So far as this colony is concerned, the Federal Convention campaign is now in full swing. Mr. R. E. O'Connor delivered his first address at Narrabri on Saturday evening, and to-night Mr. Barton will ...
Article : 337 wordsThe demand for increased wages in the building trade is spreading. The plasterers have now joined the movement and will hold a meeting to-day to consider the advisability of applying for ...
Article : 45 wordsLast night a man named Dooley made an attempt to commit suicide at Swanbrook, eight miles from Inverell. The man had camped at Swanbrook Creek, and, with a sharp table knife, cut his throat ...
Article : 96 wordsThe ship Burmah, which was at Newcastle, New South Wales, at the time the Swanhilda was there, and which left for San Francisco on 20th November, three ...
Article : 184 wordsReplying to a question asked in the House of Commons, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonios, said that the Government had invited the ...
Article : 134 wordsThe ship Burma[?], which sailed from Newcastle, three days before the Swanhilda, has reached San Francisco, Her crew states that the Swanhilda had a crew ...
Article : 7,814 wordsThe Government intends wood blocking a portion of Wellington-street near the railway station yards with jarrah as an experiment. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe loal freezing works are sending large consignments of frozen mutton, pork, beef, veal, kidneys, tongues, ox tails, hearts, &c., to Western Australia, where scarcity in the market is causing a demand. ...
Article : 64 wordsWhat appea[?] to be a second robbery of mail bags has been discovered. Several bags were taken out of the Government train at Midland junction for transfer to the Midland train for ...
Article : 75 wordsThe two prisoners who escaped from the Wilcannia coach have not yet been arrested. Three mounted policemen and a black tracker have been looking for them since their escape. The ground being hard ...
Article : 45 wordsThe gold yield for 1896 shows that Coolgardie produced 69,135oz.; East Coolgardie, 85,287oz.; North-east Coolgardie, 4113oz,; North Coolgardie, 17,160oz.; Yilgarn, 16,[?]oz.; Dundas, ...
Article : 213 wordsNews reached here to-day that Daniel Lewis Senior, a very old employee of Warrah station, Willow Tree, blew his brains out this morming. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. R. E. O'Connor opened his campaign as a candidate for the Federal Convention by addressing a public meeting in the Town Hall last evening. There was a large attendance, and the utmost ...
Article : 2,256 wordsMrs. Emily Henn Gennys, of Stoke, near Carcoar, relict of the late Captain John Henn Gennys, R.N., and eldest daughter of the late Hon. Thomas Icely, M.L.C., owner of Coombing Park, near Carcoar, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe police state that there is no truth in the report that there were disturbances on board the Swanhilda when at Newcastle. Captain Fraser was certainly struck while in the street by a seaman who ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the debate on the motion of Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, for the re-appointment of the ...
Article : 417 wordsThe total clearance at the Melbourne Clearinghouse for the week ended 25th January was £2,709,545, as against £2,285,766 for the corresponding week (five days) last year, or and increase ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. W. S. Dowel opened the Federal election campaign in the eastern suburban electorates on Saturday evening by addressing a meeting of the electors at the Paddington Town Hall. The ...
Article : 411 wordsExtremely hot weather was experienced here yesterday. The thermometer rose to 109 degrees; to-day to 115; and it now, at 6.15 p.m., register[?] 106. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe annual meeting of the Dubbo Refrigerating and Boilingdown Company was held last night. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. Mr. J. L. Brown and Mr. W. B. Perry ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Hon. W. St. John Brodrick, Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office, announced in the House of Commons yesterday that the Government ...
Article : 156 wordsA tragedy was enacted at Kilmore East [?]terday. An old couple (Joseph Hurst, aged 60, and his wife, Johanna Hurst, aged 68) had lived in a small house on the Railway Reserve for many ...
Article : 330 wordsThe annual meeting of the league of wheelmen was held on Thursday. Mr. A. B. Chisholm was elected p[?]tron, Mr. W. Carey Taylor president, Mr. W. Quartly, secretary, and Mr. J. Layton, treasurer. ...
Article : 62 wordsAt the sixth annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Tasmania, at which Bro. C. E. Davies was re-elected Grand Master, the M.W.G.M. (the Right Hon. S. J. Way) of ...
Article : 109 wordsThe deputy coroner (Mr. Hall) held an inquest yesterday morning on the body of a man found [?]ead [?] Mount Gipps station on Friday morning. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned. No ...
Article : 2,224 wordsMr. James Ashton, M.L.A. for Hay, as a candidate for the Federal Convention, addressed a meeting here on Friday night. The Mayor (Alderman Armstrong) presided. Although the notice was very ...
Article : 370 wordsAs the Colonial Secretary passed through Newcastle on Saturday morning en route for Matland he was met at the railway station by a number of prominent citizens and was presented by the Mayor ...
Article : 222 wordsCaptain John E Meryon, of H.M.S. Katoomba, has been appointed to the command of H.M.S. Mildura. Captain John Jones will succeed Captain Meryon ...
Article : 69 wordsA butcher named James Cole was run over yesterday by a railway truck at Flemington Abattoirs and removed to the hospital, where he died shortly after admission. ...
Article : 35 wordsOne of the Bendigo mines, the Great Southern, has repaid to the Mines Department the amount advanced to it under the prospecting vote. The actual sum which the Great Southern received was ...
Article : 365 wordsA whole-day parade of the 4th Regiment and an inspection by the commanding officer, Colonel Ra[?]cland, took place at the racecourse yesterday. The whole of the six compa[?] comprising the ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Lyman Gage, banker, of Chicago, has accepted the post of Secretary to the Treasury in the Cabinet of Major M'Kinley, who assumes office as President of ...
Article : 64 wordsSenator Sherman, who is to be Secretary for State in Major M'Kinley's Cabinet, has expressed himself as being confident that the United States Senate ...
Article : 119 wordsThe sixty-seventh half-yearly meeting of St. Mary's Star of the Sea branch of the A.H.C. Guild was held in the Guild Hall this afternoon, under the presidency of the Rev. F. O'Gorman. The report ...
Article : 133 wordsThe annual dinner of the Naval Artillery Volunteer Rifle Club was held at Curtin's Hotel, Pittstrect, on Saturday evening. A large company sat down to dinner, including, besides the officers of ...
Article : 726 wordsSir,—Your condensed summary of my address on Federation in your issue of Saturday does not quite correctly express the proposal which I made for averting a possible deadlock. I suggested that if it ...
Article : 346 wordsAn outbreak of the bubonic plague has occurred in the island of Formosa. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe following was the export of coal for the week ended January 29:—To Victoria, 11,800 tons; India, 3200; Tasmania, 700; Chili, 63[?]7; New Zealand, 2763; Singapore, 2903; South Austra[?]a, 7450; ...
Article : 213 wordsAt the wool sales to-day prices were well maintained. Only a small portion of the wool offered was withdrawn. Jan. 30. ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. Richard Olney, the United States Secretary of State, and Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Ambassador to the United States, have signed a convention agroeing ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Customs collections at Brisbane for the south of January totalled £52,298 [?] being a de[?] of £736 as compared with January of last year. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Quarter Sessions were continued to-day. George White was convicted of maliciously wounding his wife, and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, with hard [?]bour, in Tamworth ...
Article : 341 wordsA dealer named George Paton, who resides in Beaufort-street, was treated at Sydney Hospital last evening for a wound 3in, long on the neck and another about 2in, long on one of his legs. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsDuring the hearing of the suit for divorce brought by Countess Cowley againat Earl Cowley on the ground of alleged adultery with Mrs. Charles ...
Article : 80 wordsAt the cycling carrival held at Warrnambool yesterday the Federal Stakes Race, 3 miles, was won by A. A. Middleton, 75 yards, by half a wheel from A. H. Clinton 100 yards, with Gerster third. Time, ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Western Australian and New Zealand Market Trust is being formed with a capital of £2,500,000 for the purpose of acquiring the Beal mines and of carrying ...
Article : 37 wordsTo-day's price of bar silver was 2s 5¾d per oz. standard. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 1 Feb 1897, Page 5
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