The Boulder Main Reef battery cleaned up for the first time this week, the return being as follows:—Stone treated, 520 tons, yielding 918 oz. smelted gold, average 1 oz. 15 dwt. 7 gr. to ...
Article : 2,886 wordsAt the Fingal Police Court to-day John Beckett, who was arrested yesterday at Avoca, was charged with the murder of his mate, William Small, whose body was found in a ...
Article : 97 wordsThe stream of talk in the Council on Tuesday was very strong. It flowed for eight hours. The Indecent Advertisements Bill was whisked through its final stages, and the ...
Article : 1,085 wordsThe Minister for Lands informed a deputation on Saturday that the Government intend to persevere with their policy of buying back large estates for settlement if sufficient ...
Article : 56 wordsDuring the Hinemon's trip to Southern Islands several large icebergs were seen at tho Antipodes Islands. The first extended for a quarter of a mile along the shore and the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe following telegram has been received from the Cape Portland headkeeper:— "Swan Island reports that two men fell overboard from the ketch Esther about 4 o'clock ...
Article : 265 wordsOn November 9 four men, named Mitchell, Wright, McKinnon, and Hooper, belonging to a party of penguin hunters on the Macquarie Islands, were drowned. They were going in a ...
Article : 46 wordsA deputation of Queensland graziers waited on the Premier this morning aud asked that stock on clean runs near the quarantine line might be allowed to travel south. Also that ...
Article : 114 wordsWahanui, the last of the old Maori war chiefs, is dead. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Premier in replying to-day to a deputation of Auckland members, who asked him to reconsider his decision not to remit the duty on goods destroyed by fire on the Auckland ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Executive has decided that the law shall take, its course in the case of Frank Smith, a young man convicted of a capital offence on a young school girl near Gympie. ...
Article : 58 wordsA severe and prolonged earthquake shock occurred throughout the colony at 2.40 this morning. Most places escaped without damage, but the people were much alarmed. ...
Article : 673 wordsThe Avoca tragedy is slowly being unravelled. The police, aided by blacktrackers, found that William Small, whose body was discovered in a waterhole, was murdered near a ...
Article : 354 wordsThe death sentence passed on the old man, Benjamin Wherrill, for the murder of his wife at Springhill, has been commuted to twenty years' servitude. ...
Article : 31 wordsA European in the Townsville Hospital who recently arrived from the north is pronounced to be a leper. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn reply to Mr. Glassey Sir Hugh Nelson stated in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon that steps had been taken to give effect to the resolution passed on November 26 that ...
Article : 343 wordsWilliam R. Thompson, was 26 years, an inmate of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, was killed yesterday by being run over by a train. He was walking along the railway line in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 504 wordsA surveyor is talking soundings for the proposed new jetty. The present one is rapidly falling into disrepair. On Friday last a platform attached to the only steps on the jetty ...
Article : 146 wordsPhylloxera has been discovered in the Wairarapa district. ...
Article : 17 wordsThere is an epidemic of suicides and fatalities all over the colony. The violent deaths during the last few weeks have been unusually numerous. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn consequence of the receipt of a telEgram concerning the further discovery of a number of ticks on cattle in the Kimberley district, the chief inspector of stock has given ...
Article : 285 wordsThe Old Age Pensions Bill was read a third time in the Representatives after the debate had been prolonged till nearly 5 a.m. on Saturday. The Premier said he had no ...
Article : 305 wordsGalleries were empty but benches were full when the Speaker took the chair in the Assembly on Tuesday, and honorable members were in such a good mood for working that ...
Article : 6,295 wordsAmong the arrivals from America by the steamer Alameda was Mr. A. D. Shepherd, well known in connection with mining in the Adelong district. Speaking of mining in ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Lake View Consols output for the past month was as follow :—Stone treated, 4.166 tons ; yield, 8,551 oz. and 14 dwt. of smelted gold in the battery. Six thousand one ...
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Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 11 Dec 1897, Page 26
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