Another, and it is feared it will prove the most disastrous of all the Hunter floods of 1857, is now careering through the Valley of the Hunter. At the time of writing this portion of our report, noon on Wednesday, the ...
Article : 3,104 wordsThe adjourned Half-Yearly General Meeting of the proprietors of the Australasian Steam Navigation Company was held yesterday, when the Report of the Directors and statement of accounts were unanimously ...
Article : 1,759 wordsIn the estate of John N. Beit and Son, a first meeting was held. Insolvents attended, but no creditors appenred to prove. There was therefore no business transacted, and the first meeting terminated. ...
Article : 293 wordsNews of the annihilation of the ill-fated Sonora expeditionists reached San Francisco on the 13th May, and was the all-absorbing theme of conversation both in that city and throughout the State. The entire party, ...
Article : 1,342 wordsWe have again been visited by frightful weather. On Sunday night it came on to rain, and continued during Monday, the wind blowing very hard from the eastward; during the whole of Monday night the rain poured down ...
Article : 369 wordsSTEALING STONES.—Michael Nestor was charged with stealing building stone. Mr. J. V. Gorman, auctioneer, of Pitt-street, deposed that for the last fortnight he had missed stone from his quary, in Ocean-street, Point ...
Article : 736 wordsBY the arrival of the J. Godfrey we have files of San Francisco papers to the 25th of May, upwards of three weeks later than our previous dates. We are glad to learn that the severe drought has at ...
Article : 1,283 wordsDISOREDIENCE.—Fourteen seamen belonging to the Ellwood Walter, found guilty of disobedience of lawful commands, were sent to gaol for one week, and ordered to pay two guineas professional, and 6s, 6d. court costs. ...
Article : 227 wordsA meeting was held last night in the Parochial School Room, Harrington-street, to receive the report of the Building Committee of St. Philip's Church for the past year, and to adopt measures to complete the tower. The ...
Article : 683 wordsOpinions were last evening very different respecting the flood probabilities. The rise continued slowly all the afternoon, and had reached, at eight last evening, about the level of that flood. The current was then ...
Article : 510 wordsThree weeks later news from Sonora had reached San Francisco subsequently to the publication of the foregoing. It is in substance:— Fifteen Mexicans were killed and twenty-six wounded, ...
Article : 327 wordsSIR—In your report of the disastrous effects of the recent storm, in your issue of to-day, it is erroneously stated that the, west gable of Darlinghurst Church, recently finished, had fallen. ...
Article : 97 wordsOn Monday evening a committee meeting was held at the Maitland Mcchanics, Institute, Maitland, when it was decided that the names of subscribers to the " Widow ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Sat 1 Aug 1857, Page 3
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