A terrible disaster is reported from Antwerp. At a cartridge factory in that city an explosion occurred, by which frightful loss of life and great destruction ...
Article : 96 wordsEfforts have been made in vain to rescue the miners entombed in the Midlothian Colliery, near Edinburgh. Hope is no longer entertained that the men can be ...
Article : 76 wordsThe match for the rowing championship, which will take place on Monday next, is looked forward to with great interest. Both Searle and O'Connor are in splendid ...
Article : 80 wordsThe construction of 14 locomotive engines ordered by the South Australian Government has been completed. The locomotives have been delivered, and are ...
Article : 68 wordsThis Rev. Hugh Gilmore will deliver a lecture on "Home Rule at the Town Hall, Adelaide on Wednesday under the auspices of the Irish National League. The whole of the net ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,395 wordsOn Saturday morning the Mayor of Adelaide (Mr. James Shaw) cabled to the Lord Mayor of London through the Bank of South ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Orient steamer Oroya arrived from London at 10 a.m. to-day, and sailed for Adelaide at about 1 p.m. The mails and passengers from Perth will be left behind, as the ...
Article : 341 wordsThe funeral of the late Sir Jas. Lorimer (Minister of Defence) takes place on Monday at the St. Kilda Cemetery. All the Government offices will close at noon as a mark of ...
Article : 422 wordsA meeting was held in the council chamber yesterday afternoon to consider the London dock laborers' strike. The attendance was very small. A resolution [?] expressive of sympathy ...
Article : 195 wordsAt the Trades Union Congress, sitting at Dundee, a motion was submitted in favor of the compulsory enforcement of the eight hours system by legislative ...
Article : 56 wordsThe fire at Antwerp has not yet been extinguished. It is believed that the explosion was caused by cartridges of dynamite. The ...
Article : 85 wordsLord Charles Scott, who has been appointed successor to Admiral Fairfax, will leave England on October 3 next to [?] charge of the Australian [?]uadron. ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the Liverpool Assizes on August 7 Mr. Justice Stephen concluded the summing up to the jury of the evidence in the trial of Mrs. Maybrick for the murder of her husband. The ...
Article : 801 wordssubscriptions toward the dockyard lab[?] strike fund an coming in freely, and £200 was cabled this morning to the Lord Mayor of London, She committee of the Miners ...
Article : 108 wordsThe "History of New South Wales," which has been compiled from State papers by Mr. Barton, is to be published in London by the firm of Trub[?] and ...
Article : 39 wordsThe total subscriptions received to date for the dock strikers fund amounts to £7,604. Of this amount over £3,000 has been collected through the Age office. Public meetings were ...
Article : 107 wordsThe grand organ for the Centennial Hall in Sydney is now being shipped. ...
Article : 19 wordsMr, John Den[?] Wood, a barrister who was in business in Victoria 30 years ago, intends returning to that colony, where he will settle and resume the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe funeral of the late Hon. Francis Ground took place yesterday. As a token of respect to the memory of the deceased flags were at half mast at most of the public buildings and ...
Article : 358 wordsA monster demonstration in favor of the dock laborers now on strike in London was held in the Domain on Saturday afternoon, and several thousands of people of all classes ...
Article : 532 wordsMr. John Burns, the well-known Socialist, who has taken a leading part in connection with the strike of the London dock, laborers, has announced his ...
Article : 75 wordsTwo jockeys named William Cooper and Arthur Wilson ware seriously injured at the Maitland races on Friday in the Flying Handicap. Cooper's collarbone was broken and ...
Article : 283 wordsBrodle, an American swimmer, has accomplished the feat of swimming through the rapids of the Niagara River. He was successful in crossing from one ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Gladstone, who is now on a visit to the Continent, has been entertained at a banquet in Paris. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe British Government have addressed a diplomatic note to the Sultan of Turkey in favor of the Cretans. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe schooner Edith May brings news of another ma[?] by the natives of the Solomon Group, the victims being Mr. William Dabelle (brother of the late E. Dabelle, recently killed ...
Article : 114 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. J. F. B. Firth, M.P., from sunstroke, at Chamonulx, in the Alps. Mr. Firth represented Dundee in the House of ...
Article : 33 wordsA meeting strongly objecting to the running of Sunday trains at Launceston was held on Saturday. A petition was adopted for presentation to Parliament protesting against the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe man Laur[?]e, who murdered Mr. Hamilton, a tourist, visiting Goatfell, has been captured. He was just about to commit suicide when arrested by the ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is reported here that a mutiny broke cut among the seamen on H.M.S. warship Acorn, now lying at San Francisco. The mutiny was followed by a large ...
Article : 38 wordsA strange double suicide has been committed at [?] An elderly couple named Headham tidied their house, washed themselves, dressed in their best clothes, signed a letter ...
Article : 88 wordsNews has reached Sydney by the barque Hesper of the wreck of the British ship Ga[?]ton, bound from Sydney to San Francisco with coal. The vessel struck on Starbrick ...
Article : 117 wordsThe London dock strike fond subscriptions were augmented this afternoon by special collections at the churches. Money is coming in freely. ...
Article : 34 wordsThere was a good deal of interest displayed in sporting circles this evening concerning the sculling match for the championship of the world, to be rowed ...
Article : 120 wordsThe London dock strike committee wired £1,000 to England yesterday. ...
Article : 18 wordsMessrs. J. J. Duncan, M.P., R. Homburg, M.P., F. Basedow, M.P., C. Giles, M.P. J. W. Castine, M.P., and A, McDonald, M.P., arrived at Nhill on Saturday, and inspected the ...
Article : 126 wordsThe day has, been close and hot and a thunderstorm is now falling. ...
Article : 191 wordsSir—Please and enclosed post-office order for £5 11s. collected this afternoon by me from Messrs. Mar Bros.' employ's, making, with ...
Article : 97 wordsOn Saturday afternoon the three battalions of militia infantry were engaged in outpost duty. The battalions, which were commanded by Lieut. Colonels Madley, Makin, and Lovely, ...
Article : 162 wordsMr. Charles Holder; one of the Clare town coun[?]llors attended the Stanley Couraging was riding tripped and fell on top of Mr. ...
Article : 44 wordsAustralian wheat ex warehouse is quoted at 38[?]. to 38[?]. 6d., a decline of 1s. New Zealand long berry is similarly quoted. ...
Article : 54 wordsMrs. Harry Hatch; of Glenorchy, was accidentally thrown from a spring-cart yesterday and killed. It is singular that the deceased's first husband, Mr. John Pole, of Glenorehy, ...
Article : 107 wordsSir—General Edwards's advice for the consolidation of railway gauges to the standard 4 feet 8½ inches throughout Australia brings to my ...
Article : 81 wordsThe secretary of the Single Tax League has received a letter from the president of the league in England stating that Mr. Henry George had decided to visit all the principal ...
Article : 62 wordsWhy so many should suffer from headache, bi[?] general dep[?] and similar [?] ments, when Wolfe's Schnapps, the great anti[?] remedy, is an effective cure for [?] ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mon 9 Sep 1889, Page 5
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