The death sentence passed upon Frank Butler for the murder of Captain Lee Weller was carried out yesterday in Darlinghurst Gaol. Sixteen persons assembled in the wing of the gaol immediately ...
Article : 368 wordsThe quantity of coal exported during the week ended to-day totalled 47,029 tons, an increase as compared with the previous week of 30 tons. Owing to the unusual scarcity of foreign vessels in port ...
Article : 118 wordsIn the shooting for the Kolapore Cup at Bisley to-day the aggregate score of the Victorian team, who won the match, was 751. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Turkish Grand Vizier (Rifal Pasha) and M. Nelidoff, the Russian Ambassador, had a stormy interview to-day. The Russian Ambassador insisted that ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Earl of Warwick, Mayor of Warwick, entertained the Queensland visitors at a banquet at Warwick Castle to-day. Among the guests were:—The Right ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Grand Vizier of Turkey and the Russian Ambassador had a stormy interview on Thursday. It was insisted by the Russian Ambassador that the Turks should withdraw from Thessaly. The ...
Article : 8,068 wordsA public meeting of ladies of the district, convened by the Mayoress (Mrs. Davis Miller), for the purpose of enlisting their sympathy and cooperation in the movement initiated a few days ago ...
Article : 282 wordsEarly this morning the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Croydon, which left Fremantle jetty for Geraldton on Wednesday at noon, returned in a critical condition. When the vessel ...
Article : 166 wordsThe report and balance-sheet for the half-year ended 30th June, of the Bank of Victoria, Limited, shows a net profit for the half-year of £38,920, making a total of £56,797 available for ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Junior Carlton Club to-day entertained at a banquet the principal colonial visitors in London. The guests included the Right Hon. Sir ...
Article : 118 wordsOn Thursday Butler made a confession to Mr. Herbert, the Governor of Dar[?]ghurst Gaol. In the ordinary course this would have gone on to the Department of Justice, but Mr. Gould, as he intended ...
Article : 550 wordsThe new strike in the North Boulder mine was made on Friday at the 100ft. level in st ping for the western lode. The ore body south of the main shatt is about 11ft. wide, and is rich all ...
Article : 604 wordsTho "Standard's" Berlin correspondent states that King Menelik, of Abyssinia, has ordered 20,000 soldiers to proceed to the Nile to take part in the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe committeo appointed by the Acting Premier to prepare a report upon the financial proposals of the Federation Draft Bill, so far as they affect Victoria, has concluded its labours. The ...
Article : 254 wordsAt a meeting of the Plattsburg Muncipal Council held last night it was resolved to invite the various municipal councils in the Northern district to appoint representatives to a ...
Article : 173 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, stated that the Government had abandoned the attempt to pass the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Premiers of Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, and New Zealand, with Chief Justice Way, of South Australia, were present at a State ...
Article : 37 wordsThe monthly meeting of the council of the Northern District Lawn Tennis Association was held to-night at the Great Northern Hotel. The chair was occupied by Dr. H[?]ster, the president, and there ...
Article : 113 wordsReports from Salisbury, the capital of Mashonaland, state that the Hussars have cleared the Unyani district of rebels. Forty rebels were killed in an encounter ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Cape newspapers concur in the report of the Parliamentary Committee which inquired into the circumstances of the Jameson raid into the Transvaal. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe committee of management of the Druids' Gala, held in Easter week, has apportioned the profits, amounting to £1003, among the charities of this and the other colonies. Tho grants include ...
Article : 64 wordsConsiderable comment is made by the clergy and laity of several denominations respecting certain utterances of the Rev. L. M. Isitt during his recent temperance campaign in this district. ...
Article : 240 wordsMost of the Australian competitors at the National Rifle Association meeting at Bisley are suffering from slight colds. They also feel the disadvantage of the ...
Article : 159 wordsAs the result of harsh measures on the part of the United States authorities the Government of Canada is vigorously enforcing the law prohibiting the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe eighteenth half-yearly report of the Bank of North Queensland, to be presented at the ordinary meeting on the 29th instant, states that the net profits for the half-year after deducting ...
Article : 114 wordsShortly before his execution Butler made his will disposing of the effects which the authorities believe belonged to him. To Mr. Herbert, the governor of the goal, Mr. Walter Jay, deputy-governor, the ...
Article : 179 wordsAt a meeting to-night of the executive committee of the record reign celebration movement, Mr. A.G. Thompson, president of the Progress Association, presiding, it was resolved that it was advisable to ...
Article : 2,314 wordsCount Mouravieff, the Russian Imperial Chancellor, is about to proceed to Siberia, at the Czar's command, for the purpose of inaugurating the new law courts. ...
Article : 32 wordsTho movement initiated by the local railway employees a few days ago in the direction of assistring the Sydney committee in raising funds on behalf of the proposed Eddy Orphanage as a memorial to the ...
Article : 153 wordsThere is a large amount of information in possession of the Crown which it was not necessary to bring forward at the trial. Amongst other things there is a letter which, the Californian police state ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Society of Amalgamated Engineers of London is willing to agree to a conference with the masters and suggests a mutual truce of ten days in connection ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Treasurer's office was besieged to-day by a largo crowd of city councillors, members of Parliament, business men, and street hawkers, who waited upon the Hon. F. W. Holder with ...
Article : 263 wordsOne hundred and ninety bishops and clergymen attending the Lambeth Conference visited Windsor Castle to-day, and were entertained at luncheon. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe difficulty which has arisen between the miners employed at the Burwood pit and the management of the colliery has been referred to the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation, with ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has rejected the application of Mrs. Carew for leave to appeal against the sentence of death (afterwards ...
Article : 55 wordsThe inner history of the proceedings for the extradition of Butler has not yet been published. In connection with this aspect of the case some interesting facts were narrated yesterday to a "Herald" ...
Article : 985 wordsAt the quarterly meeting of the Delegate Board of the Colliery Employees' Federation, held at the Trades Hall yesterdey, the president, Mr. Adam Cook, and the secretary, Mr. James Curley, were ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Right Hon. A. J. Mundella, M.P. for the Brightside Division of Sheffield, and formerly President of the Board of Trade, is suffering from paralysis. ...
Article : 32 wordsRanjitsinhji has decided to join the English Eleven which is being organised by Mr. A. E. Stoddart for the Australian tour. He will proceed to India on the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Anchor mine Equity suit Pike and Robinson v. M'Gregor and the Union Bank was commenced in the Supreme Court this morning. The plaintiffs ask for an order of Court that the ...
Article : 172 wordsThe French mail steamer Ville de la Ciotat, M Fiasohi commander, arrived from Marseilles at 10 o'clock last night. The following are the passengers in the saloon:— ...
Article : 93 wordsAt the wool sales this evening there was keen competition for all classes, and prices show a slight advance on crossbreds. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe bazaar in aid of the funds of St. Luke's Wallsend Church of England Sunday school was continued and concluded to-day. There was a good attendance in the afternoon and evening, and ...
Article : 244 wordsThe Order of Knight of the Garter (K.G.) has been conferred upon the Earl of Derby, P.C., who was Governor-General of Canada from 1888 to 1893. ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the Newmarket Second July Meeting to-day the Australian-bred racehorse Acmena won the High Weight Handicap. The bay mare Acmena, who is the property of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 220 wordsThe 500 yards amateur swimming championship was decided at Manchester yesterday. R. Derbyshire won, defeating J. H. Tyers, the previous champion, who ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the course of his examination yesterday Mr. J. G. Ward admitted that when in 1893 he wrote a letter to the press stating that the whole of his warehouses and private properties, with one small ...
Article : 198 wordsSir William Macgregor telegraphs to the Government as follows:—Active opposition in the Mambare district is being put down. The tribes not implicated in the murders are friendly on the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe monthly meeting was held on Friday. The following ladies were present:—Mrs. Grahame, Mrs. J. Palmer, Mrs. M'Clelland. Miss Wills, Miss L. Palmer, the treasurer, and secretary. In the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe excellent qualities of this brandy have been so fully recognised in the old country that not only has it been adopted for use in the Imperial Army, but is also stocked by the British House of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 17 Jul 1897, Page 9
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