Yesterday only one nomination paper was handed in to Mr. Critchett Walker, the returning officer for the colony. It was that of Mr. J. C. Watson (M.L.A. for the electorate of Young). When ...
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Article : 1,198 wordsA meeting of the committee of the recently-formed Newwcastle and District Federal League was held this evening at the Town Hall under the presidency of the Mayor. Replies to the circular issued ...
Article : 223 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Bank of Victoria, Limited, was held to-day. The chairman, Mr. E. Miller, M.L.C., said the report showed an undivided profit on the 30th June of £31,410, and ...
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Article : 24 wordsThe question of the necessity of having regulations to control the bicycle traffic within the city of Melbourne was discussed at length at a meeting of the City Council yesterday afternoon. Councillor ...
Article : 131 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, stated that the Government proposed to relieve the voluntary schools out of the ...
Article : 135 wordsThe attention of the Government has been called to the action of the honorary magistrates of the Newcastle district in refusing to sign documents presented to them. Almost every day there is ...
Article : 163 wordsA Christian Judge named Markulakis has been murdered at Canea, in Crete. ...
Article : 23 wordsNorth-east winds, fresh and humid, seat dust and discomfort into the city and suburbs yesterday, and the temperature rose to 80· in the shade—not high for the time of year; but following three days of ...
Article : 213 wordsThe leaders of the strike of dock labourers at Hamburg admit that they are unable to continue to distribute strike pay among the men. ...
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Article : 262 wordsA man named George Boughen, of Mundoora, against whom was secured last Thursday the first conviction under Mr. Kingston's Married Women' Protection Act passed last year committed suicide ...
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Article : 242 wordsA deputation from the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce waited on the Commissioner for Railways yesterday in support of the proposal to have six express trains run to Sydney and ...
Article : 522 wordsA special mail bag containing letters from the Queen of Spain and money consigned to the Bank of England has been lost on the way from Madrid to London. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe carpenters, joiners, and builders' labourers struck for 12s a day. There are no reliable statistics available, but it is believed there are between 100 and 200 out. Between 30 and 40 ...
Article : 162 wordsThe annual nomination of aldermen and auditors took place to-day at noon at the Newcastle Council-chambers. The attendance of ratepayers was remarkably limited. The ret[?]ring Mayor (Alderman ...
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Article : 32 wordsThe committee appointed to draft a manifesto for the labour party concluded its work yesterday. The main principles embodied in the manifesto were published in the Herald some time ago. As was ...
Article : 214 wordsAmongst the highest readings of the thermometer in the shade were 122· at Balranald, 118· Wilcannia, 120· Euston, 115· Menindie, 116· Mount Hope, 117· at Hay. The greatest heat was, ...
Article : 1,814 wordsThe trial of Mrs. Edith May Hollowell Carew on a charge of having poisoned her husband, Mr. W. R. Carew, has been concluded at Yokohama. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Mayor of Hobart has opened a fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Indian famine. Charles Christopher Barnes, shoemaker, shot himself through the head in Harrington-street ...
Article : 324 wordsCaptain Sinclair, the Liberal candidate, has been elected to fill the extraordinary vacancy in the representation of Forfarshire in the House of Commons, defeating ...
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Article : 395 wordsA meeting of members of the Opposition in Parliament and of the Protectionist Union was held last evening at Tattersall's-chambers, Hunter-street, under the presidency of Mr. W. J. Lyne, M.L.A. ...
Article : 263 wordsThe sculling match arranged between W. Haines, of England, and C. Stephenson, of New Zealand, took place over the Tyne course to-day and resulted in a ...
Article : 44 wordsThis afternoon Constable Cochrane and a black tracker came into town with the two prisoners that escaped from the coach last Thursday while being conveyed from Wilcannia to Cobar. They found ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Minister for Mines and Agriculture (the Hon. Sydney Smith), accompanied by Mr. T. Waddell, M.L.A. (Cobar), Mr. J. G. Carroll, M.L.A. (Lachlan), Mr. T. Brown, M.L.A. (Condobolin), ...
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Article : 156 wordsThe Premiers' Conference sat about five hours today, but owing to the absence of Mr. G. H. Reid the proceedings necessarily were informal, the other Premiers being unwilling to even come to any ...
Article : 300 wordsThe Treasury returns for January show that the total revenue proper amounted to £237,656, being a decrease of £7692 compared with January of last year. £6202 was refunded on account of ...
Article : 228 wordsShipping at Port Bellambi remains very active. The steamer Cook, for Sydney, and the steamer Tagliaferro, for Melbourne, l[?]ded there yesterday, and the Egmont, for Sydney, and Wondo[?] and ...
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Article : 93 wordsMr. B. R. Wise addressed a meeting here to-night. It was fairly well attended. The Mayer (Alderman Matthews) introduced Mr. Wise, who first spoke from the balcony of the Albion Hotel, but was ...
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Article : 57 wordsThe death is announced of Sir Thomas Spencer Wells, Bart. Sir Thomas Spencer Wells was born in 1818. He studied medicine at Dublin and at St. Thomas's ...
Article : 89 wordsMessrs. Ashton and Millen, Ms. L. A., addressed a fair audience to-night on the subject of federation. The Mayor (Mr. Pilcher) presided. Mr. Ashton spoke at considerable length, advocating the main ...
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Article : 111 wordsAn inquest was held at Warrah station yesterday on the body of Daniel Lewis, who shot himself on Sunday. The evidence showed that deceased went down to the slaughter-yard to get a gun used for ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 3 Feb 1897, Page 7
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