ELECTRICITY FROM DUST.—The kirkcaldy Fife Free Press remarked in a recent issue:—Lord Kelvin performed the ceremony, of switching on the current at the new electricity and dust ...
Article : 970 wordsTHE ROOM WHERE THE QUEEN WAS BORN.—The room in which the Queen was born is a plain, old-fashioned apartment, in Kensington Palace, in the same condition now—for it ...
Article : 1,270 wordsMr. Ben Tillett is expected to arrive tomorrow by express from sydney. Ho will be met by members of the Trades Hall Council and other citizens. Mr. Tillett leaves on ...
Article : 247 wordsAbdur Rahman Khan, the Ameer of Afghanistan, at tho Durbar on Wednesday, called God to witness that he had not in any way induced the tribesmen to revolt against ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the luncheon after the review at the Krasnoo Selo, the Czar of Russia in proposing the health of M. Felix Faure, President of the French Republic, said that the presence of ...
Article : 70 wordsTelegrams from New York announce that H.R.H. the Duke of Abruzzi, nephew of King Humbert of Italy, has succeeded in making the ascent of Mount St. Elias, in Alaska. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsThe Afridis, who were in great force and included a great number of Ghazis, attacked the British occupants of the fort at Lundi Khotal on Tuesday. ...
Article : 283 wordsM. Faure has distributed many French decorations among Russian Ministers, in addition to making valuable and costly gifts to Muscovite courtiers. Three hundred ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 107 wordsThe opening of the Tate Gallery on Wednesday.has been the event of most concern to London. When Sir William Harcourt came into office Mr. Tate had been so bustled about ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,980 wordsThe Land Tax Commissioners have issued a memorandum in which they defend the action taken by them to secure the assessment of land for land-taxation purposes. They say that ...
Article : 144 wordsThe present market rate of discount is £1 16s. 3d. or 3s. 9d below the Bank rate. ...
Article : 32 wordsHARES AND RABBITS.—Hares are slow of sale at 2s. 3d. each, but rabbits are steady at 8s. 6d. per dozen, and likely to harden in price. London. August 27. ...
Article : 96 wordsCaptain Henry John Wright Guise, of the King's (Liverpool) Regiment, at present serving as Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency Sir I. Fowell Buxton, Governor of South ...
Article : 109 wordsArredondo, the youth who yesterday assassinated President Borda of the Uruguayan Republic, tnrns out to be a subordinate officer in the State army. It is ...
Article : 119 wordsA farm near Aramac containing 20,000 acres, carrying 15,000 sheep, was Fold by auction yesterday, and realized £4,250. The buyer was ^Ir. A. P. Forsyth. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Marquis of Salisbury has proposed that Great Britain, France, and Russia should guarantee the amount of the loan to be raided by Greece for the payment of the war ...
Article : 80 wordsWHEAT. —The English wheat market is quiet, and inclined to weakness. The Continental wheat markets are tending downward. The American wheat markets are ...
Article : 111 wordsThe delegates from the west coast met at the Chamber of Commerce today and discussed the advisableness of deepening the Macquarie Harbour. The members of the Chamber ...
Article : 104 wordsThe report of the opening speech made by the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain at the Conference of Premiers recently hold in London, together with the resolutions submitted ...
Article : 52 wordsFour old Etonians started yesterday in an attempt to row across the British Channel in in outrigger.A heavy swell sank their boat, and but for ...
Article : 72 wordsOne of the six sternwheel gunboats sent out from England in pieces and put together on the Nile for service in the Anglo-Egyptian expedition against the Khalifa has succeeded ...
Article : 130 wordsCOPPER.—The copper market is hardening. The spot quotation for Chili bars is given at £48 12s. 6d. per ton, being a rise of 2s. 6d. for the week: at three months the ...
Article : 128 wordsMiss Elsie Hall, the distinguished young Victorian pianist, is returning to the colonies in September for the purpose of joining a concert company touring the various ...
Article : 46 wordsTHE Morrio England arrived hero last even-ing from Pore Moresby bringing fourteen miners, ono or two of whom are destitute. Tho Merrio England reports that Burns and ...
Article : 174 wordsIn consequence of the Marine Insurance Companies in Australasia having combined to raise the premiums paid on shipments made by regular trading vessels 20 years old the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe death is announced, at the age of seventy-one years, of the Right Hon. Sir George Osborne Morgan. Bart., formerly Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. ...
Article : 355 wordsSilver is now quoted at Is. ll ?d. per oz., being a rise of ?d. since the quotation of August 25. ...
Article : 31 wordsA terrible boiler explosion occurred at Wein and party's, claim, near Bathurst,today. Seven men were at work at Campbell's River, near a sluieing-machine driven by an 18 ...
Article : 200 wordsAT LONDON.—Otarma, steamer, 2,400 tons, from the Bluff June 28; Banffehire, steamer, 3,693 tons, from Brisbane June 20. DEPARTURES. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Legislative Assembly sat until 5 o'clock this in morning, finished the Estimates. The House met again at 10.30 a.m. On the motion of the MINISTER OF RAILWAY it was ...
Article : 178 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on the .body of Josiah Wrigley, who fell into a vat of cyanide solution'at the Australia Mine on' Monday. The evidence failed to prove how the ...
Article : 74 wordsThe continued slump in silver, is causing great uneasiness in local mining, and business circles. It is considered most probable that should this metal, recede much lower there ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Premier has telegraphed to tho Acting Premiers of the other colonies stating that he and the othor Victorian representatives of the Federal Convention will not be able to remain ...
Article : 162 words11.—School of Mines—Registrar, " Lead." AFERNOON. 2.30.—Elder, Smith, & Co's Farm— Hunt Club. 2.45.—Adelaide Oval—Football. ...
Article : 104 wordsA deadlock occurred at the District Council meeting today over the Validating Act, when a revised assessment was submitted for adoption. Councillor Beleaves moved an ...
Article : 120 wordsSir William MacGregor. in a despatch to the Governor of Queensland, Lord Lamington, written from Samari on July 1, says that he sent out a force to Mambare River to punish ...
Article : 191 wordsAn application was made to the Chief Justice today for sanction to the formation of an Assets Realization Company to take over the assets from financial institutions in ...
Article : 76 wordsAt a meeting of tho Board of Managers of the Alfrod Hospital this afternoon Mr. O'Hara, honorary surgeon, showed a mass of hair, tightly mutted together aud weighing 2 while delirious. ...
Article : 69 wordsOn the 27th instant, the will and codicil of the late Sir Henry Ayers, G.C.M.G., was lodged for probate by Messrs. Ayers & Gall, solicitors to the executors, the gross value of ...
Article : 326 wordsAn estimate of the population of the Australian Colonies on June 30 last has been propared by Mr. Fenton, the Acting Government Statist. This shows that New South Wales ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Orient liner Oroya, Lavington, commander, arrived from Colombo at, 5 a.m. ,with the following passengers in the saloon :— For Albany —Mr.Brudshaw. Mr. and Mrs. ...
Article : 150 wordsOn the arrival of the R.M.S. Oroya particu-lars wero ascertained in regard to the fire which recently occurred on board. At about 11.30 p.m. on- August 8, while in the Red ...
Article : 149 wordsAfter the enquiry into the condition of the boilers of the steamer Larnaca extending over the greater pars of three days the Court of Marine Enquiry found that the chief engineer ...
Article : 158 wordsAt the inquest today into the circumstances surrounding the death of Margaret Ellen Beames. who died after being treated by a medical herbalist styled "Professor ...
Article : 58 wordsThe annual Daffodil Show was opened in the Town Hall today by the Chief Justice. The display was an exceedingly fine one. The exhibits included a collection by Mr. ...
Article : 66 wordsA weatherboard cottage at Collingwood was destroyed by fire this afternoon. The occupant. Mrs. Sophia Thompson, aged sixty, perished in the flames. ...
Article : 30 wordsAt the inquest held at Sutherland to-day upon a skeleton found in the National Park on Wednesday last, Catherine Middlemass, a married woman, deposed that the silver watch, arch, 1S92. It is hiipposed tbat deceased bad been the victim of foul play. Tho inquest was adjourned until Thursday. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe OCEANA left Suez on Thursday morning, 26th inst., outward bound. ...
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Advertising : 542 wordsSome demonstration was made at Lucknow on Thursday upon the arrival of several miners from Victoria, who proceeded to the Went-worth proprietary Mines to take the place of ...
Article : 48 wordsThe following wool for Port Adelaide has arrived by the steamer Gem from Wentworth: —Moorna, 110 bales; Chowilla, 37 bales; Horseshoe, 3 bales. ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Sat 28 Aug 1897, Page 5
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