The fact that the question of the Pacific cable will probably be brought before the conference of Premiers which is to meet in Sydney on Saturday week has again directed public attention to the need for an ...
Article : 1,440 wordsIt was the intention of the members of the Opposition to hold a meeting on Tuesday next with [?] view of considering what altitude should be taken up towards the Government on tbe federal question, ...
Article : 614 wordsOne of the most encouraging features in connection with the revival in the coal industry is the large number of steamers of large capacity which have been fixed to load cargoes at this port for foreign ...
Article : 234 wordsA vast crowd, estimated at between 5000 and 6000 persons, assembled outside Donn[?]llan's public-house to-day to listen to Father Long's statement regarding the finding of the nugget. ...
Article : 373 wordsThe petitions against the Totalisator Bill which have been pouring in upon the Legislative Assembly from the various Churches are to be answered by counter petitions prepared by the ...
Article : 150 wordsIt was recently announced that 2000 carrier pigeons belonging to the German War Department had been landed at Dover in one day. ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Day, the American Secretary of State, says that the Government at Washington has agreed to M. Cambon's protocol embodying the terms of peace ...
Article : 88 wordsThe correspondent of the "Times" at Pekin reports that the Tsung-li-Yamen has formally assented to all the conditions imposed by the Russian Ambassador, M. ...
Article : 498 wordsJames Ryan, alias James Slattery, was presented at the Penshurst Police Court to-day on a charge of robbery under arms at the local branch of the Bank of Victoria on the 4th instant. The ...
Article : 61 wordsThe famine at Manila is very severe. The richest people are having their horses and dogs slaughtered for food, and the natives are eating rats and mice. ...
Article : 54 wordsAnother meeting of the colliery proprietors of the Northern district and the managers of the different pits will be held in Newcastle to-morrow for the purpose of further considering the draft agreement ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Board of Public Health recently applied to the Solicitor-General for a license to exhume the bodies of four sailors interred at the Red Bluff. The deceased mariners were ...
Article : 327 wordsThe annual report of the Minister for Lands states that during the last year 2058 new selectors of all tenures took up 2,451,000 acres of Crown lands, and that the cash received on past and our ...
Article : 131 wordsFollowing the taking of the town of Guayama, Puerto Rico, Brigadier-General Wilson was detailed to operate against Salinas de Coamo. After a desperate ...
Article : 51 wordsThe police have just returned after upwards of two days' scouring of the country between the scene of the mail robbery and Tarago. They searched night and day without rest, and came upon camp ...
Article : 262 wordsAnother excited meeting of the Hetton Miners' Lodge was held at the Albion Hall, Wickham, to-night, when the coal-weighing question was further discussed. The meeting was convened to ...
Article : 352 wordsMr. Hooley is ill in bed suffering from congestion of the liver. The Court of Bankruptcy sat for two hours yesterday hearing denials of ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the Assemhly the Premier was asked to give the House an opportunity of discussing the formation of a Scottish regiment. The Premier declined to answer the question without notice. ...
Article : 377 wordsThe Premier (Mr. G. H Reid) visited Annandale last night on the occasion of a large and influential gathering in St. Aldan's Hall, Johnston-street, when the member for the district (Mr. W. H. ...
Article : 935 wordsThe annual meeting of the Queensland Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institution wnB held on Tuesday last. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. The report showed a creditable year's ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Pope, Loo XIII., is suffering from the efforts of an internal chill. His condition is reportad to be serious. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 291 wordsMr. G. N. Curzon, late Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has been gazetted Viceroy of India in suecession to the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine. ...
Article : 47 wordsA mob at Clarendon, Arkansas, has lynched five negroes who murdered a storekeeper at the instigation of his wife. She has since committed suicide, ...
Article : 35 wordsAt a meeting of the Burwood lodge held last night the weighing question was warmly discussed, but the meeting was of opinion that the Hetton miners had gone too far with the matter, ...
Article : 681 wordsIn the Supreme Court to day the case of A. Reed v. the South Brisbane Municipal Council was concluded Plaintiff claimed £1000 damages as the result of an accident caused by his horse ...
Article : 64 wordsA tornado has swept the valley of the Rhine with disastrous effects. It did immense damage to Cologne, the principal [?]own of Rh[?]nish Prussia, which is ...
Article : 57 wordsDuring July, Mr. C. B. Fry, of Sussex, took part in eight matches, and went to the wickets 14 times, making an average score of over 79 runs per innings. ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is understood that the Premier has notified the Governor of Queensland of the Government's objections to the New Guinea ordinance, and the proposed amendments thereto. Mr. Byrnes has ...
Article : 70 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the whole afternoon was occupied in discussing a motion for tho production of papers, copies of evidence, &c., connected with the past management of the ...
Article : 143 wordsPlaying at Lord's in the County Championship Competition Middlesex beat Surrey. A. E. Trott, in Surrey's second innings, secured six wickets for 87 runs. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Justice Romer, sitting in Chancery, has dismissed the action brought by tho shareholders of the Londonderry nine, Western Australia, to enforce ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Premier, the Hon. T. J. Byrnes, has notified the Prime Ministers of the other colonies that Queensland is willing to contribute her share of the four-ninths of the cost of the construction of ...
Article : 200 wordsAt a recent meeting of the Canley Vale Fruitgrowers' Association, held at the Canley Vale Hall, the president (Mr. J. Zani) reported that at a conference held at Parramatta to consider the fruit-case ...
Article : 295 wordsThe Marylebone Cricket Club will invite the six counties who are leading in the championship competition to each nominate a representative to the board of ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the Assembly Mr. Grainger, on the motion for adjournment, directed attontion to defects in the Workmen's Liens Act, which Mr. Kingston promised to rectify early. After much discussion ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the Insolvonoy Court to-day, before the ordinary business began, Mr. C. M. Muirhead apologised to Mr. Russell, Commissioner for Insolv[?]n[?]y, for the letter written on February 8, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Standard Bank will not pay the leposits due for payment to-day. In the Court of Bankruptcy a petition to wind up the bank has been ordered to stand ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Premier strongly favours the soheme of an annual rifle match between Australasia and England, and has written to the Premiers of the other colonies requesting their favourable ...
Article : 157 wordsThe mad Mullah, who incited the Afridis and the neighbouring tribes to rise against the British last year, has joined the Bajaur tribesmen, in their fighting ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the Assembly this afternoon the Supreme Court Bill providing for the appointment of a third Judge was passed through all its stages. Roport says that Mr. Alfred Dobson, now Crown ...
Article : 70 wordsAt the Criminal sittings of the Supreme Court to-day Louisa Simmons was charged with the murder of Alice Georgina Woodlmg. This was the case at Enfield, where on July 29 the wife, ...
Article : 123 wordsThe report of Mr. George Christie, who was appointed last May to investigate and reorganise the council's accounts, shows the cash deficiency of the late council clerk, who was sentenced to two years' ...
Article : 179 wordsAn enthusiastic meeting was held in the Oddfellows' Hall, West Wyalong, to-night, for the purpose of advocating the construction of a line of railway to the district. Three hundred persons were ...
Article : 171 wordsThe House of Assembly has agreed to the second reading of the Provision by Will Bill brought in by a private member. The bill gives the Court power, on the application of an ...
Article : 80 wordsLast evening Alderman W. Rigg (Mayor of New[?] town), who was returned as the representative for the Newtown-St. Peters Electorate, entertained a number of his friends and supporters at a social ...
Article : 1,175 wordsThe Court of Quarter Sessions was held here yesterday, before Judge Gibson. Mr. Walter Bevan prosecuted for the Crown. The only case was that of Thomas Jones Cuttle, charged with the ...
Article : 98 wordsOwing to the continued exactions of the Turkish officials another formidable rebellion has broken out in Yemen, Arabia. Since May Turkey has sent 10,000 ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the hearing of Harrold Brothers' insolvency caso to-day Mr. A. L. Harrold stated that shortly before the deed of assignment was made he was negotiating with Mr. W. K. Simms to put £100,000 ...
Article : 90 wordsThe R.M.S. Orotava, Linklater commander, arrived from Colombo at 11 a.m. to-day with the following passengers in the saloon:- For Adelaide: Mr. M[?]rtzy. ...
Article : 137 wordsThe following are the stock movements for the gut week:—500 wethers, Corowa to J. Martin, Br[?]ssi; 700 wethers, Corowa to W. Hutton, Bundyulumblah; 62 stud [?]wes and 2 stud rams, from ...
Article : 183 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions held to-day before Judge Fitzhardinge, Mr. Armstrong prosecuting for the Crown, William Gavin, a State-school boy, pleaded guilty to stealing two pigs. He was released under ...
Article : 135 wordsIt transpires that the supposed distress signals seen on the south side of Po[?]ut Bass on Tuesday night were occasioned by the whistle at Fuller's quarry starting to blow through the pressure of steam, the ...
Article : 111 wordsPianoforte Recital, by Madame Charbonnet-Kellermann: Y.M.C.A. Hall. 8 p.m. Kindergarten Union of N.S.W.: Annual Meeting, Town Hall, 8.30. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe seventh concert of the Gl[?]be Musical Society was given last night in the Gl[?]b[?] Town Hall and a large amount of success was achieved, under the conductorship of Mr. Arthur Massey. Romberg's ...
Article : 116 wordsElizabet Warden, 27, who was shot in the abdomen[?]t Nundle on Tuesday night, succumbed to her injuries in the Tamworth Hospital at an early hour this morning. In her dying depositions taken ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 12 Aug 1898, Page 5
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