A terrible trap accident occurred at Tanner Hill, near Hahndorf, on Saturday evening Eight of the Onkaparinga cricketers, who had been playing in a match at Mount Barker. ...
Article : 857 wordsThe War Office are at present considering the schema suggested at the Jubilee Conference of colonial Premiers in London for the exchange of English and colonial troops, but it ...
Article : 134 wordsLondon has been visited by the greatest fire that has occurred since the famous conflagration in Tooley-street on August 19, 1843. The fire originated in an explosion of gas. ...
Article : 360 wordsThe Privy Council have refused to grant leave to appeal to Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay and the editor of the k[?], who was ...
Article : 68 wordsThe R.M.S. Victoria, which arrived from Adelaide at 5 o'clock this morning, experienced terrible weather on Thursday night and Friday. The seas were mountainous and ...
Article : 272 wordsThe League of Victorian Wheelmen opened its spring carnival on the Friendly Societies' Grounds on Saturday afternoon. The weather was fine and the attendance large. The [?]de ...
Article : 350 wordsSaturday was the hottest day experienced in Sydney this reason. A strong west wind was blowing, and the thermometer ranged up to 99½. People appeared bent on getting into the parks or on the harbor ...
Article : 98 wordsNever in the history of Melbourne has such a disaster happened in the city as that which overtook it this morning when the block of buildings known as "The Lane" was ...
Article : 1,434 wordsA club-swinger known as "Curley" Williams started on Friday morning to break the world's club swinging record held by John Griffiths, of Cobar. He is asserted to have continued ...
Article : 114 wordsThe latest advices from the Indian frontier convey the intelligence that LieutenantColonel W. P. Symon's division have occupied Bag[?]. The enemy strongly resisted the British ...
Article : 52 wordsThe German Government have sent the battleship Deutschland to Hayti in order to secure reparation for the recent illegal imprisonment on the island of Herr Luders, a ...
Article : 41 wordsIntelligence has been received from Madrid that Maria Christina, Queen-Regent of Spain, has pardoned the crew of the American filibustering schooner Competitor which was ...
Article : 122 wordsA young man named Wales, who has been lucky at Greenhills, left McDonald Town a few days ago, taking nearly 800 oz. of gold which be had dollied from ...
Article : 75 wordsIn senior cricket on Saturday Karrakatta scored 249 against Australs' 39 for one wicket. Perth made 125 against East Fremantle, who scored 70 for one wicket. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe final round of the Championship . matches were completed on Saturday. The tournament is one of the most successful that the M.C.C. has yet conducted. The results ...
Article : 239 wordsIt is reported that 5,000 Chinese, with 14 Krupp's guns, have garrisoned Kiaschoan, a town in the province of Shantung, 110 miles south-west of Chifu. ...
Article : 81 wordsAnother Japanese diver met his death yesterday through diving in deep water. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 179 wordsTrouble is anticipated among the London dock laborers, 6,000 of whom, have protested against the London dock committee's action in compelling the men to join the Dock's ...
Article : 84 wordsThe cricket match, between the Englishmen and Newcastle Eighteen was concluded on Saturday in the presence of a large attendance. The weather wan fearfully oppressive. The ...
Article : 198 wordsSir Julian Pauncefote, the British Ambassador to the United States, heads the commission from Ottawa which has been formed for the purpose of continuing the negotiations ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. J.H. Packard, who is visiting England on behalf of the promoters of the Gawler Plains irrigation scheme, states that the prospect that the South Australian ...
Article : 51 wordsOn Sunday, November 7. the Rev. Fathers Nevin and Andrew, Passionists, commenced a fortnight's mission at St. Saviour's church, Brompton. At each of the services there was ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Bill for prolonging the Ausgleich, or arrangement for the joint expenditure of Austria and Hungary, has been read for the third time by the Budget Committee of the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe directors of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have declared a dividend at the rate of 6½ percent, together with a bonus of 3 per cent ...
Article : 40 wordsThe enquiry into the Footscray explosion was concluded to-day. The jury found that the three girls died from shock from burns caused by an explosion of ...
Article : 96 wordsThe weather to-day was much changed, being mild and clear. The highest temperature in the shade was 91°, degree. Yesterday's duststorm bad an unusual effect on the railway traffic. ...
Article : 137 wordsMr. Clements, formerly the manager of the Simmer and Jack, one of the biggest mines at Johannesburg, and who was one of the leaders of the reform committee at the time of the ...
Article : 330 wordsMr. R. S. Smythe has engaged Mr. Dunward Lely, for many years the leading tenor in the Gilbert & Sullivan operas produced at the Savoy Theatre. ...
Article : 53 wordsNhill was struck by a cyclone on Friday night. Previous to the cyclone a great duststorm occurred, the sky being full of dust and presenting a very unique appearance. It got ...
Article : 650 wordsThe Sultan of Turkey, as the result of pressure brought to bear upon him by Sir Philip H. Wodehouse Carrie, British Ambassador at Constantinople, has consented ...
Article : 61 wordsTenders for £120,000 worth of Government stocks at 3 per cent, to pay off the bondholders who declined to convert 4 per cent, stock when £2,225,000 was recently converted to 3 per ...
Article : 111 wordsThe directors' report and balance-sheet of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company show a balance to the debit off profit and loss account of £2,216. This deficiency is ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Hospital Board met last night to further consider the imbroglio between two doctors. After considerable discussion the report of the select committe appointed to enquire into the ...
Article : 362 wordsA serious accident happened to the steamer Tyro while coming from Murray Bridge today on her usual trip. Her boiler exploded when she was lying at Hanckel's landing. ...
Article : 300 wordsFresh arrivals for the ensuing wool sales in London amount to 146,000 bales. The number of bales forwarded direct is 21,000, and, adding the quantity hold over, the available total is ...
Article : 42 wordsA severe squall passed over the city and suburbs between 7 and 8 o'clock this evening, the wind whirling about in gusts and blowing with great violence. The day had been ...
Article : 293 wordsOn Thursday Mr. William Cook died at his residence, Rose Park, in his 83rd year. Mr. Cook arrived in the colony by the Rajasthan in 1837, and one of his earliest works was to assist ...
Article : 345 wordsThe owners of the German steamship Wolfeburg have been awarded £3,000 by the court as salvage for services rendered the steamship Kaikoura. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe latest news from Paris in respect to the African question is that the French expedition in the disputed territory are about to establish a steam flotilla on the Upper Nile. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Lady Bountiful has crashed 97 tons for 80 oz. ...
Article : 15 wordsFROZEN MEAT.—The following quotations are furnished by the Frozen Meat Trade Association:— New Zealand sheep, crossbred wethers and maiden owes. Canterbury, 3[?]d; ...
Article : 105 wordsAt the Wesleyan General Conference on Saturday satisfaction was expressed at the cordial acceptance by the union Methodist churches throughout Australasia of the basis of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsAt the Auckland sports on Saturday in the one-mile walk Creamer, an ex-Australian champion, beat Wilson, the present champion, in the magnificent times of 6 min. 27[?] sec. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe will of the Lite Sir William Clarke has been lodged for probate. Sir Rupert Clarke takes Rupertswood and the Bolinda Vale and Rookbank estates, within 300 miles of the ...
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Advertising : 1,125 wordsSir—As a ratepayer both of the Port Adelaide municipality and the Alberton and Queenstown District Council, I notice with great regret that a majority of the former ...
Article : 394 wordsThe Pine Creek railway earnings fur the week ended November 13 were £155. The steamer Australian on November 15 took south 1.743 oz. of gold for the English, ...
Article : 101 wordsSir—Your correspondent "Marion Blair" need not be distressed about the establishment of a sugar monopoly in South Australia. The local manufacturers, my company, have not ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mon 22 Nov 1897, Page 5
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