During Thursday evening Mr. Holder was busily engaged in trying to satisfactorily solve the problem of dividing six offices among eight or nine members most ...
Article : 1,056 wordsORANGE RIVER, November 11 (Reuter's special service).—The reconnaissance party, which left the Orange River on Thursday, discovered the enemy amongst a ...
Article : 790 wordsThe annual sale of Messrs. Docker's trotters elicited spirited competition today. The price of seven lots averaged £24 1s. 9d. ...
Article : 433 wordsThe annual cricket match between the past and present scholars of Christian Brothers' College tool place on the Neutral Ground on Friday afternoon. The following are the scores: ...
Article : 434 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly the debate was resumed in Committee of ways and means. Mr. Carruthers, replying to the contention of Mr. Peddington that the ...
Article : 766 wordsAn election took place yesterday at Wells, in Somerseshire, to till the seat in the House of Commons vacated by the Hon. H. G. H. JoEifie, Mr. Duckenson, the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Egyptian Government has granted to Lord Kitchener, the Governor-General of the Soudan, the sum of £10,000 to spend on the work of clouring away the deposits ...
Article : 58 wordsPrince Hohenlohe, the German Chancellor, is favouring the repeal of the law which prohibits the union of political Societies in Germany. His object is believed to be to ...
Article : 181 wordsA representative of "The Hospital Nursing Mirror," in a chat early in November with the Hon. Secretary of the Committee of the American Hospital Ship Fund for ...
Article : 444 wordsGlenelg III. v. O.B.I.—Glenelg, 8 for 125 (declared)—Pickup 50 not out, Thompson 31, McKemish 27: Clare 3 for 19: Bradley 1 for 20. O.B.I., 4 for 63—Gardiner 19, Dailey 10, Gerny 11 ...
Article : 99 wordsStragglers v. Brighton.—Brighton, 121—Brunton 55 not our, Haddrick 17, F. Woollard 13; Claxton 1 for 57, Woollard 2 for 40. Stragglers, 3 for 129—N. Claxton 61 not out, C. A. Baver 19 ...
Article : 195 wordsR. H. Walne's appeal against his disqualification for one month, imposed by the Stewards of the Melbourne Bicycle Club, was discussed to-day by the Appeal Board ...
Article : 517 wordsMrs. Affleck, mother of Mr. W. Affleck, member for Yass, died yesterday at Harden. The deceased lady had passed her hundredth year, retaining her faculties to ...
Article : 254 wordsDuring a gale off the coast of Suffolk yesterday a lifeboat went our from Aldeburgh to give assistance to a vessel in distress. The sea was very heavy, and after ...
Article : 61 wordsIt has been arranged that the Victorian Cricket Team shall visit New Zealand early next year. ...
Article : 22 wordsSir—Protestants, of course, hold that Roman Catholics have direct access to Christ, and so have all the human race. Protestants do not require the assistance of the officials ...
Article : 446 wordsThe death is announced, at the age of sixty-three, of Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell, G.C.M.G., Governor of the Straits Settlements, and High Commissioner of ...
Article : 139 wordsCAPE TOWN, November 11 (Reuter).—The following has bee handed to the Press for publication from Colonel Kekewich:—Kimberley, November 6, 2 p.m.—Our ...
Article : 260 wordsWe have received the following letter, appropriately headed "Boer Ignorance." The writer bears a well-known Dutch name, and gives as his late address the name of ...
Article : 1,183 wordsIt is understood that before any steps are taken to give effect to certain recommendations come to recently by the Stock Board Commission Mr. Chataway, the ...
Article : 161 wordsA matter of importance came before the Marine Board at their meeting to-day, Mr. G. W. Lilley, who represents the underwriters on the Board, said he had received the ...
Article : 257 wordsSome German caricatures of Her Majesty the Queen have been seized by the police in Paris. ...
Article : 23 wordsLondon Wool Sales.—The wool sale, which was to have taken place to-day was postponed on account of a heavy fog. Butter.—The prevalence of damp weather ...
Article : 415 wordsA transvaal burgher, who fled from the Republic rather than go on commando, has been visiting several of his friends amongst the Boer Prisoners at Pietermarizburg. His ...
Article : 428 wordsThe action by Herman Emil Kugetman, herbal practitioner, against John Norton, for £1,000 compensation for alleged libels in "Truth," was continued in the Supreme ...
Article : 147 wordsThe expenditure returns for November show a saving made on the month's transactions of £25,724. The disbursements for the month totalled £207,978, against ...
Article : 156 wordsSir—Hundreds in South Australia would be glad to adopt cremation as a means of disposing of the dead, and I cannot understand why the authorities have such a ...
Article : 128 wordsYass was the scene of a terrible occurrence this evening, four persons having been drowned in the Murrumbidgee. At 7 o'clock a party of volunteers from Yass ...
Article : 201 wordsGreat heat was experienced yesterday, when the Observatory recorded 103 deg. in the shade, succeeded by a most oppressive night. A hot, dusty wind blew ...
Article : 152 wordsFor the eleven months of this year the railway receipts show an increase of £95,000 compared with the corresponding period of 1898. ...
Article : 28 wordsSir—Your reporter in connection with the paragraph about Patrick Fahey, of Balaklava, has been misinformed. The man referred to was brought to me with a ...
Article : 377 wordsThe Guthrie, from Hongkong, arrived on Friday, December 1, with nine Chinese. She sailed the same day for southern ports. Passengers—Messrs. Allen, Bradshaw ...
Article : 140 wordsA Conference of the Executive Committee if the National Protection Union and delegates of the various trades Unions has been sitting in Sydney this week. A reply was ...
Article : 178 wordsAt a meeting of the Trades' Hall Council to-night members indulged in a discussion relative to the merits of the late Turner and the McLean Governments, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 204 wordsThe Governor of Natal on November 8 telegraphed as follows to General Sir Redvers Buller:—The State Secretary of the Transvaal, Mr. F. W. Reitz, has wire: ...
Article : 339 wordsTwo sister,s Emma and Jessie Evans, took poison in a boarding-house in Castlereagh-street to-day. Both were described as domestic servants. The latter however ...
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Advertising : 307 wordsNews from Samoa states that all is quiet. It is impossible to tell how the natives will receive the news of the German annexation. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe cricket match between Geelong Grammar School and Wesley College, played at Geelong, resulted in an easy win for the Grammar School by 6 wickets and ...
Article : 83 wordsAt London.—Spero, barque, from Bunbury July 15. DEPARTURES. Fore Sydney.—Hartfield, ship, from New ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Sat 9 Dec 1899, Page 8
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