The principal business in the Legislative Assembly this evening has been the discussion on the public works, proposed by the Minister, to be carried out by way of ...
Article : 1,089 wordsAnother fall occurred in the East Greta colliery on Saturday morning, thus further delaying, the rescue work, which had been proceeding steadily since the three men ...
Article : 51 wordsA sensational development took place to-day at the trial of Isser Das, a Hindoo, for perjury. After lunch the Crown Prosecutor asked the judge to discharge the Jury ...
Article : 117 wordsAuriferous, who was much favored for the Bendigo Cup, will not fulfil the engagement, as Mr. W. R. Wilson has sold him to go to England, the purchaser being Mr. ...
Article : 73 wordsAt Balmain yesterday morning Catherine May Hillyer, a married woman, was found dead in her bathroom. An inquest showed that she had evidently been seized ...
Article : 51 wordsA warrant has been issued for the arrest of John Beckett on a charge of embezzling several sums of money belonging to the Metropolitan Gas Company. The ...
Article : 117 wordsNews by the San Francisco mail states that Seattle has been chosen as the American terminus of another Pacific steamship line, which will ply between that port and ...
Article : 108 wordsA mysterious incident occurred to-day, when the men at the Yarra improvement works fished up from the river a human arm, clothed with flesh, but well ...
Article : 204 wordsHindoos have been settling in large numbers during the last flew years, and ousting white men from work on the northern rivers. A few days ago the Hindoos ...
Article : 156 wordsAn inquest on the body of the five-months old child, who died from a dose of spirits of salts, administered by its mother, Ellen McNabb, was formally opened ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Sydney district council of the Australian Labor Federation, sitting yesterday, affirmed its confidence in compulsory conciliation and arbitration, and adopted ...
Article : 54 wordsThe annual meeting of the Colonial Mutual Fire Insurance Company was held to-day. The directors' report stated that the premium income showed a satisfactory ...
Article : 115 wordsJohn Marks, a wharf laborer, aged 45, while working on the steamer Naomi to-day, fell down the hold and was killed. He leaves a wife and seven children. ...
Article : 36 wordsPatrick Carrol, a young man, was placed on trial at the Central Criminal Court to-day on a charge of the murder of William Dolan. The evidence showed that the ...
Article : 95 wordsThe letter sent by Alfred Archer, the Strathmerton murderer, who was hanged on Monday, to his friend at Camberwell has been made public. It is couched in a ...
Article : 58 wordsAs a sequel to the upsetting of the Parramatta election on the ground of informalities the offending returning-officers were before the Police Court to-day, charged with ...
Article : 75 wordsThe following extraordinary letter has been sent by Professor Marshall 'Hall to the Presbyterian Assembly, the members of which on Thursday last were very ...
Article : 377 wordsThe will of the late Mr. Charles Hates solicitor, who died at St. Kilda on May 3, has been proved. He left property valued at £5,500—realty £1,000 and personality ...
Article : 146 wordsThis evening, when 27 miles from Bourke, the western mail train caught on fire and a truck of chaff and a truck of furniture were destroyed. ...
Article : 36 wordsA sensational tragedy occurred at Bourke this afternoon in a little shop occupied by Mrs. Mary Ellen Toohey. From what can be gathered J. Morrissy, the ...
Article : 264 wordsA new departure has been taken here in connection with cycling race meetings, which have hitherto been controlled by the League of Wheelmen. A strong syndicate ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Church of England Congress was concluded to-day at Ballarat, and the primate and a number of leading clergy left for their homes. ...
Article : 408 wordsSidney Cavill, aged 18, a member of the well known swimming family, relumed from a trip to America to-day. While in the United States he contested 20 races ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the Divorce Court to-day Anthony Colling Brownless, surgeon and physician, petitioned for divorce from his wife, formerly Gamsborg, on the grounds of ...
Article : 236 wordsAt Armidale for the past three weeks a girl, aged about 17, from Sydney, her parents at one time having being prominent residents in the town, has been ...
Article : 93 wordsA good indication of returning prosperity and confidence in our banking institutions is the prepayment of deferred deposit receipts. Two Victorian banks ...
Article : 551 wordsThe disaster which has befallen the Premier's additional revenue proposals has been subject to much discussion in political circles. Members of the Opposition are ...
Article : 266 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions at Cootamundra to-day Arthur Barton was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for maliciously removing fishplates and displacing a sleeper ...
Article : 83 wordsA shocking tragedy occurred at Footscray late on Friday night, when a young married woman, Ellen McNabb, give her five months' old child poison, owing to a ...
Article : 185 wordsA meeting of about 60 aldermen, representing nearly all the municipalities within the Sydney metropolitan area, was held to-day to discuss a proposal to establish ...
Article : 86 wordsAn inquest was held to-day by the coroner, Mr. Makinson, on the body of John Edward Maddern, who was crushed to death beneath a fall of ore ...
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Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 3 Dec 1898, Page 22
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