At the Criminal Court to-day Edward Dingley, aged 52, was charged with having murdered Francis Hickman at Stansbury on August 22. The evidence for the prosecution was to the effect that accused ...
Article : 418 wordsThe Premier is in receipt of a cable from the AgentGeneral stating that Sir George S. Clarke, the Governor of Victoria, will sail for Melbourne on October 31. ...
Article : 37 wordsBrigadier-General Plumer has prevented Commandant Brand from crossing the Caledon River in the south-east of the Orange River Colony. ...
Article : 70 wordsKing Edward has accepted photographs of the Duke and the Duchess of Cornwall and York presented by Mr. J. Hubert Newman, of Sydney. ...
Article : 38 wordsAs soon as the formal business was disposed of in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the Premier moved that it was expedient to bring in a bill to make provision for the salary of the Governor of ...
Article : 812 wordsThe petition against the return of Senator Matheson, which has not been heard of for some time, was mentioned incidentally in the Senate this afternoon, when Senator Sir J. Downer obtained permission to ...
Article : 356 wordsMr. R. Crowe, Government dairy expert, has furnished the Department of Agriculture with the following particulars of the produce exported through the Government cool stores for the month of ...
Article : 75 wordsLady Sybil Myra Caroline Primrose, the elder daughter of Lord Rosebery, is betrothed to Earl Beauchamp, ex-Governor of New South Wales. ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Premier stated, in answer to a question asked by Mr. W. W. Young, that Peter Joseph Hancock, who left with the Mounted Infantry second contingent, was ...
Article : 85 wordsA suggestion has been offered to an influential churchman in Melbourne by a Bishop in another State that the Right Rev. James Edward Cowell Welldon, Bishop of Calcutta, should be elected to ...
Article : 89 wordsThe War Office reports the following casualties among Australian and New Zealand troops at Mokari Drift, on the Caledon River, on September 27:— ...
Article : 127 wordsThe troops who returned last night by the Afric landed to-day, and were entertained at lunch by the Defence Department. Sergeant-major Fitzhardinge, who went out to the war as a trooper in one of the ...
Article : 90 wordsA shearing strike has occurred at Barwon Leigh, in the Winchelsen district, owned by Dr. Atkinson. A board of 20 men had been engaged, but wh[?]n the roll was called this morning the men refused to work ...
Article : 139 wordsThe United League, at a meeting at Dublin, has applauded Mr. William O'Brien for a letter in which he stated:—"If the English King visits Ireland the United ...
Article : 76 wordsThe English Jockey Club has warned off Lester Reiff for suspicious riding at Manchester. The public also accuse him of holding Volodyovski in the St. Leger. ...
Article : 197 wordsIn the Perth Mayoral election yesterday Mr. W. T. Loton was elected, defeating Mr. T. G. Molloy by a majority of 1478 votes. R.M.S. Himalaya took from Fremantle, for ...
Article : 58 wordsMuch activity is being displayed by the police in endeavouring to arrest the person who is reported to have cruelly outraged a little girl on Tuesday night. A search of Ramsay's ...
Article : 177 wordsThere is excitement in Austria in regard to the proposed German tariff. The press and public approve of the Government's protest against the tariff proposals. ...
Article : 32 wordsA petition from South Australian electors praying that the Federal Government should retain the control of the liquor traffic in the federal capital was presented to the House of Representatives this ...
Article : 464 wordsLord Kitchener confirms the report that the Boers suffered heavy losses while attacking Forts Itala and Prospect on the Zululand Border. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe annual agricultural show was opened yesterday in fine weather. There were 10,000 people present. The gate receipts totalled over £323, being £30 more than the corresponding day last year. The ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Andrew Carnegie has added £25,000 to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College Building Fund. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Carruthers asked the Colonial Treasurer, in reference to the item of £2,200,000 estimated revenue from the Commonwealth Government on page 12, Ways and ...
Article : 523 wordsLord Kitchener reports that the two guns of "[?]T" Battery of Royal Horse Artillery, captured by the Boers at Vlakfontein, 15 miles south of the Bloemfontein Waterworks, have ...
Article : 36 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day l-16d lower at 2s 2 13-146d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Natal general elections have concluded. The Dutch candidates were severely beaton. ...
Article : 18 wordsAmong the passengers by the R.M.S. Austral, which arrived at Fremantle from Colombo to-day, is Brigadier-General Sir Hector Macdonald, who is on his way to New Zealand. Sir Hector Macdonald ...
Article : 43 wordsA meeting of the Sydney Labour Council was held at the Trades Hall last night. The secretary (Mr. Thrower) submitted a report from the Parliamentary committee relative to the clauses in the Industrial ...
Article : 220 wordsIn connection with the San Francisco service Sir J. G. Ward told the House of Representatives that Messrs. Spreckels and Co. submitted proposals for a five years' contract for £26,562 per annum, but the ...
Article : 122 wordsIt has now been learned that the entire contents (38,000 carcases of sheep) of No. 3 hold of the Papanui, which put into Vigo with that hold on fire, were destroyed. ...
Article : 63 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Cole has captured Commandant Dreyer, a Transvaaler. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Elections and Qualifications Committee met yesterday at Parliament House for the purpose of hearing further evidence in connection with the petition lodged by Mr. Andrew Stewart, of Woollahra, ...
Article : 262 wordsFurther particulars have been received of the attack which Commandants Delarey and Kemp made on Colonel Kekewich at Moedwill, in the Western Transvaal. ...
Article : 129 wordsAt the wool sales to-day prices for good merinos were very firm. Faulty descriptions were slow of sale. Crossbreds were unchanged. ...
Article : 62 wordsDuring the discussion on the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill in committee Mr. Seddon said that he was certain that the legislation of the Government on this subject would stand the test of a depression ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Tinsmiths' Union held a social evening at the Trades Hall last night to celebrate the unfurling of the new banner, which is to replace the old one, torn on Commonwealth Day. The banner was unfurled ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday the Premier said that 16,224 old-age pensions had been granted The payments aggregated £311,750 per annum; 4334 persons were receiving the maximum amount of 10s ...
Article : 617 wordsIt is officially announced that New Zealand customs laws are to be adhered to in the Cook group. The second reading of the Royal Visit Expenses Bill was carried in the House of Representatives by ...
Article : 52 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Waverley branch of the Protestant Defence Association was held at the Presbyterian Lecture Hall, Charing Cross, last evening. Mr. G. Stevenson presided over a large ...
Article : 379 wordsThe net earnings of the Great Steel Trust of America (the Billion Dollar Trust) for the first six months of its existence, amounted to 55,000,000dol. (£11,000,000). ...
Article : 33 wordsA return was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon by the Treasurer on the subject of Government loans. It was promised on the 21th ultimo, in answer to a number of ...
Article : 297 wordsThe Italian cruiser Puglia arrived in Port Jackson yesterday from Hobart, and anchored in Farm Cove. After exchanging the usual salutes Captain Canale visited Admiralty House, this courtesy being returned ...
Article : 320 wordsThe nucleus of a Federal Public Works Department has been formed by the transfer of Mr. J. Blackbourn, Engineer for Defence in Victoria, and his staff to the Department of Home Affairs. Mr. ...
Article : 286 wordsA patrol of the Bushveldt Carbineers captured Field-Cornet Kielly and a party of Boers on the Portuguese frontier. ...
Article : 24 wordsSubscriptions for the Queensland 3 per cent, loan of £1,374,213, which has a fixed price of 91½, have closed. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe finding of the court martial in the trial of Bro[?]cksma, a Hollander charged with treason and treachery, has been contained by Lord Kitchener. ...
Article : 161 wordsAt the request of Sir Thomas Lipton, the owner of Shamrock II., in the remaining four contests of the present series for the America Cup a race will be sailed each day ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 wordsCommenting upon a letter from Mr. W. P. Reeves, the Agent-General of New Zealand, regarding the action of the Government of that colony in taking it certain number of ...
Article : 86 wordsThe monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Sydney Hospital was held at the boardroom, Macquarie-street, on Tuesday. There were present:—The Hon. Sir Arthur Renwick (president), ...
Article : 230 wordsJudge Murray, who has been appointed a Royal Commission to inquire into the operations of the Moore-street Improvement Act, and to report as to the direction (if any) in which it should be amended, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 247 wordsThe Anglican Church Assembly continued its sittings to-day. The Dean of Melbourne presided. The bill providing, as amended in committee, for the creation of three new dioceses—of Bendigo, ...
Article : 388 wordsSir J. Gordon Sprigg, the Premier of Cape Colony, and Sir J. Rose Innes, the Attorney General, have gone to the Transvaal to confer with Lord Kitchener and Lord Milner. ...
Article : 87 wordsAdverting to Mr. Philp's strong protest against the Pacific Islands Labourers Bill the Federal Premier said to-day, "Before receiving Mr. Philp's telegram I had written to him suggesting that he ...
Article : 117 wordsNews from Fiji states that the schooner Eastward Ho, owned by Krafft, of Levuka, was wrecked on the Horseshoe Reef. The crew was saved. According to the "Samoanische Zeitung," the ...
Article : 92 wordsA nephew of the late General Joubert and two other Boer prisoners, who over a week ago escaped into the bush at Bermuda, have been recaptured. ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the Assembly yesterday Mr. Tucker brought forward the claims of Victor Harbour as a suitable place for mail steamers to call, and asked for a select committee to obtain evidence on the ...
Article : 318 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day a debate occurred on Mr. Given's motion affirming the desirableness of the Government erecting a State sugar refinery. The motion had hitherto been opposed by ...
Article : 774 wordsThe first annual meeting of the Master Butchers and the Stock Buyers' Association of New South Wales was held last evening at Roberts's Hotel, Market and George streets. There was a fair ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 153 wordsFollowing are the stock passings to date:—33 fat bullocks, Tenterfield to Flemington, H. Bates owner; 30 fat bullocks, Maidenhead to Glen Innes, William Hodges; 120 store bullocks, Bromford to Somerton, ...
Article : 191 wordsThe French Premier, M. Waldeck-Rousseau, is prosecuting a French pro-Boer paper for publishing offensive anti-British cartoons. ...
Article : 75 wordsOur Launceston correspondent telegraphed last night that the Mount Bischoff Company's London cable quoted tin at £112 10s; market quiet. Last sales, £ll3 10s. ...
Article : 195 wordsWhilst questions were being asked in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon the Premier rose and said that on the previous day he had, in answering a question by Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, promised ...
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