The weather for the celebration of Christmas was splendid. Service was held at St. Andrew's Church.. The incumbent (Rev. J. H. Williams) was the preacher, and there was a large ...
Article : 1,508 wordsMr. Charles F. Crisp, the Democrat, who defeated Mr. Reed, the Republican, in the election for the Speakership of the United States House of Representatives, ...
Article : 165 wordsIn order to facilitate Mr. John Burns's election to the House of Commons for the division of Battersea, which he now represents in the London County Council, ...
Article : 63 wordsSuch a rainy summer and autum[?] as that of 1891 has not been experienced in England for more than twenty years. Here in London now a days it seems always wet As the ...
Article : 5,770 wordsTasmanian 3 ½ per cent, inscribed stock is quoted at £92. The Economist states that the new investments offered on the London market ...
Article : 80 wordsAnticipating defeat in a strongly Liberal Parliament for the Conservative Cabinet he has just formed, the Hon. C. E. B. Boucherville has obtained a ...
Article : 241 wordsThe result of the enquiry into the outrage on the crew of the American cruiser Baltimore at Valparaiso is that two Chilians have been found guilty of ...
Article : 154 wordsA dastardly outrage is reported from the Spanish town of Valencia, capital of the province of the same name. During a midnight service in the cathedral, only ...
Article : 73 wordsSir Thomas Chambers, Q.C., who had been Recorder of London since 1878, has died at the age of 77. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe report of a rupture between the French Embassy and the Government of Madagascar is denied. The French Government, as the suzerain power, have ...
Article : 46 wordsA Portuguese exploratory expedition has been completely destroyed at Alfaska, in Africa, as the result of an explosion of gunpowder carelessly stored at the camp. ...
Article : 46 wordsIt is expected that 62 Liberal Unionists, fearing defeat, will abstain from seeking re-election after the dissolution of Parliament. ...
Article : 28 wordsOn the question of the adhesion of Belgium to the commercial league established by the central Powers the Brussels Chamber of Representatives are equally divided. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Czar of Russia has officially made known his regret at the action of the French Government with regard to the expulsion of Chadowne a Parisian ...
Article : 42 wordsCaptain Zalinski, the inventor of the well-known dynamite tube gun, has become insane. ...
Article : 21 wordsMr. Edward Field, one of the members of the firm of Field, Lindley, & Co., the insolvent bankers of New York, is pronounced to be insane, and the charges of ...
Article : 53 wordsThe enquiry into the charges of bribery instituted against certain members of the Ottowa Parliament has closed. Sufficient evidence having been elicited against them ...
Article : 41 wordsA plebiscite has been taken of the Northumberland miners on the question of a statutory eight-hours' day for boys. The result of the balloting showed an ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental mail steamer Victoria, by which Sir Graham Berry is a passenger for Melbourne, was unable to sail to-day owing to a heavy ...
Article : 42 wordsA virulent epidemic of smallpox is raging in Moscow. A large number of fatalities have occurred, principally among children, and the authorities have ordered ...
Article : 37 wordsAnother scandal is reported from Paris in connection with the sale of titles. Count Courcy Pagny, who formerly held a distinguished military command, has ...
Article : 53 wordsThomas McGreevy, the contractor (brother of Robert McGreevy, the fraudulent legislator, who absconded to Mexico), and Nicholas Connolly (of the firm of ...
Article : 102 wordsOwing to the dense fog prevalent in London for the past five days, over 20 persons have been drowned at the docks. ...
Article : 29 wordsRioting has occurred in the Brazilian province of Pernambuco, only suppressed after the slaughter of several rioters by federal troops. The Governor of the ...
Article : 38 wordsA telegram from Moscow states that Baron Stakelberg has been sentenced to imprisonment and the forfeiture of his title for the cruel exercise of his powers ...
Article : 48 wordsComplete soundings have been taken of the Pacific Ocean between Honolulu, the capital and principal port of Hawaii, and San Francisco, in connection with the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe fog which has overshadowed the greater part of London for some days past, has now lifted. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show the proportion of the reserve to the liabilities to be 40 per cent., being 4 per cent, lower ...
Article : 122 wordsThe ship Royal George, which arrived in port yesterday, had an eventful voyage. One of her seamen had a leg broken in a storm, and there was a succession of gales and light ...
Article : 102 wordsThe German East African expedition 'under Lieutenant Peters are reported to have shot 120 natives in one day. ...
Article : 32 wordsAs the result of a railway collision at Barnby, near Lowesto[?], in the county of Suffolk, three persons have been killed and 20 injured. A dense fog prevailed ...
Article : 43 wordsThomas Greevy, who has been committed for trial on a charge of defrauding the Government in connection with a harbor contract, states that he hopes to ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Nizam of Hyderabad has instituted a civil action against Mr. Jacobs, the jewel merchant of Simla, to recover the monetary value of the diamond of which the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Oruba arrived today "from Colombo at 6 a.m., and sailed for Adelaide at 10 a.m. Passengers for Adelaide—Mr. and Mrs. Crozier, Messrs. Leman, Jas. Shaw, Adamson, ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Ven. Archdeacon N.D.J. Straton, of Huddersfield, in the diocese of Wakefield, has been appointed Bishop of Sodor and Man in succession to the Right Rev. ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is believed that the Federal Council will not be called together in January next. To-day has been observed in the strictest sense as a holiday, but the weather was against ...
Article : 190 wordsAnother Nihilist conspiracy has been discovered in St. Petersburg in which high personages are implicated as well as others of inferior position. The latter ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Supreme Court of Calcutta has issued an injunction restraining Mr. Jacobs from dealing in the diamond he obtained from the Nizam of Hyderabad ...
Article : 58 wordsEfforts arc being made to keep from the knowledge of the Czar the extent and severity of the famine in Russia, and the governors of the afflicted provinces have ...
Article : 113 wordsCount von Caprivi, the German Chancellor, has informed the Reichstag that he proposes to legislate for the restriction of the rural immigration into towns and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe regatta at Moonta Bay on Saturday was very successful, all the events came off except the greasy pole for which no entries were received. The first-class sailing race was won by ...
Article : 115 wordsOn Saturday a young man, John Hickey, employed in the West End Brewery, was terribly scalded in a vat of boiling water, and died to-day. ...
Article : 231 wordsThe French police have captured the murderer of Baroness Dollard, whose corpse was found under horrible circumstances at her Paris residence on the 5th ...
Article : 38 wordsCorbett has issued a challenge to the winner of the contest between F.P. Slavin and Peter Jackson, the colored pugilist. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe election for Waterford city to supply the vacancy in the House of Commons caused by the death of Mr. Richard Power, has resulted in the return of Mr. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Olympic Athletic Club, in New Orleans, have outbid the National Club by the offer of a purse of £2,500 additional to the stake of £1,000 a side to hare the ...
Article : 97 wordsWe have received the following cablegram from Dr. Barnardo, dated London, December 24:— " Dr. Barnardo's London homes, containing ...
Article : 61 wordsThe murderer of the Baroness Dollard, under examination by the juged instruction has confessed his guilt. ...
Article : 24 wordsGeneral Booth, who is touring the British dominions in futherance of his Darkest England scheme, has arrived at Madras, and telegrams state that on his ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Willard J. Parker, proprietor of the Mineral Spring Stock and Pasture Farm at Junction City, Kans., writes in regard to a Waterbury watch. Four years ago I had a ...
Article : 388 wordsA very deliberate attempt to commit suicide was made to-day by a married woman named Georgina Den[?]am, wife of Ales. Denham, an employe in Messrs. Foy & Gibson's ...
Article : 133 wordsThe head of the New York police has announced his intention to arrest the principals in future kock-out contests. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt about 11 o'clock on Thursday night, as the train from Brighton Beach was nearing the Middle Brighton railway-station, the driver noticed that the engine had passed ...
Article : 121 wordsA new Turkish ambassador has been appointed to St. Petersburg, and has received a gushing welcome from the Czar. The principal journals, referring to the ...
Article : 49 wordsIn Chambers yesterday Mr. Pilcher, Q.C, applied on behalf of Sir. Gray, agent of the Sunlight Soap Company, for a role nisi, calling upon the Collector of Customs to show ...
Article : 148 wordsThe two Englishmen, visitors to Etienne, seat of the manufacture of firearms in France, who were arrested on the 15th ult. on a charge of espionage at ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Commissioner of Police has received a cablegram from the Colombo police informing them of the arrest of Dr. Bingham Crowther, the absconding medico who is charged with ...
Article : 57 wordsSaturday's holiday passed off without mishap. Glorious weather—Dot too hot—prevailed, and every place of amusement was crowded both during the day and in the ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mon 28 Dec 1891, Page 5
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