St. Petersburg, advices contain an account of an overwhelming disaster to the new and costly railway, 1,176 miles in length, which the Russian Government had ...
Article : 142 wordsIn the Criminal Court Edward L. Wrekens was presented on a charge of having shot at Annie Scrivener, with intent to murder. The defence was that Wiskebs ...
Article : 255 wordsOn the night of October 18 the Roman Catholic Church at Broadford was entered by the forcing of a door, and the altar, with its appurtenances, was broken and defiled. ...
Article : 193 wordsA Berlin message intimates That owing to the somewhat unsatisfactory condition of Germany's finances the introduction of the Emperor's new Military Bill, which ...
Article : 320 wordsIn committee in the Legislative Council last week the Factories Bill was amended, to provide that a place where six persons are employed should be considered a ...
Article : 166 wordsA donation of £10,000 from an Australian citizen for mission work in New Guinea has been received by the Rev. Joseph King, organizing agent for Australasia ...
Article : 529 wordsA case of assault arising out of the alleged forced marriage proceedings was brought before the Paddington Police Court to-day. George Henry Webb ...
Article : 213 wordsThe announcement was recently made that the State Government had decided, as an act of clemency, with regard to certain employes, who, being members of ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway earnings for the week ended December 12 amounted to £378. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe barque Ben Avon, from Glasgow, which went ashore at Cape Palliser on November 13, has broken into two. A large portion of the cargo has been saved, and the ...
Article : 267 wordsThe Emperor William, who recently underwent an operation to the larynx, paid an unexpected visit to the German capital on Saturday. He viewed an art exhibition ...
Article : 54 wordsA section of the Dunedin Municipal Tramways was officially opened to-day with much eclat. At the powerhouse the Mayor turned on the steam and the Mayoress the ...
Article : 204 wordsIt is stated in Berlin that 22 eminent doctors have examined the polypus growth which was extracted from the Emperor William's throat, and all of them declare ...
Article : 37 wordsA brutal assault was committed at Horsham on Saturday morning on Miss Catherine Kennedy, an unmarried woman, aged 50 years, who followed the occupation of ...
Article : 202 wordsIn the Reichstag at Berlin on Saturday the Government Bill extending to Great Britain "most favoured nation" treatment tor a further period of two years was read ...
Article : 137 wordsMr. Atlee Hunt, secretary for the Department of External Affairs, has prepared another official explanation in connection with the Petriana case, which is intended as a ...
Article : 203 wordsA tearful accident occurred on the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Innamincka at Pyrmont this morning. An explosion took place in the stokehold, with ...
Article : 211 wordsA meeting of railway employes was held to-day to discuss the judgment of the Full Court in the case Williams, an ex-signalman, v. the Railway Commissioners. ...
Article : 195 wordsThe establishment of Persian customs houses on the Russo-Persian frontier, in Transcaspian territory, led to a conflict with Turcomans, which resulted in a ...
Article : 121 wordsThe adjourned meeting of the newly formed Preferential Trade League of Austrade was held last week under the presidency of Mr. Wise, the ...
Article : 158 wordsHenry Burnett Hunter, a middle-aged man, described as a butcher, was at Newcastle to-day committed for trial on a charge of having, near Young, Wallsend, ...
Article : 146 wordsCholera is raging in Kerbela, in Asiatic Turkey. Two hundred and sixteen cases have been reported, and there have been 176 deaths. ...
Article : 26 wordsFor the third time Ernest McDonald has been tried in connection with the Mooney Mooney poisoning case, and again the jury has disagreed. At the Circuit Court in ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Czar Nicholas has appointed M. Ruchloff to the position of Minister of Finance at St. Petersburg in succession to M. E. Plcske, who has been obliged through ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Treasurer has to-day circulated the interstate adjustments for November. Debtor represents sums payable to other slates for duties collected on goods consumed ...
Article : 173 wordsThe election for the vacancy in Wills Ward of the municipal council through the resignation of Mr. Bowering resulted in Sir. Chester, the Labour ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Chief Commissioner of Railways has been furnished by the traffic branch with the estimate compiled from reports supplied by the stationmasters throughout the ...
Article : 133 wordsIt was stated during the hearing of a case in the County Court to-day that a wife, who saw a letter protruding from her husband's pocket, posted it, under the ...
Article : 118 wordsM. von Plebve. the Russian Minister of the Interior, is considering a proposal for codifying the laws relating to Jews within the Czar's dominions, and the Governors of ...
Article : 100 wordsIn the action the German-Australian Steamship Company v. Lane, to recover £381 for nine days' demurrage at Newcastle, and £21 for removals to and from ...
Article : 77 wordsThe following new regulation has been gazetted under the Immigration Restriction. Act in place of one on the same subject:—"Any person who is domiciled in the ...
Article : 170 wordsWhat appeals to have been a dastardly outrage has been perpetrated at Drayton, on the Darling Downs. A party was returning to Toowoomba early this morning ...
Article : 110 wordsAn action for libel, arising out of statements made by The Ballarat Courier on March 25, in connection with the investigations by the police into the Miners' Rest ...
Article : 115 wordsIbrahim Fethy Pasha, the Turkish Minister at Belgrade, has remonstrated with King Peter's Government against the secret preparations in progress in Servia to ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Legislative Council has by 14 votes to 4 rejected the Electoral Bill providing for grouped electorates, combined Willi the Hare system of voting. ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 19 Dec 1903, Page 40
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