A citizens' meeting was held last night in the Town Hall to ventilate certain grievances in regard to the Metropolitan Traffic Act. The Mayor, Sir James Graham, was in the chair. Amongst those ...
Article : 941 wordsSportsmen throughout Australasia will learn with regret of the death of Mr. William Forrester, who passed over to the great majority last evening at his residence, Warwick Farm, after it short illness at the ...
Article : 393 wordsMr. Kruger is sending a protest against Lord Kitchener's proclamation to all those Powers which signed the Hague Convention. The Netherlands Government has declined to ...
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Article : 109 wordsReuler's correspondent states that the conduct of the students at the presentation of degrees at Capetown was decorons and a striking contrast to the uproarious behaviour ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Minister for Education has taken a right step in his determination to increase the salaries of teachers. He has perhaps not gone far enough, all things considered, but ...
Article : 4,726 wordsThe Senate this morning agreed to a motion by Senator Smith (W.A.) for an elaborate return to be laid on the table of the House simulteneously with tariff proposals showing the list of articles subject to ...
Article : 308 wordsThe total subscriptions to the Federal Wreck Relief Fund have reached £3282. The committee has decided that payments shall be made at the rate of 10s a week to the widows (of whom there are 17), and 5s ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Duke of Cornwall and York yesterday laid the buttress stone of the new Anglican Cathedral at Capetown. The Duchess of Cornwall and York laid the corner stone of ...
Article : 53 wordsDr. Chavasse, the Bishop of Liverpool, in replying to a pro-Boer appeal made to him by the Swiss Evangelical Alliance, strongly upheld the cause of Great Britain. He said ...
Article : 66 wordsThe financial statement debate began to-night. Captain Russell condemned the Premier for not taking stops to allay the alarm caused by his own statements in regard to the finances of the country, and ...
Article : 410 wordsA flood has made breaches in both banks of the Yellow River (Hwang-ho) in the Shantung province, and has caused immense destruction of property. ...
Article : 229 wordsThe death of Captain Benjamin Jenkins was announced yesterday. The deceased, who was well known and gretly esteemed amongst the shipping and commercial community in connection with his ...
Article : 442 wordsThe " Times " states that the Transvaal holders of shares in the Netherlands South African railway have sold 5100 shares on the Continent since the beginning of the war ...
Article : 158 wordsThe House of Representatives met at 10 o'clock this morning, and devoted the whole day to the further consideration of the Postal Bill in committee. A score of clauses were agreed to as printed, and this ...
Article : 596 wordsA strange occurrence is reported to have happened within a few miles of Warwick. During a thunderstorm one night this work acres of ground were covered with small fish. A bottle containing several ...
Article : 85 wordsThe expiatory mission of Prince Ch'un, the brother of the Emperor of China, will enter Berlin in great state. The mission will be escorted in procession through the chief ...
Article : 83 wordsA citizen of Cape Colony, colonial-born, has been shot as a spy at Pretoria. The man was caught with three Boers from a commando as they were endeavouring to pass through the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe New South Wales football team, which is to play a match against Queensland to-morrow, was formally welcomed to Brisbane this morning by the Mayor at the Town Hall. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe New Pinafore G.M. Company's battery at Lefroy has been relieved by a cleverly planned robbery of gold valued at about £175. It appears that a piece of timber belonging to one of the battery ...
Article : 156 wordsHaasbroom's commando was surprised at Doornberg, Cape Colony, and seven men were killed and 21 others captured. ...
Article : 23 wordsYesterday afternoon, at the close of the gathering held in the Presbyterian Theological Hall, within St. Andrew's College, to mark the end of another session, the President of the Faculty, the Rev. Dr. ...
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Article : 132 wordsThere is growing indignation in Japan owing to the insulting discrimination of United States medical inspectors at Hawaii against Japanese ladies travelling in ...
Article : 34 wordsPrivate Delahunty was killed at Bladplaats. Lieutenant W. Young and Private George Macdonald were slightly wounded. All of these belong to the sixth Western Australian ...
Article : 46 wordsDuring the past few days Senior-detective Rochs and Detectives Fullerton, H. Brown, and Ward have been particularly active in connection with investigations into the circumstances of the recent safe ...
Article : 269 wordsIt has been definitely decided not to bring over reserves for the New South Wolshmen for the match against New Zealand. In the match against Otage to-morrow Wickham, ...
Article : 63 wordsAt the review which is to be held at Reims in the presence of the Czar on September 19, 125,000 troops will attend. Aug. 23. ...
Article : 44 wordsAs an outcome of the " Observer " libel case, a public movement has been initiated for the purpose of expreaaing sympathy with the " Observer " Mr. Robert Fraser, ex-member for Brisbane, and Mr. H. ...
Article : 325 wordsAt a meeting of the Peace, Humanity, and Arbitration Society of Victoria to-night it was resolved, on the motion of the Rev. Dr. Rentoul, that a letter of condolence be sent to the relatives of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 699 wordsDirectors who are interested in Australian steamers are disturbed at the prospect of the Inter-State Commission Bill of the Commonwealth interfering with them as common ...
Article : 87 wordsAmong other matters of " foreign policy " engaging the attention of Mr. Barton is one affecting the relationship between the Dominion of Canada and the Commonwealth of Australia. At the time of the ...
Article : 1,168 wordsThe names oF Sergeant-Major Bridgman, Sergeant Philliphant and Prooper Derehyr, which appeared in the list of Australians honourably mentioned by Lord Kitchener, telegraphed from London yesterday, were ...
Article : 74 wordsThe troopship Britannic, which was due here yesterday from Sydney, has not yet arrived. This has caused a good deal of inconvenience to the Victorian soldiers who intend to proceed te South Africa by the ...
Article : 211 wordsThe French cruiser Cassard has started for Constantinople. A French naval division is ready to follow. Aug. 23. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe syndicate which recently had a bill before Parliament for the construction of a pier at Borehaven (Cork) proposes to use in the Atlantic service, steamers with a speed of ...
Article : 184 wordsThe present season's vintage is a record. The South Australian wine made this year amounted to 2,813, 301 gallons A man named Francis Hickman was assaulted ...
Article : 175 wordsAdvices from Curagoa, Dutch West Indies, state that 1000 Government troops have left Venezuela in transports in order to invade Colombia, via Riohacha. The invasion is in ...
Article : 78 wordsThe London Missionary Society's steamer John Williams has just completed an extended cruise amongst the islands of the Tokelau, Ellice, and Gilbert groups, and returned to Samoa at the beginning ...
Article : 235 wordsThe steamer Star of Australia, which arrived at Port Adelaide from London this morning, has on board 23 Esquimaux dogs for the British Antarctic Expodition which is to be undertaken in the ...
Article : 299 wordsThe Cabinet sat all yesterday afternoon and until 10 o'clock last night investigating matters in connection with the railway department and the recent appointment of Mr. George William D[?]ies to the ...
Article : 201 wordsThe " Times " says that there is a more hopeful feeling as to the prospects of trade. The shrinkage in general business in 1901 has been small. Wool, the " Times " states, ...
Article : 51 wordsA petition to the House of Lords for the release of Earl Russell who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of bigamy has been rejected. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 179 wordsMr. R. N. Kirk, agent for the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Limited, advises the receipt of the following cable:—London, August 22: Silver, 2s 3d (official quotation); lead, £11 11s 3d (buyers' price); ...
Article : 192 wordsOf the rabbits brought from Australia by the steamer Duke of Sutherland 80 per cent. were condemned. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe return match Sussex v. Yorkshire was continued yesterday. In the follow on Yorkshire scored 107 without the loss of a wicket. J. T. Brown and Tunnicliffe ...
Article : 52 wordsInformation has been received by the secretary of the Pastoralists' Union to the effect that shearing in progressing satisfactorily at Groongal station, Riverina, under the Pastoralists's Union agreement. ...
Article : 114 wordsMr. Francis Hubble, electrician of the Ivanhoe mine, was found lying dead at the bottom of the open cutting this morning. It is assumed that death was caused by a fall. ...
Article : 59 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2 15-16d per ounce standard—a fall of 1-16d since yesterday. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 24 Aug 1901, Page 9
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