A fancy bazaar, organised for the purpose of raising funds to further reduce the debt on the Newcastle Wesloyan Church, was opened in the schoolroom by Mr. Isaac Wmu this afternoon. The Rev. ...
Article : 351 wordsAll the officers on the staff of the Crown Prince of Greece during the GrecoTurkish war are to be Court-martialled for having left the military maps of the ...
Article : 53 wordsA young man named William Harper, while tiding a bicycle at Christohurch, collided with a cart, was thrown from his machine, and killed. In replying to a deputation, the Premier said ...
Article : 68 wordsSenor Sagasta, the Spanish Premier, has declined to accept the resignations of the Governors of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Basil Gray, one of the best Known men in the hunting field, met with his death to-day. While following the Oaklands hounds yesterday afternoon his horse, which was very fresh, rushed ...
Article : 267 wordsMr. Ewing was the first speaker of note to make a contribution to the debate on the Address. Mr. Ewing is among the first flight of dobaters; but really, in the present case, ...
Article : 1,279 wordsThis morning Mr. Justice Wright gave judgment in the contempt of Court cases in connection with Mr. Hooley'e bankruptcy. He found that Earl de la Warr ...
Article : 86 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday the debate on the motion for the adoption of the Address in Reply was continued at confidorable length. ...
Article : 8,449 wordsProbate of the will of the late Sir William Robinson, at one time Governor of the colony, has been granted. The local estate is valued at £8600. ...
Article : 99 wordsFour transports with American troops on board from Santiago have arrived at Long Island, Key West. There were cases of yellow fever aboard each ship. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Powers refuse to permit any more Turkish troops to be landed in Crete. Italy has advised the Porte not to revert to the question again. ...
Article : 58 wordsMajor-General Merritt, commanding the American forces at Manila, has proclaimed martial law in the city, where perfect order now prevails. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe intense heat in Europe continues. Many fires from this cause have broken out in all parts of the Continent. One of these outbreaks occurred in the ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the Assembly the debate on the budget proposals was resumed by Sir John M'Intyre in a thin House, and the hon. gentieman experienced difficulty in interesting the ...
Article : 382 wordsThe Fronch cruiser La Perouse has been caught in a tidal wave at Madagascar and wrecked. Her consort, the Galilee, had a narrow escape from the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe foreign coal trade was remarkably active to-day, and there were several farther arrivals to load coal cargoes. The ship King Arthur arrived from Algoa Bay during the course of the night, and ...
Article : 250 wordsThe fifty-first half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Queens'and National Bank was held to-day. All the directors were present and there was a numerous attendance of members. ...
Article : 493 wordsYesterday some runaway trucks down an incline at Matosfontein, in Cape Colony, dashed into a mail train and completely wrecked it, Five Europeans ...
Article : 47 wordsColonel Gordon, the Australasian Inspector of Warlike Stores, has been appointed to the balloon corps during the military manouvres on Salisbury Plain. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is reported that the Spanish troops after evacuating Ciales, Puerto Rico, returned to the town and tore down the American flag which the inhabitants had ...
Article : 48 wordsA new sub-mnrine cable, from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to Brest, France, has been opened. ...
Article : 24 wordsA meeting of ladies holding first-aid certificates from the St. John Ambulance Association was held in the lecture-hall of the Newcastle School of Arts this afternoon for the purpose of forming another ...
Article : 267 wordsThe " Standard," in an article this morning from its special correspondent in Crete, says that the condition of the island is unsatisfactory. Anarohy is ...
Article : 37 wordsDuring the present summer there have bean 40 fatal accidents among the mountaineering parties ascending the Alps. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe enthusiasm in Cape Colony over the election campaign of Mr. Cocil Rhodes is increasing. Sir James Sivewright, who was ...
Article : 76 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Treasurer mada his financial statement. The speech occupied an hour and a half in delivery. It showed that the revenue had oxeceded last year's ...
Article : 156 wordsThe health of the Pope has improved. Reassuring accounts have been received of his condition, and he has resumed his duties. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe death is announced of Sir William Augustus Fraser, aged 72. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe American visible supply of wheat and flour " east of the Rockies " is 9,892,000 bushels. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe plague at Bombay is increasing at the rate of 103 cases a week. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe annual meeting of the members of the Newcastle and Stockton Sailing Club was held at the Commercial Hotel to-night. The president, Mr. Samuel Arnott, occupied the chair, and there was a ...
Article : 229 wordsThe death is announced of General Tohernaieff, a distinguished Russian, at the age of 70 years. Michael Gragorovitch Tehernaieff, born October ...
Article : 344 wordsThe London Chamber of Commerce will co-operate with the Agents-General in their endeavour to have the embargo laid on Australian leather by the War Office ...
Article : 31 wordsNumerous accidents have taken place in the Austrian Alps. Ten fatalities were reported last week. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Treasurer delivered the Budget Speech this afternoon. He said he regretted that the hopes entertained of recent years of the rovenue steadily increasing and the Treasury ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Portuguese Ministry has been reconstructed. Senhor J. Luiciao de Castro romains Premier and Minister for the Interior. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Government Medical Officer and Mr. Found, the bacteriologist, have examined the man from Nambour district reported to be suffering with leprosy, and found traces of the disease. The ...
Article : 140 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, attended by Captain Feilden (private secretary) and party, arrived by special train to-day. Mr. Alex. Hay, with a drag, met and drove the visitors to Coolangatta, they ...
Article : 51 wordsA well-attended meeting of prominent vocalists of the district was held at Piko's-chambers, Boltonstreet, to-night for the purpose of forming a Newcastle choir to compete at the forthcoming ...
Article : 569 wordsMrs. Druce, who is endeavouring to prove that her father-in-law, the late T. C. Druce, was in reality Duke of Portland, and who is seeking the exhumation of the ...
Article : 62 wordsCaptain Jefferson, commanding G Wagga Company 1st Regiment, has resigned. There is much dissatisfaction at the notion of the headquarters authorities in working two important centres like ...
Article : 225 wordsWith a firm determination to promptly recapture George Peisley the police authorities had over 40 members of the force engaged yesterday in the search. Among those assisting were Dotectives ...
Article : 570 wordsA Reuter's cablegram states that the father of J. Corbett, the American pugilist, has shot his wife and committed suicide. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last night the Promier laid on the table the Amended Tariff Bill. The principal amended items, showing the proposed new duties, are as follows:—Cattle, ...
Article : 339 wordsOwing to the prevalence of accidents to cyclists the insurance companies have decided to raise the premiums on the lives of those who ride awheel. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe steamer Amy returned from the Straits Island to-day, but had not visited Flinders, so Krough, the other survivor of the C.C. Funk wreok, has not yet arrived. Mr. ...
Article : 399 wordsA development has taken place on the Tesman Lyell mine, in the tunnel which is being driven towards the Comstock to cut the continuation of the ore body now being proved on ...
Article : 406 wordsIt is estimated that the English wheat harvest will go 29 bushels to the acre. The total yield will be about 6,235,000 quarters. ...
Article : 29 wordsAn interesting ceremony took place last night in the Church of Kagland. A thanksgiving service was held for the record reign celebration last year. A special collection was then made for the purpose of ...
Article : 95 wordsHarriet, the late Dowager Countess of Shaftesbury, has in her will bequeathed £40,000 to the Belfast charities. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 wordsThe House of Assembly has asked the Legislative Council to agree to a conference over the Credit Foncier Bill on the points of the present disagreement. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe police to-day received a telegram aunouncing the capture of "Paddy" White, an escaped prisoner, at Whitton. The facts [?]licited show that the escape was deliberately planned by an accomplice. From ...
Article : 162 wordsBurglars have ontered the Blois Cathedral and plundered the building of the rich chalices, ancient vestments, the reliquaries, and the plate. ...
Article : 40 wordsGUNNEDAH, Thursday. A party of 40 of the Sydney unemployed arrived here yesterday morning, and were put to work on the railway deviation works this morning. A ...
Article : 83 wordsOn the arrival of the evening train at Euroa Mrs. Mary Smith, a widow, travelling wiih her four children from Rutherglen to Melbourne, reported that her boy, aged about 3 years, had ...
Article : 79 wordsARRIVAL.—August 19. St. George, s., 500 tons, Captain B. Alloy, from Rich[?] River. Passengers—Mrs. Minnes, Mrs. Bennett and child Misses Timbs, May, Nowbury, Starmor, Messrs. Sharp. ...
Article : 47 wordsCEYLON GOLDEN TIPS. The Finest Tea obtainable, Is 6d, Is 9d, 2s 3d Ib, HARRIS and CO., Teamen, 21 Strand,—Advt. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 19 Aug 1898, Page 5
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