At a service held on board the missionary steamer John Williams yesterday afternoon prior to her departure on a cruise to New Guinea and other mission stations, Rev. Dr. George Brown (Methodist Foreign ...
Article : 1,762 wordsThe premises of Silbert and Sharpe, fruitereres, and H. A. Parsons, stationer, Hannan-street, were visited by burglars on Sunday night. At the first-named shop a window which had been left ...
Article : 162 wordsThe fund is controlled by a committee of citizens. The honorary treasurers are Messrs. George Maiden, Frank Grimley, and J. Randal Carey, and the honorary secretaries are Messrs. Thomas Nesbitt ...
Article : 600 wordsThe annual fete of the A.N.A. held last month yielded a net profit of between £300 and £400. This is claimed to be a complete answer to those members of the association who urged that the fete ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, on the resolution for the adoption of the Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne, Major E. W. Beckett (Conservative, Whitby), ...
Article : 224 wordsMr. Chamberlain yesterday spoke to the members of the Capetown Chamber of Commerce on the subject of colonial contributions to the defence of the Empire. ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Powers insist upon the Porte appointing an Inspector-General over the Macedonian provinces for three years and that he shall be empowered to use troops without consulting ...
Article : 114 wordsA branch of the Drought Relief Fund was inaugurated at the public meeting held last night under the presidency of Alderman J. Stokes, Mayor. The sum of £11 was subscribed in the room, and collectors ...
Article : 171 wordsAt a conference to consider industrial legislation, held at the Trades Hall yesterday, the chairman, Mr. M. Hannah, referred to the report of the Royal Commission on the Factories and Shops Act. He ...
Article : 68 wordsSome Dr. Lovegrove's visit to Collie 15 new cases of fever occurred, making 85 under treatment. Many families are leaving Collie. The latest cases appear to be the result of contagion. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works has issued the prospectus of a 4 per cent. loan of £1,137,000, redeemable on October 1, 1925. The loan is offered at par. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. A. G. Humby writes:—"No one living in Sydney has any possible idea of the anxiety of the farmers and settlers regarding the seed wheat advances to be made by the Government. There is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 wordsThe Rev. E. S. Bickford was elected president of the Methodist Conference, which opened at the Wesley Church to-day, by an overwhelming number of votes. The retiring secretary (the Rev. ...
Article : 43 wordsExceptional military activity prevails at Kieff on the Dnieper and at Odessa, on the Black Sea. Arrangements have been completed to enable 100,000 men of the first-class ...
Article : 60 wordsYesterday Sir Henry Juta, formerly Speaker of the Cape House of Assembly, introduced to Mr. Chamberlain a deputation of persecuted Dutch loyalists, ...
Article : 199 wordsMembers of the family of Mr. Taunton, residing at East Maryborough, were thrown into a state or alarm this evening by the conduct of a young man who developed mental trouble. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 219 wordsLieutenant Sarafoff has equipped seven fresh Bulgarian armed bands of 250 men each. ...
Article : 18 wordsMr. St. John Brodrick, the Secretary of State for War, in the House of Commons last night stated that the strength of the volunteers at present was 250,990 men. There was, ...
Article : 84 wordsAn Irade has been issued authorising the Turkish Minister for "War to purchase 10 Maxims. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe hearing of the action of the Minister for Customs v. Robert Reid and Co., Limited, was continued to-day in the Supreme Court, Brisbane, before Justice Cooper and a special jury of four. ...
Article : 1,135 wordsThe "Novoe Vremya," a St. Petersburg journal, says that the French and Russian navies combined are now able to dispute the British supremacy of the sea. ...
Article : 73 wordsExperiments in the new cavalry methods are being made at Hounslow. The experiments embrace the Boer tactics and other lessons learned in the South African war, especially ...
Article : 34 wordsAnother case of plague is reported from Fremantle. The last files of Japanese papers convey information that additional cases of plague have occurred ...
Article : 61 wordsThe City Council last evening adopted the following recommendations of the finance committee:— "That the free use of the Town Hall be granted to the Professional Musicians' Association's ...
Article : 109 wordsThe consensus of opinion at Capetown is that Mr. Chamberlain's interview with the Afrikander Bond leaders was the best day's work he has accomplished during his tour. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Chinchilla-Hawkwood mailman, named Miller, was assaulted and badly stunned at Auburn station yesterday by two aboriginals, Ginang (escapes from Frazer's Island) and another. The ...
Article : 63 wordsThe trial of an action relating to a considerable consignment of wool was commenced to-day before Mr. Justice Holroyd in the Banco Court, Plaintiffs are Nicholas and William S. Cole, ...
Article : 218 wordsMr. Clement Wragge delivered a lecture in the Town Hall last night entitled "A Voyage Through the Universe." It was illustrated by magnificent lantern views. There was a large audience. ...
Article : 98 wordsSir,—The offer made at Ashfield by Mr. Broughton, M.L.A., of one month's Parliamentary salary as a contribution to the Drought Fund appears to me to be about as generous as an ...
Article : 539 wordsOwing to the withdrawal of the Mullah of Somaliland from his position near the coast, the British will establish an advanced base at [?]udug in April. When the Bohotle force ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, on the order of the day for the consideration of the report of the select committee in regard to the administration of the Lands Department, the Premier expressed the ...
Article : 1,080 wordsMr. and Mrs. Chamberlain will return to England by the Union Castle liner Norman Castle, which leaves Capetown on Wednesday. ...
Article : 27 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 1s 10¼d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 18 wordsAt a special meeting of the Hunter's Hill Council it was decided to formally open the new local Town Hall on Wednesday, March 11, with a concert, the proceeds to be devoted to the Drought Relief Fund. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe heads of numerous rebels have been sent to Fez. The heads are not those of rebels taken in battle, but were obtained at rebel villages. ...
Article : 53 wordsBert Osborne, who last week was sentenced to imprisonment for life on a charge of manufacturing spurious coins, was to-day found guilty at the criminal sittings of shooting at Constable James ...
Article : 114 wordsAn unsuccessful effort was made this morning to get the Trilby off the north beach. She is still in the same position, which is dangerous if southerly weather comes on. She lies about two ...
Article : 100 wordsA meeting of the local drought relief committee was held at the Burwood Council-chambers on Monday night, when it was announced that £110 had been collected. This satisfactory total has, ...
Article : 56 wordsConsequent upon the translation of the Bishop of Winchester (Dr. Randall Davidson) to the Archbishopric of Canterbury and the death of Dr. Festing (Bishop of St. Albans), ...
Article : 103 wordsA public meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held at the council chambers last evening to take stops to raise funds in the district for the relief of drought-stricken settlers in the interior. Resolutions ...
Article : 212 wordsThe inquest at Clare concerning the death of Joseph Ninnes was resumed this morning, when John Warburton continued his evidence. He denied that he had said to Miss Wyman: "If anybody ...
Article : 174 wordsThe following correspondence upon the above subject has passed between the State Premier (Sir John See) and the Secretary for Home Affairs (Sir William Lyne):— ...
Article : 277 wordsAt Monday night's meeting of the Marrickville Council the Mayor, Alderman T. H. England, read a minute which he had prepared on the leprosy case at Strathfield, and which matter, he said, was of the ...
Article : 532 wordsThe petition of William Thomas Dyme for a certificate in insolvency was heard to-day, before Mr. Commissioner Russell. The State Children's Department was the principal opposing creditor, claiming ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. W. P. Reeves, Agent-General for New Zealand, in an interview said that the English critics of Australian finance overlooked the fact that the system of colonial finance ...
Article : 74 wordsA meeting convened by the Mayor of Windsor was held in the local council-chambers last night to devise the best means of augmenting the Lord Mayor's Fund for the relief of farmers and others ...
Article : 163 wordsThe R.M.S. Orizaba reached Adelaide early to-day with 363 passengers for all ports. The eastern mails were sent on by the ordinary Melbourne express, and the vessel resumed her voyage at ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Victorian cricketers, with the exception of Monfries and Collins, arrived with their manager, Mr. W. H. Dow, and had practice on Adelaide Oval this afternoon. The last Sheffield Shield match ...
Article : 98 words2975 ewes and 85 rams. East Blowring to Lower Lila, Agency, Land, and Finance Company: 36 rams, Widgiewa to Newfoundland, H. Murray: 8500 sheep. Quantambone to Kenilworth, Meares and Co. ...
Article : 458 wordsSouth Australian 3 per cents are quoted 1¼ lower at 89¾. New Zealand 3's are ? lower at 93?. ...
Article : 26 wordsA letter was read at the Nowra Council meeting last night from the secretaries of the Lord Mayor's Drought Relief Fund, asking the council to take stops to secure assistance for the fund from this ...
Article : 112 wordsA youth living at a suburb of Invercargill suddenly became insane, and hacked off the tips of three of his fingers. He then attacked his mother, threw her on the floor, and tried to strangle her. Mr. Gray, ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Canadian-Pacific Railway Company has Purchased the Beaver Steamship line. The Dutch railway employees proposo to go on strike to prevent the adoption of a bill ...
Article : 154 wordsA meeting of residents convened by the Mayor in response to a circular from the secretaries of the Lord Mayor's Fund was held in the School of Arts last night to consider the advisableness of ...
Article : 137 wordsDuring the proceedings at the Methodist Conference to-day reference was made to the recent alleged burning of Bibles in Fiji. The retiring President (the Rev. Dr. Fitchett) in the course of his ...
Article : 234 wordsThe departure of Mr. W. Knox, M.P., for London by the steamer India to-day is regarded as connected with negotiations for the amalgamation of the Mount Lyell and North Lyell Companies. Mr. ...
Article : 173 wordsAlmost every steamer from Sydney brings stowaways to Auckland. How to deal with them is becoming a serious question. In five cases a fine of £5 each was imposed, with an alternative of a ...
Article : 56 wordsThe trouble which has arisen in consequence of the proposal to allow a man suffering from leprosy to live in Strathfield in a house which was to be constituted a private lazarette, has been overcome ...
Article : 132 wordsThe first innings of Lord Hawke's team in the match against South Island closed for 314. South Island in the first innings made 51, and in the second 133. The Englishmen thus won by an innings and ...
Article : 94 wordsOur Gulgong correspondent, who has just returned from a visit to Cassilis and Merriwa, writes as follows:—"Rain is badly wanted at Cassilis and Merriwa. The Munmurra (Cassilis), Krui, Collaroy, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 25 Feb 1903, Page 7
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