What is likely to be long remembered as the Rookwood tragedy occurred on Saturday morning. Between 8 aud 9 o'clock the news reached Sydney that a murder of a peculiarly atrocious character, ...
Article : 2,102 wordsSir Joseph Abbott and Messrs. Reid, Brunker, Wise, Lyne, and Carruthers left by the express this afternoon for Sydney. Sunday. ...
Article : 262 wordsAbout 40 passengers joined the Cape Otway, which left here to-day for Juneau. A good many are also proceeding by the Miowera from Wellington. ...
Article : 134 wordsThe gale that has been raging on the coast of Spain has prevented the Spanish torpedo flotilla from leaving Cadiz for Cuba. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe " Standard " states that all the Powers except Austria and Germany have assured the United States that they will remain neutral ia the event of war with ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Federal Convention sat until 1 o'clock on Saturday morning, and resumed its deliberations again the same day at 10.30 a.m. A number of clauses were reconsidered, but no radical changes ...
Article : 7,454 wordsReports from Pekin state that on Tuesday last Sir Claude MacDonald, K.C.B., the British Minister, strongly protested to the Chinese Government against the ...
Article : 135 wordsIt appears that some portion of the privileges which King enjoyed in regard to the cemetery were recently bestowed upon Cusack, although this action on the part of the authorities was not intended as a ...
Article : 814 wordsH.M.S. Porpoise, a twin screw vessel of the Mohawk type, 1770 tons, carrying six 6in. guns, and having a speed of 16½ knots under forced draught, dropped anchor in Neutral Bay on Saturday. The ...
Article : 488 wordsLord Charles Beresford, M.P., in a speech delivered at a banquet held in London, said that the British Government ought to accept the colonists' patriotic ...
Article : 40 wordsThe rush to the gilded Klondyke is now on in earnest, and every steamer bound to the gateway cities, from which the divers trails leading to the Mecca of the treasure-seekers start, is crowded to ...
Article : 1,564 wordsThe " Spectator," in commenting upon the situation in the Far East, advocates the mobilisation by Great Britain of a very powerful special squadron. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe United States Government has decided to assess countervailing duties on sugar imported from France. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Government has warned British shipbuilders not to accept orders for the construction of war vessels from the United States or Spain without notifying ...
Article : 33 wordsThe aggregate meeting of miners convened for yesterday morning lapsed owing to the paucity of attendance, and was indefinitely postponed. This was the first aggregate meeting called for some years ...
Article : 440 wordsThe Governors of the Chinese province of Manchuria, which Russia recently threatened to invade unless her demands were conceded, are terrified at the presence ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Muldhouseburn Colliery at Muirkkirk, in Ayrshire, Scotland, has been flooded. Sixteen miners were rescued after having been entombed in the ...
Article : 47 wordsReports from Jamrud, on the northwestern frontier of India, state that the remainder of the Afridis are submitting. ...
Article : 30 wordsSpeaking in the Volksraad yesterday, President Kruger, referring to the question of cold storage for meat, said that troublesome times were ahead, and the ...
Article : 42 wordsA Japanese loan for £6,000,000 sterling will, it is believed, be immediately placed on the market. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe issue of the Chinese loan of £16,000,000 has been postponed until the 21st instant. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Cologne " Gazette " in the course of an article on the future of German trade, expresses the hope that in her commercial treaties Great Britain will not impose ...
Article : 56 wordsThe sum of £14,000,000 required for the construction of new warships for the Russian navy in accordance with the ukase recently issued, will be taken from ...
Article : 42 wordsCommander Ernest G. Rason, of H.M.S. Royalist, brought his barque-rigged cruiser to safe moorings in Farm Cove last evening. The Royalist had been 11 days out from Brisbane, and as nothing had been ...
Article : 313 wordsFurther advices from Bombay in regard to the recent plague riots state that the Hindoos and Mohammedans have closed their shops and markets. The native ...
Article : 107 wordsA shooting affray, which appears to be difficult of explanation, took place in the Belmore Markets on Saturday night. As the result of a disturbance which took place, a young man named William ...
Article : 328 wordsThe Reichstag has doublod the subsidy paid to the North German Lloyd for its East Asian service, in view of the establishment of a fortnightly service with ...
Article : 62 wordsThe March sittings of the Newcastle [?] District Court were resumed before his Honor Judge Murray at the City Courthouse yesterday. The Caledonian Coal Company, Limited, sought to ...
Article : 118 wordsMaster Peckotsch, the Sydney boy violinist, has made a successful debut at a concert at the Crystal Palace. ...
Article : 25 wordsCaptain Lambton has purchased the Australian steeplechaser Ebor, for 1200 guineas. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe barque Opawa left port this morning for Durban, South Africa, with a large cargo of meat and produce, including 1674 cases of tinned preserved meats, 3140 quarters of beef, 2559 carcases ...
Article : 124 wordsThe German ironclad Oldenburg has been recalled from Cretan waters, owing to the alleged intention on the part of Great Britain, Russia, and France to ...
Article : 162 wordsThe match between Stoddart's Eleven and Victoria was continued on Saturday, in fine weather and on a good wicket. The attendance numbered 11,000, of whom 5794 paid for admission, the receipts ...
Article : 865 wordsAt 4 o'clock this morning Mrs. King was reported to be in a very low condition. No tidings had up to then been obtained of the missing man Cusack. ...
Article : 32 wordsTurkey has undertaken to pay to Russia £750,000 of the war indemnity received from Greece. ...
Article : 22 wordsA special meeting of the Miners' Delegate Board has been convened for Wednesday next, to [?]consider the position of those miners who have been thrown out of employment owing to the decision of the ...
Article : 733 wordsThe citizens' farewell picnic to Sir Horace Tozer on his leabing Brisbane to assume the office of Agent-General took place on Saturday afternoon on board the steamer Lucinda. There was a large ...
Article : 375 wordsThe Cabinet of Corea has decided to release the Russian financial adviser and military instructors in the service of the Corean Government from their ...
Article : 33 wordsCommandant Booth's three meetings yesterday in the Centennial Hall were devoted to soul-saving. The meetings were purely spiritual, not a reference was made to the social work of the army. ...
Article : 723 wordsThe French battleship Massena made a trial run at Brest to-day, but failed to answer her helm, and did not attain the contract speed. The vessel has cost ...
Article : 42 wordsThe rebellion in the Philippines has been renewed, principally in the island of Luzon. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Robert "William Hanbury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, stated, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, that the Canadian Government ...
Article : 80 wordsThe 5½ per cent, preference shares offered for public subscription by the firm of Messrs. Birt, Potter, and Hughes, shipowners, which is being floated into a ...
Article : 45 wordsIndia will export 1,000,000 tons of wheat, of the value of 10 crores of rupees (approximately £6,600,000). ...
Article : 23 wordsIn order to facilitate telegraphic business with Western Australia, new and commodious offices are being erected at Euela. The promises will be shared jointly by the South Australian and ...
Article : 84 wordsSeveral Russian blue jackets have been arrested at Sebastopol for assaulting Mr. Cooke, the British Acting Consul in that town. ...
Article : 43 wordsA disastrous fire ocourrod at Campbelltown on Saturday morning shortly before 11 o'clock, destroying Coombe's flourmills and the entire contents. There were no efficient means of fighting ...
Article : 41 wordsSalvation Army: Intercolonial Congress, Town Hall, [?].30 p.m. Unemployed: Meeting, Prince Alfred Park, 11 a.m. Lecture on Alcohol, by Mr. J. P. T. Caulfield, Protestant ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Victorian Government has accepted the tender of the Pennsylvania and Maryland Steel Company of the United States for the supply of 12,780 tons of steel rails ...
Article : 56 wordsThe adjourned case of the two alluvial diggers, Frost and Smith, was heard yesterday. Frost was present and was represented by counsel, but Smith was absent and unrepresented. The solicitor ...
Article : 108 wordsThe monthly prize shooting was held on Saturday afternoon at the Randwick rifle range, the distances being 500 and 600 yards. The highest scores were as follow: ...
Article : 96 wordsThe following are the latest stock movements:— 3103 store ewes, Bairnkine to Narreway, T. P. Fagan owner; 000 ewes, Mount Brandon to Eureka Downs, M. Clear owner; 900 wethers, Gamullally ...
Article : 44 wordsBylaws.—The bylaws for the management of Burwood Park and the South Grafton Recreation Reserve are published. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 14 Mar 1898, Page 5
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