After eight sittings the board which is inquiring into labour conditions in the City Council service practically finished taking evidence last night, the final hearing lasting ...
Article : 350 wordsRacing at Rosehill will be the only metropolitan attraction this afternoon Quite a number of special trains have been engaged in anticipation of a large attendance. At ...
Article : 1,532 wordsWhen first framed the Local Government Act gave councils the right to rate all land within their boundaries, and as the boundaries of many municipalities consisted of waters, and the dividing line was the ...
Article : 168 wordsThis afternoon's performances of "Jack and Jill" at Her Majesty's Theatre will introduce important changes in the east, and as new songs composed by Mr. Hai. Campbell (conductor) are also to be ...
Article : 163 wordsThree sessions daily are announced at the Glaciarium, where skaters are able to enjoy a great expanse of smoothly frozen ice. This evening there will be an exhibition of graceful fancy-skating by Professor Langley. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 302 wordsAccording to British files, the speed carnival held some weeks ago at Florida would have proved a failure had it not been for the sensational cycle events. In a two miles race with flying start F. Ogler covered the ...
Article : 106 wordsAt the Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park, the Sydney Skating Rink is open for three daily sessions, and various attractive events are advertised. Especial attention may be drawn to the Dreadnought Night on ...
Article : 57 wordsMost of the world's best sprint cycling champions are at present in Paris where big prices are given them as appearance money in match and handicap events. Among the riders is H. J. Clark, of ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Royal Dramatic organisation, directed by Mr. Harry White, will continue their suburban tour at the Balmain Town Hall to-night, when "The Sole Survivor," a tale of the Goodwin Sands, will be staged by ...
Article : 16 wordsIn order to prepare the stage for the elaborate production of The Great Rescue." Mr. Bland Holt will not open his season at the theatre Royal until next Wednesday. The new play is founded on Lincoln J. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Hurstville Council is not unanimous on the municipal agency question, so far at least as it applies to fish Bexley Labour League recently requested the aldermen to co-operate with the City Council in ...
Article : 103 wordsStudents of music who are missing the intellectual and musical treats provided by Professor J. Matthew Ennis, Mus. Doc. of the University of Adelaide in connection with ...
Article : 308 wordsThe success of the British boat (Wolsley-Sidderley) at Monaco last month marks an epoch in the history of the automobile industry in England. Up to this the Continental builders have nearly always shown marked ...
Article : 97 wordsSeeking for municipal sympathy in a proposition that the control of the abattoirs by the City Council was inimical to the best interests of the suburban municipalities, the Leichhardt Council has circularised the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe final matinee of "Lucky Durham" is announced for next Wednesday, and on Thursday evening Messrs. Harcourt Beatty, Gaston Mervale, James Lindsay. Misses Emily Fitzroy, Gladys Harvey, and the other ...
Article : 67 wordsBoth Comte de Lambert and M Paul Tissandier lately made flights of nearly half an hour in France, and the latter sportsman also on two occasions flew for a considerable time with a passenger on board. The ...
Article : 116 wordsA meeting was held at the Waverley Council-chambers for the purpose of devising some scheme to celebrate the approacing jubilee of the borough. It was decided that a demonstration be held in the Waverley ...
Article : 130 wordsNext Saturday there will be a revival of "The Fatal Wedding" at the Criterion Theatre, under new corditions, as Messrs Meynell and Gunn's Company has been joined by Mr. H. R. Roberts for the character ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsThis afternoon and evening, at the Tivoli Theatre Mr. Richards' group of new English artists will include Miss Cissie Curlette, the new mimic; Dale and O'Malley, the smartest ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 279 wordsIn an address upon "Journalism is a Liberal Profession," delivered last night before the New South Wales Institute of Journalists, Professor MacCallum pointed out that, though ...
Article : 825 wordsThe event most interesting to city anglers this week was the lecture by Mr. D. G. Stead, naturalist to the Fisheries Department to the Anglers Casting Club and their friends on Thursday night on the subject of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 246 wordsAt the National Amphithcatre, new artists opening this afternoon and evening will comprise Robb Brothers, wire-walkers and comedy acrobats; Rowell Sisters, duettists and dancers; J. West, hand-balancer, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsOwing to an unfortunate accident Professor Stevenson, who was to meet the Japanese jujitsu champion, Ryugoro Shima, in a match on Wednesday night, has had to abandon the ...
Article : 120 wordsAt the Lyceum, both afternoon and evening, Mr. C. Spencer's Theatrescope Company will show a local star series of the new State Governor and Lady Chelmsford's landing yesterday, the procession, and ...
Article : 69 wordsTo-day's competitions are:— Royal Sydney G.C.—Bogey competition for trophies presented by the timber members. Australian G.C.—Open competition for the Australian ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. T. J. West will this afternoon and evening introduce at the Palace Theatre Pathe Freres' new French art film, "The Return of Ulysses," telling the whole Grecian love story, with Parisian actors, noted for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 41 wordsMr. Edwin Geach's Englishman's Home" Company started their tour at West Maitland last evening, when the capacious hall was picked very shortly after the opening of the doors, Mr. Edwin Geach having received ...
Article : 97 wordsSir,—I read with interest and complete agreement the letter of "Yennek" under the above heading. I wish he [?] included Newcastle with Sydney Melbourne, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 wordsMadame Melba has invited the Wallabies and Mr. W. W. Hill, secretary of the Rugby Union, to her first concert on Tuesday night. ...
Article : 25 wordsThis evening Mr. J. W. Bengough will humorously and pointedly discourse upon "Politics, Politicians, and Principles," a subject upon which his Canadian editorial experiences entitle him to speak. The ...
Article : 86 wordsIn connection with the "All Blacks" v "Kangaroos" fixtures for June 5, 7, 12, 30 and July 3, at the Agricultural Ground (each player in the opposing teams having been at one time an international representative), ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsOn Monday evening Mr. Lawrence Campbell will give the third of his brightly-sustained recitals at the Y.M.C.A. Hall, when his subject will be Tennyson's poetic narrative, "Enoch Arden," a life's story full of ...
Article : 70 wordsThe following will represent Manly Waratah v All Blacks on the Manly Oval at 2.15 this afternoon:— Arnaud, James, Glasson Phelps, Watson. Adams, Kilminster, Collander, Currie, Robertson, M'Carthy, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Western Australian footballers were given a reception here this afternoon by the Mayor of North Illawarra (Alderman Young) and prominent members of the South Coast British Footballers' Association. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Royal Welsh male choir, before sailing for South Africa from Adelaide on June 7, will make their farewell at the Centenary Hall on Monday eveing, under the direction of Messrs. J. and N. Tait. These ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 wordsMatches for to-day are:— University v Manly, at Waverley. Mosman v Sydney, at Domain. Petersham v Metropolitan, at Burwood. ...
Article : 30 wordsThere was a large and fashionable gathering of spectators at the polo matches at Rosebrook to-day. Splendid all-round play by each team was witnessed. Muswellbrook I. showed the best combination and ...
Article : 92 wordsOn Monday evening the Playgoers' Club will open a brief season at the Royal Standard Theatre, consisting of five performances of J. Clarence Lee's Australian comedy drama "Out on the Castlereagh." ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 55 wordsThe Rawson Cup final will be played this afternoon on the Chatswood green. The competing clubs are Petersham and Waverley, both of whom have strong teams, but bowlers generally complain of the action ...
Article : 293 wordsNext Friday evening the Sydney Muffs will present a double bill at the Criterion Theatre, consisting of "Tragedy and Comedy," and "David Garrick," in the latter of which Mr. Stanley M'Kay will play the [?] ...
Article : 78 wordsNominations close on Monday for the Australian Waterloo Cup, to be run at Rooty Hill on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. A smoke concert in honour of the interstate visitors ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 199 wordsIn aid of the Norland Institute Training Fund an evening entertainment of a diversified character will be given at the Town Hall on Tuesday, June 8, under vice-regal patronage. There will be beautiful costume ...
Article : 72 wordsOn Tuesday evening, June 8, Mr. Hector R. Maclean, Warden of the Sydney College of Music, will deliver a lecture at the Y.M.C.A. Hall upon the life and work of Joham Sebastian Bach. Excerpts from the ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Gladstone Bell, a new English 'cellist of wide experience in London (Henry Wood's orchestra) and Leipyzie will give his first recital here at the time and place notified in mother column. He will himself play ...
Article : 91 wordsSir,—You are well aware of the many innovations that have been made in the Public school system of this State during the last four or five years, and doubtless you are in ...
Article : 530 wordsDuring the recent session of Synod, a tennis match, country clergy against city, was arranged by Rev. W. J. Cakebread and Rev. E. N. Wilton. The match was played on the Birchgrove Courts, Balmain, on Thursday. ...
Article : 188 wordsSir,—We have heard a good deal lately about Halley's Comet about the possibility of the earth's surface and the inhabitants thereof being poisoned by the deleterious gases ...
Article : 352 wordsThere will be a revival of "East Lynne" at Queen's Hill theatre to-night by Mr. Harry Macdona's Company, when the emotional and romantic love-drama will be presented by yet another entirely new cast, ...
Article : 73 wordsAfter a rather long course of preparation, Benjamin Thoroughgood, of Stockton, and Henry Pearce, junior, of Middle Harbour, will race for the sculling championship of Australia this afternoon. The ...
Article : 242 wordsMiss Lilian Booth and Mr. Reginald Goode will join in a dramatic entertainment at St. James's Hall on Thursday evening, June 10. An attractive programme will include Mark Anthony's oration, "Field of ...
Article : 78 wordsNew South Wales Cyclists' Union.—Final of Balmain Club's open 10 miles road race, Homebush course. Sydney, Suburban, Balmain, Redfern, Newtown, Swift, Glebe Monarch, Mosman, Eastern Suburbs, Western ...
Article : 105 wordsA new musical movement on a laudably ambitions scale has resulted in the formation of the Western Suburbs Orchestral Union, with Mr. Wm. Asprey as conductor, Mr. N. H. D. Hopson as hon. secretary, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsOn Thursday evening Mr. Walter Marks entertained the members of the Prince Alfred Yacht Club, at their rooms, with an instructive and interesting account of his experiences gained during an English ...
Article : 200 wordsPine weather should be sufficient to ensure a big attendance at the Rosehill races this afternoon. The secretary, Mr. Rowe, has arranged for an ample supply of special trains. ...
Article : 831 wordsThelma Hanlon, a young soprano whose brilliant merits have already won her a considerable reputation as the outcome of a few tentative appearances, will give her first concert at the Town Hall on Thursday, ...
Article : 50 wordsA splendid entry has been received for the Redfern club's Lyon road race from picton to Ashfield, to be run on Prince of Wales' Birthday. One hundred and seventy riders have nominated, including cyclists from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 wordsMiss Florence Menkmeyer will make her reappearance in Sydney after several years' absence at the Y.M.C.A. Hall on Tuesday, June 22. This pianist, who claims to be the only Australian admitted as a student at ...
Article : 70 wordsAt the close of the series of classic organ recitals recently given at the Manly Presbyterian Church, the Rev. J. Anderson Gardiner, at a social gathering in honour of Miss Alice Bryant, presented that artist with ...
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Advertising : 86 wordsAt the Bijou Picture Palace, both afternoon and evening, there will be an entire change of programme, in which some of the latest films dealing with military and sporting events in Europe, and humorous and dramatic ...
Article : 47 wordsA £25 pigeon-match was shot off here on Wednesday. It was eventually divided between Messrs. J. Ahearn, M. Kenchtle, and R. Nancarrow. Several sweepstakes were also shot off. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Harry Clay's Vaudeville Company will give their customary entertainment at the Royal Standard Theatre this evening, when a varied programme will include new artists, new illustrated songs, and new moving ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 29 May 1909, Page 16
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