Professor Kernot, of Melbourne, last evening delivered a lecture in connection with the Sydney University Engineering Society at the Engineering School. There was a large attendance not only of ...
Article : 714 wordsThe pleasurable anticipations which had been indulged in that the meeting of the Wallsend miners to be held this morning would result in some measures being taken to terminate the strike have been ...
Article : 1,117 wordsThe following eleven were chosen to play for the South of England against the Australians to-day:—Hilliard, J. Briggs, A. Mold, Baker, Sugg, A. D. Pougher, ...
Article : 107 wordsAt a meeting of the unemployed, held on Saturday, a deputation was formed to wait on the resident engineer to urge him to assist them in every possible way in their appeal for employment to the ...
Article : 103 wordsA protest has been made against the Land Bill of the Government by a majority of the Irish landowners, who assert that it will have injurious effects. ...
Article : 46 wordsImmense preparations are being made at Moscow for the coronation of the Czar, which will take place on Tuesday, the 26th instant. ...
Article : 121 wordsPresident Kruger is disposed to accept the petition of the Reformers at Johannesburg that additional fines should be substituted for the sentences of exile passed ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Land Board to-day dealt with the application for a reappraisement of the Cootra pastoral holding. Mr. C. E. Taylor, manager and part owner, said he considered the amount allowed by the inspector ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Berlin authorities are enforcing the anti-socialist law. Forty-seven members of political societies have been arraigned. ...
Article : 25 wordsThere are 6000 Matabele warriors between the Shangani River and Indaba, where Captain Napier's force recently defeated the rebels. ...
Article : 50 wordsAn important discovery of diamondiferous country is reported near Hanging Rock. A large tract of country has been pegged out. About 300 carats of diamonds have been picked up on the surface. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Belgian Chamber of Representatives is giving substantial assistance to the extension of the Congo railway to Leopoldville, the most important ...
Article : 116 wordsSerious trouble is experienced by cattle owners in connection with the tick plague, which continues to engage the earnest attention of the authorities. A meeting of the advisory ...
Article : 213 wordsA serious buggy accident occurred yesterday afternoon. Mr. Mallon and some friends were returning from, the copper mines, when a bolt broke which connected the shafts with the buggy. The horse took ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is rumoured at Suakim that the Khalifa is dead, and that the Dervishes are spiritless. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Assembly order paper has already swollen to some dimensions, and notices of motion have been set down for dates as far ahead as the 14th July. The House will meet at a quarter past 4 this ...
Article : 730 wordsThe Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the leader of the Forward Movement of Wesleyan Methodism, who since the publication of the majority report of the Royal ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Land Board to-day continued its inquiry into the Mercadool cases. William Thomas Thorne Seccombe was further examined by Mr. Canaway. Claude Thorne Seccombe was called by Mr. Pike. ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Spanish Government has decided to strengthen the forces in Cuba. Fifty thousand men will be sent to that colony in the autumn. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe western portion of the town of Sherman, in Texas, U.S.A., has been destroyed by a cyclone. 120 people were killed by the falling buildings. ...
Article : 63 wordsFrance is parleying with Japan for the purpose of securing a commercial treaty with that country. ...
Article : 27 wordsA long sitting of the land board was commenced last Wednesday, and will be continued next week. So far the cases are important and long. In one case, after an exhaustive inquiry, 30,000 acres was ...
Article : 130 wordsThe inaugural lecture of the present winter series, arranged to be given under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, was delivered last evening at the association's hall by Professor ...
Article : 1,012 wordsWilliam Robertson, assistant genernl manager of the City of Melbourne Bank, attended at the Insolvency Court to-day for the purpose of signing his depositions. In reply to Judge ...
Article : 146 wordsParticulars are to hand of the drowning of Alfred Wilson, a carpenter, aged 26. In company with a man named Snowball and two boys he went fishing on the West Beach. ...
Article : 179 wordsThe King of Corea, who early in February fled from his palace to the Russian Legation, has returned to the palace, and the Russian forces that were landed at ...
Article : 325 wordsThe House of Commons has voted £60,000 for making an increase in the naval forces on the Australian station. Captain Castle, officer in charge of the steam ...
Article : 451 wordsThe Primate arrived here on Saturday and preached twice yesterday in the cathedral to overflowing congregations. In accordance with the recent enactment at the Grafton Synod, yesterday ...
Article : 99 wordsThe municipal contest to-day occasioned by the death of the late Alderman Coen resulted in the return of Mr. T. J. Sheekey, who received 66 votes to Mr. Besnard's 23. The election is alleged to be ...
Article : 1,051 wordsThe annual conference of the members of the Victoria Butter and Cheese Factory Managers' Association was opened to-day. The president of the association, Mr. R. Crowe, occupied the ...
Article : 244 wordsSir Patrick Buckley died at his residence, Wellington, this afternoon. For some time past he had been ailing, and a few weeks ago, acting on medical advice, he gave up attending to his duties ...
Article : 149 wordsDuring last week the steamers Glaucus, Palmerston, Herga, Captain Cook, Egmont, and Currajong loaded coal at the port of Bellambi, the total shipment being 4530 tons. Of this quantity the Glaucus ...
Article : 387 wordsDr. Lawes, who is working in New Guinea in connection with the London Missionary Society, was a passenger by the Maranoa, which arrived from Townsville yesterday. He stated to a Herald ...
Article : 490 wordsThe Duke of Orleans, head of the Royal House of France, is willing to accept the decision of a plebiscite. He favours a policy of adventure. ...
Article : 56 wordsDr. Daniel Pollen, M.L.C., died at his residence, Auckland, this morning, at the advanced age of 82. The deceased leaves a widow and eight children. He had been in the colony for 56 years, ...
Article : 78 wordsA contract for the carriage of butter to London, has been made by the Minister for Agriculture with the P. and O. and Orient Companies. Under the old contract the rate of freight was ?d per lb., ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Prince of Wales has presented to Lady Halle, widow of the late Sir Charles Halle, an estate in Italy purchased by the subscriptions of Lady Halle's ...
Article : 38 wordsA young lady, the daughter of the Rev. W. J. Watkin, Wesleyan minister of Onehunga, disappeared mysteriously from her parents' home on Friday night. No trace of her has since been ...
Article : 38 wordsIn addressing a meeting at Montreal, in connection with the approaching elections, Sir Charles Tupper, Premier of Canada, made some references to the Hon. Wilfred ...
Article : 72 wordsA splendid development has taken place in the Australia, one of the associated mines, or Coolgardie properties. The mine is situated immediately south of Kalgoorlie, and was purchased by Mr. John ...
Article : 475 wordsThe local trade continues satisfactory, and full time has been put in at the various pits during the past fortnight. Previously from the beginning of the year the average did not exceed half time, so ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 310 wordsA large meeting of the boilermakers on strike was held at Gawler to-day, when, it is reported, a proposition in favour of ending the difficulty was carried with only two dissentients. ...
Article : 99 wordsA company is being formed in the city to work six groups of mines in the Northern Territory. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe monthly meeting of the North Shore Hospital Committee was held at Messrs. M'Intyre and Horning's rooms, Walker-street, on the 14th instant. The Rev. A. Yarnold was in the chair. There were ...
Article : 167 wordsA public meeting was held in the Canterbury Town Hall last night for the purpose of considering the insanitary condition of Cook's River, and urging upon the Government the necessity of at once remedying ...
Article : 294 wordsMessrs. Eddy and Fehon, with Mr. Kirkcaldie (Engineer for Railways) and a number of other gentlemen, arrived here this evening at 6.15, and were met at the station by a deputation of the ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Artillery Rifle Club held a prize shooting on Saturday, the conditions being seven shots each at the 100 yards and 500 yards ranges. The first prize was won by Guuner Gray (62 points), other ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Volunteer Gold-mining Company, Coolgardie, has been registered with a capital of £80,000, and is offering shares to the amount of £25,000 for public ...
Article : 43 wordsThe monthly meeting of the society was held on Wednesday. There were present—Messrs. E. Fosbery (chairman), F. C. Griffiths, C. B. Fairfax, and J. Sidney (secretary). The report for the month ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 19 May 1896, Page 5
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