The remains of Sir John B. Thurston, who died during the voyage of the Burrumbeet from Sydney to Melbourne, were removed from the steamer to-day and were conveyed to the ...
Article : 144 wordsAn application was made to the Chief Justice in Chambers to-day for direction as to the meeting of the creditors of the Queensland National Bank to consider the new scheme of arrangement proposed ...
Article : 1,191 wordsWhen the Cabinet met this afternoon Ministers pressed the Premier to accept Mr. Chamberlain's invitation to visit London. It was represented that the invitation was a sort of Royal command, ...
Article : 233 wordsReports from San Francisco state that Butler has informed Constable Conroy that two men forced him to accept part of Captain Lee Weller's belongings, and he ...
Article : 207 wordsMe[?]rs/ Siemens' claim against the La[?]ston Corporation for loss through detentions connected with the supply of the electric light service has been reduced from £955 to £727, and this amount ...
Article : 197 wordsM. Hanotaux, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, states that the recent speech of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the House of ...
Article : 156 wordsSir John Bates Thurston, Governor of Fiji, died on board the steamer Burrumbeet during the voyage from Sydney to Melbourne, Sir John was proceeding south for the benefit of his health. ...
Article : 7,762 wordsBy the death of Sir J.B. Thurston, K.C.M.G., F.L.S., [?].R.G.S., Great Britain has lost one of h[?] most capable colonial administrators, and th[?] foremost man in the Western Pacific. His death ...
Article : 1,580 wordsThe four-masted schooner Charles F. Crocker, from Newcastle to Honolulu, put in here in a l[?]aking condition. She encountered tho full force of the recent gale, during which she sprang a leak, ...
Article : 220 wordsReference was made at a meeting of the Cabinet to-day to the request of the Imperial Government that representatives of the colonial military forces should be sent to London to form part of ...
Article : 76 wordsFire thousand persons have fled from Crete, and 2000 more are refugees on the British men-of-war in the harbour. Feb. 9. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Public Service Commissioners [?]at to-day and inquired into the charges formulated against William Morkham, accountant in the Post and Telegraph Department. The charges were ...
Article : 110 wordsAs far as tha public is concerned it has always remained a matter of mystery as to the identity of the gentleman who left Sydney with Butler on the l5th September. Detective M[?] Lean has discovered that the ...
Article : 1,331 wordsThe Health Department was successful to-day in tracing some more of the passengers by the steamer Ninev[?]h who landed at Melbourne, but six are still reported to be at ...
Article : 261 wordsA tent, occupied by Mr. Kin[?]n, manager of the Brookman Exploration Company, was out open on Saturday, and £120, with which it was intended to pay wages, was stolen. ...
Article : 34 wordsA meeting of the league officials who conducted the meeting at St. Kilda on Saturday was held to-night to consider what further action should be taken in connection with the supposed ...
Article : 236 wordsThe following telegram was received from Mr. Rudall this morning:—"Again unsuccessful. We left Toongoonaralagee Pool on the 19th January, and travelled up the eastern branch of Oakover. ...
Article : 836 wordsNews from West Africa states that the British punitive expedition to Benin will advance from Forcad[?]s, a branch of the Niger Delta, to-morrow. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Transvaal has joined the Geneva Convention without first consulting Great Britain. In answer to a question in the House ...
Article : 51 wordsYesterday Mr. R. H. Wilson reported to the authorities at the office of the Board of Health that he was one of the passengers by the Nin[?]ve[?], on which an outbreak of smallpox has occurred. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe secretary of the Meat and Dairy Board is issuing certificates of payments to the meat and dairy fund in terms of section 6, Act 95, wherein it is provided that any person having paid ...
Article : 143 wordsThe report of the Pacific Cable Commission will be sent to the Australian Governments by the mail leaving on Friday next. ...
Article : 29 wordsA banquet was tendered to Mr. W. H. Walker, of Tenterfield station, by the townspeople last night, on the eve of his departure on a six months' trip to Great Britain for the benefit of his health. The ...
Article : 430 wordsMr. R. W. Richards, the city surveyor of Sydney, has arrived in London. He is inquiring into the working of the abattoirs, electric lighting, and the methods of ...
Article : 42 wordsFederation literature grows apace, and among other publications which have reached us Mr. A. N. Robertson offers a pamphlet called " Federation and Afterwards " (Angus and Robertson). ...
Article : 645 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has stated on behalf of the Government that the Hon. G. N. Curzon, Under-Secretary for Foreign ...
Article : 54 wordsThe steamer Langton Grange, of the Grange Line, which put into Buenos Ayres on 6th January in a disabled condition, has resumed her voyage to London. ...
Article : 34 wordsThere has lately been introduced to the Sydney cycle market a new machine—new, atallevents, to the colo[?]y, although the makers have been established for over 20 years in Coventry, the home of ...
Article : 368 wordsA disastrous fire occurred about 1 o'clock to-day. The Palace Hotel, owned by Mr. Hugh Livingstone, of Codrington, and occupied by Mr. Alexander Livingstone, was completely destroyed. It was the ...
Article : 154 wordsMessrs. Farmer and Co., of Sydney, are offering 6 per cent. preference shares of £10 each to the amount of £13,334. The price per share is fixed ...
Article : 36 wordsAt a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute last night the Hon. T. A. Brassey, son of Lord Brassey, Governor of Victoria, read a paper on the question of the ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the wool sales this evening small catalogues were offered, and competition was quiet. Feb. 9. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 247 wordsSir John Forrest received a telegram to-day from Mr. H. S. Radford, Deputy Surveyor-General, of Perth, as follows:—" Just received news that Rudall states that Connaughton, who was sent ...
Article : 131 wordsAlthough Premier Kingston declines to reveal his wishes in connection with Mr. Chamberlain's invitation, it is understood that the Premier's colleagues have offered in every way to facilitate ...
Article : 111 wordsAt St. Kild[?] track to-day Lean[?], the French cyclist, made on attack on Pearson's mile record of 1 miunte [?]3 seconds. At the first try Le[?] cut the time down to 1 minute [?]0 3-[?] second, and at the ...
Article : 167 wordsSir,—Will you allow me to pay a tribute to the memory of the Governor of many islands who ha[?] passed away. His rule altered not the laws, customs, nor government of the Fijians, reconciling [?] ...
Article : 61 wordsAt Mark Lane English wheat is selling at is per quarter lower. The market is weak. The price of foreign wheat is ...
Article : 31 wordsADELAIDE.—Arrivals; February 9, Lindus (s.), Bullara (s.), from Fremantle. Depature[?]: February 9. Wollowra (s.), for Fremantle; Bullimba (s.), for Fremantle. ...
Article : 22 wordsA boy named John Finlay (12), wh[?]e parent[?] reside here, was accidentally drowned while bathing in the river this afternoon. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 10 Feb 1897, Page 7
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