One of the most extraordinary occurrences in the long history of disasters to shipping in various parts of the world is that which befel the magnificent Orient liner Austral, at 4 o'clock on Saturday morning. ...
Article : 4,097 wordsThe debate on the cloture proposals in the House of Commons has terminated in a victory for the Government. The majority included 13 Home Rulers, and the minority ...
Article : 75 wordsIf the wreck of the Austral teaches no lesson, it must be regarded as a strange satire upon modern naval architecture, for the Austral was before all things regarded as a ...
Article : 4,106 wordsMr. Justice Lawson has had a narrow escape from assassination in the street. He has been intensely unpopular since the sentence he passed on Mr. Gray, M.P., and on ...
Article : 81 wordsThe tender of Mr. Garget has been accepted for the Killarney branch railway, 15¼ miles. Tho lowest tenderers were Messrs. Ryan, at £31,341, but they were apparently unable to carry out the contract, and ...
Article : 139 wordsA company ia being formed, with a capital of £700,000, to purchase the shipping business of Messrs. Shaw and Savill and the Albion Company of New Zealand. ...
Article : 37 wordsA grave error is reported to have been discovered in the French budget, involving a sum of a hundred million francs. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe defeat alleged to have been sustained by the Boers at the hands of Mapoch is distinctly contradicted. ...
Article : 34 wordsArchibald Forbes arrived per R.M.S. Ancona on Saturday. On the Na[?]ne railway works, first section all the men, to the number of about 500, are on strike. They ...
Article : 327 wordsDr. Kennion, the Bishop elect of Adelaide, will be married to Miss Fergusson, a sister of Sir James Fergusson, on November 21, and will be consecrated on the 30th. ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is rumoured that Sir Arthur Gordon has been appointed Governor of Jamaica; Sir Anthony Musgrave, of Ceylon; Sir William. F. D. Jervois, of New Zealand; and Sir John Pope ...
Article : 42 wordsOn the petition of the wife, the marriage of Colonel Wellesley has been dissolved in consequence of his adultery with Miss Kate Vaughan, the actress. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Gambettist section of the Chamber of Deputies support M. Du Cler[?], the President of the Council of Ministers, at the present juncture. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe debate on Sir Stafford Northcote's motion for the rejection of the cloture took place in the House of Commons last night. After a lengthy discussion the House divided ...
Article : 104 wordsThe barque Lois has arrived from Adelaide with stud stock for Kimberley. She takes sheep from Fremantle and Geraldton. Some rain has fallen in the country districts, and the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe 9th was observed as a close holiday. We had splendid weather. There were about 500 people on the racecourse, and there was a good day's sport in the shape of a cricket match and horse-racing. Duncan's Beatrice won ...
Article : 273 wordsIn accordance with notice previously given, Sir Stafford Northcote asked the Government to fix a date for the debate on the continued occupation of Egypt by British troops. Mr. ...
Article : 54 wordsSIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE'S motion in the House of Commons for the rejection of the cloture proposals of the Government has been rejected, on a division of 304 to 260, giving the Government a majority of ...
Article : 3,868 wordsNews is to hand of an attempt having been made to shoot the Right Hon. J. A. Lawson, one of the Judges of the High Court of Justice in Ireland, who on several ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Sir Garnet Wolseley Company report having broken through and obtained are. They are raising payable stone. The reef averages one foot thick; driving northerly. Mr. A. P. Wood reports the yields of Victorian mines ...
Article : 183 wordsNews is to hand of the defeat of Montsima, a native chief, by the Boers, who have put him to flight and occupied his territory. ...
Article : 33 wordsSix thousand persons visited the Nelson to-day. The vessel will be floated out of dock on Monday or Tuesday. The Bishop of Newcastle preached this morning at ...
Article : 586 wordsThe following passed through to-day:-For Melbourne: Captain Strong and Messrs. Burtlett, Finch, Slade, M'Lean, Board, Menzies, Cork, Simmons, Palmer, Hagney, Todd, Nelson, Fagan, Brady, Greaves, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 13 Nov 1882, Page 7
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