Mr. Reid last night received the following telegram from Sir George Turner, Premier of Victoria, in reply to his letter suggesting a conference on the Federation question;-- ...
Article : 319 wordsMembers of the Newcastle Early Closing aud Shop Employees' Associations were the promoters of a well-attended demonstration held last night at the corner of Newcomen and Hunter ...
Article : 868 wordsLONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Mr. G. F. Hoar, Republican Senator of Massachusetts, has spoken in support of the motion of Mr. G. V. Vest, Democratic Senator for ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--M. Blo-witz, the Pass correspondent of "The Times." commenting on the resignation of M. de Beaurepaire, the President of the ...
Article : 118 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The mystery surrounding what is known as the boot-trunk tragedy was partly elucidated to-night, when a domestic servant named Beatrice Jamieson ...
Article : 1,610 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--Steady rain set in in the Brisbane district to-day. which will Interfere with the police Investigations at Gatton and Goodna. ...
Article : 255 wordsThe will of the late John Richardson, of Newlyn, farmer, has been field for probate. The estate is valued at £10,550, and is bequeathed to the widow and children. ...
Article : 526 wordsProfessor Brown, of Glasgow, has been appointed professor of classics for the Victoria University College at Wellington. Mr. Justice Williams, who is now in England. ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The town of Ilo Ilo, which the American forces threaten, has been barricaded by the insurgent Filipinos, in preparation for street fighting. ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--M. de Beaurepaire complains that the gravest partially towards the Dreyfusards was shown by his colleagues of the Court of Cassation M. Loew. ...
Article : 161 wordsMr. M'Neill returned on Sunday afternoon from Toowoomba (says the Brisbane "Courier" special at Gatton). He says the police are making Inquiries about him. The people there would not ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Brigham, secretary of the Auckland Harbor Board, has Informed the board that the Admiralty would not accept the original estimates for fitting up the Calliope Dock for Admiralty purposes, and ...
Article : 92 wordsTo-day (writes the special correspondent of the Brisbane "Courier" on Sunday) I had an opportunity of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Murphy and family ...
Article : 460 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The following telegram has been sent by Mr. Kingston in reply to the letter received from Mr. Reid:--"Replying to your letter of December 31, this Government ...
Article : 393 wordsAt the annual meeting of the New Zealand Insurance Company at Auckland, the chairman expressed regret that the company had again met with severe and quite unprecedented losses on ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--After eluding the surveillance of the Americans at Cavite, where he sought refuge ostensibly to avoid assassination by malcontents of his own ...
Article : 97 wordsRobert Douglas, aged 19, has been arrested at Opaki, near Masterton, on a charge of committing a shocking outrage on a girl aged 17 years. It is alleged that Douglas pulled the girl off her horse ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The death is anounced of H. J. Prince, the founder of the religious settlement of Agapemone. Agapemone, a Greek word, signifies "the abode ...
Article : 278 wordsThe Cricket Council considers that the team has not been materially weakened by the alterations, and has decided to carry out the tour. The council says the conditions for sending the team ...
Article : 73 wordsAbout 1500 applications for pensions under the Old Age Pensions Act have already been received at the four chief centres. ...
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Throughout the war between the United States and Spain the contingency of German intervention in the Philippines occasioned anxiety in ...
Article : 141 wordsSampson has accepted a challenge Issued by some stevedores to pull under tug-of-war rules against a team of seven men. Should he fall in this he is to forfeit £50. In addition, he ...
Article : 80 wordsThe reports of the Customs officers, directed to ascertain the number of seamen willing to Join the colonial naval reserve are considered unsatisfactory from the Admiralty point of view. The men ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Ministers of Agriculture from Adelaide, Brisbane, and Sydney arrived In Melbourne to-day to attend the intercolonial conference. They were received by Mr. Taverner, the ...
Article : 57 wordsGLADSTONE, Wednesday.--The man Lee was arrested at Bororeen after biding his revolver, which is of American make, under a tank near the railway station. The cartridges found in the ...
Article : 235 wordsThe steamer Titania arrived from Brisbane yesterday, and the steamer Indianapolis from Sydney, both to load co-operative coal for Java to the agency, of Messrs. W. Scott, Fell, and Co. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Mount Bischolf London cable gives the price of tin at £97 per ton. The first sod of the Ulverstone-Burnie railway extension was turned to-day by Lady Braddon in ...
Article : 55 wordsThe produce experted through the Department of Agriculture for the past fortnight was as follows:--December 27, per Ophir, 446 tons butter, for London; December 27, per Yarrawonga, 2000 ...
Article : 75 wordsLAUNCESTON, Wednesday.--This evening Sir Edward Braddon addressed his constituents at Ulverstone. He is seeking re-election, having accepted the office of Treasurer in room, of Sir ...
Article : 109 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day, Mr. Justice Chubb granted a rule nisi, returnable in February, to the Full Court, for a writ of mandamus against Richard Dawes (objector) and the bench of ...
Article : 57 wordsNorman Bain, mate or the steamer Centenmal, the loss of which, on Broughton Island, on the 30th December, was attributed by the local Marine Board to his failure to steer the course ...
Article : 184 wordsThis afternoon, at a children's party at Mrs. William Brown's residence, Daylesford, a lad, 13 years old, playfully pointed a pea rifle at a girl of the same age, named Lawson. Belleving it to ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, "Wednesday.--It is reported in official circles that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. Secretary of State for the Colonies, disallows the concession in New Guinea sought by ...
Article : 48 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Cognisance has been taken by the British Government of the recent expression by the Pope of a preference that priests of the Coptic rite, and ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Government has communicated with the Agent-General, asking him to reserve the necessary space at the Paris Exhibition for West ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsWINTON. Wednesday.--The Opalton mailman reports a sensational find of opal on that field. Two Germans, who had done well, left their claim to two men named Shillington and ...
Article : 141 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday Night.--There are no Important developments In connection with the Gatton tragedy. The police are still working hard at Gatton. ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Playing with the English team touring South Africa against a 22 of Graafreinet and district, A. E. Trott took 12 wickets for 40 runs in the first innings, and ...
Article : 49 wordsOwing to the growth of settlement and the scattered nature of agricultural areas, some difficulty is being experienced in getting a fair Idea as to the average wheat yield of the colony, but ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Local Marino Board held Its weekly meeting yesterday afternoon, there being present Captain Cross (chairman). Captain Bain, and Messrs. Frank Gardner and John Reid. No member has ...
Article : 127 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--The police authorities have dispatched two constables to West Australia to bring Wilson to Brisbane. Three constables are being sent south to escort ...
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--In a splenetic outburst consequent upon the British demands from the Transvaal Executive, the Rand "Post" advised that in the event of war ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. George Collins Levey, secretary of the Australasian, Canadian, and African Exhibition to be held at Earl's Court, is arranging with London importers to ...
Article : 73 wordsSINGLETON, Wednesday.--To-day a meeting of the sheep board was hold to take some action relative to the tick plague. Mr. C. H. Dight, M.P., was present by invitation. He explained ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Court of Marine Inquiry at Fremantle has delivered its finding relative to the wreck of the Sepia. They found Captain Hugh Thomas guilty ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.--The quantity of wheat and nour auoat for the muted kingdom is estimated at 2,410,000 quarters, or 130,000 quarters more than last week. The quantity afloat for the Continent ...
Article : 85 wordsTAMWORTH, Wednesday.--The condition of the gravitation pipes in connection with the water supply laid between Tamworth and Moor Greek Is still a disgrace to the Works ...
Article : 422 wordsYesterday afternoon a deputation representing the unemployed of the district was introduced to Mr. James Hogue, Minister for Education and Labor, at the Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle, ...
Article : 257 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--A glove contest for a purse of 20,000 dollars (about £4000) took place yesterday between the American pugilists "Kid" M'Coy and Tom Sharkey. ...
Article : 37 wordsDuring a quarrel between some choir boys last night one, named Percy Heynen, stabbed another boy, William Murray. This morning Heynen was before the court, aud was remanded for a ...
Article : 149 wordsLONDON, Wednesday,--Nine thousand quarters of Victorian wheat (per January sailer) were sold yesterday at 2Ss 6d per quarter. ...
Article : 22 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The editor of a socialist newspaper published in Madgeburg has been sentenced to Imprisonment for a term of four years for the publication of a skit officially ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The Gorman newspapers refer to the threat made to the King of Tonga that Germany would seize the island of Vavau unless certain debts ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday. There was a large attendance and animated bidding. Out of the 3240 bales (mostly River Plate wools) offered, 1700 sold, ...
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The Ottawa correspondent of Renter's Agency reports that It is untrue that the Canadian Government has ottered to contribute towards the cost of the Pacific ...
Article : 41 wordsA post mortem examination of the body of the boy Hill, made by Dr. Wray, disclosed the fact that the lad had been killed by a shot from cither a revolver or a pistol, which must have ...
Article : 197 wordsBALLINA, Wednesday.--A beach miner, Patrick M'Nicholl, who was severely burned through his tent catching fire during last Friday night, succumbed to the effects of his Injuries In the ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The Mount Lyell Com-steek Mining Company, Tasmania, which was formed with a capital of £600,000, has allotted shares to the value of £20,000. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe quarterly meeting of the committee of the Newcastle Hospital was held last night, under the presidency of Mr. Joseph Wood. In their report the house committee noted that Nurse E. ...
Article : 456 wordsLONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The French submarine torpedo boat Gustavo Zede has made a successful journey under the sea from Toulon to Marseilles. ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--M. Desjardins, who was appointed as arbitrator with reference to the claim made against the Belgian Government by Mr. Bon Tillett. in connection with his ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the Police Court this morning William Cosgrove, theatrical manager, was sued by Elsie Landers for £10 10s, being the balance of wages due in connection with an engagement to play a ...
Article : 129 wordsJohn Cadman was again brought before the police court to-day on a charge of murdering his wife at Conargo on November 9 last. The accused was committed for trial to the circuit ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--At the sales of tallow to-day 2175 casks were offered, of which 1625 casks were sold. Mutton, fine, realised 23s' 6d; mutton, medium, 22s; beef, fine, 22s 6d; beef, ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Thu 12 Jan 1899, Page 5
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