The weather on the second day of the match between the Australian Eleven and Lord Sheffield's team was beautifully bright and the attendance was again large, the fine stand ...
Article : 1,254 wordsNews has been received from Brussels that the enquiries instituted by the police with reference to the murder of Madame Henry, of that city, have led to the capture of a band ...
Article : 94 wordsIntelligence has been received from Madrid to the effect that the Spanish Government have agreed to grant the crew of the American schooner Competitor, who were recently ...
Article : 131 wordsThere is no change in the position of affairs with regard to the coal strike. The mineowners seem content to offer a passive resistance to the demands of the coal miners, and ...
Article : 468 wordsTHE Comic Opera Company last evening made a brilliant ending to a successful season. Full houses have been the rule rather than the exception. The new ...
Article : 590 wordsOn Tuesday Mr. C.A. Bayer, the sanitary engineer who has had the supervision of the Happy Valley waterworks from the start, visited the valley and formally passed the ...
Article : 241 wordsThe match between the Australian Eleven and Lord Sheffield's team was continued at Sheffield Park on Wednesday in the presence of another large concourse, of people. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe report that a robbery of £3,000 worth of bullion had taken place on board the Ostond and Dover mail packet has proved to be unfounded, the missing money having been ...
Article : 57 wordsIntelligence has been received from St. Petersburg that the Chinese Government have granted a concession to Russia of a portion of the foreshore near Chifu, a seaport town in ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. W.G. Grace and Mr. G.H.S. Trott, the captains of Lord Sheffield's and the Australian Elevens respectively, had the honor of lunching with his Royal Highness the Prince ...
Article : 51 wordsThe cyclone which swept over the metropolitan district early in December with such disastrous results to all sorts of property carried away two large stables, a cart-shed, ...
Article : 137 wordsFrank Craig (a negro), of Harlem, U.S.A., better known as the "Coffee Cooler," who recently was defeated by Slavin in England when conceding about 2 st. weight has met ...
Article : 44 wordsThe railway revenue for the week which ended on May 9 amounted to £17,512, as against £16,344 for the corresponding period of last year, showing an increase of £1,168. ...
Article : 579 wordsA deputation to-day asked the sewerage committee of the Metropolitan Board of Works to put a stop to sweating in the pottery trade at Brunswick. It was stated that ...
Article : 79 wordsThe exploration of Central Australia no longer excites the interest it did in the romantic days when Eyre and Sturt were making their long marches, and ...
Article : 456 wordsThe will of the late Prince Henry of Battenberg has been proved. The personalty is sworn at under £1,000. ...
Article : 30 wordsInformation has been received from St. Petersburg that Nicholas II, the Czar of Russia, yesterday launched on the river Neva two powerful war vessels which have recently ...
Article : 105 wordsCaptain Creswell, the superintendent of lifesaving stations and appliances, has extended the conditions under which men mar become members of the lifeboat service at Port ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Sangster Board took further evidence to-day concerning the condition of the bay excursion steamer Ozone. John Adams, the chief engineer. was cross-examined at length. ...
Article : 266 wordsThe attention of the Customs officials has been called to the influx of Hindoos. It is stated that large numbers are brought here by the P. & O. company's steamers, the serangs, ...
Article : 79 wordsSir John Pender, the representative in the Liberal-Unionist interest of Wick Burghs in the House of Commons, who was recently the victim of a paralytic stroke, has applied for ...
Article : 44 wordsAnother of the now frequent railway accidents happened at 9 o'clock last evening. A train was leaving Midland Junction for Perth when shunting operations were proceeding at ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Paris Figaro to-day publishes a statement that owing to the influence exercised by Russia, the trouble between Italy and Abyssinia has been brought to a peaceful ...
Article : 42 wordsTall scoring is proving the rule during the present cricket season in England. Robert Abel, the Surrey professional, has now Scored three Centuries running in country ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Orient line R.M.S. Oroya left Largs Bay for London at noon on Wednesday. The cargo received locally included 138 bars of silver valued at £17,690, 84 bales of wool, and ...
Article : 254 wordsMr. van Boeschoten, the assistant State Secretary of the Transvaal, has purchased in Europe large military supplies, comprising both small arms and heavy ordnance. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Public Works Committee gave consideration yesterday to a scheme for the canalisation of the River Darling. Mr. McKenny, the chief engineer of water ...
Article : 171 wordsAt the Royal Colonial Institute last night the Hon. W.P. Reeves, Agent-General in London for New Zealand, read an interesting and eloquent paper on "The beauties of New ...
Article : 44 wordsThe proceedings in the Legislative Council were purely formal to-day. In the Assembly the debate on the address in reply was continued by Messrs. Lyne, ...
Article : 138 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the second reading of the Education Bill, introduced by the Right Hon. Sir J.E. Gorst, Vicepresident of the Council of Education, was ...
Article : 65 wordsThe betting in connection with the English Derby, which will be run at Epsom on Wednesday, June 3, is as follows:—Five to four against Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's br c St. ...
Article : 92 wordsAnother illustration of the exceedingly heavy rates of interest levied by some money, lenders on their clients was given in the case of Hayling v. Gould, which came before the ...
Article : 118 wordsThe following are the latest quotations:— Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company 4 per cent, debenture stock, £117. Australian and New Zealand Mortgage ...
Article : 125 wordsHis Excellency the Governor was present at a meeting of the Executive Council on Wednesday morning. In the evening he presided at the annual meeting of the South Australian ...
Article : 86 wordsThe case for the plaintiff in the Mount Lyell action was closed to-day, when Mr. Fitzgerald, one of the trustees of the Van Diemen's Land Bank, in liquidation, was ...
Article : 156 wordsThe political troubles in the Transvaal do not appear to hinder the getting of Transvaal gold. The March output of gold at Johannesburg was 173,952 oz. which was only about ...
Article : 139 wordsAt the wool sales to-day the competition was strong and the best prices of the series were obtained. ...
Article : 30 wordsThirty-six cigarmakers employed at Messrs. Jacobs, Hart, & Co.'s factory. Queen-street, ceased work to-day owing to the introduction of new American labor-saving machinery and ...
Article : 36 wordsSir—For the credit of the colony let us make a success of the Stuart statue movement. The people of Gawler years ago erected a noble monument to their hero. ...
Article : 370 wordsAt the meeting of the Executive Council on Wednesday morning the appointments of Dr. Leith Napier and Dr. Buckley as resident surgeon and resident physician respectively at ...
Article : 129 wordsThe following prices were realised at the wool sales held in London yesterday:— Leichardt, 8½d.; Felton, 8?d.; Mangakuri, 9?d.; Kadnock, 10¼d.: Glenorchy, 10¼d. ...
Article : 31 wordsEdward Arthur, the secretary of the Yass Jockey Club, died this evening in the Yass Hospital Some short time ago he had a quarrel with a man at the Salutation Inn, and ...
Article : 68 wordsFor a hundred years the London Missionary Society has carried on its work of evangelisation, and the "cynical critic" is invited by the report of the local auxiliary to consider ...
Article : 329 wordsThe press is now admitted at the Brunner enquiry. The evidence so far shows that the mine was well managed, and the opinion of the witnesses is that there was no hope of ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Robert Harper, a director of the Commercial bank of Australia, who at the urgent request of his co-directors is visiting London for the purpose of conferring with the holders ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Rev. C.A. Berry, of Wolverhampton, has been elected chairman of the Congregational Union of England. ...
Article : 165 wordsA proclamation was issued in Executive on Wednesday summoning Parliament together for the dispatch of business at noon on June 11. The election of the Speaker will be the ...
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Advertising : 576 wordsBy the Melbourne express train on Wednesday afternoon the Commissioner of Public Works and Mrs. Jenkins, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr. L. O'Loughlin, M.P. and ...
Article : 96 wordsBREADSTUFFS.-The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 280,000 qrs., as against 2,230,000 qrs. last week, being an increase of 50,000 qrs. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 wordsMr. S. McIntosh, the village settlement expert, has forwarded to the Commissioner of Crown Lands a report on those settlements which he considers have fairly good ...
Article : 138 words"There is nothing like the law for humor," writes the Melbourne Argus of Tuesday, "and though the judges as a rule suppress laughter in court they cannot prevent a suitor ...
Article : 501 wordsIt is necessary that all who desire a pure, genuine article, especially ladies when nursing, should be careful to buy bottles intact. ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Thu 14 May 1896, Page 5
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