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  2. The Carlingford-Rosehill Railway Proposal.

    Mr. Frank Farnell, in giving evidence before the Public Works Committee us to this proposal, said that his knowledge of this district extended over a period of thirty-five years, and ...

    Article : 652 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 38 words
  4. Comments and Concelts.

    Once more Pennant-street is in the possesion of the stone-carters, men who consider any thoroughfare they may chance to traverse especially made for them—who cheerfully lead ...

    Article : 701 words
  5. Fatal Accident at Prospect.

    On Sunday afternoon a young girl named Alice Bell, aged about 14, daughter of Mr. Joseph Bell, of Boothtown, Prospect, was brought into Parramatta District Hospital in a ...

    Article : 189 words
  6. Lunatics at Liverpool.

    On Friday last, word was brought to the Liverpool Police of the queer hehaviour of a man at Moorebank. Sergeant Smith and Constable Constable rode out and captured ...

    Article : 802 words
  7. Co-operation.

    On Thursday evening, at the Parramatta School of Arts, Mr. H. Colbert delivered an interesting lecture upon co-operation. The attendance was searcely as large as the ...

    Article : 375 words
  8. The Cumberland Argus AND Fruitgrowers' Advocate, WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Cumberland Mercury, River Times. Weekly Advance, Cumberland Free Press and Ryde Electorate Press. PARRAMATTA, OCTOBER 17, 1900.

    THE old but by no moans musty legal principle of caveat emptor (let the buyer beware!) is invested with a considerable amount of shrewd common-sense. In ...

    Article : 453 words
  9. Magisterial Enquiry.

    On Monday afternoon Mr. T. E. MacNevin, P.M., Parramatta District Coroner, held a magisterial enquiry, touching the death of the girl, Alice Bell, who had died at the ...

    Article : 1,207 words
  10. Current News.

    There was a hip muster at "Gowan Brae" on Saturday, when firing practice and tournament work was indulged in. Staff Sergeant major Shaw kept an eye on the shooters, while ...

    Article : 123 words
  11. The Federal Capital.

    Mr Alexander Oliver, the Commissioner appointed to report on the best site for a Federal Capital, has arrived at the conclusion that any one of the three sites—(1) ...

    Article : 171 words
  12. The Hospital Concert.

    This important musical event, as most of our readers tire aware, takes place to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. Full particulars of the programme were published in our issue of ...

    Article : 88 words
  13. The Smithfield Post-Office.

    On Monday the following tenders for the erection of the proposed new post and telegraph office at Smithfield, were open at the Public Works Office:—Cranney and Brown, ...

    Article : 59 words
  14. Sunday-school Picnic in Parramatta Park.

    The scholars and friends of the Lewisham Wesleyan Church and Sunday-school held their annual picnic in the Parramatta Park on Wednesday, at which some 600 were present. ...

    Article : 109 words
  15. A Letter "from the Front."

    Trooper C. T. Moore, of the Imperial Bushmen, writing to his parents from Otto's Hoope under date September 2nd, says :—" Since my last letter to you I have had three encounters ...

    Article : 584 words
  16. The Parramatta Rum Gases.

    On Friday, Mr. Quiun, M L.A., introduced to the Minister for Justice a deputation who called Mr. Wood's attention to the cases of Mr. W. Burton and Mr. J. Hinsch, ...

    Article : 285 words
  17. Bitten by a Dog.

    A young man named Turner, whilst proceeding along the Windsor-road, on the 6th inst., was severely bitten on the leg by a dog, a piece of flesh being completely taken out of his ...

    Article : 56 words
  18. A Necessary Work.

    The Smithfield Council has appointed a committee of its members to formulate a scheme for the construction of a road through the Hassall Estate. The work is a ...

    Article : 72 words
  19. Baden-Powell's Chargers.

    "They are worthy of Mafeking's defender, and that's the highest compliment I can pay them," said Major-General French in Victoria Barracks last week on the occasion of the ...

    Article : 114 words
  20. THE CONDITION OF GEORGE-STREET, PARRAMATTA.

    AT the meeting of the Parramatta Council on Monday evening, the attention of the Mayor was called by Alderman CHAMPION to the very dilapidated ...

    Article : 168 words
  21. PERSONAL.

    The widder O'Brien, secretary of the League of Wheelmen, was in Parramatta, at the sports on Wednesday. He looks charming, although he carries on his shoulders the cares of the ...

    Article : 399 words
  22. Send-off to Mr. Meagher.

    On Thursday evening, Mr. M. P. S. Meagher, till lately manager for Messrs. Washington H. Soul and Co. at their Parramatta establishment was accorded a send-off at Mr. L. A. ...

    Article : 316 words
  23. Parramatta Literary and Debating Union.

    The meeting on the 12th inst., Mr. H. E. Page (Toongabbie) in the chair was marked by a good attendance. The chief business was a debate on the ministerial affirmation "That ...

    Article : 124 words
  24. LIGHT AND SHADE.

    Now that the iden of establishing libraries in connection with the public schools is commencing to get realised in a satisfactory manner, it might be well to consider whether ...

    Article : 660 words
  25. Advertising

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    Advertising : 138 words
  26. Is Your Tea to Your Liking ?

    How often is this question answered in the affirmative when the stuff under consideration is veritable slops, and injurious at that ? Now, to obtain nice, palatable, wholesome tea is not ...

    Article : 104 words
  27. Cheaper Railway Fares.

    The Parramatta Council on Monday evening adopted a motion, tabled by the Mayor, in favour of a deputation to the Railway Commissioners to ask for a reduction in the railway ...

    Article : 222 words
  28. Death at the Parramatta Convent.

    On Thursday evening last, Sister Mary De Chantal died at the Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, Parramatta, from an affection of the lungs, from which she had suffered for some ...

    Article : 184 words
  29. Brevities from Smithfield.

    Mr. Hode and a party of Fairfield anglers caught some fine flat-fish and other kinds of fish down the George's River the other day. ...

    Article : 121 words
  30. Mrs. Boys.

    Mrs. Boys, the wife of the employee of the Clyde Engineering Works who fainted on Saturday after a race, at the picnic at Clifton Gardens, it appears, got hurt. ...

    Article : 96 words
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