The Navy Estimates submitted to the House of Commons on Monday provide for a net expenditure during the coming year of £32.319.500—an increase of £900,00 on ...
Article : 326 wordsThe weather was beautifully fine when the Englishmen entered the field to-day. Still it was soon apparent that the batsman were in for a bad time as the ball ...
Article : 2,464 wordsMrs. Mary Robinson, the notorious witness in the Druce case, who deposed that she had, at the instance of Charles Dickens, acted as secretary to the fifth Duke ...
Article : 125 wordsDuring a debate on Congo affairs in the House of Lords on Monday, Lord Fitzmaurice (Under Foreign Secretary) declared that the Congo Government's attitude ...
Article : 599 wordsAn anonymous Australian, who claims that he was recently a British secret service agent, has published a sensational book in Berlin purporting to include ...
Article : 88 wordsKalgoorlie has always had the name of seeing a brilliantly lighted city, but to-night, with the exception of kerosine lamps, it is in almost total darkness. This is due to a ...
Article : 329 wordsThe sculling contest for the world's championship took place on the Wangauni River today. Huge crowds assembled along the banks of the river to watch the race, which ...
Article : 669 wordsThe Nasi trial was resumed at Rome by the Senate on January 21. and judgment was pronounced on Monday. The new President of the High Court made aa excellent ...
Article : 447 wordsIn the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Reginald McKenna (President of the Board of Education) introduced his new Education Bill for England and Wales. The ...
Article : 383 wordsThe members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and the Steam Engine Makers and Machine workers' Societies employed in the shipbuilding yards on the ...
Article : 129 wordsMrs. Mary Robinson, in her confession, alleges that in 1906 a man, who called himself Druce, and who George Hollamby Druce afterwards said was his brother ...
Article : 387 wordsThe Rev. Canon Charles Philip Greene, rector of Clapham, who died recently, has left £8,282 personalty in the United Kingdom. From his Australian estate he has ...
Article : 183 wordsApplications for South Australian 3¾ per rent, stock on sale in Melbourne at par have, it is understood, already been received to a fair extent. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Army Estimates, laid on the table of the House of Commons by Mr. R. B. Haldane, show a total expenditure for 1908-9 of £27,459,000—a decline nf £301,000 ...
Article : 114 wordsSeveral Afridi chiefs who are friendly to the Indian Government have approached Gen. Sir James Willcocks with the view of mediating between him and the ...
Article : 51 wordsAt the Supreme Court on Monday Mr. Bagot obtained an order to deposit with the Court a balance of £1,061 6/3. payable to the shareholders of the North K[?]punda ...
Article : 288 wordsA serious financial panic is being experienced in Japan, and many competent authorities regard the outlook as alarming. Twelve large Japanese firms, chiefly ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. James Munro, who was Premier of Victoria from November, 1890, to February, 1893, died in Melbourne on Tuesday night. He was the son of Donald Munro. ...
Article : 476 wordsThe barquentine Andromeda, which left Newcastle (New South Wales) for San Francisco on October 29, was recently "spoken" in the North Pacific. The ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Archbishop of Melbourne (Most Rev. Dr. Henry Lowther Clarke) has arrived in London, and is prosecuting enquiries into the case of Canon Nash, of ...
Article : 45 wordsSpeaking at the accountants' dinner at the Holborn Restaurant on Saturday night, Sir Albert Rollit referred to the division of witnesses into three classes, the liar ...
Article : 82 wordsA cowardly murder has been perpetrated by an Italian Anarchist in Denver City, Colorado. The man was kneeling at the altar receiving the sacrament when he shot ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Naval Committee appointed by the House of Representatives at Washington to deal with the Adonralty's estimates for the ensuing year has ...
Article : 75 wordsA remarkable crime is charged against the gaoler of a prison at Rendsburg, a town in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein. The man has been arrested for ...
Article : 63 wordsThe strike of miners at Wyalong continues. It is expected that the trouble will continue until the Arbitration Board has dealt, with the matter, There are ...
Article : 140 wordsMr. Keir Hardie, the English Socialist legislator, is now on a visit to Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange River Colony. He addressed a crowded meeting ...
Article : 51 wordsAn important report on steps necessary to improve the wheat yield has been submitted to the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Swinburnel by Mr. F. R Lee, the ...
Article : 330 wordsSir John Forrest, speaking at Newcastle last night, and dealing with Federal politics, stated that his speech at Newcastle at the end of 1906. when he attacked the ...
Article : 314 wordsThe New York correspondent of The standard says that the United States Government is disinclined to accept Mr. Deakin's invitation to the battleship and ...
Article : 88 wordsThree Chinese were prosecuted last week on a charge of being aliens within the meaning of the Restriction Act. They wished to proceed south in the steamer ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Thomas Alva Edison, the noted American inventor, who is now 61 years of age, has been operated upon for mastoiditis (the removal of projecting bone). ...
Article : 36 wordsSir—Having been asked by a number of citizens to initiate a public subscription for a souvenir to Mr. Joseph Vardon for his public services in maintaining the ...
Article : 114 wordsJohn Knox Malcolm, an ex-solicitor, who unsuccessfully appealed against conviction for forgery, was to-day • sentenced to two years' hard labour. Henry Lascelles, a ...
Article : 108 wordsSilver.—The price of standard silver to-day is 2s. 1 ll-16d., a rise of 5-16d. Beetroot Sugar.—The monthly report issued by Mr. F. C. Licht, of Madgeburg. ...
Article : 225 wordsIt is probable that the Conference of State Premiers, which is to take place in Melbourne, will not be opened till after Easter. Mr. Wade states that it would be ...
Article : 107 wordsA fatal accident occurred on Wednesday at Virginia, near Nundah, to Mr. William Hobson, dairyman. Hobson, it appears was attempting to ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Wade), referring to Mr. Chapman's intended 200-lb. cornsack, stated to-night:—"We propose to follow the course indicated a few days ago—to have ...
Article : 149 wordsCapt. Taylor, who is conducting the operations in concction with the refloating of the stranded ship Mildura, has not altogether abandoned hopes of bringing the ...
Article : 114 wordsTwo schoolboys met with a serious accident this afternoon just outside the Central Public School ground. A jinker was being removed, and a number of boys on ...
Article : 98 wordsAt London or in Channel.—Arrino. steamer, from Brisbane December 18; Langton Grange, steamer, from Brisbane November 2; Miltiades, steamer, from ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Wed 26 Feb 1908, Page 5
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