A telegram from Shanghai states that thousands of Chinese wounded in the late engagement with the Japanese in their endeavor to repulse the attack on their stronghold of ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. W. Griffiths, M.P., who arrived safely at Port Darwin after a very rough trip, had a talk with his colleague, Mr. V. L. Solomon, on the telegraph line on Sunday last upon ...
Article : 438 wordsThis time last year we were all sadly anticipating Mr, Gladstone's immediate demise. It could not be long delayed, said the doctors solemnly. The magnificent constitution had ...
Article : 1,987 wordsMr. H. C. Gardner, President of the Board of Agriculture, in reply to a deputation which waited on him to-day, declined to relax the roles in force in respect to the importation of ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Ottawa Legislature are considering a proposal for the appointment of a joint Commission for the discussion of matters relating to the Pacific cable. It is suggested that ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Lord Mayor of Dublin, on behalf of his own and other municipal corporations, attended at the bar of the House of Commons to-day to present a petition asking for the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe meteorological department is a human institution, but can hardly be considered humane. Being human it is liable to err. but the tantalising forecasts it has issued during ...
Article : 402 wordsA letter has been received by the Commissioner of Public Works (the Hon. J.G. Jenkins) asking whether settlers in the south-east who intend becoming working settlers at Lake ...
Article : 86 wordsAustralian batter is now quoted at from 100s. to 102s. per cwt A portion of die butter shipped by the mail steamer Massilia has arrived in excellent ...
Article : 59 wordsDuring the heavy weather prevalent along the coast daring the last week a fishing vessel from Hull went ashore near Wigton, in the extreme south-west of Scotland, and became a ...
Article : 100 wordsSilver has risen another [?]d., and is now quoted at 27[?]d. ...
Article : 20 wordsSir William Vernon Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to a question in the House of Commons to-day, stated that the Government did not intend to include the Bill ...
Article : 89 wordsThe supply of ore at the Broken Hill Junction Silver Mining Company's works at Port Adelaide being exhausted, and no fresh ma ...
Article : 56 wordsOwing to the complaints of local merchants against the competition of foreign tenderers for the supply of tinned meat to the army, M. Ribot, the Premier, has summoned a special ...
Article : 77 wordsIt is understood that the Marquis of Ripon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has privately shown to members of the House of Commons interested in the subject the corre ...
Article : 123 wordsThe portrait of Sir Samuel Davenport, late president of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, which has been presented to the ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. William Redmond, Nationalist member for East Clare, in the House of Commons today enquired whether, in the event of the Australasian colonies determining on the basis ...
Article : 79 wordsThe contractors are hopeful of completing the North Sea and Baltic Canal in the course of a few months. The canal, which is designed to save the dangerous passage around ...
Article : 60 wordsThe trial of seven leading pressmen charged with assailing the reputation of several influential companies and prominent politicians with a view to extorting blackmail has commenced ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. C. R. Hawkes, the hon. secretary of the Giffen testimonial fund, states that the amount received up to date exceeds '£250, and the committee think that amount will be con ...
Article : 60 wordsMiss Maggie Moore will inaugurate a short dramatic season at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening, when she will appear in her original creation of Lizzie Stofel in the favorite ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Rev. J. W. Fleming, minister of the Scotch Church, Buenos Ayres, has written to the Rev. A. Marshall, of Scots Church, Melbourne, on the subject of the New Australia ...
Article : 224 wordslittle progress has been made in elucidating the possibilities of retrenchment in the Defence Department. At a meeting of the Ministerial Retrenchment Committee to-day ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Commissioner of Police received a wire yesterday from Sub – Inspector O'Connell, stationed at Coolgardie, stating that David Moore, a prospector, had reported that him ...
Article : 115 wordsThe February series of wool Gales opened at Antwerp yesterday. Two thousand three hundred bake were offered, including 200 hales from Australia. Prices ranged from ...
Article : 42 wordsThe weather was again very hot to-day, and the thermometer registered 99? in the shade. A large bush fire is raging along the coast, and I ...
Article : 198 wordsThe weather during the past few days has been extremely hot and close, and to add to the general unpleasantness several bush fires have been raging in the Mount Lofty Ranges. The ...
Article : 409 wordsQuotations for shares in Australian banks or companies are:— Bank of Mew Sooth Wales, £35. Broken Hill Proprietary Company, 37s. 6d. ...
Article : 51 wordsOwing to the hot weather prevailing and the large number of visitors to Hobart the Hobart Corporation to-day decided that it will be necessary to curtail the water supply. The ...
Article : 55 wordsA statement was wired from Coolgardie yesterday to the Perth police, signed by three members of Fitzgerald's party, denying the doubts and allegations which have been pub ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. Larke, the Canadian Trade Commissioner, has returned to Sydney after a trip to Melbourne and Hobart. He looks upon the paroels post between Canada and Aus ...
Article : 701 words"Laughter for a month" seems to he the motto of the merry minstrel company at the Bijou Theatre, and crowded audiences willing ...
Article : 118 wordsBest Australian tin, present delivery, is £59 10s. to £60. Chilian bar copper, present delivery, is £39 to [?]39 10s., and forward delivery £37 10s. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Treasurer is determined to have correct income tax returns sent in, and intends to consult the Commissioner of Taxes to endeavor to sheet home alleged fraudulent returns. He ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Duckenfield and Back Creek miners have received notice of a reduction of wages. Williams and Laws, Unionist miners, were committed for trial to-day on a change of ...
Article : 140 wordsIt is little wonder that, enervated by "fantastic summer's heat" Adelaide amusement-seekers hail with pleasure the opportunity of escaping from their homes, and amid ...
Article : 417 wordsMr. McCulloch, M.L.C., was sworn in as Minister of Defence at a meeting of the Executive .Council to-day, and Mr. T. F. Webb has been gazetted Commissioner of Taxes under ...
Article : 42 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Sydney Meat Preserving Company was held to-day. The report showed that during the half-year 532,649 sheep and 5,080 cattle Lad been killed. ...
Article : 181 wordsThe recent crashing of Day Dawn South from 100 tons yielded 97 oz. The tailings averaged 16 dwt. The Emperor mine, situated at Day Dawn, ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Protestant Unity Group Village Settlement has lost considerably by the recent gales. Fifty acres of maize were partially destroyed, and 20 acres wholly devastated. Twelve ...
Article : 41 wordsArthur James, a young man, was to-day sentenced to six months imprisonment for perpetrating a smart fraud. He called at the private residence of Mr. Edwin Barker, a ...
Article : 123 wordsAt 5 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, near Arnold's dam, Yarley Station, Mr. John Wylde, a boundary-rider, found a swagman in a dying condition at the side of the Euro Bluff ...
Article : 149 wordsA deputation of the aged unemployed of Hobart waited on the Minister of Lands today and asked for work. The sympathised with them, but said many of the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe General Manager of Railways has issued his annual report, which is of a very satisfactory nature. The receipts show a net increase of £6,000 over last year. The work ...
Article : 93 wordsA special meeting of the committee of the Melbourne Cricket Club was held this afternoon to consider a suggestion from Mr. H. Byron Moore, secretary of the Victoria Racing ...
Article : 197 wordsJoseph Swann was arrested to-day on a charge of attempting to murder Hugh Campbell, a leading solicitor. Swann, it is alleged, went to Campbell's office to confer on a matter, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe beer and wine duties were under the notice of the Tariff Board to-day. Witnesses representing importing firms saw no justification for the duty of 3s. per dozen on imported ...
Article : 147 wordsOn Wednesday evening about 100 members of the various associated bicycle clubs in Adelaide and the suburbs paraded the principal streets of the city on illuminated machines in ...
Article : 228 wordsAt an inquest held to-day on the bodies of Jane and Jessie Perkins, who were found dead in a house in Sooth Melbourne, the jury found that Mrs. Perkins had died from heart disease ...
Article : 55 wordsJohn Williams was tried at the Central Criminal Court to-day for the murder of fellow-prisoner at the Bathurst Gaol. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. ...
Article : 46 wordsSir Edward Braddon, Premier of Tasmania, has sent the following circular to each of the legislators of that colony:—" During the Parliamentary session of 1894 the Government ...
Article : 286 wordsThe members of the South Australian Eleven, who commence a match against Victoria on Friday, arrived this morning by the Adelaide express. They were met and welcomed by the reception committee of the ...
Article : 99 wordsIn connection with the question of the employment of Lascars on mail steamers the managers of the P. & O. and British-India companies affirm that Lascar seamen are far ...
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