The southern coal miners have for some time been endeavoring to secure an advance in the price of coal and the hewing rate of a similar nature to that successfully fought for by their. ...
Article : 231 wordsALBURY, Wednesday.--A report from Brookong to-day states that there are now 40 free laborers on the board, or just one-hald of the number required. The unionists state that shearing there ...
Article : 183 wordsAt the half-yearly meeting of the union Trustee Company to-day the chairman. Alderman Bayles, stated that the profits made justified a 3 per cent, dividend, and the business was such ...
Article : 127 wordsLONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 5 1-16d per ounce standard, a further rise of 1-16d per ounce on yesterday's quotation. ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Boers sent 50 trucks of ammunition to Delagoa Bay before they surrendered, aud also burnt a considerable quantity. ...
Article : 213 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Sir Henry Camp-bell-Bannerman, the lender of the Opposition, in the course of a letter addressed to the electors of Stirling, states that the first ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Not withstanding the Imperial deeree ordering the withdrawal of the Russian troops from the Pekin Legation to Tien-tsin, owing to the ...
Article : 133 wordsThe House in committee was dealing with the Early Closing Bill, when the first edition was published. An amendment by Mr. Hughes in Clause 12, ...
Article : 180 wordsIt is understood that Dalgety and Co. have acquired tho business of John Grice and Co., of South Australia, leading wool, produce, and general merchandise merchants and shipping ...
Article : 53 wordsBROKEN-HILL, Thursday.--yesterday £2305 was paid for an eighth of an acre of land at the corner of Argent and Oxide streets. This is probably the Broken-hill record. In boom time ...
Article : 104 wordsAn inquiry into the metropolitan Board Works and its doings by the Royal Commission became slightly more interesting to-day. A suburban councillor, giving evidence, objected ...
Article : 146 wordsAt the meeting of the Australasian Labor Federation yesterday a number of letters were received from the Victorian Miners' Association, dealing with the Gippsland troubles, and the ...
Article : 189 wordsCLIFTON, Thursday.--The steamer Herga loaded a lull cargo of best coal at the Coalcliff Colliery Company's jetty yesterday, when a very smart piece of coal shipping was witnessed. The ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The attitude of isolation taken up by the United States Government and is refusal to co-operate with Count von Waldersee, the ...
Article : 145 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The British Admiralty has ordered 5000 tons of American coal for delivery at Ireland Island, the naval station at The BERMUDAS and 2500 tons for delivery at Halifax. ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Sir Matthew White Ridley, Secretary of State for the Home Department, in his address to the electors of Lancashire, states that the utterances of ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Select Committee which inquired into the causes of disaffection in the 5th Battalion of the militia at Bendigo gave Parliament, their report to-night. Generally, they throw the onus of ...
Article : 129 wordsALBURY, Thursday.--At the Circuit Court to day,John O'Donnell, of Yarrawonga, who was found guilty yesterday of a charge of stealing 14 sheep, the property of A. Sloane, of Kilyana sta ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--At the weekly sales of Australasian tallow to-day 2150 casks were offered, and 1625 casks were sold. Prices realised were as follow:--Mutton, fine 27s ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The Hollander and other late officials of the South African Republic have sailed for Europe in the steamer Herzog. They took with them a quantity of ...
Article : 40 wordsBULLI, Thursday.--Oil Wednesday 30 miners employed in Bulli colliery, who are working in very hard, deficient places, gave the manager 14 days' notice of their intention to cease work. For ...
Article : 157 wordsA man was arrested at Bendigo to-night who gave the name of William Henry Hawthorne, on suspicion of being concerned in the armed robbery at Barrapoort Hotel on Sunday night. A ...
Article : 93 wordsNARRABRI, Thursday.--The electoral roll for the district, which is being compiled, shows a falling-off in tho number of electors, the old roll having contained 2059 names, of which 672 have ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--James Howard has been sentenced to death for tho murder of Governor Goebel, of Kentucky. ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A strong flying column under Colonel De Lisle has left Pretoria in pursuit of Commandant Christian De Wet. ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The Duke of Devonshire's epithet of "marauding bands," applied to the broken Liberals, with their "heterogeneous, Radical, and leaderless ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The Premier, Lord Salisbury, awaits information from Sir Claude Macdonald before replying to the German proposal that the instigators and ...
Article : 72 wordsMessrs. W. Fehon and D. kir[?]te (Railway Commissioners), attended by the principal departmental officers, were at Newcastle yesterday. They went through Hamilton workshops and ...
Article : 341 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.--[?]ord Tennyson, in replying to the toast of his health at Strathalbya agricultural show to-day, said Mr. Stirling, M.L.C., had asked him to find out about ...
Article : 391 wordsMACLEAN, Thursday.--Yesterday the body of a man was found on a farm at Harwood Island, with the throat cut. In his clenched hand was A blood-stained razor. At the Coroner's inquiry ...
Article : 101 wordsAt a special meeting, of the directors of the Baud and Loch, hold at' Ballarat to-night, a most exhaustive inquiry was made into the reason for the recent fall in the yield. Eventually the ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The speeches of Mr. George Wyndham, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War, in which he has frankly welcomed criticism of the war ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Lord Roberts announces that the City of Loudon Imperial Volunteers will be in London for November 5 (Guy Fawkes Day), but he fears that he ...
Article : 38 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Legislative Assembly sat until midnight discussing the Estimates. There were no startling developments. It was decided that the House should sit on ...
Article : 38 wordsHILLGROVE, Thursday.--A son, aged 14, of Mr. Joseph .Fitzgerald, of Kunderang Station, was drowned in Georges River on Tuesday night. Deceased, to meet the mailman, had to cross a ...
Article : 41 wordsA return tabled in the Assembly shows that the amount of dividend duty collected from the gold and mineral fields of the colony for two years ended June 30 was £73,918, whilst the dividend ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--A famine is feared in North China, owing to the non-shipment of rice supplies. ...
Article : 24 wordsHARDEN, Thursday.--The Harden district amalgamated railway employees' annual picnic was held on the. racecourse yesterday, and attracted a large gathering from the neighboring towns. ...
Article : 59 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--In the Legislative Assembly, in reply to Mr. Lesina, tho Premier said a letter had been received by the Governor from Sir Alfred Milner, dated 21st April, to the ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Sixteen Canadian officers and 319 of the rank aud file have left Capetown, homeward bound for Canada. ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Sir Walter Peace, the late Agent-General for Natal, has published a letter, in which he warns the country that 12,000,000 people in the British ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The native Christians in Southern China are flocking to Canton, where the gravity of the situation is daily increasing. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Government has purchased Mr. A. B. Murray's Paracombe Estate, on tho River Torrens, near Inglewood, for closer settlement. The estate contains 1245 acres of garden and grazing ...
Article : 121 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--When the Treason Bill was Introduced Into the Capo Legislative Council, Dr. Ross intimated that he would move in favor of 1[?], instead of a five ...
Article : 37 wordsSUTHERLAND, Thursday.--The proposal to construct a tramway from Sutherland to Cronulla is receiving strong support throughout the district. At a largely attended meeting on ...
Article : 105 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.--The House of Assembly to-day completed its consideration in committee of tho Factories Bill, a proposal for a ravel commission to watch the operation of the ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Li Hung Chang declined an offer from the United States that an American officer should escort him to Pekin. ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The following casualties are reported to have occurred among the Australian troops on active service in South Africa:-- ...
Article : 154 wordsARMIDALE, Thursday.--There was a big gathering of townspeople in the Town-hall last night when the Right Rev. Monsignor O'Connor was entertained by tho Catholic community in honor ...
Article : 383 wordsGeorge Weiland, butcher, late of Newcastle, against whom Mrs. Pearson obtained last June a Supreme Court verdict of £1250 for the seduction of her daughter. Ethel Annie Pearson. was ...
Article : 332 wordsPERTH, Thursday.--In the Legislative Assembly the Premier reported that the administrator had received a reply to a telegram to the Secretary of State for the Colonies inviting ...
Article : 109 wordsARMIDALE, Thursday.--The annual sports gathering attracted a large and fashionable gathering at the Armidale School ground to-day. Favorable weather prevailed, and everything ...
Article : 1,261 wordsIn the course of a topical article in the "Quiver," on the subject of "Tommy Atkins at Church," the author (an ex-army chaplain) recalls some amusing anecdotes of the perplexity ...
Article : 564 wordsCaptain Norton, who recently returned from South Africa as on invalided soldier, has bad his right leg operated on in North Adelaide Private Hospital. The operation was successful, and ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Prince Tuan's position as President of tho State Council is equivalent to his being Premier of China. ...
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The recently-ap-pointed German Minister, Dr. Mumm von Schwarzenstein, has sailed northwards with the German squadron from Shanghai. ...
Article : 23 wordsWELLINGTON, Thursday.--A bill to prevent abuses in private industrial schools, by instituting a more rigid system of inspection, was read a second time in the House of Representatives. ...
Article : 74 wordsSir William Lyne, in answer to a question by Mr. J. Fitzpatrick, In tho Legislative Assembly yesterday, stated that the committee of tho Citizens' Bushmen's Contingent bad done all that ...
Article : 70 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.--The Premier has received a cablegram from Captain Croswell stating that the South Australian gunboat Protector would sail from Shaughul for Taku this morning. ...
Article : 35 wordsIn connection with the Great Western railway, Mr. Russell Young solicitor, has been appointed agent; Mr. G. E. Moore, engineer-in-chief; and Mr. W. J. M'Williams, secretary. ...
Article : 30 wordsALBURY, Thursday.--In the course of address to the jury in the Kilyana sheep [?] case, counsel for accused referred to the question of the appointment of a public defender. He ...
Article : 250 wordsKALGOORLIE, Thursday.--The Mount Charlotte battery has been engaged full time this month, principally on stone taken from east and west lodes at the 100ft. level, and near the ...
Article : 369 wordsThe steamer Mareeba, from Brisbane, called a Newcastle en route to Sydney yesterday to lane. 100 tons of sugar and load bunker coal. Tim steamer Tainan entered yesterday from ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Griffin memorial tablet, recently unveiled at the Town-hall, was permanently affixed to the northern wall of the vestibule yesterday, the position being well chosen and suitable in every ...
Article : 150 wordsA fire broke out in the timber yard of Mr. F. H. Crisp, shortly after 6 o'clock this morning. The flames spread rapidly, and the damage is estimated at from £7000 to £8000. The property ...
Article : 48 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--At the half-yearly meeting of the Great Southern No. 1 Company this afternoon, the troubles threatening in the mines of the [?]tern Valley district was feformed ...
Article : 293 wordsGERMANTON, Thursday.--The Minister for Works was present at the show to-day. A deputation was introduces by Mr. John Ross to urge The construction of the Culcairn-Germantion ...
Article : 99 wordsBOWRAL, THURSDAY.--It is stated by one of the returned soldiers invalided from South Africa that no colonial pay has been received since April last The Imperial pay has been paid up to date. ...
Article : 115 wordsMACKAY (Q), Thursday.--The crushing of sugar-cane this season promises to give botter results than last year. For the quarter ending 30th September, 1899, the amount of sugar ...
Article : 162 wordsThe French Government, it is stated, will, perhaps discontinue the use of the guillotine and adopt electrical execution. By this method the head of the criminal is enclosed in a ...
Article : 161 wordsCOBAR, Thursday.--A fatal accident occurred in the Cobar gold mines at Fort Bourke-hill this afternoon. A heavy fall of earth in an open cut killed two men, John Nichols and John ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsTENTERFIELD, Thursday.--Sergeant-major M'Alister and Private Dawson, who recently returned from the Transvaal, were entertained at a smoke concert by their military comrades, ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Fri 28 Sep 1900, Page 5
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