THE Commissioners of Audit cannot get their reports read or, if read, attended to. It is nearly six years ago that they first directed attention to the unsatisfactory ...
Article : 6,760 wordsSir George Dibbs's bill, which divides New South Wales into district Government areas, and establishes therein a system of local self-government, is warmly ...
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Article : 77 wordsConsiderable anxiety is felt in the city as to the results of trials in connection with the treatment of Broken Hill sulphide ores. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe United States delegates at the International Monetary Conference in Brussels have tabled a proposition for the establishment of a fixed ratio between ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 wordsThe death is announced of Cardinal C. M. Allemand-Lavigerie, Primate of North Africa, Metropolitan of Algeria, and Archbishop of Carthage. ...
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Article : 18 wordsA knighthood has been conferred on Mr. J.C. Rigby, Q.C., Solicitor-General in the present British Government. ...
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Article : 97 wordsA young man, William Ahearne, was sculling on the Yarra this morning in a clinker sculling boat when the boat upset and Ahearne was left struggling in the ...
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Article : 72 wordsWm. Cuff, a notorious criminal, was sentenced to two years with hard labor on Saturday on a charge of having housebreaking implements in his possession. ...
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Article : 114 wordsThe R.M.S. Ormuz, Captain White, arrived from Colombo at 4 a.m. on Saturday, and sailed for Adelaide at 7 a.m. on the same day. The saloon passengers were:— ...
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Article : 71 wordsA horse attached to a vehicle containing a party of five nuns, and which was being driven by an elderly man, bolted in East Melbourne to-day. The vehicle was ...
Article : 49 wordsJohn Phillips, charged with placing an obstruction on the railway line near Nhill with the intention of wrecking a train, was on Saturday acquitted, the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Union Steamship Company has paid a 6 per cent, dividend to its shareholders. ...
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Article : 94 wordsAt an early hour on Saturday morning the body of a man was found on the railway line sear Montague station. The ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mon 28 Nov 1892, Page 5
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