A curious legacy of £500 was left by the Rev. Mr. Nacross to the bravest man in England. The executors referred the matter to the Iron Duke, who declared that the ...
Article : 1,032 wordsThis is the period of the year when most of the State Treasures deliver their budget statements, but the delay in tabling the federal tariff has deprived all the them ...
Article : 905 wordsOwing to indisposition His Excellency the Governor was unable to the present at the public welcome to the Bishop of Carpentaria in the Victoria Hall on Monday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsCommandant Kruitzinger, who with 400 Boers and rebels is moving north-west from the Cradock district of Cape Colony, is stated to have been defeated near ...
Article : 203 wordsAt a gathering of 4,000 Irishmen in Chicago on Saturday Mr. Michael Davitt, on ex-nationalist member of the House of Commons. and Mr. O' Donovan Rossa. the ...
Article : 145 wordsOne of the paragraphs in His Majesty's prorogation speech read before the British Parliament by the Lord Chancellor on Saturday made the following reference to ...
Article : 127 wordsA meeting of the general committee of the National Memorial fund was held in the arbitration room, Brookman's Building, Grenfell street, on Monday afternoon. ...
Article : 2,278 wordsThe royal yacht Ophir, with the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York on board, has arrived at Simonstown. A magnificent reception, in which the Dutch ...
Article : 57 wordsA Constantinople despatch on July 22 stated that on the previous Friday night a fire occurred in the harem of the Sultan's palace. The outbreak took place in an ...
Article : 230 wordsIn order to keep possible rival nations in ignorance of the mechanism of the torepedo-boat destroyer Viper, which struck on a rock off the Alderney coast on August ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Boer raiders led by Commandant Scheepers are reported to be isolated in the south of Cape Colony, and hope is entertained that they may be captured. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Lords of the Admiralty have decided in future of exclusively use bottles of Australian wine at the christening of war vessels launched from Government ...
Article : 54 wordsThe follwing translation of a letter published in the Norwegian journals "Aftenposten" and Morgenbladet" is an effective reply (says the "Daily Graphic") to ...
Article : 520 wordsThe "Daily News" learns from its correspondent at Bloemfontein that the enemy's resistance in the Orange River Colony is almost at an end. Reduced to the last ...
Article : 163 wordsRemarkable experiments in wireless telegraphy at sea have been made by the captain of the Atlantic liner Laconia, 2,031 tons, of Liverpool. On Saturday, when the ...
Article : 61 wordsOwing to the rupture between the South American republics of Venezuela and Colombia two German warships have been ordered to the Venezuelan coast. ...
Article : 54 wordsSReports from Paris indicate that faith in the miracles of healing said to have been wrought at Lourdes is as widely prevalent as ever. On Saturday 23 trains, ...
Article : 127 wordsThe hearing of a claim brought by Mcllwraith, McEacharn, & Co., Limited, against the owners of the steamship Alala for £6,000 for the salvage of the vessel and ...
Article : 412 wordsNew York advices state that the position of the metal workers' strike is very little changed. The officials of the men's amalgamated association do not conceal their ...
Article : 353 wordsLord Kitchener reports that the concentration camps for white refugees are now occupied by 91,940 Boer men, women, and children, and that in the special camps for ...
Article : 81 wordsA commando of 150 Boers have wrecked a section of the railway some distance south of Mafeking. They then lay in wait to capture a mail train which was going form ...
Article : 80 wordsMiss Ada Crossley, the well known Victorian contralto has been engaged to sing at the Gloucester, Leeds, and Preston musical festivals this year. ...
Article : 185 wordsCapt, Niesigh, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry; Capt. C. Parker, Queensland Bushmen; and Lieut. V. Hennessy, Victorian Fifth Contingent, are ...
Article : 39 wordsThirty Chinese, who were arrested in a suspected gaming house in Little Bourke street on Saturday night, were presented at the Police Court to-day. Three of the ...
Article : 84 wordsThe council of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce to-day considered the Immigration Restriction Bill introduced into the Federal Parliament. It adopted a ...
Article : 118 wordsThe steamer Whakatane, with troops from South Africa, arrived at Hobart on Friday evening. A cable has been received from South ...
Article : 43 wordsAn important case concerning the municipal assessment of the Barrier mines was entered upon in the Equity Court to-day The plaintiffs are the Broken Hill ...
Article : 319 wordsWith a view to coming to an amicable agreement regarding certain matters in dispute, several conferences have taken place between the Trolly and Dray Men's Union ...
Article : 443 wordsThe following significant letters, found in Mr. Steyn's luggage, which was captured at Reitz., have been published in England by direction of the War Office:—From State ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsA meeting of employers representing industries in the metropolis and country districts of Victoria was held at the Athenaeum Hall this afternoon ...
Article : 232 wordsThe returns of the census in Canada have just been made public, and a gratifying increase in population is indicated. The number of persons in the whole ...
Article : 85 wordsThe cast for the plaintiff was closed to-day in the actions Ricardo v. The Brisbane Newspaper Company, and the evidence for the defence was entered upon. Trooper ...
Article : 170 wordsThe repeal of the stock tax, which has been urged by master butchers, with the object of reducing the presence high price charged for meal, was discussed at a ...
Article : 93 wordsSir—I feel justified in entering my protest as a taxpayer against the proposed remission of taxes to bolster up the State Bank. The State Bank is a moneylending ...
Article : 157 wordsThe appointment of Mr. G. W. Davies to the position of Secretary to the Commissioner of Railways continues of excite the public mind. The Premier, Mr. Leake, was ...
Article : 192 wordsDetective have been busily engaged enquiring in the audacious bailing up of a tramear at Hawthorn early on sunday morning. but they have failed to obtain ...
Article : 91 wordsAt a meeting of the New South Wales Cricket Association to-night a letter was received from the Melbourne Cricket Club offering to allow the association 7½ per cent. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe ceremony of opening the new St. Patrick's Hall at Ballarat was performed to-night in the presence of a large assembly which include Archbishop Carr, Bishop ...
Article : 170 wordsRobert Doughs, who is serving a life sentence for another offence, has been acquitted on a self-confessed charge of the murder of Mrs. Payne, at Masterton, three ...
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Advertising : 342 wordsThe delegates from the coal miners union had a conference with the directors of the Mount Nicholas and Cornwall companies on Saturday relative to the strike ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Tue 20 Aug 1901, Page 5
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