Grave charges of inaction have been brought against the officers and crew of the Easby in connection with the saving of life at the collision. Captain Bell, of the Gambier, stating ...
Article : 1,653 wordsOne of the most protracted and sanguinary civil wars of modern times is evidently approaching its close. The insurgents, who have displayed a courage ...
Article : 5,138 wordsThe Hon. J. W. Fortescue, who has recently contributed articles to the Nineteenth Century on the "Seamy Side" of Australia, has published in that magazine ...
Article : 70 wordsFollowing upon the engagements between President Balmaceda's troops and the insurgents in the neighbourhood of Valparaiso the Burgeons from the ...
Article : 137 wordsQueen Elizabeth of Roumania, who is eminent as an authoress under the nom de plume of "Carmen Sylva," is in a critical condition of health. Her Majesty has ...
Article : 83 wordsReports brought by Arabs state that the rebellion against Turkish rule in Yemen has been suppressed, and that the Turkish Commander, who was sent to ...
Article : 68 wordsWith regard to the late storms which swept over Martinique it is officially estimated that 378 deaths were caused thereby. The loss in property is set down ...
Article : 40 wordsThe riots at Vitebsk, Russia, caused by the scarcity of food continues. Two of the rioters have been killed and many wounded. The mob scattered the ...
Article : 96 wordsThe fires are still raging in the forests surrounding Bordeaux and Toulouse. A number of villages have been destroyed and eight persons have been burnt to ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Evening standard records that deeds of heroism were not wanting, and mentions one to the great credit of two sailors:—"Two sailors of the Gambier, while holding on to a piece of ...
Article : 779 wordsA pamphlet, understood to be inspired, has been issued at Vienna, in which it is understood that an extra sum of £1,000,000 should be placed on the War ...
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Article : 55 wordsThe Chinese Government has sent orders to Europe for the supply of 500,000 rifles. ...
Article : 30 wordsA cable message just received from Lima states that the insurgents captured Valparaiso yesterday. ...
Article : 24 wordsA strike having occurred at Londonderry, Ireland, the Shipping Federation are sending hundreds of men to discharge the vessels there. The prompt measures ...
Article : 49 wordsA determined effort is being made on behalf of Mrs. Maybrick, who was convicted at the Liverpool Assizes in 1889 of the crime of poisoning her husband. In ...
Article : 121 wordsThe New York World publishes a telegram from Valparaiso stating that the insurgents surprised President Balmaceda's troops and captured Santiago, the ...
Article : 49 wordsAn Italian military officer has been arrested on a charge of spying into the construction of the forts at Paris. ...
Article : 43 wordsFurther telegraphic reports from Chili confirm the information as to the capture of Valparaiso by the insurgents, but show that the statements published by the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe American Labour Unions are making a strong protest against the admission of pauper Jews into the United States, on the ground that their ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. J. Lake, who recently visited the Australian Colonies in charge of the exhibition of the pictures by British artists, is progressing favourably with his scheme ...
Article : 150 wordsFurther particulars have now been received from [?] as to the defeat inflicted by the insurgents upon the Presidential troops, which proves to have been sharp ...
Article : 510 wordsFurther details have been received of the terrible accident which happened yesterday on the railway over the Catawa River, in North Carolina. It appears ...
Article : 84 wordsA public sale has been held of Australian woolled sheepskins; there was a moderate attendance of home and oreign buyers. The market shows a slight ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsThe French Government have rescinded the order issued at the beginning of the week that all the English bookmakers at Boulogne and Calais should leave the ...
Article : 70 wordsMuch indignation has been caused by a series of cases in the London Courts, in which it has been clearly proved that false police evidence has been given. So ...
Article : 58 wordsJames Bell, donkeyman on board the steamer Gambier, tells a stirring tale of what took place after the mishap. "Ourmen made a rush to get the boats down, but one stuck ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsThe death through suicide is announced of Mr. Walter Blanford Waterlow, J.P. for Surrey and Deputy-Lieutenant for London, at the age of seventy-two. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe agricultural returns which have just been issued show the amount of land placed under pasturage in Great Britain has increased by 5 per cent. ...
Article : 36 wordsA series of valuable letters from Professor Brown, of Dookie College, Victoria, addressed to British farmers, pointing out the advantages of settlement in Australia ...
Article : 35 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Silverton Tramway Company was held on Friday, Mr. W. R. Wilson presiding. The Chairman stated that the meeting hod been convened ...
Article : 74 wordsCannon, the wrestler, was recently expelled from Berlin, and has now been sent away from Magdeburg for refusing to pay forfeits. ...
Article : 29 wordsThousands of people visited the warships in the river on Saturday and to-day. A sports meeting was held at the Exhibition Grounds on Saturday, at which there was a very large ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Minister of Defence recently communicated with the Governments of Australia asking their concurrence with the proposal that a new military adviser should be obtained ...
Article : 97 wordsSome difficulty is being experienced in disposing of the balance of the 20,000 Van Diemen's Land Bank shares in Hobart as required to secure an amalgamation with the ...
Article : 61 wordsEnquiries made amongst the crew of the Easby as to what took place on board during the collision are met by a polite but firm refusal to give any account of the mishap. ...
Article : 349 wordsThe ship Mount Stewart, which left Glasgow on May 25, arrived at Watson's Bay last night. On examination this morning it was found that there had been five cases of smallpox on ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Marine Board has issued the following report on the wreck of the barque Ellen, which foundered at sea on July 12:—"The Board finds that the Ellen was not overloaded, that ...
Article : 131 wordsThe closing day of the Royal Agricultural Society's Exhibition witnessed a very large attendance. The Show throughout has been favoured with fine weather. The final event ...
Article : 133 wordsThe latest intelligence is to the effect that Valparaiso is quiet, and that President Balmaceda is concentrating his forces at Santiago. ...
Article : 42 wordsA sad fatality occurred at Cunningham yesterday. A crew of four—Frank Jemmeson and three brothers named McNamara—were fishing from a boat outside the Entrance, and ...
Article : 127 wordsThe supposed murder of Mrs. Thurtell at Monument Creek, and the arrest on suspicion of her son John Thurtell and of a man named Daniel Moore, were cleared up at the inquest ...
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Advertising : 220 wordsThe look-out man of the Gambier, a one-time reporter himself, gave the Herald the following narrative:—"The Gambier was coming towards Melbourne and was on the Queens ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Mon 31 Aug 1891, Page 5
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