Continuation of News by the Mail. [Via California.] Important From France. Result of the Elections. Great Success of the Orleanists. Count De Paris to Be King of France. Occupation of Paris Forts by the Prussians. Great Distress in the City. Hundreds Dying of Starvation. Outbreak of the Red Republicans in Paris. Bismarck Dangerously Ill. the Armistice Prolonged. Frightful Destruction of a Mail Train. the Queen's Speech on Opening Parliament. Proclamation of Louis Napoleon. the Queen's Speech
Empire · Saturday 25 March 1871 · page 3
LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,—At an epoch of such moment to the future fortunes of Europe, I am especially obliged to avail myself of your counsels. The war which broke out in the month of July between France…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1871 · page 3
SIR,—By two very sensible matter-of-fact letters that appeared in the Herald of the 3rd and 7th of March instant, I find the usual grant for the repair of minor roads throughout the colony is to be discontinued…
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Evening News · Monday 27 March 1871 · page 4
A LECTURE with this title has just been published in Melbourne, by Mr. Howard Spensley, Barrister-at-law. The lecture was delivered at Portland, a town whose ambition is to be the chief port of the fertile western…
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Empire · Tuesday 28 March 1871 · page 4
A LECTURE with this title has just been published in Melbourne, by Mr. Howard Spensley, Barrister-at-law. The lecture was delivered at Portland, a town whose ambition is to be the chief port of the fertile western…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 March 1871 · page 6
THE following is a report from the Commissioner for Roads to the Secretary for Public Works, lt has reference to works executed during the year 1870, Roads Office, 9th February, 1871…
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Empire · Thursday 30 March 1871 · page 3
ON and after the 4th day of April a new time-table will come into operation. The following will be the times for trains from Sydney and Parramatta:— Trains will run from Sydney to Parramatt…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 March 1871 · page 2
SIR,—As we are nearing the Easetr holidays, and knowing the anxiety of the present Minister for Works to increase the railway receipts as [?]uch as possible, might I suggest the propriety of an [?]rly announcement of any…
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Empire · Friday 31 March 1871 · page 3
The alteration in the railway time-table will be accompanied by some alterations in the passenger fares and goods rates, of an important charactor. The existing rates for passengers are continued so…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 22
New York, February 7th.—The train leaving New York at 8 o'clock last evening met an oil train on the New Hamburg drawbridge. The oil train jumped the track, and broke in two, and an oil car…
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Evening News · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 3
Also in Empire
ON Monday, the 27th ultimo, at about 10 p.m., a most distressing suicide was committed on the Williams…
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Evening News · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 3
SIR,—There are thousands of men in every country, individuals to whose moral character or commercial integrity no imputation attaches, but whose minds become so wedded to long cherished noti[?]s of…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 137
At twenty-four minutes after 10 o'clock on Monday night, February 6, a special freight train, or "wild cat," as such are called in railroad phrase, laden with, petroleum oil, in tanks and barrels, passed the station…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 4
ON Monday night a most distressing suicide was committed on the Williamstown railway line, close to the Footscray station. The goods train from Ballarat arrived at the station about half-past 9 o'clock, the usual hour, and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 5
SIR,—After a careful study of the new Railway Time Table, published in your issue of this day, I c[?] ascertain if the Western trains are to run on Friday mornings or not. Now as a great number of persons…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 5
ON and after the 4th day of April a new time-table will come into operation. The following will be the times for trains from Sydney and Parramatta:— Trains will run from Sydney to Parramatta…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1871 · page 11
PROBABLY the most important passage in the speech of Sir James M'Culloch to the electors of Mornington, was that in which he stated the intention of Government to devote the L200,000 per annum accruing from…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 April 1871 · page 3
SIR,—Your correspondent "Citizen," if he had carefully studied the new Railway Time Table, would have found it distinctly stated that the Western daily trains are to run on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays only—which…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 April 1871 · page 3
An inquest was held on Wednesday last ([?] Melbourne Argus reports)by Dr. M'Lean, coroner, at the Railway Hotel. Footscray, on the body of Susannah Ann Bamford, aged 51 years, whose dead body was found on Monday…
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Empire · Tuesday 4 April 1871 · page 3
ON and after this 4th day of April a new time-table will come into operation. The following will be the times for trains from Sydney and Parramatta:— Trains will run from Sydney to Parramatta…
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