Only occasionally is advantage taken in the Council of the standing order which enables a matter of "pressing importance" to be debated on a motion for adjournment ...
Article : 658 wordsGeorge Breen was killed at the North Lyell mine to-day by a big stone which fell on him while working in the s[?]opes. His mate, named Pinkerton, was slightly ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Sena[?]e met to-day after its long adjournment. It at once laid hold of the Matheson case[?] and worried with it all the afternoon. Most of the senators had come ...
Article : 647 wordsA road contractor, John Goode, was found dead hanging in the kitchen of his sister's house at Goulburn, where he had been staying. For some time past he had ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Philp) is expected to reach Brisbane on Saturday or Monday next. Tt transpires as the result of enquiri[?] ...
Article : 84 words"The World" denies that there is any truth in the prevalent reports that his Majesty King Edward VTI. is suffering from an affection of the throat, or that he ...
Article : 63 wordsA number of promotions for officers on the Royal yacht Ophir, which took the Duke of Cornwall on his tour to the colonies has been gazetted. Commander Rossly[?] ...
Article : 102 wordsThe War Office authorities have published a list showing the total losses of the British field forces in South Africa from the inception of the war to the end of ...
Article : 89 wordsA local member of the Mount Lyell Stock Exchange drew Revenue in Ta[?]tersall's big sweep. The £13,500 will be divided amongst a syndicate of about 20. ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the quarterly meeting of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce to-day notice was given of a motion to the effect that in the event of the Kanaka Bill being passed the ...
Article : 90 wordsOwing to a dense fog, lasting for three days traffic in London and the neighborhood has been completely paralysed. Numerous accidents are reported to have ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Legislative Council passed the Payment of Members Bill without discussion to-day. The Cook Islands Bill was agreed to ...
Article : 149 wordsUnder the will of the late Mr. Matthew Whiting, of Wandsworth Common, bequests of £10,000 each are left to twelve of the principal London hospitals. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 21 wordsAt the Cambridge University Freshman's Sports Mr. J. Anderson, of New Zealand, was successful in winning three events, 100 Yards Race, Long Jump, and a Hurdle ...
Article : 37 wordsThe police received a telegram from Winton to-day stating that an American black had been found in a waterhole with a stone fastened to his feet by a piece of ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. J. E. Redmond, Parnellite member for Waterford City in the House of Commons, and leader of the Nationalist Party, who is visiting the United States, ...
Article : 108 wordsIn response to an invitation from a number of Liberals in Derbyshire, Lord Rosebery has promised to address a meeting in that county shortly on the subject of the ...
Article : 72 wordsMessrs. Dalgety and Co. agents for the Aberdeen line, this afternoon received a cable stating that the steamer Damascus sailed from Cape Town on November 4 ...
Article : 38 wordsA bogus viscount has just ended a brief, inglorious career in Perth. A few days ago a one-time well-known politician from South Australia called at a newspaper ...
Article : 141 wordsGrasshoppers are doing considerable damage to the standing crops in many parts of the country. At Ungarie one selector lost 20 acres in less than a week. ...
Article : 32 wordsA desperate attempt to rob the Kennington Park branch of the London and South-western Bank was made yesterday after banking hours by an armed miscreant, ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Board of Trade has just issued some interesting statistical tables showing the production and consumption of alcoholic liquors in the principal countries of the ...
Article : 630 wordsThe trustees of the Adelong common, and also the trustees of Wondalga common, have been sued under the Pastures and Stock Protection Act for neglecting to ...
Article : 52 wordsAn Order-in-Council has just been promulgated defining the powers, dudes, and responsibilities of Lord Roberts under the new scheme of army reform. The ...
Article : 213 wordsAn appeal respecting a claim for £48,000 was heard before the Full Court to-day. The plaintiff and appellant was Charles Wadey, contractor, and the defendants and ...
Article : 157 wordsLord Kitchener, in a diepatch to the Secretary of State for War, has furnished further details concerning the fighting at Braken Laagte. ...
Article : 117 wordsA two-roomed wood and iron house in Argent-street north, occupied by Mr. William Pinckham, was totally destroyed by fire at about 11 o'clock this morning. The ...
Article : 143 wordsA telegram from Washington states that a plot to massacre the American garr[?]son at Mocada, Philippine Islands, has been discovered. A number of officials and ...
Article : 41 wordsThe glassblowers[?] trouble has been satisfactorily settled, the masters conceding almost all the demands of the men. ...
Article : 21 wordsSubjoined are the present quotations tor the following stocks and shares:— Oct. 22. Nov. 5. Mvt. Union Bank.... £38 10 0 £38 10 0 = ...
Article : 133 wordsThe gold yield for October was 15,780 crude ounces, valued at £54,763, equal to 12,892 fine ounces, as compared with 33,113 crude ounces, valued at £11,385, ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Legislative Council to-day recommitted the Industrial Arbitration Bill, for the purpose of putting in some drafting amendmen[?]s. The third reading was fixed for ...
Article : 207 wordsLord Kitchener, in his latest report to the Secretary of State for War, refers to the position of affairs in Cape Colony. He says that there has been a decided ...
Article : 51 wordsA slander action, in which Arthur Harris sued the Rev. Matthew Walker, minister of the Australian Church, Lucknow, has just been concluded at Orange. Plaintiff ...
Article : 360 wordsA well-dressed and attractive-looking young woman, Maud Dending, aged 25, who had been employee as a barmaid in Sydney, made a determined attempt to ...
Article : 219 wordsThe election of the Mayor of Greater New York was held yesterday, and resulted in the hottest contest on record. Once more-and this time successful—a fight was made ...
Article : 315 wordsIt is announced that Mr. Chamberlain [?]as decided to send out to South Africa 1[?] English ladies to teach the Boer children in the concentration camps. A selection ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsThe Labor Party at their caucus to-day received a report from the special subcommittee appointed to consider the tariff, and the best method of reducing the ...
Article : 519 wordsNotwithstanding the all-night sitting there were nearly fifty members of the Assembly present when the Speaker took the chair on Wednesday, and although some of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 wordsBreadstuffs.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,365,000 quarters, as against 2,195,000 quarters a week ago, an increase of 170,000 ...
Article : 120 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Taverner asked the Minister of Railways whether it was the intention of the Government to continue the present system ...
Article : 391 wordsAt an early hour this morning Robert Berndt, residing in Balaclava, called at a coffee stall in Chapel-street, and had some refreshments. An argument arose between ...
Article : 275 wordsAmongst the killed on the Boer side at the battle of Braken Laagte was Commandant Opperman. Over a month ago it was thought that Opperman was killed at the ...
Article : 60 wordsSir—The Ornithologists' Union and various similar societies have been urging the Parliament to pass laws for the protection of birds. Some of the more rabid of them ...
Article : 469 wordsIt is reported that Boers at the battle of Braken Laagte cruelly maltreated some [?] the British wounded. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 248 wordsIn the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday the Premier (M. Waldeck-Rosseau) introduced a Bill dealing with pensions to working miners. The Bill devotes a sum of ...
Article : 60 wordsA Natal resident named Van Rooyen has [?]een convicted by a Treason Court of gonig [?]ver to the enemy. He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, and fined £1,000. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Arbhur Campbell Bulkley Mackwor[?] P[?]ed, fo[?]merly a pastorali[?]t in Queensland. Mr. Campbell Praed was the son of a ...
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Advertising : 1,016 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, in reply to Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Foxton said it was not proposed to introduce legislation this session for the purpose of securing a reduction ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, when the no-confidence motion was called on, Mr. Piesse said that on the previous day the Premier had said he would like to know ...
Article : 224 wordsAt the protectionist demonstration held in Melbourne on Monday night the Minister for Trade and Customs was tendered a most flattering reception. He delivered ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Thu 7 Nov 1901, Page 5
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