A special meeting of the above Shire Council was held at Alstonville yesterday. Present—Councillor J. Whipps (President, in the chair), Councillors F. H. Bartlett, ...
Article : 4,226 wordsThe "Spectator" estimates that the new taxation required for 1909 will be at least sixteen millions extra. This, it says, it, is impossible to raise without jeopardising ...
Article : 81 wordsThe following will represent the Clarence in the football match Grafton v. T[?]weed Union on Saturday—J. Catt, H. Layton, C. McGrath, Jones, McGowan, C. Ford, J. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. James Gallagher, of Tyndale, a resident of the Lower Clarence for 44 years, died on Friday, aged 90, leaving a family of nine. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe German military barracks at Peking have been burnt. The small arms magazine exploded, but the artillery magazine was saved with ...
Article : 66 wordsGrafton and Maclean teams played a tennis match to-day. The former won by 12 sets to 9. ...
Article : 25 wordsA building at Lawrence, formerly occupied by the A.J.S. Bank but latterly by A. O. Pullen as a general store, was burned to the ground with contents this ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Turkish Ministers for war and Marine have each had a foreign education. The Minister for Finance is unchanged. Said Pasha has appointed several new ...
Article : 106 wordsAnnie Lyons, who appeared before the Police Court to-day with a baby on her breast, was fined £30 or in default three months gaol, for sly grog selling. ...
Article : 63 wordsMrs. Langley, of South Yarra, Victoria, was awakened suddenly yesterday morning by a man gripping her throat. She managed to scream and bring ...
Article : 94 wordsIn the final for the first grade Rugby premiership Newtown defeated University by 17 to 0. ...
Article : 23 wordsMiddlesex beat Gloucester by two runs. Tarrant took tweleve wickets for 149 runs. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe steamer Bellinger grounded on the north spit at Camden Haven yesterday, while attempting to cross in, but is in no danger, and is expected to float off ...
Article : 43 wordsHon. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, speaking at Falmouth, said the Government intended to maintain the navy[?] in the highest state of strength and ...
Article : 76 wordsHon[?] R. Patten, M.L.A. told the members of the Farmers and Settlers' Association to-day that the appalling ignorance of the farmers of New South Wales as to ...
Article : 433 wordsA riot occurred at the football match between the Port Melbourne and Brighton clubs on Saturday. The crowd was dispersed by the police. ...
Article : 69 wordsBock, one of the victims of the shooting tragedy of Hythe, Tasmania, died on Saturday. The girl Bradley is recovering. ...
Article : 43 wordsHer Majesty the Queen paid expenses of Lady Dudley's first conducted party of 5[?] East End children to the Franco-British Exhibition. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Federal Attorney General has received the writ issued by the N.S.W. Government to test hte constitutionality of the Surplus Revenue Act. ...
Article : 36 wordsPresident Roosevelt's commission of investigation revealed the cunnivance of immigration agents on the Mexican and Columbian borders in smuggling in Asiatics. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe American fleet passed the Samoan group on Saturday, en route for Auckland. [?]This news was, received by wireless telegraphy. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Pietermaritzburg states that 16/ detectives are tracking a conspiracy to rob the Rand Confederated Mines by handing the gold ...
Article : 86 wordsIt is reported that the whole of the members of the New South Wales Parliament have been invited by the Commonwealth Government to be present at the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Hon. Rupert Guinness, the newly elected member of the House of Commons for Haggerston, says he is conviction the tariff Reformers and 2000 Socialist ...
Article : 69 wordsOne hundred and sixteen points of rain were registered yesterday. Cold westerly gales prevailed to-day. ...
Article : 28 wordsMagnificent rains have fallen in many parts of the interior, and a splendid season is now anticipated. ...
Article : 33 wordsA fire, originating in the kitchen on Sunday afternoon, destroyed the eastern part of Normanhurst Court, Lord Brassey's Sussex seat. Though many fine works of ...
Article : 154 wordsOver 13 inches of rain have been registered in Sydney sicne Monday last, and there is no present sign of the weather clearing. ...
Article : 33 wordsInquiries made to the case of Alfred Olsen, a seaman, who was found lying in Sussex-street on Friday night in an unconscious condition, point to his having been ...
Article : 89 wordsThere has been an exceptionally heavy fall of snow at Adelaide, eclipsing all previous records. ...
Article : 36 wordsDuring a heavy rain storm in the 'Parramatta district yesterday a temporary railway, used in connection with the construction of a bridge over Duck River, between ...
Article : 60 wordsThe police raided the Labour Confederation in Paris and arrested 18 prominent Labour anarchists, whereupon the Trade Union secretaries appointed a new ...
Article : 91 wordsA big southerly gale is raging on the South Coast accompanied by tremendous seas, and stand-off signals are flying in many places. ...
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Advertising : 395 wordsA terrific storm at Klama yesterday did considerable damage to property. ...
Article : 22 wordsOwing to the Compositors' and Printers[?] Union striking, in obedience to the orders of the Labour Confederation, many Paris papers did not appear to-day. ...
Article : 138 wordsOwing to the rough seas prevailing on the coast the position of the stranded steamer Mareeba is becoming hopless. Her holds are half full of water. ...
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Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), Tue 4 Aug 1908, Page 3
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