The Collector of Customs has received a telegram from Townsville announcing that the barque Scottish Bard arrived on Wednesday morning from London with the chief mate and four ...
Article : 90 wordsNot a week passes here without an incendiary fire or some horrible outrage taking place. At 10 p.m. on Saturday a widow named Mrs. Quelch, about 50 years of age, was walking along the Port ...
Article : 212 wordsAn action for breach of promise (Edwards v. Jeffries) was heard on Tuesday. The defendant denied the promise. The plaintiff, a buxomlooking maiden, swore that Jeffries first proposed ...
Article : 115 wordsLast Thursday evening the Council resumed the consideration of the Land Bill. Clause 55 was passed as read. An addition was made to clause 56, providing that the increase in the rent ...
Article : 231 wordsOn Saturday the Chief Justice said that the attens tion of the Court had been called to the fact that an attorney who had been tried twice and convicted of forgery was now practising, or attempting, to ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Orient S.N. Co.'s. steamer Sorata, from London October 20, Suez November 14, arrived to-day. Passengers—Saloon: For Sydney—Mr. and Mrs. Pearte, Mr. and Mrs. G. Raff, Mr. and ...
Article : 103 wordsA marvellously narrow escape from the total wreck of the mail train from Ballarat to Melbourne occurred on Tuesday night. It appears that the connecting-rod of the engine of the ...
Article : 157 wordsTwo patients at the Quarantine station, North Head, have developed small-pox. The names of the patients are Joseph Israel and Peter Christiansen. The former is of the family ...
Article : 154 wordsA deputation of merchants and others interested in South African affairs had an interview with the Earl of Derby and the Hon. Evelyn Ashley at the Colonial Office on 3rd ...
Article : 715 wordsA serious outbreak of pleuro is reported near Avenue, 12 miles from the Millicent drainage district. A mob of cattle belonging to Mr. Arthur Hardy, M.L.A., who owns the leasehold of the ...
Article : 125 wordsBRAIDWOOD, Wednesday.—A large Sydney mining speculator has turned his attontion to the coal which was recently discovered at Corang River, Nerriga. He has determined to take up the land, if it is not ...
Article : 61 wordsOur Gratton correspondent to egraphs?—At the meeting of the borough council Wednesday, the third attempt to proeure an efficient water supply for Grafton proved futile. Alderman Doberer brought ...
Article : 182 wordsAn important circular has hean issued from the Home Secretary's office, London, to all colliery proprietors on the subject of shot firing in mines. It is proposed to add the jollowing as a special rule under ...
Article : 110 wordsAn alleged case of cattle-stealing was heard, in the Grafton Police Court to-day. The facts are as follows:—Abra Brown, a very old resident, who is connected with the oldest family in the ...
Article : 158 wordsSUNNY CORNER, Tuesday.—The new smelting, furnace was started at Sunny Comer to-day, and is working well. It will smelt about 60 tons per day. The refining; of silver is also proceeding satisfactorily, ...
Article : 72 wordsOur Singleton correspondent telegraphed:—At the annual meeting of the Northern Agricultural Association, held on Saturday (Mr. George Loder, the prosident in the chair), a highly satisfactory report was ...
Article : 180 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—The Ellen, Harlans declared a dividend of £1350, the proceeds of the washing up at the Victoria mill. ...
Article : 25 wordsNEWCASTLE, Thursday.—It is reported that Dr. Goeticker, who was a passenger to Newcastle from Port Moresby, New Guinea, a few days ago, brought several splendid samples of gold, which were obtained ...
Article : 44 wordsA dastardly attempt was made on Saturday night to wreck a passenger train on the Northern line, close to the mile post between Burra and Farrell's Flat stations. A pair of iron wheels ...
Article : 138 wordsINVERELL, Thursday.—There is great excitement here about diamonds. Mr. Henderson, Government inspector of drills, and Mr. Low, capitalist, who were passing through from Bingera, visited Auburn Vale, ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the Central Police Court, Monday, Edwaxd Andro[?] Joseph Cohen, 16 yoars of age, described as a clerk was charged with having forged and uttered a chequ[?] for £110, purporting, to be signed by F. W. ...
Article : 282 wordsRowland Jordan's new process for the extraction of gold from ores has been awarded high praise, both for its originality of conception and its successful results in Britain. The London TIMES concluded a long ...
Article : 441 wordsA girl dressed in male attire, and who gave her name as Charles Denny, was arrested in Seymour yesterday on the charge of having impersonated a male character. Disguised as a man, she had been ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 13 Dec 1884, Page 13
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