Developments to-day made it practica[?] certain that Mr. Davies, the Attorney-General, will decline the Judgeship offered him. An Executive Council meeting was held ...
Article : 111 wordsInformation has been received at Fremantle through unofficial sources that the Messageries Maritimes Company intends to take vigorous action concerning the conduct of the local ...
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Article : 258 wordsWe slipped down the Shoalhaven from Nowra early on Sunday morning. Our stem launch was full-freighted. Twenty enthusiasts exchanged fish stories as they sliced ...
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Article : 127 words"Doos tho Federal Secret Commissions Act apply to all the States in the Commonwealth?" is a question that has been asked more than once in some quarters. Sir William ...
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Article : 37 wordsThe Government Analyst states, as the resuit of the analysis of 75 samples of leather that the practice of weighting leather wi[?] barium compounds has practically ceased i[?] ...
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Article : 164 wordsThe State election campaign started tonight, when Mr. D. Freeman, the new Ministerial candidate for North Hobart, addrossed electors. This seat was formerly ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Rev. W. C..Wallace, M.A., formerly Presbyterian minister at Branxholme, who leaves for London on March 2 by the steame[?] Medic, has been a[?]credited by the Premier of ...
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Article : 310 wordsThe dead body of Sarah Jane Rafter, 65 years of age, lately residing at 120 Blue's Point-road. North Sydney, was found yesterday morning lying at the foot of a ladder at her residence. ...
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Article : 250 wordsDr. O'Reilly admitted S[?]rah Acton, aged 16 years, to the Sydney Hospital yesterday afternoon for treatment for phosphorus poisoning. The girl, it is alleged, drank a solution of ...
Article : 38 wordsGeneral Linevitch, owing to his failure to quell the disturbances in his district, has resigned the command of the Russian troops in Manchuria and Eastern Siberia, ...
Article : 49 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day, before the Chief Justice, a Hindoo, Wallum Nabby, was charged with the wilful murder of Johnnie Do, at Nanango, on November 8 last. ...
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Article : 37 wordsGeneral Kuropatkin, commanding the 1st Army Corps in Manchuria, and General Batinanoff, commanding the 3rd Army Corps, have been recalled. ...
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Article : 266 wordsThe funeral of King Christian IX. of Denmark was conducted at Roskilde Cathedral yesterday in the presence of his three daughters, Queen Alexendra, the ...
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Article : 40 wordsOwing to all the prisons of the capital being full the Russian Government is compelling employers to dismiss undesirable persons, who are then expelled from St. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Tobacco Monopoly Commission met today to consider the draft report drawn up by the chairman. Senator Pearce. There were present in addition to the chairman Senators ...
Article : 138 wordsM. Kossuth, the leader of the Independence party in Hungary, has informed his followers that General Nyiri, the Commissary of the Emperor Francis Joseph, ...
Article : 130 wordsPrince Arthur of Connaught, who will invest the Emperor of Japan will the Order of the Garter, and Admiral Togo and Field-Marshal Oyama with the Order ...
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Article : 113 wordsThe French Senate has adopted the Franco-Russian commercial convention. ...
Article : 15 wordsWhile on duty at 11.30 last night Constable Furlong noticed a light in a shed in the rear of premises occupied by an old-age pensioner named G. J. R. Keeffe. On investigation the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe New York State Assembly has passed a bill which makes gambling on racecourses a felony. The bill will be sent to the State Senate ...
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Article : 67 wordsMr. William Bampton, a resident of Bathurst, and middle-aged, came to Lithgow by mail train on Saturday night. Just before 4 a.m. on Sunday he was found by a constable ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Commissioner of Mines on the Rand states that after a fair trial unskilled white labour in the mines has been found to be a failure. Many white labourers accept ...
Article : 51 wordsThe highest flood ever known has occcured at Windorah. Further west, on the Diamanitna, 23 inches of rain fell. At Palparara the flood waters are ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Ma[?]l S.S. Company) hsa offered to purchase four steamers of the Pacific Mail Company. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe acting Treasurer stated to-day that no further action had been taken in regard to the Outer Harbour, but that a Cabinet meeting would be held on Tuesday at which the ...
Article : 45 wordsShortly before noon on Saturday a large bush fire started on Hebden Brothers' property, in the vicinity of the place where the disastrous conflagration began last year. The fire ...
Article : 236 wordsThe death of a little girl, 3 years old, daughter of Mr. Sedgwick Gorton, occurred here on Saturday through heat apoplexy. ...
Article : 25 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 6, 9-16d per ounce standard, a fall of [?]d since Saturday. ...
Article : 24 wordsPresident Loubet retired from the Elysee yesterday after installing M. Fallieres as President of France in his place. ...
Article : 27 wordsA serious burning accident occurred at the Cross Roads Hotel yesterday afternoon, the victim being Lizzie Quinnell. The girl ran from the kitchen with her clothes in flames, and ...
Article : 116 wordsAn interesting gift has been made to the Adelaide Art Gallery by Mrs. Edwards, widow of the late well-known artist, Mr. Edwin Edwards. The gift is a series of Mr. Edwards's ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. W. J. Webb's hotel, near the railway station at Dalby, was burned to the ground this afternoon. Little or nothing was saved, and the lessee, John Rynn, perished in the ...
Article : 135 wordsArthur Cyril Dunderdale was charged at the Criminal Court to-day with the murder of his mother at South Yarra on December 14. The evidence for the Crown was the deceased ...
Article : 196 wordsA tram consisting of two cars, proceeding from Circular Quay to Bondi Junction, met with an accident last evening when outside Centennial Park, between Queen-street and ...
Article : 165 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. John A. M'Call, President of the New York Life Insurance Company, aged 56 years. Mr. John A. M'Call had been president of ...
Article : 120 wordsTo-day at the Court of General Sessions, before Judge Choml[?]y, George Nylius, master of the vessel La Bella, wrecked at War[?]ambool on November 10 last, was placed ...
Article : 134 wordsScrutinies in local option polls were finished to-day and resulted in a substantial win for the temperance party in every district except that of Adelaide. In the city itself no ...
Article : 129 wordsA fall of earth took place in the stope at the 700ft level of the South Kalgoorlie mine on Saturday night, almost burying John Cox, a native of Ireland. When he was rescued ...
Article : 101 wordsThere was shipped for London this evening specie amounting to £75,000, consigned to the Right Hon. John Morley, Secretary of State for India, London. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 20 Feb 1906, Page 5
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