SIR,—Your notice respecting "Mainsail's" letter in this day's issue requires answering. Our code of rules (No. 15) answers "Mainsail." There is no race for sailing skiffs. ...
Article : 72 wordsON Tuesday last the seventeenth annual distrist meeting of the Wesleyan Methodist Church began in the Albert-street Wesleyan schoolroom. The Rev. Richard Sellors occupied the chair. ...
Article : 1,482 wordsTHIS great actress has lately been delighting the admirers of legitimate drama in Sydney, and as there is some hope that she may—ere her departure from Auatralia—be induced to pay ...
Article : 1,545 wordsThe official returns show that over 14,000 persons visited the exhibition on Saturday. There has also been a large attendance to-day. To-morrow's show of horticultural products, ...
Article : 95 wordsSIR HENRY PARKES has contributed a paper to the last number of the Melbourne Review, under the above heading. It is customary, we are aware, to speak of the Australian nation in ...
Article : 1,571 wordsThe steamer Afghan, which arrived from London yesterday, brings advices from the Cape to September 26. These are to the following effect:— ...
Article : 728 wordsSIR,—The mournful satisfaction of Knowing how the late Mr. Molle met his death can be the only juatification for recalling so melancholy a tragedy. To most people the cause can only be ...
Article : 294 wordsIF it has passed into a proverb at home that Shakspeare spells ruin to theatrical entrepreneurs, the large audiences that have crowded to witness Mr. Creswick's Shakspearian ...
Article : 931 wordsSIR,—Permit me a word in reference to your paragraph in this morning's issue touching a "Trip to Southport," in which jour reporter does me the high, but alas! most undeserved ...
Article : 306 wordsTen tons of stone taken from Thomas' reef on this field have yielded 18oz., a return which is considered very satisfactory. ...
Article : 28 wordsBEFORE the police-magistrate. DRUNKENNESS.—John Cummons, for this offence, was fined 10s., with the alternative of twenty-four hours' imprisonment; and James ...
Article : 980 wordsThe fortnight's crushings from the St. Patrick's block yielded 426oz. 15dwt. ...
Article : 19 wordsA sad accident, which has cast a gloom over the whole town, occurred on Sunday last. A number of little girls were bathing early on Sunday morning at low water in Finches Bay, ...
Article : 153 wordsTHERE is a model of a patent safety cage in the Victorian court, which if it were in general use would render the occurrence of the frightful accidents in mine shafts which are too frequently ...
Article : 869 wordsThe highest flood since 1876 occurred at Tumut yesterday; the standing crops were much damaged, and fencing, culverts, and bridges were carried away. The telegraph office ...
Article : 428 wordsBEFORE his Honor Mr. Justice Lutwyche. HARTLEY V. SALMOND. In this case, on the 10th instant, Mr. Chambers, on behalf of the plaintiff, applied for a ...
Article : 945 wordsThe amount realised so far from the Hospital Sunday collections is £3050. There are 320 miners now on strike in Sandhurst. It is stated on authority that the labor ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Governor having refused a dissolution, the Ministry have resigned. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 21 Oct 1879, Page 3
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