What must add to the joys of the celebration of Christmas, 1898, throughout the length and breadth of the land is conveyed to-day in the telegraphic reports from the vast drought-stricken interior, where ...
Article : 457 wordsThe threatened constitutional crisis has been averted by the carrying of a motion in the Assembly, providing that the House affirms the right of direct consultation with its constituents ...
Article : 95 wordsSpeaking to-day upon the statement made by Mr. Reid, Premier of New South Wales, in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday evening, concorning the next move towards accomplishing ...
Article : 303 wordsMr. John Dillon, Nationalist, M.P. for County Mayo E., in the course of an interview with the representative of the " Pall Mall Gazette," gave particulars ...
Article : 108 wordsThe French adjutant of Major Marchand's expedition, a sergeant, and eight Senegalese who were sick at Fashoda have left the expedition, and are ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Legialative Council continued its Thursday's sitting until 4.10 a.m. yesterday. The Land and Income Tax Declaratory Bill, Appropriation and Loan Bills, and Strathfield Railway ...
Article : 8,751 wordsLast night a miner named John Yolland fell a distance of 70ft into an open out, south of the Boulder, and received severe injuries and shock to the system. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe " Matin," a Paris daily, reports that London capitalists are largely financing Don Carlos, the leader of the Spanish Carlist party. ...
Article : 31 wordsM. Dupuy, the French Premier, has been called upon to give evidence in the Dreyfus appeal case before the Court of Cassation. ...
Article : 28 wordsElaborate preparations have been made in the city and suburbs for public amusement during the Christmas holidays. The railway, tramway, steamship, and steam ferry services are ...
Article : 590 wordsAll the official documents relating to the proceedings of the Anti-Anarchist Conference, which has just closed its sittings at Rome, have been burned for the ...
Article : 36 wordsSenor Sagasta, the Spanish Premier, is ill. He is suffering from an attack of fever. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe great heat of Wednesday and Thursday merged to-day into winter weather. Steady rain set in at daybreak, and as the afternoon wore on the weather became cold, ...
Article : 734 wordsPresident M'Kinley desiring the services of an adviser familiar with Russia, Mr. Hitchcock, the United States Ambassador in St. Petersburg, has been appointed a ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Post Office authorities have decided that letters to and from the officers and men of the Australian squadron shall come within the penny postage scheme. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe first rain appeared at the "48-mile tank," 30 miles S.E. of Wilcannia, in a thunderstorm. Sixtyseven points were recorded. During Wednesday night light rain fell in the Western districts, and on ...
Article : 458 wordsInteresting experiments were carried out at Toulon yesterday, with a view of ascertaining the capabilities of submarine torpedo boats in warfare. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe War Office has ordered from Birmingham firms 50,000 shells and 7,000,000 cartridges. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe revenues of India exhibit a general and substantial increase, and there has been a remarkable recovery from the effects of the famine. The Budget shows a ...
Article : 38 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies has agreed to the expenditure of 66,000,000 francs (£2,640,000) upon armaments and military renovations during the year 1899. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Rothschilds and Baron Erlanger are erecting a new opera-house in Paris, of which M. Jean de Reszke, the famous operatic tenor, is to be the manager. It ...
Article : 40 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies has discussed the commercial treaty with Italy. M. Delcasse, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, said it was important ...
Article : 48 wordsLord Iveagh, the well-known Dublin brewer, has given £250,000 to the Jenner Institute in aid of bacteriological research. Lord Iveagh's gift to the city ...
Article : 39 wordsThe railway authorities received information early yesterday that two washaways had occurred on the south-western line between Junee and Narrandera, but beyond a few hours' obstruction to the traffic no ...
Article : 159 wordsThe attention of passengers by rail is directed to the facilities which are afforded by the Railway Commissioners for those residents of the metropolis who are contemplating a visit to the cool highlands ...
Article : 1,056 wordsThe current number of the " Fortnightly Review " contains an article upon the political situation and the foreign outlook. The writer says that Lord Rosebery, ...
Article : 69 wordsThe personalty in England of the late Mr. John Paterson, a member of the firm of Paterson, Laing, and Bruce, Melbourne, and who died in Perth while on a ...
Article : 51 wordsFor the first time the river (Cudgegong), upon which the residents of this town principally depend for a water supply, has stopped running, and for about half a mile each side of the town the river ...
Article : 2,482 wordsA general strike of grocers' assistants has taken place in Paris. They demand a reduction in the hours of labour to 12 hours a day. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Athens newspapers are unanimous in declaring that the investiture of Prince George as Governor of Crete is the beginning of the union of Crete and Greece. ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. J. M. Sinclair, the agent in London of the Victorian Department of Agriculture, has opened the front showroom of his premises in Leadenhall-street, ...
Article : 57 wordsThe headquarters of Russia's international police service have been fixed in London, instead of in Paris as heretofore. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe intercolonial cricket match between Victoria and New South Wales starts to-morrow on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, but owing to the heavy rain which fell throughout ...
Article : 387 wordsSir Thomas Salter Pyne, K.B., Chief Engineer to the Government of Afghanistan, who has been on a visit to England, will not return to Cabul. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Canadian Rowing Association intends to send an eight-oar crew to England for Henley Regatta next year. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe miners at their quarterly meeting unanimously decided to join the Miners' Federation, from which the Greta lodge has been separated for a Dumber of years. John Connelly, one of the newly ...
Article : 142 wordsA fireman named Joseph Judd met with a terrible death at the Government quarry, Globe Island, yesterday morning. Judd was employed as a fireman in connection with the steam crane which, at the time ...
Article : 302 wordsA thousand British troops are proceeding to Cape Colony in order to bring the regiments stationed at the Cape up to their full strength. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 24 Dec 1898, Page 9
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