At the meeting of the Cabinet to-day the only business transacted was the revision of the Estimates for the current year. These have been framed upon a more economical basis than was originally intended, on ...
Article : 375 wordsDuring this month good rains have fallen all over Southern Queensland. The following roports are to hand:—Charleville, 1½ inch; Taroom, 130 points; Windorah, 64; Isisford, 40; Welford, 42; St. George, 175; ...
Article : 1,787 wordsThe winter meeting of the Hay Jockey Club commences to-morrow, and will be continued and concluded on Friday. Special arrangements have been made by the Railway Department for the conveyance of visitors to the races. ...
Article : 845 wordsThe second concort of the Zerbini Quartette Company will be given this ovening at the Y.M.C.A. Hall, in the presence of the Hon. Lady Carrington. The programme it a very attractive one, including selections for the four ...
Article : 60 wordsA good audience assembled in the great hall of the Y.M.C.A. Building last evening, the occasion being the presentation by Mr. Locke Richardson of his splendid study of Shakespeare's well-known tragedy "Othello." The ...
Article : 146 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Bathurst District of the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows was held to-day at the Oddfellows' Hall, Keppel-street, Provincial Grand Master, J. H. Russell, of Dubbo, and Provincial ...
Article : 302 wordsA musical and dramatic entertainment was given last night at the Oddfellows' Hall, Newtown, in aid of the choir fund of Christ Church, Enmore. There was a very moderate attendance, no doubt in consequence of the ...
Article : 405 wordsA meeting of the N.S.W. Cricketing Association was to have been held on Monday night to deal with important business, but there not being a quorum present, the meeting lapsed. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 325 wordsThe board of conciliation in reference to the proposed reduction of bricklayers' wages from 12s. to lls. per diem met again to-night. The employers showed that out of 14 contractors ten were paying 12s., and ...
Article : 122 wordsThe annual general meeting of the Camden Agricultural, Horticultural, and industrial Society was held on Saturday afternoon, and was largely attended. The report and financial statement were considered very satisfactory. The ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Manly Bicycle Club accompanied the Sydneys on Saturday last on a trip to Cabarita and Mortlake, and it proved most enjoyable, notwithstanding the very unsatisfactory state of portions of the road. The party were ...
Article : 201 wordsPending the carrying out of the necessary alterations in their recently purchased steamer the Governor Blackall, to make her suitable for the trade, the North Illawarra Coal-mining Company have chartered the steamer Hesketh from the Australasian United ...
Article : 1,059 wordsMr. J. L. Parsons, the Government Resident in the Northern Territory, will leave Adelaide by the express on Thursday, and proceeds to Port Darwin by the steamer Port Victor, which leaves Sydney on Saturday ...
Article : 125 wordsThe following stock have been trucked:— 3000 fat wethers to Riverstone and Homebush. The following are reported from Enngonia:—160 fat cattle, Boothulla to Marrabone, Perry owner; 1000 store bullocks, Brighton ...
Article : 343 wordsMaori has been scratched for the Selling Hurdle Race. There was some betting to-day on next Saturday's Grand National Steeplechase. Kildare was backed to win £600 at 3 to 1, and in the evening, at the Victorian Club, ...
Article : 140 wordsAn athletic club has been recently formed by a few residents of Pyrmont and Ultimo, designated the West Sydney Athletic Club, for the purpose of providing its members with a room where in they may be able to avail themselves ...
Article : 169 wordsParliament will be opened to-morrow. In the Assembly the address-in-reply will be moved by Mr. J. Hamilton and seconded by Mr. Gill. In the Council Messrs. W. Crosbie and J. Watchorn will respectively ...
Article : 124 wordsIt is very probable that the races which were to have been commenced to-morrow will have to be postponed on account of the rain. The horses most in favour for the principal handicaps are Freedom, Victory, Ajax, Wolseley, ...
Article : 172 wordsThe following dates have been fixed for the prize compotitions of the Sydney Rifle Club for the second quarter of the current year:—Saturday, July 23, and Thursday, July 28; Saturday, August 13, and Thursday. August 18; ...
Article : 116 wordsA cattle disease has broken out in the Masterton dis[?]t. It has the effect of rotting off the hoofs of the animals in twenty-fours after they are attacked. ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Deakin was entertained at a banquet in the Athenæum Hall to-night by the Australian Natives' Association. He delivered a long speech, which was chiefly devoted to the bearing of the late Imperial ...
Article : 85 wordsOn Friday evening last a very interesting and eloquent lecture was delivered in Petersham Presbyterian Church, under the auspices of the Literary and Debating Society of the congregation, by Mr. Alex. Kethel, M.L.A. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsIt will be remembered that one of the causes of the accident at Windsor, near Melbourne, was the breaking of the hose coupling of the Wostinghouso brake, and from the reports published in connection with that disaster it will be ...
Article : 656 wordsWhile the steamer Adelaide, from Sydney, was coming up the bay at 10 o'clock this morning she ran aground off Point Gellibrand, between the lightship and the Williamstown baths. The weather at the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 176 wordsSir,—I find in your issue of to-day an excellent report of what I said (impro[?]) at the University election meeting on Saturday last on the subject of the University's progress during the last five years; but there is one omission of ...
Article : 461 wordsAt a recent meeting of the Bathurst Volunteer Rifle Club and Civilian Rifle Club it was resolved that a challenge should be sent to the intercolonial team selected to compete at Adelaide, to fire in a match at Bathurst prior to their ...
Article : 146 wordsThe P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Potosi, from London, via por[?]s, entered the Heads at 8.45 a.m. yesterday and was berthed at the company's whalf Circular Quary. Of the 300 passengers who left Plymouth in the steamer about 180 have come on here ...
Article : 550 wordsA match between the Canterbury and Parkgrove clubs, playing under Southern British Football Association rules, took place on Saturday last, on the ground of the latter at Moore Park, and the game, which was a very pleasant one ...
Article : 700 wordsEfforts were made during the Jubilee celebration to obtain the release of a number of prisoners in the gaols as one method of recognising the occasion, among those recommended for release being criminals of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 12 Jul 1887, Page 8
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