The annual dinner in connection with the, Royal Colonial Institute was held last night, under the presidency of the Earl of Aberdeen. The guests, numbering 250, ...
Article : 292 wordsThe English Channel squadron consisting of 16 men-of-war, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Henry F. Stephenson, K.C.B., whose flagship is H.M.S. Majestic, ...
Article : 96 wordsFurther experiments have been made in connection with M. Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy. Communication has been established between French warships ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Greenbushes tin field continues to attract many people. It if stated that the field will support 3,000 to 4,000 men. Several new discoveries are reported. The ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Premier was accorded another enthusiastic reception on Thursday night, when he addressed the electors of West Adelaide at the Draper Memorial ...
Article : 432 wordsA board to carry out the provisions of the Advances to Settlers Act has been appointed. It comprises Mr. C. J. McMaster, chairman of the local land ...
Article : 125 wordsMary Osborne, a young woman, convicted of the concealment of the birth of her child, which was suffocated and left on the steps of the Shamrock Brewery, was to-day ...
Article : 119 wordsA conference of the heads of railway subdepartments will open in Brisbane on Tuesday next. South Australia will be represented by the Engineer-in-Chief (Mr. A. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe West Australian Turf Club has prepared a liberal programme for the Birthday meeting. Sir. C. N. Kidman, owner of Blackwood and others, will leave for ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Minister of Education has made the following new regulation, which will come into force on the same day as the Standard Time Act:—"On and after May 1, 1899, all ...
Article : 111 wordsA meeting of the creditors of the Premier Permanent Building Society, convened by the official liquidator, was held to-day. There was a large attendance, and ...
Article : 383 wordsIn the Legislative Council this afternoon most of the sitting was taken up on the second reading and committee stage of the Arbitration and Conciliation Bill, ...
Article : 134 wordsIn connection with the marine scandal cases, the Premier admits having telegraphed to the Minister of Marine, asking that the matter of a certificate should he settled. ...
Article : 126 wordsMrs. Marian McKay, who was divorced from her husband, the well-known American millionaire, has been married to Count Bruneim, who is attached to the German ...
Article : 62 wordsThe steam launch Asteroid, with the boarding officers, had a busy time at the anchorage on Wednesday night, steamer after steamer being signalled in rapid sue ...
Article : 202 wordsGeneral Booth arrived in Sydney this evening from Brisbane, and left again by the southern express for Melbourne. ...
Article : 188 wordsLouis Henry Goodman and H.J. Squier, who, with Sir Edward Lee and Hugh Bernard, were committed for trial on a charge of fraudulent conspiracy, in connection ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 172 wordsMr. Thomas Brackett Reed, who for the past two years has been Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, is retiring from that position, and from ...
Article : 48 wordsThere is much doubt in city circles about the exact working of the new stamp duties. The bankers and brokers generally consider that the duties will affect the ...
Article : 102 wordsPresident , McKinley, of the United States, has resolved to call out no more volunteers for service in the Philippines. Those already serving in the islands are ...
Article : 48 wordsVice-Admiral Delajaille, in acknowledging the receipt of 32,000 francs, subscribed by British residents in the Riviera for the relief of the sufferers by the Toulon ...
Article : 72 wordsThe weather continues. to be disturbed over the south-western corner of the continent," said .Mr. Griffiths, on Thursday. "The chart still shows low-pressure waves ...
Article : 84 wordsSome time since the Postmaster-General made arrangements with the A.U.S.N. Company for a weekly steam service to the Gulf ports. This service was only of a ...
Article : 234 wordsThe inquest on the young woman, Jessie Bentley, who died under peculiar circumstances at South Melbourne on April 10, was concluded to-day. An analysis of the ...
Article : 160 wordsThe report of the board of management of the Adelaide Hospital for the year ended December 31, 1899, is published in this Week's "Government Gazette," and ...
Article : 188 wordsHudson's Surprise Party entertained another large and appreciative audience at the Bijou Theatre on Tuesday evening, when the last performance but one of the ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. W. Cooper's Newhaven II to-day won the City and Suburban Handicap, in connection with the Epsom Spring meeting. In the latest betting Newhaven was ...
Article : 493 wordsThe Government of India has placed orders with American manufacturers for the construction of 45 locomotives intended for use on the Indian railways. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe House of Commons yesterday rejected a Bill, introduced by Mr. John Dillon, providing for the repeal of the Irish Crimes' Act. The voting was 200 ...
Article : 39 wordsThe mail steamer Austral, which left Largs Bay for London on Thursday, had on board 300 men, consisting of sailors and marines, the time-expired crew of H.M.S. ...
Article : 623 wordsSir Edward Austin Stewart-Richardson, Bart, who is a lieutenant in the Royal Highlanders, has been appointed. aide-decamp to Lord Lamington, Governor of ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Duke of Devonshire, speaking last night at a dinner in connection with the London Chamber of Commerce, referred in a tone of misgiving to the Far Eastern ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Superintendent of Police to-day received a telegram from the detectives investigating the murder of David Butler at Mansfield, to the effect that they had a ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Jubilee Waxworks Exhibition in Hindley-street attracted large attendances at all sessions on Thursday, when the large and comprehensive nature of the collection ...
Article : 79 wordsWheat.—The visible supply of wheat is estimated at 51,161,000) bushels. Metals.—Copper continues strong at £76 5s. Tin is quoted at £115 10s. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe conference of railway officers to be held in Brisbane next week is the outcome of a decision of the last Commissioners' Conference. At the conference of ...
Article : 132 wordsMr. William Arthur [?], M.A., who has been appointed to fill the position formerly held by the late Mr. E. F. Turner as inspector of explosives and ...
Article : 303 wordsA delicate-looking woman, Sarah Robertson, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Carlton to-day, for abandoning her infant. Her present position was ...
Article : 92 wordsIn accordance with the decision arrived at at a meeting of the Lumpers' Union last night the men struck work this morning, and all vessels in port were idle. The ...
Article : 278 wordsMr. Balfour, addressing a large gathering in the Albert Hall, yesterday, under the auspices of the Primrose League, declared that the capacity, of Great Britain ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Rev. Hector Ferguson, who has been cited to appear before the Presbytery to reply to the charge of heresy, has decided to resign as a Presbyterian [?] ...
Article : 71 wordsLate last night the steamer Kia Ora, trading between Strahan and Kelly's Basin, left for the scene of the wreck of the Australia to render assistance. Further ...
Article : 174 wordsWhen the Legislative Assembly met this afternoon the Federal Enabling Bill, with the amendment, was received from the Council. Mr. Reid proposed to accept the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe appendices to the annual report of the Adelaide Hospital Board give a vast amount of information in detail concerning the cases treated in 1898, and at the ...
Article : 221 wordsThe half-yearly report and balance-sheet of, The National Bank of Australasia shows that the gross profits amounted to £67,854 against £71,398 in the previous six months, ...
Article : 107 wordsAt the annual smoke social of the Firemen's Association last night Mr. E.J. Polkinghorne, the president of the Amalgamated Miners' Association, in proposing ...
Article : 209 wordsSir George Turner has received a telegram from Mr. Reid announcing the safe passage of the Federal Enabling Bill through the New South Wales Legislative ...
Article : 325 wordsThe Central Agricultural Bureau met on Wednesday morning, when there were present:—Hon. A. W. Sandford (in the chair). Messrs. S. Good. W.C. Grasby, ...
Article : 161 wordsA young girl, Violet Canavan, whose parents live in Market-street, South Melbourne, died on the operating table at the Homoeopathic Hospital to-day. She was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 199 wordsOwing to the late arrival of the steamer Ribston from New York, with a large shipment of steel plates and locking bars for Mr. Mephan Ferguson's pipe works at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 wordsDuring February there were 690 births in the colony, irrespective of the Northern Territory, compared with an average of 721 during the same month of the previous ...
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