THE great English shooting clubs had closed their seasons at the departure of the last mail; and we give the shooting on the 3rd July, on which day the Hurlingham Clubs held the last meeting for 1870. ...
Article : 2,971 wordsHenry Parkes, trading as Parkes and Co., of Sydney, merchant. Cause of insolvency: Pressure of creditors, Estimated liabilities, L32,000, Estimated assets, L13,300. Schedule to be filed by the 29th October. ...
Article : 489 wordsMAILS.—Tenders for the conveyance of mails for the ensuing season I perceive are again issued. In accepting contracts for this particular service I trust the Pastmaster-General will take one important point in such matters into his ...
Article : 1,402 wordsSIR,—After the lapse of many thousand years the injustice of Pharoah trying to compel the Jews, to make bricks without straw, seems to have found a parallel in the course attempted by our enlightened legislators in ...
Article : 618 wordsA serious accident occurred on the 83th, to a man engaged on the bridge work. While employed with others in raising one of the girders, it unfortunately slipped and falling on his foot severed his big too and broke the bone of the second. The ...
Article : 425 wordsMary Ann Wright was fined 10s, or three days, for being drunk and disorderly in George-street. William Clark, an engineer, was charged with using threatening language towards Margaret Clark. ...
Article : 353 wordsThe arrived of the Gold Commission among us is the great event of the week. They arrived here in one of M'Allister's coaches from Wagga Wagga, on Thursday 6th, and at once made arrangements for taking evidence. Some of the ...
Article : 577 wordsTHE ladies of this district are getting on fast in the art of masing tea, and [?] a meetings are becoming ap the rage. "The Lily of the Vale" division of the Daughters of Temperance in Arainen, held their first anniversary on last Tuesday ...
Article : 322 wordsFrederick Jones pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in George-street, and was fined 10s, or three days' gaol. He was also fined 20s, in default seven days' gaol, for making use of obscene language in the ...
Article : 186 wordsWe, at least, have every appearance of fine, weather. The roads are now sufficiently dry to permit of loaded drays travelling. The Sydney mail still arrives very irregularly. ...
Article : 800 wordsTHE Volunteer Rifle Club will hold their first quarterly prize meeting on the 22nd instant, when a large number of prizes will be competed for. The committee have decided that the president prize shall be ...
Article : 772 wordsAFTER a week's fine weather it was hoped that it would continue for somo time: but unfortunately this was not the case, for on Sunday afternoon last distant symptoms foretold. a change, and late in the afternoon there was a steady fall of ...
Article : 709 wordsMINING.—The only important item worthy of notice at preaent amongst the alluvial claims is the rush which has taken place during the past few days, about four miles distant from this township, on the Adelong Creek. I believe the ...
Article : 905 wordsFELLOW-COLONISTS AND FRIENDS,—Although I am, under medical advice, on the eve of undertaking a visit to Melbourne for a few days, for change of air and of scene, after a very severe attack of illness which I have ...
Article : 809 wordsA VERY benutiful and interesting petrified sea monster has, according to the White Pine Novada News, been, lately discovered about a hundred miles to the South-east of Hamilton, on a high plateau of land ...
Article : 169 wordsAs this is the first communication you have had from this place perhaps it may not be uninteverting to your readers if I give some description of this part of Wingecarribbee, known as Kangaloon. ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Mon 17 Oct 1870, Page 3
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