There is no other part of the globe so liable to tornadoes as certain portions of the United States of America. The months of greatest tornado frequency there, as shown by Lieutenant John P. Finley, Signal ...
Article : 616 wordsWhen daylight broke yesterday the city, which had on Monday been visited by a hot nor'-wester, was comparatively revelling in the bracing air of a cool southerly. The change also was general in the ...
Article : 424 wordsThe amount received by the Stockton treasurers on behalf of the Stockton Colhery disaster fund up to date is £458 2s 6d. If to this is added the amounts known to have been collected in Sydney and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe twelfth annual dinner in connection with the Commercial Travellers' Association of New South Wales was held in the Hotel Australia last evening. It was a decided success. There was a large ...
Article : 4,385 wordsTo open a bazaar in Edinburgh in the morning with a speech appropriate to the object, to wit, the equipment of an "athletic field " for the University, to travel to Sheffield to enjoy the ...
Article : 873 wordsThe body of a navvy named Patrick Ryan was found in the bush at Alstonville yesterday in an advanced stage of decomposition. An inquest was held, at which a verdict of death from unknown ...
Article : 45 wordsAt a large meeting of milk suppliers held at Dapto yesterday to consider the threatened reduction in the price of milk it was decided that an agreement be drawn up and submitted to the various ...
Article : 105 wordsThe police magistrate has been occupied all day hearing the charge of murder preferred by the police against John and Daniel Phillips. The case stands part heard until to-morrow. ...
Article : 34 wordsArrivals: Hawkes Bay (s.), hence 16th October, for Antwerp, Melbourne 4th November; Vale of Doon barque, from Brisbane 28th August; Havfruen, harque, from Fremantle 8th September; Maori King (s.), from ...
Article : 458 wordsA fatal riding accident occurred yesterday to a young man named Robert James, a boundary rider on Nebea. His horse got entangled with some wire, and fell on James heavily. James was brought to the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe stage of the Lyceum Theatre (says a London paper) was on the afternoon of 17th November the scene of an interesting ceremony. This being the 20th year of Mr. Charles Wyndham's management ...
Article : 1,457 wordsThe Melbourne Argus of Monday thus describes the peculiar weather they have been having there:— "A phenomenon of an unusual character occurred in Melbourne yesterday afternoon. The weather ...
Article : 384 wordsThos. Richard Smith, aged 19, asleeper-getter, was drowned in the Namoi, a mile from town, this morning. He went to bathe, and as he did not return a party went to look for him, and found his clothes ...
Article : 117 wordsIt will be fully three weeks before harvesting is completed. Exclusive of the Canowindra district, the area under wheat in this district is about 22,000 acres, and the average yield per acre for that area ...
Article : 292 wordsIt is a sign of the times nowadays (observes the London World) that country house parties often culminate in more romping. Under the old dispensation, when the fair ones were looked upon as ...
Article : 1,610 wordsThe Gera arrived at Colombo on Sunday, 27th December, homeward, one day in advance of contract time. The mails which left Sydney per R.M.S. Ormuz on 23rd November, arrived in London on 26th December. They ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Nicoll has succeeded in chartering the s.s. Kurrara, a fine steamer of 450 tons, to run a weekly service to Byron Bay, and she is now on Mort's slip being thoroughly painted, overhauled, and cleaned preparatory to beginning ...
Article : 256 wordsThe weather is extremely hot, and bush fires are prevalent. The atmosphere is clouded with smoke Reports to hand state that several cane tires have occurred in the district. ...
Article : 922 wordsIt was reported to the police last evening that the body of a swagman had been found lying under some bushes on the White Cliffs road, about 26 miles on the Langwarra side from Mount Gipps station. ...
Article : 1,313 wordsThe steamer M[?]tle left Cooktown yesterday morning for Port Moresby (New Guinea) and Thursday Island. The s.s. [?]gate, from Fiji, is due here on Thursday next. ...
Article : 76 wordsUnder the immediate suupervision of Captains Banks and colonna, the sunken steam collier Merksworth is to be raised. Messrs. D. Sheeby and Sons will commence the salvaging of the coal cargo to-day. Afterwards punts ...
Article : 64 wordsMessrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, are advised that the Thermo[?] arrived at London 24th December. The Nineveh left London 24th December for Melbourne and Sydney, and the Aberdeen arrived at Natal on 26th ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the Foreign Office on 14th November Mr. George Curzon (who was accompanied by Mr. F. Bertie and Mr. Clement Hill) received a deputation in reference to the abolition of slavery in Zanzibar. ...
Article : 1,391 wordsThe regular meeting of the above council was held on Monday evening, the Mayor (Alderman Roper) presiding. It was reported that the proceeds of the entertainment in aid of the Stockton Colliery Disaster Relief Fund amounted ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the last meeting of the above council, the Mayor (Alderman Stimson) presiding, in reply to Alderman Waugh, the Mayor said that if the council thought it necessary to alter the position of the proposed culvert on ...
Article : 133 wordsA meeting of the Line Cove Council was held in the Council-chambers, Longueville, on the 28th instant. The Mayor (Alderman J. Roberts) presided, and there were also present—Aldermen Catt, Harrison, Landers, Levick, ...
Article : 166 wordsThis council met on the 28th December, when the Mayor (Alderman C[?]pley) occupied the chair, and there were also present Aldermen Hearne, Toole, Lonsdale, Anderson, Colebrook, Moore, Cunninghame, Mound, Treadgold, and ...
Article : 437 wordsThe Highland Society's grand Scots concert at the Town Hall on New Year's Night will open with a fantasia for piano and grand organ upon Scottish melodies, played by Miss Lottie Hyam and Mr. J. ...
Article : 310 wordsThe Mayor presided at last night's meeting, when there were also present—Alderman Allen, Slatyer, Christie, and M'Kenzie. The Works Department intimated that a special endowment of £474 14s 3d was available in ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 30 Dec 1896, Page 6
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