LARGE and expensive book, published only five or six years, purports to ...
Article : 1,067 wordsHE powerful word-painting of Marcus Clarke, with slight alterations, aptly describes the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,383 wordsHEN Barrington went to Parramatta as chief constable, the town consisted of a road about a mile ...
Article : 525 wordsHE old Sydney identity, the Plying Pieman, shown in our illustration, was in many ways a remarkab1e ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,751 words"But the strangest part of the affair was the manner in which Bevan got hold of them. You will hardly believe me when I tell you that he made his escape from the prison hut at Toongabbie ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 581 wordsN no country of England, and perhaps in no country of the world, did the art of smuggling flourish to such ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 823 wordsConsidering the character of the people, there was not such an amount of crime in the district as might have been expected, although there was no limit to the drunkenness and immorality. But ...
Article : 215 wordsThey were never discovered, although Barrington made every effort to secure them. Several arrests were made upon suspicion, but nothing came of them. A motive for the crime was easily found ...
Article : 205 wordsThe capture of the offenders in less serious cases often taxed his ingenuity to the utmost. While a young convict named Sparrow, afterwards manager of the theatre opened in 1796, was laid up at the ...
Article : 288 wordsThis system of government had its drawbacks. Two or three Sundays afterwards Burn went Into town as usual, and, meeting with one of his friends, a convict butcher named Hill, they agreed to pass ...
Article : 169 wordsThe preliminary works are about to begin of one of the most interesting projects for the Paris World Exhibition, namely, the undermining of the Trocadero Hill, and the creation of an exact reproduction ...
Article : 72 wordsA telegram from Zurich of February 1 said: "Fredcrick Martini, the inventor of the Martini rifle, has died at his home at Frauenfeld, in the canton of Thurgau, at the age of 64. The deceased was ...
Article : 124 wordsThe military gentleman had begun to despair of ever seeing his 32gs ticker again, when four months afterwards Lieutenant M'Arthur rode down from Parramatta with the three watches and 10dol in ...
Article : 253 wordsThe unfortunate man lived long enough to make a dying declaration, in the presence of witnesses. A warrant for the murderer's arrest was obtained at once by Barrington, who arrested him, and ...
Article : 237 wordsAccording to a Dalziel cable to the London papers from San Francisco, there was a Butler sensation which never reached here. The telegram, which is dated January 29, says: "The San Francisco ...
Article : 112 wordsMr. Lewis Sinclair, the newly-elected M.P. for the Romford Division of Essex, in addressing his first public meeting at Manor Park, Forest Gate, on January 21, told his audience that he ran away ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Rev. John West, whose essay on "Transportation" contains some epigrammatic sketches of the times, gives Barrington a prominent place in it: "So rare was reformation that a single instance is ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Sat 20 Mar 1897, Page 1
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