The Governor-General dissolved Parliameat yesterday, and to-day there is not an M.P. in the Commonwealth. It would have been pleasant to record that the First Federal ...
Article : 315 wordsAt Outtrim on Saturday evening a savage attack was made by a number of strikers upon Samuel Newton, an informant in a recent arson case, and upon James Shirley, with ...
Article : 60 wordsDr. Alfred Marshall, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, in a letter to the Unionist Free Food League, admits that the changes of ...
Article : 180 wordsKing Edward and Queen Alexandra bade an affectionate farewell to King Victor Emmanuel of Italy and Queen Helena at Windsor to-day. ...
Article : 79 wordsSenator George Alexander Drummond, the president of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, speaking at a meeting of the association, said, "We favour a general ...
Article : 131 wordsIn the libel suit by J. C. H. Ogier, ex-P.M., against John Norton, which was heard by Mr. Justice Hodges and a jury two months ago, when the jury awarded plaintiff £500 ...
Article : 99 wordsA despatch has been received by the Governor, which he forwarded to the Premier, conveying the King's assent to the Reform Bill. The bill does not come into operation till after ...
Article : 59 wordsWhilst some Italians employed on the Pennsylvania railway were sleeping in a shanty at Altoona an overheated stove set fire to the woodwork of the structure. A ...
Article : 91 wordsA peculiar case of shooting is reported from Glenfyne, near Cobden. It is alleged that a selector named Samuel Steers, aged 10, suspected a neighbour, named George Graham, of ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Green, the secretary of the Rural Labourers' League, in a letter to the "Times" states that the number of farmers and agricultural labourers has decreased ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. Chamberlain addressed 3000 workers at Newport on Saturday night. He contrasted Mr. Asquith's optimism with Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's quotation ...
Article : 668 wordsAt the inquest to-day concerning the motor bicycle fatality at St. Kilda. Samuel H. Hair, father of the deceased lad, said that has son had a natural gift for machinery. Witness did ...
Article : 68 wordsOur Albury correspondent telegraphs:—"The £100 limit of expenditure by candidates contesting the Hume Federal electorate is practically impossible of observance. One candidate ...
Article : 316 wordsThe "Koelnische Zeitung" reports that the Chinese representative at Lhassa, the capital of Thibet, has been recalled owing to the conclusion of a secret treaty ...
Article : 125 wordsAt the wool sales to-day a good selection was offered. Competition was exceedingly brisk and the market has now quite recovered from the fall of a week ago, though it is still beoind ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is understood that the Premier, Mr. Irvine will advise his supporters that he does not see his way clear to retain office after the present session. ...
Article : 34 wordsDespite the opposition of M. WaldeckRousscau, formerly the Premier, the French Senate, by 147 votes to 136, has passed an amendment proposed by the Government ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Government Geologist (Mr. H. Y. L. Brown, who last week visited the Coorong district, where it was stated that indications of mineral oil had been discovered, has sent in a ...
Article : 184 wordsThe commission appointed by the Transvaal Government to make inquiry into the supply of labour for agriculture, public works, and the mines has presented its ...
Article : 148 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2½d per ounce standard, a fall of 1/2d since Friday. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe new White Star steamer Baltic was launched from the yard of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, at Belfast, yesterday. The Baltic is the largest liner afloat, ...
Article : 126 wordsMr. J. P. Gray has particular claims to inclusion in the freetrade bunch for the Senate. He would have been returned at the first elections if it had not been that thousands of ...
Article : 322 wordsFreehold property situated in King William-street, Adelaide, has been sold at £285 per ft. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe harbour master at Wallaroo has notified the Marine Department at Port Adelaide that the barque Bannockburn, which went ashore on Shoalwater Point, Spencer's Gulf, on ...
Article : 48 wordsThis morning the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Ferret, which was aground on Long Point, Tipara Bay, last week, was placed on Fletcher's slip at Port Adelaide, where she ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Tribuna" of Rome says that the Marquis of Lansdowne, the British Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Signor Tittoni, the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, ...
Article : 57 wordsA Chinese cook named Chenk Kay died at Cairns from a disease resembling plague on Sunday. Though the Government medical officer has not definitely pronounced the case to ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Anglican synod decided last Friday night to establish a new diocese to include the south-west districts with the See at Bunbury. ...
Article : 32 wordsDr. W. E. Warren, the Ministerial candidate for West Sydney, addressed a meeting at Federation Hall, Church Hill, last night. There was a good attendance, a number of ...
Article : 420 words"Now therefore I, the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, in the exercise of the power conferred by the Constitution, de by this proclamation dissolve the ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Colonial Treasurer (Mr. Gardiner), alluding at Russelton on Friday to the no-confidence motion, said that Parliament had been sitting for 10 out of the 16 months that the ...
Article : 255 wordsAt a meeting of the Brisbane City Council to-day consideration of the recommendations embodied in the report of the special inquiry committee was resumed. A discussion ...
Article : 104 wordsA railway accident occurred yesterday at Palezieux, a town in Switzerland, near Lausanne. The express from Berne to Lasanne, when nearing the town named, ...
Article : 66 wordsA correspondent urges freetrade candidates to leave Mr. Chamberlain alone, and there is sound common sense in his advice. Of course, we can't leave his policy altogether alone, ...
Article : 1,427 wordsH.M.S. Torch left Gladstone to-day for Sydney. She took 50 tons of coal aboard from the Callide coalfield to test its steaming qualities. As the vessel steamed out of the ...
Article : 99 wordsArthur Edward Saunders Sebright has been sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour for having frandulently induced the Marquis of Downshire ...
Article : 120 wordsThe salaries of members, of course, terminate with the life of the Parliament. In the case of Ministers, however, the Constitution makes provision that while they lose £400 a ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Chamberlain was entertained at luncheon at Cardiff on Saturday, and in responding to the toast of his health he referred to the fiscal question. ...
Article : 180 wordsSir Rupert Clarke's new schooner-yacht La Carabine, which has been built here, was launched to-day in the presence of the owner, who purposes returning to Melbourne in her. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe German steamer Prince Sigismund arrived, at Brisbane yesterday from Singapore after an uneventful voyage, fine weather and a smooth sea prevailing throughout. Passengers—For Sydney: Dr. ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Deakin has felt severely the strain of his northern tour. Since returning to Melbourne he has taken what rest the heavy duties of office would permit, and hoped to be in good ...
Article : 84 wordsThe new offices erected at Wellington for the Railway Department were formally opened to-day. The building, with furnishing, cost about £35,000. ...
Article : 26 wordsLord Peel, the chairman of the South Wales Mineowners and Miners' Conciliation Board, at a meeting of the board on Saturday at Cardiff regarding the wages ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 258 wordsAt the dispersal sale of Messrs. M'Hardy Brothers' stud cattle farm, near Palmerston North, the total sum realised was £4943. This herd was established some years ago by ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. W. H. Kelly, the selected freetrade candidate, addressed over 600 electors at Bundock's Corner, Arden-street, Little Coogee, last night, and had a good reception. A motion of ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. J. B. Dalley, "the preferential trade candidate" for Wentworth, was announced yesterday morning to address the electors at the Randwick Town Hall in the evening, and the ...
Article : 1,208 wordsThe barque Edenholme, from London, reports that when off the Cape a tidal wave struck her, carrying away three boats, injuring others, and making a clean sweep of the deck, smashing the wheel, the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe death is announced of Prince Dimitri Soltykoff, the well-known sportsman, a member of the Jockey Club. (The above appeared in a portion of yesterday's issue.) ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. C. Dyer, a candidate for the suffrages of the Parkes electors in the labour interest, addressed a meeting at the Ashfield Hall last night. Alderman A. W. Miller (Mayor of ...
Article : 170 wordsMr. C. T. Ritchie, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a letter to the Registration Association of Croydon (his constituency), wrote, "I agres with Mr. Balfour that we ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 24 Nov 1903, Page 7
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