Speaking at the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of Australasia to-day, the Earl of Lichfield, one of the board of directors, ...
Article : 141 wordsThe quantity of coal exported to intercoloinal and foreign ports during the week ended this afternoon totalled 52,821 tons, as compared with 61,711 tons last week, a decrease of 8790 tons. Of this quantity ...
Article : 127 wordsThe new Parliament will meet for business on the 26th instant. Members of the Assembly will be sworn in on Monday, the 25th instant, by the Chief Justice. After this ceremony has been ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Indian Government has issued a general order explaining the reasons for the despatch of the expedition against the Afridi tribesmen. It excuses the loyal ...
Article : 43 wordsSir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian Premier, delivered an address at Toronto last night, in the course of which he replied to the charge that in failing to demand ...
Article : 135 wordsIt is stated on the authority of Reuter's Agency that Great Britain has finally declined to take part in any conference on the Behring Sea seal fisheries question with representatives of ...
Article : 9,024 wordsRussia is displaying great activity in the Pamirs, and has completed a vehicle road across the Abkaital Pass. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe returns of the Government Shipping Master's Office for the quarter ended on September 30 were issued by Mr. C. H. Hannell to-day. They show:— Number of engagements from July to September ...
Article : 268 wordsFurther particulars have been received of the disastrous bush fires which broke out in the southern portion of the province of Ottawa, Canada. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe estate in Victoria clear of all liabilities of the late Thomas Budd Payne has been sworn at a value of £665,540. The will bears date July 11, 1895, and is modified by two codicils dated ...
Article : 111 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3d per ounce standard, a rise of 1d since last quotation. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn the course of an interview the Hon. W. S. Fielding, Canadian Minister for Finance, said that if the United States officially proposed the holding of a ...
Article : 84 wordsA special meeting of the Wickham and Bollock Island miners' lodge was held at Islington this morning for the purpose of receiving the report of the Government Inspector of Collieries ...
Article : 315 wordsThe police have ascertained that four men who stayed at the Denver City Hotel on the night of the fire are missing. Their names are—Dowling, Johnson, Mortimer, and a man from out back who ...
Article : 76 wordsAn Order in Council was passed to-day promoting Lieutenant Tickell, of the Victorian navy, to the rank of commander and increasing his salary to £500 a year, with yearly increments of £20 up to ...
Article : 121 wordsIt is stated on the authority of Router's Agency that Great Britain has finally declined to take part in any conference on the Behring Sea seal fisheries question ...
Article : 55 wordsAt the rifle shooting to-day the Federal Match resulted in a win for Queensland, with a score of 1538, Victoria being second, with 1528, Tasmania third, with 1512, and South Australia fourth, ...
Article : 40 wordsAccording to the returns of the Board of Trade, the imports into the United Kingdom during the month of September show an increase in value of £2,189,557, ...
Article : 51 wordsCanada has decided to borrow £2,000,000 for the purpose of extending her railways in the mining districts and deepening the St. Lawrence canals. ...
Article : 31 wordsAccording to a return published in to-night's "Government Gazette," the Savings Banks Commissioners have sold mortgage bonds up to the end of last month of a total value of £255,641, ...
Article : 49 wordsRabbits are reported to be increasing so rapidly in the Tallangatta Valley, 25 miles from Albury, on the Victorian side of the Morray, that application has been made for the appointment of Government ...
Article : 48 wordsDuring the past few days several vessels have arrived in port a more or less damaged condition, owing to the heavy gales which were encountered during the early part of September. The barque ...
Article : 162 wordsIt was recently decided by the postal authorities to have a 1½d stamp, which will be particularly useful for newspapers sent abroad which are above the ordinary rate. The new stamp was ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Paris "Temps" states that the object of the British authorities in despatching two gunboats of light draught up the Niger, West Africa, to the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe railway servants who were some time ago dismissed at Harford for indiscretions in connection with the strike on the North-eastern railway have been ...
Article : 43 wordsThe New Hebrides, where for more than half a century the missionaries have worked, still yield evidence of their barbarity. A great deal has been accomplished since 1855, the days of the John Knox, ...
Article : 545 wordsThe value of imports at this customs outstation for the September quarter was £320,100. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Rev. Vaughan Rose was inducted to the rectorship of Cudal in St. James' Church last night by the Rev. J. Alldis, of Molong, Rural Dean, by mandate of the Bishop of Bathurst. After the ...
Article : 57 wordsThree cases of typhoid fever which have occurred in London are directly traceable to the outbreak at Maidstone, in Kent. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Rev. Dr. Strong, of the Australasian Church, Melbourne, who is at present on a visit to this city, delivered an interesting lecture on Christianity and Socialism to a good audience in the Masonic Hall ...
Article : 237 wordsDissatisfaction is expressed on all sides at the alteration of the day of departure of the Mount Browne mail. It has hitherto left here on Wednesday, and now leaves on Tuesday morning, to the ...
Article : 158 wordsThe French are completing Bizerta Harbour, in the north of Tunis, with feverish eagerness. ...
Article : 21 wordsArrangements have been made by which four races will be started by Gray's Australian starting machine at Newmarket on the 25th instant. ...
Article : 33 wordsLord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, states that the Indian famine has cost the country £10,000,000, and that the charitable subscriptions ...
Article : 39 wordsThe privileges committee to whom the case of Mr.J.G.Ward and the Awar[?]a seat was referred presented its report to the House to-day. The committee recommends that the law in New ...
Article : 137 wordsThe colonial wool sales had to be postponed this evening, owing to a dense fog prevailing. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe local friendly societies have decided to abandon the usual Hospital Sunday demonstration this year, and will instead hold a demonstration on a week night, Wednesday, November 3, being chosen. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Colonial Secretary was waited upon as he passed through Newcastle en route for Maitland to-night by a deputation representing the friendly societies of the Northern district. Mr. ...
Article : 105 wordsA gold-mining expert who was sent to the Klondyke goldfields by the Rothschilds roports that the statements as to the stupendous wealth of the fields on the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company has declared a dividend at the rate of 2½ per cent. per annum. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. H. Newman, of the relieving staff of the Lands Department, Sydney, has arrived to act temporarily as Crown lands agent in succession to Mr. H. J. Jeffroys, who, after being here for five years, ...
Article : 67 wordsThe eighth annual meeting of the Newcastle Bowling, Lawn Tennis, and Recreation Club was held in the pavilion of the bowling green this afternoon. The chair was occupied by Mr. Frank ...
Article : 668 wordsThe coroner held an inquiry yesterday concerning the death of Jane Schneider, whose body was found hanging by a strap to a bedpost in her bedroom. A finding of suicide while of unsound mind was ...
Article : 1,385 wordsThe Railway Commissioner, who has been on an extended visit of inspection to the north and west, returned to-day. The tug Resolute, which was recently ...
Article : 215 wordsThe annual ploughing matches, under the auspices of the Crookwell Pastoral and Agricultural Association, were held to-day and were a great success. There was a large attendance, the weather ...
Article : 212 wordsThe strike of engineers will have the effect of delaying the naval programme of the Admiralty quite a year. If the strike should continue during the winter it will ...
Article : 52 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day the hearing was concluded of the action brought by Louisa Blackwell against the Adelaide Steamship Company for £5000 damages on account of the death of her ...
Article : 80 wordsMatters in connection with the Lucknow striks are unchanged. The strike secretary has issued the following circular:—"My committee instruct me to contradict the reports in circulation to the ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Orient S. N. Company's steamer Oruba, Hay commander, arrived from Colombo at 10[?]30 last night. She brings the following passengers in the saloon:— ...
Article : 175 wordsThe executive of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers has resolved to continue the present struggle. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Chief Justice, Sir F. M. Darley, presided at the fourth day's sitting of the Circuit Court to-day. Ernest Alfred Flanagan, William Richard M'Intosh, and Timothy Beahan were charged with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 407 wordsThe Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's steamer Tokomaru, which left Wellington on August 28 for London, has put into Rio de Janeiro with her shaft ...
Article : 36 wordsThe hearing of the charge against Albert Nixon of having unlawfully wounded his wife, Meta Nixon, with intent to kill, was concluded to-day, when a verdict of guilty of unlawfully wounding, ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. David Fowler, of the firm of D. and J. Fowler, of Adelaide, will sail in the steamship Gothic on his return to South Australia. ...
Article : 36 wordsA bazaar was opened yesterday afternoon at the Croydon Presbyterian Ladies' College. The object in view is the purchase of a pipe organ, worthy of the institution. The pupils of the college, both pa[?] ...
Article : 232 wordsThe M.M. steamer Australien, Verron commander, arrived from Marseilles at 7 p.m. She has the following passengers in her saloon:— For Albany: Mr. Wilson. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe death is announced of General William Anson M'Cleverty, colonel in command of the Northamptonshire Regiment, who served in the New Zealand ...
Article : 102 wordsThis morning, T. Smith, a ferryman of Port Adelaide, went to Torrens Island in company with Chief Steward Lewis, of H.M.S. Orlando, for a day's shooting, but whilst on the flat, near ...
Article : 135 wordsCures the Throat, Cures the [?]hest, Cures the Head. One dose relieves, one bottle cures. Never fails. 1s 6d per bottle. All chemists and storekeepers, and at the Pharmacy, 337 George-street, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 9 Oct 1897, Page 9
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