At a juvenile ball held last night in aid of the Anglican vicarage a girl named Elsie Aked because faint while dancing in a set of lancers, and died a few minutes afterwards from heart failure. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Grand Council of inter-state Chambers of Commerce continued its sittings to-day. Mr. Tussie (Perth) moved,—"That this council strongly opposes any legislation respecting inter-state ...
Article : 809 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day, the trial of Thomas Sedon and Joseph Mellon alias Vincent, on a charge of conspiring to defraud by means of forged scrip, was concluded. The jury, after deliberating 50 minutes, ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Governor-General and Lady Tennyson, attended by Lord Richard Nevill, left Melbourne by express yesterday evening for Sydney. Mr. Justice Cohen yesterday occupied a seat on the ...
Article : 885 wordsMr. W. S. Fielding, the Minister for Finance, replying to questions by Mr. J. I. Tarte and other members in the Canadian House of Commons yesterday, said that the ...
Article : 198 wordsA lyddite shell accidentally exploded in the lyddite factory at Woolwich arsenal, killing 14 persons and injuring 13 others. June 19. ...
Article : 178 wordsNewspaper correspondents at Belgrade have been allowed to inspect the palace where the murders of the King and Queen occurred. The correspondents supply sickening details ...
Article : 145 wordsThe invitation extended by a large section of members of the Imperial Parliament, representing commercial interests irrespective of party, to the French International group of ...
Article : 99 wordsThe council has decided to cut off the water supply from the Lands office because the department refuses to pay only through meter for the quantity consumed. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe weekly meeting of the National Citizens' Reform League was held to-day. Included in the correspondence were letters from the Australian National League agrecing with the League's action ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Bishop of Grafton and Armidale to-day inducted the Rev. J. W. Gerard to the charge of the Copmanhurst parish. ARMIDALE, Friday. ...
Article : 693 wordsMr. H. T. Gomm, the Official Accountant in Insolvency, who joined the service in 1859 and has reached the retiring age, has been notified that he will not be retained in the service after the 30th ...
Article : 54 wordsChina has yielded to the protests of Japan and the United States regarding the transfer of negotiations for the conclusion of commercial treaties with those ...
Article : 103 wordsIn the District Court to-day a fine of £5, with three guineas costs, was imposed on the firm of Harvey Shaw and Co. for an offence against the Customs Act It was stated time the shipping clerk of the defendant ...
Article : 221 wordsIt is understood that before electing King Peter the conspirators sounded Russia and Austria to learn how these Powers would receive the election. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in replying to a question by Sir Charles Dilke (Liberal) in the House of Commons last night, said that the ...
Article : 180 wordsKing Edward has sent a message of sympathy to the relatives of those who were killed, and has inquired concerning the sufferers by the explosion. ...
Article : 32 wordsDr. Morrison, the Peking correspondent of the "Times," stales that as evidence of Russia's grip on China even Chang-chih-tung, Viceroy of the Hupeh and ...
Article : 74 wordsIt is stated at Belgrade that some of the officers who organised the tragedy at Belgrade will be tried by their peers. The "Official Messenger" of St. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Emu Bay foreshore case, the Crown versus the Van Diemen's Land Company, in which there is an appeal against the decision of the Tusmanian Full Court, is expected to come off in London during ...
Article : 175 wordsThe income tax collections to date amount to £140,000. The amount reached as high an £141,000, but a number of refunds are being made, and these will bring the amount down to about the sum stated. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Metropolitan of Belgrade, who at a Thanksgiving Te Doum in the cathedral praised the army for the action it had taken in the murder of the Ring, while deploring its ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. St. John Brodrick, the Secretary of State for War, announced in the House of Commons last night, regarding the operations in Somaliland, that ...
Article : 100 wordsAt a conference held last night in connection with the annual session of the Anglican Synod, the object of which was to promote as far as possible the establishment of church schools in the more important centres ...
Article : 104 wordsThe "Daily Express" reports that Mr. Chamberlain has ascertained that 80 per cent. of the Midland manufacturers support his proposals for preferential trade between the ...
Article : 41 wordsA bottle was recently picked up on the coast at Waverley containing a message from Miss M'Quirk, the late stewardess of the ill-fated steamer Ehagamite, merely stating that the vessel had struck on the ...
Article : 144 wordsA Russian priest has blessed King Peter at a Te Deum service held at Geneva. ...
Article : 21 wordsSome time ago the Queensland Government floated Treasury bills to the value of £600,000, as authorised by the Act of 1902. The Treasurer to-day received details showing charges, &c. This ...
Article : 196 wordsThe parliamentary committee of the Trade Unions Congress has unanimously passed a resolution urging the workers to oppose Mr. Chamberlain's scheme. ...
Article : 32 wordsThr "Standard" reports that owing to a difficulty connected with the hut tax a force of constabulary with two maxims has been sent to the Swazi ...
Article : 138 wordsOn the third day of the Ascot Summer Meeting the race for the principal ovent resulted as under:- The Gold Cup, value 1000 sovs., with 3000 sovs. in ...
Article : 375 wordsOn Thursday evening a young man named James Jones, residing at Prospect, was found lying on the Western-road in an unconscious condition. It appears that he is employed at the Clyde ...
Article : 117 wordsAt 3 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in a boarding-house in Wyudhum-street, Auckland, kept by an Austrian named Lukich. The fire apparently started at the rear of the top story. The inmates were ...
Article : 155 wordsMr. Alfred Dobson, who is Agent-General for Tasmania, and who is acting as Agent-General for Victoria, correcting the declaration of Mr. Alfred ...
Article : 74 wordsAn appeal case which arose out of a difference of opinion between members of the Dental Board and an applicant for registration regarding the meaning of the words "dentistry" and "dental surgery" was ...
Article : 220 wordsNatal has adopted the South African Customs Convention drawn up at the Bloemfontein Conference. ...
Article : 21 wordsJohn Murphy, a painter, whilst working on a telephone post in Elizabeth-street, slipped and fell a distance of 20ft., with the result that he fractured his skull and forearm. He was taken to the Sydney ...
Article : 49 wordsA fire occurred in a large warehouse leased bj Mr. C. Von Hugen, furniture manufacturer, in Unionlane, last night. It was discovered by the watchman a few minutes before 11 o'clock, who noticed ...
Article : 311 wordsA meeting of members of the Liberal and Reform Association was held on Tuesday evening at the rooms, Vickery's-chambers, under the presidency of Mr. C. E. S. Turner. ...
Article : 384 wordsSir John See stated yesterday that on Thursday be received a cable message from the editor of the Westminster "Gazette," respecting the despatch on preferential trade cabled to the Secretary of State ...
Article : 207 wordsAt Chewton, in the Castlemaine district, to-day, a married woman named Rebeccah Owens ended her life by hanging herself. The cause is believed to be a feeling of humiliation that her husband, who is ...
Article : 119 wordsAs a result of the general elections in the German Empire, the position of parties so far as the first ballots show is as follows: ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Minister for Works (Mr. O'Su[?]livan), accompaniod by Mr. J. B. Nicholson, M.L.A., visited Sherbrooke and Ferndale orchards to-day. They were ...
Article : 220 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday on the body of William Gregory, who had been found dead in his house in the city on Wednesday. A widow named Selma Muller, who had been living with Gregory for ...
Article : 235 wordsThe R.M.S. Orita, the new steamer of the Orient-Pacific Company's line, a description of which was published in our issue of yesterday, arrived at Sydney on her maiden voyage from London, via the usual ports of call, at midday ...
Article : 764 wordsA British force of 200 men has had a sharp fight on the Eastern border of Sokoto, West Africa. Four of the British troops were killed and the force received a check at the ...
Article : 60 wordsViscount Cranborne, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replying in the House of Comnons last night to a question regarding the ...
Article : 89 wordsA meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and some representative men was held last night to consider a proposition in the direction of artificial rain production, and was well attended. A letter was read from ...
Article : 334 wordsMiss Irene Fletcher has given a successful recital at the Beckstein Hall. Bishop Harmer, of Adelaide, has received two separate offers of important ...
Article : 288 wordsThe weekly meeting of the executive committee of the Lord Mayor's Drought Relief Fund was held yesterday in the Town Hall. Mr. George Maiden presided, and there were also present—Dr. Burne, ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister, on receiving further information on the matter, has exonerated the Royal Society from any responsibility for the incidents connected ...
Article : 141 wordsAt the Camden branch of the People's Reform League's meeting on Thursday four members were appointed to act as delegates at the conference to be held in Sydney on July 3. It was also decided to ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Town Hall authorities are energetic in the crusade against rats. Recongnising that the hubonic plague is carried both by rats and mice, the town clerk has issued the following circular to citizens: ...
Article : 363 wordsA Jewish student is reported to have stabbed the publisher of the "Bessarabelz" newspaper (anti-Semitic organ) yesterday whilst he was walking in the Novski ...
Article : 69 wordsWe have received the following contributions towards the "S. M. Herald" Fund for the relief of persons who have suffered by the persecution of Jews in Kis[?]neff, Southern Russia: ...
Article : 56 wordsThe following decisions were issued by Sir George Turner while Acting Minister for Trade and Customs:—"Whereas crystal silver fat is imported into the Commonwelth: And whereas I [?] of opinion ...
Article : 155 wordsThere have been many callers upon Cardinal Vaughan, the Archbishop of Westminster at his present residence, Mill Hill, to express sympathy with him ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 20 Jun 1903, Page 9
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