Refreshing showers fell over the eastern half of the State during the course of Monday night and the early hours of yesterday morning. The rains reached from the Murray to the Queensland border, ...
Article : 340 wordsA public meeting was held in Brisbane to-night to protest against the Income Tax Bill now before Parliament. About 500 persons were present. Resolutions were unanimously carried as follows:— ...
Article : 134 wordsAttention is being strongly drawn to the serious condition in which the long-continued drought has placed the farmers in Northern Victoria. Except in the limited irrigated areas and a few favoured spots ...
Article : 122 wordsGenerals Botha, de Wet, and Delarcy arrived at Brussels yesterday, and had a warm welcome. General de Wet, speaking from the baleony of an hotel, disclaimed any efforts ...
Article : 214 wordsThe King, on October 24, will hold at Buckingham Palace the largest investiture of honours on record. There will be 300 recipients of the insignia of their honours, ...
Article : 69 wordsAn unusually large number of notices were given when the Senate met this afternoon. Senator Charleston asked for information regarding the control of the " Hansard " staff, being moved ...
Article : 751 wordsAccording to a cablegram in this morning's issue an edict has been issued in Peking ordering that students shall in future proceed to European countries. To be sure, this is only ...
Article : 3,641 wordsNews to hand by the English mail to-day refers to the health of Lord Hopetoun as still very delicate. It was hoped that he would have been able to attend the great reception given by the corporation of ...
Article : 163 wordsMr. G. H. Reid commenced his country tour by addiessing a largely attended public meeting at Colac to-night. He dealt mainly with the relative results of protection and freetrade from a farmer's ...
Article : 38 wordsTownsville reports that the amount of rebate paid on the Lower Burdekin for the months of August and September totalled £550 12s 3d, representing 2369 tons 13cwt. 1qr. of sugar grown and milled by ...
Article : 237 wordsSeventeen mine owners in West Virginia have yielded to the demands of the men. Four thousand men will immediately resume work at these mines. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe State Cabinet held a long sitting this evening arranging matters in connection with the session of Parliament, which opens next Tuesday. The Government intends to have the Factories Act ...
Article : 67 wordsAn instructive return was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday by the Premier in response to a motion agreed to by Parliament, at the request of Mr. Affleck. The return deals with ...
Article : 571 wordsDean Vance, administrator of the diocese, received to-day the Primate's confirmation of the election of Canon Lowther Clarke as Bishop of Melbourne, and at once cabled a request, in which the Primate ...
Article : 65 wordsReports received yesterday stated that light rain bad fallen on several portions of the catchment area. Up to 9 o'clock, 21 points were registered at Cataract, 15 at Mittagong, and 20 at Robertson. For the three ...
Article : 57 wordsThe New York " Tribune " states that the coal strike (Pennsylvania and West Virginia) have resulted in 30 murders, 42 persons being severely injured, 12 houses being ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Shiels was present on Monday at a conference of heads of branches of the Railway Department held in the office of the Minister for Railways. Mr. Bent presided, and the Acting. Commissioner was in ...
Article : 285 wordsA slight shock of earthquake was felt at Clarendon and Warooka at 5.46 a.m. yesterday, and it was also distinctly felt in parts of the city. ...
Article : 33 wordsRain set in this morning, and was still falling steadily this afternoon. It was doubly welcome after yesterday's northerly gale, which dried up the moisture out of the soil. ...
Article : 548 wordsThe " Daily Mail " reports that Dr. Leyds carefully edits the speeches of General Botha for publication in the newspapers. ...
Article : 27 wordsTwo hundred thousand tons of Welsh coal are being despatched to New York and Boston at enhanced prices. One hundred thousand tons of Newcastle ...
Article : 67 wordsEdward Worth, who escaped from Adelaide Goal on Thursday and was recaptured at Murray Bridge on Saturday, was committed for trial at Adelaide Police Court this morning for larceny. In the ...
Article : 94 wordsGeneral Ben Viljoen is raising a fund to build a home for himself. He is maimed, but can follow useful employments. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe " Standard " says that the entire subseriptions for the Boer relief fund from all countries, and including the sum of £20,000 received from Mr. H. Phipps, of the United ...
Article : 46 wordsLatest reports from Yokohama show that the new warships to be completed for Japan within the next six yeurs represent 120,000 tons and an expenditure of £2,000,000 per ...
Article : 73 wordsThe aldermen of the borough of Waverley have decided to entertain the Mayor (Alderman W. Carter, J.P.) at the local council-chambers on Friday evening next in recognition of services he has ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Minister for Railways ascertained to-day that books of requisition forms for free passes were in the possession of A.D.Cs. to the Governor-General and the State Governor, who were privileged to issue ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Rathbone, mining engineer, states that assuming that the operations on the new Rand discovery nre carried to a depth of 8000ft., the field will last for centuries, yielding ...
Article : 253 wordsIn connection with the death of Mr. H. A. Jones, who was a student of St. Andrew's College, a memorial service was held at the College Hall yesterday afternoon. The attendance was large, including most ...
Article : 466 wordsAt a meeting of the Presbytery of Melbourne North to-day very kindly reference was made to the Rev. D. S. M'Eacharn, who is retiring from the pastorate of St. Andrew's Church, Carlton. Mr. ...
Article : 53 wordsRenter's correspondent at Peking states that an Imperial edict which has been published orders students in the future to proceed to Western countries at the expense of their ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is feared that the northerly gale which blew across Hobson's Bay on Sunday caused the loss of the sailing beat Yaukee, which left St. Kilda the previous day, and has not since been heard of. The ...
Article : 500 wordsThe question of federalising the State loans has lately been brought prominently under the notice of the Commonwealth Government. Sir Edmund Barton, it is understood, collected a good deal of ...
Article : 764 wordsViscount Cranborne, the Parliamentary Uhder-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in an address at Rochester, after hearing the objections of the Free Churches to the Education ...
Article : 63 wordsThe death is announced of Liu Kun-yi, Viceroy of the Liang-Kiang(Kiang-su, Nganwhei, and Kiang-si), one of the most enlightened of Chinese viceroys. ...
Article : 79 wordsStrange stories which reached Ballarat a few weeks ago from the Skipton district, about the extremely hot condition into which the caves on the summit of ...
Article : 174 wordsBrigands demand £3000 ransom for Shefik Bey, an unpopular Turkish landowner of Vodena ...
Article : 24 wordsCardinal Moran has unveiled at Kensal Green Cemetery a memorial cross to the late Father Timoney, who was one of the chaplains with the New South Wales troops in ...
Article : 73 wordsGeorge Blackburn, 42, labourer, residing at 258 Cleveland-street, was taken to the Sydney Hospital yesterday suffering from severe injuries to the head. He was working at the rear of a building in ...
Article : 80 wordsDr. Chavasse, the Bishop of Liverpool, replying to a correspondent, states that where the Lambeth judgment is observed he will support the clergy; where that judgment is ...
Article : 134 wordsWe shall be pleased to receive and acknowledge contributions to the "Sydney Morning Herald" Fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Mount Kembla disaster. All moneys received by us will be ...
Article : 111 wordsAt the Circuit Court, before Mr. Justice Stephen, John Rose and Thomas Jones were charged with stealing G501b of wool at Towrang on July 28, the ...
Article : 506 wordsThe " Times " states that an official report has been forwarded to Washington that Dr. Razlan, of Vienna, has successfully treated 14 cases of leprosy in the ...
Article : 43 wordsDr. Jumieson, Minister for Lauds, received this morning a cable message conveying the sad news that his Honor Justice Hensman had died at the residence of his sister at Chatteris Priory, ...
Article : 179 wordsThe first inquiry under the provisions of the Closer Settlement Act 1901 was continued at Corowa to-day in connection with properties offered to the Crown ...
Article : 399 wordsEric Keene 15, an apprentice, was working on the ship Fitzjames at Mort's Dock yesterday when he fell down the hold, a distance of about 15ft. The dock ambulance conveyed him to the Balmain ...
Article : 64 wordsThe tender of the New Zealand and South African Steamship Company has been accepted by the Cabinet for a direct steam service between New Zealand and South Africa. Other tenderers were: Furness, ...
Article : 430 wordsShortly after 7 o'clock last night a clerk named William Gough, 30, was found lying m an unconscious condition on the stairs at the Grand Hotel, Cumberland-street, where he resided. Constable ...
Article : 98 wordsThe service of summonses issued by the Outtrim Howitt Coal Company against the Victorian Coal Miners Association as a body and those of its members who are held to be responsible for the present ...
Article : 201 wordsThe official estimates of the French wheat crops state the yield will be 124,000,000 hectolitres (347,200,000 bushels) against 304,000,000 bushels last season. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe steamer Waikato has shipped 400 tons of coal, and has replenished provisions. She leaves for Port Chalmers early on Wednesday morning. ...
Article : 29 wordsA young man named Alfred Heap, 19, employed as a cleaner at the Randwick tram sheds, was fishing from the rocks at Bondi yesterday afternoon when he felt a distance of 16ft. He was conveyed to the ...
Article : 60 wordsAlfred Flood, a coal-lamper, living at Cumberland-street, Millers Point, was working on the collier Currajong at Cowper Wharf last night when he fell from the bridge to the deck. He was removed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsThe Council of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy has made an appeal to members to discourage the use of the term "ore in sight " unless the engineer has demonstrated ...
Article : 123 wordsA young man named Carl Handfield, who resides in Edgecliff-road, Woollabra, fell from a tram at Eastwood last night, sustaining a fracture of the right arm and injuries to his head. He was brought to ...
Article : 58 wordsThe series of Melba concerts at the Town Hall was brought to a brilliant and successful conclusion tonight. Every seat in the hall was again occupied, and the perfect singing of Madamo Melba aroused ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 wordsThe Inter-State Water Commissior, accompanied by Mr. Symonds, late resident engineer, drove out to Gin Gin weir yesterday morning for the purpose of inspecting the work. The commission heard ...
Article : 99 wordsA meeting will be held on Monday to protest against the Attorney-General's action in the Friedman case. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Premier proposes to communicate will the Ferderal Government asking it to stay its hand regard to public works proposed to be gone on with in Queensland as notified. The Federal Parliament ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 8 Oct 1902, Page 7
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