Yesterday was the closing day of the Metropolitan Exhibition of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales. The show was somewhat poorly attended, there being about 2000 persons present on the ground. The various exhibits were ...
Article : 577 wordsThe inquest on the persons killed in the Windsor Railway accident was resumed this morning. Mr. Gedge, the Prahran station-master, put in the correspondence which had passed between himself and the ...
Article : 531 wordsLast night a large audience assembled at the Theatre Royal, the occasion being a complimentary benefit which was tendered to Mr. Martin Simonsen by the Royal Italian Opera Company. The performance was under the ...
Article : 401 wordsA deputation waited upon the Attorney-General to-day for the purpose of asking that action should be taken by the Government to assimilate the laws of South Australia and Victoria, so that legal processes relating to ...
Article : 372 wordsCUSTOM HOUSE.—Entered Outwards: May 25, Lookout, schooner, 108 tons, Captain G. Harwood, for Auckland, via Newcastle; Wild Wave, brig, 237 tons, Captain Evans, for Hobart; Fijian (s.), 633 tons, Captain E. Henry, for Noumea, Suva, and ...
Article : 1,143 wordsYesterday was observed as a close holiday. Several picnics took place; but the principal attraction was the marching and drilling of the different volunteer corps on the racecourse, under Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson, who ...
Article : 1,415 wordsMr. Locke Richardson, who is gradually winning much popularity in Sydney among the more scholarly class of our pleasure-aeekers as a reciter of great dramatic capacity and an elocutionist possessing an admirable method, secured ...
Article : 1,007 wordsThe following official notifications were published in yesterday's Government Gazette:— HOLIDAYS.—The following holidays have been proclaimed:—Police district of Patrick's Plains, Thursday ...
Article : 598 wordsA cablegram has been, received from New York, stating that Sir Samuel Griffith, arrived there on the 23rd. At the police court to-day George Brown was ...
Article : 249 wordsAt a meeting of the Agricultural Society this afternoon, it was decided to farther improve the show grounds by the erection of additional sheep pens, the extension of the grounds, and other works, at a cost of £600. The ...
Article : 1,132 wordsThe Government will send the following message through the Governor to the Secretary of State, for the Colonies:—"The Government consider that no addition is necessary to the title of our beloved Queen, ...
Article : 313 wordsThis steamer, which arrived on Tuesday evening from Hongkong, via Port Darwin, with passengers and cargo, was granted pratique yesterday morning and came up to a berth at the A. S. N. Company's Wharf. The Chelydra, which has not ...
Article : 797 wordsThe ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Alexandria Municipal Council was held last night at the Town Hall, Garden-street. Present—The Mayor (Alderman Stephen Foskett), and Alderman Jesson, Dacoy, Russell, Harden, ...
Article : 430 wordsThe cutter Spitfire, which was supposed to have been wrecked during the recent severe gale on the east coast, has arrived safely at Gisborne. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-night, on the motion for the second reading of the Tariff Bill Major Atkinson moved an amendment to the effect that the financial proposals of the Government were ...
Article : 154 wordsMr. Munro, the leading representative in Australia [?] British-India Steam Navigation Company. Limited, and whose head-quarters are at Brisbane, arrived in town yesterday by the steamer Ranelagh. Mr. Munro has come here and will probably ...
Article : 203 wordsSir,—It being the intention of many to commemorate this year by inangurating a jubilee fuud for the relief of distressed widows, would it not be opportuen to establish in this wealthy city an institution to meet ...
Article : 351 wordsThe following have passed through:— For Sydney (by express on Tuesday): Henry William, T. C. Dawson, E. B. Manning, Mrs. Manning, Miss B. Major, W. Warde, H. M., Edgell, Mrs. Nathan, Master ...
Article : 136 wordsStock passings at Borilia: 900 fat bullocks, from Rocklands station, for Melbourne; 350 fat bullocks left Lake Nash for Adelaide; 750 bullocks, Booth, Burton, and Co., purchasers, are about to leave Combah for New South ...
Article : 184 wordsWe have received from the composer, Mr. Austin T. Turner, Melbourne, copy of the song "A Health to the Queen," or "The Lords of the Sea." It is written in the key A major, having a compass from C sharp to ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 26 May 1887, Page 8
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