Particulars are now given as to the increased stamp duties announced in his budget speech by Sir M. Hicks-Beach. There will be a duty of 5s. per £100 on the ...
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Article : 1,307 wordsThe United States Government is viewing with some concern the recent fighting at Samoa, and is taking steps to strengthen its naval force operating there ...
Article : 119 wordsSir George Turner to-day received a telegram from Mr. Kinston stating that the had just been officially informed that Mr. Reid had to co-operate in ...
Article : 75 wordsThe details of the evidence now being given by Colonel [?] before the criminal judges of the Court of Cassation indicate that General [?] and ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Premier does not expect Mr. J. H Wan[?], the late Attorney-General, to [?] to the colony at an early date owing to his ill-health. Another reason why he may ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Treasurer (Hon. F. W. Holder) returned to his electorate on Tuesday and will spend some days in travelling through the district and addressing the electors in ...
Article : 92 wordsA deputation from the Chamber of Mines waited on the Minister of Mines to-day, and urged an amendment of the Mining Bill to bring the existing laws up to ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Times"' asserts that persistent rumors are current that pressure is brought to bear by the Dupuy Government upon, the Court of ...
Article : 156 wordsThe recent detention at Fremantle of the mail steamer Prinz Regent Luitpold in consequence of a case of chickenpox on board cost the company £2,000, and this ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Premier has heard from the Premiers of all the other colonies in reply to his circular wire of Saturday last. New South Wales, Victoria, New ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Commissioner of Public Works has notified the Mayor of Gawler that out of the next batch of 30 men who are to be dispatched to the works on the site of the ...
Article : 91 wordsThis afternoon a fruit hawker, Joseph Davis, aged 67, was crossing George-street when he was knocked down by a cart and run over. He died shortly afterwards from ...
Article : 38 wordsAn inventor named Pollack, of Vienna, claims to have invented an apparatus by the use of which 60,000 words can be dispatched by telegraph in an hour. ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the meeting of the Central Agricultural Bureau, held on Wednesday morning, Mr. Holtze called attention to the rapid spread of ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Chief Judge in Equity was engaged to-day with an application on behalf of Messrs. H.E. Gratton and J. P. Wright, trading as Taylor Bros., jam ...
Article : 275 wordsThe continued encroachment of the Russian authority in Finland, and the gradual drafting of Russian troops to that province, are causing much uneasiness in Sweden, ...
Article : 69 wordsWork has been resumed at the typical orchard at Mylor, and nine men, with two drays, are at present engaged in clearing the stone off the land. A lot of the stone ...
Article : 107 wordsThe French Government have adopted a novel scheme for adding to the population of the French colonies. An announcement has been made that France in future ...
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Article : 79 wordsLongy, the first foal got by Trenton in England, has won the Westminster Plate at Epsom, Nushka being second and Good Omen third. ...
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Article : 280 wordsMr. J. F. Hogan, secretary of the Colonial Party in the House of Commons, is urging Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to restrict the new ...
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Article : 232 wordsTom Mann, the well-known labor leader, has purchased a public-house at Longacre, London. He has announced his intention of abandoning the cause of labor, which ...
Article : 68 wordsThe copper market is excited. The price is £75 a ton. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe American cruiser Yorktown has visited the island of Baier, and relieved the Spanish garrison, who had been beseiged by some 400 Filipinos. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Hon. J. W. Taverner, Commissioner of Public Works in Victoria, is co-operating with the Australian Agents-General in their protest against the proposed wine ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Russian Government is said to be adopting a pessimistic tone regarding the result of the International Disarmament Conference convened by the Czar of ...
Article : 82 wordsAt the Supreme Court to-day in the case of Harney and others v. the Minister of Mines, the plaintiffs applied for judgment for £8,000, in the terms of the arbitrators' ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture has been advised by Mr. E. Burney Young, manager of the South Australian Wine and Produce Depot in London, that he has, in ...
Article : 116 wordsThe steamer Gaspesia, which recently extricated itself from the ice in which it was embedded for 52 days, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in the North Atlantic, has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 wordsIt has been arranged that Mr. Fitzpatrick (General Traffic Manager), Mr. Woodroffe (Chief Mechanical Engineer), and Mr. Norman (Engineer of Existing Lines) shall ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsSome 22,000 colliers have struck work at Mons and Charleroi in Belgium. They demand a 20 per cent. advance in the rate of pay. ...
Article : 34 wordsExperiments have lately been in progress under the direction of Mr. G. S. Thomson, dairy expert, to demonstrate the value of pure cultures as an aid in the ...
Article : 284 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture (Hon. R. Butler) has received the following letter from the manager of the London Wine and Produce Depot:—"I have the honor to ...
Article : 614 wordsParticulars of the claim of W. McDonald, the well -known cyclist, in the action against George W. Burston and R.W. McKulla[?]h, as ...
Article : 352 wordsThe Legislative Council met this afternoon, and within three hours from the opening had passed the second reading of the Federal Enabling Bill, and taken it ...
Article : 463 wordsThe London "Economist,"' strongly condemns the action of the holders of 5 per cent, mortgage debentures in the New Zealand Midland Railway Company in ...
Article : 95 wordsBank of New Zealand 4 per cent, guaranteed stock, £104 5s. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's 4 per cent, prior lien ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. T.F. Whitford, a well-known mining engineer, of Kalgoorlie, was assaulted at Fremantle last night and robbed of £80 and a cold watch and chain. The ...
Article : 48 wordsSir—The statements quoted below attributed to Sir John Downer and Mr. P. McM. Glynn in the published reports of their electoral addresses call for [?] ...
Article : 439 wordsThe shareholders Bros., Limited, have decided upon a reduction of capital. ...
Article : 18 wordsA strike occurred in the boot trade today, 13 employes at Mr. Kauffmann's factory leaving work in consequence of the firm not paying the wages agreed upon ...
Article : 82 wordsWhat appears to be a most diabolical murder has just been brought to light, the victim being an old and very deaf man, David Butler, who resided alone in a ...
Article : 517 words"Since last report," said Mr. Griffiths on Wednesday, "thunderstorms with scattered rains have been experienced in the north, Petersburg recording 60 points and Terowie ...
Article : 135 wordsIn future King's Island will be thrown open for the importation of sheep from New South Wales, Victoria South Australia, and New Zealand. The point of ...
Article : 37 wordsSir—The Rev. Father Hourigan's letter in "The Advertiser" of Wednesday is ingenious, although not ingenuous. He says, "I can assure the Rev. Mr. ...
Article : 300 wordsFifteen points of rain were registered up to 9 o'clock this morning. It is cloudy still. Outside stations had even less rain. Giving to the number of race meetings ...
Article : 65 wordsThe outgoing mail steamer Austral will leave Largs Bay for London at 2 o'clock this afternoon. A special train for passengers and visitors will leave Adelaide for ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 255 wordsMr. W.H. Phillipps, of the firm of Messrs. George Wills & Co., has just returned from a trip to the old country, which was undertaken mainly for the ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Thu 20 Apr 1899, Page 5
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