This morning Mr. Jones (city engineer) and Mr. Seymour (sanitary inspector) started to make an inspection of that portion of the water reserve in which, it baa been alleged, that nightsoil has been deposited. ...
Article : 106 wordsA meeting of the Operative Stonemasons' Society was held in the Swan with Two Necks Hotel on Monday evening. Mr. J. Ware occupied the chair. Six new members were elected. The auditors' yearly ...
Article : 421 wordsAlexander Yeoman, chief cook of the steamer Pateena, was found in the Yarra on Monday. He had been missing since the 6th instant. His hat And coat were discovered some days previously at ...
Article : 103 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The difficulty between the wharf laborers and the shipowners has entered on a new phase. The Wharf Laborers' Union is going to pay the passages of the men from Adelaide who ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 244 wordsEntries for the National Regatta will close on Saturday. Mr. Bernard Shaw has been appointed inspector of police in Hobart. ...
Article : 1,626 wordsIn the Central Police Court to-day, before Mr. Abbott, S.M., Charles Mairhoff was charged by Constable Murdoch with having, to the danger of passers by, carelessly driven a horse attached to a van. It ...
Article : 167 wordsTenders were received some time ago for the extension of the eastern breakwater at Townsville by 1400ft in a curve, but it is understood that in consequence of the report of Sir John Goode, it has been ...
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Advertising : 734 wordsCardinal Moron was received on Monday night at the railway station by a great assemblage of Roman Catholics and sightseers, numbering about 1300. A procession was formed, and a large number bearing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsA meeting of commoners was held on Monday afternoon, when Messrs. Stimson, Clark, Hosking, M'Killop, and Stammers were elected trustees of the temporary common for the ensuing three years. It ...
Article : 72 wordsThose ladies who purpose attending the second reception to be held by Lady Carrington this afternoon, will have divided their anxious attention between scanning the threatening cloudscape and ...
Article : 298 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The millers met on Monday to consider the offer of the men to accept a reduction in wages over £2 per week, on condition of the dight-hours system being adopted in the mills. ...
Article : 94 wordsA meeting of the Wharf Laborers' Picnic committee was held in the Captain Cook Hotel, Kent-street, on Monday night. Mr. A. J. Kelly occupied the chair, and there was a good attendance. The ...
Article : 603 wordsIt has been suggested that the West Maitland Municipal Council should construct a public morgue in the town. Mr. Thomas Burness, a very old resident of ...
Article : 57 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The plasterers' strike is not so near a conclusion as was generally considered, at over twenty-six firms have intimated that they have not acceded to the men's demands that ...
Article : 43 wordsLord and Lady Carrington and Miss Judith Harbord reached Moss Vale on Friday evening. A detachment of the district Light Horse escorted them to the vice-regal residence at Hill View. His ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 146 wordsTwo prisoners named Watson and Simpson made their escape from the gaol grounds on Monday. They, with six others, were working outside, and two warders were in charge. How they managed to ...
Article : 127 wordsIt has been determined by the numerous friends of Sir Alexander Stuart to tender him a complimentary bouquet before Le leaves New South Wales to undertake the duties of Exhibition Commissioner. An ...
Article : 58 wordsA number of the constituents of the Postmaster-General have determined to invite him to a banquet before the re-assembling of Parliament, and a meeting of his friends is called for Thursday afternoon, ...
Article : 95 wordsDRUNKS.—Seventeen persons celebrated old New Year's Day by getting tight. INDECENCY.—Michael Merrieman, 70, was charged by Constable Flynn with having indecently ...
Article : 317 wordsThe Commercial Bank branch agency in Hoddle-street, Collingwood, in charge of Mr. Hill, was broken into this morning between 9 and 10 o'clock, and a woman who was cleaning the place Was shot. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe members of the Royal Commission for the Conservation of Water for New South Wales will leave Sydney on Thursday next for the purpose of holding a conference with their confreres of Victoria ...
Article : 125 wordsThe chief officer of the steamer Katoomba, Mr. Medley, Supplies information of Captain Strachan's recent expedition to New Guinea. He boarded the expedition schooner Herald at Port Douglas, and ...
Article : 543 wordsA meeting of the New South Wales Branch of the Federated Seamen's Union was held in the rooms on Monday evening. Mr. Josiah Wright presided. A deputation from the Trades. and Labor Council, ...
Article : 201 wordsThe ladies of the needlework institution in William-street, have resolved to bring tho operations of the place to a close, the number of workers being so few that the promoters consider the institution is ...
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Family Notices : 377 wordsWe have already recorded the death of Mr. Robert Lessells, which occurred in Orange on Wednesday last, at the good age of 64. Mr. Lessells was a native of Kirkcaldy, Fife, and was the senior partner ...
Article : 278 wordsA STOWAWAY.—Thomas Duggan, a laborer, was ordered to pay £3 (in default, fourteen days) for having obtained a passage from Brisbane in the steamship Ly-ce-Moon, without consent and without ...
Article : 212 wordsA meeting of the Sydney Marine Benefit Society was held in the hall of the association, Kent-street. Mr. Richard Fry, president, occupied the chair. There was only a small attendance. The annual report and ...
Article : 257 wordsThis is the title of collection of interesting fragments of colonial history and events which occurred during the life of the late Mr. James Punch. It has been compiled by Mr. Richmond Thatcher, who ...
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Advertising : 72 wordsThe Young election bids fair to create scene stir when Parliament meets again, as it is certain that some member will demand that the peculiar manner in which election are carried on in that rural locality ...
Article : 69 wordsAt a meeting of the Trade Hall committee on Friday evening it was decided to take steps to ward holding future meetings on the premises now half by the trustees of the association at Goulborn and ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Tue 12 Jan 1886, Page 5
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