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  2. PECULIAR DEATH of a YOUNG MAN.

    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 ...

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  3. [?] COLLISION between the YOU YANGS and the CIVILITY.

    An 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 words
  4. POLICE.

    In 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 words
  5. HANGING AND HANGMEN.

    The 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 words
  6. THE EASTERN SUBURBS WORKING MEN'S CLUB.

    A 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 ...

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  7. AD VALOREM DUTIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—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 words
  8. MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION.

    A 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. ...

    Article : 597 words
  9. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—Neither free trade nor protection has anything to do with our present deficit, as some of your correspondents seem to infer. It really arises from the Government working the ...

    Article : 673 words
  10. THE GEORGE'S RIVER PUNT.

    Sir,—I was glad to see Dr. Flatau's letter in to-day's paper. I can confirm all he says about the present absurd time-table which is fixed on a board on the punt. On Thursday evening last I tried ...

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  11. THE FAILURE OF MESSRS. J. T. SIMES AND CO., WOOL BROKERS.

    The London correspondent of the Melbourne Age writes on December 24:—"The affairs of Messrs. J. T. Simes and Co., the well known wool brokers, who recently suspended payment, seem likely to turn out somewhat less ...

    Article : 567 words
  12. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—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, ...

    Article : 730 words
  13. THE FISH RIVER CAVES.

    Sir,—On my return two days since from a visit to these caves, I observed the letter of "Mother Hubbard" in your issue of 14th instant, and your own comment thereon in the issue of 16th i[?]em. As the old lady was one of party ...

    Article : 586 words
  14. CORONER'S INQUEST.

    Yesterday 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 words
  15. THE CONTRACTORS AND THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

    A 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 words
  16. THE ILLAWARRA LINE.

    Sir,—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 words
  17. A SAFETY BAR FOR TRAMS.

    Sir,—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. ...

    Article : 160 words
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