The PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past 4 O'clock. STAMP DUTIES ACTS. On the motion of Dr. MACLAURIN, the Stamp ...
Article : 2,357 wordsThe seventh general conference of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church was resumed this morning. The president, the Rev. W. Morley, was in the chair. The Rev. W. Lee, of New ...
Article : 495 wordsMr. Fysh delivered his financial statement in the Legislative Assembly to-night. He estimates the revenue for the present year at £739,420, being £23,000 less than Mr. Henry's ...
Article : 316 wordsYesterday afternoon the Public Works Committee took evidence relative to the proposed railway to Wyalong. Mr. H. M'Lachlau, secretary to the Railway Commissioners, on their behalf ...
Article : 367 wordsAt the invitation of Mr. Robert Prendergast the delegates to the Canadian Convention from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and Tasmania were entertained at luncheon at the Warrigal Club. ...
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Article : 4,037 wordsIn the Balmain Town Hall last night a public meeting convened by the residents of Balmain was held for the purpose of taking into consideration the action of the City Council about the water frontage ...
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Article : 1,389 wordsThe annual ball in aid of the above institution took place in tho Town Hall last evening, and was a brilliant and decided success. Great pains had been taken to decorate the hall with greenery ...
Article : 1,275 wordsThe R.M.S. Oruba, from London, left Melbourne last night for Srdney, and is due about noon to-morrow. The R.M.S. Arcadia, hence to London, yesterday arrived at Melbourne. ...
Article : 127 wordsMr. Cook. M.L.A., leader of the labour party, when seen last night by a Rerald reporter, and informed of the result of the meeting of the committee, said the whole thing now hinged on what the ...
Article : 482 wordsMme. Belle Cole will make her second appearance at the Town Hall to-night, when his Excellency the Governor. Lady Duff, and suite will attend the concert. The great contralto will sing "The Lost ...
Article : 135 wordsMessrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., representatives of the Port line, yesterday received particulars of the trial trip of the new steamer Port Stephens. The vessel was buils to the order of Messrs. William Milburn and Co. for their ...
Article : 167 wordsThere was a capital attendance of French residents, with a sprinkling of English people, at M. Marcel Deslouis's lecture at the School of Arts, last night. M. Henri Kowalski, in introducing the lecturer, ...
Article : 646 wordsMails by the Oruba were delivered in Sydney yesterday, and the steamer is due at this port about noon to-morrow. A report of the voyage, forwarded by the commander, Captain Liudsay Hay, is as follows:—The Oruba left ...
Article : 528 wordsA meeting of the Metropolitan Transit Commission was held yesterday in the commission's offices in Phillip-street. The full board were present. A letter was read from the town clerk asking the ...
Article : 233 wordsLast evening a largely-attended public meeting was held in the council-chambers, Rockwood, to protest against the action of Aldermen Groves, Jay, Conroy, and Ridley in petitioning the Treasury to ...
Article : 678 wordsIn regard to the report that an accident had occurred to one of the 6in. pneumatic guns at Newcastle during the man[?]uvres on Saturday, MajorGeneral Hutton states that nothing that could be ...
Article : 432 wordsThe Ceylon was launched on the 9th ultimo from the Cleveland dockyards (Sir Eaylton Dixon and Co.), Middlesbrough. She is a large and finely-modelled [?] steamer, built for the Paninsular and Orental Steam ...
Article : 355 wordsLast evening the pupils of St. Francis Xavier's School, North Sydney, give an entertainment in the local School of Arts. The first part of the programme was composed of musical selections and recitations by ...
Article : 138 wordsBy a proclamation issued yesterday in the Government Gezztte is is notified that the following Board of Health regulation is rescinded, namely:—"That all ship[?] or c[?] arriving in this colony from Colombo, whether arriving ...
Article : 119 wordsA public meeting, convened by the Mayor upon requisition, was held this afternoon in the Mechanice' Institute to determine in what form the public services of Mr. Slattery during his ...
Article : 140 wordsThe St. George's Horticultural Society held their monthly flower show and promenade concert in the School of Arts, Kogarah, on Tuesday evening. The musical entertainment was arranged by Mrs. George ...
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Article : 90 wordsCaptain C. G. F. Peterson, of the schooner Sailor Boy, reports that at 12.50 p.m. 3rd February, 1894, when in 1st. 41.25 N., long. 129.0 W., he felt three distinct shoc[?] of carthqueke. The disturbance lasted altogether 30 seconds. ...
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Advertising : 82 wordsAs the ketch Dolly Wamsley was proceeding to sea to-day in a fog she ran ashore on Stony Point and still remains there. Every effort has been made to get her off, but without success. It is expected that ...
Article : 58 wordsI just drop yon a line (writes Captain Androw) to let you know about the passage in case the day may get wrong again. We are same as the Brilliant to the hour. We left on 29th January, and passed Lizard on the 8th April, but ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 17 May 1894, Page 6
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