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  2. SPORTING. The Turf.

    Four out of seven events at the Petersburg races on Wednesday were won by Barrier horses, namely, Sunflower (two races), Archer, and Millstream. The latter ...

    Article : 348 words
  3. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 669 words
  4. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS. New South Wales.

    Mr. Frank Blpxham, secretary to the State Labor Bureau, has been appointed governor of the Goulburn Gaol. Mr. Reid declines to accept Mr. Joseph ...

    Article : 123 words
  5. MINING. [BY TELEGRAPH.] The Overflow Mine.

    At the half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Overflow Silver Mining Company, Mr. Griffiths presiding, the report of the directors, which was read, stated that Mr. ...

    Article : 172 words
  6. AMUSEMENTS.

    THE cinematographe was shown once more at the Town Hall last night, and, as on previous occasions, the attendances were excellent. The whole of the scenes were ...

    Article : 112 words
  7. THE CRISIS IN CRETE.

    The position in Crete continues Serious. Colonel Vassos, who is in command of the Greek forces, is making arrangements for holding municipal elections throughout ...

    Article : 270 words
  8. THE CASE OF THE FORRESTS.

    AT the last meeting of the Wilcannia municipal council a petition was handed in by the clerk, who stated that it had been given to him to place before the council, ...

    Article : 443 words
  9. Victoria.

    The Women's Christian Temperance Union Conference at Warrnambool has decided to boycott liquor and tobacco sellers. The conference favored early shopping. ...

    Article : 61 words
  10. The Junction North.

    The shaft has now been deepened 97ft. below the 640ft. The ground is getting very tough, the former easy working schistose rock having given way to a quartz ...

    Article : 309 words
  11. South Australia.

    A fox has been shot in the Bremer district, this side of the Murray, and within 40 miles of the city. This is the first one shot in this part of the colony. ...

    Article : 137 words
  12. INDIAN FAMINE FUND.

    A VESTING of the committee of the municipal council appointed to consider the Indian Famine Fund appeal was held yesterday afternoon in the Town Hall. ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. Cycling.

    J. E. Bulkeley, of Broken Hill, started off 130 yards in the Open Handicap on the Jubilee Oval, Adelaide, on Wednesday. He ran unplaced. ...

    Article : 65 words
  14. West Australia.

    The Government has decided to construct a railway from York to Greenhills. A carpenter working on the Great Boulder mine was proceeding into town last night ...

    Article : 55 words
  15. THE RAND RAID.

    In the House of Commons last evening, the Secretary for the Colonies (Mr. Chamberlain) announced that a message had been received from the Transvaal Government ...

    Article : 115 words
  16. THE STATE LABOR BUREAU.

    IN his report for the Government Labor Bureau's operations for the six months ended December 31, 1896, the superintendent, Mr. J. Creer, states that there was a marked ...

    Article : 752 words
  17. Tasmania.

    General rains have fallen throughout the island. Barker, the champion bicyclist of the island, is likely to accept an appointment in ...

    Article : 26 words
  18. IMPORTING DOUGH.

    ASTONISHMENT scarcely conveys the feelings of those who are officially entrusted with scanning the Customs returns when on looking over the figures of importe [?]eross the ...

    Article : 928 words
  19. Junction Consolidated.

    A representative meeting of the Junction Consolidated S. M. Company Was held in Adelaide on Thursday afternoon, Mr. G. F. Ind (chairman of directors) presiding. The ...

    Article : 203 words
  20. Queensland.

    A Cooktown telegram reports that 70 men from southern ports have arrived there en route to the New Guinea goldfields. ...

    Article : 23 words
  21. TE WATER SUPPLY.

    ANT statement to the effect that the people of Broken Hill are satisfied with their present water supply is nothing more or less than a gross ...

    Article : 482 words
  22. PRIVATE GAS COMPANIES V. MUNICIPAL.

    IN view of the discussion as to the ability of municipalities and other corporate bodies to work as cheaply and efficiently as private companies, the Parliamentary reports ...

    Article : 350 words
  23. TYPHOID ON THE BOAIS.

    Dr. O'Connor, city medical officer, has reported to the health committee of the city council that, during last month, of the typhoid cases which had occurred, 15 cases ...

    Article : 58 words
  24. THE MARKETS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 244 words
  25. GENERAL CABLE NEWS. The U. S. Minister in London.

    It is announced from Washington that Mr. Chauncey Depew, the well-known railway magnate, will succeed the Hon. T. F. Bayard as United States Minister in ...

    Article : 48 words
  26. The Yancowinna Company.

    The first general meeting of the Yancowinna Mining and Prospecting Company was held at Ware's Exchange Hotel on Thursday night. Mr. W. H. Hall presided ...

    Article : 384 words
  27. African Hostilities.

    News from West Africa states that the Emir of Nupe, against whom the Royal Niger Company has despatched a force, is re-forming the Fulahs, who were recently ...

    Article : 61 words
  28. Family Notices

    {No abstract available}

    Family Notices : 30 words
  29. Barrier Miner.

    THE many amendments which have lately been made or proposed in our electoral law leave a pretty large Section of the public in pretty grave ...

    Article : 912 words
  30. ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. [BY TELEGRAPH.] Serious Lift Accident.

    Last night, at the Hotel Arcadia, the night porter ascended by the life to the top floor, conveying some luggage. Having alighted, he sent the lift down. A waiter ...

    Article : 167 words
  31. THE ANGEL THE HOUSE.

    MR. FREDERIC HARRISON, to commemorate "the day of all good women," delivered an address on December 31 at Newton Hall, Fetter-lane, before a large audience. When ...

    Article : 555 words
  32. METHODIST UNION.

    ALL the Methodist Churches on the Barrier will be represented at the annual conferences which open in Adelaide next week. The big question to be perhaps ...

    Article : 756 words
  33. Run Over by a Cart.

    Arthur Alexander, a little fellow 9 years old, was run over by a butcher's cart and killed at North Adelaide yesterday evening. ...

    Article : 30 words
  34. A Fatal Sunstroke.

    Francis Cott, farmer, of Templers, died on Friday as the result of sunstroke. ...

    Article : 18 words
  35. Managers' Reports.

    THE BRITISH, to February 10.—Black-wood shaft—100ft level: Past vein stopes on this level showing good faces of lead ore. 200ft. level: Stopes in western extension ...

    Article : 269 words
  36. Killed by a Train.

    While shunting a goods train on the Cotteslo[?] beach a guard named William Murphy fell on the rails, and his legs were cut off. He died shortly afterwards. ...

    Article : 34 words
  37. DEATHS OF INFANTS.

    THE deaths of three newly-born children were investigated at the Melbourne morgue on a recent day. In the case of the death of a male child, 12 days old, which came ...

    Article : 300 words
  38. IS IT A CRIME TO BE POOR?

    SIR,—I would not have replied to the anonymous letter over the norn de plume "Housekeeper," only she sees fit to impute motives- as regards Mr. Makinson, who, as ...

    Article : 197 words
  39. Suicide Induced by Influenza.

    Mr. Edwin Pickersgill, the well-known city auctioneer, had been suffering from influenza. The malady, it appears, affected his brain, and, as a result, he shot himself ...

    Article : 37 words
  40. In Death not Divided.

    An old miner, named Martin Rea, has been found dead in a hut at Talbot. A sum of 137 sovereigns was found under the body. ...

    Article : 31 words
  41. Accident at the Proprietary.

    A miner named Thomas Uren, an aged man, met with an accident this morning, at between 7 and 8 o'clock, in M'Gregor's shaft, at the Proprietary mine. Ur-n was ...

    Article : 98 words
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