The second match of the Australians' tour entered upon its second day this morning. When play closed yesterday the Notts' innings of 287 finished just upon time for ...
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Article : 46 wordsA St. Thomas cablegram states that thousands of people were killed at St. Pierre, Martinique, by the eruption of Mount Pelee. A stream of boiling mud, which has been ...
Article : 550 wordsMr. D. C. M'Lachlan, Federal Public Service Commissioner, arrived in Melbourne yesterday, and immediately made arrangements for taking up his duties to-morrow. Mr. M'Lachlan had an interview ...
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Article : 21 wordsSir Clements Markham, the President of the Royal Georgraphical Society, urgently appeals to tho public for £6000, to despatch a relief ship for the Antarctic Expedition. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe transport Englishman with Australian troops aboard from Sydney March 21 has arrived at Durban. ...
Article : 28 wordsA cyclist named Joseph Bennett Andrews, 26 years of age, residing at Excelsior-parade, Marrickville, met with a serious accident on Saturday afternoon near the Enmore tram terminus. It appears that ...
Article : 218 wordsThe solicitor of the brothers Crawford, the nephews of Mr. Crawford, who was alleged to have bequeathed £4,000,000 to Mme. Humbert, has been arrested. ...
Article : 35 wordsPrivate A. L. Way, of the 8th New Zealand Contingent, has succumbed to a fall at Vaalbunk. ...
Article : 27 wordsSt. Vincent is one of the Windward group of islands in the West Indies, and has an area of 147 square miles, and a population of 47,700, of which it is estimated that about seven-eighths are negroes and ...
Article : 830 wordsMr. Charles Arnold, of Sydney, has presented the cricket club of Derbyshire, his native county, with 500 guineas. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe detachment of 25 men, in command of Lieutenant J. D. Bathgate, of the 5th Battalion Commonwealth Contingent, which proceeds ahead of the remainder of the battalion in charge of 147 horses ...
Article : 428 wordsWarrants have been issued for the arrest of M. Humbert, a son of a Minister of M. de Freycinet's Cabinet, of his wife, Mme. Humbert, and of his wife's sister Mdlle. Marie ...
Article : 134 wordsDaniel Egan, a labourer, living at Ultimo-road, Ultimo, was admitted to the Sydney Hosptial on Saturday suffering from a fracture of the skull, caused through being knocked down by a bicycle in ...
Article : 42 wordsAbout 11.30 a.m. yesterday, a married woman named Beatrice Walters, residing temporarily at 72 Abattoir-road, was admitted to the Balmain Hospital suffering from the effect of phosphorus poisoning. ...
Article : 121 wordsOn Saturday night an engineer named Robert Rutherford, residing at 13 Nicholson-street, Balmain, was getting off the ferry steamer at the Darling-street wharf, when he tripped and fell, and his ...
Article : 62 wordsDuring the early part of the football match on the Birchgrove reserve on Saturday afternoon, between Balmain H. and Newtown H., H. Dick, one of the local players, met with a very painful accident, ...
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Article : 91 wordsThe dead body of an infant, wrapped in newspapers, was found in the ladies' lavatory on No. 5 platform at the Redfern railway station on Friday night by one of the attendants. The body was taken ...
Article : 65 wordsMichael Kennedy, 60, a gardener, residing at 54 South-street, Rushentter Bay, was conveyed to the Sydney Hospital on Saturday afternoon by Constable A. T. Dowse, of Darlinghurst Police Station, ...
Article : 71 wordsCaptain Ernest Alfred Blow, who has been appointed to the command of A Squadron, is 33 years of age, and obtained his first military experience in the old Illawarra Light Horse. After two years' service ...
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Article : 84 wordsThe Australian team will commence a match against Surrey at Kennington Oval on Monday. The Surrey eleven will be selected from the following:—D. L. A. Jephson, V. F. ...
Article : 64 wordsA girl named Alice Purkes, who resides at Churchstreet, Concord, attempted to jump over a small culvert at Meadowbank on Saturday afternoon, when she fell, fracturing her left leg. She was conveyed ...
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Article : 66 wordsThe third engagement of the campaign will be against Surrey, and will commence to-day at Kennington Oval. This willmake the seventeenth match between the Australians and that country. Of ...
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Article : 46 wordsShortly after 7 o'clock last evening a lad named William Downes, 17, residing at Kingsclear-road, Alexandria, attempted to alight from a tram whilst it was in motion on the Botany-road Downes was ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Kwang-si rebels bombarded the town of Nanning-fu. 350 of the inhabitants were killed. ...
Article : 25 wordsEsthan King, 23, barmaid, residing at Simmsstreet, Dalinghurst, was treated at the Sydney Hospital yesterday for a fracture of the shoulder. The injury was caused in a buggy accident. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe long and arduous tour of the Minister for Lands, Mr. Crick, through a portion of the droughtstricken Western Division, in company with Mr. C. J. M'Master, chairman of the Western Lands Board, ...
Article : 348 wordsMr. W. T. Stead explains that from 1891 to 1899 he was, under the wills of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, entrusted with the sole execution of his imperialistic ideals. Just before the war ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Soufriere volcano in St. Vincent, Windward Islands, is smoking ominously. Active craters at Dominica, Leeward Group, are in a state of eruption. ...
Article : 193 wordsAn elderly woman named Ellon Cox fell from the verandah at her residence, Mangrove Creek, Hawkesbury River, on Saturday, dislocating her left thigh. She was brought to Sydney by train, ...
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Article : 39 wordsThe launching of a new tugboat for the Adelaide Steamship Company formed the occasion of a pleasing ceremony on Saturday at the company's yards, Peacock's Point, Balmain. The new steamer was ...
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Article : 46 wordsThe troopship Cornwall, which left Durban on April 10, arrived in Sydney on Saturday afternoon and anchored at Watson's Bay. She had on board 9 officers and 300 non-commissioned officers and men ...
Article : 78 wordsTenders for the outer harbour are to be sent in by September 30. Plans and specifications will be available at the Engineer-in-Chief's office on Monday. The contract includes the making of a channel ...
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Article : 50 wordsThe largest steam scow on the coast was successfully launched at Tuncarry this morning. The vessel (a twin-screw steamer) was built for Mr. J. Wright. Her dimensions ...
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Article : 107 wordsAboard the steamer Westralia, due at Melbourne on Monday morning, are 20 female teachers from New Zealand proceeding to South Africa to instruct Boer children in the refugee camps. Hearty cheers ...
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Article : 49 wordsThe troopship Columbian, which arrived here late on Saturday night from Adelaide, resumed her voyage to Sydney this evening. ALWAYS ASK FOR ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 12 May 1902, Page 7
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