On Saturday, the 7th instant, at 7 o'clock p.m., Mr. Dillon, district constable of Burrowa, got a slight hint that there had been a murder committed at Thorsly's Creek, half-way between Yass and Burrowa. Mr. Dillon ...
Article : 213 wordsA meeting in connection with this subject was held last evening, at the School of Arts, Pitt-street. There were about 150 persons present. Mr. Alderson was called to the chair. ...
Article : 1,457 wordsTHE MARULAN SHOOTING CASE.—We regret to hear that the unfortunate man Downes is lying in the hospital in a very precarious state. The sloughing away of the flesh having caused a renewal of the frightful ...
Article : 1,090 wordsHOW ARE WE GOVERNED, AND BY WHOM?—This may appear to many of the readers of the Empire as a very silly question, seeing that, in the estimates passed for many years, annually, through our Legislature, there ...
Article : 1,726 wordsOne of the best practical measures which have [?] mooted in the Assembly is that relating to a [?] order system in connection with the Post Office. The system was originated in England, and was, in f[?] ...
Article : 896 wordsA public meeting of the electors of the county of Wellington was held at Foreman's Inn, Mudges, on the 18th instant for the purpose of receiving from Mr. G. H. Cox an explanation of his votes as a member of ...
Article : 971 wordsNine persons were convicted of drunkenness:—Edward Norcombe was ordered to pay a fine of 20s., or to be imprisoned for forty-eight hours. The rest were sentenced to pay 20s. each, or be locked up for twenty-four ...
Article : 1,676 wordsThis was an action on a dishonoured cheque drawn upon the Bank of New South Wales by the defendants, in favour of the plaintiff, Philip J. Cohen. The cheque named a sum of &20. It was presented ...
Article : 1,341 wordsRAIN.—After a week's sultry, oppressive weather, almost unequalled in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, the rain came upon us on Wednesday last, and poured down in torrents for a couple of hours, after ...
Article : 1,236 wordsIt will be gratifying to our readers to know that the Molbourne and Geelong Railway is being carried on with such rapidity as to lead us to hope that the permanent way as far as the junetion of the Williamstown line will ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Tue 24 Feb 1857, Page 2
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