The Steam Navigation Board held an inquiry to-day relative to the grounding on a sandbank, near Cape Barren, of the barque Frederica, while on a voyage with coals from Newcastle to Geelong. The board ...
Article : 814 wordsTo-day the weather turned cooler, at last; but thore are, as yet, no signs of rain. This morning at daybreak the sky was obscured totally by a yellowish dust, which, however, since has appeared to clear away. Last Sunday was the ...
Article : 658 wordsWing, Flamborough, and Prunella have been scratched for the Anniversary Handicap; and Bon Bon for all his Sydney Turf Club engagements. Amongst the horses that went well at Randwick yesterday morning were Norman, Minorea, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 5 wordsThe directors of the Metropolitan Tramway and Investment Company waited to-day upon the Under-Secretary for Public Works to deposit the plans and specifications of the tramways which the company ...
Article : 298 wordsNotwithstanding the splendid struggle made for supremacy by our representatives in the late intercolonial match, played against Victoria, at Melbourne, the most ordinary observer of cricket in New South Wales cannot but notice ...
Article : 1,826 wordsThe mining manager of the Alexandra Hill Gold-mining Company, No Liability, under date 20th December, wrote:—"The ground in underie shaft has entirely changed, the walls converging and cutting out all the ...
Article : 494 wordsA banquet was tendered to Mr. J. B. Patterson, at Castlemaine, this evening, by his constituents, on the eye of his visiting England. Mr. Service, Mr. Berry, and Major Smith were among the 250 gentlemen who were ...
Article : 711 wordsThe forthcoming wrestling coutest between Professor Miller and M. Victor, at the Theatre Royal, on Saturday afternoon, is being looked forward to with considerable interest in sporting and athletic circles. Professor Miller, ...
Article : 113 wordsA man named Charles Cooper, on being arrested at Willapa by Mounted-constable Liggins on a charge of false pretences, took poison, and died within an hour. J. D. M. Olfe, watchmaker, who recently tried to ...
Article : 208 wordsThe committee of the New South Wales National Regatta held a meeting at Aarons' Exchange Hotel last evening. There was a good attendance, and Mr. J. P. Clark presided. All the necessary arrangements were made ...
Article : 294 wordsAbout half-past 12 o'clock yesterday, a woman named Maria Cohen, about 50 years of age, was conveyed to the Sydney Hospital suffering from a number of wounds received through being assaulted by another person with a ...
Article : 367 wordsThe local papers having published as telegrams the substanca of a paragraph appearing in the Herald, to the effect that it was believed the railway policy of the present Government when disclosed would not be nearly so ...
Article : 286 wordsEarthquakes still continue to be felt in the north of the island. At St. Mary's there are two or three shocks nearly every day, and very severe shooks were experienced on the 1st and 4th instant, accompanied ...
Article : 178 wordsA very interesting lecture was delivered last evening, by Mr. John Rothwell, of Brisbane, at the Sohool of Arts, Pitt-street. The subject of the lecture, which was listened to by a large audience, was "Our Dwallings: Their ...
Article : 586 wordsIt is reported that one day last week the cattle express train took 3½ hours travelling from Cootamundra to Harden, a distance or only 25 miles; and that in order to obtain a greater speed the men in charge of the engine went into the ...
Article : 163 wordsSir,—The proposed extension of the tramline through College-street and St. James'-road, destroys one of the few approaches to Sydney from the suburbs in which persons can walk, ride, and drive in safety. The wholesale ...
Article : 260 wordsThe output of coal for the week ending January 5 was 11,582 tons. Six French escapees from New Caledonia were brought to Newcastle this morning in the Coonanbara, in charge of ...
Article : 848 wordsA sad coach accident happened this morning about 10 miles from Port Macquarie, on the Manning Road, by which two passengers were killed. The driver left Port Macquarie at 5 a.m. with the mail coach, on his ...
Article : 237 wordsA disastrous bush fire has been raging at Tuppal (30 miles from here) since last Saturday. It commenced on the selection of a man named Greggery, and extended to the adjoining aress owned by Messrs. Waters, Jameson, and ...
Article : 159 wordsBy Messrs. John Bridge.—JN, 5 at 7[?]d; LS, 27 at 10d: WR, 6 at 9—d; GP over M, 14 grease at 8[?]d, 5 at 8d; DQ, over Willy Wolly. 7 at 8[?]d; MW, 11 at 9[?]d; A over W, 12 at 8d; B over LK, 6 at 8[?]; JM over Jews Lagoon, 5 at 7[?]; G. Green over ...
Article : 90 wordsThe following passed through to-day:— For Melbourne (by express): Mrs. Holt, Miss Whiteside, Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel and family, Miss Nellie Montague, Mrs. Gibbon, Mr. and Mrs. Dihm, Messrs. Vallack, F. ...
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Advertising : 217 words"Jack and the Beanstall" was reported last evening in the Theatre Royal to a large audience, and at the Galety Theatre, where there was also a large audience, Verdi's Opera "H Trovatore" was also repeated. This evening ...
Article : 286 wordsThe attendance at the Juvenile Industrial Exhibition on Monday was greatly interfered with by the intense heat of the weather. Water was thrown on the roof by means of the fire hose in order to cool the building, and as the wator ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 9 Jan 1884, Page 8
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