The funeral of Mr. Daniel Finlayson, one of the old setters in this district, who died yesterday after a long illness, took place this afternoon, and was very largely attended. ...
Article : 1,643 wordsThe South Brisbane election yesterday was a very close contest. At the three polling places in Brisbane the candidates polled equal votes, 116[?]. But at the Rockhampton polling Mr. Turley ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Australians continued the twenty-second match of their tour against W. G. Grace's Eleven at the Crystal Palace, London, to-day. The weather was ...
Article : 952 wordsThe revelations of the cruelty to which Captain Dreyfus was subjected on the [?]e du Diable continue to increase in horror. It has transpired that when his ...
Article : 186 wordsThe British War Department is continuing to make precautionary preparations. Eleven field batteries of artillery are in readiness at Woolwich for despatch ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada last night Sir Charles Tupper, G.C.M.G., ex-Premier, moved a resolution urging that efforts should be ...
Article : 108 wordsPrecautionary preparations continue to be made by the British War Department, and [?] batteries of field artillery are in readiness at Woolwich for despatch to South Africa. ...
Article : 5,948 wordsThe sugar season is now fairly under way. From the latest information it is estimated the crop will be lighter than that of last season. In order to give people in the country ...
Article : 91 wordsThe special correspondents of the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" in the Transvaal have telegraphed to their papers that Mr. W. P. Schreiner, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 45 wordsThe bill giving the Government power to secure land for workmen's homes has passed through the committee of the House. The compulsory powers have been greatly modified. Compulsion ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the International Disarmament Conference at the Hague, the representatives of Great Britain and the United States voted in favour of the use of asphyxiating ...
Article : 57 wordsThe evangelical mission of the Rev. C. H. Yatman has already been attended with a very large measure of success. Yesterday afternoon he delivered a special discourse at the Victoria Theatre to boys and ...
Article : 172 wordsMeetings have been held of the Melbourne Assets Company, the Federal Assets Company, the Mercantile Bank Assets Company, and the English and ...
Article : 51 wordsMay 8, Crystal Palace, v. South of England.— Drawn. South of England, 246 aud 222; Australia, 375, and 7 for one wicket. May 11, Leyton, v. Essex.—Lost by 126 runs[?] ...
Article : 503 wordsThe recent speech of Mr. Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, has dispelled the alarm of the Uitlanders of Johannesburg that Great Britain was ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Treasury authorities have announced that they cannot formulate the conditions under which the right of the coinage of silver can be granted to the ...
Article : 94 wordsAt the Liverpool July Meeting to-day the contest for the principal event resulted as under:- LIVERPOOL CUP (the 72nd) of 1200 [?]ovs., 50 [?]ovs. ...
Article : 432 wordsThe miners at the whole of the principal collieries of the district were almost continuously employed during the fort[?]ght ended yesterday. No less than seven of the pits were in constant ...
Article : 154 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Eastern Telegraph Company, Limited, was held yesterday. The Marquis of Tweeddale, chairman of ...
Article : 412 wordsA large and influential meeting of citizens was held in the council-chambers last evening for the purpose of making arrangements for according a suitable "send-off" to Mr. D. J. M'Lean, manager of ...
Article : 152 wordsDuring the steam trial of the recently-launched twin-screw torpedo boat destroyer, Bullfinch, on the Solent yesterday, a connecting-rod broke, and caused an ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Hon. C. A. Lee, M.L.A., Minister for Works, who visited Newcastle on Friday and subsequently left, accompanied by Mr. R. A. Price, M.L A., for Raymond T[?]rrace, returned from his trip to the ...
Article : 69 wordsPlay was resumed on Saturday, June 17, in the second test cricket match, England v. Australia. The public recognised that England's position was hopeless, and about 8000 persons were present. ...
Article : 451 wordsThe seventy-second half-yearly meeting of the members of St. Mary's Star of the Se[?] branch of the Australian Holy Catholic Guild was held at the G[?]ld Hall this afternoon. The Warden (Mr. M. J. ...
Article : 165 wordsA British soldier at Allahabad, North-west India, has been sentenced to l8 months' imprisonment, and discharged with ignominy from the army, for having ...
Article : 37 wordsA case of determined suicide was brought to light in a boarding-house in South Richmond on Saturday afternoon. One of the boarders, a man named George Clements, was found lying in his ...
Article : 154 wordsA fire at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, did much damage, destroying a number of buildings. Fifty families were rendered homeless. ...
Article : 36 wordsBar silver is quoted at 2s 3¾d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe barque Caliuna arrived from Sydney yesterday to load a cargo of coal from the Duckenfield colliery for Valparais[?], and the four-mast[?] barque Glencona cleared at the Customs for Autofagusta ...
Article : 185 wordsThe steamer Airlie, after reloading cargo lightered during detention while aground at Vernon Island, left on Thursday morning for southern ports. Passengers—Mr. Browne and Mr. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Waikato, which is bound from London to New Zealand, and which is considerably overdue, has not been spoken ...
Article : 47 wordsA death under pitiable circumstances took place during Friday night in Fitzroy Gardens. Upon commencing work on Saturday morning one of the gardeners named Ryan found the dead body ...
Article : 100 wordsWestern Australia will be represented in Melbourne at the Intercolonial Phylloxera and Vegetation Disease Conference by Mr. Lindley Cowen, secretary of the Department of Agriculture, and ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Maunaloa volcano, in Hawaii, is in active eruption. ...
Article : 17 wordsA meeting of the executive committee of the Central Federation League was held at the Sydney Town Hall on Friday afternoon. In the absence of Sir Matthew Harris (ex-offici[?] president of the league as ...
Article : 374 wordsAt 6.12 a.m. yesterday the Metropolitan Fire Brigade received a call to a fire at 205 Riley-street, occupied as a dwelling by Lena Howe, and owned by Mr. J. Apted. The outbreak was extinguished ...
Article : 346 wordsFor a long time past there have been complaints of the inadequacy of shipping facilities at Portland, which is the place of shipment for products from the Western districts of Victoria. The ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Lakes of Killarney, on the Muckross estate, Ireland, have been purchased by Mr. Gallagher, a tobacconist, for £85,000. ...
Article : 80 wordsArrangements have been completed for holding a conference of naval officers in Melbourne on the 31st instant to consider the question of establishing a colonial naval reserve on the lines of the ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Bluff Harbour Board's tug Awarua has left for the S[?]ares to search for the missing steamer Waikato. The box containing chat[?]al found at Banks P[?]ninsula is stated to have been ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has dismissed with costs the appeal in the case of the Alliance Company, Limited, and the Liberty Consolidated ...
Article : 58 wordsSuccessful experiments with wireless telegraphy have been made across the Adriatic Sea, between Trieste and Venice, a distance of 70 miles. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Warrimoo arrived at 8.30 a.m. from Vancouver. Passengers—Mesdames Delzel, Baxter, Mr. and Mrs. Vivian and children, Miss Bourke, Sir J. Furzelle, Messrs. Pender, Levy, ...
Article : 94 wordsAt the International University Sports yesterday the Queen's Athletic Club team, comprising competitors from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, defeated the ...
Article : 41 wordsA large number of well-attended meetings are being held in the city and suburbs with the object of securing a large vote at the federal referendum on Thursday. The addresses delivered by the federal ...
Article : 115 wordsTalune, s., 2020 tons Captain G. Spinks, from Wellington and ports. Passengers—Misses Moss, Burt, Palmer Norris, Mesdames Mell[?]r, M'[?]ren and child, Cobcroft and infant, Brab[?]er, Palmer, [?]nder, Fowler, Coney, Johnston ...
Article : 112 wordsOrgan Recital: Town Hall, [?] p.m. Annual Meeting Waverley Benevolent Society, Council-[?]mbers, 8 p.m. Diocesan Lay Evangeli[?]t[?] Association: Annual ...
Article : 130 wordsF. A. Jarvis, of Leicester, has won the Half-mile Swimming Championship in 12 minutes 48 3-5 seconds. F. C. V. Lane, of Sydney, was second, his time for the ...
Article : 56 wordsW. Howell, the Australian bowler, was this evening presented with a sovereign purse, and a gold watch for his wife, the gifts being ...
Article : 336 wordsTalane, s., from Wellington and ports: 18[?] sack[?] wheat, 863 sacks malt, 80 sacks [?]atmeal, 220 sacks bran[?] 4357 sacks potatoes, 391 sacks barley, [?]82 sacks oats, 108 sacks onions, 37 sacks pens, 163 sacks ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 24 Jul 1899, Page 5
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