Sir Nicholas O'Connor, British Ambassador to Constantinople, has informed the Turkish Government that unless the hinterland of Aden is promptly evacuated by ...
Article : 90 wordsAt the suggestion of the Premier (Mr. Irvine), the Chief Secretary, and the Lord Mayor (Sir S. Gillott) held a conference to-day in regard to the hawking of fruit in ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Sydney Thousand cycling meeting was brought to a successful conclusion on the Sydney Cricket Ground to-night. The weather was fine, and the attendance ...
Article : 1,242 words"Hope springs eternal in the human breast" might well be made to apply to those engaged in mining enterprises in South Australia. Unfortunately for the ...
Article : 1,182 wordsThe debate on the Navy Estimates was resumed in the House of Commons yesterday, when the main topic of discussion was the burden imposed on the British ...
Article : 534 wordsThe Chief Inspector of Fruit (Mr. G. Buchanan) has reported to the Directors of Agriculture that a consignment of 48 cases of apples per the steamer Paroo recently ...
Article : 414 wordsSt. Patrick's Day was observed yesterday with special zest, owing to the prevalence of a belief that Ireland is on the eve of a great land settlement. The provisions of ...
Article : 396 wordsWhitaker Wright, the absconding promoter and managing director of the London and Globe Finance Corporation, who is now in custody in New York, awaiting ...
Article : 175 wordsA very unpleasant experience befel Mr. Samuel Ralston, the Castlemaine agent for Messrs. Lowe Bros., produce merchants. Latterly he has been living in a ...
Article : 106 wordsAdmiral Sir John Ommaney Hopkins, G.C.B., late Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean squadron, advocates an arrangement by which the Imperial ...
Article : 87 wordsPercy Reid Bennell, describing himself as a commercial traveller, was before the Hawthorn Court yesterday on a charge of imposition. On Saturday night he went to Mr. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Indian Budget presented in the House of Commons yesterday shows a surplus of £2,750,000. The Estimates provide for a reduction in the salt tax and the ...
Article : 74 wordsThe French officials in Tripoli assert that the Italian Consul at that place denies that Great Britain has occupied the island of Bomba, which is situated off the north-east ...
Article : 53 wordsA singularly good-humored gentleman of Scottish nationality was the plaintiff in a County Court case to-day. He laughed heartily from time to time while giving ...
Article : 179 wordsThe American Senate by 73 votes to 5 has ratified the Panama Canal Treaty, despite the steps taken by Mr. Pierpont Morgan to prevent the ratification, and his dispatch ...
Article : 78 wordsThe residents of Coimbra, a manufacturing town on the river Mondego, Portugal, about 110 miles north-north-east of Lisbon, are in a state of revolt against the ...
Article : 80 wordsSilver is quoted at 1/10 7-16d. per oz. ...
Article : 14 wordsNegotiations are still proceeding between China and the Powers on the question whether the indemnity due by the former in respect to the outrages perpetrated on ...
Article : 110 wordsThe German Emperor has ordered Imperial officials when preparing State documents to avoid the use of involved sentences, and to abandon the bewildering ...
Article : 59 wordsOver 200 of the unemployed mustered outside the public offices to-day. Two deputations, one consisting of Mr. Prendergast, M.L.A., and two other members of ...
Article : 72 wordsThe conference between the two Houses of Parliament in regard to the Reform Bill sat up till a late hour to-night. The chief discussion was in regard to the deadlock ...
Article : 57 wordsBreadstuffs. — The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,515,000 quarters, as against 2,640,000 quarters last week. The quantity afloat for the ...
Article : 85 wordsAt a meeting of the Board of Health this afternoon Mr. Wood suggested that steps should be taken to restrict the entry into the State from other countries of persons ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Government of Germany has allotted a sum of £15,000 to assist farmers who desire to emigrate to the German possessions on the south-west coast of Africa, and also ...
Article : 47 wordsAn unfortunate hitch has occurred in connection with the reform movement and the Tamworth by-election. Both the People's Reform League and the Liberal Reform ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Government are calling for alternative tenders for new locomotives, with and without a minimum wages provision. To-day a deputation waited upon the Minister ...
Article : 305 wordsThe farmers at Wycheproof are coming to the opinion that the accumulations of sand heaped up along the fences and the top-dressing distributed more or less thickly ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Government of Russia have guaranteed a Chinese loan of £8,000,000, which will be issued next May to defray the cost of railway extensions in Manchuria, to be ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Labouchere's amendment to the navy vote, in favor of a reduction of £312,800 in the pay of officers and men, this sum representing the amount of the ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Andrew Carnegie, who was recently elected to the rectorship of the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland, has presented a park of nine acres to that institution. ...
Article : 36 wordsOccasion was taken yesterday of the festival of St. Patrick to launch Sir Thomas Lipton's new yacht Shamrock. III., which is to compete for the America Cup, now ...
Article : 109 wordsA dairyman charged with watering his milk to-day submitted the novel defence that the adulteration took place while the milk was in possession of the Railway ...
Article : 54 wordsReferring to the Czar's manifesto announcing measures for the amelioration of the condition of the peasantry and workers throughout Russia, M. Jaures and M. ...
Article : 113 wordsA serious conflagration has occurred at the palace of the Amir of Afghanistan at Cabul, which was greatly damaged by fire and water. The main block of the buildings ...
Article : 40 wordsMadame Melba's farewell concert in the Town Hall this afternoon was a magnificent send-off to the great Australian diva. The hall was crowded to the doors, over four ...
Article : 122 wordsAfter five years' litigation, a claim made by the Government for £20,000 probate duty on the part of the estate of the late Mr. James Austin, was to-day dismissed, ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day bidding was brisk, and prices showed a further hardening tendency. Merinos and crossbreds were unchanged. ...
Article : 116 wordsThe enquiry by the Royal Commission into the Central mine creep was resumed this morning. Edwin Martin, timber "boss" at the ...
Article : 739 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Charles McArthur's resolution, which invited members to affirm that "recent developments in the fiscal and commercial ...
Article : 79 wordsAnother exciting bathing incident occurred at Bondi this morning, Mr. William Riley, of Corper-street, Waverley, having a narrow escape from drowning. Mr. Riley ...
Article : 132 wordsThe German Emperor is the guest of the King of Saxony at Dresden. The latter in a manifesto to his people warmly thanks them for their sympathy in connection with ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Reid Customs case did not come on to-day, owing to Mr. Justice Cooper's presence being required on the Full Court. Up to the present of the £600,000 worth ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Customs Conference, which has been sitting for several days at Bloemfontein, has ended abortively, the representatives of Transvaal Colony and Rhodesia having ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsA dispute arose at the wool sale yesterday, which resulted in the abandonment of the sale by Messrs. John Bridge & Co. It is understood that the matter is now in a ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Full Court to-day granted the application of the Queensland Law Association to disbar Samuel Frederick Follett Milford, barrister, on the ground that he failed to ...
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Advertising : 364 wordsA large sand hill at Paddington, overlooking Hampden Park, was the scene of a dangerous collapse to-day, a girl aged 16 and a three-year-old child having a narrow ...
Article : 116 wordsIt is understood that Cabinet to-day discussed the question of the vacancy caused by Mr. O'Connell's death. It is probable that Mr. Foxton will take over the Lands ...
Article : 85 wordsThe steamer Idomeneus, from Brisbane to London, which arrived at Port Elizabeth a few days ago, disabled through the loss of her rudder, is now being towed to Cape ...
Article : 77 wordsNew South Wales Treasury bills, to the amount of £600,000, bearing interest at 4 per cent., are being placed at par. They have a currency of four years. ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. J. C. Fraser has supplied us with the average prices of English lead for the last 18 years, which is the time the Broken Hill Proprietary Company has been ...
Article : 147 wordsMr. Seddon to-day informed a deputation that if the men suffered through the Auckland lockout, the Government would be bound to supply them with work. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe State Premier intimated to-day that be noticed the opposition which has been shown in Broken Hill to the decision of the Government to obtain Parliamentary ...
Article : 251 wordsThe balance-sheet of the Bank of Australasia shows that the deposits amount to £14,313,8[?]2; cash securities, £5,874,369; and bills, £13,652,571. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe owners of the steamship, Duke of Argyll, have been awarded £2,000 in settlement of their claim in respect to the towing of the disabled steamer Queen ...
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Advertising : 225 wordsThe following are the latest quotations on the London Stock Exchange:- North Mount Lyell, £1 7/6. Chillagoe, 7/6. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe suicide of Mr. Charles Pharazyn, of London, caused a great shock to his friends and relatives here. The deceased, who was 66 years of age, was the only surviving son ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Thu 19 Mar 1903, Page 5
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