LONDON, May 19.—At the meeting of the British Empire Trade League, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord President of the Council, who presided, laid great stress upon the value ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Commandant of the island of Tortuga (Turtle Island), off the north coast of Hayti, has reported to the Government of Hayti that sounds of heavy ...
Article : 65 wordsIt was frosty at a number of places in the country this morning. No rain was reported from any part of the colony this morning. ...
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Advertising : 132 wordsThe rigorous censorship over messages from the war correspondents prevents the divulging of the movements of the American squadrous. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe American naval authorities insist upon cutting the three remaining British cables in the West Indies, with a view to isolating General Blanco, the ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, May 19.—The Tientsin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that Japan is eager to enter into an alliance with Great Britain, and is ready to land 300,000 ...
Article : 55 wordsAmerican papers, as a cablegram tells us, are paying tributes to Gladstone's memory, and declaring his death to be a world's loss. It did not need the last event of all in the career of the ...
Article : 898 wordsThe "Standard's" correspondent states that the American volunteers are unprepared for active service, and that one regiment is without horses. ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, May 19.—Admiral Dupont, of the French navy, deplores the crushing numerical naval superiority of Great Britain over France, but says that the French could organize an ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, May 19.—A disastrous tornado has passed over Clinton, in the State of Iowa, U.S.A. Great damage was done to property, and ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Cadiz squadron, comprising twelve ships, is ready for sea. It is reported that the squadron will proceed to the Philippiness at the end of May, via ...
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Family Notices : 321 wordsAn elderly man named Henry Heaps is at present an inmate of Prince Alfred Hospital suffering from a serious internal injury. Heaps resides at Newtown, and as he alleges that he was ...
Article : 190 wordsLONDON, May 19.—The British colonies have been allotted 25,000 cubic feet of space in the main building of the Paris Exhibition of 1900. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe coal in the bunkers of the American auxiliary cruiser St. Paul took fire while there were 1300 tons of ammunition on board. The names were subdued after ...
Article : 71 wordsThe fears that the Spanish fleet under Admiral Cerveras was lying in wait for the United States battleship Oregon, which is on its way from San Francisco to Key ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, May 19.—Lord Hawke, captain of the Yorkshire Country Cricket Club, has invited the country clubs to hold a meeting with a view to the Marylebone Club arranging the tour of ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the Central Police Court (summons division) to-day, Fanny Sidley proceeded against Constable Andrew Travers, of No. 2 Station, on an information charging him with, on April 23, 1898, before Mr. ...
Article : 283 wordsThe British authorities are storing enormous supplies of coal at Esquimalt, the naval station at the south end of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia. ...
Article : 48 wordsLONDON, May 19.—The wheat market is quiet. At Mark Lane prices show a decline of is per quarter. ...
Article : 23 wordsTHE death is announced of Mr. Gladstone, whom every English-speaking man and woman can remember as the leading Liberal of Great Britain and the world for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsA new argument has been brought forward in support of the trans-Pacific cable. It has transpired (writes the Melbourne "Argus"London correspondent) that notice has ...
Article : 187 wordsLONDON, May 18.—The report of the directors of the Van Diemen's Land Company shows a profit of [?]3768. A dividend of 8s per share is recommended, and [?]146 is to be ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, May 19.—A few cases of the shipment of apples by the steamer Gulf of Bothnia have been sold in Covent Garden Market at from 4s 6d to 8s 1d per case. The Tasmanian ...
Article : 49 wordsBoth the bilious and antibillious profess to believe that the report of the Finance Committee, commented upon yesterday, is entirely in the favor of their respective parties, and they a ...
Article : 840 wordsLONDON, May 19.—The London Chamber of Mines has passed resolutions to the effect that the reconstructed Queensland mining companies will be unfairly placed unless allowed ...
Article : 43 wordsA man named Frederick Warren, residing in Cleveland-street, Redfern, had an unpleasant experience while preceeding home last night. By way of a short cut Warren entered Prince Alfred ...
Article : 213 wordsLONDON, May 19.—A pianoforte recital was given at the Salle Erard, London yesterday by M. Henri Kowalski, the well-known pianist, formerly of Sydney. ...
Article : 52 wordsAnother bag-the seventh-of the Manawatu's mail's has been recovered from the wreck of that vessel in Hobson's Bay. The recovery was made yesterday morning, and immediately the bag was ...
Article : 136 wordsA grand institution, in its way, no doubt, is that of trial by jury. Our ancestors weren't happy till they got it, and handed it down to us, and, of course, it is one of the most cherished of ...
Article : 810 wordsNEWCASTLE, Friday.—In shipping circles a good deal of anxiety is being felt for several vessels which are overdue here, amongst them being the barque Elion, now twenty-four cays out from the Bluff, bound ...
Article : 146 wordsA telegraph operator named James Donnelly, residing in Ansandale-street, Waverley, while proceeding, along Pyrmont Bridge-road late on Wednesday night was "held up" by footpads, who robbed ...
Article : 70 wordsAn attempt was made yesterday morning to break into premises in Little George-street. The "cracksmen"sought to prize open a cellar grating with a crowbar, but were evidently disturbed, ...
Article : 97 wordsThe M.F.B. was summoned to a fire in Pitt-street early this morning. The outbreak was located on premises at the rear of 3691/2, occupied by Meinzel and Nettlebeck, bamboo furniture-markers, and was ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Fri 20 May 1898, Page 4
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