This is a remarkable book. Mrs. Howard Vincent, it will be remembered, accompanied her husband on a voyage round the world nearly two years ago. He was for six years, according to the preface, "Director of ...
Article : 2,069 wordsA deputation representing a portion of Marrickville waited on the Postmaster-General yesterday, to ask for a change of the site of the post and telegraph office to a more convenient and central locality. The members of the ...
Article : 558 wordsThe following notifications appear in yesterday's' Gazette:— PUBLIC HOLIDAY.—Thursday, 4th February, is declared a public holiday in the district of Illawarra. ...
Article : 1,167 wordsA deputation, consisting of Messrs. Thomas Cameron, G. H. Stephens, J. G. White, and J. M. Smith, representing residents of the Hunter, district, waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday to ask that the Government would in ...
Article : 289 wordsYesterday a deputation of temporary employees in the Civil Service, more particularly from the droughtmen's departments, interviewed the Colonial Secretary, with a view to having themselves placed in the service under the ...
Article : 770 wordsIn the days when the Edinburgh Review was young and saucy, Sydney Smith wrote thus of the pulpit labour of his contemporaries:—"The great object of modern sermons is to hazard nothing; their ...
Article : 2,250 wordsThe Hon. L. F. Heydon, Minister for Justice, introduced a deputation to the Minister for Works yesterday, who desired that the railway to Burrowa might be made to join the main line at Bowning instead of at Galong ...
Article : 344 wordsA deputation, consisting of several of the aldermen of the Borough Council of Parramatta, waited upon the Minister for Public Instruction yesterday, for the purpose of bringing under his notice the necessity for a ...
Article : 269 wordsShortly after Hugh Conway caught the public faucy by his tour de force, "Called Back," there appeared in the "Family Herald" a story entitled "The House on the Marsh," which attracted nearly as ...
Article : 424 wordsMr. A. Cameron, on behalf of Mr. Fietcher, M.L.A., introduced Messrs. H. and J. Tarrant, as representatives of a syndicate, to the Minister for Lands yesterday to obtain permission for the construction of a tramway between Denliquin ...
Article : 113 wordsA deputation from the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board waited upon the Colonial Secretary to ask that tenders for the erection of a fire brigades station on land recently purchased for that purpose by the late ...
Article : 365 wordsA deputation from property owners of the township of Sunny Corner waited yesterday on the Minister for Lands, for the purpose of drawing his attention to the extravagant prices fixed as upsets for the township allotments. ...
Article : 397 wordsA deputation consisting of Aldermon Hughes and Wheeler, of Petersham, waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday, to ask that the Government would provide funds for kerbing and guttering the Great Western-road ...
Article : 104 wordsIn this book of 96 pages Mr. Myers gives a suc[?]inet account of Botany, of its past and present, and of the future before it. To him that future appears a promising one, although he does not make light of the ...
Article : 226 wordsSir,—I think the unqualified thanks of the residents af Waverley and the city are due to you and your reportor for your article in lost Saturday's Herald, headed "Pollution of the "Water Supply." ...
Article : 175 wordsSir,—I desire to draw the attention of the authorities to what has become a most intolerable nui[?]. I refer to those abominable American whistles used on several locomotives which run between Rodfern and Parramatta. The ...
Article : 137 wordsA deputation representing the Hurstville Progress Committee was introduced to the Minister for Works yesterday by Messrs. S. A. Stephen and W. G. Judd, Ms.L.A., that the members of it might ask the Government to ...
Article : 127 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 41 wordsA deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Singleton and Aldermen Burnett and Wiles, was introduced by Mr. A. J. Gould, M.L.A., to the Minister for Works yesterday that the members of it might ask the Government to provide ...
Article : 277 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 20 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 23 Jan 1886, Page 11
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: