A tender of the Peninsular and Oriental Company for a fortnightly mail service to Victoria, under conditions B, for a subsidy of £85,000 per annum, has been received. The ...
Article : 60 wordsAdvices from the Cape to the 4th instant state that the British forces are acting on the defensive, and that the Zulus are not at present making any attacks. The British column, ...
Article : 752 wordsWhen JAMES COOK was serving on board the little collier that traded between London and the northern coal-country, he little thought that a hundred years after he was ...
Article : 3,367 wordsCOMMUNICATION has once more been restored on the overland line, and this morning we publish several cuble messages received from our London correspondent and through Reuter's agency. Our own correspondent, ...
Article : 4,022 wordsThe Siam arrived at 2 o'clock. Governor Bowen visited Mount Lofty, and lunched with Sir William Jervois. The farmers of two or three districts are petitioning ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Embassy has appointed to meet the Colonial Secretary on Wednesday. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Army Estimates for the financial year, 1879-80, amount to £15,625,000, showing, as compared with last year, a decrease of £2,156,250. ...
Article : 29 wordsARRIVED: Merope, ship, from Melbourne November 17; Melbourne, ship, from Melbourne November 18; Aristides, ship, from Melbourne; Jonathan Bourne, barque, from ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. James H. Thomas, formerly engineer for existing lines of railways in New South Wales, and now Director of Public Works and Commissioner of Railways in this colony, has been sworn in as a member of ...
Article : 45 wordsWe received the following telegram from our correspondent at Hay, yesterday afternoon:—"A report has been received here, stating that the Kelly gang have stuck up Barry and Grainger's store at Hatfield, about ...
Article : 394 wordsBrorsen's comet was discovered on Saturday evening by Mr. Tebbutt. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe brig Raymond left Newcastle on the 14th instant, commanded by Captain Evans, bound for New Zealand with a cargo of coal. During a heavy gale on the night of the 15th, the sails were blown from the boltropes. ...
Article : 232 wordsA disastrous fire occurred yesterday at Milltown, destroying Robert M'Cleery's hotel and chaff-shed. The hotel contained eleven rooms and kitchen, and the chaff-house, which was very large, adjoined, containing ...
Article : 209 wordsSir,—In reference to the notice in your to-day's issue, of "the serious cases" of small-pox at Moreton Bay, allow me to send you the following, to show what need there exists for vaccination in New South Wales. In January ...
Article : 977 wordsSir,—We in the region of the late outrages by the Kelly gang hear with satisfaction that a large reward is offered for the capture of the felons; but some of us venture to think, knowing, as we do, that the main strength of the ...
Article : 246 wordsThe Exhibition Commission has before it two applications for permission to make captive balloon ascents—that from M. Voigt, mentioned some days ago, and one from M. Saint-Martin, who made the original application to the ...
Article : 462 wordsA young man named Martin Cass, while working on a farm last Saturday, got entangled in the threshing machine, and died yesterday from the injuries received. ...
Article : 29 wordsSir,—I can offer no apology for taking up your space onthis occasion except the importance of the subject, added to the fact that I have been trained to the use of firearms from my earliest years. No one versed at all in moral ...
Article : 651 wordsThe right to hold a publican's booth on the ground during the approaching farmers' and free selectors' show was sold by auction to-day, and fetched the good price of £70. Two cake stalls fetched nearly £18. Sir ...
Article : 62 wordsMuch satisfaction generally is expressed by the inhabitants at tenders being at last called for the new post and telegraph offices, on a central site purchased by the Government. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe telegraph wires were cut this morning or last night, between Howlong and Albury, and between Howlong and Corowa. There are no signs, however, of the Kelly gang, who would meet with a warm ...
Article : 41 wordsSir,—I beg to draw the attention of the authorities through the Press, to the highly dangerous and destructive manner in which sand is stolen from Reddy's Hill, near Glenmore Road, by carters engaged in filling in the bay. ...
Article : 306 wordsSir Maurice O'Connell is very unwell with an affection of the throat, from which he has suffered for some months. For the examinations for Queensland exhibitions to ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Steamship Victoria proceeds to the Heads tomorrow with some of the Ministers to meet the Ringarooma with the Marquis of Normanby on board. The swearing in will take place probably on Wednesday or ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 25 Feb 1879, Page 5
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