A magisterial inquiry into the mystorious death o[?] the girl Elizabeth O'Reilly was commenced to-day a[?] Ballarat. James O'Reilly and his wife, Bessi[?], both of when are over 70 years of age, were presented on ...
Article : 448 wordsLord Kitchener has sent his proclamation calling upon the Beer loaders to surrender by September 15, with a letter, to General Botha and Mr. Steyn. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Naval Works Bill, asking for a slim of £1,600,000 beyond the amount voted in the bill of 1899, was read a second time in the House of Commons last night by 178 votes to ...
Article : 133 wordsKing Edward will remain at Homburg for three weeks. Queen Alexandra will this week proceed to Copenhagen. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Eddea moved the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon to call attention to the distince at which the machine for weighing the coal as it is brought to gr[?]ss at the ...
Article : 738 wordsThe Senate spent the whole afternoon in the discussion of clause 49 of the Customs Bill, which was further considered in committee. The clause described a number of articles as prohibited imports. ...
Article : 241 wordsThe population of the State, according to the estimate by the Government Statistician, which we published the other day, has increased by some 6800 during the last three ...
Article : 2,899 wordsThe principal function in which the Duke and the Duchess of Cornwall and York took part at Pretermaritzburg yesterday was the opening of the Town Hall in the capital. ...
Article : 39 wordsApro-Boer Frenchman, after an interview with the Boer leaders in Holland, assured M. de Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the "Times," that all of them, except Mr. ...
Article : 66 wordsA national funeral was accorded to the remains of the late Signor Crispi, and was a splendid function. It eyoked memories of the funerals of Garibaldi and later patriots. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Military Works Bill for the construction of additional barracks and of port defences was read a second time in the House of Commons last night by 162 votes to 83. ...
Article : 37 wordsIf there is any " burning question " in regard to Victorian postal administration, it is that of using locally-manufactured bicycles. Several questions without notice have been addressed to the ...
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Article : 164 wordsThe Boers in the Orange River Colony are suffering from a great scarcity of food. Aug. 15. One hundred Boers have been provented ...
Article : 56 wordsThe King's Titles Bill was taken through committee in the House of Commons to-day and reported without amendments. An amendment to omit the words ...
Article : 76 wordsA fatal accident occurred at the Donnybrook goldfields at the main shaft yesterday. A shift of four men, including John Wilcox, was coming up at noon and had got into the cage. Wilcox gave the signal to ...
Article : 113 wordsAn armoured train repulsed a force of trainwreckers at Naboom Spruit on Saturday. Ten of the Boers were killed. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Czar has decorated Count von Waldersee with the insignia of the Order of St. Andrew, consisting of it set of brilliants and swords crossed. ...
Article : 44 wordsFrom Mr. E. W. Johnson, hon. secretary to the Goulburn and District Federal Capital Committee, we have received a copy of a letter for warded by the committee to Mr. Commissioner Oliver. IN the letter ...
Article : 346 wordsThe Factory Bill and the Sale of Liquors to Children Bill were each read a third time in the House of Commons last night, and were passed. ...
Article : 33 wordsCommandant Beyers was dangerously wounded in a recent engagement. ...
Article : 16 wordsA bill for the construction of a pier at Berehaven (Cork), for the use of steamships which it is proposed shall traverse the Atlantic in 4½ days, has been read a second time ...
Article : 166 wordsCommandant Pretorius has died of the effects of a wound in one of his eyes inflicted at Kotzes Poort in July. ...
Article : 29 wordsA fortnight ago the miners at Cornwall and Mount Nicholas collieries asked for a further increase of 6d to 1s for daymen, and gave notice of their intention to go on strike if the ...
Article : 109 wordsSix torpedo-boat destroyers, each having a speed of upwards of 30 knots, have been commissioned for the Mediterranean squadron. There are at present 16 torpedo-boat destroyers ...
Article : 36 wordsPrivate A Crocker, of the 5th Regiment of Victorian Mounted Infantry, was slightly wounded at Balmoral. ...
Article : 21 wordsM. Pclletan, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies, declares that the armoured cruiser Jeanne d'Are, and the firstclass cruiser Chateaurenault, are disastrous ...
Article : 129 wordsThe following telegraph despatch has been received by the Lieutenant-Governor from the Chief Casualty Officer, Capetown:—"Referring to your telegram of August 2, No. 555, Private W. J. James, 2nd ...
Article : 47 wordsThe annual report of the Labour Department of the colony shows that there is[?]n increase of 306 in the number of factories registered, while the number of hands employed has increased by 4522, the total being ...
Article : 126 wordsSome time ago it was rumoured that Cardinal Moran would this year pay a visit to Rome. The rumour was to some extent well founded, for the Cardinal has said that there is a possibility that he will ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 198 wordsOn Tuesday night Glenhuntly and Ormond railway stations were visited by thieves, and last night a similar visit was paid to Barker's-road station. In each case the safe was forced open, but the money ...
Article : 98 wordsSeventy-five Esquimaux dogs, which will be used by the Antarctic Exploring Expedition in the Discovery, have been shipped to Melbourne in a mail steamer. The dogs ...
Article : 93 wordsThe New South Wales footballers were enthusiastically welcomed to the colony this morning. Mr. Ca[?]roll the Native Minister welcomed them on behalf of the Ministry, and said he was glad that the rivalry ...
Article : 99 wordsLieutenant Boris Saravoff and the six other leading members of the Macedonian Central Committee have been acquitted at Sofia of a charge of complicity in the Macedonian ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsThe Govenor-General arrived at Cairns this morning. There was no official reception. Lord Hopetoun was met by his brother-in-law, Mr. E. Do Moleyns. ...
Article : 33 wordsA fire in the Union Steamship Company's yard, at Wellington, did damage to tho extent of £2000. The Katapoi Woollen Company pays a dividend of 7 per cent. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe statue of the late Queen Victoria at Malta has been damaged by corrosive acid being thrown over it. The act is attributed to the languages dispute. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe fifty-seventh ordinary general meeting of proprietors of the Queensland National Bank was held to-day. The half-yearly report anhd balancesheet showed that the net profit for the half year ...
Article : 96 wordsThe American ship Jumes Drummond arrived at Fremantle last night. It was reported that there had been a tragedy on board. Shortly before leaving Chemaious, British Columbia, Captain Nason shipped ...
Article : 197 wordsOn Thursday Captain Waldron and Mr. A. J. Reynolds waited upon the Mayor and handed to him the balance of money left from the recent citizens' welcome to the Imperial Bushmen. They pointed ...
Article : 116 wordsThe New York correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph " reports that a discovery has been made that the local Customs have been defrauded of millions of dollars for ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Avanti (Ivanti?), which went ashore at Drogden, has been relloated. A cable published on Wednesday stated that the Ivanti, timber laden for Adelaide, had gone ashore ...
Article : 42 wordsThe case in which Lieutenant-General Ricardo claims £5000 as damages from the Brisbane Newspaper Campany for alleged defamation was continued to-day, the Court being crowded. Plaintiff's cross ...
Article : 101 wordsTrooper Thomas Wells, of the Imperial Bushmen, who was invalided home, having been shot in one eye while in an engagement at Ermolo, South Africa, was met at the railway station last night by the ...
Article : 343 wordsThe number of steel workers on strike in the United States is said to be 57,000. On the other hand, it is stated that 243,000 metal workers remain in the mills. The Steel ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Watts, the artist, has offered to present to Mr. Grainger as a gift to South Australia his portrait of the poet Tennyson. ADELAIDE, Friday. ...
Article : 114 wordsYesterday the firm of William Dymock, bookseller, [?]f George-street, purchased the rare and extensive librart of a well-known bookbuyer and collector, who is leaving Sydney for the old country. Amongst the ...
Article : 287 wordsThe widely diverging regulations in the various States of the Commonwealth affecting explosives have been the subject of comment both by the Marine Board and importers. In February last the inspector ...
Article : 152 wordsYesterday the decision of the master bakers to fall in with the propossls of the conference was the main theme of discussion at the Trade Hall. The organising secretary of the operative bakers, Mr. D. ...
Article : 433 wordsThe attention of the Premier was directed to-day to an answer given by the Premier of Victoria yesterday to a deputation from the Master Butchers' Associrtion The deputation told ...
Article : 651 wordsThe census returns show thal the population of France is 38,641,333, being an increase of 412,364 (?) in five years The population in 1896 was 38,269,011. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe R.M.S. Rome arrived from Colombo at 8 a.m. to-day with the following pasengers in thee Saloon:— For Fremantle: Mr. E. W. Robinson. For Adalaide: Mrs. M. J. Main and child, Miss ...
Article : 121 wordsThe funeral of the late Mr. William Wilson M'Ritchie, who for many years occupied the position of surveyor to the old marine board, took place yesterday. His death occurred on Tuesday at Lyndoch, ...
Article : 313 wordsThe " Daily Chronicle " reports that Max Opitz and Co., bankers, of Berlin, have suspended payment with liabilities amounting to £250,000. The same paper reports that Opitz ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Italian cruiser Puglia arrived at Melbourne from Adelaide on Wednesday last. The warship, which is on her way to Chins, was at Fremantle during the visit of the Duke and the Duchess ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 216 wordsIt was reported to the police last night that a leper patient named John Sharp had escaped during the afternoon from the Coast Hospital at Little Bay. The escap[?], who had for some time been an ...
Article : 129 wordsAustria semi-officially announces that she would not accept Albania as a gift. The announcement terminates a violent newspaper agitation arising out of Italian fears of ...
Article : 35 wordsWe are informed that Miss Thu[?]ow, one of the Sydney visitors, who sustained severe shock and injuries in the Quirindi accident, although still coutined to her bed, is progressing favourably. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 16 Aug 1901, Page 5
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