Out at sea a fire is one of the most appalling experiences of the mariner. Gales, cyclonic storms, and hurricanes have no great terror for him, but to find that his home on the ocean is in the grip of a raging ...
Article : 504 wordsThe strike continues. Probably the most important development which has taken place within the past few days has been the completion of arrangements for resuming work at Sneddon's collieries ...
Article : 1,562 wordsA man named Jonathan Longland shot his wife in the book with a revolver in one of the suburbs on Saturday night. He came home and lay down for an hour. He afterwards went into the room ...
Article : 130 wordsA telegraphic despatch was received from Teheran this morning announcing that the Shah of Persia, Nasr-od-Din, K.G., had been assassinated in a mosque. ...
Article : 786 wordsAn engagement has taken place between some of the British forces and a body of dervishes near Akasheh, on the right bank of the Nile south of Wady ...
Article : 89 wordsSeveral of the leading newspapers of Paris fear that if the members of the Reform Committee are banished from the Transvaal it will seriously damage the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Ellen A. Road is a wooden ship of 1750 rons, built in 1884 by Messrs. Hatfield Bros. Her dimensions are: —Length, 230ft, 5in., beam, 41ft. 6in.; depth, 24ft. She is now registered in Yarmouth, ...
Article : 109 wordsBoth ships are insured in foreign offices, the Ellen A. Read being covered in New Brunswick, and the Ross-shire in Glasgow. The cargoes are partly in colonial and in foreign offices. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe fires which have occurred on board ships at this port are comparatively few, considering the number and tonnage of sailing vessels that visit here. Amongst the most notable are the Talavera, a ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Victorian expert, Mr. Caldwell, who was brought over to report on the Post and Telegraph Department of this colony, endorses the frequent assertions of the Postmaster-General that more ...
Article : 308 wordsA motion was submitted in the Volksraad of the Orange Free State for modifying the extradition treaty entered into with the British South Africa Company, ...
Article : 121 wordsThe rebel Matabele are trying to intercept the columns which are proceeding from Mafeking and Fort Salisbury to the relief of Buluwayo. ...
Article : 33 wordsYesterday Captain Watson, of the Wychwood, was interviewed. "Do we feel aggrieved?" he said, when asked as to how the captains of vessels felt in regard to the strike. "We feel galled. I tell ...
Article : 490 wordsSydney on Saturday was no place for the mean man. If he was one who had reached the last stage of penuriousness, one to whom the most willing appeal was to fall on deaf ears, he had to resist ...
Article : 1,278 wordsThe bill introduced in the House of Commons by Mr. Chaplin, President of the Local Government Board, for the relief of the agricultural classes by a ...
Article : 70 wordsBound to Manila the Ellen A. Head left Newcastle on Thursday at noon. The wind was fresh from N.N.W. At 1 o'clock on Friday smoke was found issuing from the ventilator on the ...
Article : 439 wordsIn the House of Lords last night Lord Loch, formerly Governor of Cape Colony, made an explanation with reference to the statement made by the Pretoria ...
Article : 253 wordsSir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, has requested Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to use his influence with the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Intercolonial Agricultural Conference yesterday considered whit stops should be taken to astist producers to overcome the difficulties attendant on the distance of the world's markets, ...
Article : 299 wordsThe Hon. Alexander Brown, M.L.C., who is the proprietor of the New Lambton Colliery, differs from other proprietors in his views upon coal matters. He has frequently, expressed the opinion ...
Article : 740 wordsAn election took place to-day for Aberdeen City (North) to fill the vacancy in the House of Commons caused by the resignation of Mr. William Alexander ...
Article : 83 wordsThe official report from the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station states that the Ellen A. Read loaded at Newcastle with a cargo of coal for Manilla. Captain R. C. Perry was in command. The Sydney ...
Article : 316 wordsThe members of the Australian cricket team were present at a dinner given by the Surrey Cricket Club last night. General Marshall, who occupied the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 404 wordsThe interdict which was placed by the Boer Executive upon the property of members of the Reform Committee at the time of their arrest for treason has been ...
Article : 51 wordsCaptain Hixson, President of the Marine Board, was seen by a Herald reporter last night, and made the following statement:—"The first intimation I got of the catastrophe was about 9 o'clock on ...
Article : 412 wordsForty of the miners entombed at the Micklefield Colliery, Yorkshire, consequent upon the disastrous explosion in the workings, have been rescued. ...
Article : 48 wordsIn consequence of the resignation of Sir J. Mackenzie Bowell the Canadian Cabinet has been reconstructed. Sir Charles Tupper becomes Premier, ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Hollander section of the Boer Republic and the doppers are averse to the sentences passed upon the members of the Reform Committee being made more ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Curley, miners' general secretary, yesterday stated that the recent appeal issued by him was directed by him not only to all the unions of Australia, but to all the workmen as well. With ...
Article : 102 wordsProfessor Geffckon, the well-known German writer on political and international questions, was killed to-day by the explosion of a petroleum lamp. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the wool sales this evening prices were firm at the opening rates of the series. Competition was good. May 3. ...
Article : 83 wordsThere was a complete unanimity of opinion amongst shipping agents yesterday when they were requested to state to what extent the strike was affecting trade or was likely to affect it. Mr. ...
Article : 945 wordsSpeaking at Birmingham last night Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, said that the Government would not yield any vital point of the Education ...
Article : 47 wordsThe mining trouble has not yet affected the Greta Colliory, which is still working every day. Mr. R. Robertson, the miners' secretary, handed in 14 days' notice to the manager during the week, but Mr. ...
Article : 178 wordsOf the fire, Captain Andrew Baxter to a Herald reporter last night said, "The fire on board my ship broke out at 1.50 a.m. yesterday on the port side in the 'tween decks and near the main batch. It ...
Article : 308 wordsCaptain Lothaire, a Belgian official in the service of the Congo Free State, West Africa, has been tried and acquitted in connection with the death of Mr. Stokes, ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Newmarket First Spring Meeting was brought to a conclusion yesterday, when the contest for the principal event resulted as under:— ...
Article : 228 wordsUpwards of 200 residents assembled at Beardy Bridge this afternoon to welcome his Excellency the Governor, the Hon. Misses Brand, and Mr. Gathorne Hardy to Glen Innes. The visitors were driven in ...
Article : 220 wordsThe banking operations formed one of the most interesting features of the day's proceedings. From shortly after noon until the early hours of Sunday morning the spacious banking hall was ...
Article : 824 wordsFlorrie Hunter, a young woman about 24 years of age, was found dead at No. 5 Wemyss-street on Saturday afternoon. The information supplied to the police at No. 2 station shows that Hunter lived ...
Article : 368 wordsThe Woonona Colliery, which has been closed over year, will start work again. During the week men have been engaged, and everything is ready for Monday. The South Clifton worked full ...
Article : 248 wordsShortly before 2 o'clock yesterday morning the Metropolitan Fire Brigade station and the No. 3 station received an almost simultaneous call notifying them that the ship Ross-shire, lving at the ...
Article : 266 wordsThe shares in the Austral Gold-mining Company, Coolgardie, have been allotted. ...
Article : 18 wordsTen thousand wethers, the property of Merewether Brothers, for Inverell, passed yesterday; and 4300 ewes, for Muswellbrook, Wright and Bacon owners, passed to-day. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 4 May 1896, Page 5
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