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  2. NEW SOUTH WALES RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

    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 words
  3. SECOND EDITION. E. S. AND A. BANK.

    Speaking 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 words
  4. SHIPPING CASUALTIES. DECISION IN THE EDDYSTONE CASE.

    The 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 ...

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  5. QUEENSLAND.

    In 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 words
  6. SPECIAL CABLES.

    Prince 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 words
  7. SPECIAL CABLES.

    Further 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 words
  8. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    THE 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 words
  9. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted at 2s 5¼d per ounce standard, being a fall of ?d on the last quotation. ...

    Article : 28 words
  10. THE COOLGARDIE GOLDFIELD.

    Splendid 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, ...

    Article : 248 words
  11. TO-DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 180 words
  12. COUNTRY NEWS. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.) VINEGROWERS' AND FRUITGROWERS' ASSOCIATION OF N.S.W.

    A 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 words
  13. VICTORIA. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

    Parliament ' 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 words
  14. THE CZAR OF RUSSIA.

    A bulletin from Livadia states that the condition of the Czar of Russia is unchanged. The Russian newspapers comment in ...

    Article : 67 words
  15. SENTENCED FOR MANSLAUGHTER.

    In 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 words
  16. LORD ROSEBERY AT BRADFORD.

    In 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 words
  17. PASTORALISTS AND SHEARERS.

    At 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 words
  18. A SUBMARINE TORPEDO BOAT.

    At 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 words
  19. ASSAULTING A NON-UNIONIST.

    At 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 words
  20. MR. JUSTICE HOOD.

    Mr. Justice Hood, of Victoria, who has been on a visit to Europe, is returning by the R.M.S. Arcadia. ...

    Article : 25 words
  21. THE RAILWAY EARNINGS.

    The 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 words
  22. A NEW ZEALAND STUDENT KILLED.

    William Heaton Rhodes, of New Zealand, a student at Oxford, has been killed by falling from a scaffold. ...

    Article : 27 words
  23. WILLS OF THE WEEK.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 474 words
  24. HOSPITAL SUNDAY DEMONSTRATION.

    The 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 words
  25. THE WYALONG GOLDFIELD.

    The 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 words
  26. COLONIAL TIMBERS AND THE FOREIGN MARKETS.

    At 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 words
  27. BOATING FATALITY AT BEGA.

    Yesterday 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 words
  28. THE BRITISH NAVY.

    The Admiralty has decided to build two cruisers of a new type, with a speed of 22 knots. ...

    Article : 30 words
  29. THE LOSS OF THE EDDYSTONE.

    An 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 words
  30. BISHOP HIGGINS AT KIAMA.

    Yesterday 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 words
  31. THE GRETA MINERS.

    On 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 words
  32. H.M.S. PYLADES.

    H.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 words
  33. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A 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 words
  34. WALGETT QUARTER SESSIONS.

    At 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 words
  35. AMUSEMENTS. LYCEUM THEATRE.

    The 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 words
  36. EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTH AMERICA.

    Further reports concerning the earthquake at San Juan, in the Argentine Republic, state that 20 lives were lost. LATER. ...

    Article : 65 words
  37. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 words
  38. THE SOUTHERN COAL TRADE.

    The 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 words
  39. THEATRICAL CARNIVAL FUND

    A 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 words
  40. " Y " UNION SOCIAL.

    A 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 words
  41. CHARGE AGAINST A STUDENT.

    Alan 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 words
  42. TRADES MOVEMENTS. THE PRINTERS' STRIKE.

    The 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 words
  43. TIMBER EXPORT FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    As 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 words
  44. HUNTER RIVER PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY.

    The 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 words
  45. THE FURNITURE TRADES.

    The 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 words
  46. BAND OF HOPE UNION.

    The 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 words
  47. THE STRIKE IN THE SUEZ CANAL.

    The strike which recently occurred among the men employed on the dredgers in the Suez Canal has closed. ...

    Article : 28 words
  48. WILBERFORCE VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 1,427 words
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