A conference was held to-day between the Premier and the Minister of Agriculture and the representatives of the P. and O. and Orient companies regarding the reduction in freight for ...
Article : 226 wordsNews has been received from the captains of coastal vessels which were detained in Northern ports during the gale to the effect that the disturbance was very violent at Cairns and ...
Article : 354 wordsA fatal shooting case happened at Nymboida on Friday, whereby a lad named Thomas C. Woods, aged 14, lost his life. The boy's father told an elder son to take the gun and frighten the cockatoos off the ...
Article : 93 wordsUnder the management of the Canterbury Park Club a pony and galloway meeting takes place to-day, commencing at 2 p.m. Special trains starting from Redfern station at 12.48 and 1.3 p.m. ...
Article : 442 wordsIt is a curious fact that, while stringent precautions are taken in the colonies against the possibility of an invasion of hydrophobia, no efforts seem to be made by the authorities to cheek the ...
Article : 1,704 wordsA dispute to has occurred between the Operative Bakers' Union and the Crown Bakery Company, Castlereagh-street. Redfern, owing, it is said by the men, to the firm in question having replaced its union ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 124 wordsOor Ain Folk: Being Memories of Mance Life in the Mearns and a Crack about Auld Times. By JAMES INGLIS ("Maori") Edinburgh David Douglas, 1894. ...
Article : 1,088 wordsOn Friday last a miner named George Pratt sustained terrible injuries in Mount Keira mine, through a mass of coal, weighing about half a ton, falling upon him. He had been workuig under it, ...
Article : 82 wordsAs may be seen by an announcement is our business columns the annual general meeting of the New South Wales Amateur Athletic Association will be held to-night at Rainford's Cambridge Club Hotel, ...
Article : 41 wordsTho annual meeting of the honorary members of the above was held at Riverview on the 8th instant, the president, the Rev. T. Gartian, being in the chair. The yearly report and balance-sheet were ...
Article : 131 wordsAt the Circuit Court to-day, Mary Ann Kent, for uttering a forged document, was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour Wilhe and Jackey were charged with the murder of Severyn Murackiewicz. ...
Article : 1,439 wordsThe action Hayes v. Wilson and others, in which the plaintiff, one of the jockeys whose certificate was refused last year by the V.R.C. committee, claims £5000 for an alleged libel in the ...
Article : 404 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Bowing Association was held in the Oxford Hotel last night, Mr. E. M. Dietrich presiding. There was a full attendance of delegates. Sanction was given to the Sydney ...
Article : 105 wordsCrowded houses have been the rule since the revival of "Lights o'London" on Saturday, and Mr. Rignold is not likely to make any chauge at Her Majesty's Theatre for some time to come. Sims's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 261 wordsYesterday the Balmain Bowing Club carried out an interesting pair-car race for club members. The course was from the shed, round bucy off Spectacle Island, and back. The result was as follows:— ...
Article : 62 wordsThe amount voted to the Parliamentary Refreshment Room this year appears to be inadequate, as the funds were exhausted yesterday, and the refreshment room was closed, in which state it will ...
Article : 64 wordsThe entire dress-circle for Saturday's production of "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" at the Lyceum Theatre has now been let, and a considerable demand for reserved stalls has followed as a matter of ...
Article : 154 wordsA committee meeting of this club was held at the clubrooms, Jacobson's Hotel, Balmain, last night. Prizes won in last Saturday's race were presented. Arrangements were made for holdiug a picnic to ...
Article : 61 wordsThis morning two young men named E. J. V, Miles (assistant teacher in the superior Public school) and J. Ryan (postal assistant) had a very narrow escape from drowning. They were bathing on the ...
Article : 186 wordsMr. Wragge's forecast for New South Wales is:—Moderately fine, with a few senttered showers in various parts of the colony; nevertheless still somewhat squally from between E.S.E. and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 192 wordsMr. Frank Emery announces the list three nights of "Cinders" at the Theatre Royal, where full justice is done the sensational drama by the LewisNorman Company, On Saturday Shirley's romastic ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Collector of Customs has received an advice from Wooroorooka, on the southern border of Queensland, that very high floods, nearly as high as the 1890 floods, are being experienced there. ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the Bijou Theatre the final performances of "The Strategist" are notified, as Mr. Frank Hawthorn will rcpeat but thriee more his droll impersonation of Jock Rutledge. Mr. W. J. Wilson will ...
Article : 81 wordsSir,—I am a railway employee, and, like hundred of others, receive the the regulation pay of 7s per day, which under the latest reduction brings my earnings to £1 11s 6d per week. Being possessed of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsThe hearing of the application to remove Mr. A. Priestlcy from the position of liquidator of the Federal Bank was continued, before Mr. Justice Holroyd, to-day. Mr. Priestley was further ...
Article : 84 wordsA terrible accident occurred in the South Smithfield shaft on the Phoenix claim at Gympie this afternoon. One man was killed, and another had one arm broken and sustained several ...
Article : 72 wordsA sacred concert, in and of the organ fund of Chalmers Church, near the Exhibition Building, was held in the church last evening. Mr. H. Chandler played on the organ "The War March of the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe board of management of this institution met in the board room, Booth-street, Balmain, on Monday night. Alderman John Clubb, J.P., occupied the chair. Mr. S. J. Young, on behalf of the executive of the ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Very Rev. the Dean of Melbourne celebrated his 95th birthday to-day. He received congratulations from a very large number of friends. He proposes to preach, on Sunday next in St. James' ...
Article : 40 wordsA public meeting and concert, given by the Centennal Lodge No. 564 I.O.G.T., took place on Monday in the Primitive Methodist Church, Pyrmont. The chair was occupied by Bro. Mercer, G.V.T. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 wordsSir,—It is very discouraging to notice the proposals offered to quell the deficit in our railway revenue returns of the last quarter—viz., £26,000. The employces are now naked if not satisfied in a further ...
Article : 361 wordsThe committee of the Melbourne Hospital were in a difficulty to-day. They had to appoint five resident surgeens, and, according to practice, had to select the first five on the honour list of the ...
Article : 105 wordsLast night, in the Oddfellows Hall, Darlingstreet, Balmain, a successful vocal and instrumental concert was given on behalf of the College of the Convent of the Immaculate Conception, East Balmain. ...
Article : 85 wordsA reduction of stake money has, it is understood, been decided on in connection with the next Caulfield Cup, but the extent of the reduction has not yet been made public. It is, however, announced that ...
Article : 59 wordsSir,—The forced agitation going on at the present time to reopen the question of land legislation is attended with consequences dangerous to the people generally. It cannot be denied that "the land ...
Article : 516 wordsThe sub-committee of the New South Wales Cricket Association held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the Oxford Hotel, to make arrangements for the continuation of the second round of the electorate ...
Article : 132 wordsHaydn's "Imperial Mass" will be performed at the Town Hall to-night in aid of St. Joseph's Providence and Orphanage by a full chorus and orchestra under the direction of Herr Hugo Alpen, The soloists will be ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Victorian Cricketers' Association found themselves in an awkward dilemma to-night over the statements made by J. Blackhara and T. Flynn, the captain and umpire respectively of the ...
Article : 182 wordsMr. Fillis announces another matinee for to-day. The performance will commence at 3 p.m. The "Deadword Dick" representation will not be performed at the matinee, but the scene will be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 700 wordsAt a meeting of the committee of the Builders and Contractors' association, held is the Builders' Exchange Pitt-street, last evening the action of the City Council in deciding to carry out the work of ...
Article : 460 wordsSir,—Referring to the continued decrease in the railway revenue, I would like to point out that when travelling ordinarily by rail I have been struck by the excessively high passenger rates: in fact, so ...
Article : 112 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Presbytery of Sydney was held in St. Stephen's Church Phillip-street, last night. There was a large attendance of ministers, and the Rev. S. T. Dickinson, the moderator, ...
Article : 199 wordsThe official agricultural statistics are now available. Mr. Hayter returns the area under wheat cultivation in 1893-94 as 1,456,617 acres, as against 1,342,504 acres in 1892-93, an increase of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 276 wordsSir,—"Mr White's Bank Bill" is the heading of a letter appearing in your issue of to day in introducing tihs bill, I am actuated by no desire other than to protect the interests and welfare of the poorer ...
Article : 303 wordsA temperance meeting, under the auspices of the above organisation, was held in the School of Arts, Burwood last night. The attendance was large. Mrs. Butten (colonial organiser) presided, and on the ...
Article : 107 wordsStock movements: 120 fat cows, from Terrira, Queensland, to Casmo, G. Armstrong owner; 27 Lincoln rams, from Salaclava to Stornmount, near Bundarra, A. M. Stirton owner; 57 mixed horses, ...
Article : 45 wordsDr. Henry, a well-known Wellington physioian, died suddenly last night. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 11 Apr 1894, Page 8
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