Both galleries were well filled when the House of Representatives met this afternoon, and there was an unusually large number of members present. The first business done was to swear in Mr. G. H. Reid, ...
Article : 1,099 wordsThe interest which has surrounded the byelection for a representative to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. George Howarth in the Legislative Assembly culminated yesterday in a ...
Article : 891 wordsIn consequence of disclosures which have been made as the result of an investigation into the affairs of the Post Office Department of the United States by President ...
Article : 521 wordsReplying to-day to a deputation which urged the necessity for certain reforms of the prisons system, the Chief Secretary, Mr. Murray, said that when a man had committed ...
Article : 113 wordsTurkey claims to have pacified the vilayets of Kossovo and Salonika in Macedonia. Reuter's correspondent at Sofia states that the Macedonian leaders assert that 150,000 ...
Article : 96 wordsDr. Morrison, the Peking correspondent of the "Times." states that the Russian Note to China notifying that Russia would evacuate Manchuria on october 8, undertakes that China ...
Article : 118 wordsIn the District Court to-day. Dalgety and Co., Limited, were fined £6, with £4 3s costs added, for an offence under the Customs Act. The offence consisted in describing a ...
Article : 194 wordsRussia and Austria have invited the other Powers with them to unitedly urge Bulgaria to sever all connection with the Macedonian committees directing the insurrection in ...
Article : 79 wordsAt the instance of Admiral Alexieff, the Russian Viceroy of the East, the crows of the Japanese fishing vessels recently arrested off the coast of Kamschatka have been acquitted. ...
Article : 51 wordsAbout 5000 people were present at the interstate sharebrokers' walk on the Adelaide Oval this afternoon, in dusty and unpleasant weather. The following were the teams:—South ...
Article : 166 wordsIt is reported that the Bulgarian Exarch at Constantinople has been imprisoned in his palace for refusing to urge the Macedonians to relinquish their arms. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe German Emperor has directed (that a rigid censorship should be exercised against the socialist press so as to detect cases of lese majeste. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Sublime Porte has ordered all European newspaper correspondents to leave Macedonia. The Sublime Porte accuses the correspondents of circulating falsehoods. ...
Article : 36 wordsM. George Playoust, a large woolbuyer, president of the French Chamber of Commerce, Sydney, is returning by the Ville de la Clotat from a six months' business trip to France. ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Government of Servia minimises the conspiracy of officers, discovered at Nish, to kill the regicides. The Government declares that the conspiracy was not directed against ...
Article : 58 wordsThe "Daily Mail" reports that 11 cases of plague have occurred at Marseilles recently, seven being fatal. It is supposed that the disease was ...
Article : 44 wordsJohn Miller, a German, has been arrested at Syracuse, New York, on a charge of threatening to shoot President Roosevelt during a labour review. ...
Article : 35 wordsThere is a scare in Paris regarding the electric tube railway, owing to a passenger's umbrella, in falling upon the permanent way, causing short circuit and a small fire. ...
Article : 52 wordsOn Sunday last, the Mohammedans at Beyrout, Syria, attacked the Christian quarter of the city, and killed ton Christians, including one citizen of the United States, and wounded ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Johannesburg Chamber of Mines has informed the Labour Commission of the Transvaal that the total South African supply of native labourers is 235,600. ...
Article : 131 wordsAt auction to-day the Colonial Mutual Fire and Accident Company purchased the office premises which have been occupied by them in King William-street for the past 20 years ...
Article : 58 wordsMuch anxiety continues to be felt regarding Miss Sophie Frances Hickman, M.D., the missing lady doctor, who has not been heard of since leaving the Royal Free Hospital, ...
Article : 77 wordsThe British Consul at Beyrout, Mr. R. Drummond Hay, has threatened to ask the United States squadron in the harbour to land marines, in the event of a renewal of the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe French barque Brenn, now in port, has arrived from Port Louis in ballast for orders. She is one of a fleet of mercantile vessels constructed under the French bounty law and is ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Opposition and Reform party, said Mr. Garland, were very satisfied with the result of the election. The vote polled was a very large one considering it was a by-election. The vote cast for the ...
Article : 165 wordsThe "Times" this morning contains a contributed article, which is given a prominent position, on Australian finance. The article criticises Australian loan ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Governor to-day opened tha Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the new Custom-house. The boisterous weather marred the attendance. ...
Article : 25 wordsOwing to business engagements R. H. Spooner, the Lancashire amateur, has been prevented accepting the invitation of the Marylebone Cricket Club to join the team for ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of Cape Colony have been dissolved. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe mystery connected with recent house robberies in Hobart suburbs has been cleared by the arrest of a girl in her teens, who had made presents of stolen jewellery to her ...
Article : 53 wordsThere has been a severe outbreak of smallpox at South Ealing, London. Black flags have been hung from the buildings in which there are sufferers, to warn ...
Article : 49 wordsA hurricane has occurred in Mexico, and has destroyed San Miguel, in Yucatan. Three thousand workers on the Southern raliway in Madrid, Spain, have struck work. ...
Article : 464 wordsThe feeling among the Labour party, for whom Mr. Holman was spokesman, was that the contest was but preliminary work towards the ultimate capture of the seat by the party. The figures for the ...
Article : 220 wordsThe half-yearly report of the Commercial Bank of Tasmania shows a profit for distribution of £17,662. A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. has been declared, and £5000 ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the House of Representatives this afternoon, Mr. G. H. Reid had no sooner been sworn in as the re-elected member for East Sydney than he rose and made reference to the action of the Government ...
Article : 3,461 wordsFurther particulars of the attack on the French convoy at Taghit, in Algeria, by briglands, show that the assailants numbered 4000. The first volley killed all the officers of ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday, Mr. FLOWERS asked the Attorney-General, without notice, whether it was correct, as stated in the press that the Government ...
Article : 591 wordsThe "Times" says that the money market is particularly sensitive to adverse influences, owing to its surfeited condition. Though the recent decision of the underwriters to take ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Wade is a native of Sydney, and is a comparatively young man. In 1877 he went to King's School. Parramatta. He left in June, 1880, and went to England with the financial assistance of a ...
Article : 206 wordsIn the libel action, Lord Penrhyn v. Mr. William John Parry, merchant, of Bethesda, in which plaintiff was awarded £500 damages, defendant has settled the case by paying Lord ...
Article : 219 wordsThe "News Wiener Tagblatt," published at Vienna, states that the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria will visit London during the second half of the month of November. ...
Article : 34 wordsInformation has been received that the steamers Herbert and Nelson came into collision last night on the Johnstone River bar. On the Exchange to-day Chillagoe debentures ...
Article : 66 wordsAt the tallow sales to-day; 1273 casks were offered, and 945 were sold. Prices were:— Mutton, fine 29s 9d, medium 28s; beef, fine 31s, medium 27s 6d per cwt. ...
Article : 35 wordsA complaint made by Mr. Taylor, the member for Christchurch, in the House of Representatives, that the Flour Millers' Association was increasing the cost of bread, has ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Trades Union Congress is meeting this year at Leicester. The assembly yesterday briefly discussed Mr. Chamberlain's preferential trade proposals, and condemned them ...
Article : 45 wordsThe R.M.S. Rome arrived at 1 p.m. and sails at 6 p.m. Her saloon passengers are:- For Fremantle: Dr. M. O'Connor. For Melbourne: Mrs. L. Rosenthal, Mr. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe statistics of the Board of Trade for the first six months of the year indicate remarkable commercial prosperity in most great States. ...
Article : 39 wordsReturns from the mines of the Auckland goldfields for the past three weeks amounted to £70,638. This brings the output of the present year to £612,302, or £134,000 more than ...
Article : 63 wordsThe prize shootings for the September quarter in connection with the Cooma Civilian Rifle Club were continued on Saturday, with the following results:—E. E. Evans, 500yds 30,600yds 27 total 57; N. J. Norris, 26, 25—51; E. ...
Article : 68 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2[?]d per ounce standard, a fall of [?]d since yesterday. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 10 Sep 1903, Page 7
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