The ceremony of driving the last bolt ia the railway extension was performed to-day by the mayor, Mr. Thomas Dalton, at the invitation of Mesers. Mason and Elkington, contractors. At 2 o'clock ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Lady Turner, bound from Melbourne to Colombo has been wrecked, but particulars are not known. A Mauritius telegram from Aden, dated Port ...
Article : 1,111 wordsThe supposed case of smallpox, referred to ins one of last week's papers, is pronounced by Dr. Castle, who attended under instructions from the Government, to be ichthyma. ...
Article : 81 wordsPatrick Connor, 14 years old, who carries the mail from Elrington to Fairfield, has been committed for trial for stealing a letter. The weather is showery, there is now a fine ...
Article : 39 wordsThe business of the Quarter Sessions commenced yesterday, before Judge M'Farland, with fourteen cases for trial. Alfred Juan, for larceny, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment; Charlee ...
Article : 153 wordsFour machines at the Band and Albion mine produced 70 ozs. There has been a delay caused by cutting up reef levels. ...
Article : 40 wordsLast night rain fell in torrents for three hours, accompanied by thunder and lightning. Many of the dams are full, and several have burst. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. Villeneuve Smith intends instituting proceedings against Mr. Fowler for statements he made at Glen Osmond on Thursday. At a meeting of citizens yesternight, resolutions ...
Article : 236 wordsArthur Frederick Remmington has been acquitted of the charge of shsep stealing. The case lasted from 10 o'clock till 4 o'clock. Louis O'Neill was yesterday committed at the ...
Article : 38 wordsA Valuable horse, While being led in a dray to get a drink at Bushman's Dam, now called "Woods' Folly, was forced, through the steepness, into deep water, and was drowned, the driver escaping very ...
Article : 56 wordsA man named Murdoch was brought in by the police yesterday on suspicion of being implicated in the murder of the man found in the river last week. He was apprehended at Barmedman Station ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Bishop of Goulburn and Mrs. Thomas are here on their way to Panbula. They travelled safely down the Tantowanglo mountain yesterday, from Bombala, but broke the axle of their carriage ...
Article : 135 wordsA number of the principal citizens entertained Mr. J. F. Skinner, Manager of the Commercial Bank at a dinner last evening on the balcony at Coll's Globe Hotel, prior to his departure for Europe. ...
Article : 106 wordsA four-roomed dwelling caught fire to-day through a child accidentally holding a candle too close to a linen petticoat hanging on a wall. The flames spread over the ceiling, and in twenty ...
Article : 102 wordsThe main line train tell off the line yesterday, against a bank, owing to a rail giving way. No passengers were hurt. ...
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Article : 42 wordsThe war ship Sapphire has arrived at Dunedin, from Chatham Islands, She is expected here shortly to relieve H.M.S. Sappho, which goes to Samoa. ...
Article : 526 wordsFine rain fell all over the district on Saturday. E. Slaney defeated G. Jordon easily in the skiff race for £10 a-side. ...
Article : 25 wordsMuch desired rain has come at last. Two and a half inches fell in three hours yesterday. The weather is still sultry, and more rain is threatening. ...
Article : 52 wordsNearly an men ot ram ten yesterday; the Warrego River is coming down. Weather unsettled. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Agnes Irving, steamer, crossed in at daylight this morning, and landed the new locomotive engine safely at Iluka. ...
Article : 24 wordsA man named Charles Allen, a selector, attempted to murder his children and wife early this moraing. After striking two children with a tomahawk, he tried to strike his wife. She met ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Acting-Goveraor intends to visit the Darling Downs next week. Latest advices state the Singapore to be still in a safe position, and there are favourable reports of ...
Article : 253 wordsThe entries for the approaching show closed with 1503, classified as follows:—Sheep, 369; horses, 164; cattle, 284. The agricultural department entries are 311; farming implements and machinery ...
Article : 112 wordsAt the show, to-day, about 1300 persons attended, It rained in the afternoon, The show compares unfavourably with that of last year, There is a fair, show of sheep. Durhams and Herefords ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 24 Mar 1877, Page 7
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