Mr S. Cook is as capricious as the weather. Early last weak he was not going to Sydney, in the middle of the week he might go, and at the end he had gone. ...
Article : 857 wordsM. Bourgeois, the French Premier, made an important statement to-day. He states that the reason he declined Chinese loan was because the security offered was not ...
Article : 67 words“Can you spare me a drop of water? My bag’s empty and this condenser man’s dead, I think. Anyhow there’s a hole burnt in his tank.” Before assenting to the thirsty ...
Article : 1,575 wordsMr G. Bleasby, who resides at Victor Tarrice, St. Hilda road, Windsor, has reported to the police that jewellery valued at £12O was yesterday stolen from a drawer in an upstairs ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,024 wordsThe House of Commons sat until 5 o’clock this morning in consequence of the obstruction that was offered to tho passing of the estimates. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 177 wordsThere is nothing fresh to report concerning tho outrage on Dr Cunningham. He is still improving, and favorable announcements of his condition are made hourly. Nothing has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 263 wordsMr Vale, M.L.A., introduced a deputation representing the Ballarat Benevolent Asylum to the Treasurer to-day to complain of the reduction made in the amount of Government. ...
Article : 274 wordsThe judging at the Royal Agne[?] Society's annual show took place to-day [?] official opening is filed for to-morrow, [?] Governors Hampden, Brassey, and [?] ...
Article : 71 wordsMr J. C. Vernon’s combined State school classes last night rendered a pleasing programme in the presence of a fair audience. The singing of the little ones was evidently ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Times correspondent at Pretoria states that tho determined attitude of the British Government, and its repeatedly announced intention to maintain the British rights over the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Dominion of Canada is to have a [?] International Exposition during the co[?] summer. The exhibition, which will [?] officially known as the British Empire [?] ...
Article : 105 wordsThe recent reports as to impending troubles in the Transvaal are to a certain extent confirmed. The attitude of the extreme section of the ...
Article : 94 wordsA committee meeting of the Beaufort Athletic Club was held on Monday evening, Mr H. M. Stuart (president) presiding, and 12 members being present. The president was ...
Article : 201 wordsA man named Frederick Leslie entered the Bussell street police station a few days ago and informed the officer in charge that be had committed bigamy. The man appeared to ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Eight Hon. Cecil Rhodes, who is journeying to Bulawayo, has arrived at Umtali, the present terminus of the railway from Beira to Fort Salisbury. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Sangster "Board took further rebutting evidence to-day in connection with the charge that the load line of the steamer Buninyong had been raised 18 inches. Captain Clark, ...
Article : 317 wordsLord Gifford, formerly Colonial Secretary for “Western Australia and Gibraltar, who served with distinction in the last Zulu war, has received a telegram from South Africa ...
Article : 52 wordsThis very extensive and complete pumping plant, which is now almost ready for work, has been manufactured and erected from plans supplied by and under the personal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 236 wordsThe latest despatches from South Africa state that in view of the Matabele outbreak the Chartered Company is taking steps to obtain reinforcements, and is accordingly ...
Article : 141 wordsNews to hand from Cairo states that the dervishes under the command of Osman Asrak are threatening the town of Linkat, and a battalion of Soudanese troops who were ...
Article : 67 wordsRoad-racing will shortly be in full swing. An effort is being made to arrange a teams’ race between the members of the Wendouree, Ballarat City and Ballarat rowing clubs, and ...
Article : 793 wordsNew Golden Gate, company’s office, 10th April. 12.15. Victoria United, company’s office, 11th April, 3.30 p.m. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe examination of W. Robertson, late acting manager of the City of Melbourne Bank, was concluded to-day. Questioned as to the reply sent to the official receiver in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 366 wordsOwing to the increased activity of the dervishes the situation at Suakim is regarded as very critical, and Colonel Parsons and a number of British officers have left Wady ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is reported that Baron Alphonse de Courcel, the French ambassador in London, has tendered his resignation to M. Bourgeois, the Premier. It is believed that Baron de ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 wordsA harvest thanksgiving service was held in the Burumbeet Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening lost. The Rev. Jas. A. Forrest addressed the children on the subject of ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Secretary for Mines has received specimens from the mining registrar at Jamieson which show large quantities of quicksilver and cinnabar. They were taken from the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe remains of Mr W. Harvey (father of Mr Christopher Harvey, and of Mrs Abbott, wife of the Rev. W. T. Abbott, of Mitiamo) wore interred in the Ballarat Old Cemetery on ...
Article : 238 wordsA young man named Thomas Johnson was charged at the police coart to-day with having stolon 13 sheepskins, the property of the Hon. S. Williamson, M.L.C., of Allanvale, and ...
Article : 101 wordsSir,—No doubt most of your readers will have read tho report of be accident which Mr Craddock lately met with, while temporarily employed at Mr Kllne’s factory in Victoria ...
Article : 310 wordsA race meeting will be held on Tuesday, 21st April (Eight Hours Day). An excellent programme has been arranged, and nominations for the Maiden Plate, the Handicap ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Ballarat Sparrow Club have arranged to hold an Open Handicap Pigeon Match of £20 on Saturday next. Entries will be received on the ground, and the shooting will start at 2 ...
Article : 37 wordsSIR,—Daring tho residence in Ballarat of all tho police magistrates who have preceded Mr Leader in the East, Mondays and Thursdays were always considered the regular court days ...
Article : 106 wordsNow that the allotted time for cricket is passing away, the old English winter sport of paper-chasing will be revived. Introduced hero some five years since by Messrs F. W. ...
Article : 295 wordsThe Ballarat Ministers Association have arranged to hold special services on Good Friday. In the morning tho service will be held at the St. John’s Presbyterian Church, ...
Article : 102 wordsThe usual weekly mooting of the Star of the East Lodge, No. 19,I.O.G.T. was held in the Temperance Hall on Monday evening last; Br C. Watts, chief templar, was in the chair. ...
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