Mr. Evelyn B. Baldwin, the leader of the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition, which lately returned to Norway on the conclusion of fifteen months' work in the North Polar seas, speaking ...
Article : 1,639 wordsChristmas Day passed quietly and decorously, as Christmas Day has long been wont to do with us. Except during church hours, there was little movement out of doors. ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Lord Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, has issued a memorandum setting forth proposals for far-reaching reforms in the training and personnel of ...
Article : 298 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The Italian Government has informed the United States authorities at Washington that Italy will feel happy if President Roosevelt agrees to ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The "Daily Express" states that the gift of 100,000 dollars (£20,000) made by the American citizen, Mr. Henry Phipps, of the Carnegie Company, for ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Town-hall was last evening crowded with an unusually large audience, on the occasion of the usual annual performance on Christmas night of the "Messiah" by the Sydney Philharmonic ...
Article : 428 wordsSpecial Christmas services were held at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday, and were largely attended. The pulpit was choicely decorated with white flowers and greenery, the work being ...
Article : 284 wordsRegarding the experiences of his expedition to the Arctic regions, Mr. Sverdrup has made the following statement in Christiania:-- "I spent the winter of 1898-9 in winter quarters ...
Article : 403 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The Dutch steamer Prinz Willem arrived at La Guoyra on Tuesday, and, the captain, having refused to pay the port charges to the ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A joint history of the Boer war has been written by 700 Boer prisoners, who were in camp at Ahmednagar, in India. ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--British reinforcements, numbering in all about 700 men, have arrived from Berbera at Obbia, in Italian territory, and will land on Saturday for the ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The directors of the Kaffyfontein Diamond Mining Company, in the Orange River Colony, have decided to try Indian, instead of native ...
Article : 52 wordsThe services at St. James' Church, which were also of an appropriate character, were attended by large congregations, and during the day over 350 persons partook of the Holy Communion, ...
Article : 95 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Upon receiving members of the College of Cardinals on Christmas Eve Pope Leo XIII took occasion to warmly eulogise the Christian democratic ...
Article : 79 wordsWhat the old proverb says of good wine can be enthusiastically applied to the unique and gifted Fisk Jubilee Singers, who made their reappearance in Sydney last night at the ...
Article : 530 wordsMasses were celebrated every half-hour at St. Mary's Cathedral yesterday from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. At the latter hour there was High Mass, with Cardinal Moran presiding. The intoning was by ...
Article : 176 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--"The Times," commenting on the memorandum setting forth the proposed reforms in the training of officers for the navy, states that it is one of the ...
Article : 144 wordsMrs. Bergin, a visitor staying with her brother, Mr. J. Johnstone, at Millard, near Wycheproof, was stooping over the kitchen fire yesterday when her apron caught fire, and in an instant her ...
Article : 96 wordsSir John Wolfe Barry in presiding over the recent meeting of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company in London had (writes our London correspondent) much to explain to the ...
Article : 731 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Advices from Fez state that the Sultan's troops have victoriously entered the city of Teza, where the Pretender recently established his Court. ...
Article : 33 wordsThere was no special feature to distinguish this Christmas Day from its predecessors. There were the usual church services, and for old and needy special treats were prepared. The ...
Article : 115 wordsA sacred concert was given last night at the Burton-street Baptist Church, and was largely attended. The Rev. C. S. Rose, pastor, presided, and sacred items were contributed by Misses E. ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The Archduke Joseph-Ferdinand has accepted his elder brother's renunciation of all rights to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany conditional upon the Archduke ...
Article : 40 wordsEverything possible was done to make the day a joyous one amongst the inmates of the Benevolent Society homes. A special dinner was provided at the ...
Article : 217 wordsEarly this morning two men, Joseph chambers and an American negro named Edward Bonnett, had an altercation about a woman at Smeed-street, Bowen-hills, and it is alleged that ...
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The British-American millionaire, Mr. W. W. Astor, has given £50,000 to the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond-street, to build an Out-Patient's Department in ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered a first-class cruiser from the yards of the Thames Shipbuilding Company. ...
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--M. Romain d'Aurignac's reputed mistress, Madame Duleza, who was arrested at Buenos Ayres in connection with the Crawford-Humbert frauds, has been ...
Article : 30 wordsThe new British cruisers, as described in "Engineering," to be known as the Duke of Edinburgh class," are to have citadels, as distinct from the scattered casemate system, and when one ...
Article : 642 wordsA collision occurred at Park-road railway station, on the Cleveland line, about 4 o'clock this afternoon. A mixed train from Manley was shunting some carriages at the station, when ...
Article : 158 wordsLONDON Thursday Afternoon.--The Central American Republic of Nicaragua is concentrating troops upon the Isthmus of Panama from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans. ...
Article : 29 wordsAn important development has taken place in connection with the death of James Gleeson, 34, laborer, whose dead body was found yesterday morning in a lane off the New South Head-road. ...
Article : 172 wordsA sacred continental was given at the Sydney Cricket Ground last evening, when there was a good attendance. Tho ground, illuminated by thousands of electric and acetylene gas ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Christmas breakfast which has been given annually for many years by the Young Men's Christian Association to destitute men was attended by a larger number than usual. Fully ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. F. H. Wilson, eldest son of the late Sir John Cracroft Wilson, died at Christchurch yesterday from paralysis, aged 71. At the Maori elections, the sitting members ...
Article : 35 wordsYesterday morning the Sydney Night Refuge and Reformatory gave a breakfast to over 70 men, who were quite destitute. The meal was spread in the court-yard of the Refuge premises, ...
Article : 76 wordsALBURY, Thursday--A peculiar accident happened on the express train from Sydney this morning. When the train arrived here Mr. W. Howard, member of tho firm of Chicken and ...
Article : 346 wordsThe children and officials at the Randwick Asylum spent a very happy day. Through the kindness of the house committee and a number of friends, an abundance of eatables, ...
Article : 256 wordsChristmas caused but little stir at Newcastle this year, the celebration of the festival being quieter than usual. The day was comparatively cool; an easterly wind sprang up after breakfast, ...
Article : 266 wordsThe funeral of the Ramsay's Bush victim, Jennie Irene Smith, took place yesterday at the Necropolis. The parents were the recipients of messages from persons all over the State, ...
Article : 331 wordsThe romantic story of "Ben Hur" formed the subject of an interesting lecture at the Queen's-hall, Pitt-street, last night, Mr. Albert Lucas, elocutionist, being assisted by the Lew-Wallace ...
Article : 149 wordsManly was the only waterside resort to attract excursionists in anything like large numbers. The other pleasure grounds round about Port Jackson were visited but by few. Steamers plied ...
Article : 62 wordsThe additions which have recently been completed to St. Anne's Church, Strathfield and Hombush, were dedicated by the Archbishop on Tuesday evening. They comprise the extension of ...
Article : 152 wordsVery few people availed themselves of the holiday for picnicking purposes, either in the city or suburbs, and the principal pleasure resorts were comparatively deserted. Consequently ...
Article : 203 wordsFORBES, Thursday.--A big fire occurred at 2 o'clock this morning. A high wind fanned some sparks into flame at the back corner of Findale's office, where there was a fire last week. This ...
Article : 132 wordsA matinee performance was given at the Town-hall yesterday afternoon, by the Vice-Regal Military Band, under the direction of Mr. L. de Groen, before a large and appreciative ...
Article : 186 wordsAs a Christmas gift to the Civil Ambulance Brigade, the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company, Limited, has fitted to the "Samaritan" litter, which was given to the brigade seven years ago, ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Fri 26 Dec 1902, Page 5
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