Saturday and to-day were off-days so far as members of the Convention in Adelaide were concerned. A large number of delegates was on a visit to Broken Hill, others were away in ...
Article : 1,340 wordsA large and influential deputation of aldermen and other residents waited upon Mr. Carleton, of the Harbours and Rivers Department, this morning, to urge upon him the necessity of doing something ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Melbourne Clearing-house return for the week [?]nded 5th instant was £3,796,498, showing an increase of £1,774,478 as compared with the corresponding week of last year. The larger ...
Article : 92 wordsThe motion of Sir William Harcourt, leader of the Opposition, to the effect that an address be presented to her Majesty urging that Great Britain should not ...
Article : 55 wordsOn Saturday morning a number of the delegates to the Federal Convention arrived at Broken Hill in responde to an invitation to visit that town, and were entertained in the evening by the ...
Article : 7,539 wordsThe committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the origin and circumstances of the incursion into the South African Republic of an armed ...
Article : 201 wordsThe delay in the blockade of Greece by the allied fleets is owing to the chief burden of the operations falling upon the British warships. ...
Article : 54 wordsHis Excellency the Governor has consented to preside at a meeting in the Town Hall on Wednesday afternoon, the object of which is to arrange for sending a crew of eight Australian amat[?]ur ...
Article : 120 wordsYesterday morning the body of William Dodd, jun., late of the Mercadool Hotel, was found on Kidgar East with a gunshot wound in the temple. Deceased was brought into Wall[?]t early this ...
Article : 45 wordsAn unfortunate accident occurred at Mr. W. Every's farm, near Beaufort, yesterday. Whilst the steam throsher was being worked a large shed containing unthreshed wheat became ignited, and was ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Channel Squadron is visiting Minorca, one of the Balearie Islands, in the Mediterranean. The visit has given rise to some ...
Article : 42 wordsThe second progress report of the liquidator of the Premier Permanent Building Society shows that during the seven years that the liquidation has already lasted the receipts (exclusive of sets-off) ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. H. A. D. O'Connor, surveyor, passed Dandaloo to-day on his way to mark out the n[?]w mining township[?] to be called Carp[?] on the Overflow silver-field, and also to survey the road thence to ...
Article : 186 wordsA telegram from Athens states that 1500 irregular Greek troops have crossed the frontier at Krania, near Grevena. The Turkish troops surrounded them, ...
Article : 111 wordsIn the half-yearly report of the Royal Bank of Australia, Limited, the profit and loss statement shows a net profit of £3398; and as by recent writing-down the bank is now at liberty to ...
Article : 275 wordsAt a congress of burghers held at Heidelberg, 58 miles from Pretoria, it was resolved to petition the Transvaal Government to nationalise the railways ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. Cook) addressed a meeting in the Carrington Hall, at Wallerawang, last night. Mr. R. H. Bulkeley was the chairman. After a reference to local matters the speaker went ...
Article : 1,403 wordsThe Cape Argus, published at Capetown, states that the British Squadron on the South African station is about to occupy Inyack Island, at the outrance to ...
Article : 44 wordsWhile the British and Austrian warships were engaged in rescuing Moslem refugees at Kissamos, in Crete, the insurgents fired upon the boats in which the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Minister for Works (Mr. J. H. Young) to-day received at Moree a deputation which urged the construction of a railway from Woolabra, a point on the Narrabri-Mores line, to Collaren[?] Mr. T. ...
Article : 2,968 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has announced that the Canadian Government has signed a provisional agreement with Messrs. Petersen, ...
Article : 75 wordsThe miners employed in the new Swanbank Colliery Company's pit have struck work owing to a dispute with reference to payment for hewing. The directors of the company decline to ...
Article : 86 wordsThe war party at the Yildiz Kiosk (Sultan's Palace), in Constantinople, is gaining strength. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. R. W. Richards, city surveyor of Sydney, will submit to the Sydney Municipal Council plans of three refuse destroyers which he thinks would be ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Minister for Mines arrived yesterday, and was welcomed by the Mayor and councillors. To-morrow he will receive a deputation re residence areas, which, he says, he is prepared at ...
Article : 69 wordsCaptain Otto Sverdrup, who was second in command of Dr. Nansen's late expedition to the Polar regions, has announced his intention to undertake another Polar ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Earl of Ranfurly, who has been appointed Governor of New Zealand in succession to the Earl of Glasgow, will sail for Wellington in June. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe reputed bushranger who has recently been causing alarm in the Huon district has been captured. An excited meeting was held at Launceston ...
Article : 137 wordsIn response to a circular which was issued by Mr. W. Y. Midgley about 30 gentlemen, representing city and country newspapers, assembled at the Hotel Australia on Saturday for the purpose of deciding ...
Article : 493 wordsMr. E. A. Ridsdale, stockbroker, has recovered £8000 damages from Mr. R. P. Houston, M.P. for the Toxteth Division of Liverpool, for libel arising out of the ...
Article : 46 wordsReports from Yokohama, Japan, state that the authorities at Honolulu, in the Hawaiian Islands, have prohibited the landing of 400 Japanese immigrants. ...
Article : 58 wordsIt was rather an unfortunate circumstance that the Premiers of the different colonies, as well as the leading members of the Federal Convention, engaged in the important work of ...
Article : 1,454 wordsAlfred Buck, a farmer, near Wellington, has been gored to death by a bull. The Admiralty sheds at Auckland were destroyed by fire this morning. ...
Article : 192 wordsThe British and Australasian Trust and Loan Company, Limited, has declared a dividend at the rate of 1s 3d per share, and placed £6000 to the reserve fund. ...
Article : 38 wordsA New York telegram states that the Senators who represent the Western States of the Union are demanding an increase in the duties on raw wool under ...
Article : 43 wordsThe fire on the steamer Bothwell Castle caused a stir at Port Adelaide on Saturday. The steamer was moored to one of the buoys off the North Arm, so as to be out of the way of shipping ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Australia mine, two miles south of the town, has cleaned up a crushing of 170 tons of stone for a yield of 600oz. of smelted gold. The Vale of Coolgardie crushed [?]22 tons for 648oz. gold. The ...
Article : 106 wordsThe business of Messrs. D. and W. Murray, softgoods warehousemen, of Adelaide, is to be converted into a public company with a capital of £500,000. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe R.M.S. Orizaba, A. W. Clarke commander, arrived from Colombo at 4.30 p.m. The following are the passengers in the saloon:— For Adelaide: Mrs. Martin, Miss Martin. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 wordsBurrawong (s.), 891 tons, Captain R. Taplin, from Macleay River. Passengers—Mrs. Reeves and family Misses Plummer, Hennessey, Harvey, Lancaster, Messrs[?] Kemp, May, Frost, Johnson, Cornish, Levy, Elliott ...
Article : 283 wordsMr. Harry Furuiss, the well-known caricaturist, who was formerly engaged on the staff of London Punch, has sailed for Australia in the P. and O. Company's ...
Article : 95 wordsThe President of the Conciliation Board, Mr. Justice Russell, has from the inception of the strike done all in his power to bring the parties together, with a view to an amicable settlement of ...
Article : 94 wordsThe dates of the New South Wales Annual Christian Endeavour Convention have been fixed for 7th to 11th September. Ladies, Ladies, Ladies,—Drink Fisher and Co.'s ...
Article : 58 wordsA report is [?]t at Samarai that a German trader and his family have been murdered by natives in New Britain. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 12 Apr 1897, Page 5
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