It is officially announced that Sir James Fergusson was killed by the earthquake at Kingston, and that the rest of Sir Alfred Jones's party aro safe. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe keenest anxiety is evident in political circles owing to the uncertainty of the situation, and there is a growing fear amongs[?] the Liberals that the party will be left ...
Article : 979 wordsSir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, states that he is willing to negotiate with the United States for a permanent determination of a division of the ...
Article : 108 wordsA very severe earthquake occurred at Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, on Monday afternoon. The city, it is reported, has been destroyed, and there has been much loss of life. ...
Article : 127 wordsAt the sales of Australian tallow to-day 909 casks were offered and 418 were sold. Prices were:—Mutton, fine, 38s 3d; medium, 34s 6d; beef, fine, 36s Gd; medium, 33s 6d per cwt. ...
Article : 42 wordsIn responding to the toast of "His Excellency the Governor-General at the A.N.A. Exhibition luncheon to-day. Lord Northcote said:— ...
Article : 1,068 wordsGermany is discussing a project to construct a great harbour and coaling station at Swakopmund, South-west Africa. The cost of the project is estimated at ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, addressing the Republican National Convention at Washington, advocated a maximum and a minimum tariff. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe harbour is a large and safe one, almost land-locked, running cast and west, and is capable of containing any number of vessels of large size. Kingston is an important coal ...
Article : 96 wordsGreat anxiety is manifested for the safety of a large party of distinguished English visitors who arrived at Kingston on Friday to attend an important agricultural conference there on Monday. Included among the visitors are the Earl and Countess of Dudley. ...
Article : 105 wordsAn Imperial Edict issued at Peking declares that the old Chinese learning is still the fundamental factor in national education, and that to it Western ...
Article : 40 wordsA great earthquake occurred in Jamaica in 1692, when the chief part of the town of Port Royal, built on a shelving bank of sand, slipped into the sea. The loss of life was ...
Article : 77 wordsFrance is disturbed at the presence of two German officers (Tschudi and Wolff) in Morocco contrary to the Algeciras arrangement. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe first of the 1907 series of wool sales opened to-day to brisk competition and unchanged prices. Jan. 16. ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. Hamar Greenwood, M.P., cabled to the Colonial Office from Holland Bay, 35 miles west of Kingston, giving an account of the disaster. Mr. Greenwood states that all the buildings and dwellings in ...
Article : 145 wordsAlthough Jamaica [?]es well within the earthquake zone of the West Indies and Central and South America, it is remarkable that we have to go back to the calamitous quake of ...
Article : 162 wordsIt is officially announced that Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, dissents from the bill proposed to be introduced into the House of Commons for ...
Article : 50 wordsyice-Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes, of the Australian naval station, has arrived at Singapore in H.M.S. Powerful, and met Vice-Admiral Sir A. W. Moore, ...
Article : 43 wordsProfessor E. W. Skeats, of the university of Melbourne, when seen at the Science Congress last week in reference to the recent disturbances of the crust of the earth beneath ...
Article : 1,473 wordsFrench newspapers report acts of aggression by Germans in the French Congo. ...
Article : 19 wordsReuter's latest report from St. Thomas is that the fire is still burning in Kingston, though it is confined to the docks, and is being energetically fought. No mention in this latest message is made of shocks continuing. ...
Article : 83 words'A' firm of exporters in New York is prosecuting the Union-Castle and other shipping companies for combining to restrain trade for the purpose of suppressing ...
Article : 42 wordsProfessor Parker, of Columbia University, claims to have invented a metal filament for a lamp of 45 fold the efficiency of an electric carbon filament. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 304 wordsA vagrant beggar at Findlay, Ohio, died from exposure. The body was identified as that of Count Crondhjelm, a Swede, to whom, though he was unaware, ...
Article : 46 wordsConsternation prevails in New York over the disaster at Jamaica owing to thousands of American visitors being on the island. The Government of the United States minimises the extent of the disaster, but has ordered the fleet which is off Cuba to investigate the ...
Article : 59 wordsThere are snowdrifts 50ft deep at the foot of the hills in the Cevennes, south-east France. The rain in some places froze 18in deep, the trees standing therein ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies, announces that the Camp Hospital at Kingston is destroyed, that 30 people were killed and 300 injured. The fire, his message states, is confined to one-sixteenth of the ...
Article : 56 wordsA politician who has not been without a share in the responsibilities of office in the State Government exprossed the opinion yesterday that despite all the rumours of ...
Article : 957 wordsThe King has awarded the Victoria Cross to the representatives of six officers and men who for valour in past campaigns would have received the decoration ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Social Democratic Federation has quarrelled with the Progressive Party respecting the County Council elections. ...
Article : 23 wordsEarthquake shocks were recorded on Monday afternoon over the greater part of Northern Norway. ...
Article : 18 wordsInterest in the interstate yachting carnival is now centred in the races to be sailed on Friday and Saturdiy, and on Monday (if necessary) between Sayonara (representing ...
Article : 325 wordsAnglers are having a great time in the Tasmanian rivers. Drs. Hall and Harris have been fishing over the Dee for three weeks, and their record for that time is 401 English ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Rev. Dr. Guinness Rogers, the distinguished Congregational minister, and other prominent clergymen severely rebuke the Rev. R. J. Campbell for his ...
Article : 43 wordsKingston, the commercial and political capital of Jamaica, stands on the north side of a land-locked harbour, the best in the island, and, for its size, one of the best in ...
Article : 410 wordsThomas Newton, aged 104, died in a charitable institution to-day. He was a native of Leeds, England. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Japanese liner Awa Maru, which went ashore on Westear Rock, Yorkshire, during the recent snowstorms, has been refloated, the property saved representing ...
Article : 38 wordsNotwithstanding the endeavours of the Australian brokers to depreciate the Hobart special wool sales and their efforts to get wool sent from Tasmania to Melbourne for ...
Article : 123 wordsThe tonnage of the port of London for 1906 was 27,145,000, being an increase of 1,250,000 tons compared with the preceding year. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe following particulars about Kingston are gleaned from " The West Indies," written by Mr. John Henderson, as recently as 1905:—town of Kingston is made ...
Article : 580 wordsMr. Hudson Maxim, of New York, brother of Sir Hiram Maxim, has invented a motorite for the purpose of generating steam as a propellant attached to a ...
Article : 40 wordsThe steamer induna arrived at 11.30 a.m. from the Islands, and sailed for Sydney at 8 p.m., with the following through passengers:—Mr. and Mrs. Cordin and two children, Messrs. Kinsey, Cater, Smith, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 17 Jan 1907, Page 7
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