The bleak and rainy weather which has prevailed throughout August and thus far into September is driving people back to town much earlier than usual, and in another week ...
Article : 3,028 words"The cabinet now, dad, and at once," when they went up the stairs and were standing in the room. "Just give me three guesses about the mystery. but first let me ...
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Article : 3 wordsIt transpires that the last words, written the day before his death, by the late Dr. Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, had reference to the refusal of the Pope to admit the ...
Article : 77 wordsThere were special demonstrations at Chatham, Portsmouth, Rochester, and Yarmouth; and Nelson's ship, the Fourdoyant, was exhibited at Cardiff, together with the ...
Article : 277 wordsAs the result of a special session of the Orange Free State Volksraad, the Government of the Republic have settled the longstanding railway dispute with Cape Colony. ...
Article : 38 wordsThis evening at 9 o'clock a fire, attended with disastrous results, broke out in the back of Mr. Miller's drapery establishment in Hannan's-street. Assisted by ...
Article : 314 wordsNews has been received that the missionary steamer Dayspring, bound from Sydney to the New Hebrides, became a total wreck on a reef north-east of New Caledonia six days ago. ...
Article : 668 wordsMajor Evans, of the 7th Queen's Own Hussars, has been killed in an attack on Gatza's kraal, in the Matoppo Hills. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe shareholders in the Midland Railway Company, New Zealand, have requested the official receiver to raise by calls a sufficient sum to pay the Government and to proceed with ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Budget Committee in the French Chamber of Deputies have acquiesced in the demand of General Billot, Minister of War, for the addition of 8,500 men to the peace ...
Article : 42 wordsArrangements have been made for the reassembling of the Cable Conference on November 9. Among the representatives of Canada will be Mr. Alfred Jones, a former ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Sultan Abdul Hamid is reported to have airily informed M. de Nelidoff, the Russian ambassador in Constantinople, in reply to demands that he should adopt some efficient ...
Article : 58 wordsA German capitalist has submitted proposals to Mr. W. P. Reeves, Agent-General for New Zealand, for the expenditure of a large sum in that colony in the cultivation and ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Chief Secretary informed a deputation of shopkeepers this morning that the Government had no desire to rush the amendment for fixing a universal half-holiday. The whole ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 17 wordsIt is expected that the Bank of England rate of discount will be increased to 4 per cent, owing to the huge withdrawals of gold to America. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe question of sending a team of Australian riflemen to England to compete at Bisley was considered at a meeting of the Rifle Association to-night. After considerable ...
Article : 145 wordsShares in the Bank of Australasia are quoted at £49, and in the Bank of New South Wales at £36 5s. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe estimated revenue or the municipal council next year is £12,000. Last year it only amounted to £3,500. Councillor Fimister has resigned his position, necessitating an ...
Article : 442 wordsSilver is quoted at 2s. 61/8. per oz., a fall of [?]d. on the previous quotation. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Public Service Board to-day enquired into the charges against Mr. Morkham, the Comptroller of Stamps, of trafficking in stamps, making, misleading and incorrect ...
Article : 235 wordsA great sensation was caused here to-day by the discovery of the dead bodies of Mr. W. H. Kirton, a well-known chemist, and Mr. Edgar Martin, the manager of the local ...
Article : 177 wordsThe trial of the directors and auditors of the City of Melbourne Bank is not likely to conclude this week. Mr. Deakin to-day closed his address on behalf of Loader. Mr. ...
Article : 60 wordsAdjourned Finals.—Henry James Facey, Jacob Lampe, and Frederick John Langlois. First Hearings.—Percy Walter Wallace, Antonio Assad, and Noon Assad. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn inquest was held on the body of Mr. R. G. Harmer on Wednesday, when a verdict of accidental death was returned. The deceased was much respected in the town, and great ...
Article : 139 wordsAfter several postponements, W. L. Kerr, the Sydney amateur champion cyclist, has established new records for a quarter of a mile and a mile, besides equalling the previous ...
Article : 133 wordsMCCULLOCH & Co. v. HOWARD SMITH AND Co.—£25, damages for wrongful conversion or loss of 128 bags of chaff. Mr. Grundy for the plaintiffs and Mr. Ingleby for the defence. ...
Article : 346 wordsThe [?] Association's matches were continued to-day under variable wind and weather conditions. The Queen's Champion Aggregate Match resulted as follows:— ...
Article : 85 wordsAt a meeting of the cricket council to-day a cablegram from Mr. Musgrove was read stating that only five matches were possible in New Zealand as the team was to play a match ...
Article : 69 wordsThe annual picnic of the employes of the Lion Brewing Company, with their wives and children, took place at Clarendon on Wednesday, October 21. Five of Messrs. Graves and ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Pastoral and Agricultural show was continued to-day, the chief features being the competition between bicycles, horses, and high-jumping. A ball was held to-night ...
Article : 94 wordsTrouble is threatened at the A. A. Company's Seapit colliery, Newcastle, owing to an order that in future the refuse of the seam must be placed on one side of the bord by the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe debate on the Great Western Railway Bill was resumed to-day by Mr. Henry, who moved the Chairman out of the chair in order that a report might be obtained from an ...
Article : 82 wordsThree women were committed for trial to-day for maliciously stabbing Constable Cook. The three accused were quarreling when the constable interfered, and they turned ...
Article : 41 wordsConsiderable alarm has been occasioned among the stock owners in the Euroa district by the outbreak of a disease locally known as "Cripples." A veterinary expert is to be sent ...
Article : 40 wordsThe ordinary meeting of the Loyal Victoria Lodge, No. 3, I.O.O.F., M.U., was held on Wednesday, October 21, in the large hall, Port Adelaide, and presented an unusual sight owing to the number of past ...
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Advertising : 128 wordsIt was stated in Parliament to-day that the Mercadool land cases have been going on for 10 months, and no idea could be given of how much longer they were likely to last. No ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Circuit Court was held to-day, Mr. Justice Boucaut presiding. Hugh Henry Barrett, charged with embezzling three sums of money, amounting to £170, the property of ...
Article : 95 wordsGILLESPIE v. HENRY.—This was a dispute of a tradesman's books against a customer's Pass-book, the claim being for £10 14s. 1d. for butcher's meat supplied to defendant by ...
Article : 110 wordsThe annual meeting of shareholders of the Queensland Deposit Bank was held to-day. The Chairman announced that it would be necessary at an early date to ask the depositors ...
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The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922), Fri 23 Oct 1896, Page 3
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