The forty-fifth annual meeting of the Sydney Female Refuge was held in the institution yesterday afternoon. Mr. Robert Guy, J.P., presided. THE CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS. ...
Article : 622 wordsThe St. James's Gazette this afternoon says that the date of Mr. Gladstone's resignation is not fixed. It depends upon the result of an operation which Mr. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe finance committee of the Metropolitan Board of Works has considered the cabled offer of Messrs. Panmure, Gordon, and Company, of London, to take up the loan of half a million, which it is ...
Article : 143 wordsMadame Patey, the eminent contralto vocalist, who visited Australia in 1890, has died suddenly. She fainted at a concert in Sheffield ...
Article : 502 wordsThe Hon. G. W. Spencer Lyttleton, private secretary to Mr. Gladstone, declares that the announcement of the resignation of Mr. Gladstone is ...
Article : 203 wordsAlthough the Legislative Council had a long sitting yesterday, it got through very little business. The Custody of Children and Children's Settlement Bill was read the third time, and ...
Article : 1,695 wordsMR. GLADSTONE'S private secretary dealares that the announcement of the Premier's resignation is unauthorised, but he refuses to deny the truth of the report. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 196 wordsImportant arrests of Anarchists have been made in France. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe deadlock in connection with the election of Mayor still continues. The municipal council met again to-day, all the aldermen being present except Alderman M'Lean. There was a large ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Mercantile Bank case took an interesting turn to-day when Mr. Walsh, Q.C., announced that the case for the prosecution was closed, and Mr. Duffy aud other counsel for the defence entered ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 wordsBroken Hill Proprietary shares are quoted at £2 5s. ...
Article : 17 wordsA sad accident occurred at Kangaroo Point yesterday afternoon, when a man named Harry Rennick was drowned before the eyes of his wife. Rennick, who resided on the banks of the river, ...
Article : 259 wordsEarly yesterday morning a burglary of a sensational character occurred at the residence of Mr. Richard O'Connor, Rocky Point-road, Kogarah. Two masked men broke into the house, and, after ...
Article : 714 wordsMr. Walter A. Gatenby, the well-known finewool sheep-breeder, was found dead in bed this morning. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt a meeting of the council of the diocese of Melbourne held to-day a resolution was passed congratulating Archdeacon Green upon his election to the Bishopric of Grafton and Armidale, ...
Article : 72 wordsNormoyle, who was convicted of the manslaughter of Knight, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Mrs. Normoyle, who was charged with attempting to commit suicide, was ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is reported from Moscow that a squadron of Russian dragoons observed some Prussian Uhlans firing at a frontier post bearing the Russian Imperial arms. ...
Article : 78 wordsAt the St. Arnaud races to-day a jockey named Sutton, aged 16 years, was thrown and killed. At the Seymour races a jockey named W. Viney, aged 30, was taking the horse My Dream over a ...
Article : 58 wordsA native difficulty has arisen over the road through the native block in Auckland. King Tawhaio still claims kingly rights. He says he levies no taxes because of his love for his people. ...
Article : 70 wordsA meeting of the Transit Commission was held yesterday at the Commission's offices, in Phillip-street. The Mayor (Sir W. P Manning) presided. A plan of the shelter-shed proposed to be erected in ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress has convened a national labour conference, to be held in London on the 17th March, to protest ...
Article : 51 wordsThe annual meeting of shareholders of the Squatting Investment Company, Limited, was held to-day. Mr. Simon Fraser, M.LC., presided. The directors reported in favour of a ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Agricultural Show which will be opened to-morrow will be as good as any of its predecessors. The wool exhibits hear testimony to the excellence of the season, being heavier in yolk ...
Article : 392 wordsA meeting of the above was held at Ivanhoe, Waverley, on the 18th instant. There was a large attendance. Mrs. Sanger-Evans was elected a vice-president. Arrangements were made for a public ...
Article : 113 wordsLater advices from West Africa state that a large body of natives entered Combo, a town in British territory in the neighbourhood of Bathurst, the capital of ...
Article : 76 wordsIn view of the rapidly-increasing claims upon this electoral organisation from its many branches, and from constituencies aroused to activity by the developments in the political campaign, Mr. William ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Justice Williams to-day made absolute, with costs, an order to review the decision of the City Bench on the 27th November last dismissing an information laid against J. J. Miller ...
Article : 104 wordsIn the course of an interview at Queens-town, Sir Thomas M'Ilwraith stated that a satisfactory agreement had been entered into between Canada and Queensland as to ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Parliamentary standing Committee on Public Works met yesterday. Mr. Jacob Garrard M.L.A., occupied the chair, and all the members were present. PARRAMATTA SEWERAGE SCHEME. ...
Article : 173 wordsLast night, in the Masonic Hall, Darling-street, Balmain, a meeting of the electors of South Balmain took place in connection with the candidature of Alderman George Clubb, J.P. Mr. Neil M'Intosh ...
Article : 108 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Colonial Institute this afternoon a hot discussion took place on the question of amalgamation with the Imperial Institute. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of shareholders of Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Limited, was held to-day. Mr. E. F. Mitchell, chairman of the directors, who presided, expounded the ...
Article : 94 wordsCaptain Francis, an officer of Commander Raaf's Boer Rangers, has denied the truth of the report that he informed a press representative ...
Article : 80 wordsA meeting of the above was held on Monday night at Doyle's Austral Hotel, Foveaux-street. Mr. Frank Bryant presided. Mr. T. Griffen, delegate to the central committee, gave his report. Mr. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe annual meeting of shareholders of the Cullen Bullen Lime and Cement Company, Limited, was held last night, Mr. G. Raffan, managing director, presiding. The report stated that the hopes ...
Article : 166 wordsMrs. Martin, lately Miss Victoria Woodhul, brought an action against the principal librarian of the British Museum to compel the removal from the library of ...
Article : 60 wordsA meeting of members of the Blight Labour Electoral League was held on Monday evening in the schoolroom, Palmer-street. Mr. J. E. West presided. Mr. T. O'Rourka was appointed delegate ...
Article : 98 wordsA deputation waited on the Minister for Railways to-day with a request that a reduction should be made in the railway rates for grain intended for export. The deputation asked for a ...
Article : 78 wordsThe ferry steam or Lady Napier had a narrow escape from being sunk yesterday. She was on her way from Balmain to Sydney at 6.30 a.m., crowded With passengers, mostly workmen going to their daily ...
Article : 443 wordsA meeting of the above body was held in the Wesleyan Schoolroom, Regent-street, Chippendale, on Monday night, when Mr. Fraser-Hill delivered a lecture on the "Land and Wealth of New South ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Board of Health has decided to quarantine the passengers by the incoming mail steamer Massilia on account of smallpox on board. MELBOURNE, WEDNESDAY. ...
Article : 289 wordsColonel Joffre's French column has had repeated encounters with the natives at Timbuctoo, in the African Sahara. The French soldiers killed 150 natives. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe annual general meeting of shareholders of Hudson Brothers, Limited, was held yesterday, Mr. Henry Hudson, chairman of the company, presiding. In their report, which covered the transactions of the ...
Article : 235 wordsThe London wool sales were, opened to-day. There was a large attendance of buyers, and competition on the part of foreign buyers was keen. Home ...
Article : 112 wordsA public meeting in connection with the Lang Division Labour Electoral League was held at the Castlemaine Hotel, Hay and Harbour streets, last evening. Mr. M'Dermott presided, and there was a good ...
Article : 83 wordsNo further news is to hand from Billy Billy, Mr. Lindsay is expected back from Coolgardie with camels in about four days. Provisions are very scarce, and carriers have again struck for higher ...
Article : 189 wordsAn explosion has taken place on board the insurgent warship Venus in Rio harbour. Thirty-three of the crew were killed and 50 were wounded. ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. S. R. Kennedy, who announces himself as a freetrade candidate to contest this electorate at the forthcoming general election, addressed a large meeting of the electors from the balcony of Mr. T. J. ...
Article : 104 wordsA clerk employed in the Bank of South Africa, at Johannesburg, in the Transvaal (South African Republic), has been robbed of £3000 in the street. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe annual meeting of shareholders in the Australian Mutual Investment and Building Company, Limited, was held yesterday in the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street. Mr. S. J. Bull, chairman of directors, ...
Article : 168 wordsA meeting of the Darlington Labour Electoral League was held last evening in the Mayville Hall, Abercrombie-street. Darlington, Mr. Meller occupied the chair. After some discussion it was ...
Article : 75 wordsThe British Consul at Calais is inquiring from Sir W. B. Perceval, Agent-General for New Zealand, details as to the cost of shipments of New Zealand mutton ...
Article : 67 wordsWith regard to the Stockton difficulty all remains unchanged. Work at the colliery is proceeding quietly. The output of coal is increasing daily. The old Stockton miners so far have made no fresh move. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Marylebone Vestry has purchased 75,000 wood-paving blocks of Tasmanian stringy bark at £5 per 1000. ...
Article : 27 wordsParliament was formally opened at Hobart to-day by the Governor, Viscount Gormanston, the Chamber being crowded. The Governor's speech is bald, the principal features being ...
Article : 151 wordsAlderman Macfadyen, J.P., a freetrade candidate at the forthcoming election, addressed a meeting of the electors from the balcony of Amos's Hotel, Lower Botany-street, on Monday evening. Mr. J. Duncan ...
Article : 231 wordsJackey, the aboriginal charged with the Dora Dora murder, was before the police court to-day. The most important evidence adduced was that of Sergeant Sainsbury, who deposed that the prisoner, ...
Article : 207 wordsUnder the auspices of the above league a public meeting was held in the School of Arts, Burwood, on Tuesday night. There was a large attendance. Mr. DANAHER, who occupied the chair, said the ...
Article : 188 wordsThe French Senate has, by a large majority, adopted the increased duty of 7 francs per 100 kilos on corn. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Quarter Sessions were concluded to-day. Gilbert Hadlard was acquitted on a second charge of assault. John Patrick Casey and John Smith, indicted in connection with the burglary at the Crown ...
Article : 116 wordsJ. Roberts, jun., in playing Memmott, the Melbourne billiard player, a game of 2000 up, made a record break of 248 entirely from cannons. Memmott is ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Douglas Mining Company, at Croydon, Northern Queensland, has been registered. The capital is £24,000. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 1 Mar 1894, Page 5
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