IT was Friday night. I had just returned from the city, fagged and worn with a hard week's work, and was sitting wearily on the verandah of my house, in a crowded suburb, gazing out on the ...
Article : 1,415 wordsAfter dinner, when the gentlemen had finished their wine and joined the ladies in the drawing-room, the captain begged most earnestly for a song, and Maud complied with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 504 wordsFURTHER particulars have been published in regard to the collision between the Russian and Afghan troops on the River Murghab, in Afghanistan. Finding the Afghans entrenched on the ...
Article : 611 wordsIT is feared the Russians are about to attack Maruchat and Zulfikar, near the River Murghab, south of Penjdeh. The European Press urges Bismarck to ...
Article : 131 wordsTHE Ministers held a Council of War extending over the greater part of yesterday. The question of defence was considered at great length, and the sitting adjourned till ...
Article : 231 wordsGeneral Sir Gerald Graham this afternoon reviewed the New South Wales Artillery. The men presented a satisfactory appearance. Notwithstanding the readiness displayed by the natives to ...
Article : 75 wordsBEFORE C. S. Alexander, Esq., P.M. William MecCue, charged with being drunk and disorderly, pleaded guilty. He was fined £1 or 7 days in gaol. The fine was paid. ...
Article : 188 wordsOF Richard Bailey, late of Gunning, who died on 1st December. 1881; aged 16. Richard's soul is called before The judgment throne of God, ...
Article : 217 wordsWriting in a New York paper, Mr. Archibald Forbes says:—"In some material respects Melbourne is to-day, from the American viewpoint, a 'one-horse town.' No city in the world is so well ...
Article : 136 wordsWILLIAM Beach, the champion sculler of the world, arrived in Goulburn on Wednesday morning by the mail train. He was accompanied by Mr. Deeble and a number of other sporting gentlemen. ...
Article : 52 wordsSIR,—Please allow me to correct an error which occurred in your report of the prizes for the best collection of needlework at the last show. It was myself who obtained first prize, and not Miss ...
Article : 157 wordsFOR some time the families of William Hubner, a farmer, near Moorwatha, eight miles from Howlong, and of Jacobi, a farmer, near Jindera, have been at variance in consequence of the latter having ...
Article : 202 wordsTHE meeting advertised to be held by the above in the Mechanics' Institute on Tuesday evening did not take place, probably as the weather was very. wet. It is expected to take place early next week. ...
Article : 42 wordsTHERE are plenty of native cats about these districts, and up to the present they have been destroyed when possible, not oven for sake of their skins, but to get rid of them as a pest. Now, ...
Article : 103 wordsSIR,—In your issue of Saturday last we noticed, with some amusement, a lucubration from a scribe signing himself "After Dark," and commenting in a very intemperate manner on our sketch of the ...
Article : 565 wordsMR. JAMES WATSON, M.L.A., member of Gundagai, left for Europe by the Pekin on 3rd instant, on account of the illhealth of Mrs. Watson, but before his departure he expressed no definite view ...
Article : 473 wordsA CORRESPONDENT informs us that on Saturday last a woman named Mary McLaurin, a resident of Greenwich Park, was out riding, when the horse run her against a tree, causing a fracture of her leg. ...
Article : 43 wordsAT 9 o' clock on Tuesday morning within the walls of Darlinghurst gaol the convict Charles Watson, better known as the "Cowl Cowl murderer," paid the last penalty of the law. The circumstances of ...
Article : 476 wordsBEFORE the Police Magistrate. INDECENT LANGUAGE. Wm. Johnson was charged with the above, and fined 40s or one month in gaol. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Standard says that Lord Granville has announced to the Russian Government, in unmistakable terms, the firm determination of the English Cabinet to resist—by force, if necessary—any ...
Article : 324 wordsThe Yass Courier says:—On the 25th inst., a match will be played at Yass against an eleven of the Goulburn Club, the result of the match to abide the decision of the Cricket Association as to whether ...
Article : 81 wordsNEWS has been received from the Fly River, New Guinea, that a serious disturbance took place at keewhy, between some of the villagers and two native mission teachers. The cause of the disturbance ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Thu 16 Apr 1885, Page 4
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