M. Pressense has resigned his badge of the legion of honor out of sympathy for M. Zola, and his example, it is stated, will probably be followed by other eminent Frenchmen. ...
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Article : 98 wordsMr. Chamberlain was questioned in the House of Commons yesterday regarding the intentions of the Government with respect to the French shore in Newfoundland, and in ...
Article : 924 wordsThe Wesleyan Conference yesterday approved of raising a fund of 1,000,000 guineas. It is proposed to devote £300,000 to the erection of places of worship, £200,000 to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 wordsTo-day was fixed for the annual Ski races at Kiandra on Mount Kosciusko, and a number of Sydney members of Alpine clubs found their way there last week to be in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 78 wordsThe correspondence which has passed between the Australian Governments and the Colonial Office, relative to the concession of 250,000 acres of land in New Guinea, obtained ...
Article : 146 wordsThe body of a young woman, Mabel Hamilton, was found floating in Woolloomooloo Bay to-day. She left home last night for a walk, and was not seen alive again. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsOwing to heavy snowstorms on the mountains telegraphic communication with the West has been interrupted. The majority of the south-western stations cannot do business ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the Trades Hall to-night a long discussion occurred on the complaints made that Mr. W. A. Trenwith, M.L.A., had not acted fairly in reference to the engagement of ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Prince of Wales, who is suffering from a fractured kneecap, caused by slipping on the staircase at Waddesdon Manor, was conveyed to Cowes in the royal yacht Osborne on ...
Article : 56 wordsAt the Convent of St. Joseph, at Lithgow, the Rev. Mother Walsh, superior-general of the order, died last night. She joined the order of St. Joseph at Adelaide 30 years ago, and ...
Article : 115 wordsDuring the fortnight the following shipments of produce have been made under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture:—July 19, per steamer Victoria, 23,000 rabbits. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Prince of Wales, whose fractured kneecap now gives him comparatively little trouble, is likely to remain aboard the Royal yacht Osborne (now anchored to Cowes) for the next ...
Article : 39 wordsSome remarkable evidence was given to-day at the Central Criminal Court in a case in which George Budin was charged with having at Parramatta on June 16 set fire to his ...
Article : 652 wordsThe death is announced in his 78th year, of the Very Rev. John Caird, D.D., Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Chief Justice to-day ordered the suspension of Charles Marriott Watson, solicitor, for eighteen months for failing to pay over money he had received from a client. Notice ...
Article : 39 wordsThe seamen of Newcastle have decided to stand out for an increase of wages for deep sea ships from £3 to £3 10s. per month. Captain Baron, of the barque Glenorchy ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Australian Sheepbreeders' Association began its sheep show to-day by the judging of grass-fed merinos. The severity of the past season has had the effect of somewhat ...
Article : 157 wordsAnother attempt was made yesterday to float the ship Hereward, which has been lying on the Maroubra beach for some weeks. In the morning the tug Hero got a line to the ...
Article : 103 wordsThe colliery proprietors in South Wales have refused to make any concessions to the strikers beyond the renewal of the old sliding scale and an immediate 5 per cent. advance in ...
Article : 42 wordsThe judging in connection with the sheep show was continued to-day. Grass-fed sheep were dealt with yesterday and the other classes were judged to-day.In the fine wool merinos ...
Article : 165 wordsThe police have been searching continuously since Friday for two youths who burnt their way out of the Coolamon gaol, but so far without success. On Monday night the ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Chamberlain, in moving in the House of Commons yesterday for the payment of a further grant to the planters in the West Indies on the lines recommended by the ...
Article : 99 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions to-day William Littlefield, a respectable looking laboring man, was charged with having abducted a girl, Edith Vidler, under 16 years of age, from her ...
Article : 93 wordsA telegram from Paris states that Major Esterhazy, who was acquitted last year when charged with the authorship of the treasonable communication to the German ...
Article : 63 wordsA fatality happened at Dandenong to-day. A young man, Luke McCay, was engaged in sawing a log when a limb that prevented it rolling gave way and it rolled on him, a ...
Article : 70 wordsSeveral young men from Sydney went to Singleton with a view to making a living kangaroo-shooting, and one, Frank Hurst, has been shot. He was pulling a loaded rifle from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 261 wordsThe Chief Commissioner of Police has discharged Constable D. C. Irving, of Collingwood, from the police service. When Martin, the night porter, was arrested four cruets were ...
Article : 662 wordsThe young King Alfonso of Spain, who was lately reported to be somewhat seriously indisposed, is now in better health. ...
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Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), Sat 6 Aug 1898, Page 23
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