The residence of Mr. W. P. Ritchie was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. The building was insured in the Sun office for £150. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe anniversary of the foundation of the colony was celebrated yesterday under favourable circumstances, for, although a storm passed over the city about 3 o'clock, it was of too short duration to ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Federal Council met to-day. The following representatives were present:—Victoria: Sir George Turner, Mr. Cuthbert, Mr. M'Kenzie, and Sir Henry Wrixon. Queensland Sir Hugh Nelson, ...
Article : 546 wordsThe Irish Party has claimed the power to expel members or ask them to resign upon an absolute majority of the party deciding upon such action being taken. ...
Article : 156 wordsLater news has been received concerning the loss of the Indian troopship Warren Hastings, which was wrecked off the Isle of Reunion while conveying troops ...
Article : 153 wordsA double murder occurred this morning at Dunwich, where Tommy Anigo, a South Sea Islander, and an inmate of the asylum, killed two other inmates, viz., Andrew Thompson and See ...
Article : 319 wordsSir,—It is difficult to understand the anxiety of some of our Convention candidates and others to obtain a ruling that Sydney should be the capital of a Federated Australia. They seem to overlook the ...
Article : 111 wordsAn examination of the barge Colonel shows that there will be an absolute loss of 800 bags of wheat. By great efforts on the part of nearly 60 men from five steamers 500 bags, mostly dry wheat, were ...
Article : 132 wordsThe police to-day discovered another link in the chain of evidence which is already so strong with regard to the identification of the murdered man. The clothing worn by the deceased was washed ...
Article : 175 wordsAt last night's council meeting the proposal of the E.S. and A. Bank to exchange the Graham's Valley and Bann Baa properties for Government land in the Balranald district was discussed. It was pointed ...
Article : 96 wordsIn the early hours of yesterday the meteorological conditions augured well for yachtsmen, and the owners of the larger craft, which were reckoned to be at their best in a fresh breeze, congratulated themselves ...
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Article : 740 wordsCount Muravieff, the new Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, who is about to visit President Faure at Paris, will afterwards visit Berlin, and it is expected ...
Article : 44 wordsOn the 3rd of November at noon a man called at a farmer a place, about one mile west from Frampton platform, and taking out a small bottle, asked for some oil. He said the bottle was rather small, as he ...
Article : 402 wordsReports from Copetown state that it is expected that Lord Rosemead, the Governor of Cape Colony and British Administrator for South Africa, will leave ...
Article : 42 wordsThe annual session of the Brisbane Diocesan Synod was opened to-day. The Bishop of Brisbane presided, and delivered a lengthy address, traversing the business to be brought before the ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. R. W. Hanbury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, has stated that tenders have been accepted for the carriage of the mails between England and ...
Article : 76 wordsTwo surveyors of the Railway Department leave Brisbane to-morrow to make an inspection of the various proposed routes for the St. George railway. They will be away about three weeks. ...
Article : 381 wordsSir James Sivewright, Commissioner for Railways and Public Works at the Cape of Good Hope, recently warned the Transvaal and the Orange Free State that they ...
Article : 79 wordsA definite and important stage was reached in the federal movement yesterday when the writ was issued for the election of 10 representatives of New South Wales to take part in the Federal Convention. ...
Article : 409 wordsThe barque Duns Law, Captain Greig, which left Maryport, in Cumberland, for Brisbane on the 25th December with a cargo of steel rails, and which put into ...
Article : 42 wordsA terrible blizzard has passed over the States of Kansas, Iown, Nebraska, and Minnesota. During the storm the thermometer fell 50'. The railways were ...
Article : 45 wordsThe annual meeting of the Southern Rifle Association was commenced on Browley Range, on the outskirts of the town, to-day. Prizes being shot for total in all about £450, and the meeting promises to be ...
Article : 646 wordsThe Indian Famine Relief Fund amounts to £147,000. ...
Article : 14 wordsMr. R.E.N. Twopenny, who was recently sent to London in the interests of the Frozen Meat Export Association of Australia, regarding the meat export trade, ...
Article : 75 wordsThere is great distress in Chicago. It is reported that 50,000 people are starving. The Mayor of the city has appealed for funds for the purpose of alloviating ...
Article : 50 wordsThe regulations, about 40 in number, consist mainly of instructions to the returning officers in the various districts, who act under the direction of the "returning officer for the colony." The ...
Article : 1,051 wordsAt a meeting of the central committee of the distressed farmers' fuud to-day the balance-sheet showed that the total donations had been £8797 and the expenditure in the purchase of the ...
Article : 94 wordsAt a recent meeting of the carpenters of Perth a resolution was passed declaring that the time had arrived when the carpenters and joiners should receive wages at the rate of 12s per day of ...
Article : 58 wordsThree Boers from the Orange Free State have been arrested for selling arms to the Basutos. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is admitted by the Bombay newspapers that no fewer than 10,000 persons have died from the plague in that city. ...
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Article : 226 wordsAbout midnight on Monday, as the last train from Port Adelaide arrived at the Semaphore, the passengers heard some scuffling on the platform, and found that a man had been stabbed ...
Article : 277 wordsThe Italian Government has arranged to expedite the transhipment of mails at Brindisi. ...
Article : 20 wordsAt the wool sales to-day prices were firm. Jan. 26. At the wool sales yesterday American ...
Article : 49 wordsThe recent hailstorm at Palmer's Island and Palmer's Creek did an immense amount of damage. The crops suffered terribly by the large hailstones, nearly half of the late maize being ruined. The ...
Article : 186 wordsAn order has been made for the winding up of the Western Australian Gold Districts Trading Corporation. ...
Article : 22 wordsA deputation of engineers interviewed Mr. Mills, the manager of the Union Steamship Company at Dunedin, relative to an increase of wages, which were reduced 10 per cent. in 1893. Mr. ...
Article : 77 wordsNo trace of the gold stolen from the strong-room of the Oceana has yet been discovered, although the detectives in charge of the case have been making diligent inquiries. A development ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Mount Catherine Gold-mining Company, Yerilla, has been registered with a capital of £300,000, and is issuing shares to the extent of £100,000. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe report read at the tenth annual meeting of the Lower Clarence Hospital, held last Friday, showed that during the year 96 patients were admitted; the daily average number of patients was ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Premier in the course of an interview at Dunedin said that the Agent-General had been requested to communicate with the Colonel Office asking thut the New Zealand Government be ...
Article : 125 wordsThe shareholders in the London Bank of Australia have approved of the intro duction of a bill to enable them to modify the scheme of settlement with the ...
Article : 39 wordsA drowning accident occurred down the river to-day. A youth named William Tegg, son of Mr. J. T. Tegg, of West Maitland, was the victim. He was bathing at a spot known as the Canal, when he was ...
Article : 69 wordsTo-day's price of bar silver is 2s 5 1316d per oz. standard. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 27 Jan 1897, Page 5
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