When the city aldermen abolished the 'bus whistles in George-street they doubtless thought that they had done something at least towards abating the noises peculiar to that interesting thoroughfare. ...
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Article : 458 wordsFurther particulars are to hand concerning the death of Sir William Edward Maxwell, K.C.M.G., Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, West Africa. ...
Article : 89 wordsIt is stated by the, "Standard" that Russia is willing to advance to China the money required to pay the balance of the war indemnity due to Japan, in order to compel the latter Power to ...
Article : 6,409 wordsThe Chief Justice, speaking to-day in the Supreme Court on the Anderson case, referred to a case he tried at Geraldton l8 months ago, in which a man named Thompson was tried for ...
Article : 144 wordsPerhaps if the popular idea of Christmas as it exists in the general mind were analysed and examined we should find its ruling and colouring features to be a sense of what the preachers and ...
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Article : 134 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day Michael Marlin, a youth of 17, was charged with the murder of Hannah Turvey, at Cubbine, on November 15. The evidence showed that the prisoner had ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Indian newspapers severely criticise the conduct of the campaign on the north-western frontier of India, and declare that the rearguard was sacrificed. ...
Article : 62 wordsWe were away in the interior of South America, away from the shops, toys, and usual Christmas surroundings. There were about 50 children on the settlement, and the adults were anxious that they ...
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Article : 35 wordsRussia demands the dismissal of the English engineers employed on the Chinese railways, and that they should be replaced by Russians. ...
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Article : 32 wordsThe German newspapers refer to the inferiority of the German squadron in Chinese waters as compared with the British fleet in Eastern Asia. ...
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Article : 708 wordsMr. G. Barnes, the secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, states that the men ' at Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, and other centres will refuse to ...
Article : 75 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" says that open resistance on the part of any of the other Powers to Germany's claims in regard to China would mean the proffering of ...
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Article : 171 wordsReports have reached Ottawa, Canada, to the effect that 2000 miners and others have left Dawson City, the centre of the Klondyke goldfield, for Fort Yukon, and ...
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Article : 240 wordsThe Bengal Chamber of Commerce is urging the adoption of a gold standard. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe ballot taken by the Bendigo branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association on the question of whether a levy of 6d per fortnight should be struck in aid of the engineers on strike in Great ...
Article : 61 wordsCanada has been officially informed that the indemnity to be paid by the United States in respect of the Behring Sea claims amounts to 464,000dol. ...
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Article : 52 wordsMr. William Kenny, Q.C., M.P., Solicitor-General for Ireland, has been appointed to a Judgeship. He will be succeeded by Mr. D. Plunker Barton, ...
Article : 90 wordsThe team of New South Wales cricketers arrived by this morning's express, and after being welcomed by the representatives of Victorian cricket they put up at Scott's Hotel, and in the ...
Article : 64 wordsRiding on the tram from Bent-street to the railway station is a lively experience for those who try it the first time. Afterwards frequency makes it monotonous, and the average traveller regards the ...
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Article : 405 wordsThe recent naval and military tattoo in aid of the Old Sailors' and Soldiers' Homes yielded a profit of £500. ...
Article : 25 wordsMessrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. have notified the Minister controlliug the Northern Territory that they intend to discontinue their steamship service from Port Darwin to Batavia and ...
Article : 87 wordsIn accordance with resolutions passed by the Legislative Assembly when revising the tariff in 1895, the final reduction of duties on imported woollens will come into operation on January 1, ...
Article : 67 wordsAt Maldon to-day an old man named Thomas Trudgeon, reported to be a miser, was found dead in his hut. The police searched the hut, and found bank deposit receipts for £3688 and £60 in ...
Article : 96 wordsThe first day's sailing in connection with the visit of the Sydney sailing men took place at Milton and the upper reaches to-day, under the auspices of the City of Brisbane ...
Article : 221 wordsThe steamer Darwin, from Singapore, arrived on Wednesday. The cutter Dorothy returned to Palmerston on Thursday after 10 weeks' absence on the coast as far as Wyndham. ...
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Article : 139 wordsCaptain Russell, leader of the Opposition, left Wellington for Sydney to-day, on route for England. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 25 Dec 1897, Page 7
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