In connection with the Goburg tragedy warrants have been issued for the arrest of the three girls Hampton on a charge of wilful murder of their sister. It is expected ...
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Article : 213 wordsThe Mira Flores, barque, 500 tons, bound from London to Fremantle, struck on a reef at the northern end of Rotness Island, and has since become a total wreck, but without loss ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Swedish brig Norman, Captain Ohlsen, was wrecked on January 16 on Dungeness Reef, where the Queensland Government schooner Mavis was lately lost. The wreck ...
Article : 62 wordsEarly this morning Messrs. Howard Smith and Sons received a telegram from Phillip Island, from the first mate of the steamer Gambier, stating that he, with a crew of four ...
Article : 282 wordsA public meeting was held in the Town Hall to-night, the mayor presiding, for the purpose of raising funds towards the assistance of the settlers and their families who were ...
Article : 148 wordsA sailor named James Anderson, one of the four men who went off in a boat to the steamer Dandenong and saved a number of lives at great risk, appeared at the City Police ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Feilung, steamer, arrived yesterday from China, and left at noon today with the following passengers: — Mr. Fallwood, for Thursday Island; Messrs. J. D. McDonald ...
Article : 88 wordsOn Friday evening a farmer and vigneron named John Plum, of Wangaratta, was found burned to death in his house at Eastcourt. The deceased lived by himself apart from his ...
Article : 163 wordsA youth named Richard Westacott, engaged in Messrs. Goodlet and Smith's timber mill at Pyrmont, had a dispute with a fellow-employer named George Train yesterday, and a fight ...
Article : 81 wordsA serious collision occurred in the River Yarra this evening between the steamer Nemesis, bound for Sydney, and the steamer Nelson. The Nemesis had hauled off the ...
Article : 169 wordsThe financial statement of the Tongan district, which was laid before the Wesleyan Conference to-day, showed a deficiency of £2,000. A subscription-list to defray this amount was ...
Article : 92 wordsThe first meeting of the board of conciliation appointed to deal with the wharf laborers' strike was held this evening in the Trades Hall. Professor Kernot presided, and Messrs. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe committee appointed by the Central Board of Health to consider the spread of typhoid fever in Melbourne and suburbs sat to-day. It was unanimously the decision of ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Premier has received the following cable from the Agent-General with reference to the million and a half 4 per cent, loan:—"Loan unprecedented success. Total tenders received ...
Article : 82 wordsYesterday the Nepean water was admitted into the Botany dams in the presence of a large and representative gathering, including several ministers and civil authorities. Mr. ...
Article : 196 wordsA meeting of the laymen of the Church of England was held in the Diocesan Registry this afternoon, when a resolution to the following effect was passed:—"That a committee be ...
Article : 130 wordsAn indignation meeting was held yesterday with reference to the Commissioner's reply to the deputation asking the Government to supply wire netting. Motions condemning ...
Article : 826 wordsA case of supposed suicide occurred to-day. It appears that early this morning Mrs. Daniel Jane was discovered drowned in a tank on her premises, Wallaroo Mines. The deceased had ...
Article : 68 wordsA suspicions fire took place in an unoccupied store at Solomontown at 7 o'clock this morning. The place was owned and formerly occupied by Mr. Kain, was afterwards occupied by ...
Article : 144 wordsAn inquest was held at the Courthouse to-day, on the body of a man, aged 50, named Wm. Bird, who was found dead yesterday afternoon in a waterhole, near Warrattenbullie ...
Article : 92 wordsWhile Captain Cassidy, of the ship Greta, was on deck last Sunday in the gulf, nine miles from land, he observed a small supposed aerolite descending from windward. It struck ...
Article : 72 wordsDr. Alfred Shaw, of Kadina, was found dead in his bedroom early this morning. At an inquest held in the afternoon by Mr. Christmas it transpired that deceased had not ...
Article : 65 wordsTwo cases of sunstroke occurred here to-day, one to an old lady living in Graham's-lane, and the other to an old man named Tom Chambers. Drs. Markham and Pendleton ...
Article : 48 wordsThe driving of the first pile in connection with the new Port Augusta wharfs was accomplished this morning in the presence of a considerable gathering of the leading townspeople. ...
Article : 58 wordsA rifle match was fired here to-day between Mount Gambier, Caltowie, Casterton, and Coleraine, seven men a side, at ranges of 200, 300, and 600 yards. The results were:— ...
Article : 48 wordsThe American Ambassador at Vienna, Mr. Kasson, has lately forwarded to his Govern-ment an interesting account of a remarkable surgical operation lately performed by ...
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Advertising : 59 wordsMr. R.D. Beresford, formerly Grown prosecutor in the Northern Territory, has returned to Adelaide from Port Darwin. The Hon. A. Hay, M.L.C., with Mrs. Hay ...
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South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1881 - 1889), Sat 6 Feb 1886, Page 10
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