A large fire, in which 16,000 acres of grass were burnt, started on Mr. S. Bau[?]ch's Dunmore Estate, at Macarthur, to-day. and trav[?]rsed Mr. W. Bau[?]ch's Rose Park Estate. The ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. Waddell, M.L.A., delivered an address last night. There was an attendance of about 200, and the Mayor (Alderman Wordsworth) presided. Mr. Waddell, in referring to the ...
Article : 302 wordsUnder a dour but forbearing sky Katoomba made festival yerterday in commemoration of the successful issue of its water supply scheme. His Excellency the State Governor, ...
Article : 1,785 wordsThe Minister for Home Affairs has approved of details upon which the Federal map of Australia is to be compiled, for which purpose £500 was voted by Parliament last year. The ...
Article : 144 wordsThe speech delivered by General Botha. Premier of the Transvaa[?] outlining his policy has received singularly unanimous approval. His defin[?]e assurance ...
Article : 41 wordsThe railway magnates of the United States are alarme[?] at the prospect of Legislatures of 28 States limiting the passenger rates to a penny a mile. The ...
Article : 80 wordsA terrible disaster occurred at Toulon this afternoon, the battleship Jena, 12,052 tons, being wrecked by an explosion o[?] some of her magazines, with great loss of ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Director of Agriculture, Dr. Cherry, estimates the wheat yield for the last season to be about 24 million bushels, the amount that the Government Statist anticipated, ...
Article : 41 wordsGeorge Gourlay, driver of the Edinburgh express, which on December 28 of last year crashed into a stationary train at Elliott Junction, near Arbroath, Scotland, ...
Article : 211 wordsThe weather in Fiji has been very [?] able. December and January were [?]tter than for many years past, while February reminded us more of our winter months. ...
Article : 429 wordsVice-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, Commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet, in the course of an interview at San Francisco respecting the limitation of ...
Article : 53 wordsThe High Court to-day delivered judgment upon an appeal respecting hawking in the city. A hawker was recently fined £5 for having exposed for sale in Swanston-street certain ...
Article : 98 wordsThe enrolment of Victorian boys for the formation of the Naval Cadet Force is to be commenced this week at Williamstown. The necessary regulations have been passed by the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Full Court to-day decided that holders of Australian wine H[?]uses must not permit liquor other than Australian wine, cider, and perry, to be brought on their licensed premises ...
Article : 36 wordsA semi-official statement which has been made at Budapest is interpreted to mean that Austria-Hungary intends to prevent at The Hague Conference the ...
Article : 35 wordsA political meeting was held at Waverley on Monday evening, when Captain H. T. Douglass delivered an address, in which he emphasised the necessity of keeping the ...
Article : 228 wordsFurther steps have been taken in the neg[?] tiations to secure a reduction in the ordinary passage rates of approved immigrants to Victoria from Great Britain. To-day the Minister ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Jena was one of the finest battleships of the French navy. She flew the [?]ag of Rear-Admiral Manceron, commanding the second division of the ...
Article : 787 wordsA scheme for the operations of the Federal Meteorological Bureau is to be laid before the Minister for Home Affairs shortly by Mr. Hunt. It will probably provide for the ...
Article : 42 wordsGerman newspapers are beginning to declare that Germany has no further interest in the realisation of the Baghdad railway scheme, which they say is already ...
Article : 222 wordsThe death is announced of M. Jean Paul Casimir-Perier, who was President of the French Republic in 1894, aged 60. The newspapers declare that his resignation ...
Article : 234 wordsAn explosion occurred to-day at the confectionery establishment of Mrs. Young. at Geraldton. A soda-water apparatus was being used in a shed at the back of the shop, and a ...
Article : 127 wordsThe weather chart issued from the Meteorological Department yeaterday shows that during the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. rain fell over practically the whole of the State from the ...
Article : 1,105 wordsThe following vessels cleared at the Customs-house to-day:—Ardgowan, s, for Dunkirk, via Port Pirie, with 930 tons bunker coal; Monaro, s, for Fremantle, via Sydney, ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Arbitration Court award in the timber dispute which produced a strike of mill workers in the south-west a few months ago was delivered to-day. Mr. Justice Burnside, ...
Article : 252 wordsThe question of communication between Australia and America across the Pacific has been under consideration of the Federal Ministers for some time, and recent developments ...
Article : 388 wordsThe Conservative party triumphed at the General Election in Spain. ...
Article : 19 wordsTwenty members of the Independent Labour party voted with the minority in the division in the House of Commons following the discussion of the New ...
Article : 47 wordsThe second series of colonial wool sales opened brisk, with the market at par to 5 per cent[?] advance on the first series. March 13. ...
Article : 346 wordsThe assassination of M. Petkoff, Premier of Bulgarin, at Sofia on Monday, was the outcome of a plot. Peteroff, the assassin, confessed that the band of ...
Article : 58 wordsA fall of coal occurred with fatal result in Dudley Colliery this morning. Two miners, Harry Thomas Parker and Andrew Bull, were working in company, and while the former was ...
Article : 264 wordsThe Governor General and party visited Bega District Hospital this morning His Excellency inspected the various wards, and made kindly and sympathetic remarks to the ...
Article : 451 wordsTwo-thirds of the h[?]ll of the United States Great Northern Railway Company's 20,000-ton steamer Dakota, which is ashore at Noshima, Japan, is ripped. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Admiralty and other experts are considering plans submitted by Mr. R. E. Middleton, a well-known engineer in London, of large submarines capable of firing ...
Article : 38 wordsNo information has reached the Postal Department regarding the reported withdrawal of the San Francisco steamers other than the cablegram which was published in the press ...
Article : 169 wordsConsequent on the death of Mr. W. H. Gibson, of Fair[?]ld, the classical stud merinos which that remarkably succeasful breeder founded as far back as 1868, were to-day ...
Article : 299 wordsAt the sale of Australian and New Zealand tallow to-day 987 casks were offered. All were sold. Prices were: Mutton, fine, 39s 10d; medium, 37s; beef, fine, 37s 6d; ...
Article : 40 wordsJol[?]bois, a workman, residing at Clichy la Garenne, a suburb of Paris, attempted to strangle a woman. He then killed a policeman and a waiter, and ...
Article : 42 wordsThe New South Wales Arbitration Court on November 19. made an award respecting the building industry, particularly as to carpenters and joiner[?]. Among other things the ...
Article : 339 wordsLord Rosebery and Lord Curzon of Kedleston are candidates for the Chancellorship of Oxford University. ...
Article : 23 wordsDr. Grafton Elliott-Smith, a graduate of Sydney University, has been selected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Dr. Grafton Elliott-Smith proceeded to ...
Article : 193 wordsMr. W. Forster, secretary of the Victorian Lacrosse Association, will leave for Adelaide on Friday to make final arrangements with the South Australian Lacrosse Association, ...
Article : 137 wordsAn official statement made regarding the strike of slaughtermen in Canterbury, published by the men, states:—"Two members of Parliament, under authority from the union, ...
Article : 242 wordsIn order to prevent efforts being made by adulterators of food in Great Britain to secure legislation which will aid the production of faked butter, the Minister for ...
Article : 161 wordsThe New South Wales cricketers commenced a match against Fremantle on the Scaside Oval to-day. The home team batted first, and when stumps were drwan has lost seven wickets for 206. Scores: ...
Article : 166 wordsMr. C. H. Rason, Agent-General for Western Australia, delivered a lecture at the Royal Colonial Institute last night on the resources of Western Australia. He ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the Full Court to-day, judgment was de livered in the income tax appeal cas[?] in which the Chief Justice, Sir Pope Cooper, appealed against the decision of Judge Miller ...
Article : 104 wordsPrince Hendry of Holland, Prince Consort of Queen W[?]lmina, has declined to accept a national testimonial in recognition of his efforts towards the saving ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Robertson Half-squadron of Lanc[?]rs was inspected to-day by Captain Holman for the Go[?]eral Officer Commanding. There was a good attendance on parade, under the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 14 Mar 1907, Page 7
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