Viscount Miner (High Commissioner for South Africa and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony), replying at Johannesburg to deputations from the ...
Article : 177 wordsThe choice of a representative in the House of Commons for Stalybridge, a Parliamentary borough of Cheshire, with a population of 47,000, and 7,500 registered ...
Article : 112 wordsLord Belper (Henry Strutt, LL.M., P.C.), Chairman of Nottingham County Council; Sir Charles Seely, an ex-M.P. for Nottingham, and late High ...
Article : 87 wordsThe astronomers at Lick Observatory, which is situated on a peak of Mount Hamilton, California, 4,200 ft. above sea level, have discovered, by means of the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Hon. Alfred Lyttelton (Secretary for the Colonies), in a letter to the Right Hon. Charles Booth, the well-known writer on social topics, says that he trusts the ...
Article : 82 wordsMembers of the Washington Senate decline to ratify the proposed, international arbitration treaties in their present form. The objection is made mainly in order that ...
Article : 65 wordsIn honoru of the entente cordiale existing between France ahd England the Municipality of Paris has decided to rename the Pont des Invalides, one of the principal ...
Article : 41 wordsA Dutch paper issued in Pretoria recently stated that the Boer leaders had, after an exhaustive conference with Viscount Milner (British High Commissioner and ...
Article : 102 wordsUnder the Admiralty's scheme of reorganization for the navv, the bases of the East India Squadron will in future be Bombay, India, and Colombo. The seaport of ...
Article : 214 wordsThe death is announced of Madame Belle Cole, the famous contralto singer. She was born in Chautauqua, and visited Australia in 1894 and 1901. ...
Article : 300 wordsThe Daily Chronicle announces that Sun Yat Sen, a young and ardent Chinese reformer is at present in London, where he is busily engaged in planning a revolution ...
Article : 175 wordsPresident Roosevelt's Tariff Conference, which comprises leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives at Washington, has refused to assent to the holding ...
Article : 89 wordsDuring 1904 95,724 aliens landed in Great Britain with a view to permanent residence, an increase of 13,124 on the figures of the previous year. The number who ...
Article : 58 wordsFive hundred convicts imprisoned at Bilbid, in the Philippines, have revolted. The soldiers in suppressing the disturbance killed 16 of them and wounded 40, six of ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of The Morning Post has supplied particulars of an audacious war scare which was artificially created in Germany with the view of ...
Article : 416 wordsThe output of gold from the Transvaal during the year 1904 is set down at 3,779,621 oz., valued at £16,000,000. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Mullah has entered into a convention with Italy, and in return for that nation's protection has pledged himself to maintain peace both with Italy and Great ...
Article : 63 wordsThe loan of £6,000,000, for carrying out the provisions of the Itish Land Act of 1903, which provides for the purchase and resale of estates, has been covered twice ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Daily Mail states that the directors of the Suez Canal will in 1906 reduce by 5d. per ton the dues for skipping going through the waterway. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Paris Temps, in a leading article dealing with the position of the conflicting nations as altered by the surrender of Port Arthur, says that if the war is further ...
Article : 105 wordsAdvices from Tangier state that the Sultan of Morocco has sustained reverses in the neighbourhood of Ujda, a northern town near the Algerian frontier, which is ...
Article : 47 wordsThe incidents surrounding the recent death of a lady in Birmingham recall those of Tennyson's pathetic narrative, "Enoch Arden;" but in the present instance the ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Union Bank of Australia has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. per annum. It has also devoted £10,000 to the reduction of the amounts outstanding on ...
Article : 58 wordsThe historic house at Ajaccio, Corsica, where the great Napoleon was born in 1769, was broken into by burglars on Tuesday night. Many valuable relies, souvenirs, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe eminent baritone Mr. Watkin Mills, who visited Australia last year, has engaged a number of leading artists for his forthcoming Australian tour. The concert party ...
Article : 79 wordsThe British mission which is conducting exploratory operations in western Tibet has arrived at Simla, British India. As the result of considerable investigation, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Sirdar Inayat-Ulla, eldest son of the Ameer of Afghanistan, who went to India last month in order to join in the welcome accorded to the Viceroy (Viscount Curzon) ...
Article : 102 wordsThe prospectus has been issued for a 4 per cent. Joan of £2,000,000 to the New South Wales Government. The minimum is fixed at £99 10/, and the loan will have ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Colonial Products Exhibition has been opened in Liverpool, and is attracting the attention of commercial men. The display is a good one. New Zealand and ...
Article : 62 wordsThe "Wee Free Kirkers" have seized without opposition the churches of Arisaig and Kincardine, hitherto occupied by the United Free Church. They also succeeded ...
Article : 47 wordsViolent storms, accompanied by intense cold, have swept across the northern hemisphere. The sea has destroyed a stone jetty at Zeebrugge, where extensive works are in ...
Article : 183 wordsVice-Admiral Bosanquet, Commander-in-Chief of the North American Squadron, has declined to allow the cruiser Canada, which belongs to the Dominion, to join his ...
Article : 75 wordsFrank Gardner, of the firm of Gardner and Serpollet, which is connected with a number of Western Australian mining ventures, is the defendant in a romantic ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Howell Collins, a son of Capt. R. M. Collins, C.M.G., of the Commonwealth Defence Department, has passed his examination for admission into the Royal Military ...
Article : 36 wordsSeventy thousand colliers in the neighbourhood of Dortmund, a town 20 miles from Essen, in Prussia, have struck for shorter hours. The district is an ...
Article : 103 wordsAt London or in Channel—Tongariro, steamer, from Port Chalmers October 26; Largo Bay, barque, from Sydney August 13; Sommerfeld, steamer, from Sydney ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Board of Trade returns for December show that the total value of imports was £52,845,366, an increase of £525,748 on the corresponding month of 1903. The ...
Article : 65 wordsA landslide which has occurred in Cocos Island, 480 miles nouth-west of Panama, has interfered with the operations of a British party of adventurers who went ...
Article : 186 wordsDuring the passage of the steamer Buteshire, from New York to Melbourne, a fire broke out in No. 3 hold, and the vessel put in at Capetown. After the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe French Government, in pursuance of its policy of naval extension, has ordered from firms at Fiume, a free seaport of Hungary, £400,000 worth of Whitehead ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Pope on Wednesday received at the Vatican the Rev. Father John Feehan, of St. Paul's, Oatlands, Tasmania. In the conversation that ensued His Holiness ...
Article : 131 wordsThe central committee appointed to formulate proposals for the relief of the London unemployed has adopted a scheme of emigration as part of the permanent ...
Article : 69 wordsThe official report on the United States Mercantile Marine, which has been submitted to the House of Representatives in Washington, recommends that the nation ...
Article : 235 wordsRough weather has been experienced along the coasts of Great Britain, and enormous damage has been wrought in many places. ...
Article : 62 wordsFor the first time for 18 years there were no cases to be tried at the Newport (Monmouthshire) Police Court on Monday mornin. The borough contains a population of ...
Article : 76 wordsA fierce fight took place on Saturday between the Greek and Latin monks at the Grotto of the Nativity at Bethlehem, the site traditionally indicated as the birthplace ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Washington Government has dispatched an ultimatum to the Gorernment of Venezuela, demanding the fulfilment, before March 1, of that country's ...
Article : 236 wordsUnder the auspices of the Empire League in London, Mr. H. Allerdal[?] (Agent-General) delivered the first of a series of Sunday afternoon lectures on ...
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Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), Sat 14 Jan 1905, Page 30
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