Some idea of the recent terrible weather at sea is obtained from the following report of the R.M.S. Orient, on her way from Melbourne to Sydney. Captain H. E. Inskip says:—"We left Port Melbourne ...
Article : 635 wordsThe R.M.S. Orient arrived in Sydney Harbour early yesterday morning and consequently Mr. H. B. Howard Smith, who had taken passage by her from Melbourne and who was one of the Victorian ...
Article : 894 wordsIn view of the scarcity of skilled artisans at Port Darwin to repair the damage done by the cyclone, and the opposition to the Government Resident's proposal to import Chinesa labour from ...
Article : 132 wordsThe long standing arbitration case between Messrs. John Falkingham and Sons and the Railway Department has advanced another stage. Messrs. Falkingham and Sons were ...
Article : 163 wordsThe general treaty of arbitration between Great Britain and the United States has been signed. In a letter to the United States Senate ...
Article : 215 wordsReports have been received from Bonny, a settlement inthe Nigor Coast Protectorate, West Africa, stating that the warriors of the Pagan King of Borgu have massacred ...
Article : 129 wordsIn the course of a speech delivered by the Prince of Wales on Monday he said that he felt assured that the celebrations which were to take place on the completion of the sixtieth year of the ...
Article : 7,770 wordsWilliam Brady, a bookkeeper employed by John Cooper and Sons, ironmongers, Elizabeth-street, was found dead in the shop to-night with his throat cut and a bullet ...
Article : 61 wordsAt a meeting of the Cabinet to-day a subcommittee was appointed to look into the recent increases in freights made by the Railway Commissioner. A board, consisting of four Ministers, ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Russian Budget for 1897 sets apart 129,000,000 roubles for the building of railways in the Russian Empire. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe mail packet Macgregor is again in trouble. She was preparing to get away for Eucla, when she grounded, swung round, and was beached a hundred feet from the shore. She drove ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Postmaster-General left this afternoon by the express train for Sydney, and he purposes sailing by to-morrow's boat for Auckland. While in New Zealand Mr. Duffy will make some ...
Article : 62 wordsIn the course of a speech, which he delivered yesterday, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales said that he felt assured that the celebrations which were to take place in ...
Article : 66 wordsThe announcement in yesterday's Herald that Mr. Reid had written to Sir Georgr Turner stating that he was in communication with the Premiers of Western Australia, South Australia, and Tasmania ...
Article : 680 wordsAt the St. Kilda Police Court to-day, a biker's assistant named Isane Putt, was committed for trial on a charge of maliciously wounding a cyclist named Cutmore. The latter was knocked off his ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Freetrade Democratic Association of Victoria is promoting a banquet from the freetraders of this colony to Mr. G. H. Reid, Premier of New South Wales. The date is fixed for the 10th ...
Article : 45 wordsThe United States Government has issued instructions to its Ambassadors and Ministers in foreign countries, prohibiting them from making political ...
Article : 63 wordsWhen the Orient yesterday arrived from London she looked as though a specially dirty time at sea had fallen to her lot. The crystallised deposits had left unmistakeable traces on her upper works. It ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer South Australian arrived from the north this morning. The engineers were informed that the company intended sending the steamer to townsville and Cairns, ...
Article : 179 wordsThe following players have been chosen to proceed to Sydney for the cricket match, Victoria v. New South Wales:—Bruce, Graham, Charles M'Leod, H. Trott, Trumble, Johns, Worrall, H. ...
Article : 42 wordsHerr Nels has been appointed German Consul in the Transvaal. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Gulf line steamer Gulf of Siam, from Sydney for London, Manchester, and Glasgow, stranded in Morroch Bay, but got off uninjured and proceeded to ...
Article : 36 wordsThe intercolonial steamers which armed in Hobson's Bay to-day report having met will heavy gales on the way hither. The Burrumbeet which cleared Sydney Heads on the 9th instant, ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Fred. Wright, one of the passengers, describing the scene, said: "It was the worst weather we had coming out. Look here, it wasn't a clear blow, but a sort of whirlwind, and the sea was twisted ...
Article : 822 wordsThe Irish newspapers, in commenting upon the recent speech of Mr. A. J. Balfour, M.P., First Lord of the Treasury, on the question of Irish finance, complain ...
Article : 44 wordsThe executive of the Engineer's Institution yesterday received information from the secretary of the Adelaide district stating that that officer had had an interview of friendly character with the secretary of ...
Article : 243 wordsWilliam M'Carthy has died in the Ipswich Hospital from the effects of burns sustained by the bedclothes catching fire while he was asleep. ...
Article : 29 wordsAs already stated, although a compromise has been arranged between the insurance companies and the board of governors of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery whereby fire policies ...
Article : 255 wordsAn inquiry into thc circumstances attending the death of Margaret Eleanor Watson, who was found dead at Middle Park on the 17th November with a bullet wound in her body, was ...
Article : 320 wordsIt is announced from St. Petersburg that Count Muravieff, Minister for Justice, has been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in succession to the late Prince ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is unlikely that the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the mining laws will meet before the 6th February. The Commission, which meets first at Charters Towers, will not as a ...
Article : 171 wordsIt is reported that the Rev. Montagu John Stone-Wigg, M.A., Sub-Dean and Canon Resident of St. John's ProCathedral, Brisbane, will shortly be ...
Article : 35 wordsAn adjourned meeting, of delegates from young men's societes was held in St. Paul's Schoolroom Redfern, last evening, to further consider the question of the holding in Sydney of a Young Men's ...
Article : 707 wordsMr. W. Berry, local secretary of the Institute of Marine Engineers, waited on Mr. Northcote on Monday morning. The meeting was of a cordinal nature, but, by agreement, was regarded as confidential, ...
Article : 382 wordsSeven patients suffering from cholera, which broke out on board the Indian troopship Nubia after leaving Malta, have been place in hospital at Plymouth, at ...
Article : 41 wordsThe proposal to amalgamate the Launceston Ciity Council and the Marine Board his been referred to a committee of the whole council. "Anti-Tattersall" has been made an election ...
Article : 144 wordsThe statistics of the Post and Telegraph Department for the past year show that the following passed through the post:—Letters, 18,051,000; packets, 1,709,000; newspapers, ...
Article : 130 wordsNews from India states that 75 per cent, of the spinning, weaving, and other mills in Bombay have stopped work owing to the spread of the bubonic plague. ...
Article : 72 wordsDuring the boisterous weather which prevailed outside Port Phillip Heads on Monday afternoon a small French schooner named the Lady St. Aubyn was descried from the pilot schooner, and ...
Article : 204 wordsMr. A. S. Magarey received the following telegram this evening from Mr. L. A. Wells, dated Fitzroy, 11 a.m.:—"Arrived Mount Campbell yesterday, and owing to 4in. of rain ...
Article : 498 wordsAs a consequence of the evidence at the inquest begun at Port Adelaide last week and continued to-day into the circumstances of the death of a middle-aged married woman named Frances Blain, ...
Article : 95 wordsThe brig Phillis is bound from Rockhampton to Melbourne and is 33 days out. She was formerly owned by Mr. Lane of Sydney, by whom she was fitted out for the coast whaling business in charge of ...
Article : 67 wordsMessrs. Ferguson and Watkins, Ms.L.A., addressed a public meeting last evening from the balcony of Turner's Hotel. Mr. Hulber, president of the Political Labour League, occupied the chair. ...
Article : 176 wordsMessrs. Rothschild have contributed £1000 to the Mansion House fund for the relief of the sufferers by the famine in India. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Thomas Curran, M.P., has requested us to publish the following:—"To the Friends and Supporters of Home Rule for Ireland.—In pursuance of the mandate given to him by the ...
Article : 443 wordsA Chinese leper who was walking alone Flinders-street to-day was detected by a fellowcountry man who handed him over to the police. Upon examination the Chinaman was found to be ...
Article : 98 wordsTelegraphic advices from Yokohama, Japan, state that Mrs. Carew, the widow of a Mr. Carew, a banker at Kobe, who died from the effects of poisoning under ...
Article : 89 wordsThe iron barque County of Antrim, 1200 tons, in charge of Captain Hyland and a crew of 18 men all told, laden with steel rails from Maryport, England, bound to Brisbane, encountered terrific ...
Article : 224 wordsSales:—Clark's Brilliant, Worcester, and Victory, 7s 9d; Lady, Florence, 6d; Smith's Extended, 2d; Day Dawn No. 5 West, 1s 8d; Queen Central, 6s; Victoria and Caledonia Block, 4s 6d; ditto, paid, ...
Article : 156 wordsTwo farmers in the Bannah district report having lost six valuable draught horses within the last week. MELBOURNE, Tuesday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 307 wordsBaroness Hirsch, the widow of the late Baron Hirsch, has given £80,000 to found a hospital in England for children suffering from phthisis. ...
Article : 29 wordsFour men of the English detachment, viz., Farrier-sergeant Fraser, Munsie (2), and Peter G. Murray, accompanied by Lieutenent C. J. Campbell, who also goes to England, will leave on Thursday ...
Article : 146 wordsA sad fatality occurred at Enfield yesterday afternoon. Two boys named Kerslake, aged respectively 10 and 8 years, were bathing n a water-hole. The boys got out of their ...
Article : 102 wordsWilliam Spaethe a German commercial traveller, was charged at Wellington with failing to take out a license as required by the law. He was ordered to purchase one, the cost of which is ...
Article : 69 wordsThe imports of lead for the past month amount to 16,526 tons, and the exports to 3587 tons. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Primate is announced to arrive at Wallerawang on the 14th instant, and will stay till the 17th. He will then proceed to Lithgow, where he will stay till the 20th. He will then go to Mount ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 13 Jan 1897, Page 5
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