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920 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 46
SIR,—There can be no doubt that a systematic method of judging exhibits is very desirable. Any arrangement which enables the judges to declare the data upon which their opinion is founded would be useful to future…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE the departure of the last mail on the 9th [?]timo, the France-German conflict has raged uninterruptedly, accompanied by fearful loss of life on both sides. The short vision of peace has vanished, and with the present embittered state of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →During a discussion on Baby Farming at the Dialectical Society's rooms, 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, a statement made by Margaret Waters on Wednesday, and which covered some fifteen sides of foolscap, excited great interest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE city coroner held an inquest this morning, [?] the City Arms, Crown-street, Wooiloomooloo, to inquire into the circumstances of the death of a child named Amelia Doyle, who died on Sunday night [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MARGARET WATERS and Sarah Ellis, sisters, were convicted of the crime of "baby-farming" on Friday, the 23rd ultimo, and sontenccd, Waters to death, and Ellis to imprisonment for eighteen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE city coroner held an inquest yesterday morning, at the City Arms, Crown-street, Woolloomooloo, to inquire, into the circumstances of the death of a child named Amelia Doyle, who died on Sunday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE month has been remarkable in the squatting districts, as in other parts of the colony, for the unusual heaviness of the rainfall. Many of the rivers in the interior have again overflowed their banks in places, and a considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE weather has been changeable and unsettled at Wagga Wagga. In the early part of last week, reports the Express, showers were of frequent occurrence, and the temperature at times was so low that fires had very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE mail steamer Geelong arrived on the 23th of November, and we are again in possession of advices two days in advance of contract time. The intelligence respecting our chief staple is chicily derived…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A MEETING of ship agents, shipmasters, and all parties concerned in the matter was convened on November 17, at the Exchange, to take into consideration the subject of insurance of wool while waiting for shipment. About thirty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE present season has been a most unprecedentedly wet one, rain having fallen at intervals during the whole of the spring. The rains have been so heavy during the month as again to flood the Clarence, Hunter, and other…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE weather throughout the pastoral districts continues unsettled with occasional heavy local falls of rain, causing freshes in the creeks and often in the main rivers. Grass is abundant,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →NOT long ago a well-known flockmastcr in Annandale had occasion to send a number of sheep to Hawick by railway. The flock was under the charge of a shepherd, who was accompanied by a valuable sheep dog. This…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE weather has been changeable and unsettled at Wagga Wagga. In the early part of last week, reports the Express, showers were of frequent occurrence, and the temperature at times was so low that fires had very…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →THE Warwick Examiner says:— The theory upon which the oft-repeated prophecies were founded that the Darling Downs would not grow a cabbage has been entirely upset of late years, and a visit to the farms and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →ON Tuesday last, the sixth annual show of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association came off on the grounds of the association on the racecourse. Since last year thirty additional cattle and eight permanent sheep pens, furnished,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,— Observing in your Monetary and Mercantile Review in this day's Summary for England that the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce had carried a solution to the effect that the stevedores, as agents for all concerned, should…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →OUR weekly report upon the weather in the metropolitan district might have been stereotyped for the last six or eight weeks. Hardly a day passes over without a shower or two,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →During a discussion on Baby Farming at the Dialectical Society's rooms, 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, a statement made by Margaret Waters on Wednesday, and which covered some fifteen sides of foolscap, excited great interest…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE startling statement in the telegraphic news by the Suez mail, that "Mrs. Waters, the BabyFarmer had been executed," will have prepared the public for morer of those dreadful disclosures,…
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