'I fear the Greeks bearing gifts" might well be the exclamation of Lord Salisbury on learning of the apparently generous offer of the French Government ...
Article : 737 wordsTHE LATE INSPECTOR—GENERAL OF SCHOOLS.—Mr. Frederig Chapple, B.A., B.sc., speak-ing at the meeting of the Senate on wednesday afternoon, made feeling reference to the ...
Article : 971 wordsThe steamer Mutatua called here to coal this morning and left for "Wellington in the afternoon. She reported that the worst fears regarding the boating disaster at Spring Bay had been justified. ...
Article : 148 wordsPresident Krllger has had the staff of the south African Critic arrested under the new Press law. London, November 23.The staff of the South African Critic having ...
Article : 53 wordsColonel E. T. Hutton, C.B., A.D.C., formerly Commannant of the New South Wales Defence Force, delivered a lecture before the officers of the Aldershot Division, on " Our Comrades of Greater Britain," last night. ...
Article : 216 wordsThe following are the latest quotations for the shares of Land, Mortgage, and Agency Companies:— Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance ...
Article : 144 wordsSo intense and trying has been the heat for the last three days that everybody has seemed to be in a state of exhaustion. Scores of people had no sleep on Tuesday night. As ...
Article : 1,776 wordsLeading European financiers have noticed the Sultan of Turkey that it is impossible for them to extend further monetary help to the Porte until practical reforms in the government his dominions have been executed. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe weather continues close and muggy, with a northerly wind. The thermometer at the Observatory registered to-day up to 96 in the shade and 141 in the sun. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe increasing agitation in Italy, having for its object the evacuation of Erythrea, is causing considerable stir in diplomatic circles on the Continent. ...
Article : 145 wordsPressure of business "precludes the Premier from carrying out his original intention of visiting Brisbane on Friday, and he therefore, after consulting with Sir Hugh Nelson, has postponed his departure for a week. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe November wool sales opened to-day. Bidding was brisk, and prices ruled 5 per cent, higher than the rates at which the October sales closed. ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Terra " bolster bogies" is decidedly suggestive of nightmares; and yet the fart that the fire new carriages ordered By the Directors of the Glenelg Railway ...
Article : 2,283 wordsA Thargomindah telegram states that splendid rains have fallen throughout the district. At Maryborough to-day J. B. Stephenson was charged with perjury in the case Leader ...
Article : 44 wordsGeneral Billot, the French Minister of War, made a most remarkable speech in the Chamber of Deputies last night, in the course of which he severely attacked that portion of ...
Article : 121 wordsJ. M. McKingltz, of Victoria, won tho world's champion chopping match at the Deloraine Axemen's Carnival. Seven completed. The blocks were 4 ft. S in. in girth, ...
Article : 41 wordsThe case against Lady Scott, described on the charge-sheet as Mary Selina Elizabeth Scott, fifty years of age, of The Cottage, Bray. Berkshire, no occupation: John Cocker ...
Article : 104 wordsThe drought has broken up in the Tiboo-burra district. Last week 1,730 in. of rain fell, and yesterday there was a further fall of 1,1100 in., making over 3 ½ in. altogether. ...
Article : 154 wordsThe quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,760,000 qrs., as against 2,620,000 qrs. last week and 2,130,000 qrs. a. year ago. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Times correspondent at Manila telegraphs that the rebels hare succeeded in luring a party of Spanish troops into an ambush, with the result that 300 of the Royalists were killed during the engagement which followed. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe extreme competition against which the West Indian sugar plantations have been called upon to contend, in consequence of the State aid given to Continental beet sugar pro ...
Article : 171 wordsTALLOW.—At to-day's sales of Australasian tallow 1,425 casks were offered and 200 sold. Prices ranged as follows:—Mutton, fine, 21s. 9d; mutton, medium, 20s. Beef, fine, 19s. 6d., and beef, medium, 18s. 3d. per cwt. ...
Article : 45 wordsA miner named Trembath, working at the British Mine, was severely injured about the face yesterday through a premature explosion. A mate bad prepared a charge, and Trembath was standing close by when it exploded ...
Article : 151 wordsAt the general meeting of the London Comity Council yesterday a committee was appointed to enquire into the management of the Works Department. ...
Article : 37 wordsAt the close of yesterday's Stock Exchange Broken Hill shares were quoted at £2 11s. He being a rise of 2S. 3d' since the quotation of November 21.London, November 25, 2.35 p.m. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe trial of 127 Anarchists for complicity in tho bomb outrage which occurred at the Barcelona Cathedral last June, is now proceeding. ...
Article : 33 wordsCommissioner Herbert Booth arrived in Sydney to-day for the purpose of personally receiving a welcome from these who comprise the division of the Army in the colony. He ...
Article : 234 wordsThe Great Boulder crushings for the past fortnight were as follows:—Stone treated, 704 tons, yielding 2,126 oz. of smelted gold; average oz. 9 grs. to the ton. ...
Article : 318 wordsThe report of Messrs. Ben.-Jones, Stoker, and Clay, the delegates from the Manchester Cooperative Society, who recently visited Australia with a view of establishing direct ...
Article : 68 wordsAt a meeting of the Sulphide Corporation (Asheroft's process) it has been resolved to increase the capital of the Company by the issue of 50,000 preference shares. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe pugilistic encounter between Frank Slavin and Bob Armstrong, Parson Davies's heavyweight coloured boxer, has taken place at the Empire Athletic Club. Buffalo, U.S.A. ...
Article : 54 wordsZoological Gardens -All day. Hindley-street all day — Cyclorama of Waterloo Payneham Institute 8 p.m — Bazaar in aid Building fund of St. Aidan's Church ...
Article : 179 wordsWhen the Legislative Assembly met this afternoon the Premier announced that at a meeting of the Exscutive to-day Sir Henry Norman had been appointed Agent-General for the colony. _________________ ...
Article : 40 wordsA serious gun accident happened to-day. A young man. George Bailey, son of Mr. John Bailey, of Gum Greek, was out shooting with his brother, when his horse bolted with the trap in which they were driving. ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Thu 26 Nov 1896, Page 5
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