The steamer Gulf of Martaban, 1,725 tons, which left Sydney for London on February 17 with a detachment of New South, Wales Mounted Rifles who are to take part in the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe police made a raid on a house in Johnson-street Collingwood, yesterday and arrested David Ross, carter, aged 30, for assisting to conduct a common gaming-house; and ...
Article : 105 wordsThe body of an old man was found in the Yarra to-day. Several stones were in his coat pockets, and there were two wounds on the head. A post-mortem examination showed ...
Article : 359 wordsHerbert Jones, a lad employed at Benles Sewing Machine Manufactory at Armidale had his left hand completely severed at the wrist to-day whilst at work attending a planning ...
Article : 48 wordsThe wheat market shows a decline of 6d. per quarter.__________________ ...
Article : 25 wordsThe officers and men who form the Lancet detachment for England, numbering 29, went into barracks to-day for instruction in barrack and stable duties, prior to sailing in the ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Percy Taylor Farrell, a married man, residing at the Victoria Hotel, Beaconsfield-parade, who is said to have gone with Mr. Taverner and Mr. Foster to see the John ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Congress of the Republic of Venezuela has unanimously ratified the treaty entered into between that country and Great Britain on the subject of the disputed boundary. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe shipping regulations with regard to hares and rabbits, just published by the Board of Experts, have already aroused much interest amongst merchants in this and the other ...
Article : 95 wordsA project has been started for utilising the Nile cataracts, in much the same way as the Niagara Falls are already used, for the generation of electric power for factory and other ...
Article : 126 wordsArthur L. Godwin, a youth, was charged at the City Court today with stealing £77 18s. 3d., the property of Frank Evans, secretary of the New South Wales Club, Sydney, on the ...
Article : 75 wordsAt an inquest held to-day on the body of a Greek who died on March 28, it was stated that the deceased was first treated at the Sydney Hospital for typhoid fever until ...
Article : 125 wordsJohn Henry Swales, a stylishly dressed young man, was charged at the City Court today with obtaining £30 by means of false pretences from a young lady, Miss Julia ...
Article : 169 wordsThe consignees consider that the bulk of the Victorian apples brought by the P. & O. steamer China were shipped too early. They also complain that the excessive use of paper ...
Article : 84 wordsArrangements have been made with the Orient Company which enables 20 additional members of the mounted rifles to join the detachment which is going to England to take ...
Article : 116 wordsThe mail train from Melbourne to Sydney was derailed four miles from Yass, at a point 186 miles from Sydney, late last night. The engine ran on to a calf which had strayed on ...
Article : 118 wordsLydia Lewis, aged eight, died in the Newcastle Hospital last night, from the effects of injuries caused by a little boy, aged four, throwing a lighted match at her and setting ...
Article : 45 wordsThe House of Commons yesterday adopted a resolution urging the Government to give immediate attention to the question of Great Britain's food supplies in the event of war. ...
Article : 261 wordsThe Savings Bank Commissioners opened tenders to-day for a loan of £20,000 under the Credit Foncier system. The loan carries interest at 3 per cent. There were only six ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Seventh Day Adventists have circulated a counter petition to that issued by the Council of the Churches for a national recognition of God in the Federal Constitution. The ...
Article : 153 wordsD. J. Walker this afternoon succeeded in reducing the Australian standing-start records for the quarter-mile, half-mile, and mile distances. The attempts were made on the ...
Article : 135 wordsThere was a crowded house at the Princess Theatre this afternoon on the occasion of a matinee in aid of the Distressed Actors' Fund, and the audience witnessed during the ...
Article : 124 wordsSome months ago arrangements were entered into between the New South Wales and Victorian Governments for prospecting parties from each colony to prospect the border ...
Article : 79 wordsRain is wanted very badly in various parts of the country, and the continued absence of rain is causing the outlook to be very discouraging. The Minister for Works to-day ...
Article : 153 wordsDon Walker, the present holder of the Australian records for the quarter and half-mile with a flying start, this evening on the St. Kilda track turned off the former distance ...
Article : 59 wordsA lunatic named Tate, alias Fleming, escaped from the Kew Asylum to-day. Tate is a dangerous criminal lunatic, and has been implicated in numerous murderous attacks on ...
Article : 38 wordsSpeaking on Saturday at the annual meeting of the St. Vincent da Paul Home, which is a home for destitute boys, Cardinal Moran said there were three sources of danger which ...
Article : 193 wordsSuperintendent Brown, of the Criminal Investigation Branch, has received a cablegram announcing the arrest at Vancouver, British Columbia, of Charles Thomas Hay Adair, late ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Sultan of Zanzibar (Said Hamud bin Mahomed) at the instigation of the British Consul has decreed the abolition of the "legal status" of slavery throughout his dominions. ...
Article : 65 wordsOn Tuesday last an inquest was held at Numurkah touching the death of Miss Blanche Lancaster, who died suddenly in that town on Sunday last. The evidence showed that the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe jury in the case against Constable George Hammond, charged with a brutal assault upon an elderly man, Thomas Clarke, in the Domain, at midnight on March 14 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 37 wordsThe board appointed under the Factories and Shops Act to fix the rates of payment have nearly completed their work. Amongst their decisions they have fixed the minimum ...
Article : 149 wordsA grand Australian fair in aid of St. Mary's Cathedral was opened this afternoon by Cardinal Moran in a building specially erected for the purpose. The function was a highly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 wordsMr. Edward Augustine Donnelly, a young man, was killed by lightning to-day at Bathurst. He was walking down a street with Mr. Marks, when a vivid flash of ...
Article : 125 wordsThe acting Premier received a letter from Sir George Turner to-day stating that there is no prospect of his returning to Victoria before starting for London and also that he is ...
Article : 62 wordsA special meeting of Cabinet will be held to-morrow to consider the case of the condemned youth, William Phillips. A petition praying for the commutation of the death ...
Article : 162 wordsMr. G. H. S. Trott, the South Melbourne captain, left by the Parramatta on Saturday for Adelaide, en route for West Australia, with Messrs. Graham, Gregory, McKibbin ...
Article : 64 wordsEdgar Craddock, the absconding paymaster of H.M.S. Katoomba, is expected to arrive here to-morrow morning from Melbourne. He will probably be remanded to his Vessel and ...
Article : 83 wordsThe following crew has been selected to represent Sydney University in the annual race with Melbourne and Adelaide, to be contested on the Parramatta River on May 22 ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. and Mrs. Brough took a farewell of Melbourne playgoers last night, when there was such an audience as is seldom seen in a theatre. The play "Dandy Dick" was ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Minister of Works (Mr. Young) speaking a Tamworth to-day at the opening of the Liverpool Plains show, stated that the Government intended to establish small ...
Article : 369 wordsBUTTER.—Australian butter is steady, the consumption overtaking the supply. Prices for colonial are 88s to 94s per cwt, and Danish 85s. ...
Article : 446 wordsThe Clarke divorce case was again before the Judge in Bankruptcy to-day, when an application was made on behalf of Mrs. Clarke for an order to move the Divorce Court for the ...
Article : 123 wordsSamuel Collins was badly injured at Moore's sewerage contract, Richmond, this afternoon. He was driving to meet another workman, and the latter but in a charge of dynamite not ...
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Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 10 Apr 1897, Page 25
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