In the Brisbane Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Cooper and a special jury of four, the case of the Minister of Customs versus Robert Reid and Co. came on for hearing. Counsel for the Crown ...
Article : 4,064 wordsSome opinions on the trans-Australian railway from a Western Australian standpoint were expressed to a "Herald" reporter yesterday by Dr. J. W. Hackett, a well known public man from that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 856 wordsThe reforms proposed by Russia and Austria to be carried out in Macedonia by Turkey have been submitted to the Grand Vizier Ferid Pasha. The proposals deal exclusively with ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Chamberlain, in his speech in reply to the deputation from the Afrikander Bond, said he wished he could think he would live to see the fulfilment of South African ...
Article : 279 wordsThe "Grenzboten" publishes an article which is supposed to be inspired by the German Emperor with regard to the table of the comparative strengths of the German and the ...
Article : 176 wordsThe steamer Willyama, belonging to the Adelaide Steamship Company, left Port Adelaide for Sydney, with a cargo of 3000 tons wheat. 500 tons salt, 343 tons chaff, 108 tons concentrates, and 50 tons flour. ...
Article : 72 wordsAn offertory on behalf of the drought relief fund was made at Holy Trinity Church, Berrima, yesterday morning, and amounted to over £11. Other contributions received by the rector amount to £24. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Sultan has thanked Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria for arresting members of the Macedonian revolutionary committees. ...
Article : 22 wordsOver 400,000 sheep from drought-stricken parts of the country are being pastured in the Burragorang Valley. BATHURST, Monday. ...
Article : 304 wordsBulgaria's acquiescence to the Powers' demands is partly attributed to the disagree ment betweeen Bulgaria and Servia in regard to the latter's share of the profits in ...
Article : 43 wordsPresident Roosevolt, in laying the foundation stone of the Army College at Washington, said that now that the United States was a world power with responsibilities in the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe declaration of the German Emperor on the higher criticism has caused a profound sensation throughout Germany. The Conservative press considers that the ...
Article : 191 wordsPresident Roosevelt has signed the bill introduced by Senator Elkins, making antitrust laws applicable to railways. ...
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Article : 67 wordsSir,—Except to those who wilfully disregard facts it is now unquestioned that acute distress exists amongst many residents in the drought affected portions of the State. Only those, however, who ...
Article : 446 wordsThe progress of Fiji and the allegations made recently concerning its administration formed the subject of an interview to-day with Mr. Alexander Duncan (Mayor of Suva), who is at present in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 374 wordsThe vessels captured from Venezuela by the Allies will be returned to the republic on Monday. An American gunboat is carrying the ...
Article : 62 wordsM. Delcasse, the French Foreign Minister, is trying to arrange that M. Loubet, the President, shall meet the Sultan of Morocco during the President's visit to Algeria in the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe libel action brought by M. Cattani, a Paris banker, against the Humberts has been dismissed. The French Court held that the charge of usury against him was made in ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Johannesburg Chamber of Mines and the Native Labour Association have sent a commissioner to China to report upon the employment of Chinese labour on the Rand. ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is learned from the Railway Commissioners that notwithstanding the growth of gross over a considerable portion of the State, as the result of the recent rainfalls, there is still a large demand for ...
Article : 196 wordsArrangements have been completed by the Government Geologist for a prospecting party to make a mineralogical examination of the country in the Musgrave, Mann. Tomkinson, and other ranges in ...
Article : 71 wordsThe sudden break up of ice on the Finnish coast carried 250 fishermen to sea. News was carried to Somero and vessels were sent out in search. ...
Article : 65 wordsEnglish engineers have started to survey the route of a railway through Abyssinia to Adis Abbeba, the cipital. It is believed that the railway will traverse rich ...
Article : 36 wordsThe recent dry weather has been followed by a steady decline in the flow of the rivers on the Prospect catchment area. The flow for the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m on Saturday was as follows:— ...
Article : 135 wordsMr. St. John Brodrick, the Secretary of State for War, has issued a paper showing that, of the six army co[?]s proposed under his scheme of Army Reorganisation, two ...
Article : 48 wordsThe inquest on the body of Joseph Ninnes was resumed at Class to-day. Ninnes was an elderly man, and is supposed to have been burnt to death, but owing to suspicious lately aroused his body was ...
Article : 494 words"I am prepared to give one month's salary of my Parliamentary allowance to the fund provided the other 125 members of the House do the same," remarked Mr. E. C. V. Broughton, M.L.A., at the ...
Article : 437 wordsThe Commissioners of the Admiralty recommend the building of a defensive harbour on the east and of Gibraltar at a cost of £6,500,000. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe jockey J. E. Boardman, who visited South Africa for the current racing season, has had a most successful trip, having won 25 of the 30 races in which he took part, six ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 331 wordsLow[?]s, the victim of the Yalgoo dynamite outrage, is in a critical condition. No arrest has been made. ...
Article : 27 wordsSir James Mackay, in delivering in address at a meeting of the London Chamber of Shipping, advocated retaliation on those foreign countries excluding British vessels ...
Article : 54 wordsThe outbreak of a peculiar kind of fever at Collie continues to exercise the public mind. Dr. Lovegrove, the principal mdeical officer, states that the disease cannot accurately be determined except by ...
Article : 279 wordsThe death is announced of Miss Kate Vaughan, the actress. Miss Kate Vaughan, who is later years became a comedy actress and toured England and South ...
Article : 281 wordsThe committee appointed by the Conference of Labour Representation in Parliament at its meeting at Newcastle resolved to ask the affiliated societies to contribute 1d per ...
Article : 60 wordsA meeting of the Western Suburbs Ministerial Association was held yesterday in the vestry of the Petersham Congregational Church to consider the case of those affected by the drought. The ...
Article : 207 wordsA large and influential deputation waited on the Premier as the Minister controlling the Northern Territory to-day, with a request that the State should urge the Commonwealth Government to furnish ...
Article : 205 wordsMr. L. A. B. Wade's report on an improved water supply for Broken Hill favours the Umberumberka scheme, on the following grounds:—1. It is nearer the railway, and the carriage of plant and fuel thereto ...
Article : 211 wordsA caravan at Assi-el-Beyrie, French Soudan, was attacked by 500 Moreccans, who seized 200 loaded camels. French troops have gone in pursuit of the rubbers. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe four-ton boat Tilikum, in which Captain Voss is voyaging round the world, has arrived at the New River estuary from Hobart, after a tempestuous passage of 12 days. ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Reid, clerk to Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen, who was brutally assaulted a week ago and robbed, has regained consciousness, but is unable to throw any light on the affair. ...
Article : 74 wordsTitus, s., 700 tons. Captain Bibbing, from the Solomon Islands, via Sa[?] Cruz, [?] (New [?]), and Norfolk and Lord [?]e Isalands. Hurns, Philp, and [?] Limited, agents. ...
Article : 61 wordsSome excitement was caused yesterday when it became known that Mr. W. Fell's paddock was on fire. Mr. Fell sent for assistance, and about 20 residents were soon on the spot. Their promptness ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 24 Feb 1903, Page 5
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