Here is a story from Mr. Barry Pain's amusing book "De Omnibus." It is the conductor who speak. "Thet ain't the only fine as I've bin done. Ere"s another kise. ...
Article : 1,245 wordsIn Legislative Council Treasury Bills Bill, after debate, carried through all its stages. Debates on second readings of Public Service and Early Closing Bills resumed, and further adjourned. ...
Article : 131 wordsGeneral Sir Robert Low, Commandant of the Bombay Forces, arrived in Melbourne on Thursday by the express from Sydney. Sir Robert, with his two ...
Article : 703 wordsDr. Morrison, the "Times" correspondent at Pekin, reports that M. Paul Lessar, the Russian Ambassador, while representing that the St. Petersburg authorities are ...
Article : 319 wordsThe latest advices from Natal indicate that Gen. Louis Botha's commandos are provided with ample food supplies in the Luneberg district. ...
Article : 97 wordsIt was recently reported that at the instance of the Sultan, Mon. I. A. Zinovieff, the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, had requested Count Lamsdorf, the Foreign ...
Article : 302 wordsCorrespondents at St. Petersburg and Moscow affirm that the Russian newspapers are unanimously urging their Government to immediately dispatch an army to occupy ...
Article : 263 wordsThe Legislative Council met this week for the first time on Thursday, and the sitting was a profitable one as far as progress was concerned. The Attorney-General almost ...
Article : 306 wordsThe British force under Col. Benson, operating at night on the high veldt near Middelburg, succeeded in making prisoners of 36 Transvaal burghers and capturing large ...
Article : 37 wordsEx-President Kruger is reported to be ill at Hilversum, in North Holland. For several weeks he has shown signs of physical and mental breakdown. ...
Article : 31 wordsOn Monday a British force under Col. Sir H. S. Rawlinson, Bart., of the Coldstream Guards, engaged Commandant Meyers's commando in country near Frankfort, a ...
Article : 67 wordsIn an official proclamation Habibullah promises that he will treat his subjects kindly and reduce the taxation they are required to pay. He announces that the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Earl of Rosebery, in a remarkable speech delivered at Birmingham yesterday, warned the nation of the dangers of self-complacency. He urged that the empire ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Bill introduced into the French Legislature by the Premier, M. Waldeck-Rousseau, to provide for old age pensions, has been unfavourably received. Masters ...
Article : 201 wordsCol. Rimington's column on Monday last captured a Boer convoy at Villiersdorp, a small village in the division of Caledon. Three of the enemy were slain. ...
Article : 110 wordsEmpty benches faced the Speaker when he took the chair on Thursday. Mr. Paech drew the attention of the Premier to a telegram in "The Register" stating that ...
Article : 927 wordsMr. Alexander Wilson, of New South Wales, has submitted to the War Office a scheme for the establishment in the Northern Territory of South Australia of a ...
Article : 190 wordsA quarrel at the Aldershot camp between men of the Durham Light Infantry and men of the Worcestershire Regiment evening yesterday in a fierce fight in which ...
Article : 65 wordsThe following casualties to members of the fifth South Australian contingent are reported:—Braefontein, 8th inst.—Slightly wounded, Farrier-Sgt. F. L. Simpson. ...
Article : 43 wordsAn Admiralty court-martial which enquired into the circumstances surrounding the wreck near the mouth of the Humber of the torpedo-boat destroyer Cobra, with the ...
Article : 104 wordsIt was yesterday reported that a referendum of the workers in French mines showed a state of indifference to the proposal that a general strike should be ...
Article : 109 wordsThe grand champion choral contest took place this evening in the Alfred Hall. There was an immense crowd, and the excitement was intense. Seven choruses entered, and ...
Article : 342 wordsThe following description of the execution of Boer rebels in South Africa has just been received from Capt. S. A. White, chief staff officer at Cloesberg, Cape Colony:— ...
Article : 1,569 wordsThe British Treasury, which has the control of the Excise Department, is prohibiting the use of glucose and invert sugar containing any degree of arsenic in the ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. W. Willcocks, C.M.G., director of the Cairo waterworks since 1897, and designer of the immense dams which are being constructed across the Nile at Assouan and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsA sinister movement is in progress among the coal miners at Montceau-les Mines, a town in the department of Saoneet-Loire, where advanced socialistic ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. Robert Blunt, Registrar of the Court of Insolvency in Adelaide for more than 30 years, died on Thursday, He was one of the most popular and highly respected ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 444 wordsUitlander refugees are now permitted to return to the Rand goldfields at the rate of 100 per week. Lord Milner gives preference to men who have served in the army as ...
Article : 72 wordsTelegrams from Constantinople state that Miss Stone, the American Protestant missionary, is being detained by Macedonian brigands on the Turko-Bulgarian frontier ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Marylebone Cricket Club is appointing boards to select the teams for the test matches to be played in England against the Australian Eleven in the coming ...
Article : 40 wordsIn view of the enormous progress of the export trade of the United States, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, the President, is in favour of the creation in the Cabinet of a ...
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The Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, the eminent minister of the City Temple, in his presidential address from the chair of the Congregational Union of England and Wales ...
Article : 69 wordsThe steamer Dovedale, of the Adelaide Steamship Company's fleet, has been arrested at Newcastle by a warrant issued by the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Government Statist's returns show that there is 253,621 acres less under wheat in Victoria for the coining harvest than for the last one. Assuming that the average ...
Article : 64 wordsOwing to the prevalence of smallpox, the servants in the royal palaces and children in many of the public schools and public institutions hare been revaccinated. The number ...
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