The sharpness of Victoria in looking after itself found illustration to-day in the House of Representatives in complaints made that the Federal Government has not yet given ...
Article : 734 wordsConsequent ou the adverse comment occasioned by the charge of 3 per cent, commission on disbursements in connection with the raising of ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Ragna to-day took 1,200-tons of flour to Algoa Bay. The will of the late Mr. George Coates, of the Grand Hotel, Melbourne, a retired ...
Article : 56 wordsThe question of the parts played by Great Britain and Germany in connection with the attempted anti-American coalition on behalf of Spain, is still a theme of angry ...
Article : 231 wordsMany of the farmers on the Murray Flat[?] have lately been suffering great hardships. Not only have the crops in some parts of the district failed once more, but the wells ...
Article : 1,007 wordsLater details are published of Lord Kitchener's great "drive" in the Orange River Colony. The British kept a broad front throughout, securing themselves at ...
Article : 450 wordsThe announcement of the Anglo-Japanese alliance has everywhere been received with surprise, and everywhere it is regarded as an effective check upon the Far Eastern ...
Article : 582 wordsThe following is the probable list of appointments to be made to the headquarters of the military staff:—Colonel J. C. Hoad, Victoria, Chief Staff Officer; ...
Article : 144 wordsWhile M. Flanagan, of Campaspe, was on top of a load of hay, the horse moved on, and he overbalanced and fell to the ground on his hands and knees. Upon being raised ...
Article : 51 wordsWh[?]t might have been a shocking railway disaster was very narrowly averted at Surry Hills lato last night. A goods engine, with an exceptionally heavy load ...
Article : 158 wordsThe smallpox epidemic in London continues to extend. During the last week there were 64 deaths from the disease, and no fewer than 58 fresh cases were reported ...
Article : 38 wordsIn connection with the meat contract, Mr. Barton to-day received a dispatch from Mr. Chamberlain, stating that the price of the accepted tender for meat was 70/6 per ...
Article : 167 wordsCount Lyof Nikolaivitch Tolstoi, the Russian novelist and social reformer, who has been in bad health for some time, is now reported to be dying. ...
Article : 34 wordsA deputation from the Bookbinders' Society waited on the Minister of Education (Mr. Gurr) to-day, and asked that the books used in State schools in Victoria ...
Article : 117 wordsPresident Roosevelt's son, who is suffering from pneumonia, is-improving. It was feared that in consequence of the patient's alarming condition Prince Henry, brother ...
Article : 61 wordsAt a meeting of citizens held at the Town Hall to-night, a number of resolutions were carried, urging that a speedy decision be arrived at respecting the site ...
Article : 103 wordsThe first levee held by King Edward took place to-day. It was an exceptionally brilliant function. The attendance was larger than it had been for years at such ...
Article : 120 wordsThe bricklayers' strike came to an end to-night, and the position now is that from Monday next operatives will work 48 hours per week at the increased rate asked for, 11/ ...
Article : 132 wordsMr. Frank Andrews, the vice-president of the City Savings Bank at Detroit, the chief town in the State of Michigan, has been arrested for overdrawing a million dollars ...
Article : 51 wordsW. Carrol, of Dubbo, while walking along the railway line, fell, and three trucks passed over him. He sustained such serious injuries that he died shortly afterwards. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Commonwealth Government have completed arrangements with the Victorian Crown Laws Office for legal representation in London in the appeal case to the Privy ...
Article : 37 wordsVery cold weather has been experienced of late, and the Upper Thames is now frozen over. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe House of Commons is now engaged in discussing the Government proposals for amending the procedure of the Chamber, in order to obviate obstruction and ...
Article : 133 wordsGreat confusion is caused in the Postal Department owing to many postal towns in the Commonwealth having the same names. A particular instance is ...
Article : 160 wordsA little girl, aged 11, in company with her brother, while walking through a paddock near Robertstown, was bitten on the leg by a snake. The brother took off his ...
Article : 63 wordsLondon "Truth," discussing the contract for the supply of meat to the British forces in South Africa, says that the Australian interests of Mr. Moritz Bergl, the ...
Article : 70 wordsNellie Robertson, who a few days ago in mistake drank tea from a basin which had previously contained wax matches, has died at Gosford. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe manager of the shale mines near Capertee, Robert Russell, and an employe were putting 12 plugs of rackarock into a 12 ft. deep hole for blasting purposes. ...
Article : 114 wordsA new deep-water pier was opened at Port land to-day, and nearly 3,000 excursionists were present at the ceremony, which was performed by the State Minister of Works, ...
Article : 385 wordsMr. G. Douglas Forster, a Transvaal solicitor, has recovered damages to the amount of £2,000 in an action against Mr. A. B. Markham, member of the House of ...
Article : 207 wordsMr. Barton can [?]ee none but good results likely to flow from the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Speaking of the matter to-day he said so far as he could see there was not ...
Article : 374 wordsThe seventeenth case of plague since the beginning of the present outbreak was reported this morning, the patient being Percy Butler a boy, of 11 years. He ...
Article : 254 wordsA boat, identified as belonging to the sloop Condor, has drifted to Vancouver, affording still another proof of the loss of the vessel. ...
Article : 345 wordsEarthquakes still continue intermittently at Cheviot. Mr. Edouard Glassey, a geologist, has been commissioned by the French Government ...
Article : 132 wordsA departmental enquiry into the railway collision at Inglewood on Monday last is being conducted at Inglewood. Driver Cotter, of the goods train, which ...
Article : 399 wordsMr. F. E. H. W. Krichauff, the chai[?] man of the Central Agricultural Bureau, posesses an intimate knowledge, of the Murray Flats and their capabilities. ...
Article : 853 wordsFor the fourth test match, which opens to-morrow, the weather conditions are not too reassuring. To-day has been cool and cloudy, and there is no improvement in the ...
Article : 138 wordsGreat preparations are already being made through the colony for the prohibition campaign at the general election in December. The New Zealand Alliance and the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Government are retrenching within the limits of the Civil Service wherever possible, and departments that have been no more than fully ...
Article : 100 wordsA fire to-day destroyed a three-roomed wood and iron house in Hebbard-street, South Broken Hill. The building was owned and occupied by Mr. Creely. Only ...
Article : 255 wordsMr. A. Marks, consul for Japan, in the course of an interview in reference to the Anglo-Japanese alliance, expressed his delight that it had been at last arrived at. ...
Article : 1,466 wordsSilver is quoted at 2/1 7-16 per oz. ...
Article : 16 wordsInfluenza is at present very prevalent in many parts of England. No less than 300 boys attending Eton College are suffering from the malady. ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Fri 14 Feb 1902, Page 5
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