The bicycle race, which was postponed from the ironworks picnic at Penrith, was run off on the showground on Saturday afternoon, There were six starters, the winner being J. Young, ...
Article : 42 wordsSir,--I have the honour to invite your attention to the following notice from the Government Gazelle of the 22nd inst., relating to the appointment of trustees for the land therein specified:-- ...
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Advertising : 238 wordsWe understand that a couple of thousand pounds' worth of Government orders have been received at Cooerwall mills. This is about equal to work for the coming quarter. ...
Article : 287 wordsJohn Carter, for being drunk and disorderly in Main-street on the 30th March, was fined 5s, or the rising of the court. He took it out. STEALING A TURKEY. ...
Article : 791 wordsThere was quite a record crowd, in point of numbers, round the Mercury office on Friday night to hear the returns from the elections, Nine-tenths of the interest centred in the ...
Article : 387 wordsOn Saturday night Mr. Herbert Bladon, senr., who during the past seven years has had charge of the merchant and guide mills at Eskbank Ironworks, and who, in consequence of ill health, ...
Article : 1,370 wordsThe Lithgow Coursing Club ran their unfinished courses off on Saturday afternoon in Mr. J. L. Brown's paddock. A good number was present, and altogether things won't off much ...
Article : 160 wordsSir,--In reply to your letter of the 23rd instant, I have, the honour, by direction of the Minister of Public Instruction, to state that the work of erecting a teacher's residence in ...
Article : 76 wordsSir,--With reference to that portion of the communication, dated the 5th instant, presented by you, from the Lithgow Council Clerk, requesting that pillar boxes might be erected for ...
Article : 155 wordsThe tender of Arthur Amos for the supply of forage for police station, Rockley, has been accepted, as follows:--Maize, 4s, oats 8s, bran Is per bushel; hay £3 10s, straw £1 10s per ton ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Ironworks C.C. will hold a social in the Oddfollows' hall on Saturday night, for the purpose of entertaining the Botany C.C. The match which was to have been played on ...
Article : 155 wordsSome weeks ago the minors' Secretary was instructed to call a mooting of all who desired to secure the return of a labour member in the State Parliament. The matter was postponed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 430 wordsAn advert, in this issue announces that Miss Marie Narelle, assisted by several well-known artists, will appear in Lithgow Oddfollows' hall on Easter Monday and Tuesday nights. Miss ...
Article : 101 wordsWork has now commenced in real earnest on the now Mountain Run goldfield, about a mile from the old Back Creek goldfield. Messrs. Larnach, Quin, and party, owners of the "No ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 283 wordsTHE battle has been won and lost; the Reds and Blues should no longer be hostile. The arts of peace are more enduring than those of war: let us cultivate them, now that the ...
Article : 595 wordsThe quarterly meeting in connection with the above church was held on Saturday last, Messrs. Baggs, Cary, Corderoy, and Pitt being present. The treasurer reported that the income for the ...
Article : 177 wordsOn Friday evening, at half-past seven, a most interesting and impressive ceremony took place at St. Paul's (Church of England), when the Rev. Ronald Cameron, late of Hunter's Hill, ...
Article : 498 wordsOn Wednesday evening last week, in St. James', school, Forest Lodge, presentations were made to the Rev. Father Hogan from the parishioners. The mooting was very large, the ...
Article : 189 wordsA largely attended mooting of landholders and others interested in the question of rabbit extermination was held in the new C.E. hall last week, Mr. R. Maund, jun., occupying the chair. ...
Article : 136 wordsSays Saturday's Free Press:--While Messrs. Frank Cook and Simpkins were engaged yesterday in quarrying stone at Sunny Corner the former mot with a serious injury fo his left ...
Article : 90 wordsThe usual monthly meeting of the above eventuated at Mr. Yates hotel on Friday last. Mr. Greenhalgh was voted to the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were road and ...
Article : 145 wordsThe deputation which will meet the Commissioners on Tuesday, the 16th inst., at noon, to urge the duplication of the Mountain line promises to be a very largo and highly ...
Article : 284 wordsMr. Cook returned to Lithgow on Saturday night by the "fish" train. There was a crowd of several hundreds in the vicinity of the station, and Mr. Cook was accorded a magnificent ...
Article : 441 wordsMatters at the mines are fast approaching completion, and within a short time they will be in full swing again. The engine has been at work this week, and the cable put into position. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsRYDAL, Wednesday.--On Saturday night the residents and the people of the surrounding district entertained Mr. and Mrs. Woodall at a social prior to their departure from amongst ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsas the donkey said of the slick; and "that beats me," as Mrs. B. said of the imitations of Arnott's Milk Arrowroot Biscuits which had been sold to her, " how anybody can oat such biscuits as ...
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Advertising : 37 wordsSUNNY CORNER, MONDAY,--The Sunny Corner mine is still shut down, hut is expected to start again this week. ...
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Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954), Tue 2 Apr 1901, Page 2
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