when strong protests were entered against the proposed action of the Railway Commissioners in the clearance ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Sat 24 Dec 1898, Page 10
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