A BEAUTIFUL morning tempted many to do a little amateur touting, and the course at Aintree was visited by many anxious to witness the gallops of the Grand National candidates. Amongst the horses who did ...
Article : 1,385 wordsSir James Martin, Q.C., and Mr. Windeyer, instructed by Mr. R. Driver, appeared for the plaintiffs; Mr. M. H. Stephen and Mr. Butler, instructed by Mr. Greer, for the defendant. ...
Article : 521 wordsAUSTRALIAN TALLOW: A fair supply has been offered at the weekly sales. The chief portion has consisted of mutton, the price of which is from 1s to 1s 6d per cwt. lower, but beef, ...
Article : 1,893 wordsThere was a long list of inebriates, most of whom were fined 5s, with the alternative of two days gaol. Two persons, who were disorderly in their cups, were ordered to pay 20s, or in default; seven days' ...
Article : 585 wordsONE of the Paris journals announces the death, at Versailles, of a Russian lady who appeared in the drawing-rooms of Paris in 1848 and 1849, and was nicknamed the "Dame a la Clef." She died, aged ...
Article : 444 wordsSIR,—A letter, signed "G. Blunt," appears in your daily, contemporary of Friday, in which the writer shows, great spleen at one of our members, Mr. W. Cummings, who, in the performance of his public ...
Article : 333 wordsBANCO COURT.—Cooper and another v. Downward, part heard; O'Hara v. Blake. IN EQUITY.—Before his Honor the Primary Judge, at 11 o'clock.—Motions and Petitions.—Marchant and ...
Article : 94 wordsLAST evening an inquest was held by Dr. Hardwicke. Deputy Coroner for Central Middlesex, at the University College Hospital, relative, to the death of Mr. William Patrick Cumming, aged forty-nine, a ...
Article : 461 wordsTHE first half-yearly meeting of the Grafton and Carr's Creek Sugar Company (Limited) was held at Grafton on the 6th instant, Mr. T. Bawden, M.L.A., in the chair. From the report it appears that the position of ...
Article : 668 wordsSIR,—Daily I see accounts in your papers about the disasters caused by the continual fall of rain. But allow me to inform you that floods, are not the only misfortunes which are caused by the rain; and if ...
Article : 311 wordsRe George Henry Thorn, of Goulburn. On condition of paying £94 8s 5d (balance appearing in hand by accounts verified and filed 2nd December, 1867) over to official assignee, a certificate of conformity is to be ...
Article : 445 wordsOUR district has just escaped another flood. The weather, which had continued rather settled, promised, on Sunday last, to be no longer a temporary change but a permanent one, with every prospect of dry weather. Sunday all day ...
Article : 808 wordsWILLIAM SHARP, able seaman, one of the five survivors of a crew of sixteen hands belonging to the Victoria, of North Shields, which was wrecked on the Gorleston Sands, at Yarmouth, a few days ago, ...
Article : 640 wordsGREAT news has arrived from Paris! Nothing about Prince Pierre Bonaparte, nor about the Marseillaise, nor, about the Pope's Infallibility, nor about the little hitch among the Spanish ex-Royal family; but ...
Article : 634 wordsA large number of drunkards were punished. William Swanson, a seaman, charged with assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty, was fined 10s. ...
Article : 446 wordsTHE Bathurst Free Press, of Saturday, publishes a portion of a private letter from Mr. George Richardson, of Goolagong, on the Lachlan. It runs as follows:— "Goolagong, May 8, 1870. ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Tue 17 May 1870, Page 3
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