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Article : 19 wordsThe inquiry into the wreck of the Elingamite was resumed to-day. Mr. W. R. Haselden, S.M., presided, and he was assisted by Captains Waddilove (Lyttelton) and C. G. Smith (Wellington) as nautical ...
Article : 1,110 wordsThe Aden correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that as the rams have ceased in Somaliland an advance is impossible till next August. Meanwhile the posts held by ...
Article : 79 wordsA warrant has been issued for the arrest of a German painter named Christian Allers, a resident of Capri, on charges of committing offences which he falsely attributed to the late ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Johannesburg correspondent of the "Standard" reports that the Boers and the British in the Transvaal are amazed at the request of Mr. Kruger to return. The rural ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Mullah in Somaliland has returned the British stores which he captured in the engagement with Colonel Swayne near Erego. Accompanying the stores was a message of ...
Article : 49 wordsLord Milner telegraphs that his letter to the Lord Mayor of London published on October 29 has been misunderstood. Lord Milner says that in that letter he referred strictly ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Government of Venezuela has seized four British merchantmen on the Orinoco. Famine and much sickness prevails at Ciudad Bolivar, the town on the ...
Article : 82 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Cobbe, who is now at the B[?]hotle advanced post, will on the 12th instant march for Balman Wells, a post 40 miles in advance of his present position. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Somali levies are proving insubordinate. They simulate sickness in order to secure hospital comforts and camel transportation to the coast. When the deception is ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. C. T. Ritchie, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, explains that neither he nor Mr. Chamberlain intends that the British taxpayer should supplement his free gift to the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe British expedition on the north-west frontier of India has convinced the Waziris of the undesirability of raiding British territory. The troops destroyed 59 towers and three ...
Article : 53 wordsThe revenue for November was £264,056, the lowest for any month of the present financial year, and £2901 below the corresponding month of last year. ...
Article : 35 wordsLord Milner, who is making a tour of the Orange River Colony, has arrived at Harrismith. He has had a fall from his horse, but his injuries are slight. ...
Article : 39 wordsMiss Mary Walker, who was burned to death at Cunderdin yesterday, is a sister of Dr. Walker, of Port Pirie. Miss Walker, who was a State school teacher at Canderdin, was engaged cooking her ...
Article : 82 wordsA disastrous fire has occurred at Rat Portage, a town on the Lake of the Woods, Canada. Many houses, six steamers, and 25,000,000ft. of lumber were destroyed. The ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. John Redmond, M.P., leader of the Nationalists, and Mr. Patrick O'Brion, M.P., had interviews lasting an hour with General Botha yesterday. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe gold output for the month was 197,198oz., which is, with one exception, the largest on record. ...
Article : 20 wordsAt the Circuit Court to-day a miner named Roderick Watts sued the Burbank Birthday Gift Gold Mines, Limited, Coolgardie, for £1500 damages for personal injuries alleged to ...
Article : 220 wordsThe camps in the Orange River Colony have been transferred to the colonial Government. They will all be empty by the end of the year, except those at Springfontein and Brandfort, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe elections for the City Council took place yesterday. On this occasion the elections lacked features that were prominent characteristics of those of two years ago, when the first council was elected ...
Article : 704 wordsIn consequence of the shipping strike large military reinforcements have arrived at Marseilles. The crews of 40 vessels have deserted. ...
Article : 32 wordsHenceforth permits to enter the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony will be issued exclusively at South African ports. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Government has ordered from Neilson and Reid, of Glasgow, 60 locomotives for South Africa. The Scotch waggonwrights have received ...
Article : 29 wordsElectors of Bligh Ward expressed their approval of the services of their two retiring aldermen by again returning them at the head of the poll. There were three candidates, Alderman John Lane Mullins, ...
Article : 308 wordsRussian emissaries disguised as traders are assiduously plying the aristocracy and officials at Cabul with presents. ...
Article : 23 wordsRecently the Premier received a letter from Sir E. Barton, drawing attention to the Trans-continental Railway Act passed last session by the State Parliament, and asking if the offer of territory to the ...
Article : 220 wordsMr. William O'Brien, M.P., speaking at Carrick-on-Shannon, defended the attitude of the Nationalist members of Parliament on the Education Bill. He blamed ...
Article : 80 wordsThe British Labour Commission, organised by Mr. Mosely, and now touring America, will submit to British trade unions the question of forming an ...
Article : 51 wordsThe King of Portugal is spending the week end with King Edward at Sandringham. King Carlos will visit Lord Iveagh and the Marquis of Lansdowne (Secretary of State for Foreign ...
Article : 52 wordsIn Fitzroy Ward, which embraces that portion of Woolloomooloo lying to the north of William-street, the general interest taken in the present contest was keen. Alderman A. M. Elhone and E. Milner Stephen, ...
Article : 286 wordsFive hundred Shan insurgents have crossed the Mekong River, and have surrendered to the French, opposite Kiangkong. ...
Article : 73 wordsAt a public meeting, at which many ladies were present, in Menangle Hall on Saturday. Mr. J. Hickey presiding, a branch of the People's Reform League ...
Article : 229 wordsPolling for Bourke Ward went on steadily all day at 117 Pitt-street. The arrangements made for the conduct of the election worked very smoothly, and there was no hitch of any kind. Four livisions were ...
Article : 179 wordsIn connection with the Atlantic Shipping Combine (the International Mercantile Marine Company, and the International Navigation Company), Mr. ...
Article : 88 wordsA considerable amount of interest was manifested at the polling booth for Lang Ward. There were two selected reform candidates, and two of the Political Labour League nominees, the other two of ...
Article : 322 wordsAt the municipal council meeting the city surveyor and the city electrical engineer submitted a joint report on a tramway system for Launceston. The experts find that they cannot advise the council to ...
Article : 124 wordsMr. Low, the donor of the oil launch for the New Guinea Missions, has ordered a copper bottom to be affixed to the vessel and other alterations to be made, so as ...
Article : 59 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 1s 10[?]d per ounce standard—a rise of 7-16d since Saturday. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe "Novoe Vremya" reports that if Great Britain should refuse to proceed to arbitration on the question whether countervailing duties on sugar would be an ...
Article : 73 wordsThe polling booth for Cook Ward was the Congregational School-hall at the corner of Riley and Devonshire streets. There were five candidates, and the proceedings during the day were of an animated ...
Article : 282 wordsThere was a total absence in Flinders Ward yesterday of the excitement usually attendant upon the city municipal elections, [?] conspicuous comparison with the conduct of the electors in some of the other ...
Article : 294 wordsThe new blue funnel liner, Jason, left Port Adelaide last week with the largest cargo of wool and sundries ever shipped from Australia, the cargo including 26,290 bales of wool. The Calcas, of the ...
Article : 103 wordsThe island council, Rarotonga, has forwarded for the Governor's consent an ordinance regulating the sale of liquor there. It provides that only one license be granted for first 10 years, and that no spirituous ...
Article : 89 wordsWith 34,000 sheep and lambs penned at the Metropolitan Fat Stock Market yesterday the wants of the ordinary trade were more than well supplied, but the rains ...
Article : 252 wordsIt is reported that a man named William Parker Owen, secretary of the Premier Sunrise (New Zealand) Gold-mining Company and the Indian Glenrock Mining Company, has ...
Article : 134 wordsKeen interest was steadily maintained throughout the day in connection with the contest in Macquarie Ward, and the voting, was exceptionally heavy, Aldermen Lees and Lindsay Thompson, who were ...
Article : 250 wordsGeorge Towns, the champion sculler who was on the R.M.S. Orontes, which arrived in Port Adelaide to-day, was met by several representatives of the South Australian Rowing Association. In the course ...
Article : 195 wordsThroughout the day the proceedings in this ward were of a spirited nature. During the morning a steady stream of electors flowed into the polling booth at the I.O.O.F. Hall, a noticeable feature ...
Article : 319 wordsThe legislative Assembly sat to-day for the first time during the session. The Speaker read a letter of apology from Mr. Lesina, who was recently suspended for a fortnight, and on the ...
Article : 154 wordsCoffill's Hall in Harris-street, which has the polling booth for this ward, was a scene of some animation throughout the day. As the afternoon wore on and the electors left their work the polling ...
Article : 268 wordsFor the greater part of the day the polling in Gippe Ward went on smoothly and quietly, and the presiding officers, Messrs. A. A. Dearin, M. Wilson, and Henry W. Bradford, with their assistants, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 2 Dec 1902, Page 5
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