SANTO, for the murder of President Carnot, was executed at 5 o'clock this morning. The murderer spent some time of the previous night in reading "Don Quixote." A strong ...
Article : 343 wordsThe four-year-old daughter of Mr. J. S. Bryden, of the Railway Hotel, was severely burnt while playing with some matches with another child on Saturday afternoon. ...
Article : 366 wordsTHE post and telegraph master at Longreach (Mr. F, T. Dooner), much to the regret of his many friends, has received notice of his transfer to Hawkwood, a repeating station ...
Article : 75 wordsA MAN named Watson, residing in Christiestreet, Glebe, after a heavy drinking bout, quarrelled with his wife and shot her in the face with a revolver. He then shot himself ...
Article : 48 wordsA LARGELY attended public meeting was held last night, when resolutions were passed drawing attention to the serious danger from the spread of rabbits to such an extent that ...
Article : 85 wordsMa. W. P. STREET, the manager of the Assets Purchase Company, was stuck up on Wednesday night by three armed men. He was covered with a revolver, and robbed of a ...
Article : 110 wordsMESSES. Robert Bennett and James Wilson, who were associated with the Broadsound Boiling-down Works at their initiation, have determined to erect boiling-down works of ...
Article : 255 wordsIt is understood that a seizure of goods of considerable value has been made by the Customs officials, for alleged undervaluing, The goods are said to belong to a well-known ...
Article : 65 wordsCECILE ANDERSON, formerly of Sydney, was to-day found guilty of the murder of John Fraser, whom she shot in an hotel in Bourkestreet, and afterwards endeavored to commit ...
Article : 86 wordsTHE Lady Bo wen, a four-masted schooner, formerly a well-known trading steamer, Captain Hurdine, sailing from Dungeness to Sydney in ballast, went ashore on Bramble ...
Article : 168 wordsIN the Insolvency Court yesterday his Honor Judge Molesworth refused to grant a certificate of dispensation to Sir Matthew Davies until his estate had paid 7s. in the £. ...
Article : 38 wordsIN our paragraph lost week on the 44th report of the directors of the Q. N. Bank an absurd error was made in putting "bank premiums valued at £293 Os. 7d.," which, ...
Article : 368 wordsEFFORTS are being made to induce Sir James Service and Sir Frederick Sargood to accept portfolios in the event of Mr. Turner's wantof-confidence motion being earned. The ...
Article : 51 wordsDR. KEARSAY CANNON, one of the oldest settlers in the Moreton Bay District, died last night, after a week's illness, from influenza. He was 79 years of age. ...
Article : 39 wordsIN the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, said the rejection of the Evicted Tenants Bill by the House of Lords was ...
Article : 83 wordsTHE Yokohama correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle states that it is reported during the recent Washawei engagement between the Chinese and Japanese naval ...
Article : 356 wordsTO-NIGHT's forecast states that the weather is generally unsettled; there will be isolated showers and some electric disturbances likely under fresh to strong winds from between ...
Article : 45 wordsA TERRIBLE tragedy is reported from Ballarat. A man named Hare, employed as a night watchman at one of the mines, returned home from duty early yesterday ...
Article : 150 wordsTHE German and Asiatic Bank of Berlin is floating a Chinese loan, bearing interest at 5 per cent. ...
Article : 26 wordsEASTERN papers to August 1st have been received per B.I.S.N. mail boat. The Queen of Corea is hiding somewhere. It is reported she has taken refuge in the ...
Article : 79 wordsPERSISTENT reports are afloat to the effect that Mr. J. G. Carlyle, Secretary of the United States Treasury, has resigned, and that he is to be succeeded by Mr. Wilson, ...
Article : 44 wordsTwo burglars entered Richardson's Hotel in Bourke-street early this morning. They awoke the licensee, who culled for the police, but a moment afterwards he was struck ...
Article : 88 wordsTHE Cabinet have decided to recommend the reprieve of John Campbell, now lying under sentence of death for the murder of his wife at North Shore on July 26. ...
Article : 68 wordsHASSBERGER, the prominent merchant of Dundee, who was a short time ago arrested on the charge of having committed forgery on Scottish and German Banks to the amount ...
Article : 42 wordsTHE Land Board will hold a sitting at Barcaldine on 26th September, and at Longreach on 1st October. It is understood the business will be ...
Article : 362 wordsTHE Paris police have discovered at Lugarno, Switzerland, an Anarchist seminary, where lectures are delivered nightly, and plots arranged to assassinate prominent public men. ...
Article : 80 wordsCAPTAIN DONALD, well known in Mercantile and shipping circles as the manager of the Parramatta Steamship Company, was found dead in his office yesterday. ...
Article : 34 wordsFREDERICK JORDAN, negro, for the murder of his paramour, Minnie Crabtree, at Port Melbourne, on the 6th July, was executed this morning. The quiet demeanour which ...
Article : 112 wordsA NUGGET of gold 82oz. in weight has been found in a claim near Carcoar, ...
Article : 24 wordsIs is reported that three large cruisers are being built to the order of the Russian Government at English ship yards. ...
Article : 28 wordsTHE barque Oakland, which has arrived at Newcastle from Rio Janeiro, reports that whilst in the latter port the whole of her crew were laid up with yellow fever. The ...
Article : 48 wordsA YOUNG man met with a serious accident at Mistake Creek, on Mexico run, yesterday morning. He was galloping after cattle when his horse ran him against a tree, ...
Article : 82 wordsSERIOUS explosions occurred in two mines at Bendigo, half-a-mile apart, early yesterday morning. They are believed to have been occasioned by some dastardly incendiarist to ...
Article : 38 wordsJAMES WALKER has been committed for trial at the Circuit Court in Rockhampton, to be held on 14th September, for having caused the death of Walter Burke, at Stonebenge, on ...
Article : 79 wordsFREDERICK DEER, a shearer, was fined £1 and £2 costs at the Moree Police Court yesterday, for a breach of the shearing agreement, which he signed and then refused to ...
Article : 41 wordsA TELEGRAM from Coolgardie states that Mr. H. Frost and party arrived from Kurnalpi last night. Among the gold brought by them was a nugget weighing 432oz., which ...
Article : 128 wordsTenders are invited for fencing at Ruthven.—It is proposed to transfer title of certain land at Muttaburra, property of late John Funk.—A scientific gardener is open to ...
Article : 102 wordsA TELEGRAM has been received by Dr. Cummin g, at Glen Innes, from W. Dunn, one of the proprietors of the Wealth of Nations claim at Coolgardie. He says that half a ...
Article : 54 wordsA POST mortem examination was held this morning on the remains of the late Mr. R. R. Moxham, chemist, whose death Inspector Britten reported as one of supposed suicide. ...
Article : 80 wordsA MAN, name unknown, was run over by a train at Petersham last night, and cut to pieces. ...
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