Sir William Lockhart, Commander-in-Chief of the forces operating on the Indian frontier, has received intelligence regarding the movements of the Kurram Valley column. The ...
Article : 87 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 £21,835,000, as against ...
Article : 274 wordsThe Commission which was appointed by the Greek Government to enquire into certain charges of cowardice and dereliction of duty Drought against officers engaged in the war ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Executive has decided that the law shall take its course in the case of Frank Smith, a young man convicted of a capital offence on a young school girl near Gympie. ...
Article : 52 wordsSir Anthony Brownless, Chancellor of the Melbourne University, died this morning at his chambers at the University. Sir Anthony had been ailing for some time, and the ...
Article : 281 wordsThe disturbances in Prague have been renewed, and the city has been placed under martial law. Seven battalions of infantry were summoned, and on the mob refusing to ...
Article : 138 wordsParliament sat until after midnight last sight. After a long debate the first line of the Estimates was passed on the voices. The Bill to legalise open calls and remove them from ...
Article : 56 wordsTaking advantage of an opening given by letters upon the 97 vintages of Italy and France, contributed to the Times by Mr. Egidio Vitale and Messrs. W. A. Gilbey, Mr. ...
Article : 2,555 wordsThe death sentence passed on the old man, Benjamin Wherrill, for the murder of his wife at Springhill, has been commuted to twenty years' servitude. ...
Article : 36 wordsSpeaking at Mr. John Waddington's banquet last night, Mr. Hamilton, the Great Boulder manager, said the Kalgoorlie field bad surprised him, and was ...
Article : 351 wordsThe members of the, medical staff attached to Sir William Lockhart's army on the Indian frontier have successfully used the Röntgen rays in tracing the position of bullets with ...
Article : 46 wordsThe gold yield of the colony for the month of November was 78,024 oz., an increase of 21,467 oz. compared with the yield of November of last year. ...
Article : 86 wordsA disastrous colliery explosion has occurred at Kaiserslautern, in Bavaria. Thirty-seven miners were killed outright, and many others were badly injured. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe correspondent of the London Standard at Berlin telegraphs that the German Government are about to send three first-class cruisers and seven other vessels of war with a force of ...
Article : 53 wordsA telegram has been received stating that the English cricket team will reach Sydney on Tuesday morning. They will finish the match at Armidale to-morrow but attractions in the ...
Article : 218 wordsPolitical discontent is increasing in Spain and there are disquieting symptoms of serious movements by the members of the Carlist organisation throughout the kingdom. ...
Article : 35 wordsAs stated yesterday the application of the provisions of the Dangerous Buildings Removal Bill to the building at the corner of Elizabethstreet and Flinders-street, has necessitated a ...
Article : 153 wordsA forecast of President McKinley's message to the United States Congress is published. The message, it is believed, will refer in decided terms to the Hawaiian question, and ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Chinese Government have proposed to Germany that the demands in connection with the murder of German missionaries in the province of Shantung (which led to the German ...
Article : 124 wordsBidding at the London wool sales to-day was [?] and the bulk of the crossbreds were withdrawn. The chief buyers were Continental firms. The sales included:—Merinos— ...
Article : 50 wordsThe open market quotation for three I months' bills is 21¾ per cent., or [?] per cent. below the bank rate. ...
Article : 27 wordsFour hundred and twenty-five tons of butter will be shipped to London by the mail steamer Austral which sails to-morrow. The steamer Damascus took 60 tons of butter for London ...
Article : 205 wordsSilver is quoted at 2s. 3[?]d per oz. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Boulder Main Reef battery cleaned up for the first time this week, the return being as follows:—Stone treated, 320 tons, yielding 918 oz. smelted gold, average 1 oz. 15 dwt. 7 gr. to ...
Article : 516 wordsBritish 2¾ per cent. Consols (Goschen's) are quoted at £113 as against £113 5s. a week ago. Quotations for Colonial Government stocks compare with those of November 26 as ...
Article : 124 wordsA great Masonic ceremony took place at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, to-day in celebration of the bi-centenary of the reopening of the church which was built to replace the edifice ...
Article : 245 wordsThe London Colonial Club entertained Sir Saul Samuel, the retiring Agent-General for New South Wales at a farewell banquet at the Holburn restaurant last evening. One hundred ...
Article : 200 wordsThe steamer Merrie England arrived last night from New Guinea it brings news that the report of the statements that some miners are getting half an ounce to the dish is ...
Article : 83 wordsThe work of the conference for the settlement of the engineers strike is progressing slowly. The employers desire that the questions of piecework, wages and overtime shall ...
Article : 73 wordsA fire broke one to-night at about a quarter to 10 in Mr. A. Billings's timber yard on the Penola road. The alarm was given before the fire bad extended far, and the two fire brigades ...
Article : 63 wordsAt the Finger Police Court to-day John Beckett, who was arrested yesterday at Avoca, was charged with the murder of his mate, William Small, whose body was found in a ...
Article : 92 wordsDEPARTURES.—For Melbourne, Aspice, Thermopylae; for Adelaide, Lizzie Bell, Gulf of Venice; for Brisbane, Duke of Argyll; for Port Pirie, Port Victoria ; for Wellington, ...
Article : 38 wordsDuring the recent storm on the English coast the Margate lifeboat went out to render assistance to a vessel in distress, but the breakers were so heavy that the boat was ...
Article : 49 wordsOn Friday evening a free social was given in the billiard-room of the Land or Promise Hotel, Hindmarsh, by Host A. Rankine, on the occasion of the distribution of prizes won at the billiard tourney ...
Article : 154 wordsBREADSTUFFS.—Californian No. 1 milling wheat for early shipment, per 500 lb. c.f.i., is quoted at 3[?]. 3d.; Russian cargoes (Ghirka), per steamer, per 492 lb. c.f.i., at 37s. London ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Russian Government have submitted to the European Council of Control the names of three candidates for the position of Governor of Crete. Two of these have already been ...
Article : 94 wordsThe general manager of the London and South-Western Railway Company has written to the Government asking tor particulars about the Tasmanian timber to be used on ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Probate Bill was taken through committee during the early hours this morning and reported, the exemption being fixed at £1,000. The Stamp Duties Bill second ...
Article : 173 wordsSir—Adelaide is regarded by our neighbors and visitors as an exceptionally clean city, and undoubtedly it is. What with our deep drainage, street sweeping gutter cleansing, ...
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Advertising : 1,492 wordsThe Government have refused to refund the duty paid on the goods destroyed on the Auckland wharf by fire. They say that if a refund were made in the Auckland case it ...
Article : 112 wordsAlexander McLeod, a well-known local cyclist, met with a rather serious accident whilst training on the Exhibition Oval on Friday evening. It appears that he was ...
Article : 373 wordsThe entries closed fast night for the cycling carnival to be held here on Boxing Day. The total for the six events is 274. In the Silver city Wheel Race there are 60 nominated, ...
Article : 92 wordsThis afternoon Mr. J.F. Kirk, of the firm of Messrs. Kirk & Co., land agents, of Perth, threw himself in front of the train near East Perth, He had apparently been waiting in the ...
Article : 133 wordsMr. Clement Wragge, with his Mount Kosciusco party, is stuck up 10 miles from his destination at an altitude of 6,075 ft. by the weather conditions. The party was ...
Article : 138 wordsThe English cricketers arrived last night and were welcomed officially to-day. Afterwards they began a match against a team of 22. Ranjitsinhji and Hirst stood ...
Article : 389 wordsAt Narribri to-day a police-trooper came on a gruesome spectacle in the bush about 4 miles from the town. Attracted by the appearance of a tent he made an inspection, and found ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Public Works Committee to-day adopted by 9 votes to 3 a proposition against erecting new Parliamentary Buildings, but favoring the Government architect's scheme ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Sat 4 Dec 1897, Page 5
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