Sir,—Since I last wrote you Police-sergeant Troy arrived, at Derby from the Kimberley goldfield. This I have already wired you from Cossack. Troy's report is not yet officially made public here, as he reports to the ...
Article : 2,048 wordsC. I. Thornton, the old Cambridge man, was the captain of the English side, and a very good selection wat made, considering how many people were engaged in serious cricket in different parts of the country. Of course, this ...
Article : 368 wordsThe new workshops connected with the Sydney Technical College, situated in Kent-street, have now been completed, and form an important adjunct to the carrying out of the work of technical education generally in Sydney, and of ...
Article : 1,193 wordsA meeting of the Federated Building Trades' Council was held on Wednesday evening last, at the Temperance Hall, Mr. Drayton in the chair, when the council was formally inaugurated. The societies represented were the ...
Article : 888 wordsSaturday was the closing day of the show of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales, and, the weather being exceptionally fine, there was a large concourse of visitors. Nubers interested themselves amongst the ...
Article : 564 wordsPursuant to a requisition to the Mayor of Kogarah (Mr. E. Hogben), a public meeting was held at English's Hotel in that municipality on Saturday evening. Its object was to take into consideration the impassable and dangerous ...
Article : 581 wordsThe first of the three great representative matches had been looked forward to with a very large amount of interest all over England, and the Lancashire committee had taken great pains to get together a team as strong as possible ...
Article : 1,845 wordsThe final heat of the handicap trot caused a fair amount of speculation, Mr. F. Tidswell's Swamp Angel being the most fancied animal of the quartette. Her splendid condition and style of going in her preliminary, fully justified the ...
Article : 222 wordsThe highly successful scientific and mechanical exhibition, promoted by the Engineering Association of New South Wales, was brought to a clos on Saturday evening. It was three years since the association had held ...
Article : 776 wordsSir,—Some time since the Minister for Works gave expression to the opinion thot a day train to Albury would be beneficial to the general public, and that he intended trying the experiment. Up to the present, however, Mr. ...
Article : 542 wordsIn spite of the strong counter attraction in another part of Moore Park, the Zoo on Saturday afternoon received almost as much attention at the hands of the public as is usually accorded it on the one ...
Article : 607 wordsThe Government have adopted the course pursued by other astute people in disposing of land. They divided 60 acres of land at Heathcote into building allotments, and on Saturday sold 35 at rates fur in advance of those ...
Article : 863 wordsSir,—The cost to the country for the maintenance of the above institution, as set forth in the recently-published report of the medical adviser to the Government, was for the your 1885 £12,347 7s. 4d. This sum, I fear, does not ...
Article : 544 wordsSir,—I have just had practical evidence of the effect of ad valorem duties as affecting the purchaser. A pair of shoes before the imposition of the new duties cost me los 6d, the same description is now 16s. 6d., or 10 per ...
Article : 321 wordsIn view of the prevailing depression in the boot trade, the following return of the boots and shoes imported and exported, from 1880 to 1885 inclusive, will be read with interest. The figures for 1886 are, of course, only for the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 6 Sep 1886, Page 9
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