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  2. LABOUR, &c.

    The year has been remarkable for the considerable number of important disputes in connection with labour. When the year opened a strike had existed already for two or three months at the Lambton ...

    Article : 1,067 words
  3. POLICE.

    Mr. W. Johnstone, S.M., presided in the Charge Division of the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday, and dealt with a number of miner offenders. John Henry Balle, 17, was fined £3 or one month for using indecent ...

    Article : 1,521 words
  4. THE NEW HEBRIDES.

    One of the principal events of the year has been the occupation of the New Hebrides by French troops, ostensibly to protect French settlers from natives, but really, judging from subsequent proceedings, to lake ...

    Article : 280 words
  5. MUNICIPAL.

    In municipal circles there has been considerable activity during the year, but the work has for the most part been done on old lines. Every day the necessity for a more complete and expansive ...

    Article : 199 words
  6. ECCLESIASTICAL.

    The year has been marked by several important events, as well as by numerous evidences of progress, in the erection of churches and schoolhouses, by the various religious bodies. In connection with ...

    Article : 485 words
  7. CASUALTIES.

    The year has been marked by an unusual number of shipwrecks on our coast The most distressing case was the loss of the A. S. N. Company's steamer Ly-eeMoon, when on a trip from Melbourne to Sydney. ...

    Article : 725 words
  8. A REFORMATORY NEEDED.

    Before Mr. Marsh, S.M. at the Water Police Court yesterday a lad named James Scall, under the age of 16 years, was charged with being a suspected person frequenting the Circular Quay with intent to commit a felony to wit, pick ...

    Article : 187 words
  9. THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

    Although the obituary for the past year records the loss of some valuable lives, the community has been undisturbed by the prevalence of any noteworthy epidemic Greater attention has been given to sanitary ...

    Article : 128 words
  10. COLONIAL HONOURS.

    In the list of honours which during the last 12 months the Queen has been pleased to bestow upon distinguished colonists appears conspicuously one conferred on Mr. William Bede Dalley in ...

    Article : 177 words
  11. A NOVEL PLEA.

    At the Water Police Court yesterday a somewhat novel plea was made by a person named William Jarman, who was charged before Mr. J. M. Marsh, S.M., with disobeying an order of Court made on the 14th of September last ...

    Article : 317 words
  12. EDUCATION.

    University affairs have developed considerably during the year. The vacant chair of Physics was filled by the appointment of Professor Threlfall, of Caius College, Cambridge, who was selected out of 20 applicants ...

    Article : 839 words
  13. SPORT.

    The maxim "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy "has had strong effect during the year. Nearly all kinds of out-door games have been popular, the great national one—cricket—of course, heading the list. An ...

    Article : 487 words
  14. A MARINER IN TROUBLE.

    At the Water Police Court yesterday (before Mr. Fisher. D.S.M.) a seaman named Norman M'Donald was charged with having on the 22nd of September, 1886, at Newcastle, fraudulently made use of a forged report of his character ...

    Article : 261 words
  15. CRIMES.

    The criminal record for the year is marked by an unusual number of charges of outrage upon women, and of fraud against the revenue. Considerable sensation was caused throughout the colony ...

    Article : 1,007 words
  16. THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE.

    Her Majesty the Queen, having entered on the jubilee year of her reign on the 26th of June, the Mayor of Sydney, Mr. John Young, carried out, on a liberal scale, a series of municipal festivities. A large ...

    Article : 136 words
  17. WATCH—STEALINQ.—A PECULIAR CASE.

    On the 14th November 1885, Sir. William Henry Coombes, a carpenter, living at Rockdale, paid a visit to the baths at Woolloomooloo Bay in order to have a swim, and whilst so enjoying himself his watch was abstracted from ...

    Article : 274 words
  18. POPULATION.

    New South Wales has for several years past gained steadily upon Victoria in point of population, and it looked like a nook-and-neek race as to which colony should first attain to the million. According to the ...

    Article : 65 words
  19. INDECENCY AND TRESPASS ON ENCLOSED LANDS AT MOORE PARK.

    At the Water Police Court yesterday afternoon, before Messrs. Marsh and Johnson, S.Ms.," and Mr. Fisher, D.S.M., a man named George Jones appeared in answer to a charge of a serious nature, but, after hearing the ...

    Article : 168 words
  20. INDIAN AND COLONIAL EXHIBITION.

    The commission which had been working the greater part of the previous year succeeded in gathering a very creditable collection for the New South Wales Court in the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, and an immense ...

    Article : 86 words
  21. OBITUARY OF THE YEAR.

    The obituary of the year contains the names of some notable colonists. First among them is that of Sir James Martin, who for 23 years occupied the high position of Chief Justice, and for 17 years before his ...

    Article : 718 words
  22. LICENSING MEETINGS.

    A licensing meeting was held at the Water Police Court yesterday. Present—Messrs. Marsh, Addison, and Fisher, L.Ms. A transfer of publican's license was granted from William Walpole to Frank Blair, for the Metropolitan ...

    Article : 150 words
  23. NEW GUINEA.

    The arrangements for the proper governmont of New Guinea are still incomplete. The Special Commissioner, Mr. John Douglas, has purchased land at Port Moresby from the natives, and has had a ...

    Article : 376 words
  24. A THIEF PROMPTLY ARRESTED.

    At the Water Police Court (Charge Division), yesterday, before Mr. Marsh, S.M., Thomas Young was charged with stealing a pair of boots, value 6s. 9d., the property of Edward A. Swinbourne, a bootmaker, carrying on business ...

    Article : 254 words
  25. LAW NOTICES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 words
  26. BENEVOLENT.

    Through the successful working of the St[?] Children's Department, the old barrack system of [?]arity has been brought to an end, as far as the children are [?]cerned. The last annual report, to April 6, sh[?]d ...

    Article : 348 words
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