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  2. EMPIRE DAY.

    In the Houso of Common yesterday. Captain J. Craig moved to intioduce a bill providing that, the Union Jack should be displayed on certain occs ...

    Article : 133 words
  3. EXPLORATION ALONG THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY ROUTE.

    The above sketch shows the tracks cut recently, in connection with the Government scheme for opening up the country for prospectors and closer settlement purposes, on the overland route to the West Coast. Mr. J. L. A. Moore was in charge of the first party to go out. He started from Tyenna, and cleared out the old Great Western Railway track as far as the Gordon Bend. This track was well constructed, at considerable expense, by the Great Western Railway Company, during the time that Mr. Grove was engineer-in-chief. The company placed a suspension bridge across the Gordon at the Great Bend; but the construction ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 590 words
  4. SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL

    The form that the proposed memorial to Shakespeare is to take has not yet been decided upon. On the motion of Mr. A. Lyttelton, ...

    Article : 336 words
  5. PERSONAL.

    Lord Chelmsford, Governor of Queensland, accompanied by Mr. J. T. Bell, Secretary for Public Lands, is to leave Brisbane on June 13 on a tour of North ...

    Article : 850 words
  6. TREE PLANTING FUNCTION.

    In connection with the commemoration celebrations on Empire Day, the Queen's Domain Committee, acting upon the suggestion of Mr, P. S, Sea ...

    Article : 583 words
  7. ENGLISH RACING.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 words
  8. HERACLEA COLLIERIES DISPUTE.

    In the matter of the dispute between the Turkish authorities and the owners of the Heraclea collieries, the Porte, under threats of other proceedings ...

    Article : 110 words
  9. INDIAN FRONTIER TROUBLE.

    Major-General Sir James Willcock[?] with Brigadier-General Anderson's brigade, will march northwards, and punish the most recalcitrant of the ...

    Article : 65 words
  10. TARIFF REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN.

    In the House of Lords yesterday, the Duke of Marlborough initiated a debate on the fiscal question. Earl Cromer referred to what he ...

    Article : 117 words
  11. THE COLEBROOK MINE.

    Mr. C[?]cil Ray, smelting manager of the Colebrook Company, reached the city to-night, and was interviewed. He said that the statement by the ...

    Article : 337 words
  12. VOTES FOR WOMEN.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. H. H. Asquith), in replying to a deputation of Liberal members of the House of Commons who favour women's suffrage, ...

    Article : 305 words
  13. KING'S VISIT TO RUSSIA.

    The British Foreign Office, announces that King Edward, who is about to pay a State visit to the Czar of Russia, will reach Reval in the Victoria ...

    Article : 171 words
  14. A MILLIONAIRE'S DEATH.

    George Story, a multi-millionaire, of New York, and a widower, had determined to marry a young woman, though his son was hostile to the ...

    Article : 58 words
  15. PAPUAN BOUNDARY QUESTION.

    The disquieting news has reached Sydney that serious trouble is brewing in New Guinea in connection with the vexed question of the boundary ...

    Article : 331 words
  16. WEST COAST MINERAL FIELDS.

    Mr. W. H. Wallace, the Secretary for Mines, and Mr. W. H. Twelvetrees, the Government Geologist, arrived to-day in connection with the proposed inquiry ...

    Article : 172 words
  17. THE INDIANA MURDERS.

    The coroner at Latrobe, in Indiana, who held an inquest on the bodies of the persons found in the ruins of the farmhouse that was destroyed by fire ...

    Article : 66 words
  18. THE PREMIER AT WATTLE GROVE.

    The Premier (Hon. J. W. Evans, C.M.G,) journeyed on Wednesday to Wattle Grove, a little township on the Huon River, and about 40 miles ...

    Article : 419 words
  19. UNIVERSITY MILITARY CORPS.

    A corps of the King's Colonial Volunteers has been established in connection with Oxford and Cambridge Universities. ...

    Article : 62 words
  20. THE EDUCATION BILL.

    The Education Bill was read the second time in the House of Commons yesterday on division by 360 votes to 205. The minority included sixty-four ...

    Article : 110 words
  21. SEDITION IN INDIA.

    "The Times" correspondent at Vancouver says that three educated Punjaubis and Bengalis are directing a revolutionary school at Millside, near ...

    Article : 61 words
  22. ACCIDENT AT MOUNT FARRELL

    A serious accident happened yesterday afternoon to a man named William Freeman, who is in the employ of Messrs. Dunkley Bros. With the ...

    Article : 151 words
  23. MISSING STEAMER ORION.

    The Premier (Hon. J. W. Evans, C.M.G.) yesterday telegaphed to the Master Warden of the Launceston Marine Board (Mr. A. Evans), asking him ...

    Article : 69 words
  24. GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA.

    Lord Curzon, speaking at the Central Asia Society's dinner in London last night, said that recent arrangements between Great Britain and ...

    Article : 106 words
  25. SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

    The Premier of the Transvaal (General Botha), speaking at Potchefstroom yesterday, said that the closer union of the South African colonies was ...

    Article : 67 words
  26. THE MANCHESTER FRAUD.

    The woman who this week obtained possession of a valuable package from a railway guard at Manchester has described herself as being Margaret ...

    Article : 162 words
  27. HURRICANE AT QUEENSTOWN.

    A gale of hurricane force bl[?]w all night last night. Several houses were unroofed[?] windows smashed, and fences levelled. Damage of this nature is ...

    Article : 65 words
  28. ANOTHER SEARCH TO BE MADE.

    At the request of the Premier, the tug Wybia was despatched to-night for Cape Barren Island to make another sexrch for wreckage from the steamer ...

    Article : 122 words
  29. GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

    The police are investigating the reported larceny of furniture at Colebrook. It appears that Alfred William Barnes had accepted furniture valued ...

    Article : 92 words
  30. GENERAL CABLES.

    The visible supply of wheat east of the Bookies is 23,764.000 quarters, as compared with 40,704,000 quarters on May 1. ...

    Article : 26 words
  31. GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

    At a dinner given last night by the Society of Japan in London, Sir Edward Grey, in responding to a toast coupled with his name, unhesitatingly ...

    Article : 67 words
  32. POLICE PROTECTION ON THE WEST COAST.

    Mr. Ben. Watkins, M.H.A., has telegraphed that the Attorney-General has informed him that a constable will be sent to Queenstown next week. This ...

    Article : 44 words
  33. P. AND O. COMPANY

    A dividend of 7 per cen. on deferred stock has been announced by the directors of the P. and O. Company. ...

    Article : 26 words
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