A sudden crashing noise, followed by a blinding flash of electric light, which was succeeded by darkness throughout the Ultimo power-house shoifly before 9 o'olock last night, told the officers ...
Article : 928 wordsPresident M'Kinley has spent the best night since he was shot. There is no trace of blood-porsoning. ...
Article : 31 wordsThere are indications that General Louis Botha has been receiving rifles, ammunition, and recruits overland from the neighbourhood of Delagoa Bay. ...
Article : 80 wordsA bulletin issued this morning state that the condition of President M'Kinley is unchanged in all the important particulars. Mr. M'Kinley passed a comfortable night. ...
Article : 108 wordsThe American Consul at Colon has warned the rebels that if an attack on the town interferes with the traffic of the Isthmus of Panama the United States will intervene. ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Customs Bill passed its remaining stages in the Senate this afternoon, the standing orders having been suspended for that purpose. The bill will go to the House of Representatives forthwith. On the ...
Article : 471 wordsThe police are baffled and are unable to develop the plot theory. Czolgosz declared there were headquarters of anarchism in Chicago, Alleghany, ...
Article : 35 wordsCommandant Shecpers is burning the houses of all who are serving in the Cape Colony Burgher Guards. His commando consists almost entirely of ...
Article : 35 wordsConsequent upon the failure of the Ultimo supply of electric current a disorganisation of the North Sydney tram service took place. Shortly before 9 o'clock yesterday evening the interruption occurred, ...
Article : 334 wordsLicutenant-General Lord Methuen defeated Van Tonder's and Delarey's commandoes at Great Maries, killing 18 men and capturing 41. ...
Article : 42 wordsEdelbert Stone, who was arrested as being an accessory to the assault on the President through remarking on Friday that he "would not be surprised if Mr. M'Kinley was killed ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Dordrecht (Cape Colony) volunteers surprised a party of Boer officers at a farmhouse, killing two of them and wounding General Smuts, who escaped. ...
Article : 32 wordsMajor Kavanagh drove back Theron's commando, preventing an attack on Mossel Bay. ...
Article : 20 wordsFaugeron, a Frenchman, has been committed for trial at Clerkenwell (England) for murdering Jung, a Swiss jeweller. The prisoner alleged that Jung, ...
Article : 83 wordsSeveral of Scheeper's commande declare they merely had time to loosen the rails at Nelspoort in July when the train bumped past safely. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Methodist Ecumenical Conference, in replying to Dr. A. F. Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, indicated, that there were great and permanent difficulties in the way ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Czar and the Emperor William had a most cordial meeting, and had luncheon aboard the Imperial German yacht Hohenzollern. Count Lamsdorff, the Russian ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Porte and M. Tubini, a French banker, have arranged to settle the dispute existing upon the basis of the payment of £154,000, if France consents. ...
Article : 58 wordsWhilst the Marquis of Anglesey was it a theatre £2500, with his lordships jewellery, was stolen from Walsingham Hotel, Pieeadilly. His valet, named Gault, has ...
Article : 46 wordsMajor Hook, with a handful of police, defended Herschel residency against 300 Boers under Commandant Foures, who, with three killed and several wounded, retired. ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. Kneeshaw, tramway superintendent, returned to Sydney at an early hour this morning As already stated, he was on route for Broken Hill when the fire broke out at the Ultimo power-house. When ...
Article : 319 wordsIn the House of Representatives verbal amendments having been made in the Service and Execution of Process Bill this afternoon, the consideration of The committee's report on the Distillation Bill was ...
Article : 914 wordsProfessor A. W, Rucker, in his presidential address at the session of the British Association for the Advancement of Seience in Glasgow, declared that the main strueture of ...
Article : 259 wordsThe statisties committee of the Methodist Ecumenical Conference, now sitting in London, has reported to the conference that there are 24,889,921 adberents to Methodism, and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe price of bar silver to-day is 2s 3d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 18 wordsColonel Crabbe, at dawn on September 10, surprised and defeated Van der Merwe (Commandant Scheeper's chief lieutenant) at Driefontein, killing Van der Merwe, ...
Article : 61 wordsWhen our first edition went to press the House was engaged in the consideration of clause 2 of the Industrial Arbitration Bill. In the definition of the word "industry" in that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 135 wordsBrevet Lieutenant-Colonel Scobell has been promoted to the rank of colonel, in recognition of his successes. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe main business for the consideration of the Legislative Council yesterday was Dr. Nash's motion on the subject of the better housing of consumptives, but on the motion of Dr. MacLaurin the debate was ...
Article : 925 wordsThe Lieutenant-Govenor is in receipt of the following telegram from Capetown:— "Refering to your telegram of Sepetember 6, No. 446 Sergeant J. R. Charlton is doing duty with his ...
Article : 95 wordsLarge quantities of dynamite have been smuggled into Canton. Extensive domiciliary visitations are being made by search parties. ...
Article : 22 wordsAmong the papers laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly to-day was report from the Chief Protector of Aborgines. Attached to the report are appendices, mainly consisting of travelling inspectors' ...
Article : 127 wordsA scene took place in the Assembly late to-night Mr. Lesina, a labour member, rose to speak on an amendment in the Special Sales Land Bill which the Chairman of Committees was about ...
Article : 240 wordsThe troops who returned by the Harlech Castle from South Africa were landed at Port Melbourne this morning, and entrained for Spencer-street station. They marched thence, headed by the band ...
Article : 931 wordsThe following Australian horses have accepted for the Cambridgeshire Stakes:—The Grafter, 8st 13lb; Australian Star, 8st 91b; and Syerla, 7st 21b. ...
Article : 124 wordsBy the explosion in Llanbradoch Colliery at Caerphilly, Wales, seven men were killed and eight injured. Yesterday it was reported that 20 men had been ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Ultimo Power-House stands in Mary Annstreet, within a stone's throw of Harris-street, and with the addition of the car sheds extends back to William Henry-street. The building is one of two ...
Article : 1,033 wordsAu inquiry was conducted by the Deputy Coroner at Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday respecting the death of a boy named John Trott, which occurred at the institution on the previous day. ThE evidence ...
Article : 102 wordsOwing to the decision of the House of Lords in the appeal case, Taff Vale Railway Company v. the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (known as the Taff Vale railway ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Government has decided, subject to the approval of Parliament, to pay Mr. J. Maddon (Ballarat) the sum of £1 per week for life. Madden was working with a man named Warnell at the Star of East ...
Article : 138 wordsJ. T. Tyldesley (Lancashire) has increased his batting aggregate to 3000 in first-class cricket this season. In first-class cricket Ranjitsinhji in 1899 scored ...
Article : 74 wordsA man named Robert Bennett, aged 65 years, who resides at Parramatta, was knocked down by a tram yesterday morning at the entrance to the Bridgestreet yards. The Civil Ambulance conveyed him to ...
Article : 65 wordsA labourer named James Place, aged 66, living at the Model Lodging-house, was admitted by Dr. Newton to tho Sydney Hospital last evening suffering from three fractured ribs and and other injures. Place ...
Article : 58 wordsThe "Standard " reports that the proposed sugar bounties conference at Brussels has been abandoned. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe American visible supply of wheat and flour east of the Rockies, according to "Bradstreet's," amounts to the equivalent of 42,242,000 bushels. ...
Article : 28 wordsAt an early hour this morning a night watchman employed by the Hurbour Trust was on duty near the Pyrmont Wharf when he herald a splash in the harbour. A moment later he saw a man ...
Article : 93 wordsThe "Dunedin Star" has been fined £15 to cover the cost of the evidence prematurely published by a resolution deliberatodly worded so that no reflection is to rest on anyone connected with the newspaper. ...
Article : 113 wordsAs far as the provisions of the Kanaka Bill are disclosed the Premier as inclined to ask what is to be the outcome after the expiration of the three or five years term for the issuing of licenses. The ...
Article : 58 wordsThe total amount tendered for the New South Wales 3 per cent, loan of £4,000,000 was £6,680,000. Tenders up to £500 will be allotted in full, those up to £1000 will ...
Article : 72 wordsThe deputy coroner (Dr R. H. Todd) conducted an inquest at the Lloyd Hotel yesterday into the circumstances connected with the death of John Hunter, who was killed by falling down the lift well at the ...
Article : 380 wordsThe citizens' barquet to Lord Hopotoun, which takes place on the Saturday evening following his arrival, is already being taken up so heartily that it is certain to be a success. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe select committee on the Commonwealth coinage took further evidence to-day. Mr. Barbour, M.L.A. (Vic.), gave further evidence in favour of the system of decimal coinage advocated by him. ...
Article : 970 wordsThe defences report shows that the strength of the volunteer force of the colony is 17,057. The Commandant pays that our system of training volunteers is wrong, and requires a complete charge. He urges ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Septimus Burl (W.A.), Mr. H. D. Lofroy (late Minister for Mines, and now State Agent for Western Australia), Mr. G. Randell (late Colonial Secretary is Western ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Chief Secretary received a cable from London to-day stating that the War Office accepts the offer of more troops from Queensland to keep up the strength of the Fifth and Sixth Contingents on the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe report of the Royal Commission on what is known as the Newtown military camp scundal, which has been presented to Parliament, states that the site is wholly unsuitable for a winter encampment, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe programme for the smoke concert and welcome to "A" Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, and also to the other returned troops from South Africa, will be found elsewhere. The Lieutenant-Governor will ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Commonwealth Premier, Mr. Barton (our Melbourne correspondent telegraphed last night), received news during the evening of the death of his brother, Mr. George Burnett ...
Article : 129 wordsThe scow Oban capsized in Peloras Sound, and one of the crow lost his life. ...
Article : 18 wordsDean Connelly, a native of Tasmania, died this morning, aged about 78. He was educated in Sydney, and ordained there 53 years ago. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 13 Sep 1901, Page 7
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