Two interesting incidents happened at the annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society on Wednesday rooming. It was decided to ask ...
Article : 426 wordsThe forecasts of the Queensland and local weather prophets for the weather to-day agree that rain and rough weather generally may be expected Sir Charles Todd's ...
Article : 116 wordsH.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge has consented to open the Greater Britain Exhibition, to be held at Earl's Court, London, The ceremony will take place on May 8. ...
Article : 48 wordsMessages from Manila state that fierce fighting has taken place at Calumpit, which was defended by a strong force of Filipinos, who opened a heavy lire from behind entrenchments ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Russian Government is accelerating the work of constructing a branch of the Transcaspian Railway, to Bandar-el-Abbas, a seaport on the Persian Gulf, opposite ...
Article : 70 wordsFifty-five members of the House of Commons, chiefly Conservatives and Liberal Unionists, have signed a memorial to the Government asking that colonial wines ...
Article : 384 wordsA telegram from Pekin states that the Directors of the Tien-tain and Chin-kiang Railway, which is to be constructed by, an Angle-German Syndicate, are to consist of ...
Article : 58 wordsIn a speech yesterday as President of the London Trust Company, Limited, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., the well-known banker. expressed the opinion that the ac- ...
Article : 82 wordsIt has transpired that, the Criminal Judges of the Court of Cassation declined a request by Colonel Piequart that he should be confronted in Court by General ...
Article : 60 wordsExperiments made recently in Austria with liquetied air demonstrate its remarkable utility as an explosive. It has been found that the force of the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe unseasonable spell of hot weather we have been experiencing this month, relieved only by the shower which full on Sunday last has dried up the growing vegetation ...
Article : 307 wordsLord Kitchener, the Governor-General of the Soudan, has arrived at Berber, having completed a journey of 800 miles on camelback from Khartoum. ...
Article : 84 wordsA loan of £430,000 at 4 per cent. was placed on the market a few days are by the Egyptian Irrigation Trust, which will devote the money towards ...
Article : 64 wordsThe management of the P and 0. Company have issued a stringent regulation, which is intended to limit the social intercourse between officers and passengers. ...
Article : 70 wordsSeveral members of the House of Commons and representative British colonists have formed a committee whose aim will be to secure the adcption of a cheap telegraph ...
Article : 47 wordsThe South African League, which is holding a congress in Cape Colony, has dispatched a cable message to the Imperial African League, whose membership in- ...
Article : 80 wordsSir Horace Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, is inspecting a powerful hydraulic dredger at Antwerp, with the view of purchasing it for the queensland Govern- ...
Article : 88 wordsLord George Hamilton, Secretary for India, informed the House of Commons yesterday that the new ad-valorem duty to be imposed by the Indian Government on ...
Article : 56 wordsThe general elections in Cape Colony, following upon the redistribution of seats, have been concluded, and the Government, of which the Hon. W. P. Schreiner is the head, has secured a majority of nine seats. ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Leonard Jackson, a butcher, re-siding at Mary-street, Unley, reported to the police on Wednesday, that John Armstrong. aged five years, a son of Mr.R.J. ...
Article : 145 wordsDuring the present political campaign the Ministry and their supporters have endeavoured to make considerable capital out of the Wine and Pro- ...
Article : 653 wordsAt the half-yearly meeting of the Royal Bank of Australia, Limited, yesterday a dividend of 3 per cent, per annum was declared out of net profits, amounting to ...
Article : 142 wordsDuring the course of a speech in the Italian Senate, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Admiral Count Canevaro, asserted that both Great Britain and France had ...
Article : 56 wordsThe trial of Frank Ward, who is charged with having murdered an Indian hawker at Mount Mary, was advanced another stage in the Criminal Court on Wednesday, when ...
Article : 335 wordsThe aged gelding Paris III., by Grand master—Enone, which was bred in Australia is to be scat back to New South Wales. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. J. Austen Chamberlain, a Civil Lord of the Admiralty, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that Great Britain had undertaken to grant the Auckland Har- ...
Article : 109 wordsWheat.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,070;OO0 qrs:, compared with 3,120,000 qrs. a week ago. The quantity alloat for Continental ports is ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Premier visited Mittagong to-day to be present at the opening of the local School of Arts by the Minister of Education, and during the afternoon spoke on ...
Article : 892 wordsThe big steamship Nairnshrre, which is the latest addition to well-known Shire Line, otherwise the Elderslie Steamship Company Glasgow. is an acquisition ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 149 wordsBurglars last night broke, into the house of Mr. John Coffey at Pyrmont, and stole a pickle-bottle in which 100 sovereigns were concealed. BROKEN HILL, April 20. ...
Article : 61 wordsA shocking and barbarous case of lynching has occurred in the State of Georgia. A negro, who was believed to have outraged a woman, had to suffer the penalty ...
Article : 111 wordsA poll was taken yesterday in the Ballon electorate at two polling-places where a vote was not taken on election day. The result was to raise the total votes for Mr. ...
Article : 239 wordsThere is an excited demand for pig iron, which is now quoted at 59/- per ton, an advance of 3/ since the 21st inst ...
Article : 31 wordsAt Stirling on Wednesday, in a dingy little room where flies were in myriads, where the Press. the doctor, and the defendants were huddled together only an arm's ...
Article : 1,661 wordsA heavy rise in the price of silver occurred to-day, the quotation being fixed at 2s. 4d. per oz., as compared with 2s. 3 9-16d. yesterday. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe following paragraph is taken from the Sydney' "Daily Telegraph:"—The Premier pathetically informed members of the Assembly, just before the adjournment ...
Article : 285 wordsTallow.—Six hundred and seventy-three casks were offered at auction to-day, but only thirty were sold. Prices remain unchanged. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Nonconformists of England are widely celebrating the tercentenary of the birth of Oliver Cromwell. A great demonstration of Congregationa- ...
Article : 54 wordsA tragedy occurred this morning at Lansdowne crescent, West Hobart. Charles Billinghurst, a quarryman, father of nine children. savagely attacked his wife with ...
Article : 203 wordsRichard Glover, who was concerned in the unshipping of tobacco from the exploring steamer Southern Cross in December last, was to-day fined £50 or six months' ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Reid arranged to leave Sydney on his trip to Albany by nest Tuesday's express for Adelaide. He will be accompanied by Messrs. R. Jones and G. H. ...
Article : 163 wordsLord Kitchener, who has been made a life honorary member of the Devenport Coastguard Artillery Volunteers, has written expressing thanks for the honour ...
Article : 58 wordsThe ship Otterspool, which presumably left Port Adelaide yesterday in ballast, got ashore last night on Northern Spit, Tronbudge Island. and is now lying high up on ...
Article : 194 wordsThere was cheering long and loud when that Sterling old colonist, Mr. S Goode, took the chair at the annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society on Wednesday ...
Article : 173 wordsA deadlock lias occurred in connection with the Admiralty coal contracts in Melbourne owing to the refusal of local coal merchants to make themselves respon- ...
Article : 275 wordsThe steamer Tangier lately completed a voyage from Fremuntle to Wvndham, in the north, and back, using local coal from the Collie field during most of the voyage ...
Article : 96 wordsA report was posted at the G.P.O. this evening that a steamer like the Wollumbin, which belongs to Mr. G.W.Nicholl, of Sydney, had passed Seal Rocks at 6.20 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsThe Duchess of Coolgardie" drew another good house at the Theatre Royal on Wednesday. There will be only three more performances, as the programme is to be ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Thu 27 Apr 1899, Page 5
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