The English mail per P. and O. steamer Cathay reached Sydney yesterday by special arrangements at 1.30 p.m., and was delivered from the General Post Office shortly after. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe O'Kelly-M'Coan incident, to which I alluded in my last letter, ended as every one expected, very harmlessly. On Friday night, Mr. O'Kelly attended in his place as he was ordered, and was called upon by the ...
Article : 5,248 wordsOn June 15, shortly before 2 o'clock, a fire broke out in Theatre-lane. Inverness, in a dwelling-house owned and occupied by Mr. Hugh Allison; which resulted not only in completely gutting the building, but in the loss of four ...
Article : 125 wordsThe trial of the six prisoners charged with being in possession of large quantities of explosive materials intended for the destruction of public buildings in London was concluded at the Central Criminal Court at a late hour ...
Article : 394 wordsIn a recent sitting of the Senate, Count de St. Vallier put the question of which he had given notice, asking for information respecting events in Tonquin. He mentioned some of the alarmist reports circulated by foreign ...
Article : 442 wordsA question has been raised (says the Home News) of deep importance to the Australian tinned-meat trade. Suspicion has been thrown by experts and scientific folk upon the wholesameness of food which has been kept too long in the ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Philadelphia correspondent of the Times telegraphs yesterday:—" N. L. Dukes, who murdered Captain Nutt, the cashier of the Pennsylvania State Treasury, but was acquitted on his trial, was shot dead last night at ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the Times sends to that journal the following:— The following is a summary of the Pontifical acts relating to Ireland, which have just been printed in a collective ...
Article : 1,975 wordsA Belfast telegram stales that Sir John Savage, formerly mayor of that town, has committed suicide. The act is said to have been without motive, and is therefore attributed to a fit of insanity. ...
Article : 41 wordsAt a Cabinet Council held in Paris on June 14, M. Brun stated that the Ministry of Marine had received information that the negotiations at Shanghai, between M. Tricou and Li Hung Chang, were progressing favourably, and that ...
Article : 132 wordsIn the Court of Arches on June 9 the case of Martin v. MacKonochie, which has been progressing some 15 years, and in which several suits have been instituted by Mr. Martin, the promoter, against Mr. Mackonochie, who, until ...
Article : 387 wordsIn the House of Commons, on June 11, Lord R. Churchill asked the Prime Minister whether it was intended to make any inquiry into the charges against the Khedivek and if so, before what tribunal? Mr. Gladstone said he would ...
Article : 213 wordsMr. Irving Bishop, the "thought reader," claims to have won a bet of £1000 from Mr. Labouchere, who laid him 10 to 1 in hundreds that he would not guess the number of a bank-note placed in an envelope. As, ...
Article : 302 wordsThe fourth of the Phœnix Park assassins, Thomas Caffrey, was executed om Saturday morning, June 2, within the walls of Kilmainbam prison. He was one of the only two men who pleaded guilty to the capital charge; the other ...
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Advertising : 221 wordsThe Dublin correspondent of the Times states that on June 9 the last death penalty for the Phœnix Park murders was carried out by the execution of Timothy Kelly in Kilmainham Gaal. Up to the last moment some hopes were ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 25 Jul 1883, Page 4
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