During the last two or three months a large number of houses in the city and suburbs have been broken into and ransacked, and up to yesterday no trace of the offender could be ...
Article : 2,380 wordsThere is nothing bizarre nowadays in womenfolk wearing breeches. It is rather [?] than not. Sometimes they call them "bloomers" and sometimes "knickers," but in ...
Article : 1,304 wordsAn exciting scene occurred within the pre[?] of the Agent-General's private office at Crosby-square on Wednesday morning. Mr. Playford was fulfilling "the daily round and ...
Article : 1,936 wordsThe customs officer, in seizing the books of Messrs. Henry Weenen & Co., in connection with the alleged drawback fraud, discovered that the most important were missing. The ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Government have had under consideration the question of a more efficient excise supervision and the necessity of more stringent measures for suppressing illicit distillation ...
Article : 133 wordsThe returns of the Bank of England for the week ending on Wednesday, published to-day, show that the reserve of notes and coin held by the bank is 20.940,000, as against ...
Article : 288 wordsColonel H. Ponting Northcott late Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General in the Intelligence Department of the War Office, has been appointed to the, command of the ...
Article : 155 wordsI The Spanish Government at Madrid have sent instructions to the Governors of Cuba and the Philippine Islands empowering them to grant an amnesty to all political prisoners. ...
Article : 38 wordsFive special representatives of the London newspapers engaged in describing the English operations in the Soudan and on the Nile recently rode from Berber, which is situated on ...
Article : 81 wordsThis morning Cochrane McDonald, aged 60, felt from a ladder in Abbotsford-street, North Melbourne, and died of a fractured skull. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe police have come upon another extensive case of fraud connected with bicycles. Thomas Edward Pomeroy, aged 22, living with his parents in Channing street, ...
Article : 359 wordsAt the Newtown Police Court to-day another case in connection with the much-disputed question of Sunday trading was heard. A tobacconist, Thomas Coogan was fined 5s. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe first-class twin-screw armored battleship Empress of India, 14,150 tons. Captain Angus McLeod, which is attached to the Mediterranean Squadron, has sought refuge in ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Times, referring to too Anglo-French Conference for the delimitation of the West African frontier, states that the retention of the right section of the Niger eastward as far ...
Article : 127 wordsA continuance of very hot weather prevails over the colony. At Ungarie it was 117° in the shade to-day, while the Darling River districts all report over 100 At [?] ...
Article : 58 wordsA meeting of gentlemen representing English and foreign capitalists who have money invested in New South Wales was held to-day for the purpose of considering recent ...
Article : 208 wordsSilver is now quoted at 2s. 2[?]d. per oz. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe open market quotation for three months' bills is [?] per cent, or [?] per cent, below the bank rate. ...
Article : 27 wordsLieutenant Andrew Herbert Macintire and the 12 men of the Northamptonshire Regiment who were absent from the roll-call after! the recent skirmish between the British force ...
Article : 161 wordsThe engineers having adoped the amended proposals of Mr. C.T. Ritchie. President of the Board of Trade, for the basis of a conference between employers and employes, are ...
Article : 47 wordsBritish [?] per cent Consols (Goschen's) are quoted at 112 15s. as against 112 5s. a week ago. Quotations for Colonial Government stocks compare with those of November 5 as ...
Article : 136 wordsA further hitch has arisen in connection with the proposed swimming match between McCusker, the American, and Ernest Cavill, the Australian McCusker went to ...
Article : 68 wordsThe river levels for to-day are as follows:— Mungund, 6 ft 8 in.; [?] Barwon, 9 ft; Naomi, 6 ft 10 in. Goodooga, 3 ft 4 in. Brewarrina. 9 ft 9 in.: Bourke, 17 ft ...
Article : 186 wordsA meeting to consider the pastoral question was held in the Town Hall to-night, the mayor (Mr. Young) being in the chair. Those present on the platform were Messrs, R. ...
Article : 760 wordsBREADSTUFFS.—Californian No. 1 milling wheat for early shipment, per 500 lb. [?] is quoted at 38s. 6d,; cargoes [?] per steamer, per 492 lb. [?] at 36s ...
Article : 313 wordsThe M[?] Griffiths, of Victoria, sang on Wednesday at a concert given at the Mansion House, London, and achieved a great success. Mrs. Langtry's horse Merman, as had been ...
Article : 143 wordsOfficial reports from the Congo state, that the [?] employed to procure rubber for the traders have destroyed 20 of the native villages and have chopped off the hands of at ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Brookman Boulder has struck the Kalgurli lode in a new shaft on the east side of the block. a few feet above the 100-ft. level. The lode has bulged into the ...
Article : 513 wordsThe share of the Glasgow poor in the. gift of beef and mutton sent to Great Britain by the graziers of Australia in honor of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee will be distributed on ...
Article : 70 wordsARRIVED. Ruahine, 3.925 tons; from Lyttleton October 11. Saint [?] shin. 1,453 tons, from Port ...
Article : 59 wordsOwing to a rise in the price of flour and the demand of employes for an increase of wages the Wellington bakers have raised the price of bread [?] per [?] ...
Article : 40 wordsOn a motion by Mr. Drake, the Legislative Assembly to-day resolved that a return should be prepared showing the number, distribution, and social condition and occupation of the ...
Article : 49 wordsA case analogous to Butler's crimes has just come to light. A young man, Ernest Hawthorn Miller, has been missing from Hutt Valley for two months ...
Article : 72 wordsA meeting of the Opposition was held this afternoon to appoint a leader. It is said the the ex-Attorney-General has been appointed. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Full Court to-day gave an important judgment in an appeal by Albert Quarrell from a decision of the Land Board. The latter had refused Quarrell's application for a grazing ...
Article : 83 wordsPatrick Corooran, a settler at Harapipi, Auckland, was shot in a quarrel over land. He died shortly afterwards. Another settler named Pohlem has been charged with the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe following; New south Wales and Queensland combined team will play Mr. Stoddart's Eleven in Brisbane, the match commencing on November 16:—Iredale, Gregory, ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Pastoral Commission sat all day. those present being Mr. Fennant, Hon. J.G. Bice, Mr. Poynton, and Mr. Burgoyne. The evidence of Mr. W. Coumbe, Mr. J.G. ...
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Advertising : 1,070 wordsAt a meeting of the distributing committee of the farmers relief fund, which was held at the central office on Friday afternoon, Mr. Thomas Hardy presided in the. absence of Mr. ...
Article : 275 wordsLower Mitcham—Strawberry face at Mr. G. Wilcox's house. [?] Exhibitor Ova|, 2,20—Nortn Adelaide [?] club races. ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Sat 13 Nov 1897, Page 7
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