Coroner Sowter held a magisterial inquiry to-day into a sad case of suicide, which occurred at Budger[?]bong, about 20 miles down the river from here, yesterday. The suicide was that of a man named ...
Article : 733 wordsTenders for the 3 per cent. South Australian Loan of £1,000,000 were opened at noon to-day. The loan was offered at a minimum of ...
Article : 81 wordsThe captain of the Duke of Devonshire wires: —"Vessel still aground; divers' reports very conflicting; do not think damage so serions; have blocked holes up with blankets and placed ...
Article : 215 wordsRicciotti Garibaldi, who went to Greece with a force of Italian volunteers to aid the Greeks in the war against Turkey, has, with 1200 of the volunteers, ...
Article : 60 wordsTenders for a loan of £120,000 required by the Ballarat City Council, for the improvement of the recreation reserves and cirrying out sanitary and other works, were oponed last evening Twelve ...
Article : 368 wordsThe military tournament at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, was opened to-day by the Prince of Wales. His Royal Highness was received by a Guard of ...
Article : 188 wordsArrived Essen (s.), from Sydney; Waitangi, ship, from Napia; Invercargill, ship, from Wellington; Arcturus, barque, from Western Australia, [?]estland, ship, from Port Chalmers:, Lette[?]ewe, barque, from ...
Article : 3,181 wordsBar silver is quoted at 2s 3? gd per ounce standard, a rise of l-16d since last quotation. ...
Article : 23 wordsAll the measures which are being taken in Turkey with regard to Thessaly point to the retention of the province. The Grand Vizier threatens to resign ...
Article : 145 wordsSir Julian Salomons, Q.C., M.L.C., of New South Wales, was a passenger by the R.M.S. China, which arrived from London to-day. He has much benefited in health by his trip. ...
Article : 822 wordsThe usual meeting of the committee of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce was held at the rooms. Scott-street this afternoon. The chair was occupied by Mr. H. J. Brown (president), and there were also ...
Article : 259 wordsThough no official information has been received, by the newspaper cablegrams we notice that Sir George O'Brien will probably not arrive until 26th June. Should the cablegrams be ...
Article : 1,016 wordsNassim Kham, the special envoy who will represent the Shah of Persia at the record reign celebrations, and the Chinese special envoy (Chang Yin Hoon) have ...
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Article : 44 wordsAt to-day's meeting of the Chamber of Commerce a discussion took place relative to the advisability of running an early morning train from Sydney to reach Newcastle about 8 a.m. It waa pointed out ...
Article : 130 wordsInquiries are being made as to the name of the ship conveying the Australian cattle to provide meat for the poor of the London slums for one week during ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Powers are trying to extend the armistice. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe canonisation of Zaccharias, founder of the Barnabite Order, and of Fourrier, apostle of Lorraine, was solemnised in St. Peter's, Rome, yesterday. ...
Article : 154 wordsAt the Newcastle Police Court to-day the cases against a number of bookmakers charged with having committed breaches of the Betting Houses Suppression Act by accepting bets on the Newcastle ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Trust and Agency Company of Australasia, Limited, has declared a dividend at the rate of 20 per cent, per annum. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe board of nominators met at the Chapter House last evening and bestowed further consideration upon the subject of filling the vacancy that has arisen in the vicarship of St. Mark's, Darling Point. ...
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Article : 101 wordsTom Burrows, the Australian athlete and pugilist, has established a new record for club-swinging, namely 30 hours. T. Burrows, who has established a new record ...
Article : 220 wordsThe quantity of coal exported from Newcastle during the week ended to-day was the smallest for a considerale time past, totalling only 38,9[?]5 tons— a decrease compared with the previous week, when ...
Article : 107 wordsOne of the most remarkable among the peculiar occurrences which the drought has brought into prominence in this district is the effect it is having on indigenous trees. On the crowns of the ridges in ...
Article : 382 wordsThe City Coroner, Air. G. C. Martin, held an inquest at the Clarendon Hotel to-day on the body of George Bailey, 45, lately employed as cook on the t[?]g Emu. The evidence was to the effect that ...
Article : 70 wordsIn the Dominion House of Commons last night Sir Charles Tupper's amendment hostile to the new tariff bill, which gives preferential treatment to countries ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Mayor of Newcastle (Alderman David Miller) has arranged for an inspection of the improvements recently effected at the Botanic Reserve, Waratah, on Thursday next, and proposes to issue about 40 ...
Article : 58 wordsJames Wray, the Australian sculler, has challenged Jacob Gaudaur to uphold the sculling championship of the world or to resign it. ...
Article : 30 wordsThere have been a few dealings in the scrip of the 3 per cent. South Australian loan of £1,000,000 (tenders for which are to be opened on Friday) at about ...
Article : 54 wordsThe movement in the direction of forming an ambulance coros among the miners' lodge[?] of the northern district now promises to be attended with very satisfactory results. Mr. James Cur[?]ey, miners' ...
Article : 170 wordsThe R.M.S. China arrived from London this morning, after a fast passage, which but for a mishap to the engines might have resulted in a record trip. At Albany ...
Article : 65 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Westley Richards, the famous gunmaker. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Admiralty Court has awarded the owners of the steamer Æolus £1250, in respect of salvage in towing the steamer Gulf of Bothnia into port some time ago, ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the Supreme Court, in chambers, to-day, the Chief Justice dealt with a peculiar application Joseph Parker and his wife Matilda were on the 25th January last found dead in bed. The woman ...
Article : 201 wordsMr. Curley, miners' secretary, has replied to the letter from Mr. B[?]nney, representing the proprietors, stating that the date proposed, the 5th June, will be convenient for the proposed conference between the ...
Article : 420 wordsThe Lake View Consols is extracting by oyanide process, 23dwt. from tailings, containing 26dwt., the extraction being equal to 83 per cent., or rather better than the results obtained ...
Article : 138 wordsA report from the Cullen Bullen mining township this morning states that a shocking fatality occurred there yesterday, a minor named Campbell being burned at an early hour through his hut catching ...
Article : 137 wordsCaptain the Hon. T. Brassey, of the West Kent (Queen's Own) Yeomanry, and son of Lord Brassey, was thrown from his horse at Maidstone to-day, and sustained ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 197 wordsA strange fatality was reported to the police to--day. A man named Hilton Pitma[?], aged about 21, who left town yesterday, was found dead this morning, the body being supported in a sitting position ...
Article : 187 wordsIn the betting market to-day odds of 3 to 1 were laid on Galtee More for the Derby, to be run on Wednesday next. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Customs authorities made a raid on the promises of a number of Syrian storekeepers in Auckland and Wellington, and arrested seven on suspicion of evading the Customs duties. ...
Article : 121 wordsA fatal accident happened at El[?]more on Thursday. Four children of James Bennett proceeded to Penberthy's mine in the morning with a load of charcoal in a dray driven by Henry Bennett, 14 years ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 29 May 1897, Page 9
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