The French Minister at Pekin recently demanded that the Chinese Government should execute the official at Montao, in the Island of Hainan, by whose permission ...
Article : 92 wordsThe war news of the week has been of the most meagre and unreliable description. For the last ten days we have been feeding our fears on scrappy piegongtams ...
Article : 2,079 wordsTheresa O'Neil to-day sued William John Bourke, of Upper Bromley station for wages as housekeeper to the amount of £221. Defendant pleaded immoral ...
Article : 192 wordsMrs. Van Norden, who was on a visit to Mallow Hotel Skipton-street, Ballarat, died suddenly whilst at breakfast this morning., She was chatting cheerfully. ...
Article : 437 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on the body of Hans Mauna who was found on the esplanade yesterday with a bullet wound in the head. A verdict was returned that ...
Article : 144 wordsMajor-General Sir Archibald Hunter. D.S.O., who is the chief of the staff of General Sir Redvers Buller, with a force consisting of 500 Natal volunteers, strengthened by ...
Article : 355 wordsA receiving order has been granted by the Bankruptcy Court in the estate of Ingram, Harrison, & Ingram, solicitors, of 67. Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. ...
Article : 106 wordsParliament will probably be dissolved in January. The general elections will be held in February. A rumor is current, Which the Premier ...
Article : 46 wordsThe amendment made in the Early Closing Bill by the Legislative Council to bring wholesale houses within the operation of the measure because clerks are as much ...
Article : 173 wordsOn Friday Superintendent Booker and Mr. A. Binks (Mayor of Norwood) paid a visit to Port Pirie, the former for the purpose of officially inspecting the additions ...
Article : 617 wordsFurther particulars have been received with reference to the-attack made on Tuesday night upon the Boer position at Lombard's Kop, near Ladysmith by a ...
Article : 131 wordsA peculiar drowning "fatality has occurred at Nathalia. An old man, Patrick Haley took a horse and dray down to a creek to water the horse. The water ...
Article : 246 wordsThe Socialist Congress which has recently been in session in Paris, has generally approved, of the programme of political and social reforms drawn up by the ...
Article : 45 wordsA message from Wilcannia states:—"The Christmas Rocks are situated in the river bed of the Darling about halfway between Wilcannia and Menindie. They have for ...
Article : 230 wordsThe steamer Konigin Luise of the NordDautacher Lloyd Steamship Company which recently went aground near the mouth of the River Scheidt has been ...
Article : 38 wordsHarvesting is general here. New wheat is already Bowing into country stations. So far the quality is described to excellent, a comparative freedom from smut with ...
Article : 57 wordsGeorge Jhonson and Henry Loveing were before the [?]berg Court to-day, charged with having diverted the points on the railway line at Fairheld station on ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture has called for a report on the outbreak of phylloxera at Tatura. He points out that there are now 10,000 American resistant stocks in ...
Article : 53 wordsAmong the items of news from Fiji, under date November 30, it is stated that this little outpost of the Empire, being desirous of following the examples of larger centres, ...
Article : 64 wordsAnother attempt at tram-wrecking took place on the St. Kilda line this afternoon. As a heavily-laden car was passing along High-street, having among other ...
Article : 120 wordsGreat indignation prevails amongst rabbit exporters at the collapse which has occurred in the storing and shipping of rabbits under Government auspices for the ...
Article : 106 wordsA motion was made to-day on behalf of the plaintiff, Langloh Parker, for an injunction to restrain the defendants, the administrators of the late Mr. James ...
Article : 253 wordsSpeaking at a Crimean veterans dinner at Portsmouth on November 6, MajorGeneral Owen, R.A., who was once in command of the military forces in South ...
Article : 146 wordsJohn Foster was charged before the North Melbourne Police Court this morning with having wounded Alice Amy Peterson with intent to murder her. Accused ...
Article : 79 wordsThe weather during last week was oppressively hot up till Friday last, when a cool change, set in. On the 6th and 7th we were, visited by a plague of blow-flies, ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. Douglas Story, who as editor of "The Standard and Diggers' News," has been in the confidence of the Transvaal Government, in an article in the ...
Article : 864 wordsA further trial of the Massie system of ventilation in deep mines is to be made in the South Star mine, Ballarat. The Mines Department will bear a proportion ...
Article : 83 wordsThe new convent of the Sisters of Mercy, South Broken Hill was formally opened and blessed by Dr. Dunne Bishop of Wilcannia yesterday. His lordship ...
Article : 66 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 79 wordsSir —In spite of a few letters here and there on behalf of dumb animals it has little or no effect. I would ask if in this fair land on ...
Article : 251 wordsTo-day Was observed as a general holiday being the anniversary of Separation Dry. ...
Article : 17 wordsWilliam Florence, a miner employed at the Broken Hill Proprietary mine, and a mate were working this morning in a drive at the 300-ft. level. After firing several ...
Article : 79 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 wordsThe steamer Miowera arrived in Moreton Bay this morning from Vancouver. She was delayed 12 hours at Vancouver and experienced a succession of south-west gales ...
Article : 43 wordsAt a meeting of the New South Wales Cricket Association to-night the recomandation of the executive with regard to the ...
Article : 48 wordsThis afternoon a man, supposed to be John Cregg, fell or threw himself in front of a tram at Pinkenba. The engine struck his head, knocking him down, and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Quarter Sessions were opened this morning by Judge Gibson. Ernest Tollidy, on bail, did not appear to answer a charge of larceny from the person. The sureties ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Earl of Halsbury, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, has ordered the removal from the list of magistrates of several more Irish Nationalist justices of the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe members of the New Zealand and New South Wales contingents have taken part in a reconnaissance in the neighborhood of Naauw Poort a village in the ...
Article : 321 wordsIt is intended an early date to reduce the passenger [?] on Government railways to 1½d per mile first class and to 1d. per mile second class, ordinary single. ...
Article : 76 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 969 wordsLatest advices from Cape Town convey the intelligence that a serious-reverse has been experienced by the forces under Lieutenant-General Sir. W. F. Gatacre, who is ...
Article : 568 wordsIt is understood that Mr. J. G. Ward will join the Ministry as Minister for Railways and Postmaster-General, and that Mr. McGowan. member for Thames, ...
Article : 116 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Tue 12 Dec 1899, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: