After presentation of Address in reply to His Excellency, Legislative Council continued debate on Bundaleer Waterworks resolution, Hon. J. H. Howe resuming the discussion, Hon. J. L. ...
Article : 184 wordsTo-day will be full of history for the New South Wales doctors, and Australia too, for a national question has to be decided in the mother colony. The federal issue is before ...
Article : 271 wordsThe Treasurer, Sir George Turner, delivered his Budget Speech in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon. He said this was the fifth time he had made a financial ...
Article : 1,002 wordsAn important change has been made in the policy of the War Department of the United States. It has been decided that General W. R. ...
Article : 175 wordsTenders were opened at noon to-day for the new Western Australian 3 per cent. loan of £1,000,000. The applications covered a sum of only £550,000, at about the minimum of ...
Article : 219 wordsReuter's correspondent in the Soudan reports that the large new gunboats, the Sheikh, Melik, and Sultan, specially sent out from England for the expedition to ...
Article : 451 wordsA by-election toot piece yesterday at Reading to fill the vacancy in the House of Commons caused by the death of Mr. C. T. Murdoch, a Conservative On this occasion ...
Article : 74 wordsFive thousand Cubans who are resident in or near the town of Clenfuegos—situated on the south coast of Cuba, 117 miles east of Havana—have addressed a plaintive appeal to ...
Article : 77 wordsEighteen out of the twenty-four members of the Council bowed to the President when Sir Richard Baker took the chair on Tuesday. Four minutes later the Council ...
Article : 719 wordsThe Irish Local Government Bill has emerged from the Committee stages in the House of Lords, in a pratically unaltered condition. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe signal-station-keeper at Caps Otway reports that a heavy storm was blowing this morning, accompanied by fierce squalls of blinding rain, thunder, and lightning. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe vanguard of the army which, under the direction of General Nelson A. Miles, is charged with the task of conquering the island of Puerto Rico, is disembarking at Ponce, a ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Earl of Minto has been selected by Her Majesty to succeed the Earl of Aberdeen as Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada. [Gilbert John Elliot, fourth Earl of Minto. ...
Article : 186 wordsMr. E. H. Wittenoom, who has succeeded Sir Malcolm Fraser as Agent-General of Western Australia, was the honoured guest at a banquet given by the Agents-General ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. Reid boasted that he could beat Mr. Barton "with one hand" for King Division, but he and his friends are now fighting desperately with both hands, says the ...
Article : 323 wordsErnest Wyndham, alias Frank Blake, twenty-four years of age, was committed for trial to-day at the Central Police Court on a charge of having uttered a forged cheque ...
Article : 550 wordsCommodore Sachtouris, who commanded the Greek navy during the Greco-Turkish War. is being tried on a charge of culpable inactivity in not attacking Turkish ports and ...
Article : 108 wordsIntelligence concerning the reverses that are attending the Spanish arms is gradually leaking out in Spain, despite the rigid censorship of Press telegrams from Cuba and the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe International Conference on Sugar Bounties, which opened in Brussels on June 7, has reported to the Governments interested that, with the exception of France and ...
Article : 163 wordsThe playing off since Saturday of adjourned games in the Vienna Chess Congress has resulted in Mr. H. N. Pillsbury, the young American, and Dr. S. Tarrasch, the German. ...
Article : 109 wordsIn an article dealing with foreign affairs this morning the "Times" suggests that if the Great Powers do not accept the principle of keeping an open door for trade in China, it ...
Article : 65 wordsThe President of the Orange Free State, Mr. M. T. Steyn, in proroguing the Volksraad of that country yesterday, expressed the opinion that the political and commercial ...
Article : 53 wordsIntense excitement prevails throughout the colony in respect of to-morrow's elections. The day will be a public holiday, and so much interest is shown in the contest that it is ...
Article : 1,104 wordsThe garrisons at; Palma-Soriano, a village twenty miles north-west of Santiago, and San Lois have surrendered to the American forces. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Military Governor of Crete, Djevad Pasha, has resigned his position, as a protest against the Governments of Great Britain, France, and Russia forbidding ...
Article : 52 wordsA Canadian rifleman secured the award at the Bisley meeting for compiling the highest aggregate score made by a colonial marksman. Mr. W. Sloane, of Victoria, was ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Emperor of Corea, Li Hsi, who was proclaimed last year, strongly wishes to abdicate the throne. Dreading assassination at the hands of his ...
Article : 59 wordsA petition, signed by landowners and other residents, who are non-combatants, has been forwarded from Cuba to President McKinley, praying that the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Bank of New Zealand Bill was again considered in Committee in the House of Representatives to-night. The debate was acrimonious, and no progress was made ...
Article : 513 wordsThe ex-Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalam, is suing the United States Government for the value of 1,000,000 acres of Grown lands, which she claims as her private possession in the ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Robert Brough, the well-known actor, who, with his wife is to appear at the Melbourne Bijou Theatre on October 69, has purchased the Australian rights of the ...
Article : 50 wordsA dastardly, attempt has been made to destroy the United States refrigerating steamer Port Victor, 2,793 tons. One of the crew discovered a strange-looking article on ...
Article : 71 wordsThe 100,000 Welsh colliers, who are on strike, have issued a fresh statement of their demands. They insist that the wage paid them should ...
Article : 75 wordsA preliminary meeting for the formation of a Queensland Federation League was held to-night. The attendance and enthusiasm displayed exceeded the most sanguins hopes ...
Article : 210 wordsThe perpetual Trustees and Executors' Agency Company of Tasmania have made a profit of £871 for the past half-year, and a 6 per rent, dividend has been declared. ...
Article : 97 wordsAdvices from Washington state that the German Ambassador, Dr. Holleben, has delivered to President McKinley a cordial message from the Kaiser. It is supposed that ...
Article : 67 wordsCorbett, the ex-champion pugilist of the world, and Kid McCoy hare made heavy deposits in connection with an arrangement to fight each other twenty rounds on September ...
Article : 40 wordsThe stormy petrel announcing the general elections appeared in the Assembly during the afternoon. Mr. Grainger gave notice of a ...
Article : 1,974 wordsA sensational scene occurred in the Manchester County Court to-day. While Judge Parry was delivering a judgment, a litigant, who was adversely affected by ...
Article : 63 wordsJ. Wray, of Australia, and W. A. Barry, of Putney, have entered for the "Sportsman" Cup, which will be rowed for in September. ...
Article : 27 wordsA telegram from Nhill states that the gipsy refugees arrived from Lilimur unexpectedly this afternoon. The residents of Serviceton had paid their fares to Lilimur, and the people at the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe steamer Bulimba arrived at 7 o'clock this morning, six days out from Adelaide. She experienced very rough weather in the Bight with strong head winds and high seas. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Old-age Pensions Bill was introduced into the House of Representatives to-day. The measure differs in some respects from that of last year. It provides a pension of £18 per ...
Article : 90 wordsWheat.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,071,000 qrs., compared with 2,470,000 qrs. a week ago. The quantity afloat for Continental ports is ...
Article : 54 wordsThe stylishly-attired individual and his "groom" who visited Williamstown on Friday in a neat pony carriage, and obtained £4 fur a valueless cheque, are no longer ...
Article : 415 wordsThe Government Medical Officer, Dr. Hope, who visited the steamer Sultan this morning, states that the condition of Mr. Kelly, the supposed smallpox patient, has considerably ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Orient Liner R.M.S. Ophir left Ply-mouth on June 25, and is expected to arrive at Largs Bay. on Monday next. The following is a list of the passengers in the ...
Article : 294 wordsAt the inquest on the Moth tragedy an open verdict of murder was returned. A supplement to the Government "Gazette" states that the actual wheat yield, which was ...
Article : 103 wordsThe price of silver to-day sustained a fall of ¼d. per oz., the rate being fixed at 2s. 3 3/8d., as compared with 2s. 3 7/8d. yesterday. ...
Article : 29 wordsPhilatelists took great interest in a charge brought to-day against Jonoski Takuma, a Japanese, and his wife Elizabeth, in the Central Police Court, of having forged seven ...
Article : 120 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day the action brought by Edwin Edward against the Black Flag Proprietary Company was concluded. The plaintiff claimed damages for injuries ...
Article : 74 wordsAt London.—Kaikoura, steamer, from Wellington June 9; Mary Augusta, ship, from Sydney March 9; Quilpue, barque, from Sydney. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe half-yearly report of the A.J.S. Bank for the six months ended June 30 shows a profit of £3,746, which, with the balance brought forward, gives a total profit of £5,471. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Government steamer, which arrived to-day from Capetown, brought particulars of a rush to the Gera held. It is reported that about 100 miners are doing well. One ...
Article : 121 wordsAirlie sailed from Sydney for Hongkong and Japan on July 23; Australian sailed from Hongkong, for Shanghai and Japan on July 15; Menmuir, bound south, left Port Darwin ...
Article : 80 wordsThe railway earnings for the quarter ended June 30 amounted to £714,857, which is the largest on record for that quarter. They exceed by £38,903 the receipts for the Jene ...
Article : 131 wordslast night by Constable Johnson prompted his fellow-officers to present him with a box of 500 Ogden's Guinea Gold Cigarettes, as they knew he would smoke nothing else. ...
Article : 42 wordsExtremely boisterous weather was experienced in Hobson's Bay to-day, with occasional squalls of terrific force. The mail steamer Australia was being towed away ...
Article : 82 wordsCyclorama.—Crimean War. Morning. 10.—Institute—Society of Arts Exhibition. 10.30.-Comstock Chambers—Meeting Boulder ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Wed 27 Jul 1898, Page 5
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