The Rev. L M. Isitt, a well-known temperance advocate, arrived in Sydney on Saturday from New Zealand, where he is associated with the Methodist Church, in response to an invitation from workers in ...
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Article : 645 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, will give a banquet on 30th June in honour of the colonial Premiers who are on their way to London to take ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 433 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company has declared a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the preferred shares and 7 per ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Young Men's Christian Association was crowded to its utmost capacity last evening, when Mr. A. Towers, president of the Rev. Dr. Clifford's Young Men's Society in London, delivered a highly ...
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Article : 274 wordsThe steamer Duke of Devonshire, which arrived here yesterday from London, on resuming the voyage struck an unknown obstacle in the harbour and almost immediately filled, but was ...
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Article : 45 wordsAt the wool sales prices are hardening. The bulk of the wool offering is being taken by Yorkshire houses. The series will close on 24th May. ...
Article : 160 wordsThe following are the latest stock passings:—267[?] wethers, Pilliga to Guyra, D. Turner owner: 1280 ewes and 120 lambs, Collymongle to Narrabri, and thence by rail to Sydney; 300 ewes, Yarrawa to ...
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Article : 159 wordsColonel Home, irrigation expert, and Mr. H. J. M'Kinney, engineer of the scheme for the irrigation of the Riverina prepared some years ago, reached Albury yesterday after completing an extended tour ...
Article : 315 wordsThe death is announced of Mrs. Stevenson, the mother of the late Mr. R. L. Stevenson, the novelist. ...
Article : 28 wordsMiss Lilian Edger, M. A., general secretary of the New Zealand section of the Theosophical Society lectured at the hall of the above society, 42 Margaret-street, last evening, on the "Theosophic ...
Article : 302 wordsW. Kerr, the amateur cycling champion of New South Wales, has begun his training for the approaching cycling carnivals in England and Scotland. ...
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Article : 154 wordsThe interest in the grand Australian Fair is unabated. The past week has proved one of the best weeks yet seen at St. Mary's. The fact that some of the most valuable articles are disposed of each ...
Article : 156 wordsA basket of the South Australian apples brought by the Austral has been sent to the Queen. Fisher and Co.'s Famous "Kola Nut Tonic."— ...
Article : 48 wordsCures the Throat, Cures the Chest, Cures the Head. One dose relieves, one bottle cures. Never fails. 1s 6d per bottle. All chemists and store-keepers, and at the Pharmacy, 337 George-street, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 17 May 1897, Page 5
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