The Queen-Regent of Spain has created the widow of the late Don Canovaa del Castillo a duchess and has granted her an annual pension of 30,000 pesetas as some recompense for the ...
Article : 46 wordsInformation has been received by the authorities of the War Office that typhoid is raging in Crete. Many of the British soldiers stationed there ...
Article : 253 wordsThe Washington Government have published an interesting and sympathetic report from the American Consul in Sydney on the progress and prospects of the federal ...
Article : 81 wordsAn inquest was held to-day" in connection , with the death of a woman, Catherine Smith, < which occurred at Manly under suspicious cir-1 cumstances. John Lewis, detained on bus- I picion of having caused the woman's death,' was present in custody. The Government! analyist stated that he had examined a shirt i ...
Article : 269 wordsMr. Grainger, the chief architect of the Public Works Department, left for Adelaide to-day. The Premier is expected to return next ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Austrian Minister at Sofia has been granted indefinite leave of absence by his Government owing to tho fact that M. Stoiloff, the Bulgarian Premier, declines to apologise ...
Article : 40 wordsCaptain Wynyard, the famous Hampshire amateur batsman, whose average last year was 50.35 runs, has accepted the invitation of Mr. Stoddart to visit Australia with his ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Austrian Government have threatened a breach of diplomatic relations with Bulgaria unless Mr. Stoiloff, the Bulgarian Premier, retracts an insinuation. ...
Article : 115 wordsDaisy Bell has crushed 50 tons for 1,100 oz., or an average of 22 oz. per ton. ...
Article : 23 wordsSir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland, is at present visiting Sir Thomas McIlwraith, ex-Premier of the same colony, at Heidelberg, and he afterwards returns to Dorsetshire for a ...
Article : 54 wordsThe crushing of the Coolgardie Mint for July was 200 tons treated for a yield of 336 oz. 6 dwt, and from the scalding plates 317 oz. 6 dwt., making a total for the month of 700 oz. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe participants in the reword of £75 offered by the Government for information leading to the arrest of Butler, the murderer, were paid to-day. Detective McHattie, who discovered ...
Article : 50 wordsSix thousand miners who have started for the Klondyke gold fields in British Columbia have advanced as far as the Yakon passes, and it is feared that fully half of that number will be ...
Article : 54 wordsPrince Henri of Orleans, who has recently been visiting Abyssinia, states that King Menelek has laid claim to an immense region between Lake Rudolph and the Albert ...
Article : 85 wordsA deputation consisting of about forty members of Parliament waited on the Minister of Works to-day and pointed out tho urgent necessity of locking the Darling. The ...
Article : 129 wordsAt an auction sale to-day 22 cwt. of Victorian grown tobacco was sold at an average price of 3[?]d. per lb. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the Police Court to-day the manager of the Royal Bank was fined 10s. and costs for employing a kanaka in contravention of the provisions of the Pacific Island Labor Act. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe warning issued by the American Government concerning the dangers and hardships attending emigration to the Klondyke goldfields represents the situation of affairs as ...
Article : 116 wordsThe London County Council and the Marylebone Vestry are enquiring the prices of Australian wood-paving blocks. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Industrial Commission appointed by the Transvaal Government to consider the grievances of the Uitlanders have recommended the establishment of aboard consisting ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Hon. J. H. Thynne today replied to the request from the Central Queensland stockowners for an alteration of the tick boundaries. He admitted that the matter was ...
Article : 154 wordsRepresentatives of the Illawarra Miners' Association formed a deputation to the Minister of Mines to-day, and asked him to enquire into the Coal Mines Regulation Act ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsThe strike of engineers continues and many other employers in Sheffield, Manchester, Glasgow, aud the. midland counties are joining in the Employers' Federation, which is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 230 wordsStrong efforts are being made by American residents in Sydney to secure Colonel Bell's continuance of the consulship for the United States. A long cable has been sent to ...
Article : 335 wordsGolli, the assassin of Senor Castillo, who maintains a defiant attitude, will be tried shortly by a Military Court. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe steamer Aorangi, belonging to the Vancouver line, arrived to-day. The forced draught worked unsuccessfully on the trip, and the steamer averaged only 11 knots. She will ...
Article : 90 wordsThe estimates of experts concerning the next season's wheat yield place it at 26,000,000 being above that of last year. The wheat shipments ordered for the ...
Article : 61 wordsReports have been received in London of the arrest of 15 Anarchists at the Hague. The men, who were in an excited state, had assembled in front of the residence of the ...
Article : 134 wordsAt Parramatta at 9 o'clock to-night a single young woman, Nellie Willis, aged 24, was out walking with Ernest MuFaddyn, an engineer, with whom she is said to have been on ...
Article : 121 wordsThe executive of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers admit that their present struggle with the employers for the general recognition of the eight hours system is developing into ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Legislative Council this afternoon further considered and finished the Export of Products Bill, reducing the fines for resisting inspection and confining the operation to two ...
Article : 157 wordsThe capture of Abu Hamed by the Soudan expeditionary force was effected with a loss of 21 Egyptians killed and 6l wounded. The town was garrisoned by a thousand ...
Article : 156 wordsLittle Martin and Cassandra, who have been scratched for their A.R.C. engagements, left on Thursday for the south-east. Little Martin strained the muscles of his quarters ...
Article : 3,115 wordsIt is stated on excellent authority that the Sultan of Turkey has sent a a specially-accredited envoy to India to stir up the Mohammedans throughout the Empire to revolt against ...
Article : 93 wordsA steady soaking rain Bet ia at midnight and 37 points were registered by 8 o'clock this morning. Of late rains, though light, have fallen at most convenient intervale, and the ...
Article : 233 wordsIn view of the evidence taken before the Old Age Commission yesterday some of the members are of the opinion they cannot recommend the Government to tax amusements and ...
Article : 37 wordsThe latest intelligence from the Indian frontier states that a mullah is inciting the tribesmen in the Abakhel Valley to revolt Many bridges have been destroyed. ...
Article : 36 wordsProfessor Koch, the great Gorman specialist, is about to return to Cape Colony to make further experiments in inoculation against rinderpest, which has worked such havoc ...
Article : 42 wordsA large seal 12 ft. long was captured at Back Beach, Williamstown, this morning: MELBOURNE, August l2. The steamer Woolloomooloo, which arrived ...
Article : 61 wordsThe price of English wheat has advanced 6d. ...
Article : 18 words'Silver is quoted at 2s. l¾d. per oz. ...
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Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 14 Aug 1897, Page 14
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