LONDON, March 18.--On Saturday night the Right Hon. Leonard Courtney entertained a large and appreciative audience at Toynbee-ball what he termed a "Chat about the Colonies." ...
Article : 381 wordsA good deal of interest has been revived in scientific circles by the announcement that the coral-boring experiments at Funafuti, which were conducted last year by Professor David with such ...
Article : 1,557 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The council of the Zoological Society is going to present the Queen with a pair of thoroughly tamed and domesticated kangaroos. The Victorian contingent of Mounted ...
Article : 160 wordsThe inquest on the bodies of John Benson and Thomas Dorrity, victims of the Dudley colliery explosion on the 21st March, was resumed yesterday at Newcastle, before Mr. G. C. Martin, ...
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Advertising : 37 wordsMr. Bernard Gratien, a Spaniard from Barcelona, who has just arrived in Sydney via Capetown, says he is satisfied that his country will make a gallant display against the Americans. ...
Article : 302 wordsAmong Sydney residents who have knocked about in Cuba and Central American States during stirring times of war, perhaps none has a wider knowledge of their capabilities, or the stuff ...
Article : 469 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The adjourned final hearing of Harrold Bros. insolvency case came before Mr. Commissioner Russell to-day. The accountant reported that there was a deficiency ...
Article : 172 wordsTwo more coal vessels were dispatched yesterday for the United States, the ship Lady Isabella sailing with 2255 tons of Greta coal for San Francisco, and the ship Celtic Race, with 2942 tons of ...
Article : 99 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday concerning the death of a tramguard named Peter Rolin, who died from injuries received through falling from a tram. The evidence showed that on Saturday last the deceased was in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 50 wordsThe annual meeting of the Newcastle District Fire Brigade Association was held last night in the Newcastle West station. Fourteen brigades were represented. The balance-sheet was ...
Article : 70 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Flags on the Shipping offices in the city and at Port Adelaide to-day were half-mast high out of respect to the memory of Mr. John Turnbull, late secretary of the ...
Article : 47 words"The American has an enormous capacity for enthusiasm, but his enthusiasms are apt to be like brush fires--very hot and very brief. He has no grand passions, he has many fads, he takes up ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 259 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Lord Kilmorey has written to an Adelaide firm of solicitors, stating that a syndicate for constructing the outer harbor at Largs Bay has been formed in London. ...
Article : 114 wordsNEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The sessions of the half-yearly meeting of the Baptist Union of New South Wales were continued yesterday, commencing at 10 a.m. with one for prayer and praise. This ...
Article : 420 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The annual meeting of the Riverina Frozen Meat Company was held to-day. The balance sheet showed a credit balance of £1,897, which with the amount brought ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 133 wordsTyphoid, scarlet fever, and diphtheria cases as reported to the Board of Health for the fortnight ended April 22 were:--Typhoid: Metropolitan district, 56 cases, four deaths; Hunter River district, 39 cases, one death; ...
Article : 167 wordsCaptain Zalinski, by the way who is referred to above gives an interesting account of the use of torp[?]es in modern warfare. He says:--"There is good reason to suppose that the ...
Article : 469 wordsMr. Balfour used Australia on Tuesday night as an object. lesson illustrating what would happen if the "large measure of self-government asked for by the abstract resolution of Mr. Herbert Roberts ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The V.R.C. committee have prepared the conditions of some of the most important races to be decided at Flemington during the next two seasons. The Maribyrnong Plate of 1893 is, as last year, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The R.M.S. Arcadia, which left to-day for London, had a heavy gold shipment on board, being valued at £239,525, dispatched as follows:--French Bank, £10,000, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe following forecasts for to-day have been issued from the Government Weather Bureau by Mr. Clement Wragge, under date April 26, 4.30 p.m.:--West Australia.--Generally fine throughout all this ...
Article : 226 wordsKALGOORLIE, Tuesday.--The lode at the 400ft. level at the Great Boulder has been cut through. It is 6ft. wide all through, and looks as if it will average over 3oz. Bulk assays have not yet been completed from the ...
Article : 439 words"A County Secretary" who thinks that all supporters of first-class cricket are agreed that the time has arrived when different modes of procedure should be adopted, both as regards ...
Article : 527 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Minister for Defence to-day accepted an offer of an influential deputation of Scotchmen to form a Scottish Volunteer Regiment in Melbourne, commencing ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Sydney Club will hold their first social evening and dance this evening. These fixtures have been an enjoyable diversion in the past, and owing to such a large number of new members coming into the club, should ...
Article : 178 wordsBERRIGAN, Tuesday.--The weather is cold and gusty, but no rain has fallen, and water is still being brought by rail from Jerilderie. BOWRAL, Tuesday.--The farmers in this locality ...
Article : 168 wordsAt the present, juncture the limelight lecture given last night in St. James-hall, Phillip-street, by Mr. Courtenay Smith, entitled, "Cuba and the States" was particularly interesting. Mr. Smith ...
Article : 154 wordsSir,--With reference to the news received by your cables of to-day's issue, it would seem that the mines in the New York Harbor have been rendered useless by some mysterious force. In ...
Article : 504 wordsAn inquest was held at Northam on the body of a farmer named Frederick Wigeney, residing at Meenar, on the Eastern Railway. The body was found in a hut on deceased's property in a ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Randwick Mayor claims the right to say "Dam it" at the council's meeting when the discussion is heated. On the business paper at that body's meeting last night was a motion "That the ...
Article : 261 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The kerosene market is very excited. Seven thousand caws sold to-day, small buyers operating largely. The market closed at 12¾d duty paid. ...
Article : 29 wordsThose desirous of following closely the war news will find the "Naval Pocket Book," by W. Laird Clowes, most invaluable, the publication (a copy of which has been forwarded by Mr. W. ...
Article : 103 wordsFides. Danish bqe., 450 tons, Captain Sorenson, from Westport (N.Z.), April 15. Justus Scharff and Co., agents. TELEGRAPHIC. ...
Article : 300 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Underwriters' Association, Limited, in accordance with a cable from London, has adopted the following extra rates under the war premium agreement:--Ships, ...
Article : 62 wordsThere were large gatherings at the Town-hall yesterday afternoon and evening, when Dr. William Fletcher Hall delivered his celebrated medical lectures, the first being for women only and the second for men only. Dr. Hall ...
Article : 387 wordsThe steamer Wakatipu took 5000 cases of butter for Sydney. There was a great gathering of natives at Wanganui in connection with the funeral and ...
Article : 82 wordsAt the 38th annual meeting of the Association of the Chambers of Commerce, held last Tuesday, the following resolutions relating to the colonics were passed unanimously:--"That the Foreign ...
Article : 273 wordsA magisterial inquiry was held at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday afternoon touching upon the death of the man John Joseph Smith, whose dead body, as reported in yesterday's issue, was found floating in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsA rebellious Randwick ratepayer is James O'Do[?]ell. Some couple of months back O'Donnell addressed a communication to the council, which, strange to say, was for a considerable ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Wed 27 Apr 1898, Page 8
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