The inquest on the body of Mrs. Williams was begun yesterday afternoon. The court was crowded. The jury, after having been cmpanclled, visited the scone of the murder. It was a two-roomed house, ...
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Article : 625 wordsMr. Justice Molesworth to-day granted a writ of habeas corpus directed to Philip Wirth, one of the proprietors of Wirth's Circus, to show cause why he should not give up possession of a child ...
Article : 172 wordsAfter his interview with M. de Giers, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Emperor William, in addressing a body of recruits in Berlin, said he hoped ...
Article : 75 wordsNews has been received from Suakim to the effect that the Shilluks have defeated the Soudan dervishes at Fashoda, inflicting heavy loss upon them. ...
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Article : 63 wordsThe relations between the Brazilian army and navy are somewhat strained. The circumstance has given rise to an uneasy feeling in Rio de Janeiro. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe schooner Myrtle arrived at Cooktown to-day from New Guinea and the island goldfields, bringing the Revs, A. Pearce and Copeland King, Anglican missionaries; and also returned diggers ...
Article : 122 wordsMr. Joseph Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham last night, said that he neither expected nor desired reunion with the Gladstonian Liberals until the Home Rule ...
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Article : 89 wordsThe Austrian Cabinet, of which Count Taafe is the President, has been defeated in the Reichsrath. ...
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Article : 263 wordsThe Earl of Aberdeen has purchased 13,000 acres of land at Vernon, in Canada, for a sum of £50,000. It is his intention to devote the land to fruit culture. ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is notified that it is the intention of the New Zealand Government to convert additional debentures. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe following is a copy of Mr. Wm. Lidderdale's letter to Sir J. F. Garriok, mentioned in yesterday's cables:—"Bank of England, October 6. Dear Sir James' Garrick,—I have ...
Article : 743 wordsThe new Mount Albion Silver-mining Company has been registered with a capital of £200,000. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe authorities in Texas attempted to enforce the provisions of a bill against aliens owning land in the State. British subjects owning millions of acres of land ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Royal National Lifeboat Institution has censured for apathy the crews of the lifeboats stationed at Brighton and Shoreham, upon charges of neglect during the ...
Article : 37 wordsAnother fatal accident has taken place on the Geraldton-Walkaway railway. Late on Tuesday night Charles Bird, a railway employee, was riding along the Line on a tricycle and was run over by a ...
Article : 52 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, Sir J. C. Bray, in reply to a question, said there was no truth whatever in the cable message stating that the Premier had recommended the fortification of Ports Pirie ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Rev. George S. Barrett, B.A., of Norwich, has been chosen secretary of the Congregational Union, in succession to the late Rev. Dr. Hannay. ...
Article : 33 wordsA destructive fire occurred at Campbelltown yesterday. It started in a stable at the rear of Mr. Callaghon's barber's shop, and destroyed the entire blook. Mr. Shelton's general store, Mr. ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Right Rev. Harvey Goodwin, D.D., Bishop of Carlisle, is dead. [Dr. Goodwin was born is 1818, and graduated from Caius College, Cambridge, in 1840, Second ...
Article : 149 wordsAubrey Pereival Gwynne, one of the late members of David Lindsay's exploring party, has returned to Adelaide by the steamer Bullara from Albany with specimens. Gwynne said that he ...
Article : 724 wordsAt the quarterly meeting of the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce a resolution was passed to the effect that it is expedient that the question of commercial union between Great Britain and her ...
Article : 105 wordsA train at Orel, in Russia, became derailed, and 22 persons were killed. ...
Article : 22 wordsSenor Concha, who was Minister of Justice in the Chilian Cabinet of the late President Balmaceda, has been killed in the Cordilleras while endeavouring to ...
Article : 56 wordsOn Monday next the [?]ciliation board recently appointed to meet the directors and miners of Wallaroo and Moonta purpose trying to arrange a settlement of the dispute between the directors and ...
Article : 147 wordsA large meeting at Woodstook, Canada, passed resolutions emphatically repudiating annexation to the United States, while favouring the extension of trade between ...
Article : 32 wordsAn unusual scene took place at the auction-room of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, to-day, at the hour for the weekly wool sale. A larger number of spectators than ...
Article : 190 wordsThe conference of British Conservative Unions sitting at Birmingham urges the Government to promote a Customs tariff within the empire designed to mutually ...
Article : 39 wordsA dreadful accident happened yesterday to Alfred Jesse Mayo, age 8, at Oakleigh. He was holding the muzzle of a gun. His little brother at the butt pulled the ...
Article : 114 wordsJames Loutitt to-day gave himself up for embezzling the moneys of the Commercial Bank. Loutitt is 26, and has been in the service of the bank eight years, latterly as accountant and teller ...
Article : 199 wordsMessrs. Tyser and Co. have arranged with five Sydney wool houses to carry to London one-fifth of the total export of New South Wales wool. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe new directors of the Bank of South Australia state that an examination of the bank's books shows that ample provision has been made for losses. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Newcastle Borough Council held a special meeting last night to consider plans for the sewerage and drainage of the city prepared by Mr. Jno. Sharp, City Engineer. The total cost is estimated at £79,676. ...
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Article : 189 wordsA large Mongolian rebel force is advancing upon Pekin, the seat of government in China. The Imperial troops have been despatched to intercept their advance. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe whole of the casual hands employed at the Albury railway station in connection with the trucking of wool struck work at the latter and of last week, owing, it is stated, to some little friction that ...
Article : 101 wordsThe following is the Victorian team selected to play in the match against Lord Sheffield's Eleven, which commences to-morrow:—J. M. Blackham, J. E. Barrett, W. Bruce, J. Carlton, R. Houston, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 27 Nov 1891, Page 5
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