The General elections took place to-day. The returns to hand show the following results:— Fremantle.—Higham, Ministeralist, re-elected unopposed. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe revenas last month amounted to £603,862, being £26,909 in excess of the revenue for the corresponding month of last year. The chief factor in supplying this welcome increase was the ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Admirals in command, of the foreign warships in Cretan waters, in order to pacify the insurgents, promised to allow the Cretan Assembly to ratify ...
Article : 76 wordsSir Matthew White Ridley, the Home Secretary, introduced the Employers' Liability Bill in the House of Commons last night. ...
Article : 138 wordsIt was private members' night at the Assembly yesterday, and the interest was essentially private. Mr. Reid laid the Convention Bill on the table, and a solitary member ...
Article : 1,423 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Reid laid the Convention Bill on the table. It was private members' night Mr. M'El[?]on[?] moved the adjournment of the House to call ...
Article : 10,221 wordsA disastrous fire occurred this morning between 3 and 4 o'clock, when Kennedy's Hotel and the adjoining buildings were completely razed to the ground. There is at least one victim, ...
Article : 332 wordsThe proposal that Australia should send 20,000 fat sheep and 500 fat cattle to the Princess of Wales for her dinners to the poor in connection with the jubilee celebrations next month is being ...
Article : 75 wordsSeventeen hundred Greek irregulars, of smart soldierly bearing, have proceeded to reinforce the troops in Epirus. They are under the leadership of a ...
Article : 63 wordsThe ordinary general meeting of the Colonial Bank of Australasia was held to-day. Sir W. J. Clarke presided. In moving the adoption of the report and balance-sheet he pointed out that there ...
Article : 309 wordsFurther particulars with regard to the attack on a British expedition in the hinterland of Lagos, West Africa, state that the expedition was on a peaceful ...
Article : 87 wordsGreece is hopelessly unprepared for war. There are no reserves of cannon, rifles, cartridges, or uniforms. ...
Article : 81 wordsOfficial papers which have been published show that Mr. W. P. S[?]hreiner, C.M.G., late Attorney-General of Cape Colony, regarded the closing of the Vaal ...
Article : 71 wordsThe election for the Assembly to-day excited intense interest, voters coming in from Kanowna and Bulong. The voting is expected to be close between Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Moran, the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Dowager Lady Lamington, mother of Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland, and her niece are passengers from London by the R.M.S. Oceana, which arrived at Port Melbourne ...
Article : 33 wordsColonel Vassos, the Greek commander in Crete, has been recalled. Colonel Staikos succeeds him. ...
Article : 21 wordsIn addressing the members of the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris yesterday Sir Edmund Monson, the British Ambassador, suggested the ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the session of the Anglican Synod to-day the third reading of a measure to allow women to vote at the election of synodsmen was carried. Four determinations of the General Synod held ...
Article : 262 wordsA deputation from the Presbyterian Assembly interviewed the Attorney-General to-day concerning the difficulty which had presented itself to the assembly under section 6 of the Marriage ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Athens mob have wrecked the furniture in the residence of the Duke of Sparta, Commander-in-Chief of the Greek army. They burned the Duke's papers, ...
Article : 43 wordsIn opening the Transvaal Volksraad at Pretoria yesterday President Kruger said that his term of office would expire in 1898, and it would be necessary to elect ...
Article : 61 wordsThe King of the Hellenes is suffering from cardiacal spasms. His Majesty's physicians have ordered him to proceed to the island of Milo or ...
Article : 40 wordsThe British, French, and Italian warships have arrived at Volo. Two hundred French sailors are patrolling the streets of the town. ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Mathieson will prooeed to Albury on Thursday for the purpose of conference with Mr. Eddy on the subject of the border differential rates. It has long been felt ...
Article : 178 wordsA telegram from Washington states that Germany has protested against the sugar duty under the Dingley tariff as being equal to a bounty, and threatens to ...
Article : 33 wordsA meeting of the Waverley Council was held last night, when two reports were read from a special committee appointed to inquire into the council's affairs. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 wordsOut of 42 Bishops who have been specially invited to speak at the Lambeth Conference 15 are colonial prelates, 11 American, and 16 English. ...
Article : 77 wordsIt was recently announced by cable that Field-Marshal Lord Wolseley had decided to obtain 10,000 remounts for cavalry purposes, and had sent 15 officers to the Argentine Republic to make ...
Article : 79 wordsThe drought in the Western division of New South Wales is becoming a very serious matter, as it is killing tens of thousands of sheep and large numbers of cattle and horses. If rain came now it would be ...
Article : 592 wordsThe detachment of New South Wales Mounted Rifies was inspected to-day by Major-General Lord Methuen, commanding the Home District. ...
Article : 43 wordsA fatal accident happened this morning at the Swan Hill Milling Company's mill. A man named Rodger Randall, aged 66, was on the underground floor adjusting the belt of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 325 wordsCanada has contributed £40,000 to the Indian Famine Relief Fund. ...
Article : 18 wordsMessrs. Steward, Fisher, and Tregear have been appointed by the Government to inquire into and report on the management and affairs of private benefit societies. There are only two in the ...
Article : 66 wordsIn a sculling match to-day James Wray, the Australian s[?]uller, defeated William Haines, of England, by 100 yards. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe relatives of Mrs. Corin, who disappeared mysteriously at Gravelly Beach early in last week and was believed to be drowned, now entertain hopes that some strange footsteps discovered at ...
Article : 86 wordsA fire occurred to-night in Lindsay-street, in the centre of the town, by which the Aome Laundry and the adjoining tenements were completely destroyed. The damage is not extensive. ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Magarey has received the following telegram from Mr. L. A. Wells, dated Derby, Tuesday:—"Inspector Ord, from here, with Constable Nicholson and two native police from the ...
Article : 88 wordsfor infants, Children, and Invalids.—[ADVT.] ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 5 May 1897, Page 7
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