At the City Police Court to-day, Patrick O’Keefe was charged, on three counts, with larceny. For stealing five, pigeons, the accused was sentenced to three ...
Article : 141 wordsAnother supposed suicide was to-day reported to the police. The victim was an elderly widower named George Gray, who carried on business as a green-grocer at ...
Article : 104 wordsThe "Times” this morning warns the Government that the ideal of Mr Broderick, Secretary of State for War and the military, experts, is at variance with that ...
Article : 86 wordsA revolution has broken out in the South America republic of Uruguay. Monte Video, the capital, is threatened by a force of 8000 rebels, and fighting ...
Article : 50 wordsThe conference between the members of both Houses on the subject of the points in dispute in the Constitutional Reform Bill was resumed at the club room of the ...
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Advertising : 2,170 wordsThe balance-sheet of the South Birthday Company for the past half-year shows that 3108.5 oz of gold has been won, valued at £12,757 18s. The total amount of ...
Article : 603 wordsAn aboriginal named Wingella, otherwise known at “Butcher’s Paddy,” was charged at the Supreme Court to-day with having, on November 15 last, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe proclamation issued by Sir Henry M'Callum, the Governor of Natal, granting the King’s pardon to all inhabitants of the colony who have been charged with ...
Article : 63 wordsA terrible railway accident occurred near Guelph, Canada, yesterday, when a train left the rails and crashed down a 15. feet embankment into a creek. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Church of England scholars and their teachers had a grand day yesterday for their annual picnic. The procession, consisting of the Sunday school children. ...
Article : 216 wordsJoseph Beddon Rodder, who kept his lunatic niece for many years at his house at Research, near Eltham, without the knowledge of the authorities, and thereby ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Mayor of Wellington has declined to join in an “At Home” given by the Admiral on the flagship, because the City councillors were not invited. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe "Times” this morning, dealing with the situation in China, declares that all commercial nations, and certainly Great Britain, must, refuse to lighten China’s ...
Article : 46 wordsThe severity of the weather is causing terrible suffering amongst the inhabitants of Finland. The worst is expected when the thaws take place in April, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 363 wordsSir Wilfred Laurier, the Prime Minister of Canada, has introduced a bill in the Dominion House of Commons, increasing the poll tax on Chinese immigrants to 500 ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr St. John Broderick, Secretary of State for War, said that the contract for the supply of meat to the army in Great ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 107 wordsThe British Admiralty has decided that one pounder pom-poms shall supersede the Maxim guns in the Royal Navy torpedo boat destroyers, having tried them in the ...
Article : 38 wordsConsiderable discontent seems to have been engendered in certain military circles at the notion of Major-General Hutton appointing Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel ...
Article : 275 wordsMr Balfour, Prime Minister, in receiving a deputation from the wine and beer trade yesterday, deprecated an unjust confiscation policy in dealing with the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe movements of the revolutionary bands and the Turkish soldiers in Macedonia have been rendered impossible for at least a month, in consequence of ...
Article : 45 wordsTo-day information was received of what may prove to be a very serious fire in a mine. The scene of the fire is at the New Hopeful mine, Sailor’s Gully, ...
Article : 240 wordsThe “Register” publishers a telegram from its correspondent at Winnecke’s Depot, via Alice Springs, in which he stares that it rained steadily and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 525 wordsTho Orient R.M.S. Orotava, bound for Australia, and the ship Ne-herby, came into collision yesterday at Gibraltar. The Orotava was slightly damaged, but it is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,091 wordsThe funeral of Mr John Lamb, of Navigators, took place yesterday, and was largely attended. The remains of the deceased were interred in the Ballarat Old ...
Article : 276 wordsMr W. P. Reeves, the Agent-General for New Zealand, has written, a letter to the press, in which he complains that the cable messages published by the “Times” ...
Article : 71 wordsAnother postal employe, Mr Edward M. Bond, letter carrier, was successful to-day in establishing his claim under clause 19 of the Amending Public Service Act, to ...
Article : 147 wordsThe annual meeting of the Grand Annual Movable Committee of the M.U.I.O.O.F. was continued in the local Town Hall to-day. ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Welsh Self-Government Bill was negatived in the House of Commons last night by 146 votes to 74. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe society newspaper, "Truth,” in its issue to-day, asks whether the Robert Eyton, who has just been appointed chaplain to the Bishop of Bathurst, but whose ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsThe death of a young married woman named Edith Gibson Seery was enquired into by Mr Chandler to-day. Mrs Seery, who lived at Albert Park, and was only ...
Article : 119 wordsAn election took place yesterday to fill the vacancy in the House of Commons, caused by the retirement of Mr A. M. Brookfield, the member for [?]ye Division ...
Article : 78 wordsThe W.C.T. Union met in the Boys' Institute; Mrs Theo. Williams (president) in the chair. The meeting opened with devotional exercises; Bible reading by Mrs Whiteside. ...
Article : 214 wordsAnother crowded audience attended Wirth’s Circus last night, and came away delighted with the entertainment. The Howard Bros, mystified them, as ...
Article : 251 wordsA match is to be fired by the Learmonth club against the Great Western club on Saturday next. As members will be required to pay half-fare, an opportunity is ...
Article : 50 wordsThe international chess tournament at Monte Carlo has closed. M. Tarrasch proved the winner, with 20 games; M. Maroczy, 19 games; Pillsbary, 18½ games; ...
Article : 43 wordsAfter a hard day’s toil, Ah Sing, 50, and Ah Ping, 42, carrying on business as cabinet makers in Little Bourke street, sat down to supper on Toast duck. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsThe death is announced of Mr William Sproston Caine, member of the House, of Commons for the Camborne Division of Cornwall. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe wool sales were continued to-day. There was a good sale for all classes, prices being unchanged. ...
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The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), Fri 20 Mar 1903, Page 6
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