An expectant, eager crowd. Thousands of eyes centred on a group of restive steeds, backing and filling into good positions at the starting post. The hum of ...
Article : 1,864 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and the Countess of Hopetoun were present at the Adelaide Cup Meeting on Wednesday. They drove from Government ...
Article : 516 wordsIn the absence of the President, the Chairman of Committees (Sr. Best, V.) took the chair at 2.30 p.m. Classification of Telegraphists. ...
Article : 679 wordsYesterday 12,000 Poles held a demonstration at Warsaw, with the object of fostering the ambition for the restoration of Polish independence. Bodies of cavalry and ...
Article : 60 wordsMjr.-Gen. Bruce Meade Hamilton's column, in a drive south from Hoidelburg to Standerton, captured 87 Boers. London, May 7. ...
Article : 183 wordsA message from New York announces the death at the age of 62 of Rear-Admiral William Thomas Sampson, of the United States Navy. The deceased took a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 108 wordsThe change of bowlers referred to as having been effected before the lunch hour was not long in having effect, for Braund, who had passed his century ...
Article : 945 wordsQueen Wilhelmina spent a quiet night, and the doctors say that she is progressing fairly satisfactorily. London, May 7. ...
Article : 65 wordsSerious trouble seems to be impending in regard to the political future of Siam, a country which for some years bus owed its independence to the friendship of Great ...
Article : 188 wordsEarl Beauchamp, ex-Governor of New South Wales has commissioned Mr. John Lougstaff, the Victorian artist, to paint a portrait of King Edward in his coronation ...
Article : 226 wordsIn formation has reached Pretoria to the effect that the Transvaal leaders who were recently in conference have been successful in securing the consent of the commandos ...
Article : 151 wordsPresident Roosevelt bas declined to allow Admiral George Dewey (the senior flag officer of tho American Navy) and Lieut-Gen. Nelson A. Miles (the Chief ...
Article : 51 wordsThe death is announced, at the age of 63, of the Most Rev. Michael Augustine Corrigan; D.C., Coadjutor Archbishop of York, Dr. Corrigan, who was ...
Article : 138 wordsWilliam T. Sampson, who was born in the town of Palmyra in 1840, was one of those rare men who noli only gave early promise of extraordinary ability, but ...
Article : 611 wordsOn Wednesday afternoon, at 2.38, a shock of earthquake was experienced in Adelaide, and ia the operating room of the Adelaide telegraph office it caused gas pendants to ...
Article : 181 wordsThe cathedral city of Murcia, situate 28 miles north of Cartagena, Spain, was the seene yesterday of an earthquake, which greatly alarmed the inhabitants, who total ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Times correspondent at Pretoria affirms that English will be declared the official language in the Boer states, but Dutch will be tolerated. ...
Article : 33 wordsLondon Wool Sales.—The third series of colonial wool sales were opened to-day. There was strong competition. Prices were somewhat irregular, but on the whole merinos ...
Article : 292 wordsMr. Prinsloo, a former Governor of Bloemfontein, who surrendered to Lord Roberts early in die war, and remained on his farm on parole, was recently taken ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following additional plague cases were reported to-day:—John Dodds, aged 12½ years, a schoolboy residing in Alexandra street, Alexandria—his case is said to ...
Article : 164 wordsArrangements for the mayoral ball in the Exhibition Building this evening have been completed. The spacious ballroom has been decorated with artistic skill, and ...
Article : 626 wordsThe War Office has accepted a New South Wales tender for 500 tons of flour, and 5,000 lb. of corned beef and mutton. ...
Article : 29 wordsA terrible calamity has befallen a party of Roman Catholics from Belgium, who were making a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, for the purpose of having ailments ...
Article : 73 wordsPte. Robert Hanslow, of the 9th New Zealanders, has died from dysentery at Newcastle,, and Qmr.-Sgt. Donald Morton Lyne, of the 2nd Tasmanians, from ...
Article : 48 wordsRp. Sir William Lyne to-day entered upon his duties us Acting Minister for Defence, He intends to confer to-morrow with the Federal Commandant, when an attempt ...
Article : 187 wordsBefore Judge Murray, in the Metropolitan District Court to-day, John Nagle Slattery, of Pott's Point, who is a son of the Hon. Thomas Michael Slattery M.L.C. an ...
Article : 578 wordsThe War Office has cancelled the award of a distinguished conduct medal to Lieut. H. Picton, who was recently cashiered from the notorious Bush Veldt Carbineers. ...
Article : 49 wordsA shocking accident occurred at Mount Morgan last night in the Golden Cob Store, George Smith, aged 20 years, assisted by mother employee named Whitmee, was ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. Beazeley, Chairman of the Liverpool Steamship Association, has drawn attention to the fact that since 1890 2,006 British steamers, with an aggregate tonnage of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 wordsThe officers of the Amalgamated Miners' Association spent a couple of hours to-day with the Minister of Mines, and discussed with him a series of suggestions in relation ...
Article : 222 wordsThe death occurred yesterday, in the sixty-third year of his age, of Mr. Francis, Bret Harte, the famous American novelist, who for some time prior to his decease ...
Article : 351 wordsIt is understood that the report of the commission appointed to enquire into the working of the Factories and Shops Act will lie handed to the Minister ...
Article : 138 wordsThe state railway returns show a net increase of £472 over the corresponding month of last year. The Government has decided, as a means ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Daily Mail affirms that the War Office has abandoned the idea of owning breeding establishments for military horses, and considers the system of registration of ...
Article : 93 wordsSir—We herewith enclose copy of a letter we have received from a person who sent us an order for a quantity of timber to build a new hotel at Lillimur, Victoria ...
Article : 199 wordsA telegram from Bourke states that an artesian bore just completed at Glen Albyn, near Enngora, gives an apparently permanent supply of 750,000 gallons daily ...
Article : 205 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day, before Chief Justice Stone, Mr. Alfred Woods was fined £100 for having performed the drama Barabbas on Sunday, February 16 in Her ...
Article : 93 wordsSeveral cases of measles have been reported from the military encampment at Longwarrin. The cases are mild ones. The contingent is under orders to be ready for ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Chief Justice, sitting to-day in the Vice-Admiralty Court, granted leave to appeal to the Privy Council against the award in the Port Patrick salvage case. His ...
Article : 91 wordsYour letter under date 16th inst. to hand. I wish lo draw your attention to the fact that the limber did not arrive here until the 16th inst., and truck to-day, 17th inst. (This was ...
Article : 212 wordsThe thirty-seventh annual session of the Presbyterian General Assembly, which was opened yesterday under the Moderatorship of the Kev. J. Walker, was continued ...
Article : 107 wordsAnxiety concerning the steamer Boveric is increasing. She is now 17 days overdue on the trip from Mel bourne to Durban, having sailed from hern on March 2. The ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Thu 8 May 1902, Page 5
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