The dead body of a female infant was found floating in Johnston a Boy on Wednesday afternoon by a boy named William Mercer, residing in Dixon-street, Balmain. The body was in an advanced ...
Article : 60 wordsAt about 8 o'clock last night, the jury, in the Fletchers case, returned a verdict of not guilty. Much interest was manifested in this case, which was sent from Glen Innes for trial here, on an ...
Article : 346 wordsThe Mining Department is in the receipt report by Mr. Wilkinson (Government geologist)upon the coal seams at the head of the Clyde River, which run into the districts of Milton and Ulladalla. ...
Article : 265 wordsThe pulling of the first sheet and the christening of the coonamble TIMES newspaper took place last evening in Namoi-street, when a number of friends assembled at the invitation of Mr. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Cup Day of the Australian Jockey Club opened with fine dear weather, although at an early period of the day a very doubtful meteorologioal aspect of affairs existed. Shortly before the racing began a nice breeze sprang up ...
Article : 2,594 wordsIn the charge court, before Mr. O'Malley Clarke, S.M., 26 drunkards were fined as usual. INDECENT LANGUAGE. Mary Ann Brown behaved riotously iN ...
Article : 479 wordsNotwithstanding every effort on the part of the police to arrest Peter Blake, against whom a warrant was issued for an alleged outrage on a child in Wollombi, they have discovered no trace of the ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. Slee has sent in a report to the Mining Department as the result of an inspection, of the Bridwood goldfield. He says in it that important and rich discoveries of gold have of late been made at ...
Article : 225 wordsThe work of preparing for the defence of the harbor is going on apace. The members of the Torpedo Corps ace hard at work in the Newcastle wool [?] shed (that building at this time of the ...
Article : 329 wordsThe Carcoar Agricultural aid Pastoral Show was a decided success, notwithstanding the inclement weather. Rain fell at intervals during the day; but at noon the weather cleared and large numbers of ...
Article : 387 wordsThus the Melbourne AGE at April 7:—A telegram from our London correspondent recently announced that the once prosperous South Australian Copper Company had ceased to be a profitable enterprise, ...
Article : 351 wordsThe Postal Department is in receipt of a letter from Mr. G. S. Yuill, manager in Australia of the Orient Steam Navigation Company, in which it is notified that arrangements have been made between the ...
Article : 84 wordsMessrs. Gresley Lukin and Co. report having received the following news from the raining manager of the Pinnacle Group Silver Mine, Silverton, dated March 28:—Work has being going on well since my ...
Article : 255 wordsThe following telegram has been received by the acting-Colonial Secretary, from the Agent-General for this colony:— "London April 7.—The Colonial Office informs the ...
Article : 147 wordsThe N.S.W. bowlers were invited by the Mayor of Melbourne to drink wise to-day. After the organ recital in the Town Hall, the party will go to Mordialloc in special coaches. ...
Article : 40 wordsRYDAL, Thursday.—Several parcels of alluvial have been brought in lately. They were obtained chiefly from old diggings. Mining affairs are progressing slowly but satisfactorily...... ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Victorian crew for the Intercolonial boat race will start for Sydney overland to-morrow afternoon. Fuller has just completed a new boat for them. She is single streak, and beautifully proportioned. The crew has been ...
Article : 106 wordsHerbert Bartrop, of Evans-street, Balmain, builder, on petition and affidavit. Mr. L. T. Lloyd, official assignee. William Marshall, of Sutton, near Quean beyan, ...
Article : 40 wordsGold has recently been discovered in a little island of the lovely Hardangar Fiord, in Norway, and an English company has bought the island and is now sinking shafts and laying down plant. The name of ...
Article : 58 wordsJohn Connor, formerly of Wigan, Lancashire, and now redding in Newcastle, New South Wales, is prepared to wrestle any man in the Australian colonies, Lancashire style, for £50 a side or he will wrestle any man in the ...
Article : 57 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—A discovery of coal has been made between Hergott and Strangways Springs. The find was made about a month ago by bushmen, who brought samples to Adelaide. A syndicate was ...
Article : 96 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—Another suggest weighing 5oz has been found at Gumoracha, on the same claim which, yielded the 20ez nugget. There are about 600 men on the field, and many are getting fair ...
Article : 61 wordsINDIAN AND COLONIAL EXHIBITION.—The following gentlemen have been appointed additional members of the Royal Commission in connection with the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, to be held in ...
Article : 686 wordsThe Metropolitan Court of Quarter Sessions was continued before Judge Dowling. Mr. Clarke Irving, barrister, prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. ALLEGED LARCENY. ...
Article : 769 wordsAnother foot race for £50 a side has been arranged to some off between Jas. Deave and H. Earle, the backers of the latter to not being satisfied with his former defeat by Dears. The race is to take place at Gun Tree Flat on ...
Article : 90 wordsADELONG, Thursday.—The Challenger G.M. Co. has crashed 85 tons of quartz for 89os gold. Cole and party, of Mount Adah, have crushed 36 tons for 81ez. This claim is looking really well at present. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe manager of the Sliver Hill Mining Co. reported on April 6:—Have driven a farther distance of 16ft for week ended Thursday, 2nd instant, making a total distance driven 141ft. Daring the beginning of the ...
Article : 61 wordsPursuant to a promise made in the Legislature Assembly at the time of the passage of the new Civil Service Act by the Ministry, regulations have been framed for the Railway Department ...
Article : 235 wordsThe manager of the Sunny Corner Silver Mining Co. reports the shipment of a parcel of refined silver (20,042oz), valued at £4760, in the R.M.S. Pokia for London. This makes a total of 140,794oz refined ...
Article : 63 wordsA Mr. J. H. Lane telegraphed from Menindie, on Tuesday, as follow:—New silver country is reported as discovered on the Back Saddle station, one hundred and twenty miles north-east of Silverton. Several ...
Article : 78 wordsAn inquest was held on Wednesday afternoon by the City Coroner on the body of a prizoner name Mary Ann M'Gowan, 29 years of age, who died in the gaol hospital on Tuesday afternoon. The decreased was ...
Article : 62 wordsA Tocumwal correspondent wrote on Saturday that a report was brought in that a young lady, the daughter of Mr. Fairs, a very old resident on the Victorian side of the river near Tocumwal. had been ...
Article : 318 wordsThe City Coroner named the adjourned inquest in the Darling hurst Gaol into the death of a prisoner named Alexander Barry, who strangled himself in his cell on Friday afternoon. The decreased was serving ...
Article : 90 wordsAn uncommon ceremony took place in ST. [?] cathedral on Wednesday. Seven [?] were admitted by hastion into the Church of England. The rite was administered by the [?] ...
Article : 100 wordsThere was a large attendance at the public meeting hold but evening in the School of Arte, West Maitland, to take steps represent to the Government the inadequacy of the site lately purchased for a new ...
Article : 249 wordsA few months ago Henry L'Estrange the Australian Blondin, and Balloonist, met with a [?]ful accident while be was executing some engineer's work in a Druitt-street establishment. He was ...
Article : 56 wordsA lad 7 years of age named Wm, Wiles Boyd, who was taken to the Sydney Hospital on Tuesday evening suffering from a fractured skull, caused by a kick from a horse while playing in a paddock in Redfern ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Thu 9 Apr 1885, Page 6
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