Favourable conditions as regards weather favoured the opening of the 1894 prize meeting of the New South Wales Rifle Association at Randwick yesterday morning. The day was fine, the light perfect, but ...
Article : 2,439 wordsSpeaking at the meeting of shareholders in the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank, Limited, Mr. C. J. Hogan, chairman of directors, said that the bank ...
Article : 64 wordsThe crew of the illfated steamer Bowra, which foundered on Saturday off Seal Rocks, arrived in Nelson's Bay at 2 o'clock to-day, having come down Myall River in their boats. Mr. J. Weston ...
Article : 1,052 wordsIn the matter of the Wai Weer station trouble with the men, a test case was heard this morning in the police court, the result being a verdict for the defendant, with four guineas costs. The Bench ...
Article : 286 wordsPrince Hohenlohe, who succeeds Count von Caprivi as Chancellor of the German Empire, re-unites the offices of Chancellor of the Empire and Premier of Prussia, as ...
Article : 224 wordsFurther particulars of the battle in which the Japanese forces utterly routed the Chinese at Kulien-chan show that the Japanese losses amounted to 100 killed ...
Article : 204 wordsTHE Japanese fleet and 34 torpedo-boats threaten Wei-hai-wei harbour. THE revenue returns for the past week show a net decrease in the receipts, compared with the ...
Article : 7,155 wordsBar silver is quoted at 2s 5¼d per ounce standard, being a fall of ?d on the last quotation. ...
Article : 28 wordsSplendid samples of stone from the Londonderry Consols South Extended were brought in to-day and exhibited. The claim is owned by Barnfield, Wright, Cecil, and party, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 180 wordsA special general meeting of the above was held at Mrs. Marsden's Commercial Hotel on Saturday afternoon. The president (Mr. T. W. Taylor) oeoupied the chair, and there was a fair attendance ...
Article : 329 wordsParliament ' will be opened by the Governor to-morrow afternoon. As far as can be ascertained the Opposition intend to assist the Government to close the session before Christmas. ...
Article : 42 wordsA bulletin from Livadia states that the condition of the Czar of Russia is unchanged. The Russian newspapers comment in ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day Mr. Justice Holroyd passed a sentence of 10 years upon George Wash, a labourer, aged 47, who was tried on a charge of murdering his wife at West Melbourne, ...
Article : 48 wordsIn his speech at Bradford on Saturday, in which he announced the intention of the Government to deal with the question of reforming the House of Lords, the ...
Article : 242 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions to-day the verdict was received in the cases of the union shearers, Davis, White, Moss, Elliott, Enright, Laracy, Glendon, Townsend, Bruce, Guerkinstein, Noble, Warnock, ...
Article : 163 wordsAt the City Baths to-day, in the presence of a large gathering of naval and military officers, Mr. C. Seymour Allan, of Sydney, conducted a trial of a working model of his submarine torpedo boat. ...
Article : 55 wordsAt the Police Court to-day a unionist bootmaker named James Peebles was fined £2, with £2 2s costs, for assaulting N. Jenkins, a non-unionist, who refused to join the strike in the boot trade. ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Justice Hood, of Victoria, who has been on a visit to Europe, is returning by the R.M.S. Arcadia. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe railway earnings for the week ended 25th October amounted to £47,939, as compared with £55,773 for the corresponding week of last year. The aggregate earnings to date, from the 1st ...
Article : 116 wordsWilliam Heaton Rhodes, of New Zealand, a student at Oxford, has been killed by falling from a scaffold. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 474 wordsThe Hospital Sunday demonstration yesterday was a great success, the total proceeds being about £90. Large crowds witnessed the procession of friendly societies and other bodies to the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe man Bailey, who was injured in a claim on Friday, died of loss of blood and shock to the system. He was attended in the hospital by Dr. Grieves, assisted by Drs. Casperson and Russell. ...
Article : 175 wordsAt the present juncture when Victoria, Western Australia, and Tasmania are actively at work endeavouring to stimulate the timber trade of their respective colonies by securing orders in ...
Article : 581 wordsYesterday afternoon seven youths while pleasuring at the mouth of the Bega River attempted to cross when the tide was running out. The punt got into the strong current and turned round. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Admiralty has decided to build two cruisers of a new type, with a speed of 22 knots. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn inquiry was held at Roeburne, W.A., into the wreck of the steamer Eddystone, and particulars were yesterday received of the evidence by the manager of the North Queensland Insurance ...
Article : 73 wordsYesterday Bishop Higgins officiated twice in the Roman Catholic Chapel to large congregations, and during the day administered the rite of confirmation to 28 young people, 15 being boys ...
Article : 71 wordsOn Friday night Mr. Keen's house, on Branxton-road, was pelted with stones, which penotrated the window and fell on the bed where Mrs. Keen, on old lady, was sleeping. This ...
Article : 466 wordsH.M.S. Pylades, which has been commissioned to take the place of H.M.S. Curacoa on the Australian station, has sailed from Plymouth for Australia. ...
Article : 92 wordsA boy named Nash, nine years of age, was missed from his home near Gumeracha, several days ago. The district was searched by about 100 men for some days, and the dead body of the ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions to-day, before his Honor Judge Docker, a prisoner named Davis, for stealing from the person, was sentenced to two years in Maitland Gaol. Ackorly, assumed name ...
Article : 81 wordsThe present season of the Royal Comic Opera Company will close at the Lyceum Theatre this evening with a final performance of " The Mikado." The occasion will probably be the farewell ...
Article : 68 wordsFurther reports concerning the earthquake at San Juan, in the Argentine Republic, state that 20 lives were lost. LATER. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsThe Southern coal trade continues inactive. The average working time at the various mines will not exceed two and a half days per week. Among those collieries doing most work are— ...
Article : 145 wordsA meeting of the committee of the Theatrical Carnival Fund was held at the Lyceum Theatre last night, when further progress was made with the work of distribution. About 50 letters of application ...
Article : 85 wordsA pleasant social, or, as it was designated, " Coffee Klatsch," was last night held in the Temperance Hall. Pitt-street, under the auspices of the "Y" branch of the W.C.T. Union. Miss ...
Article : 201 wordsAlan Fergusson, son of the Right Hon. Sir James Fergusson, has been arrested on a charge of having set fire to Trinity College, Glenaltmond, where he was a ...
Article : 79 wordsThe printers' strike is still dragging along so far as the men are concerned, but there really would seem to be no strike at all when an inspection of the offices is made. Here what work is in hand is done ...
Article : 71 wordsAs illustrating the stimulus given to the timber export trade of Western Australia by orders from England, the following passage from a letter received in Sydney from large timber works in the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe annual meeting of the Hunter River Permant Building Society was held to-night. The roport and balance-sheet showed that after paying for reconstruction and other heavy expenses there ...
Article : 69 wordsThe monthly meeting of the United Furniture Trades Society was held in the Temperance Hall last night. The secretary reported that he had opened up communications with sister societies in Victoria, ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Band of Hope Union gave a successful temperance entertainment to the Wesleyan Band of Hope, Walker-street, North Sydney, on Friday night. The school-hall was well filled. Mr. S. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe strike which recently occurred among the men employed on the dredgers in the Suez Canal has closed. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe local village settlers have discarded the co-operative principle in regard to the working of the land, and have secured individual holdings. Some of them are working hard and well, but a ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 30 Oct 1894, Page 5
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