In the multitude of counsellors there is said to b[?] wisdom, but wisdom alone will not put a candidate into Parliament, and this fact will have to be borne steadily in mind by the numerous organisations ...
Article : 251 wordsMr. G. H. Reid, the leader of the Federal Parliamentary Opposition, on being asked yesterday if he had any remarks to offer on the present political situation, said:— ...
Article : 1,126 wordsThe receipts for admission to the Royal Agricultural Society's Show Grounds for the five days of last week amounted to £4676 19s 7d, which exceeds those of any other year. They ...
Article : 89 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday touching the death of John Hines. A swagman who gave his name as Arthur Jones, was present in custody. When the widow of the murdered man was describing how she ...
Article : 818 wordsThe agreement for the lease of land at Yongampho to Russia has not been signed by Korea. M. Pavloff, the Russian Minister at Seoul, threatens to consider the ...
Article : 121 wordsThe council of Bulgarian Ministers sitting at Euxinograd under the presidency of Prince Ferdinand has decided to continue the strictest neutrality towards the insurrection in ...
Article : 194 wordsLord Northcote, Governor of Bombay and Governor-General designate of Australia, and Lady Northcote, left Bombay on Saturday [?] England. They had a great send-off. Lord ...
Article : 83 wordsA trade unionist of Westham wrote to Mr. Chamberlain stating that trade unionism was admittedly nothing more or less than protection. He said that he had been l8 years a ...
Article : 100 wordsThe City Council decided at to-day's meeting to vote a further sum of £300 to the common fund which has been established by certain metropolitan municipalities for the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Railway Commissioners consider that the statements of cash receipts hitherto issued weekly are misleading. They, therefore, have decided that the statements shall represent the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe forces of the Protender in Morocco have defeated 1200 Moorish soldiers near Oudja, capturing a field gun, which was presented to the Sultan of Morocco by the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe return of gold won during the mouth of August was issued to-day, and gives a total of 75,312 crude oz, as against 72,932 for last August. At fine same time the figures ...
Article : 54 wordsA cheque for £10,830 4s 2d was paid to-day as probate duty on the estate of the late Captain Staughton, M.L.A., being at the rate of 10 per cent, on £108,362, the value of the ...
Article : 57 wordsLieutenant Penry will start on another attempt to reach the North Pole next July. He will establish a base at Cape Abine, and will winter on Grantland, the extreme northern ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. C. G. Wade, the Reform candidate, addressed a large meeting of electors lost evening at the Congregational Hall, Gordon, in support of his candidature. Mr. W. Read presided. Mr. Wade, who ...
Article : 824 wordsIn connection with the visit of Dr. O'Brien (Dr. Ham's health officer) to the north, the Commissioner has received advice stating that Dr. O'Brien has made inquiries ...
Article : 59 wordsThe dispute between the Woolbrokers' Association and the tanners' concerning the terms of sale has ended. This morning selling was resumed as usual. The selling brokers' terms have been agreed to. They ...
Article : 76 wordsThe United States cruisers Brooklyn and San Francisco and the gunboat Machias, which were ordered to Beyrout on the report of the attempt on the life of Mr. William Magelssen, ...
Article : 71 wordsAdvices from revolutionary sources state Turkish troops and Bashi-bazouks surrounded the village of Velkosti, in the Divra district. Some troops entered the village, plundered the ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. William Waldorf Astor has contributed £20,000 to the Cancer Research Fund of London. A sum of £25,000 is still required to adequately carry on the researches. ...
Article : 592 wordsDr. Hum is inquiring into the case of plague aboard the steamer Innamincka at Townsville Though the complete results of the investigations are unknown, it is ...
Article : 85 wordsThe interstate mails ex the R.M.S. Omrah left Adelaide by to-day'a express. ...
Article : 15 wordsA great fire has occurred at the town of (Travnik, Bosnia. Six hundred houses, seven mosques, and one synagogue have been destroyed. ...
Article : 88 wordsA telegram from Port Lincoln to-day states that David Percy, Charles Mundy, and Donald Porter left in [?] small yacht Jessie on Tuesday morning on a fishing and shooting exc[?]rsion. They ...
Article : 85 wordsThe steamship Ovalau arrived from Sydney last evening, and will sail this afternoon. Her passengers, cargo, and mails were landed this morning. Mr. Alexander Oliver and daughter and Mr. Murphy ...
Article : 54 wordsIsmil Pasha, with six battalions of Turkish troops, attacked 1500 insurgents near Eysison. The result of the battle is unknown. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Slate expenditure for August amounted to £302,500, being £25,709 in excess of the revenue. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe steamer New Guinea, cleared at the Customs to-day for Melbourne, with 3350 tons of coal, the American ship Louisiana, for Honolulu, with 2000 tons of Messrs. Brown's coal, the ship Cumberland, for ...
Article : 160 wordsAt the half-yearly meeting of the Savings Bank to-day it was reported that the deposits had been £108,548, 2s 3d, and repayments £97,279 9s 7d. The sum of £600 had been added to the reserve fund, ...
Article : 71 wordsThe half-castle Clara Wheeler, on remand, appeared at the Maryborough Police Court again to-day charged with the murder of her father. She gave evidence alleging being subjected by deceased to ...
Article : 97 wordsA fire occurred at Capetown yesterday, destreying the premises of Mercer and Skongan, Van der Byl, importers, and Wiener and Co., Limited, shipping agents. ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the instance of Greece, the Sublime Porte has ordered that an inquiry shoull be made into the massacres at Krushevo, near Monastir, and the punishment of officers concerned ...
Article : 202 wordsAt the Criminal Court at Longford to-day the Judge, in passing sentence of four years' imprisonment upon Jesse Moore, convicted on Friday of criminal assault on a niece at Benconsfield, said that ...
Article : 86 wordsAt the instance of Cardinal Moran, who is now in Rome, the Congregation of Propaganda has decided upon the creation of a bishopric in the future Federal capital of ...
Article : 170 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the city council was held to night, the Mayor (Alderman Cann) presiding A letter was read from the Attorney-General in refer ence to the council's application for the establishment ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Ramsay Smith Board or Inquiry resumed its sitting this morning, when Mr. Parsons, counsel for the Crown, completed his opening address. The first witness called was Mr. Sholl, Under-Secretary, ...
Article : 678 wordsThe labour members of the House of Assembly Messrs. Lond, Lamerton, and Burns, addressed a meeting at South Hobart this evening, and a branch of the Workers' Political League was formed. ...
Article : 39 wordsMiddlesex has won the English "cricket county" championship with 77 points. Sussex is second with 55 points, Yorkshire third with 41, Lancashire fourth with 33, ...
Article : 52 wordsThe mineral exports for last month were valued at £134,335 as against £128,149 in August last year. The value of the West Coast mineral exports was £70,318. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe dead body of a man named Francis Richard Rudd, aged 31, seaman, holding a second mate's certificate, was found floating near the North Harbour buoy at 9 o'clock this morning. The deceased, who ...
Article : 190 wordsNews from Papecte states that the schooner Hermann had been sold there, the search for the hidden treasure having been abandoned. The party examined about 20 islands, but without success, and ...
Article : 77 wordsReuter's correspondent denies the Turkish official accounts of the losses of the insurgents at Neveska, and says that 200 of the soldiers were surprised and taken prisoners without ...
Article : 217 wordsMr. P. J. M'Namara, of the People's Reform League, addressed a well-attended meeting here on Saturday. Mr. J. St. J. Lee presided. Mr. M'Namara said it transpired the other day in the ...
Article : 386 wordsThe weather chart for the 48 hours ended at 9 o'clock yesterday morning issued from the Observatory shows that further showers of a light character passed over Western and Eastern Riverina, parts of ...
Article : 198 wordsAt the new Town Hall, Chatswood, last evening Mr. S. E. Hutton, the selected Labour candidate, addressed a large meeting of electors in support of his candidature. He was assisted by Messrs. J. S. T. ...
Article : 86 wordsIt is reported at Rome that Pope Plus X. desires to break through the tradition that the Papal Secretary of State must be an Italian, and that he desires to appoint ...
Article : 66 wordsThe first election of scholars from New Zealand for Oxford under the Rhodes bequest will be held about June next. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe following team has been selected to represent the Newcastle Y.M.C.A. in a football match against the Sydney institution, to be played in Sydney on Wednesday, namely:—Neve, Blackall, Ritchie, ...
Article : 58 wordsSir,—Over-confidence has frequently proved the rock on which the majority, however large, in an electorate has come to grief. It must not be so in Willoughby, where a small minority of Ministerialists ...
Article : 175 wordsIn the prosecutions brought against Newtown publicans, in which five in number were charged with soiling liquor without licenses, the magistrate imposed a fine of £5 1s in each case, ...
Article : 134 wordsCorporal G. Bradley and Private Heenan, of Queensland, and Mr. A. Carter, of Victoria, members of the Bisley rifle team, arrived to-day by the mail steamer Omrah. Corporal Carter landed at ...
Article : 111 wordsLord Hindlip, who has recently returned from a visit to East Africa, speaking in regard to the proposed Zionist settlement, protests against sending thither undesirable ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Sultan is giving 50,000 woollen coats to his troops in Roumelia. He has invited his subjects to make contributions of flannel vests, boots, and socks. ...
Article : 34 wordsJ. H. Williams, who was 100 years old in January last, died at Wellington, to-day. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Australian estates and Mortgage Company, Limited, is in receipt of the following rain advices, viz.:- The Overflow Station (Nymagee, September s).— ...
Article : 122 wordsSir,—Would you kindly allow me a little space in your valuable paper to point out what I think may be a misleading statement? Now that Sir James Graham has decided to stand ...
Article : 189 wordsA seaman named Charles Hertman, residing at Rosser-street, Baiman, met with a painful accident during the voyage of the steamer Willyama from Port [?] to Sydney. He was engaged paining a ...
Article : 90 wordsPumping is now proceeding in the ordinary course in the town service reservoir, and domestic requirements are fully supplied. Mr. Whitehead, engineer of the Water Supply ...
Article : 372 wordsThe "Neuo Freie Presse" of Vienna states that the police at Constantinople have arrested Hadji Bian, an Armenian, who is assistant dragoman at the Russian. Embassy. ...
Article : 34 wordsRussian advices are to the effect that serious differences have occurred between the Shah and the head of the Shia sect of Mohammedans. The leader of the sect has threatened to ask ...
Article : 134 wordsOn Saturday afternoon during a football match between the Tipperary and Waratah clubs, played on the Young Cricket Ground, two young men named William Wood, a labourer, and William ...
Article : 137 wordsMost of the Embassies at Constantinople aro guarded inside by armed soldiers from the guardships. ...
Article : 21 wordsLight rain has fallen over the major portion of the south-eastern quarter of the State, in connection with thunderstorms. The following were the principal rainfalls for the 48 hours ended at 9 a.m. to-day:— ...
Article : 212 wordsSir,—According to a paragraph in last Friday's issue of your papers a lady signing herself "Observer" says that "she objects to the suggestion that the various Women's Political Leagues should amalgamate, on the ...
Article : 418 wordsThe police yesterday raided hotels in three districts, namely, North and South Brisbane, and Fortitude Valley, securing 14 cases against publicans. It was represented to Mr. Philp to-day that hotelkeepers ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Sultan has exiled Chevket Pasha, one of his aides-de-camp, because that officer had proposed to invade Bulgaria at the head of 30,000 troops. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe amateur golf championship meeting of Victoria opened this morning on the Royal Melbourne Golf Club's [?] at Sandringham. Play was carried out in beautiful weather from the visitors' point of ...
Article : 274 wordsG. Brooker, a resident of Kanagaloon, had his leg broken yesterday afternoon through his horse failing on him. CONDOBOLIN, Monday. ...
Article : 178 wordsFurther details of the bomb outrage on the steamer Vaskapu show that one dynamite bomb was thrown into the stokehole and another under the bridge. The cabin where the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe estate of the late Mr. James M'Neill Whistler, the artist, has been proved at £10,602. Sept. 7. ...
Article : 96 wordsReports show that up to Saturday morning rain was light in the far north, and also in extreme south and south-east, but heavy generally over the lower north central and Mount Lofty ranges. Since Saturday ...
Article : 62 wordsAt the Parramatta Police Court on Monday, before Mr. T. E. MacNevin, S.M. Peter Murphy pleaded guilty to riding in a tramway car without having paid his fare, and was fined 10s with the option of four ...
Article : 46 wordsKing Poter of Servia is trying to reconc[?]le the factions in his army. He has officially stated that an investigation is proceeding into the massacre of King ...
Article : 75 wordsThe following footballers have been selected to represent the metropolis against New South Wales on Wednesday:—Full back, C. B. St. John: threequarters, P. Carmichael, E Martin L. Dixon, J. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Government steamer Victoria arrived off the bar yesterday morning with Captain [?] and members of the Navigation Board, accompanied by Mr. Keele, Chief Engineer for Harbours and Rivers. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe annual market days, run for four days, in aid of the Parramatta Methodist Church funds, were very successful, the total takings amounting to £203. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 8 Sep 1903, Page 5
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