On the subject produce sales at Redforn Messrs. Heaton Brothers wrjte as follows:—``The Railway Commissioners do not recognise that we have strong opposition from Victoria and South Austrelia. The ...
Article : 711 wordsThe weekly meeting of the Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board was held at the offices, Newcastle, this morning The president (Mr. H, D. Walsh) occupied the chair. The revenue ...
Article : 187 wordsThe land and income tax from July 1 to December 10 produced £11,903, a decrease of £2525 compared with the receipts for the corresponding period of last year. The stamp duties realised. ...
Article : 207 wordsA Frenchman named Louis emploved at Eldridga'a saw mills, about three miles from Corowa, was drowned in the River Murray whilst bathing on Saturday afternoon last Deceased, who was an ...
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Article : 138 wordsThe death took place in the Wagga Hospital on Sunday of a man named George Hames. He was bitten on the eye by a fly or a spider last Thursday morning. The eye commenced to swell terribly. ...
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Article : 46 wordsThe steamer Menmuir, from Southern ports, arrived on Friday, Messrs. Gurry and Walker being pnssengers She sailed on Saturday for Hongkong with three Japanese and two Chinese ...
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Article : 227 wordsSoma pantry thieves visited Mr. Samuel Hancock's house, in Chapple-street, early on Sunday morning, making a clean sweep of the [?]ardar. A numorously-signed petition from Broken Hill in ...
Article : 150 wordsIt has been arranged by the Peace Commissioners that the public debt of Cuba shall be a subject for negotiation with the future Government of the island. ...
Article : 40 wordsShortly before 2 p.m. to day the body of Frederick George Cross, aged 28 years, was discovered in a abed on his father's premisos, at West Tamworth, with a bullet wound from a pearifle in his left breast ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Viceroys of Nanking (LiangKiang) and Hankow (Liang-hou) have had an interview with Lord Charles Beresford, and they have assured him that ...
Article : 67 wordsGeneral Calixto Garcia, who was one of the Cuban rebel leaders, has died at Washington from pneumonia. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Edgeroi-Burburgate exchange which was postponed from Saturday lost after a hearing of three days, was to-day again before the local land board, Messrs. W. Freeman, J. Riddle, and J. O. Ross. ...
Article : 2,202 wordsThe heavy decrease in the demand for coal during the past fortnight is due to the fact that the threatened difficulty in connection with the colt Trade has been practically overcome. The prevailing ...
Article : 178 wordsLast night Mr. S. Stuart Grant, who was for inerly distnot locomotive and traffic superintendent on the North-western railways of India, resident at Lahore, and who only arrived from the ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Michelago troop of the 1st Australiun Horse was imspeted here on Saturday by Lieutenant and Adjutant Thompson Notwithstanding that sheering operations were in full swing, Lieuteuant Granville ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Austrian Government contemplates the formation of a new army corps, and the reorganisation of the artillery und the engineers. ...
Article : 26 wordsYesterday the halt-Yearly examinations of the pupils attending the cookery classes that are carried on at the Paddington Superior Public School were commenced. The Minister for Public Instruction ...
Article : 927 wordsThe man who attempted to force an entrance into the Bank of England, and who was arrested at the point of the bayonet, is demented. He is an English ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Admiralty has invited the Newfoundland fishermen to enrol as stokers and seamen in the Naval Eoserve. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the City Court to-day a miner named George Evans, 38, was committed to take his trial at the next sittings of the Newcastle Court of Quarter Sessions on a charge of having broken and entered ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Pope has decided that in regard to Spanish affairs the policy of the Vatican shall be anti-Carlist. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Egyptian Government proposes that the mixed tribunals should be renewed for one year, instead of five years, so as to enable the Powers to consider ...
Article : 38 wordsTh Christmas holidays give generally the busiest railway passenger traffic during any period of the ear In addition to the ordinary tourist traffic, which is always heavy on convenient holidays, there ...
Article : 1,102 wordsA special meeting of the City Council was held in the Town Hall to-night for the purpose of giving further consideration to the report of Mr. Norman Selfe on the different tenders received for the ...
Article : 280 wordsA public meeting was hold in the Ashfield Hull, Liverpool-road, Asbfield, last evening to urge upon the Government the necessity for extending the railway into the city. Alderman F. J. Josephson, ...
Article : 697 wordsThe United States battleship Massachusetts on Saturday struck an obstacle off Governor's Island, New York Harbour. She was seriously damaged, and ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day, J. B. Neal, mine manager, recovored from the St. Agnes Gold Reefs, of Norseman, £200, representing three months' salary,- and £35, representing cortain ...
Article : 92 wordsRecently 11 members of the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies seceded from the Liberal party, and Dr. Szilagyi, the President of the Chamber, resigned, in ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, the retiring Viceroy of India, is on a visit to Burmah. Speaking at Moulmein, he said that the construction of the ...
Article : 46 wordsAt a special general meeting of theo shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand Messrs, Watson and Kennedy were elected directors. During a gale on the passage of the steamer ...
Article : 89 wordsGeneral Iglesias, President of Costa Rica, Central America, intends to visit London and Paris. ...
Article : 26 wordsSir William Martin Conway, the wellknown mountaineer, has climbed the volcano Aconcagua, in Argentina. He will shorty make an attempt to climb ...
Article : 57 wordsA representative gathering of citizens of Newcastle favourable to the extension of the tramway from the present terminus at Tighe's Hill to Mayfield was held in the hall of the Chamber of Commerce this ...
Article : 204 wordsIt is reported at Berlin that the Pow era —Great Britain, the United States, and Germany-have agreed to occupy Samoa. Germany will make a beginning by ...
Article : 111 wordsThe miuers employed at the Mount Keira Colliery have considerad the resolutions submitted by the Southern colliery proprietors at, the recent conference at Wollongong, and have unanimously decided ...
Article : 232 wordsThe volume of trade in the United States during tho month of November exceeded that of any provious, month. The railway traffic was 11 por cent. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe inauguration of the Northern District Bowling Association was celebrated by a successful smoke connect at the Grand Hotel to-night. Mr. Trank Gardner, president, occupied the chair, and ...
Article : 306 wordsA maN named Senior, who is a member of a sect known as the Peculiar People, was recently convicted of the manslaughter of his child by neglecting to summon ...
Article : 73 wordsAn official from the American Treasury is studying the administration of Jamaica with a view of making it a model for the government of Puerto Rico. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Citizens' Unemployed Committee met yesterday at 11 a.m., Rev. G. T. Buchanan presiding. A number of apologies for inability to attend were received, among others from the three ...
Article : 325 wordsYesterday a company of Indian hawkers numbering nearly 30 had a day's drinking at their camp on the flat to do honour to two of their company who were about to return to India with their fortunes, ...
Article : 183 wordsThw Mid-Moonta Copper Mines Company, Yorke's Peninsula, South Australia, is being formed, with a capital of £130,000, of which shares to the amount of ...
Article : 38 wordsThe annual picnic and sports were held to-day by the railway employees on the Bathurst showground. there was a large attendance, special trains bringing excursionist[?] from Mudgee, Eskbank, Forbes, ...
Article : 207 wordsLieutenant Wark, who was sentenced to death upon a charge arising out of an illegal operation which was performed upon a Misa Jane Yates, has been ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Brisbane Tramway Company is offering £167,900 worth of 5 per cent, debentures at £105. ...
Article : 24 wordsA fancy fair and sale of work was commenced yesterday at the Oddfellows' Temple, Elizabethstreet, under the auspices of the Independent Order of Good Templars, with a view to reducing the ...
Article : 212 wordsAn edict which has been issued by the Chinese Government ratifies the concession to the Hongkong-Shanghai Bank of the collieries in the Shan-hai-kwan ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 13 Dec 1898, Page 5
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