A cyclone with hurricane force visited port Darwin early on Thursday morning with appalling effects both to life and property. All Palmerston is levelled to the ground. The ...
Article : 606 wordsThe bubonic plague which has caused such terrible loss of life at Bombay is now raging with great virulence at Karachi and in consequence the mills have been closed. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe dispute between the marine engineers and the associated shipowners has once more reached a stage where the outlook is full of promise of an amicable settlement. On ...
Article : 430 wordsMr. Cecil Rhodes, ex-Premier of Cape Colony, who has just returned from the recent campaign against the Matabeles in Rhodesia, was entertained at a banquet in Cape Town to-day ...
Article : 440 wordsThe enquiry into the cause of the foundering of the Orient mail steamer Orotava at Tilbury Dock on December 14 has been concluded. The verdict returned was that the foundering ...
Article : 56 wordsA scheme for making money which perhaps looked well on paper has come to grief. The facts are simple. They are also interesting. On December 21 Mr. W. A. kingsborough, ...
Article : 1,236 wordsThe record of work done by their Honors. the judgment of the Supreme Court during [?] [?] ...
Article : 113 wordsThe returns of the Bank of England for the week ending on Wednesday, published today, show that the reserve of notes and coin held by the bank is £24,746,000 as against ...
Article : 267 wordsThe young woman, Maud Dean, who was burnt by an explosion at the kerosine stores, died this morning. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. ...
Article : 778 wordsDuring the year which has just closed there were 84 insolvencies (excluding annulments) in South Australia as compared with 94 during the preceding twelve months, and 85 ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Board of Trade returns of the trade of the United Kingdom for the month of December show an increase in the value of the imports over the corresponding period of 1895 ...
Article : 47 wordsThe French military authorities are arranging for the next manoeuvres, which are to take place at Dunkirk and Calais, the navy cooperating with the land forces. ...
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Article : 26 wordsThe woolgrowers of the United States have assured the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives that the proposals for the free introduction of wool to the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Westralia land Company propose offering to subscribe in London for Government 3 per cent, stock to the amount of £3,100,000. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe number of miner's rights, claims, leases, &c., granted by the South Australian Mines Department during 1886 as compared with the preceding year is shown by the following ...
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Article : 90 wordsBoron De Courcel, the French Ambassador in London, during the course of an interview, has given expression to the opinion that all minor disputes between Great Britain and ...
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Article : 60 wordsIt is stated that the Union Company's promise to the engineers was brought about by correspondence before the present difficulty arose, and has no relation to it. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe L.G.M.S. Dar[?]dt arrived at largs Bay from Melbourne on Friday, and will [?] for [?] to-day. The passengers booked to sail by the vessel are:- For Breme[?]-The ...
Article : 550 wordsSilver is quoted at 2s. 5[?]d. per oz., a rise [?]d. on the previous quotation. ...
Article : 19 wordsEverything was quiet at Port Adelaide in connection with strike matters on Friday morning. Work proceeded steadily on board the Intercolonial Steamship Company's chartered ...
Article : 923 wordsThe Colonial Party in France urge the Government to reoccupy sheiksaid in the Gulfof Aden. Gaulois states that relations between France ...
Article : 48 wordsEildenhope, ship, 1,498 tons, for Sydney August 29; Augsberg, steamer, 3,200 tons, from Sydney November 1; Port Stephens, steamer, 2,278 tons, from Sydney October 23 ...
Article : 78 wordsIn response to the demand of a mass meeting at Durban demanding that the Government of Natal should return two shiploads of just- arrived Indians and ...
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Article : 135 wordsFifteen hundred French journals have combined together to present to the Czar of Russia the picture by Detailles of the Chalons Review. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe steamer Damascus from London via Capetown met with boisterous weather and numerous fields of ice. Many of the bergs were over 400 ft. high and half a mile long. ...
Article : 72 wordsMETALS.—Copper—Business in the copper market is restricted. For Chili bars the cash price is £49 10s. per ton: three months, £50 per ton. Tin—The tin market is steady. ...
Article : 334 wordsThe Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, President of the Local Government Board, who was recently seriously injured by an accident in the hunting field, is recovering. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Gladstone to-day, in thinking the members of the Anglo-Armenian Society for the portrait presented to him in celebration of the completion of his 87th year, ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Government Statist has prepared a statement of the factories in operation in the colony during 1895. There are now 12,804 factories in the colony, employing 35,467 males ...
Article : 73 wordsThe following awards have been made by the Trinity College of Music, London, in connection with the recent examinations in Brisbane and Grafton. ...
Article : 71 wordsSir Henry Norman, V.C., Agent-General for Queensland and recently Governor of that colony, who with Sir Edward Grey and another gentleman has been appointed to ...
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Article : 160 wordsThe weather is very oppressive. A little rain fell this afternoon. Splendid rains are reported from several portions of the colony. At St. Arnaud over half an inch fell in three ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Ursuline Convent, at Robertval, Quebec, has been destroyed by fire, and seven of the [?] perished in the flames. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe boat's crew of the steamer Taupo, who boarded the Swanhilda, have been shown portrait of Butler, and recognise him as the man with the gingery moustache, who showed ...
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Article : 91 wordsIt might be inferred from the wording of the paragraph in yesterdays's issue dealing with the raisings of the salaries of the deck officers of the Adelaide Steamship Company's fleet that ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Sat 9 Jan 1897, Page 5
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