Bush fires are devastating a great tract of country in New South Wales, and men are everywhere fighting the flames, which threaten to destroy many homes and property. ...
Article : 203 wordsWORK is now entirely confined to mining for oxidised ore, chiefly northward of the main shaft on the eastern body at the back of the 200ft All told, nearly 60 hands are ...
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Advertising : 190 wordsA Royal Commission has been appointed to inquire into the duration of the coalfields of the United Kingdom, the methods of transport, the cost and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 79 wordsRaces were held at Petersburg on Saturday Restless won the Tariff Handicap, but was beaten by Bess in the Flying Handicap. Principle won the Hurdies, and Priesters ...
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Article : 31 wordsThe man De Robert, leader of a gang of Continental s[?]ugglers, has been sentenced to two years' gaol and fined £2000 for stealing, and other members ...
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Article : 727 wordsWilliam Russell Lennard, formerly of Queensland, has been arrested charged with stealing a cheque for £36, the property of one Morr[?], of Charters Towers. Accused ...
Article : 167 wordsThe trial of Commandant Scheepers in Cape Colony has been resumed. Commandant Scheepers, in defence, testified, claiming that he was a Free ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Joseph Chamberlain has forwarded to Mr. Barton a copy of a despatch received by the Foreign Office from the Hon. W. A. O. Barrington, British Minister at Buenos ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 22 wordsOn Saturday and last night a large audience passed a favorable verdict on the variety performance given at the Empire. Will Harvey was in good form, and Jack Lewis sang to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsOn the West Coast the rabbits have increased during the last two months so alarmingly that they threaten to eat out the country and ruin the farmers. Wire notting ...
Article : 93 wordsLord Kitchener has granted 1000 permits to men to return to the Transvaal; also special permits for men to work in the mines. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. W.LANGDON is the electric engineer of the Midland Railway Company, He is also president of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and it was in this capacity that he ...
Article : 590 wordsTHIS number of inquests for the year ending to-day fall short of that of 1900. Nevertheless, the past has been the most fruitful of fatalities of many years; one of the inquests ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 10 wordsThe Dutch taal movement at Burghersdorp has, it is said, been secretly overthrown. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsMr. Dobson has been reappointed AgentGeneral for Tasmania in London. Mr. E. Mulcaby, Min[?]ster of Works, has resigned his control over the Railway ...
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Family Notices : 46 wordsThe new South wales and Victorian contributions to the Federal South African contingent will comprise three units each, consisting of 121 officers, non commissioned ...
Article : 232 wordsCHRISTMAS has passed, and tomorrow we enter the second year of the new century. So far as Australia is concerned the year 1901 ...
Article : 894 wordsTHE correspondent in Paris of the Pall Mall Gazette has supplied his journal with an account of what he calls the 'Mas[?]acre of Pere Lachaise." It is as follows:—"There ...
Article : 497 wordsThe New South Wales Bankruptcy report for the year 1901, jest issued, shows that 462 applications for sequestration were presented during the 12 month, 354 being voluntary ...
Article : 49 wordsWilliam Regan, 37, a laborer, was placed in a cell in the city lookup yesterday on a charge of being of unsound mind. The officer in charge subsequently bearing a noise rushed ...
Article : 92 wordsTHE MINER will not be published tomorrow (New Year's Day). The chief attraction in the way of recreation will be tbe Caledonian Society's annual ...
Article : 227 wordsTHE ordinary meeting of the Fire Brigade Board was held yesterday afternoon in the Mayor's par or. Present: The Mayor (Alderman Retallick) in the chair, and ...
Article : 432 wordsMr. Turner, president of the Public Service Association, yesterday afternoon introduced a deputation to the Premier from the recent conference concerning the desirableness of ...
Article : 232 wordsEliza S[?]arkey, 22, residing with her parents at Concord, was returning home last evening after visiting her relations in the city and was crossing the railway after leaving the ...
Article : 64 wordsA MEETING of the grand lodge of the M. U., Barrier District, was held on [?] night at Tait's Hall. Provincial Grand Master Bro. Thomas presided, and the ...
Article : 178 wordsWilliam New, 43, a night watchman, residing at Rockdale, suicided yesterday with a revolver. He shot himself in the head. ...
Article : 31 wordsAT the half-yearly meeting of the above last night (Mr E. K. Be[?]nmont presiding) the following officers were appointed for the ensuing term:—President. Mr.J B.Ferguson; ...
Article : 198 wordsAn inquest held at Kingston, London, on November 19, on the body of Mary Boyce, aged 7, who died at Kingston Victoria College Hospital from burrs sustained at New ...
Article : 197 wordsLAST night the greater part of the stakes won at the recent Trades Hall sports were paid over to the winners. No balance-sheet had been prepared, but it was reported that the ...
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Advertising : 72 wordsThe Five-mile Lagoon School, Balranald, was destroyed by fire on Saturday during a heavy thunderstorm. At an inquest yesterday a verdict was returned that the school ...
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Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954), Tue 31 Dec 1901, Page 2
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