In Legislative Council Hod. R. S. Guthrie presented petitions in favour of compulsory Saturday half-holiday. Hon. Sir E. T. Smith made personal explanation why he had not recorded his ...
Article : 161 wordsFrom now until the end of the racing carnival a considerable amount of the time of their Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Hopetoun will be engaged in ...
Article : 750 wordsThe Conciliation and Arbitration Act of New Zealand, passed in 1894, and which, according to recent telegrams, is to be anoded, appeared at first sight to be a ...
Article : 1,351 wordsGen. Louis Botha and his 2,000 followers are being bard pressed by the British troops near the frontier of southern Swaziland. A British column has occupied Piet ...
Article : 114 wordsRecently M. Waldeck Rousseau, the Premier of France, ordered the prosecution of the publisher of a French pro-Boer paper for having printed and circulated a ...
Article : 66 wordsThe latest advices from Simla state that the condition of Afghanistan is quiet. Russia professes to he reassured concerning the prospects of peace in the country. ...
Article : 149 wordsThe leading Herman newspapers are taking considerable interest in the Commonwealth tariff introduced by the Barton Government. Their criticisms are invariably ...
Article : 58 wordsIn accordance with a general expectation on the Continent, M. de Witte, the Minister of Finance at St. Petersburg, is seeking to raise a Joan of £25,000,000 from ...
Article : 52 wordsCol. Roosevelt, President of the United States, has been advised by Mr. Knox, an American legal authority that Spain's concession to an English company of ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Legislative Councillors were more talkative than usual on Tuesday. The Hon. Sir E. T. Smith, who during his long Parliamentary career has only moved two ...
Article : 415 wordsCommandant Scheepers, who was taken prisoner on Thursday by a troop of the 10th Hussars, is seriously ill with appendicitis. The farmhouse in which he was ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Chamberlain, in a speech at Birmingham yesterday, warned the temperance party of the danger of making extreme danger upon Parliament for the ...
Article : 91 wordsA person named Maggio, described as an anarchist, has been arrested at Silver City, in the territory of New Mexico, charged with conspiracy in connection with the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe French Budget committee are so satisfied with the value and usefulness or the submarine torpedo boats which France is now constructing that they have excised ...
Article : 52 wordsTwo youths belonging to the commando of Commander Lotter, who was executed lost week, have been convicted of serious offences, and sentenced to receive 25 strokes ...
Article : 90 wordsThe auxiliary learner Discovery, specially constructed for the Antarctic expedition, left Cape Town yesterday, bound for Lyttelton. She will not call at Melbourne ...
Article : 33 wordsSir Lambton Loraine, Bart., a retired rear-admiral, has written a letter to the "Times" ridiculing the design of the Australian Commonwealth flag, He suggests ...
Article : 49 wordsBy royal command Mjr.-Gen. Baden-Powell; the hero of the successful defence of Mafeking, attended at Balmoral to-day, and was granted an audience by the King. ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Alcock, secretary of the Survey Cricket Club, has issued a circular to secretaries of county clubs expressing the hope that they will leave vacant dates where ...
Article : 71 wordsTelegrams from Constantinople state that some Turkish soldiers at Monastir, a town 17 miles from Saloniea, attacked the French vice-consul at that place. When the ...
Article : 61 wordsFour squadrons of colonial irregular mounted infantry are being raised at Cape Town for three months' active service against the rebels in the western provinces ...
Article : 33 wordsA fire broke out iu St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney, yesterday, with the re-sult that a large portion of the famous edifice was destroyed. ...
Article : 269 wordsAt London or Channel—Tekoa, steamer, from the Mull July 20; Runic, strainer, from Sydney August 17; Prinz-Regent Luit-pold W, steamer, from Sydney August 24. At ...
Article : 84 wordsSeven hundred and fifty-six additional Boer prisoners were landed yesterday at Bombay, where they will be retained in custody until peace has been restored. ...
Article : 31 wordsMessages by the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy are now being transmitted for a distance of 350 miles. ...
Article : 24 wordsPte. R. J. Arndell, of the New South Wales Bushmen, has died at Naauw Poort West. The cause of death is not stated. Pte. J. Hay, of the second New South ...
Article : 77 wordsThere was a full attendance of members when the Speaker took the chair, but there was only a moderate number of spectators. Lord Richard Nevill brought ...
Article : 1,500 wordsAn outrage of a violent character occurred at Surry Hills on Monday afternoon. Shortly before 4 o'clock four young men in a cart drove up to a two-storied house. ...
Article : 252 wordsLead.—The pi ice 01 lead yesterday was £11 13/9 per ton. ...
Article : 19 wordsTpr. R. J. Sobels writes from Winburg on August 31:—" Midwinter is past. The Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and parts of Cape (Colony have been traversed, swept ...
Article : 659 wordsThe approval of the University Senate was given to-day to a new statute authorizing the appointment of a board to hold annual examinations in music, with power to ...
Article : 183 wordsCol. Theodore Roosevelt declares that he will not pander to any political or financial cliques in order to secure his nomination to the Presidency of the United States in ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Treasurer has received a communication in reference to bringing a large number of German farmers at present in South Australia to settle iu Queensland. They have ...
Article : 220 wordsA sensational shooting affray occurred this evening. It is alleged that William Rickards, a young married man, fired half a dozen shots from a revolver at his wife ...
Article : 242 wordsMrs. E. Hartle. who will to-morrow celebrate her 100th birth anniversary, was born on October 17, 1801, in the parish of St. Hilflary, County Cornwall, England, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 279 wordsThe annual conference ol the council of the Congregational Union of Victoria wax held to-day. The Rev. J. J. Halley read the 41st ...
Article : 125 wordsThe State Fire Insurance Bill has been abandoned by the Government. The Shaw, Savill, & Albion Company's steamer Gothic, which arrived on Monday ...
Article : 44 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, accompanied by Lady Tennyson and Lord Richard Nevill. visited the district, and were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Angas, of ...
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Advertising : 96 wordsA deputation, representing tramway employes, interviewed the Treasurer, Mr. Waddell, to-day, to plate before him the claims of train drivers and conductors to ...
Article : 278 wordsPending financial arrangements being made concerning the control of New Guinea the Premier has arranged to guarantee payment of the possession's cheques, but he ...
Article : 63 wordsAt Busselton to-day George Anderson wag committed for trial on a charge of having wilfully murdered Thomas Johnson during a quarrel on Monday last. ...
Article : 31 wordsA special meeting of the Municipal Council was held last night to receive a deputation from the Citizens' Association. The deputation asked that a referendum should ...
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Advertising : 149 wordsA detailed report, dated Cape Town, September 17, in regard to the sick and wounded Victorians at the seat of war in South Africa, was received to-day by the Defence ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Wed 16 Oct 1901, Page 7
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