The fourteenth annual banquet of the [?] Travellars' Association of New South Wales was held in the vestibule of the Town Hall last evening. There were about 150 guests, and the chair was ...
Article : 5,393 wordsThe Government has introduced a bill providing for the compulsory establishment of abattoirs in towns with a population of 1500 and upwards by the local bodies. The bill also ...
Article : 95 wordsAn explosion of nitro-glycerine, attended with fatal results, ocourred early this afternoon in the factory of the Australian Explosives Company, Braybrook. A man named John O'Shanncssy ...
Article : 159 wordsGeneral Wesley Merritt, the American Commander in the Philippines, has arrived at Manila from San Francisco. ...
Article : 32 wordsPrince Bismarck rallied so strongly on Thursday as to permit of his medical attendant, Dr. Schweninger, returning to Berlin. ...
Article : 228 wordsThe Prince of Wales has been safely transferred to the Royal yacht Osborne at Cowes. He was visited on the yacht by the Queen. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Spanish Ministry considers that the demand of the United States for the surrender of Puerto Rico and the refusal to recognise the public debts of Cuba and ...
Article : 98 wordsSevere gales have interrupted telegraphic commmunication between here and the rest of the colony. In South Island bitterly cold weather is being exporienced. Three inches of snow have ...
Article : 95 wordsIt is reported at Chiro that an English syndicate is making arrangements to purchase the Egyptian railways for £25,000,000. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe ordinary general meeting of the Southern Insurance Company was held to-day. Mr. James Aitken was in the chair. He said the directors regretted they could not prudently recommend ...
Article : 77 wordsThe trial of Alfred John Monson, Victor Honor (a money-lender), and Robert Metcalfe, who were charged with having conspired together to defrand the Norwich ...
Article : 66 wordsAn exceptionally heavy number of vessels ia listed to load coal cargoes at this port for foreign destinations. The Rowena arrived from Sydnoy to-day to load a cargo of coal from Wallsend Colliery for Tal ...
Article : 193 wordsThe American newspapers in disoussing the terms of peace offored by President M'Kinley, generally declare that it would be imbecile on the part of America to ...
Article : 46 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Limited, was held to-day. Mr. Robert Harpur presided. The details of the report and balance-sheet have ...
Article : 225 wordsCaptain Cassomajou, the leader of a small French expedition in Sokoto, West Africa, has been massacred, as well ns six Senegalese who accompanied him. ...
Article : 33 wordsRear Admiral Dewoy has telegraphed to President M'Kinley, according to Router's correspondent, stating that Aguinaldo, the insurgent leader in the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the City Council was held at the Town Hall this evening. The Mayor (Alderman W. L Kidd) presided, and there was a, full attendance of aldermen. The improvement ...
Article : 255 wordsA trooper, who took part in the Jameson raid, and was wounded and subsequently imprisoned, has recovered £500 from the British South Africa Company in a ...
Article : 66 wordsThe whole of the Continental, British, and American newspapers recognise the consummate statesmanship of the late Prince Bismarek. ...
Article : 132 wordsA charge brought against Charles Marriott Walson, solicitor, of improper conduct in retaining the moneys of a client named John Ritchie, a miner, was dealt with to-day by the Chief ...
Article : 196 wordsOur war cables to-day indicate the possibility of a conflict between the United States troops and the robels in the Philippines. Admiral Dewey states that it may be necessary to fight the rebels, but that to ...
Article : 336 wordsA British torpedo-boat destroyer of the first class has been wrecked at Simon's Town, Cape Colony. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Science Research Scholarships, [?]warded by the Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, have been regranted to Mr. Strickland, of Sydney, and Mr. ...
Article : 35 wordsAn interesting match between the Queensland Football Team and a team selected by the Northern branch of the New South Wales Rugby Football Union was played on the Union ground this ...
Article : 703 wordsA petition eigned by 122 members of the House of Commons has been presented to the Government requesting that legislation may be introduced during 1899 ...
Article : 42 wordsThe launch Dunsky returned to Albany this morning from Wilson's Inlet, and reports that the steamer Gertie has been washed by the gale high and dry on a sandy beach. She is embedded in 5ft. ...
Article : 129 wordsThe inquest on Maud Catchlove, who died after a dental operation, was concluded to-day. After further medical and expert evidence, chiefly on the question of how permanent teeth affected the ...
Article : 264 wordsOwing to M. Zola's suspension from the Legion of Honour, M. Barbier, the dramatist, and several other French literary men, have resigned their Grand Crosses of the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe House of Commons has passed the Vaccination Bill. An attempt by a few Unionists on the third reading to recommit the bill, with a view of restoring ...
Article : 91 wordsAt the Southampton Begatta on Saturday, the yacht Emerald, sailed by Lord Brassey, won a race, defeating the Forella and the Eileen. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe revenue for July was £157,815, compared with £174,759 of the corresponding month of last year. The customs amounted to £64,345, compared with £78,947; land revenue, £6250, ...
Article : 214 wordsThe annual intercollegiate boat race was rouse yesterday afternoon on the Lane Cove River, over [?] mile course, from Longueville to St. Ignatius. The arrangements for spectators had been well carried ...
Article : 392 wordsThe International Chess Tournament at [?]ienna has been concluded and was won by Dr. Tarrasch (Germany). The international chess tournament, just ...
Article : 391 wordsAt the Alexandra Park July Meeting on Saturday the race for the principal item on the card resulted as under:— The Middlesex Handicap of 300 sovs., second ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Orient liner Ophir arrived at the Semaphore this morning, and pratique was granted. The Duke of Mauchester was a passenger from Marseilles to Colombo, where he is remaining for ...
Article : 350 wordsA deputation from the Woman's Equal Franchise Association waited upou the Premier today upon the question of extending tho franchise to women. Mr. Glassoy, leader of the Opposition, ...
Article : 90 wordsThe steamer Ailsa Cra[?]g arrived in port to-day from Vladivostock for the purpose of loading a cargo of coal from the Co-operative Colliery for Java, Captain Robertson reports having left Vladivostock ...
Article : 360 wordsThe Consolidated Revenue for July was £68,319, compared with £66,338 for July of last year. The gross increase for the seven months has been £53,774. ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Kiandra Snowshoe Club held its annual meeting to-day. The weather was very unfavourable for this fascinatiug sport. Strong winds prevailed, and heavy falls of snow took place during the day, ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Treasury returns for the month of July show that the total receipts were £295,000 against £277,000 in July, 1807. The principal receipts were:—Taxation, including Customs, £155,000; ...
Article : 71 wordsThe twenty-first annual meeting of the Queensland Rifle Association commenced to-day. Entries show a falling off compared with last year, 252 being received as against 316. This morning ...
Article : 95 wordsThe death is announced of Professor Caird, D.D., LL.D., late Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. ...
Article : 32 wordsA jockey named Smith, employed at Craven's stables, was riding a hack on Saturday when he collided with a stump and received a compound fracture of the leg. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 2 Aug 1898, Page 5
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