Edward Harrison, who killed his paramour Sarah Ann Keat, at East Brunswick, in a shockingly cruel manner, was, before the Criminal Court; to-day, charged with wilful murder. ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The "Daily Mail" states that Commandant-General Louis Botha, of the Boer forces, has forwarded to Field-Marshal Lord Roberts the terms upon ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The reconstructed British Cabinet now includes 20 members of the Government. Lord Salisbury's former Cabinet consisted of 19 ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Lord Hopetoun, Governor-General of the Australian Commonwealth is at Meerut, in the north-west provinces of British-India. ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The Kaiser, Wilhelm II., German Emperor and King of Prussia, yesterday in person opened the German Reichstag, or Diet of the Realm. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 wordsThe Railway Commissioners recognise that provision will have to be made to meet the large railway traffic in connection with the Commonwealth celebrations, and for some time have been ...
Article : 309 wordsIn December of last year Gippsland was devastated by bush fires, some 15,000 acres being affected. Forty-four graziers, farmers, selectors, and others, whose properties were injured. ...
Article : 88 wordsTrooper John Hutton Bisdee, who has been awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing a wounded officer under exceptionally difficult circumstances at Warm Daths, near Pretoria, is a native ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Three days ago it was announced that Nicholas II., Czar of All the Russias, was suffering from a slight attack of influenza. ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The ex-landdrost of a leading Transvaal town, now a prisoner in Durban, Natal, states that after the battle of Spion Kop the late Commanddant-General ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--China has commenced to negotiate for peace on the basis which the Foreign Ministers at Pekin have agreed upon, and which "The Times' " ...
Article : 88 wordsAt the Presbyterian General Assembly to-day, the scheme of union, which had been partially agreed to on the previous day, was put as a whole, and carried on the voices. Dr. ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Citizens' Committee are actively engaged in furthering their arrangements. Several big subscriptions have been promised, and the fund will be inaugurated in a day or two. ...
Article : 107 wordsYesterday a conspicuous advance was made in reference to the preparations for the forthcoming Commonwealth celebrations. The newly-created organising committee, whose chief function is to ...
Article : 1,538 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--During a bull-fight at Alicante, Spain, one of the stands collapsed. Twelve persons were killed, and 200 injured. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Kogarah Council has passed the following resolution:-- "That the councils of Hurstville, Bexley, Rockdale, Botany, and North Botany be asked ...
Article : 79 wordsA well-informed resident of the North-Western district of Victoria says that the crop outlook in the northern parts of the mallee is really poor. Further south, as the Wimmera ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON. Thursday.--Mr. A. Hales (Smiler"), a "Daily News" South African war correspondent, commenting upon the difficulty of obtaining sufficient remounts for the ...
Article : 114 wordsDuring the course of the debate in the Legislative Assembly on the Commonwealth celebrations, Mr. W. H. Wilks, M.P., made the suggestion that the military should march in the ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Japanese troops have been largely withdrawn from Pekin and Tien-tsin. They have not re-embarked, but are operating in ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Special Railway Board of Inquiry appointed in connection with the derailment of a train at Yering, on the Healesville line, on the 7th inst., found that there were serious defects in ...
Article : 111 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--It appears that 20,000,000 tickets of admission to the Paris Exhibition remain unsold. ...
Article : 27 wordsA good deal of dissatisfaction has been expressed in the Newtown district concerning the manner in which the three electorates have been cut up, and portions tacked on to Federal ...
Article : 148 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--A force of Germans, Austrians, and Italians has been despatched against the Boxers and regular Chinese troops who formed the Pekin garrison when ...
Article : 54 wordsLast night about 60 or 70 business people of Oxford-street met at the Cambridge Club Hotel and formed themselves into a general committee to look after the decoration of the street. Mr. C. G. ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Bond Government won 32 out of a total of 36 seats in the Lower House at the recent Newfoundland general elections. The sole issue before the ...
Article : 59 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--The defeat of the M'Lean Ministry, and the inauguration of the Turner Government, is the mildest political crisis Victoria has ever known. There is absolutely ...
Article : 444 wordsThis afternoon the whole of the navvies on the construction of the Heidelberg and Eltham railway, numbering about 300. struck work. They ask an increase of wages from 6s to 7s a day. ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--Major-General E. T. H. Hutton, lately commanding the First Colonial Brigade (Mounted Infantry) on active service in South Africa, has returned ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON. Thursday.--A Jew named Hilsner has been tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death in Polna, Bohemia, for, the ritual murder of two girls. ...
Article : 272 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Another small German expedition is starting for the Ming Tombs. Reporters have been forbidden to accompany the expedition. ...
Article : 26 wordsWhilst repairing a well at Sandmount near Numurkah, a well-sinker named Wm. Williams, 55 was smothered by a falling mass of earth. Williams was working on a small stage, about ...
Article : 73 wordsThe question of making special provision for the aborigines was discussed at a meeting of the Aborigines Board yesterday. It was decided to communicate with the Principal ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Premier yesterday received a despatch through the Lieutenant-Governor from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, setting forth in detail the Imperial troops who will attend the ...
Article : 197 wordsStill matters do not run smoothly at Burwood Colliery. At the last meeting of the men, the secretary stated that the manager had informed him that it was his intention to in future carry ...
Article : 212 wordsAt a poorly attended public meeting in the Centennial-hall to-night, motions were passed protesting against the decision of Parliament to grar[?]t the winners of Grammar School ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Dr. Leyds declares that Mr. Kruger has saved a portion of the money, amounting to £100,000, belonging to the Transvaal Treasury. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe work of decorating the vestibule of the Town-hall is to be expedited. The City Council has approved of designs for interior decorations, and the tender of Mr. S. W. Bradbury has ...
Article : 60 wordsMiss Lillian May Ward, daughter of Mr. James Ward, of Cunllffe, was riding home on a bicycle from Kadina, on Monday night, with a few friends, when a wombat ran against the front ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The shipments of tobacco per the ships Loch Vonnachar and Loch Ness (which sailed from Melbourne on July 19 and August 22, respectively) are, apparently good ...
Article : 38 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--According to advices from Berlin, 15,000 Boers intend crossing the Kalahari Desert into Damaraland. the chief German possession in ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Hughes has given notice to ask the Premier to-day if, in view of the fact that local politics will not be involved in the Federal campaign, civil servants will be permitted to take part in it. ...
Article : 41 wordsOn July 18 last "The Daily Telegraph" published a diagram and description of the M'Lean-Gibson coal-loader, an invention for which it was claimed that it would prevent all the breakage ...
Article : 262 wordsIn pursuance of resolutions recently carried by the North Sydney Council, to the effect that the councils of Mosman, Manly, Willoughby, and Lane Cove be asked to co-operate in presenting a joint ...
Article : 144 wordsAt a large meeting of talloresses at Perth, a log submitted by the master tailors was rejected. An endeavor is to be made to obtain a conference with the master tailors. Failing that, the ...
Article : 78 words"Cowra," on behalf of his district, claims a right to some financial assistance from the Government for the purpose of celebrating the inauguration of the Commonwealth in the country. ...
Article : 239 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--In the Legislative Assembly, the Speaker intimated that application had been made for the clerk of the House to produce all papers relating to the Cambooya ...
Article : 197 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The steamer Suffolk will leave Capetown on Friday for Australia, with 50 invalided rank and file and 20 officers. ...
Article : 34 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--The Leysley divorce case was concluded to-day. The jury found that J. H. Dunsford, M.P., had committed adultery with Annie Leysley, and ...
Article : 74 wordsA meeting of delegates from the various metropolitan unions, convened by the Sydney Labor Council, was held at the Trades-hall last night. Mr. T. H. Thrower occupied the chair, and ...
Article : 154 wordsMr. Seddon has sent a cable to Lord Roberts, expressing sympathy at the illness of his daughter. ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Prior to their return to South Africa, the Queen received,two of the leading nuns who were at tile siege of Mafeking. ...
Article : 33 wordsWELLINGTON (N,Z.), Thursday.--The Union Company's steamer Waikare had a very rough passage from Sydney until reaching Cape Farewell. The decks were continually under water, ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Otira section of the midland line has been completed and handed over to the Working Railways Department. There is still a gap of 46 miles awaiting construction before the line ...
Article : 133 wordsMany people were somewhat startled yesterday afternoon to hear two loud reports, which sounded like firing of the signal gun, and some rushed out expecting to see the lifeboat launched to go ...
Article : 191 wordsFREMANTLE, Thursday.--The Orient R.M.S. Ormuz arrived from Colombo at 6.30 a.m. to-day, with the following passengers in the saloon:-- ...
Article : 441 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Privates W. H. Gosse and J. G. Saunders, of the South Australian Mounted Infantry, have received commissions in the British Field ...
Article : 30 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.--Both the Workmen's Compensation and Crown Lands Consolidation Bills passed through their remaining stages in the House of Assembly to-day. ...
Article : 192 wordsSir William Lyne said, in reply to an inquiry from Mr. Terry as to whether "our brethren" of the neighboring colonies were to be invited to be present at the Commonwealth ...
Article : 311 wordsAt the annual meeting of the National Insurance Company the balance-sheet as previously cabled, was adopted. The chairman mentioned that the company had lately been compelled to ...
Article : 93 wordsWYALONG, Thursday.--At a meeting of ratepayers held last night, the Mayor, Alderman Moriarty, explained the position to be taken up in connection with the rating of mines. He ...
Article : 271 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon. --Batches of prisoners are arriving at Mafeking. Included in the number are 80 Boors, who were captured at Otto's Hoop, where ...
Article : 36 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--The famous Wilkie divorco suit, which bid fair to be the subject of almost endless litigation, has been settled. Mr. wakie intended carrying on the equity suit ...
Article : 293 wordsThree foreign-going sailers arrived yesterday to load coal cargoes. They were the Endora, bqe., from Fremantle, which is to load Seaham and West Wallsend coal for Manila; the Banffshire. ...
Article : 268 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The following particulars are to hand relating to the Australasian soldiers on active service in South Africa:-- ...
Article : 231 wordsPERTH, Thursday.--In the Legislative Council the bill to provide for the payment of members was finally dealth with. The Assembly agreed to a suggestion to make the salaries of membors ...
Article : 72 wordsMount Bischoff declared a dividend to-day of 15s per share. Mr. Henry Edgell has been elected chairman and Mr. Robert Carter vice-chairman of the ...
Article : 56 wordsSCONE, Thursday.--Mr. W. Laing, schoolmaster at Gandy, was found drowned in the Page River last night. A magisterial inquiry held to-day showed that deceased went to bathe about 4.30 ...
Article : 105 wordsSir William Lyne has been apprised of the change in the route to be taken by the procession, proposed by the executive committee. He, however, has by no means decided to carry out the ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Fri 16 Nov 1900, Page 5
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