Exception has been taken by the Sydney and Suburban Timber Merchants' Association to certain statements in a letter which Sir William Lyne addressed to the Associated ...
Article : 1,080 wordsAyrshire, s 7252 tons, Captain Coull, from Brisbane. Birt and Co., Ltd., agents. Era, s, 2378 tons, Captain Girling, from Port Pirie. Howard Smith Company, Ltd., agents. ...
Article : 385 wordsThe trial of John Murphy, restaurant-keeper, of Fitzroy, on a charge of shooting John Joseph Ryan, with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, was concluded on Friday. ...
Article : 131 wordsThere were large attendances on the Royall Melbourne links yesterday to witness the continuation of the championship golf tournament. Two events were played—one a ...
Article : 691 wordsIn response to requests from the shopkeepers and shop employees, the Government has decided to make Saturday afternoon the weekly[?] half-holiday in all the shops instead of ...
Article : 51 wordsThe body of John Thomas Cummings, 39 years of age, was yesterday discovered at the bottom of an underground tank in the yard of his neighbour in Wentworth-street, ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Langton Grange, of the American-Australian line, which left New York on Aug. 11 for Australian ports, arrived at Fremantle at midday on Sunday. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Union liner Monowai, which was towed to Sydney by the Mokoia on Sunday, September 15, after being disabled on a voyage from Wellington, left the company's wharf at 11.15 p.m. on Saturday, taking ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Minister for Railways said yesterday it was intended to make appreciable reductions in freights on grain and manures, and timber for mining purposes. The new rates, which ...
Article : 95 wordsThe steamer Ballochmyle, in ballast, from Valparaiso Aug. 14, arrived at Sydney at 10.35 a.m. on Saturday, and anchored in Neutral Bay. She put into Wellington on Sept. 19 for a supply of bunker coal, and left ...
Article : 57 wordsMessrs. Burns, Philp, and Co.'s island mail steamer Malaita arrived at Sydney shortly after 12 o'clock on Saturday night from a successful cruise through the Gilbert and Elliee Islands. Passengers—Miss Long, ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Government is making provision for the expenditure of £111,000 on the schools, £50,000 being included in the surplus revenue for distribution, and £61,000 is on the ...
Article : 32 wordsA coaltrimmer named George Player was run over by some waggons in the coalyard at the Inner Basin early yesterday morning, and died from his injuries. A few months ago he ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Comptroller-General of Prisons, Mr. Burt, on Friday received a telegram from the gaoler at Wyndham stating that warders Johnstone and Bonner were missing. They went ...
Article : 140 wordsAn interesting position arose recently over the destruction of several Metropolitan Board of Works debentures. The house of a former Minister for Mines was destroyed by fire, and ...
Article : 101 wordsAUCKLAND.—Arr: Sept. 28, Forcric, s, from San Francisco; Pondo, s, from Vancouver and Fiji; Hanroto, s, from Eastern Pacific. WELLINGTON.—Arr: Sept. 29, Ennerdale, s, from ...
Article : 31 wordsThe North Coast S.N. Company's new steamer Yulgilbar, which is being brought out by Captain W. A. Worrall, arrived at Port Said on Friday. The vessel has averaged 10 knots from Glasgow. It is intended ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 373 wordsThe barque Hawthornbank, 124 days out from London, arrived at Sydney at 9 o'clock yesterday evening. The prolonged voyage was due to a continuation of terrific gales. At the outset boisterous conditions prevailed, ...
Article : 136 wordsThe following vessels cleared at the Customs-house yesterday:—Hobart, s, for Fremantle, via ports, with 1000 tons coal and quantity sundries; Aymeric, s, for Wellington, ...
Article : 112 wordsA packed house last night gave an enthusiastic reception to "The Great Rescue," produced for the first time in Australasia by the Bland Holt Company at the Theatre Royal. ...
Article : 111 wordsA smoke social held here on Wednesday was attended by over 200. The president of the Agricultural Society (Mr. W. Cartwright) was in the chair. Mr. Hogue, Minister for ...
Article : 128 wordsR.M.S. Pyramus, for Brisbane. Victoria, R.M.S., for London, via ports. Marathon, s, for Brisbane. Taiyuan, s, for Manila, China, and Japan. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Outer Harbour is practically ready to berth a vessel (remarks the Adelaide "Advertiser"). Railway sidings have been made, and a lage goods shed is being erected. A tender for the railway station ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. Owen Gilbert, member-elect for Newcastle, tendered members of his various election committees in Newcastle and Stockton and their friends a picnic at Fern Bay ...
Article : 157 wordsThe sentence of death recorded against the Afghan, Chumptah Khan, at Townsville recently, for the murder of Duncan McMillan, at Richmond, on June 28, was put before the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe steamer Hampton from Dunedin September 19, arrived at Sydney on Saturday night. On leaving Dunedin terrific sales were encountered to Cape Nugget, and it was decided to make for Cook Strait, and ...
Article : 73 wordsMiowera, s, for Vancouver, via ports; Karori, s, for Strahan; Bega, s, for Eden; Wauchope, s, for Port Macquarie; Na[?], s, for Newcastle, Bellinger, s, for Cape Hawke; Tuncurry, s, for Cape Hawke. ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. H. J. Scott, secretary to the South Australian Commission to the Franco-British Exhibition, left for Melbourne by express to-day to meet representatives of the wine ...
Article : 161 wordsTaiyuan, s, 2269 tons, Captain Dawson, for Hongkong, via ports. Mimiro, s, 6225 tons, Captain Kemp, for London, via Auckland. ...
Article : 376 wordsThe tug Lyttelton, which has been a familiar feature of Lyttelton Harbour for some 28 years, has been purchased by the Devonport Steam Ferry Company, and she will be used at Auckland as an ...
Article : 186 wordsTwo coal proprietors waited on the Minister for Railways and the Commissioner on Friday afternoon, and protested against the big increase in the demurrage charge on coal ...
Article : 108 wordsHugh Brady, who was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Thursday evening suffering from injuries through being thrown from his cab, died in the institution on Saturday night. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 399 wordsJulia Fortune, 79, married, residing in Forbes-street, Darlington, fell down in the street yesterday, near her home. She fractured her left forearm and left collarbone. The ...
Article : 47 wordsCaptain J. D. Joy, of the steamer Cooma, while at Sydney on Saturday, made a grave complaint of sailing ships on the coast failing to display proper lights at night. He remarked that on Thursday evening, when ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Commissioner of Police has received the following telegram:—"A man giving the name of John Patterson was arrested by Constable Watson and Tracker Spider at Burke River ...
Article : 71 words"B" Company, 3rd Australian Regiment, was inspected yesterday by Lieutenant-Colonel Bartlett Being the conclusion of the annual field training. The full strength of the company is 47. of which 43 paraded. ...
Article : 87 wordsMrs. Alice Dark, 76, residing in Mary-street, Newtown, fell down some stops at the St. Peters railway station yesterday afternoon, and was seriously injured. The Civil ...
Article : 54 wordsIn reference to the complaint from Broken Hill in regard to the alleged shortage of trucks, the Railway Commissioner states:— "Occasionally there is a want of trucks at ...
Article : 395 wordsThe New Zealand Wool Fires Commission, in a further report to Parliament, submitted a copy of the correspondence that has taken place regarding the examination in London of eight bales of wool ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. T. T. Wilton, managing director of the Lithgow Valley Company, states that the coal trade is continuing at a brisk rate, and the only trouble that the Coal Association has to ...
Article : 228 wordsJane Ryan, 20, a resident of Gloucester-street, city, was admitted to the Sydney Hospital last night, suffering from burns about the arms and body. She was cooking, and ...
Article : 43 wordsThe mailboy who was recently reported missing between Goondiwindi and Bendee station, has since been found. ...
Article : 20 wordsOn Saturday afternoon the metropolitan units of the field force were exercised in a tactical scheme. The general idea was that a force (red) attacked Sydney from the west, ...
Article : 731 wordsA wire from Charleville states that bush fires are raging about Morven, Victoria Downs, and Angelalla Downs; also on the Lower Ward country, and towards ...
Article : 32 wordsMalaita, s, from Gilbert and Ellice Groups: 340 tons copra, quantity sharks' fins. ...
Article : 15 wordsWhile returning from Tumut to-day Mr. Walter Fraser, a solicitor, of Gundagai, was thrown from his sulky through the vehicle capsizing. He sustained a compound ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Oc[?]n will leave Sydney for Marseilles at noon on Oct. 7, Melbourne 10th, Adelaide 12th. The Caledonien, from Marseilles Aug. 28, is due at Adelaide Oct. 2, Melbourne 4th, Sydney 7th. ...
Article : 124 wordsTaiynan, s, for Manila, China, and Japan: 450 t[?] four, 323 tns sleepers, 315 tns lead, 10 tns cats, 17 tns naval stores. 500 cs meats, 32 horses, 235 tns beef, 700 crcs mutton, 60 pkgs frozen goods, 1 corpae, ...
Article : 425 wordsAt a meeting of the Master Bakers' Association on Saturday night it was decided, after discussion, that the price of a 2lb loaf should be raised to 3½d from October 7. It was ...
Article : 56 wordsAn inquest into the Block 10 fatality, in which George A. Sinclair and William F. Schmidt lost their lives, resulted in a verdict of accidental death. ...
Article : 36 wordsWhen the steamer Westralia was anchoring off the Domain to land a number of cattle from Sydney a working dingy with two sailors, Charles Sheffield and Petersen, ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Brisbane is due at Sydney this morning with a cargo of produce. The Hobart will leave Sydney to-morrow for Melbourne, Adelaide, and W.A. ...
Article : 88 wordsApplication was made before the local Court yesterday by H. T. Sykes, of Birkenhead, miner, father of James W. Sykes, labourer, who was killed at the Outer Harbour on ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. G. D. McKay, inspector of the United Pastoralists' Association, who has been visiting the western districts, states that in all parts he visited there ...
Article : 99 words*Correspondence intended for transmission by this vessel must be specially endorsed with the name of the ship. †† Letters for Queensland will be accepted without ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Foreric, of the new service of steamers between San Francisco and Australasia, arranged by Messrs. Andrew Weir and Co., of Glasgow, arrived at Auckland on Saturday, and will come to Sydney. She left ...
Article : 132 wordsA young man named Sidney Brown, while passing between some railway trucks at the cement works on Tuesday, was severely crushed between the buffers, and is now in a ...
Article : 36 wordsThe underwriting of the capital for Parapara-Nelson syndicate for developing the concession in iron fields, granted to the late Sir A. Cadman, has been completed here and ...
Article : 58 wordsA young man named Patrick M'Goldrick was taking a load of flour from Millthorpe to Cadia, and when near Long Swamp the vehicle struck a stump and ...
Article : 83 wordsCoalminers at Ipswich have now made a formal demand to the colliery owners for an additional 4d per ton in the hewing rates, and a further increase of 12[?] per cent. on all ...
Article : 141 wordsCAIRNS.—Arr: Sept. 28, Aramac, s, from Cooktown. BOWEN.—Dep: Sept. 28, Sylvan, s, for Maryborough. ROCKHAMPTON.—Arr: Sept. 28, Tinana, from ...
Article : 975 wordsShortly before the last session of Parliament was brought to a sudden conclusion, a bill amending the existing Railways Act was introduced, and read the first time, but it did ...
Article : 187 wordsThe R.M.S. Miowera, of the Canadian-Australian line, will leave the E. and A. Company's wharf, Circular Quay, at 1 p.m. to-day for Vancouver, via Brisbane, Suva, Fanning Island, Honolulu, and Victoria, ...
Article : 373 wordsDespatched overland to Adelaide, and thence per P. and O. Company's steamer Victoria, Tuesday, October 1. Letters.—Registered, 3.30 p.m.; ordinary, 5.30 p.m. ...
Article : 190 wordsA shocking burning fatality occurred to a woman named Sarah Fletcher, through a lamp being upset and setting fire to the bed on which deceased was sleeping. The ...
Article : 43 wordsBad weather is reported from various parts of the dominion. The rivers are in high flood, and the railway and telegraphic services are disorganised. ...
Article : 29 wordsReplying to recent published reports, the Premier informed the House of Representatives that the Government had no intention of calling out the militia. It was necessary, ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. Patrick Morrissey, who recently met with a buggy accident whilst returning from Wellington to Gulgong, has died in the Gulgong Hospital from the effects of his injuries. ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the conference on the Franchise Bill was agreed to. The House then adjourned till Tuesday. When the Assembly met to-day the Premier ...
Article : 121 wordsSir,—For the benefit of the young men and boys who enjoy themselves by bathing in the waters at the head of Middle Harbour during the summer months, I should like, ...
Article : 361 wordsA meeting of the executive committee of this league was held in the Balmain Town Hall on Friday night, Alderman Milne presiding. Owing to the Parliamentary ...
Article : 108 wordsAn accident occurred at E. Wodd and Co.'s store on Saturday afternoon. A young man named Ernest Minsell was engaged at the lift at the rear of the premises when by some ...
Article : 69 wordsThe president of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board yesterday informed the Newcastle Borough Council and the District Superintendent of Railways that ...
Article : 248 wordsThe turbine steamer Maheno, which left the Margaret-street Wharf, Sydney, at 7.15 on Saturday evening for Wellington and The Bluff, took 335 passengers (159 saloon and 176 steerage). ...
Article : 33 wordsThe body of Arthur Ware, who was drowned, with Oscar Dale, at Macquarie Heads on August 18, near the wreck of the Kawatiri, was found on the beach about four miles ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Government to-night withdrew the Land Valuation Bill, the main object of which is to provide for the making of the valuation of all properties on an unimproved basis, and ...
Article : 81 wordsThe O.S.S. liner Ajax, from Glasgow, August 17, arrived at Adelaide yesterday, and is due at Sydney Oct. 12. ...
Article : 22 wordsAn unusually large number of sudden deaths occurred in the early part of last week, and on Saturday two more were recorded. George Farmer, a wharf labourer, was ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Blue Anchor liner Geelong, from London Aug. 20, and Capetown Sept. 11, arrived at Adelaide yesterday, and is due at Melbourne on Oct. 4, and Sydney on the 8th. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe question of the rates of pay of the men employed at the Sydney Harbour Colliery is still in abeyance, and a conference has been arranged between Mr. Sokehill (the manager) ...
Article : 100 wordsThe F.H.S. liner Somerset, which left Liverpool on Aug. 17 and Capetown Sept. 9, arrived at Adelaide on Sunday, and will call at Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. ...
Article : 30 wordsCaptain Strachan, who bought the wrecked steamer Australian, arrived on Thursday from the scene of the wreck. He has not succeeded in refloating the vessel. She was on ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Pyramus left Sydney at 6.20 a.m. on Saturday for Brisbane, and was off Richmond Heads at 11.50 a.m. yesterday. The Prometheus arrived at Noumea on Saturday. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Rotuma, as a brigantine, will shortly be nothing but a memory (says the Hobart "Mercury"), since her purchasers. Messrs. W. J. Whelan and R. Langdon, have decided that the shall be broken up. The ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 30 Sep 1907, Page 8
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