A. E. Stoddart's team of English cricketers will sail for Australia by the Ormuz on September 7. ...
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Article : 43 wordsThe following further particulars of the Greco-Turkish war are taken from English files to hand by tho R.M.S. China, which arrived today, tho latest London date being ...
Article : 3,268 wordsSir R. J. Cartwright, Minister of Trade and Commerce, addressing the Ottawa House of Commons yesterday, announced that the Imperial Government bad approved of the ...
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Article : 316 wordsThe subaqueous tunnel which crosses the Thames between Blackwall and the East Greenwich side, a distance of a mile, was opened by the Prince of Wales on Saturday. ...
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Article : 28 wordsThe third reading of the Bill providing necessitous board schools with financial assistance from the Imperial Exchequer has been read a third time in the House of ...
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Article : 68 wordsDr. J. W. Leyds, late State Secretary at the Transvaal and now representative of the Republic at Hague, has abandoned his proposed visit to Berlin in order to avoid any ...
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Article : 622 wordsAn Indian 2 1/2 per cent loan of £3,500,000 has been tendered for four times over at an average of £96 15s. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe trial of Baron Tausch for perjury and forgery, and of Herr Luetzow for forgery, has commenced in Berlin. Herr Luetzow declares that he received a request from Baron Tausch ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Colonial Premiers will be entertained by the Lord Mayor of Loudon (Mr. G. Faudel-Phillips) at a banquet on July 1. Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, of Kandahar ...
Article : 125 wordsBy special order of President Kruger a salute in honor of the birthday of Queen Victoria was tired by the battery at Pretoria on Monday. Both the first and the second Volksraads ...
Article : 52 wordsThe iron ship Buckhurst, 1.908 tons, belonging to the Buckhurst Ship Company (Messrs. W. R. Price & Co., of London), while on a voyage from Newcastle to Panama, caught ...
Article : 164 wordsMr. Henry Labouchere, M.P., in a letter to the chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee now engaged in enquiring into the circumstances connected with the Jameson ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Hon. James Rose Innes, LL.B., who is a nephew of Sir Gordon Sprigg, Premier of Cape colony, and who acted as Attorney-General under Mr. Rhodes from 1890 ...
Article : 94 wordsThe horses sent to London by the Hon. H. C. Dangar, of New South Wales, to replace those of the military contingent which were lost during their voyage to England, have ...
Article : 230 wordsIntelligence from the Soudan states that the dervishes are raiding Tokar and the surrounding district. ...
Article : 24 wordsMiss Flora Shaw, who visited South Africa a few years ago as correspondent to the Times, gave evidence before the Jameson Raid Committee of Enquiry yesterday. Miss Shaw ...
Article : 220 wordsA terrible explosion lias occurred in a dyna mite factory at Krummel. A spark ignited 1,000 kilograms, the result being four workmen were blown to atoms and eight shockingly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 wordsAt an election in Bosayaizi in Hungary on Saturday serious rioting occurred. The military intervened, and fired on the crowd, killing 14 and wounding 30. ...
Article : 36 wordsAnother "scene" was witnessed at the meeting of the Jameson raid enquiry committee yesterday. Dr. Harris, the London secretary of the South Africa Chartered ...
Article : 92 wordsColonel Lassetter, commander of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles now visiting England, was entertained at a dinner last night by the Queen's Westminster Volunteers ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Hon. Richard Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, who is now visiting the United States, has had an interview with President McKinley, and has also visited the Senate ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Yolksraad in the Orange Free State have negatived by the Chairman's vote a proposal to restrict the franchise to the Boer inhabitants and exclude all Uitlanders. The ...
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Advertising : 187 wordsNuttall, the swimmer, has challenged Cavill to compete in a match for the Mile Championship of the World at anything over £200 aside. ...
Article : 31 wordsA exciting tragedy occurred on Monday in a place of public entertainment at Berlin. A champion was shot was exhibiting feats of skill on the platform, and in one of his ...
Article : 81 wordsThe prospectus of the Coolgardie Brewery Company has been issued. The capital is set down at £100,000, and shares to the value of £80,000 will be issued forthwith. ...
Article : 38 wordsIn the Ottawa House of Commons yesterday the Hon. W. S. Fielding, Minister of Finance, announced that the Government proposed to extend the reciprocal tariff, to any country ...
Article : 79 wordsThe South Australian. Government fare inviting tenders for a Joan of £1,000,000 at 3 per cent. The minimum had been fixed at £95, and tenders will be opened on Friday. ...
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Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 29 May 1897, Page 24
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