The back waters reached their highest in town this morning, when nearly all the business places in the main street were entered by water, many to a depth of several feet. The water is 3 ft. deep in the ...
Article : 662 wordsSir G, Baden-Powell has written a letter to the Times suggesting that a fund should be raised in London to assist the sufferers by the disastrous floods in Queensland. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Government of New South Wales has advertised for tenders for £726,000 worth of treasury bills, bearing interest at 4 per cent., the minimum being fixed at ...
Article : 66 wordsTHE polling in connection with the South Sydney election took place yesterday, and resulted in the return of Mr. W. P. Manning, who defeated Mr. E. W. Foxall by a majority of 23 votes. The ...
Article : 7,360 wordsFurther interruption to trains and damages to lines have occurred on the south and south-western lines. The Sydney mail train could not proceed last night. ...
Article : 33 wordsA full special meeting of the Cabinet was held on Saturday, when flood matters were dealt with. The question of communication between North and South Brisbane was discussed, and it was ...
Article : 731 wordsPresident Harrison will issue on Wednesday a message to Congress dealing with the question of the annexation of Hawaii to the United States. ...
Article : 31 wordsA meeting convened by the Mayor of Melbourne was held in the Town Hall to-day, for the purpose of taking steps to assist in the relief of the immediate necessities of the Queensland flood ...
Article : 179 wordsThe following appointments have been made in the Ministry of Mr. Crover Cleveland, the President-elect of the United States:— ...
Article : 52 wordsIn connection with the retrenchment in the Education Department, it is proposed to abolish the bonus of £10 per year given to female teachers as an inducement to go into country ...
Article : 229 wordsA meeting convened by the Mayor was held in the Town Hall this afternoon in connection with the Queensland Flood Relief Fund movement. It was decided to form a committee to raise ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Daily Chronicle publishes a telegraphic despatch from Rome to the effect that an important seizure of documents has been made in connection with the ...
Article : 65 wordsWe are informed by the Premier that he yesterday sent a telegram to Sir Samuel Griffith expressing the deepest sympathy of the Government here with Queensland, and offering them any ...
Article : 62 wordsDisastrous floods have taken place in the Transvaal Republic, South Africa. Mines are inundated, houses have been demolished, and railway lines wrecked. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe adjourned motion for final leave to appeal to the Privy Council in the case of the Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Company v. Grimley and others, was brought on in Chambers ...
Article : 171 wordsA public meeting to express sympathy with the sufferers by the floods in Queensland, and to establish a relief fund for their aid, was held in the Centennial Hall last eveninf; There was a very large ...
Article : 3,292 wordsHolders of Oamaru Harbour Board bonds have signed an agreement under which they will receive 5 per cent, until the new Consolidated Corporation Loan of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe application made to Mr. Justice Hood on the 3rd instant by the liquidators of the Freehold Investment Banking Company, for advice and direction as to the institution of civil or ...
Article : 424 wordsThe choleraic epidemic, which has prevailed at Marseilles during the past week, shows no further abatement. Eight deaths resulting from the epidemic ...
Article : 35 wordsEight hundred points of rain have fallen here since Saturday morning, and the river is 20ft. over the Wingham Wharf, and 40ft. high at Woodside. The Dingo and other creeks are in high flood, and many ...
Article : 165 wordsApplications were received to-day for £250,000 Treasury bills, issued by the Government at par with interest at £4 11s 3d per annum. 276 tenders were received, representing altogether ...
Article : 253 wordsMr. Arnold Morley, the PostmasterGeneral, will on Thursday receive a deputation of 100 members of the House of Commons, who intend to advocate the ...
Article : 44 wordsSir,—After the bounteous donations which we have heard announced to-night in the Centennial Hall, we beg to express our sympathy with the member of the Assembly who, with the courage of ...
Article : 117 wordsOn Saturday evening at 7 o' clock what is believed to have been the heaviest flood that over visited Toowoomba occured. It rained all the afternoon and most of ...
Article : 271 wordsThe river has risen 17ft., and is now rising very slowly. The wind is westerly, but light, and the weather oppressively hot, and rain threatening This flood must do the district a great amount of ...
Article : 316 wordsThe Court of Chancery has ordered to be returned to Mr. Cyril Arthur Pearson, whose periodicals were prominently identified with the missing word ...
Article : 75 wordsThe tenders invited by the Public Works Department from gangs of eight men for filling in five quarry-holes at Footscray closed to-day. No less than 634 gangs tendered, but ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Acting Premier, the Hon. S. H. Parker, has received a telegram from the Government of South Australia requesting that all the colonies take joint action to prevent the landing of refugee ...
Article : 181 wordsTwo thousand Icelanders are emigrating to Manitoba, in Canada. The whole population is anxious to follow. ...
Article : 27 wordsA special meeting of the United Labourers' Protective Society was held at the Trades Hall last evening, Mr. George Ward presiding. A discussion took place on a motion to resemd a resolution re ...
Article : 126 wordsFive inches of rain have fallen here since Saturday night; and the river has risen 2½ft., and is still rising quickly. Much of the low land is under water, and a flood is expected. ...
Article : 813 wordsThe municipal elections passed off very quietly, there not being nearly so much enthusiasm as characterised the previous elections. This is doubtless accounted for by the hard times and ...
Article : 282 wordsThe following telegram was received by the Governor on Saturday evening from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:—"I have received her Majesty's commands to ...
Article : 137 wordsAt 8 o'clock yesterday morning an earthquake shock varying in severity was experienced in both the North and South Islands, extending from Auckland to Ashburton. It was most ...
Article : 123 wordsThe annual picnic and sports in connection with the Sydney and Suburban Cabmen's Union were held yesterday under very favourable auspices at the Sir Joseph Banks Grounds, Botany. About 500 licensed ...
Article : 327 wordsThe Governor has received a message from Lord Carrington, formerly the Governor of New South Wales, expressing his deepest sympathy. A telegram has also been received from the ...
Article : 280 wordsA hurriedly convened meeting was held at noon to-day to consider the arrangements to be made for the reception of Sir George Dibbs and the Hons. E. Barton and H. Copeland on the occasion of their ...
Article : 190 wordsThe petition for the winding-up of the Federal Bank, lodged by Thomas Arkle, with the concurrence of the directors, and with the object of preventing the bank, being ...
Article : 114 wordsVery fierce bush fires were raging round Wentworth on Friday and Saturday, hut are now abating. Large areas of grass have been destroyed. TUMBERUMBA, MONDAY. ...
Article : 70 wordsA meeting was held last night in the Manly Oddfellows' Hall, Raglan-street, ist object being to inaugurate a fund for the relied of the people who have suffered by the floods in Queensland. There was a ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 14 Feb 1893, Page 5
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