A fire, which at first seemed likely to cause great havoc, broke out at 11 o'clock on Thursday night on the third storey of a large stone warehouse at the corner of ...
Article : 564 wordsThe will of Mrs. Rose Moss, widow of the late Mark Moss, of East Melbourne, has been lodged for probate. Deceased left real estate to the value of £7,400, and ...
Article : 189 wordsThe officers and men of the ship Port Patrick, which was abandoned at Wilson's Promontory, to-day denied the statements made by the captain. ...
Article : 1,612 wordsThe police raided a Chinese gambling den this morning, and arrested four Chinese, two of whom were fined £10 or four weeks, and the others 10/ or three ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. E. B. Hoare has resigned the seat he had held as Conservative member for Hampstead since 1888, and for which at the last election he was returned ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Prime Minister to-day received the following cable from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reply to a telegram sent on Wednesday:— ...
Article : 157 wordsFull particulars with regard to the recent fight at Amersfoort, when Major J. M. Vallentin, of the Somersetshire Light Infantry was killed, and the Boers lost the ...
Article : 684 wordsThe Chief Secretary has received a telegram from the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth notifying the return amongst others of nine South Australians who have ...
Article : 53 wordsWELL HOUSED, FED, AND CLOTHED. So much has been heard lately about the British treatment of the Boer prisoners that it is interesting to find one of these ...
Article : 380 wordsThe supposed case of plague is now being investigated. The symp[?]oms suspiciously indicate that it is a case of true plague. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe State Premier has received a cablegram from the Agent-General to the effect that the name of the Governor of this State will be submitted on Monday next. ...
Article : 88 wordsAt the opening of the new session of the Imperial Parliament the same formalities will be observed as at the opening of the session last year. There will be no ...
Article : 43 wordsFrank Rush, aged 18, formerly accountant in the employ of Taylor Bros., produce merchants, Sydney, was arrested at the Federal Coffee Palace to-day on a provisional ...
Article : 106 wordsA Blue-book published yesterday contains an account of the Anglo-American negotiations with regard to the Nicaraguan Canal. ...
Article : 181 wordsSir William Lync proposes to ask both Houses of the Federal Parliament to appoint a joint Committee to arrange for a visit of members to the Federal capital ...
Article : 101 wordsIt has been ascertained that about 40 persons around Cleveland-street have been affected by ptomaine poisoning through eating corned beef purchased at a certain ...
Article : 31 wordsOver 200 men have been sworn in for the Federal Contingent. There are 160 horses in camp, and 43 more to arrive in the morning. ...
Article : 31 wordsA coach travelling between Tallangatta and Lightning Creek on Tuesday capsized over an embankment through one of the horses swerving while negotiating the ...
Article : 107 wordsA timber-getter, George Frost, about 30 years of age, was found dead in the bush at Jilliby this morning, about 13 miles from Wyong, having been killed by the falling ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Mason, Speaker of the Victorian State Parliament, wrote to Mr. Peacock to-day complaining of Mr. Barton having appointed Mr. Mitchell to the position of ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Government will in a day or two call for tenders for a regular steamship service to South Africa. The vessels will call at West Australia, as it is considered that ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Muntham estate, near Coleraine, was submitted to auction to-day and sold in blocks for an aggregate price of £130,000. The estate comprises 12,000 acres, and ...
Article : 39 wordsThe British War Office have published a dispatch sent by Lord Kitchener to the Secretary of State for War on November 15 to the following effect:— ...
Article : 842 wordsThe Science Congress concluded its Hobart session to-day. It was decided that the general committee should approach the South Australian Government to secure the ...
Article : 493 wordsThe Government steamer Lady Loch while returning to port this morning, after landing stores at lighthouses in Bass Straits, observed the ketch Jane Moorhead ...
Article : 68 wordsThe new French torpedo-boat Bourrasque has made 31[?] knots an hour in trial speeds. ...
Article : 31 wordsGeorge Fagan, slaughterman, who made a murderous attack on his wife at Cheltenham last night, was brought before the local court to-day on a charge of wounding ...
Article : 372 wordsThe list of officers who are to command the battalions of the Federal Contingent is practically complete, but Mr. Barton will not make it public until the matter has ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is announced that Prince Henry of Prussia, the Kaiser's brother, who has been commissioned to attend the christening by President Roosevelt's daughter of ...
Article : 51 wordsA deputation waited upon the Premier to-day, and pointed out that the unsatisfactory position in connection with boards of arbitration. The Premier said that ...
Article : 90 wordsSome time ago the Prime Minister forwarded to the Colonial Office the design selected for the Commonwealth seal, but the design for the flag has not yet been ...
Article : 89 wordsAt 10 o'clock to-night the Representatives were still discussing the machinery duties, the debate on which was begun at 3 o'clock yesterday. ...
Article : 526 wordsMiss Amy Castles, the young Victorian soprano, has been engaged for all the next series of ballad concerts in London. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Federal Government have arranged to move in the Senate on Wednesday next patriotic resolutions similar to those passed in the House of Representatives this week. ...
Article : 33 wordsAn extraordinary sheep stealing case was reported to-day from Northam. A young man went to the local stationmaster on Monday afternoon, and engaged three ...
Article : 109 wordsKing Edward VII. has consented to become patron of the fund initiated in England by the Right Rev. Dr. W. T. T. Webber, Bishop of Brisbane, for the ...
Article : 90 wordsTo expedite the passage of the Electoral Bill, which is now complete, Sir William Lyne has arranged to introduce it in the Senate, as otherwise he would have to wait ...
Article : 119 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Mr. F. Wallace gave notice that he would ask the Premier if his attention had been called to a statement made by Representative Watson in ...
Article : 196 wordsThe annual Customs figures showing the imports and exports for last year have been issued by Mr. O. S. Maddocks, sub-Collector of Customs. ...
Article : 205 wordsA revelation was made to-day in connection with the difficulties of effectively administering the Alien Immigration Restriction Bill. Of four Chinese who arrived ...
Article : 180 wordsA lunatic at Nathalia, Tom Brown, today forcibly took possession of a pea rifle and some cartridges from a boy, and running a short distance out of the town, ...
Article : 130 wordsThe numerous friends of Mr. James Anderson will learn with regret of his death, which occurred on Thursday morning at his residence, Currie-street west. ...
Article : 293 wordsThe police have received a telegram from Normanton stating that a furious thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy wind and r[?]in, passed over Normanton on Tuesday ...
Article : 73 wordsLord Kitchener is reported to have accumulated a vast number of remounts at Bloemiontein in readiness for the British reinforcements. Preparations are being ...
Article : 220 wordsA largely attended meeting of homestead lessees and others was held at View Point on Saturday to consider the Western Lands Act. Those present were unanimous in ...
Article : 197 wordsA boy named McCance found the dead body of an old man lying face downwards in about six inches of water in Forest Creek, near the Francis Ormond mine, ...
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Advertising : 979 wordsThe Port Patrick was brought safely to Hobson's Bay to-night by the Newcastle tu[?] Champion, which picked her up from ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Fri 17 Jan 1902, Page 5
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