Mr. Burton has received from the Premier of South Australia a report by Mr. A. B. Moncrieff, Engineer-in-Chief of Railways in that State, upon the South Australian section of the proposed ...
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Advertising : 18 wordsIntense heat was experienced in Sydney yesterday afternoon. The wind had that scorching quality that is felt at an extensive conflagration. It was a burning heat, taking away one's breath, while it dried ...
Article : 987 wordsYesterday in Parramatta was a very hot day, the thermometer under the verandahs in the main street registering 112. The wind was a hot westerly one, and its firy blasts seemed to permeate every shady ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 wordsMany persons who had occasion to frequent the city streets yesterday suffered severe indisposition owing to the excessive heat. At least one case of sunstrokes occurred, the victim being a boy named ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 wordsGreat heat prevailed at Parramatta yesterday. Bush fires are raging around Baulkham Hills, aud are working round in the direction of Carlingford. High winds are sending the ...
Article : 171 wordsTo day was one of the hottest and most depressing on record. The thermometer registered as high as 106½ degrees in the shade. From an early hour in the morning the city appeared to be enveloped in ...
Article : 125 wordsA correspondent writes:—At North Sydney yesterdday's heat-wave was severely felt. The higher altitude of those suburbs got the full force of the burning westerly, and as the streets had of late, owing to the ...
Article : 266 wordsA terrible bush fire is raging in the vicinity of Valley Heights. Information so far to hand is that Caree cottages, including. The Bungalow, have been totally destroyed, as well as over 20 navvies' tents. ...
Article : 147 wordsExtremely hot weather has been experienced during the past few days, especially in the interior parts of the State. The weather in Brisbane yesterday and to-day was very hot, the thermometer ...
Article : 2,051 wordsThe widow of the late Superintendent Read has received the following communications from Mr. E. Posbery, Inspector-General of Police:— "December 17, 1901. ...
Article : 209 wordsThe contractors for the new bridge to connect Pyrmont and Glebe Island are making headway with the work. The erection of the two rest piers has been completed, and the protecting platform for the swing ...
Article : 376 wordsThe thirty-third annual meeting of the Teachers' Mutual Assurance Association was held at the Girls' High School, Castlereigh-street, yesterday Mr. J. W. Allpass (president) occupied the chair ...
Article : 247 wordsAt the Police Court to-day, before Messrs. W. S. Caswell, P.M., J. Cullen, and E. Hewison, Js.P., John Greenland and Denis Joseph Condon were charged with stealing in Company 15 head of cattle, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsColonel Finn has not yet received a difinite official intimation of his transfer to New South Wales, which he was notified would be subject to the approval of the War Office, Colonel Finn being an ...
Article : 72 wordsA message from Charters Towers states that a man named John Thomas Edwards 30, got lost in the bush rearing he was diving from Durst, he cut his wrist in order to suck the blood. He went mad, ...
Article : 197 wordsThe failure of the water supply on the goldfields railway is threatend. The water in thr dams from Underdin to Buracoppin is expected to last only till December 26. That, however, does not represent the ...
Article : 86 wordsIn the Council to-day teh Solicitor-General, in reply to a question said the gross income from the income tax was £222,530, and the total cost of administering the same £13,442. ...
Article : 353 wordsThe exceptionally hot north-west wind which prevailed during yesterday was doubtless responsible for the excessive number of fires which broke out in the city and suburbs. No less than 23 calls were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 wordsIt is stated that tho Premiers of the various States who may desire to attend the coronation of the King will have to pay their own expenses, but thay Mr. Burton and Mr. Seddon are placed on a different ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Assembly met last night for the purpose of pushing on with business in view of the prorogation on Fricay. The Crown Lands Bill, providing for further reductions of rent, was lead a second time ...
Article : 44 wordsParliament reassembled this afternoon. In the Legislative Assembly the Premier (Mr. Morgans) stated that the Government were assured of a majority of five, which constituted sufficient working ...
Article : 271 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Agricultural Lands Special Purchase Bill was taken through committee. This measure provides for the repurchase of several estates on the Darling Downs. ...
Article : 164 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board was held at the offices, Newcastle, this morning. The president (Mr. W. J. Millner) occupied the chair, and Messrs. J. W. ...
Article : 313 wordsA Rockhampton message states that owing to the great loss of water at Mount Morgan by soakage aud evaporation, the Mount Mcrgan Gold-mining Company is again nimming very short of water. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Associated Northern Blocks recommenced shipping high grade ore to tho Fremantle smelters to-day. The Crersus South have let their Broken Hill ...
Article : 255 wordsMr. Lawrence Rotch, director of Blue Hill Observatory, U.S.A., and member of the International Aeronautical Committee, in a paper read befor the Aeronautical Society recently on the scienrific uses of ...
Article : 1,134 wordsThere were no departures to-day in connection with the foreign coal trade, but the barque Orari cleared at the Custom-house for Valpaiaisa with a cargo of 1392 tons of coal from the Wallsend ...
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Advertising : 453 wordsThe Wodonga, for Melbourne, left Sydney yesterday, arrives there 19th, leaves 21st, and is due back in Sydney on Monday, 23rd, sailing hence for Queensland ports on 2[?] instant. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsThis steamer was cleared at the Custom-house last night for London and South African ports. She left last night for Newcastle to load 500 horses for South Africa, after which she returns to Sydney to put on board an additional ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 31 wordsOn the 7th instant the barque [?] Thames for Sydney. Captain Sowden, who for many years had command of the White Star Company's steamer Delphic, and who ...
Article : 147 wordsThe German barque Emin Pascha sailed from Natal of November 18 for Adelaide. This vessel is under charter to load wheat at South Australia with the option of Melbourne or Geelong, for the united Kingdom or Continent. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 18 Dec 1901, Page 10
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