The most amusing speech of the session in the Assembly was contributed on Wednesday by Mr. Rowland Rees. The fun, no doubt, was unintentional. Mr. Rees ...
Article : 8,618 wordsThe Railway Commissioners have not yet decided whether to continue the special excursion trains, to Adelaide throughout September. The Railway ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Legislative Council adjourned to—day as soon as the President took the chair, the Government considering that an adjournment should take place in ...
Article : 398 wordsThe Bulgarian army have taken the oath of fidelity to Prince Alexander of Saxe-Coburg as the rightful sovereign of Bulgaria. The scene at Tirnova ...
Article : 128 wordsThe enquiry into the recent fire in the shop occupied by Lloyd & Collins, drapers, George-street, was concluded to-day, and resulted in an open verdict. ...
Article : 156 wordsThe North German Gazttte, the semi-official organ of the Government, referring to-day to the recent appointment of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg to the throne ...
Article : 124 wordsSir S. Griffith was gazetted Treasurer this afternoon and Mr. W. H. Wilson Postmaster-General. Patrick Hurley, charged at the Police ...
Article : 173 wordsAn inquest has been held upon the late Madame Emblad, the pianist, formerly of Melbourne, at Silvaplana, in Switzerland. A verdict of suicide was returned. ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day Mr. W. H. Wilson announced his acceptance of the portfolio of Postmaster-General. Mr. Macdonald Paterson stated that he ...
Article : 285 wordsThe New York Herald publishes a bellicose article on the subject of the relations between Great Britain and the Hawaiian Islands. It asserts that Honolulu is the ...
Article : 66 wordsPublic opinion is opposed to the taxation proposals of the Ministry as being unfair, cumbersome, and not actually required. The proposal to make a grant ...
Article : 70 wordsIn the match between his county club and Middlesex, Shrewsbury, the well-known cricketer, ran up a score of 267 before his wicket was captured. ...
Article : 27 wordsAn attempt to destroy by dynamite the railway bridge across the Foyle, near the town of Lifford, in Donegal, province of Ulster, Ireland, was discovered in time ...
Article : 39 wordsA shocking accident occured at Perth near Bathurst, to-day. A child 16 months old strayed on to the railway while its father was in the adjacent field, and ...
Article : 78 wordsBy large majorities the Legislatures in Cape Colony and Natal have refused to auction votes in support of the Imperial Institute. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe taxation resolutions were brought in to-day in the Assembly by the Ministry. They provide for a halfpenny in the pound on the capital value of all lands ...
Article : 167 wordsMr. Gladstone has publicly avowed himself favourable to the scheme for the construction of the Channel Tunnel as being a work that cannot long be delayed. ...
Article : 35 wordsThere is plain evidence that the rabbits are steadily though, slowly advancing in the North-East. Lately several rabbits have been killed at Eungonia, about 40 ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Standard urges that the Unionist Liberals and the Tories should sink their differences and agree to a coalition Ministry. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe fishery disputes are being carried on with great vigour. At Alaska the Americans have seized four British vessels. The utmost excitement prevails ...
Article : 32 wordsBrigadier-General Owen, accompanied by Captain De Burgh, inspected the 1st Midland Rifle Company, under Captain Tothill, this afternoon. The men ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Afghan, which arrived yesterday bound south, held no intercourse with the shore, and discharged cargo into the lighters at the quarantine anchorage ...
Article : 131 wordsIn the House of Lords last night Earl OnSlow, replying to a question, stated that Her Majesty's Government had been compelled to abandon the scheme for the ...
Article : 90 wordsOn Wednesday morning Messrs. Moulden and Handyside, members for Albert, waited on the Commissioner of Crown Lands and presented a memorial from fifty-one persons ...
Article : 91 wordsThe British-India steamer Jumna arrived to-day from London bound. ...
Article : 38 wordsA painful accident happened yesterday to a carrier named Constant Eichner. He was roping a cow, when a stick swung round, striking him on the knee and ...
Article : 43 wordsA meeting of the unemployed was held at the Council Chambers this evening at 7 o'clock. The Mayor (Sir. T. M. Rendell) presided. The following resolution was ...
Article : 226 wordsA deputation of shipmasters complained to the Treasurer to-day of the action of the Marine Board in granting navigation certificates to men nominally engaged for ...
Article : 108 wordsOn Tuesday Messrs. B. A. Moulden, M.P., and A. D. Handyside, M.P., presented a memorial to the Minister of Education from the residents of the Wirrega district, asking ...
Article : 52 wordsThe steamer Mora arrived here this evening with 575 bales of Mount Murchison wool. This shipment is to be discharged here. ...
Article : 32 wordsA severe abode, of earthquake was felt here at 3,45 o'clock this morning, arousing many from their slumbers. The convulsion apparently travelled in a ...
Article : 32 wordsOn Tuesday Mr. E. W. Hawker, M.P., and Mr. C. Kimber, M.P., presented to the Minister of Education (Hon. J. C. F. Johnson) a petition signed by 141 persons, asking ...
Article : 72 wordsWarden Gee left here this morning for Adelaide, carrying with him a parcel of splendid specimens, showing gold freely, for view at the Exhibition. Warden Hack ...
Article : 103 wordsAn explosion occurred this evening near Taradale Railway Station, owing to the bursting of the boiler of an engine of the goods train. Peter McEwan, a ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Thu 18 Aug 1887, Page 5
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