The Hon. J. H. Young, Minister for Works, and the Hon. J. Cook, Postmaster-General, arrived here to-day. They were met by the Mayor and aldermen and a number of other gentlemen. The bridge ...
Article : 189 wordsAmong the tenders opened yesterday at the Public Works Department was one from Messrs. G. and C. Hoskins for the steel rail contract, tenders for which have been invited by the Government for ...
Article : 467 wordsAt the recent swearing-in of recruits the Emperor William, as is known, made a speech to the young soldiers and spoke afterwards privately to the officers. The Berliner Tagebaltt now states that ...
Article : 121 wordsTWEED HEADS.—December 30, Heroine, schooner, batbound. RICHMOND RIVER HEADS. —Departures: December 30, Oakland (s.), at 4.50 p.m., Tomki (s.), at 5.2 a.m. ...
Article : 1,630 wordsThe gates at Kensington will be thrown open this afternoon, when a programme of pony and galloway races will be run through, the first event starting at 2.15. The usual facilities for conveyance to the ...
Article : 719 wordsMessrs. S. Stewart and J. H. Dow, of the Waratah Rovers C. C., made a very interesting tour during the holidays. Train was taken on Christmas night to Bowral. An early start was made on ...
Article : 365 wordsWe have heard so much of the depreciation of land and the sorrows of landlords that an idea has got abroad that a large estate means starvation to its owner (says the World). Lord Carrington, ...
Article : 253 wordsThe following Government grants have been made to the Dubbo parks:—Muller and Elston Parks, £75 each: Central Park, £100, with an additional £50; Trangie, £25; Narromine, £40. ...
Article : 35 wordsIt will hardly be credited in England (says the London Daily Telgraph of the 23rd November) when it is stated that to-day the biggest link in the chain of steamers that connects the mother country ...
Article : 783 wordsMr. Thomas Atkinson, who had a contract from the Kiama Agricultural Association for removing the main show building from long Brush and erecting it on the new showground at Church Point, ...
Article : 1,877 wordsThe R.M.S. India, from London 30th November, arrived at Aden 25th December, bound to Queensland ports. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 231 wordsThe authorities have placed posts all rouud the country roads with the names of the various townships printed on them. This will be a great advantage to the bicycle riders who are travelling through ...
Article : 58 wordsThe following summary (writes the Allahabad correspondent of the Times, on the 23rd November) gives an accurate view of the position in the north-west provinces and Oudh. The first area, ...
Article : 321 wordsThis veseel last night [?]chored in Watson's Bay, and reports having left Gravesend on 11th September with a full general cargo and 17 saloon passengers. Had a very pleasant run down the Channel, landing the pilot off ...
Article : 223 wordsMr. G. Hoskins, who is the principal engineer for the firm of G. and C. Hosk[?]ns was interviewed by a Herald reporter last night. In answer to a question he said:—"This indeed is a very important ...
Article : 1,172 wordsThe President of the United States issued his Thanksgiving proclamation at Washington on the 4th November. The proclamation is as follows:— Thanksgiving proclamation by the President of the ...
Article : 428 wordsThe ship Amphitrite, from Hamburg to Messrs. J. Barre Johnston and Co. yesterday arrived from Hamburg. She has a large general cargo, and has arrived in port in captial [?] The ship left on the 9th September, but met ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 186 wordsMessrs. Gil-ischrist, Wall, and Co. to-day clear the ship Tamar, in Devitt and Moore's line, for London. The Tamar has done well. Wool for sailers has been scarce, but her agents appear to have secured a fair quantity. The ...
Article : 70 wordsA bill was introduced into the Alabama State Assembly on 21st Novembr for the regulation of the costumes of the ladies. It is proposed to make it unlawful to wear shirt-waists, tight-fitting ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Bungarce [?], Watt, and Co.) clears to-day for London and Dunkirk, via Melbourne and Adelaide, with the following cargo:—1221 bales wool, 50 bales rags, 12 bales hair, 97 bales and [?] rolls leather, 45 bales basils. ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Richmond stewards to-day delivered their verdict regarding the protest entered against the trotter Niagara at their meeting on Wednesday week last. After a lengthy investigation they failed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 430 wordsThis barque, to Messrs. Arkell and Douglas, yesterday arrived from New York after an exceptionally amart passage of 86 days. This vessel was caught in a cyclonic storm when she first left, and had to put back. She was ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Narrabri Jockey Club has decided to hold a race meeting in January. ...
Article : 19 wordsSir Benjamin Ward Richardson, the well-known phyician, died suddenly at his residence, Manchestersquare, London, at 8.20 on the morning of 21st November. On Friday week last (says a London ...
Article : 381 wordsThe Lufra was yesterday reported fixed for copra from the islands. The mail from San Francisco, via London, says:— Halewood, inward from Sydney, at [?] per ton (coals), has a ...
Article : 150 wordsThe committee of the S.A J.C. this afternoon considered the report of the stewards on the disqualification of the jockey S. Ferry for 12 months, against which an appeal has been lodged. The ...
Article : 80 wordsThere was a considerable attendance at the Town Hall on Tuesday, when the City Organist gave the first of three recitals during the present week designed to meet the desires of country visitors. Mr. ...
Article : 162 wordsAn overcast sky and a cool breeze blowing acros the beath at Randwick yesterday morning formed an agrecable contrast to the recent tropical weather experienced in that locality by the early risers, of ...
Article : 388 wordsThe inadequate water supply to Balmain was the subject of considerable discussion at last night's meeting of the Balmain Council, when, after a special motion dealing with the suspension of the standing orders at the ...
Article : 582 wordsSir,— If you can spare the space I should like to call the attention of your readers to the very close connection that exists betweeen the subjects of Imperial reciprocity and federation. New South Wales ...
Article : 883 wordsSir,—I have read very carefully your criticism of my letter of the 29th instant, and not with standing your contradiction to the contrary, I am still disposed to believe that with the advent of a free trade ...
Article : 748 wordsA Rome correspondent writes:—Now that it is openly spoken of in the papers, it will do no harm to r[?]ount the facts of the elopement of an artist and a princess to English readers. The family of Folchi ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 318 wordsA fair amount of business was transacted yesterday in the local betting market on the leading handicaps of Tattersall's Club annual meeting. The horses that were supported for money for the ...
Article : 153 wordsAt the last meeting of this council the Mayor informed the council that Mr. Cameron, the surveyor who had prepared the street level plans, was willing to complete them if they were placed at his disposal. Alderman Laycock ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsA meeting was held on the 2[?]th December. Present— The Mayor (Alderman F. Lidbury) and Aldermem Garthwaite, Jay Gi[?]ver, Drendon, Andrews, and Abrabams. The Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board wrote, in reply to a ...
Article : 94 wordsSir,-There is a matter of grave importance in connection with the Church ot England in this colony, which should be seriously considered by its rulers, viz., the constant increase of the clergy by ...
Article : 445 wordsAt the last meeting of this council complaints were made of the state of some of the pathways. In one case it was alleged that a lady had been injured in consequence of the condition of a path. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 181 wordsThe Avant-Courriere, one of the French Women's Rights Societies, is starting an active campaign with the object of hurrying a law through the Senate. This law, which has already been passed by the ...
Article : 432 wordsSir,—With the first part of your loading article in yesterday's paper on the abovementioned subject I am not now immediately concerned. If as you think, there is an implied threat in the concluding ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 129 wordsEntries close next Friday week for a 75-yards pedestrian handicap, to be run at Lillie Bridge on Monday night week. LISMORE, Wednesday. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 31 Dec 1896, Page 6
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