The Governor-General (Lord Northcote) entertained several Senators and members of the House of Representatives and offi-cers of the Federal Parliament at luncheon ...
Article : 983 wordsIn Legislative Council Hons. J. Vardon, Doussa, J. G. Bice, and G. Brookman spoke on Franchise Bill, and Hods. B. A. Moulden and E. Lucas on Vaccination Bill. Debates adjourned. ...
Article : 115 wordsAdvices from Havana confirm the state-ment that plots have been discovered to assassinate President Palma of Cuba, and to overthrow the Government. ...
Article : 94 wordsFrom a report received by the Minister for Customs regarding the investigation of alleged frauds by Frederick William Forwood, a licensed customs agent at Port ...
Article : 615 wordsThe intelligence now being received from Valparaiso is said to give a fair idea of the extent of the mortality caused by the earthquakes last week. ...
Article : 192 wordsThe death is announced of the Right Rev. Dr. Daniel Fox Sandford, formerly Bishop of Tasmania, who was born in 1831. He was the third son of the late Sir Daniel ...
Article : 113 wordsBomb outrages continue throughout Po-land. On Wednesday the Chief of Police at Siedlce (a town with a mixed popula-tion of Poles, Little Russians, jews, and ...
Article : 89 wordsWhen the Council met on Wednesday the Hon. J. G. Bice presented a petition from 44 persons asking that the system of granting permits to hotel keepers to keep ...
Article : 1,258 wordsto is stated that when the new firstclass battleship Hindustan, 16,350 tons, was dry-docked recently at Gibraltar, her keel was strained by the enormous overbearing ...
Article : 81 wordsThe outlook in Cuba is exceedingly grave, and it is expected that the situation will require the early intervention of the United States. ...
Article : 180 wordsSt.Petersburg advices convey the startling news that Gen. Trepoff, who. in the capacity of Governor-General of St. Peters-burg, has become famous as "the Power ...
Article : 366 wordsthe Dreadnought the largest battleship in the world, will be placed in commission on September 1. As the first keel plate was laid down only on October 2 last year, the ...
Article : 60 wordsIn january last the American steamer Valencia, belonging to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, was wrecked near Cape Beale, Vancouver Island, and over ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Chilian Chamber of Deputies has voted £300,000 for the institution of a sys-tem of relief works to tide the people over the temporary distress occasioned by the ...
Article : 116 wordsThe summer session of the Councils Ge-neral, which owe their election to universal suffrage, is being held throughout the va-rious department of the French Republic, ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. Nicholas Holtze, the eldest son of Mr. Holtze (of the Adelaide Botanical Gardens), and the curator of the Botanic and Experimental Gardens at Palmerston, ...
Article : 1,100 wordsPlaying for Middlesex against Lanca-shire, E. A. Tarrant, the ex-Victorian cricketer, secured 9 wickets for 54 runs in the first innings and 4 for 34 in the second ...
Article : 43 wordsA congress of 142 delegates of employes on the various railway systems in Russia has been held in Finland. After discus-sion, a resolution was carried declaring ...
Article : 73 wordsThe earthquakes have apparently consi-derably affected the depths of water for an unknown distance along the Chilian coast. Following upon the seismological ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Dowager-Empress of China, who re-cently has strongly favoured Western learning and civilization, has summoned a conference of high officials to discuss the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe return cricket match between York-shire and Surrey Counties, played at Shef-field, has resulted in a victory for the for-mer by 102 runs. ...
Article : 78 wordsPERTH, August 23. Mr. G. Comper, who is hunting for insect parasites in China on behalf of the Western Australian Government, in a ...
Article : 202 wordsOn Wednesday shocks of earthquake were felt in Calabria, southern Italy, con-sisting of the peninsula between the Gulf of Taranto and the Tyrrhenian Sea, and ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Natal Government has appointed a royal commission, consisting of Mr. H. C. Campbell (Judge President of the Native High Court), Sir James Liege Hulett ...
Article : 55 wordsThe 24th Ural Cossack Regiment at Samarkand, Russian Turkestaa, is in a state of mutiny. The men seized their offi-cers and threw them into prison. They ...
Article : 117 wordsAustralian Mail Contract. Now that full details of the new Anglo-Australian ocean mail contract have been received in England. shipping circles are ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly Last night Mr. Bolton moved—"That all papers and reports dealing with the departmental enquiry into the dismissal and prosecution of ...
Article : 196 wordsAn Italian commission of emigration experts has taken passage to Fremantle in the German steamer Gera. The Commissioners intend to investigate the question ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsin parts or vyatka, a province of north-eastern Russia, the peasants are burning the State forests, in token of protest against the Government's refusal to satisfy their ...
Article : 182 wordsDarjeeling despatches state that Mr. John Clande White. C.I.E. Political Agent for Sikkim and Bhutan in all Tibetan affairs since 1905, has been cordially received by ...
Article : 50 wordsDuring the hearing of the Newcastle wharf labourers' dispute in the Arbitration Court to-day it was contended, on behalf of the union, that boarding housekeepers ...
Article : 104 wordsThe strike among the native postmen at Bombay has ended. They left their work and demanded that their rates of pay should be equal to the wages of the ...
Article : 49 wordsRemarkable evidence was given in an alleged bigamy case at the Water Police Court to-day. Donald Roderick Sinclair was charged that he on July 9, 1903, ...
Article : 301 wordsMr. Nathaniel Hailes has been appointed secretary of the South Australian Insti-tute; and, as the books lately belonging to the Mechanics' Institute are likely to ...
Article : 120 wordsAn important dcision has been given by the Full Court in regard to the vagrancy law. A Bendigo Magistrate some time ago disimssed a charge of vagrancy against a ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Premier appears to have been speaking rather recklessly when he told the de-putation of farmers yesterday that a won-derful method had been discovered during ...
Article : 148 wordsIn the city of Moscow recently 109 peo-ple, chiefly Social Democrats, have been lodged in gaol on suspicion of fostering revolution. ...
Article : 208 wordsAfter 20 minutes of questions, the Premier rose to move the second reading of the Factories Act Amendment Bill. The principal of Wages Boards had been ...
Article : 749 wordsThe steamer Port Chalmers, which was stranded on the Ulrica Reef, at the en-trance to Torres Straits, has been refloat-ed. She has reached Goode Island, and ...
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Advertising : 196 wordsA report presented to Parliament shows that the consumption of spirits per head of the population fell from £2 5/6 in 1885 to £1 7/8 in 1905. The consumption per ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Fri 24 Aug 1906, Page 5
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