The man Joseph Minton, alias Devey, was before the police court this morning, on remand, charged with maliciously wounding Alfred Lamport, in company, with intent to murder him. As the principal ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the motion for the second reading of the Appropriation Bill led to an animated debate on the war in South Africa. ...
Article : 416 wordsThe "Globe," an evening newspaper, in a recent issue, insinuated that Irish Nationalist members of the House of Commons had been guilty of corruption in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 24 wordsThe vital statistics of the metropolis for last month, as shown in the Government Statistician's report, do not furnish pleasant reading. This indeed is no more than was to ...
Article : 3,068 wordsThe Senate this morning agreed to the second reading of a Bill to Regulate the Taking of Evidence by the Federal Parliament or any committee thereof. The mover, Senator Neild (N.S.W.), expalined that ...
Article : 205 wordsAt the general meeting of the Federal Riffle Association of Australasia held to-night representatives were present from the Southern States. It was decided to alter the title of the association to the ...
Article : 110 wordsA fatal accident occurred this morning at Neeld's mine. A youth named Frederick Parry was killed, it is believed, by a pieco of stone blown out by a charge of explosives. An inquest will be held to-morrow. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor has received the following cablegram from the Chief Casualty Officer, Capetown:—"Referring to your telegram of August 2, No. 1417, Private P. Hodge, 3rd Regiment, New ...
Article : 112 wordsA man named Louis Banfield was admitted to the hospital this morning suffering from a broken leg[?]le was working in the Preprietary mine at the 400ft. level, and some ore fell on him, causing the injury. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Factory Bill has passed through all its stages in the House of Lords. The Government accepted the amendment made by the House of Commons, providing for the closing ...
Article : 53 wordsThe reduction of the British garrison at Shanghai, and especially the withdrawal of the cavalry, leaving the German commander the senior officer, is bitterly resented by the ...
Article : 41 wordsA private inquiry, before the police magistrate, took place to-day into the cause of the escapte of the prisoner Vaughan, alias Cant, who jumped out of the train near Binalong. The result has not been made ...
Article : 64 wordsOn Tuesday evening last at the Victoria Barracks, Lieutenant Lofts, late of the China Contingent, was entertained by the officers of the 1st Infantry Regiment at a farewell supper, prior to his departure for ...
Article : 83 wordsThree petitions in favour of clauses 54 and 55 of the Postal Bill were received by House of Representatives this afternoon. Mr. Poynton (S.A.) directed the attention the premier to the reported ...
Article : 446 wordsParliament will be prorogued on Saturday until the middle of January. ...
Article : 16 wordsA movement has been started to oust Mr. Shaffer from the position of President of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe jury in the case of Stratten, charged with stealing a horse and sulky, after being locked up all night, failed to agree and were discharged. Prisoner was remanded to next Court. ...
Article : 38 wordsA seaman on the Barcoo was reported to be plaguestricken to-day. He died to-night. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Antarctic exploring ship Discovery has arrived at Funchal, Madeira. Captain Scott, R.N., the commander of the vessel, declares that the Discovery is a splendid sea ...
Article : 45 wordsThe rabbit pest is reported to be very serious about Cudal, Murga, and Toogoong. During the recent shoot 1200 were killed. The crops can make no headway against their ravages. Residents describe them ...
Article : 85 wordsIn consequence of the diplomatic rupture between Colombia and Venezuela H.M S. Icarus, screw sloop of 970 torns, of the Pacific station, has been despatched to Panama. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is reported that Mr. John E. Courtney Bodley, barrister and political writer, has been offered the Governorship of Queensland. Mr. Phlip, questioned about the matter, said no appointment had been ...
Article : 56 wordsA magisterial inquiry into the mysterious death of the girl Elizabeth O'Roilly was commenced yesterday at Ballarat James O'Reilly and his wife, Bessio, both of whom are over 70 years of age, were presented on ...
Article : 1,445 wordsIn giving evidence yesterday before the Royal Commission on the operation of the Factories and Shops Act John Bedgood, boot manufacturer, said the Act had generally been beneficial to both ...
Article : 212 wordsMr. Archic Anderson, son of Mr. James Anderson, proprietor of Yarra Vale, near Darlington, on Tuesday went out to skin a foal that had died from tetanus. He had one or two sores on his hands and ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. Chamberlain, in answer to a question asked by Mr. John Boland, Nationalist, in the House, of Commons last night, said that the Government did not intend to appoint a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsTo-day 470 applications have been made for oldage pensions, and 152 certificates have been issued. TAMWORTH, Friday. One of the applicants for an old-age pension is a ...
Article : 110 wordsA sensational incident occurred in Hannaus-street yesterday afternoon. A barmaid threw herself over the balcony of the Kalgoorlie Hotel, and fell head foremost into the gutter, a distance of 20ft. She was ...
Article : 85 wordsThe native chiefs of Natal and Zululand presented addresses to the Duke and the Duchess of Cornwall and York at Pieter-maritzburg. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Ophir, with the Duke and the Duchess of Cornwall and York aboard, left Durban yesterday for Simonstown, Cape Colony. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Peacock) states that it is his intention to bring under the notice of the State Cabinet next Tuesday the request made to him by a deputation of master butchers for the repeal of the stock tax. ...
Article : 116 wordsA joint meeting of the members of the Wesleyan Church, Goldsmith-street, and the Primitive Methodist Church, Lagoon-street, was held last night to arrange for the working of cucuits after the next ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Minister for Lands has received a cable from Mr. Harcourt Palmer regarding the Great Western Railway, dated London, August 14:—"A floration will be secured when the markete improves, possibly ...
Article : 76 wordsA satisfactory interchange of views has taken place between Great Britain and France with regard to Morocco. ...
Article : 30 wordsOn Wednesday evening, on the motion for the adjournment of the House of Representatives, Mr. M'Donald (Q.) drew the attention of the Premier to an advertisement appearing in the Western ...
Article : 1,336 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Gorringe has inflicted severe losses on the commandos of Kruitzinger, Erasmus, Pyper, and Cachet, near Steynsburg, northern Cape Colony. Erasmus ...
Article : 35 wordsThe resignation of Dr. Wollaston from the position of counsel to the Marine Board of Victoria, dating from 3lst instant, in consequence of his acceptance of the position of Comptroller of the Federal Customs, ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Gow, the New Zeland Trade Commissioner, will leave for Sydney to-morrow en route for South Africa. Thereafter he will make a tour of the world in the interests of the New Zealand produce trade. ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. Seddon delivered his financial statement in the House of Representative this evening. He said that results for the past year showed a surplus of £532,564, of which half a million ...
Article : 344 wordsMr. W. Forrester, of Warwick Farm, has been rather seriously indisposed during the past week, consequent upon an attack of paralysia on Monday last. Dr. Phirie is attending the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Very Reverend Monsignor Kelly has been consecrated at the Vatican as Coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney. Dr. Kelly was highest in the voting of the clergy ...
Article : 259 wordsA committee in Switzerland arranged for a doctor and six nurses to tend the women folk in refugee camps in South Africa. The party, however, was not allowed to ...
Article : 114 wordsAn interesting event took place at the works of the Austral Otis Engineering Company, South Melbourne, this afternoon, when the castling of one of the largest cylinders ever made in Austrlia was ...
Article : 196 wordsA sad fatality occurred at the house of John Barnard Rudkin, a settler near King River, east of Albany, yesterday, resulting in the death of Mrs. Rudkin. It appeared that Rudkin remained at ...
Article : 187 wordsThe newly inaugurated local School of Arts may now be said to be firmly established. The membership to the institution is daily mereasing, and the committee is prosecuting negotiations with a view ...
Article : 142 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce the committee placed on record its sincere and heartfelt regret for the loss sustained in the death of the late president, Mr. John Gibson, and a motion of ...
Article : 107 wordsComparative statements have been supplied by the Superintendent of the Census, Mr. Sholl, showing the population in each division and county of South Australia at the date of the census of 1891 and that for ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Rev. Dr. Clifford and 600 other ministers of the free churches have signed a peace manifesto favouring an amnesty to the rebels, the granting of autonomy to the Boers, and ...
Article : 77 wordsIn view of the Governor-General having taken up his abode for a few weeks at Hambledon, his brother-in-law's sugr plantation, Cairns, Queensland, the Postmaster-General has arranged to ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Belgian bishops have decided to admit the migrating members of the French religious orders only if they make no collections, and open neither schools nor chapels. ...
Article : 35 wordsA sailor (one of the crew of the Blackall) was seriously injured this morning by being drawn into the winch on board while at the Bull jotty. Both his arms were severely crushed. He was taken to ...
Article : 88 wordsThe patients invalided by the Falcony disaster are doing as well as can be expected. Nothing of a serious nature is feared. Mr. Sucking and Mrs. Suckling are likely to remain in the Imperial Hotel ...
Article : 188 wordsW. Weddel and Co. in their annual report on the butter trade anticipate that last season's high prices will be maintained, and possibly will be augmented. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 453 wordsThe presence of Lieutenant-General the Hon. N. G. Lyttelton in South Africa will be merely a precaution in the event of Lord Kitchener becoming ill. Otherwise Lord ...
Article : 42 wordsAn important meeting of the managing committee of the A.M. Hospital was held at the institution last night. Mr. W. g. Robertson occupied the chair, and there we[?] present Messrs. R. Finlayson, T. ...
Article : 308 wordsOn July 17, W. Cockrum reported to the police at Oodnadatta that on June 2 Edward Warman, a members of the prospecting party under his leadership, was muredered in the Mann Ranges by an Afghan. As ...
Article : 287 wordsA firm named Pearks has been fined £20 at Folkestone and costs on a charge of having sold butter with an excess of water. The same firm was fined £50 and costs on ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Chamberlain, in replying to a question asked by Sir John Rolleston in the House of Commons last night, said that it was not, intended that the tariff of the Orange River ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 197 wordsTowards the Methodist Century Million Guinea Fund £930,000 has been promised. The total amount received is £600,000. ...
Article : 25 wordsLieutenant Charles de Vertus Duff, late of the 2nd Victorian Contingent, and now of French's Scouts, was severely wounded at Bethesda. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. R. J. Gatling has invented a motor plough which he claims will ena[?] a man to plough 30 acres daily. A company has been formed at St. Louis, ...
Article : 42 wordsThe troopship Britannic in to leave Woolloomooloo Bay at, 4 p.m. on Tuesday next. The men who will leave by her for South Africa have to be abo[?]rd an hour beforehand. They will have to pay ...
Article : 414 wordsThe inquiry into the adiministration of Newtown Park was concluded at 5 o'clock to-day, Mr. M'Farlane expects to send in his report to the Minister for Lands by Monday. Mr.Malone, the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Estimates provide for —50,000 for the expenses of the Duke of Cornwall and York's visit, £5000 expenses for the centingents to the Commonwealth celebrations, and £3000 expenses for the visit of the ...
Article : 65 wordsPORT ADELAIDE.—Departures: August 16, Essen, for Java; Wollowra, for Western Austrlia. PORT PIGIE.—Arrivals: August 16, Acamus, ship, from Barry; Dovedale, from Newcastle. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe annual meeting of subscribers of the Cooma Pastoral and Agricultural Association was held on Tuesday at Dodds' Hotel. The president (Mr. J. A. Sellar) was in the chair. The chairman, who had ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 17 Aug 1901, Page 9
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