William O'Connor, who now holds the sculling championship of America, is a native, of Toronto (Canada). He is 23 years of age, and stands about 5ft 10½in high. He weights about 11st 12lb ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 120 wordsLast week we notified that the following stories were to he published in the present issuei of the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL: "Memoirs of Tom Malone" (by Bigoneye") and "A Sydney ...
Article : 240 wordsis being made in preparing for the re-issue of the EVENING NEWS and the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL' from the offices in Market-street. A cablegram was received from London on ...
Article : 62 wordsAs a consequence, perhaps, of the dry season and the heat of the feather, fires have been unusually prevalent' of late. Quite recently a large portion of the town of Broken Hill was ...
Article : 321 wordsFrom the country districts generally comes news of short crops. In the famous wheatgrowing districts of Young and Grenfell many of the crops will not, he worth garnering: This is a ...
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Article : 809 wordsThere is more trouble about the shearers and shearing—this time at Walcha. The unionists have camped near Mr. J; R. Gill's station, Emu Greek, and have; it is said, resorted to actual ...
Article : 825 wordsthe house of a selector named Johann Nowark was burned down on November 26; and his three daughters, respectively 4 years, 2 years, and 1 month old, were burned in their beds. Nowark ...
Article : 105 wordson Monday, the premises of the North-West Mercantile Company were destroyed by fire. How the fire originated is not known; but it is believed that the premises are insured. ...
Article : 36 wordson Saturday, as Mrs. Armstrong, a stallholder in the Victorian Court, was opening a box of matches they ignited, and set fire to the curtains of the stall. But the flames were speedily put out by ...
Article : 65 wordsA fatal fire occurred on Friday afternoon, November 23, in a house occupied by Mrs. Brent and another woman, and several children. The women were washing at the rear of the building ...
Article : 161 wordsThe office of the Wanganui (N.Z.) CHRONICLE and the adjoining building were burned down on Tuesday last. The paper was an old-established one. It belonged to Gilbert Carson, Mayor of ...
Article : 57 wordsOn Sunday a considerable part of Mr. E. Ctinnhigham's grass paddock, off the Tingha road, near Inverell, was burned. At Shepparton, Victoria, a. flour mill, and two dwellings were ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 1 Dec 1888, Page 19
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