The ordinary meeting of the City Council was held last night, the Lord Mayor (Alder man S. E. Lees) presiding. COMMEMORATION SERVICE. ...
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Article : 47 wordsThe Governor has received a cablegram from the Secretnry of State for the Colonies informing him that a pompom had been, awarded to New Zealand as a memento of the ...
Article : 72 wordsReuter's representative at Tokio reports that on Wednesday last week Japan intimated to Baron von Rosen, the Russian Minister at Tokio, that the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe employers of labour at Port Adelaide and the Working Men's Association have completed an agreement for stevedoring work at Port Adelaide. This will he signed as from ...
Article : 510 wordsThe coroner's jury wich inquired into the cause of the disaster that occurred at the Iroquois Theatre, Chicago, in connection with the giving of a matinee ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Deputy Governor, Sir Samuel Way, has received a message from the Secretary of Stats for the Colonies, stating that a Maxim gun has been awarded to South Australia as a ...
Article : 145 wordsAt the criminal sittings of the District Court to-day George H. T. Jones pleaded guilty to stealing, while clerk of the council, £568 11s 9d, the property of the Maroochy Shire ...
Article : 126 wordsThe manufacturers' section of the London Chamber of Commerce has taken a vote upon the question. "Do you favour preferential trade with the Empire and ...
Article : 56 wordsDr. Morrison, the "Times" correspondent at Peking, reports that Prince Ching, at the instance of Russia, asked Sir Ernest Satow, the British) Minister, and M. ...
Article : 169 wordsChatting yesterday on the subject of the lecture delivered by him on Monday evening on the subject of preferential trade, Sir William Lyne referred to some of the comments ...
Article : 309 wordsA discussion was initiated at the meeting of the City Council last night on the Create Sydney question. Alderman Fitzgerald moved,—"(a) That in ...
Article : 542 wordsThe rivers in the Pittsburg district, Pennsylvania, are subsiding. [A cablegram was published on Monday to the effect that the Alleghany River, ...
Article : 71 wordsIn honour of the forty-fifth birthday of the German Emperor, the Consul-General for Germany (Herr von Burl) held a reception at the consulate yesterday. Between the ...
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Article : 23 wordsWhitaker Wright died immediately he left the court. Death was due to heart failure. 7.30 p.m. ...
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Article : 303 wordsGermany is negotiating with Great Britain for the right of passage of her troops through Port Nolloth, in the Namaqualand division of Cape Colony. ...
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Article : 18 wordsAt the sales of Australian tallow to-day 526 casks were offered and 255 sold. Prices were unchanged. ...
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Article : 57 wordsSir Horace Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, delivered a lecture before the London Institution last night upon "The National Life and Progress of Australia." ...
Article : 110 wordsSpeaking at the opening of a Roman Catholic school, near Bunbury, yesterday. Bishop Gibney said that in the matter of education Roman Catholics in this State were nearly as ...
Article : 214 wordsOn Thursday last, George and John Bryant, 17, twin brothers, and a lad named Heath, 13, went shooting in the bush at Turramurra. At one time during their excurcion Heath was ...
Article : 103 wordsAlderman Meagher, who some weeks ago moved in the City Council in the direction of proventing the exhibition of the scores at certain cricket matches, brought up a further ...
Article : 520 wordsThe famous Turiu Library has been burnt down. Many priceless ancient manuscripts have been destroyed. The ancient library of Turin, now known as ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Theodores V. S. Augier, head partner in the firm of Augier Brothers, steamship owners, of London, who has just completed a tour of the United States, stated in the ...
Article : 201 wordsA sad drowning accident occurred at Longreach yesterday. Two boys named Smith and Dent were fishing near the bridge over the river. Smith went for a swim, leaving [?] ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. Price, M.L.A., leader of the Labour party in the State Parliament, speaking at a public meeting last night in connection with the unemployod question, said that the majority of ...
Article : 127 wordsDelegates appointed by the Staffordshire Potteries Company are proceeding to Australia to prospect for clay and to inquire into the coal supply, with a view of ...
Article : 44 wordsA boy named Joseph Longobardl, aged 12, was drowned in the Macquarie at Dubbo to-day. He was bathing with two other boys, when he got out of his depth and was ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the Summons Division of the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. L. King, D.S.M., Covers P. Hildebrand, an officer of the Navigation Department, proceeded against the Port ...
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Article : 115 wordsPittsburg advices are to the effect that it has been reciprocally arranged that the Welsh tinplate makers shall buy the American Steel Trust's steel billets in ...
Article : 51 wordsThe annual conference of the Political Labour Longue of New South Wales was resumed at the Trades' Hall last evening. There was a large attendance, the president, Mr. H Lamond, being in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsSix years ago, when the late Sir Graham Berry retired from public life, Parliament, led by Sir George Turner, who was then Premier, decided to purchase him an annuity of ...
Article : 100 wordsH.M.S. Hibernia is to be fitted for the storage of oil fuel. The Hibernia is a first-class armoured craiser of 9820 tons, and is the flagship of the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe fine German mail steamer Zieton, of the fleet of the Nord-Deutscher Lloyd, now berthed on the western side of the Circular Quay, was tastefully decorated with Hugs ...
Article : 77 wordsWe have received from Mr. H.E.C. Robinson a copy of his recently published "Paste at Map of New South Wales." The scale is 16 miles to an inch, and the size of the maps is 3ft 6in by 5ft. Sheep stations ([?]ying ...
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Article : 47 wordsThe schooner St. Kilda cleared at the Customs to-day for Gisborne with 280 tons of coal, the steamer Easby for Holbourne with 1770 tons of coal, the steamer Sapphire for Bombay with 3108 tons of Messrs. ...
Article : 72 wordsA startling accident happened at Queenseliff to-day during firing practice front Tobin's Hill battery at targets placed on Swan Island. A sortion of the breech block of a 12-pounder ...
Article : 75 wordsThe German Consul in Brisbane Flerr von Ploennies, held a reception at the Consulate this morning in honour of the birthday of the German Emperor. Amongst these ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 28 Jan 1904, Page 7
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