An old lady, Mrs. Culhane, was engaged in cooking at Rutherglen, when her clothes caught fire, and burnt her severely about the head and body. Her condition is ...
Article : 159 wordsEven members of the Council sometimes make mistakes, and sometimes—but not so often—they acknowledge them. In connection with the suspension of a standing order ...
Article : 1,022 wordsIn consequence of representations which have been made to the British Government as to the value of wheaten hay as feed for horses, contractors to the various ...
Article : 72 wordsWhile bathing near Cowra a boy, E. Corbett, aged 16, was drowned. A rather nasty accident occurred at a picnic party, gathered near Borenore. The ...
Article : 246 wordsMadame Melba has engaged M. Louis Arens, the Russian tenor, who visited Australia with Mr. George Musgrove's Opera Company, and M. Bensaude, a well-known ...
Article : 94 wordsAdvices from the seat of war announce that Major-General Sir Charles Knox, who is in command of the Winburg Mobile Column, in the eastern part of Orange ...
Article : 131 wordsIt is understood that his Excellency the Governor will present the decorations in connection with the D.S.O. to Major J. F. Humphris and Captain J. H. Stapleton ...
Article : 1,374 wordsWhether it is possible for the tariff to get through the House of Representatives before the Christmas adjournment seems, to be a problem that there will be no possibility of ...
Article : 957 wordsThe case of Colonel Barton Riesswitz, of the German Army, who was cashiered recently by the Kaiser in connection with the Insterburg duel, has been brought up in the ...
Article : 186 wordsA buried city, containing stone buildings, roads, and bridges, has been discovered at the foot of Mount Emratz, near Alleppo, a city of Asiatic Turkey, in the north of ...
Article : 51 wordsWhile crossing the lines at Spencer-street station to-dat Hy. Nylen, aged 20, a laborer, was knocked down by a train running into the station. At the Melbourne ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Outlander Committee of Natal have recommended the confiscation of all property belonging to Messrs. Kruger, Eloff, Wolmarans, and other Boer leaders now in ...
Article : 53 wordsDr. Bride, chairman of the Furniture Wages Board, continued his evidence before the Factories Act Commission to-day. Chinese competition, he said, was being ...
Article : 113 wordsBy the command of his Majesty King Edward VII. military honors will be accorded the removal of the remains of the late Graf von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg from ...
Article : 79 wordsYesterday afternoon Mr. Skillman, a public school inspector, while driving down Dorrigo Mountain, near Bellingen, in a buggy, had a most remarkable escape from ...
Article : 90 wordsIt is stated in connection with the conspiracy at Johannesburg, which had for its object the seizing of the arms and ammunition of the Rand Mounted Rifles, on behalf ...
Article : 104 wordsJames Sialk, who is stated to be 106 years old, died in the Bendigo Benevolent Asylum to-day. Deceased, who was born in Ireland, was at the Battle of Waterloo. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe collapse of the side of a large stack containing about 300 ft. of oregon pine planking, in the yards of Messrs. Saxton and Binns, timber merchants, at Pyrmont, ...
Article : 147 wordsM. Pichon. French ambassador to Pekin, has telegraphed to his Government an indignant denial of General Voyron's assertion that the ladies at the Legations ...
Article : 82 wordsEdwin Hallett, a passenger by the Steamer Perth, from West Australia, was yesterday arrested by Detective Dalton on a provisional warrant charging him, under ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, leader of the House of Commons, who has been suffering from an attack of influenza, is now improving in health. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe War Office authorities, having accepted the offer of the Dominion of Canada to send a contingent of 600 mounted riflemen to South Africa, have agreed to provide the ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. A. E. Morgans, the Premier, addressed his constituents at Coolgardie this evening, to unfold the policy of his Government. There was a large attendance, ...
Article : 235 wordsA terrible fatality is reported from Det[?]oit, the chief city of the State of Michi[?]n, U.S.A. A boiler at an injector factory in the ...
Article : 44 wordsCaptain Radcliffe was called upon at the Marine Court to-day to show cause why his certificate should not be dealt, with in connection with the loss of the Government ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Departmental Committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture in July last to enquire into the question of preservatives in butter has sent in its report. It is ...
Article : 60 wordsSir H. Campbell-Bannerman, Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons, in his speech at Lancaster on Monday night, repeated his statement made a ...
Article : 62 wordsThere was a better selection of wool offered at the sales to-day and the market was very firm. London, November 28. ...
Article : 159 wordsMr. H. J. Rooke, M.L.C., who had been ailing for several months, died rather suddenly at his residence this morning. He was a well-known figure in Tasmania. He ...
Article : 262 wordsReuter's News Agency reports that several minor engagements have taken place recently in various parts of South Africa, resulting in the capture of a number of ...
Article : 89 wordsHis Majesty King Edward has consented to allow the formation of a volunteer mounted force in London, composed of colonials who live in the metropolis. If ...
Article : 100 wordsA correspondent of the "Morning Post," telegraphing from Pretoria, states that he has good reason to believe that recent estimates of the number of burghers in the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe R.M.S. Orizaba arrived from London at 10 a.m. to-day, with the following passengers in the first saloon:— For Fremantle—Miss Robinson, and ...
Article : 210 wordsA suit for alleged libel between rival firms of confectioners over the making of a birthday cake for the Prince of Wales while he was in Sydney was commenced before ...
Article : 408 wordsThe list for the New Zealand 3 per cent. loan of £1,500,000, issued at the fixed price of £94, has been closed, and the loan allotted. It was underwritten at the rate of ...
Article : 43 wordsLord Kitchener is steadily pursuing the policy he began some time ago, and which has been so markedly successful, of building lines of blockhouses to protect the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe municipality of West Maitland has communicated the following resolution on the proposal to have the Municipalities Act amended in respect of the rating of ...
Article : 47 wordsTo-day's price of bar silver is 2/1?. The continued and heavy fall in the silver rate is due to the fact that money is dearer. New York operators are shipping the metal freely ...
Article : 64 wordsTenders have been invited by the Cape Colony and Natal Governments for the construction of a railway directly connecting the two colonies. It is expected that the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe council some time ago had a discussion on the hours of shop assistants. the result that they decided to write to the Department of Labor and Industry, to ...
Article : 92 wordsWheat.—The visible supply of American wheat is estimated at 80,011,000 bushels, as against 74,470,000 bushels a week ago, an increase of 5,541,000 bushels. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe F.M.S. Polynesien arrived at 9 a.m to-day from Marseilles, with the following saloon passengers on board:— For Fremantle — Mrs. and Miss Caron, ...
Article : 180 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Pretoria describes, on what he states to be good authority, the present disposition of the Boer army. He declares that there are now in ...
Article : 194 wordsThe probability of a reduction in the price of beer is Now agitating the people of Broken Hill. Several publicans took the initiative, and reduced the price to 4d. per ...
Article : 134 wordsA deputation of licensed victuallers waited on the Premier to-day to ask that hotels should be allowed to open at stated hours on Sundays. Mr. Philp replied that ...
Article : 87 wordsColonel Genders, secretary to the Protectionist Association of South Australia, has forwarded to Mr. S. Mauger, M.P., the following resolution, adopted at a ...
Article : 164 wordsAbout 450 excursionists left for Adelaide to-night. ...
Article : 8 wordsThe directors of the Netherlands Railway have been unsuccessful in an action for libel which they instituted against Mr. W. E. Garrett Fisher for certain statements ...
Article : 95 wordsPrivate F. C. Cowell, of the Tasmanian Contingent, has died of enteric at Deelfontein. ...
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