An inquiry was held by the City Coroner at the Assembly Hotel, Hunter-street, yesterday afternoon, into the circumstances attending the death of a young man named Patrick M'Innerney, who was picked up in an ...
Article : 1,645 wordsAn inquiry into the circumstances connected with the collision between Howard Smith and Company's steamer You Yangs and Mr. George Hill's steamer Civility, on the morning of Thursday, the 14th instant, between Bradley's ...
Article : 1,688 wordsIn the CENTRAL POLICE COURT yesterday, before Mr. L. Yates, D.S.M., a rough-looking fellow named George Watts, with a bad record, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for having assaulted William ...
Article : 612 wordsThe question of capital punishment is exciting some interest just now, in spite of the general elections. If a man is sentenced to be hanged he might fairly protest against decapitation if it were in his power. If the Home ...
Article : 2,177 wordsA special general meeting of members of the Eastern Suburbs Working Men's Club and Literary Institute was held last night in St. Mark's schoolroom. Darling Point, Mr. E. Prosser presiding. There were about twenty-five ...
Article : 822 wordsSir,—In his letter published in your issue of Thursday last, Mr. Buchanan stated that a million of money could easily be raised by a 5 per cent. ad valorem duty; to-day he is willing to admit that half a million is the utmost that ...
Article : 656 wordsA monthly meeting of the committee of the Municipal Association was held at the Town Hall yesterday. The chair was occupied by Mr. W. A. Hutcheson; and Messrs. M. J. Hammond, M.L.A., W. G. Judd, M.L.A., J. F. ...
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Article : 567 wordsSir,—It is difficult to agree with Mr. David Buchanan, because he hits all round, and some of his assertions are so true that it is impossible to controvert them. When he writes about "scramble in Parliament for public money, ...
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Article : 586 wordsYesterday morning the City Coroner (Mr. H. Smell, J.P.) held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue, on the body of a man named Charles Burton, who was found drowned in a waterhole in a paddock at South Annandale, ...
Article : 158 wordsA deputation from the Public Works Contractors' Association adjourned from Friday, was received by the Minister for Works yesterday morning. The association was represented by Messrs. J. R. Carey, J. Angus, L. ...
Article : 430 wordsSir,—Penult me, through the medium of your correspondence column to call the attention of the authorities to a rather serious absurdity in the management of the Illawarra line. ...
Article : 329 wordsSir,—In connection with the escape of the seaman John Jones from a fatal tram accident, it has often struck me that a horizontal bar placed in front of these engines might prove a great safeguard. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 19 Jan 1886, Page 6
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