HEAVY rain has set in and all out-door amusements have had to be postponed. Early this morning a publican named George Cope, living at Dulwich Hill, was found dead on ...
Article : 86 words"BALL UP" was produced by Mrs. Keightley's Dramatic Company in the Academy of Music on Thursday evening in the presence of a good downstairs house, but a sparsely patronised circle. The ...
Article : 896 wordsTHE chief topic of debate in the Council was the Infants' Protection Bill, the second reading of which was moved by Mr. Creed. It was claimed by Mr. Creed that the bill was a workable one. It ...
Article : 1,204 wordsFEBRUARY has been phenomenally dry, especially considering the great rain in other colonies and the good effect of the heavy January rains, and where care has not been taken crops are parched. ...
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Advertising : 1,094 wordsTHE Pioneer Football Club held their annual meeting at the Oddfellows' Hall last night, Mr. e. Pryke presiding over a large and enthusiastic gathering of players, which, if taken as a criterion ...
Article : 527 wordsThe Government of the United States requested the Canadian Government to introduce a bill in the Dominion Parliament providing for the exclusion of Chinese from Canada. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Zanzibar correspondent of the Standard reports that the natives have inflicted a severe defeat upon the British East Africa company's sepoys at Witu. ...
Article : 65 wordsWhen the Council or any other body draw up specifications for the guidance of a tenderer it is never intended that these specifications, like the ukase of an absolute despot, or the laws of the ...
Article : 460 wordsMaitland Francis Morland, a law tutor at Oxford, who was committed for trial on a charge of having attempted to obtain money by blackmail from Lord Hothfield (Sir Henry James Sufton), and also with ...
Article : 82 wordsIN succeeding in obtaining a reduction of £50,000 in the military estimates, the retrenchment party have largely retrieved the ill-fortune which has attended their efforts ...
Article : 1,161 wordsA great blizzard has passed over a large tract of country in the United States, extending from the Michigan, to the State of Montana, in the North-west. Railway carriages were derailed, and 50 ...
Article : 930 wordsBEFORE the Police-Magistrate and Mr. A. de Lisle Hammond. DRUNKENNESS. One defendant was find 5s or 24 hours. ...
Article : 128 wordsTHE above lodge held their weekly meeting on Thursday evening, Sister Shurety, Superintendent J.T., presiding. Three members were initiated into the order. The following programme was ...
Article : 81 wordsLAST evening the limelight entertainment was only moderately attended, but the quality of the views and the explanation by Mr. J. Lumsden could not be bettered. The juniors belonging to ...
Article : 82 wordsTHE consignment of fruit which was sent away on Thursday did not include any from Mr. G. Lansdowne's orchard, but Mr. W. T. Harris sent 70 cases of apples and three of quinces, the latter ...
Article : 54 wordsWHEN it comes to even the ordinary, old time, one-ring, small "round-top" circus, "men are but children of a larger growth." Small wonder then that the announced visit to Goulburn on Tuesday ...
Article : 324 wordsAN advertisement elsewhere announces that in the event of sufficient inducement being offered Professor West, of Sydney, will open classes for instruction in dunning. Further particulars will be ...
Article : 41 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—News has been received from Bairnsdale of a dastardly attempt to murder an old man named Charles Cox, who was employed by Mr. Dinwoodie to watch his orchard by night. ...
Article : 94 wordsTHE lovers of good music will be pleased to learn that a concert on a grand scale of excellence will be given on 17th instant, at the Academy of Music. Some of our most popular vocalists are contributing ...
Article : 140 wordsTo avoid a reduction of the staff enagged in the railway workshop" at Evelsigh, it has been amicably arranged that the shops shall be run on short time, with a corresponding reduction in ...
Article : 48 wordsMR. EDDY has asked the Government to appoint a judge to investigate any evidence Mr. Schey can produce to justify the charges made by him in Parliament against the Chief Commissioner for ...
Article : 46 wordsTHE monthly meeting of the above society was held at the assembly rooms Oddfellows' Hall on Thursday evening. There was a large attendance, and the evening was spent in a most enjoyable ...
Article : 72 wordsAT Friday's meeting of the Cabinet the reduction of the military vote by £50,000 as agreed upon in the Assembly was under consideration. A report from the staff officials and the accountant of the ...
Article : 214 wordsSIR,—Seeing that the Municipal Council have decided to erect a lamp in the centre of Auburn-street at a point where the traffic is heavy, would like to know if the treasurer has mush funds in and to pay for ...
Article : 280 wordsMr. Duncan McInnes, blacksmith, employed at the railway workshops, met with a painful accident this week. A small fragment of metal broke off a tool with which he was working and struck him in ...
Article : 67 wordsONE of the results of the adoption of protection is that Postmasters will in future be called upon to perform duties of a not very agreeable nature. A circular has been written to them instructing them ...
Article : 247 wordsMr. George Hawkesley, employed at the gas works, died at his residence at the rear of Dr. McMaster's dispensary on Friday morning from typhoid fever. Deceased took ill about three weeks ...
Article : 88 wordsTHE destruction of diseased cattle at the Homebush sale-yards has been carried on with great vigour during the past six months, even though no Act of Parliament was in existence to sanction the ...
Article : 127 wordsTHE latest bulletin in regard to the Bishop's illness reports very little change, with no present sign of improvement. ...
Article : 23 wordsELEVENS, representing St. Patrick's College and King's College, met last Wednesday on the latter's ground for a second time this season. The first match resulted in an easy victory for the ...
Article : 337 wordsALTHOUGH the doings of the above society have not of late been brought prominently before our readers yet the members have kept going along "The noiseless tenor of their way." The ordinary ...
Article : 181 wordsAN inquest was hold at Yarraman station, near Tuena, by Mr. T. A. Smith, P.M., coroner, touching the origin of the lire which totally destroyed Mr. P. Farrelly's hayshed and contents, also his ...
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Family Notices : 40 wordsMR. G. R. DIBBS, the Premier, is indisposed. On Friday he was seized with shivering fits, and although present at the earlier deliberations of the Cabinet lie was compelled loon before his colleagues ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Sat 12 Mar 1892, Page 4
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