The City authorities are said to be in a dilemma for want of t he services of an efficient person to act as lamplighter in Macquarie and Hunter-streets. We beg leave to recommend our dapper lis[?]le friend, H. W. Parker, Esq., M.L.C. Chairman of Committees, ...
Article : 517 wordsSeptember 13. -- The diggings in this neighbourhood are improving daily, and I hear nothing but good news (unless from an occasional crawler); the principal attraction is at Major's Creek, upon the block of land lately putchased by Messrs. Dransfield and ...
Article : 628 wordsOn Monday afternoon, a meeting for the relief of the distressed Jews in Palestine, was held at Mr. J. G. Cohen's auction room, in George-street, which was thronged with a numerous and respectable body of citizens. Sir Charles Nicholson presided by appointment, and in an eloquent address ...
Article : 3,967 words'Ah, poor Charley,' sighed the Doctor, as be replenished his tumbler, 'He was the best of company. What sparkling jokes he used to contribute to BELL'S LIFE. But his was an eccentric sort of humour. When in a jolly mood nothing was too absurd or ...
Article : 462 wordsWe are happy in being able to state that the lower end of Oakanville Creek, where so much labour has been unprofitable bestowed is now about to be thoroughly worked. Messrs Jonathan and Samuel Cock have formed a Company, and they have devised ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Steam Navigation Company formed under the auspices of the above-named individuals, is about bursting; whether through the effects of high pressure, or soft-soap, under the directionship of the man of brass, I cannot say; but it certainly is a fact that the ...
Article : 424 wordsA number of persons assembled in the temporary Exchange, on Monday last, in order to get up a petition for signature, praying the Governor and Executive Council to spare the life of captain John Ross, who was sentenced to be executed at the last Criminal Sittings, on a charge of murder. The ...
Article : 220 wordsA meeting of the Shareholders of the Sydney Railway Company, assembled in the long room of Mr. Morts' building on Monday, for the purpose of considering and deciding as to the expediency of applying to the Legislative Council for an act to alter and amend so much of the Act by which the ...
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