The Right Hon. W.L. Jackson has been appointed chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee which is enquiring into the affairs of the Imperial British South Africa ...
Article : 51 wordsThe match was resumed to-day. The weather was showery, but the attendance was large. The Australians continued their innings, and at lunch time had lost two wickets ...
Article : 580 wordsThe Colonial Office assert that the trouble in Ashanti caused by the alleged Combination of native chiefs under Samory to expel the British from Coomassie is not of very great ...
Article : 58 wordsFurther particulars regarding his Arctic voyage, which Dr. Nansen has communicated to correspondents of the press, show that it was only by an accident that he failed to reach ...
Article : 202 wordsAfter a long trip to the far north the Government Geologist, (Mr. H.Y. L. Brown) returned to Adelaide last week. He started from the city in April and proceeded to the ...
Article : 60 wordsIn response to invitations issued by Captain Helms and the representatives of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, & Co. a number of gentlemen visited the Eastern and Australian Steamship ...
Article : 1,016 wordsThe Central No. 1, Southern Cross, has cleaned up for 100 oz. 15 dwt. of smelted gold from 340 tons of stone. The Central crushed 175 tons for 101 oz. 6 dwt. ...
Article : 1,365 wordsThe Intercolonial Conference on tick concluded its business on Saturday morning. The report of the conference embodies the conclusions of the experts on the points submitted ...
Article : 359 wordsThe Transvaal Volksraad have agreed to admit to the franchise 5,000 in and around Johannesburg who supported the Boer Government during the Jameson raid. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe trustees of the Savings Bank applied for the whole of the £30,000 worth of mortgage They were allowed bonds to the extent of £22,400. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Cecil Rhodes proposes to visit the Matoppo hills, the headquarters of the Matabele rebels, for the purpose of inducing them to lay down their arms. He is convinced that ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Protector was honored with a visit from Lord Brassey on Saturday, and Commander Creswell had a contingent of the Naval Reserve men on board in addition to ...
Article : 39 wordsJake Gaudaur, who is to row on the Thames against Stanbury on September 7 in a match for the Sculling Championship of the World, has arrived in London and has taken up his ...
Article : 57 wordsIn a sculling match in Canada to-day Rogers, an American oarsmen, was the winner, beating Hanlan, an ex-champion of the world, Durnan, and Bubear, an ex-champion of ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Protector was honored with a visit from Lord Brassey on Saturday, and Commander Creswell had a contingent of the Naval Reserve men on board in addition to ...
Article : 47 wordsConsequent on the revision of the dock charges the P. & O. Steamship Company propose to construct and warehouses of their own at St. Clements's reach, on the ...
Article : 46 words"The rarity of Christian charity" was lord Salisbury's unaccustomed topic at a St. James's Hall meeting, London, in aid of the East London Church fund. "We all," he said, ...
Article : 75 wordsIn a speech delivered to-day on the occasion of his installation in the post of Warden of the Cinque Ports the Marquis of Salisbury alluded to the situation in South-Eastern Europe, and ...
Article : 92 wordsThe initial visit to Adelaide of the Eastern and Australian Steamship Company's new boat Australian was made the occasion for a pleasing ceremony on Saturday, when a ...
Article : 40 wordsHouse of Commons to-day urged on the Government the desirability of increasing the navy in view of the continued hostility of Germany and the possibility of a combination ...
Article : 40 wordsThe remains of the late Sir John Millais, President of the Royal Academy will be interred next Tuesday in St. Paul's Cathedral. ...
Article : 36 wordsIn reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Goschen, first Lord of the Admiralty, stated that he could not promise any reduction of the Navy Estimates ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, in answer to a question in the House of Commons to-day, stated that the Government expect that as a result of recent negotiations the boundary difficulty ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is officially announced to-day that Mr. Leopold de Rothschild's colt St. Frusquin has been scratched for the St. Leger, to be run at Doncaster next month. ...
Article : 50 wordsA few minutes before 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon the French mail steamer Ville de [?] Ciotat, from Marseilles, anchored at Largs Bay. The health-officer (Dr. Toll), who had ...
Article : 62 wordsCharles Pooles, a medical man, aged 33 years, residing in lodgings at Madeline-street, Carlton, committed suicide on Saturday afternoon by shooting himself with a revolver. The ...
Article : 353 wordsThe Imperial Parliament was prorogued for today. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe Times asserts that King Leopold II. of Belgium, the sovereign of the Congo Free State, intends to express his disapproval of the manner in which Major Lothaire ...
Article : 36 wordsHerr F.A. Heinhaus, who claims to be "the most marvellous mental calculator in the world," was, at latest mail advices, performing some surprising arithmetical feats at the ...
Article : 146 wordsFrederick William Trelevan died at the hospital yesterday under mysterious cirumstances. He was employed by Messrs. Roach Bros., flourmillers, and was driving a lorry ...
Article : 44 wordsA fire broke out at Roberts's Hotel at the corner of Market and George streets, at 5 o'clock on Saturday morning. The upper floors were damaged by fire and smoke and ...
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Advertising : 777 wordsA Chinaman, Chen Leong Loon, died on board the steamer Australian at Port Adelaide on Friday morning from phthisis, and was buried in the Woodville Cemetery on ...
Article : 34 words23, Waymouth-street, 2.30-Meeting Slug Hill Proprietary Company. ...
Article : 61 wordsThis is from the leading columns of the Melbourne Age:-"The Pleasant Sunday Afternoon" in Sydney has laid bare a new danger to the student of art in our State ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mon 17 Aug 1896, Page 5
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