Yesterday, being the day set apart for the commemoration of the advent of 1899, was observed with due rejoicing by the residents of Sydney and suburbs, who made the most of the various avenues ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,092 wordsNine thousand quarters of South Australian wheat have been sold at 29s per quartor, and 11,000 quarters of Victorian wheat has been sold at 28s 7½d per ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the course of a speech at Gloucester, Sir Charles Dilke said that the instructions issued by Lord Salisbury to the British Minister at Pekin. (Sir Claude ...
Article : 72 wordsAn Imperial rescript has been issued, directing that the arrangements for meeting the joint national expenditure of Austria and Hungary shall remain ...
Article : 55 wordsClose upon 500 persons, many of whom were from the other colomes, took the rail to the Hawkesbury to join the General Gordon for one of these delightful trips upon the finest river in Anstralia for ...
Article : 78 wordsA telegram from Cue states that a stabbing affray occurred on Saturday night. Guardi Dominico, an Italian, stabbed Nugarra Giuseppe in the neck, arm, and side. The injury ...
Article : 86 wordsThe passengers and takings on the railways yesterday were respectively 14,849, and £155 19s 11d in excess of New Year's Day, 1898. The increase is attributed chiefly to the favourable state of the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Chinese Government, without consulting Great Britain, included the property of British merchants in a concession to Russia at Hankow. ...
Article : 41 wordsAnother scene has occurred in the Hungarian Diet. The Premier, Baron Banffy, was endeavouring to speak, when the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 323 wordsMajor-General Kuropatkin, speaking at the celebration of the centenary of the Military Academy of Medicine, St. Petersburg, said he was authorised to ...
Article : 109 wordsThe tramways carried cousiderably more people yesterday than on 1st January, 1898. All lines shared in the increase, and it is officially estimated that the receipts reached £1600, and that the fares ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, the retiring Viceroy of India, was bidden farewell on Saturday. In the course of his reply to the ...
Article : 66 wordsHad he been unacquainted with the fact that New Year's Day was secularly celebrated yesterday, the casual visitor to Balmam, Leichhardt, Annandale, or Drummoyne might have imagined that the day was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 5,323 wordsThe Anti-Imperialist League in the United States, which was formed to combat the policy of the annexation of territory not contiguous to the United States, ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture has learned that the Indian authorities contemplate prohibiting the importation of horses from Australia owing to the danger of the introduction of tick fever. ...
Article : 100 wordsPresident Faure, in a New Year's reception to the Ambassadors in Paris, said that after the experience of 1898 it was impossible to doubt the sincerity of the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe principal streets in the western suburbs were nearly deserted yesterday until evening. There scemed a general disposition to make the most of the hue day, and the holiday resorts along the ...
Article : 273 wordsThe " Gazette " this morning contains a list of the new year's honours. Lord Cromer, British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, has been created a ...
Article : 202 wordsThe prison treatment of Dreyfus, who was reported to be treated as an accused person and not as a convict, is now stated not to have been relaxed. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Premier and party reached Townsville, on their Northern tour, early this morning. Passing Bowen the Mayor and a number of citizens came on board and wished Mr. Dickson and ...
Article : 370 wordsThe Emperor of Germany is ill, suffering from an inflamed throat. He is confined to his bed. ...
Article : 32 wordsFrom early merning the streets in the eastern suburbs presented a busy scene. Numerous 'buses and private vehicles sillied with occupants indicated the holding of private picnic parties, whilst the trams ...
Article : 103 wordsThe reserve squadron, which is in two divisions, one being at Gibraltar and the other cruising round the British coasts, is intended to be maintained in a ...
Article : 36 wordsThe numerous rocks and shady nooks at Bondi afferded shelter from the burning san which met the holiday-seekers yesterday. In the afternoon the crowd at Bondi was very large, and the freshuess of ...
Article : 247 wordsThe gardens and the parks attracted many thousands of persons. The reserve that proved the most popular was the Queen's Domain, which became a huge picnic ground. It was dotted all over with ...
Article : 148 wordsA second murder of a type similar to these committed by " Jack the Ripper " in London has been perpetrated in Vienna. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe quarterly revenue returns, for the United Kingdom have been published. The total revenue amounted to £28,632,334, of which customs ...
Article : 37 wordsThe wharfs and jetties on the city end of the harbour yesterday were at their best. From early morning until noon a great stream of people poured down them incessantly and apparently in a ...
Article : 565 wordsFew places possess greater facilities for a pleasant holiday than Rose Bay with its extensive harbour and landscape views. The oppressive heat that prevailed throughout the greater portion of New ...
Article : 246 wordsBeautifully cool weather was experienced for the last day of the holidays, and thousands of people took advantage of the opportunity to have their recreation in the open air. ...
Article : 122 wordsA young man named Charles Goodall while bathing on the ocean beach at Dunedin to-day was drowned. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe missing officers of the crew of the Glenavon, the wreck of which was reported yesterday, consisting of the captain, first mate, the second and the ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Parry Okeden, Police Commissioner, arrived at Gatton this morning for the purpose of consulting the sub-inspectors in charge of the case. No fresh developments have arisen ...
Article : 232 wordsThe fact that the Coogee Palace Aquarium is well known as a cool pleasure resort at all seasons was probably the cause of the very large attendance, of pleasure-seekers who were present yesterday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 295 wordsFifteen thousand native Christians in Southern India desire to join the Russian Orthodox Church, and they have invited Russian priests to instruct them. ...
Article : 38 wordsNew Year's Day for many years past has been the occasion for large numbers of familly gatherings to assemble at Bronte for a pleasant day's outing. This year was no exception to the rule. A fair ...
Article : 162 wordsThe British mail steamship companies have reduced by 5s per ton the freights upon goods intended for the Coolgardie Exhibition. ...
Article : 28 wordsA mass meeting of miners was held in the Galatea Hall on Sunday afternoon. There was a large attendance. The following resolution was carried unanimously,—" That the £2 5s per week offered ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Premier, Sir George Turner, is absent in Gippsland, and has not yet seen Mr. Reid's letter in reference to federation. It is considered by several politicians here that Mr. Reid has shown ...
Article : 57 wordsIt would appear that ocean excursions, particularly upon holidays, are growing in popularity. The series of trips that have been organised by the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsFrom an early hour of the merning a stream of visiters commenced to pour into North Sydney, each boat on arrival at Milson's Point from the Quay discharging a full complement of passengers. The ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 3 Jan 1899, Page 5
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