It is announced that the Master of the Rolls, Sir Archibald Levin Smith, who was appointed to that position last year, has resigned. He has been succeeded by Sir ...
Article : 81 wordsReuter's St. Petersburg correspondent has telegraphed that notwithstanding the newspaper agitation in Russia in favor of striking a blow at Afghanistan while ...
Article : 272 wordsGreat excitement was caused by the appearance of a small Boer commando at Saldanha Bay, on the west coast ot Cape Colony. It is believed that the raiders are ...
Article : 174 wordsDuring the past few days Commandants Theron and Maritz, who are in the extreme west of Cape Colony, have occupied themselves with burning the farms of loyalist ...
Article : 92 wordsIn debating Mr. Reid's no-confidence motion at such unconscionable length the free trade pirty is merely "sparring for wind," or, in other words is attempting to gain ...
Article : 996 wordsThe Cornisbmen's annual dinner was held in Martin's Cafe, Pirie-street, on Saturday evening. About 140 guests sat down to a excellent repast, and the chair was occupied ...
Article : 2,012 wordsA thunderstorm, which passed over Melbourne this afternoon established the local record for rainfalls. Between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. 2.9 inches fell, the heaviest for being ...
Article : 483 wordsA man entered the residence of Mr. George Frewin, at Ourimbah, shortly after midnight, evidently intent on robbery. Mrs. Frewin was awakened by someone moving ...
Article : 112 wordsAnother fight has occurred on Samar Island, in the Philippines, between American soldiers and the Filipinos. It is reported from Manila that 500 Filipinos attacked ...
Article : 178 wordsGood form was again displayed by prominet players in first-grade cricket yesterday. Burwood scored 113 against Paddington, M. A. Noble taking seven wickets for 40, ...
Article : 136 wordsIt is officially reported that there were at the end of September 109,418 white men, women, and children in the refugee camps in various parts of South Africa. Of this ...
Article : 57 wordsA Paris telegram states that the French Miners' Federation has threatened to call out all the colliers on November 1 for a general strike if the demands of the ...
Article : 104 wordsGeneral Botha is apparently finding it extremely difficult to escape northward, and the small parties which succeed in eluding the British are returning to Inhlaratze and ...
Article : 50 wordsOn Saturday afternoon at the Victoria Barracks the Lieutenaut-Governor (Sir Frederick Darley) presented a number of long service medals and good conduct ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. E. Harold Davies, Mus. Bac., and the members of the Kent Town Church choir returned to Adelaide on Saturday morning, after taking part in the church choir and ...
Article : 875 wordsThe Middle Park Plate, six furlongs, of 500 sovs. added, to a sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, for two-year-olds (colts 8 st. 10 lb., fillies 8 st. 7 lb.), was run at Newmarket ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Paris "Drapeau" states that a native revolt has taken place in the French colony of the Ivory Coast, West Africa. The paper says that General Combes, who ...
Article : 89 wordsCommandant Scheepers, who was captured about a fortnight ago, and was so ill that he had at once to be taken to a hospital, is said to be recovering. It is stated that ...
Article : 66 wordsA deputation appointed by a conference held a tew days ago on the subject of horsebreeding in New South Wales waited on the Premier yesterday, and laid before him the ...
Article : 146 wordsThe recent announcement that Russia proposed to attempt to raise a loan of £25,000,000 in Germany and France, is officially denied, both at Paris and St. ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. S. H. Gollan's Australian Star (8 st. 9 lb.), has been scratched for the Cambridgeshire Stakes, to be run on October 30. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe public were enabled, through the exertions of the Pioneer Corps, to cross over the River Torrens at the rear of the Zoological Gardens on Saturday afternoon. The ...
Article : 963 wordsA sensation has been caused in America by the announcement that President Roosevelt has invited Mr. Booker T. Washington, the negro President of the University at ...
Article : 190 wordsThe War Office reports:— Sergeant S. J. Smith, of the Third New South Wales Contingent, has died of wounds at Leeuwkop. ...
Article : 90 wordsA new American comic opera company headed by Miss Josephine Stanton, made its first appearance in Australia at the Criterion on Saturday night in "Said ...
Article : 127 wordsSir Thomas Lipton is at present visiting Chicago. He has been interviewed on the subject of the recent races for the America Cup, and is stated to have expressed ...
Article : 94 wordsA man named Maurer, the editor of an Anarchist paper, published in Berlin, has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for having published an article ...
Article : 44 wordsCaptain C. L. Campbell, of the Sixteenth Lancers, has been appointed as staff officer, under Major-General J. M. Babington, the new commandant of New Zealand. ...
Article : 33 wordsThomas Chapman had been to the theatre and returning home late, without a latchkey, endeavored to get into his house by climbing on the roof. He stepped on a ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is alleged that 50, out of 200 members of the British Yeomanry, who re-enlisted for another term of service in South Africa, have deserted from the Shorncliffe Military ...
Article : 123 wordsCaptain Munford, the master of the yacht Ariadne, was on Saturday remanded for another week on a charge of casting the vessel away. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsThe secretary of the South Broken Hill Silver Mining Company has written to the mayor that the proposal to hold a conference regarding the litigation on the mine ...
Article : 418 wordsThe mail service debate has been concluded by the House of Representatives. An amendment to the Government resoluition in the direction of abolishing the San ...
Article : 88 wordsAt Kotupna, on a farm some 10 miles from Nathalia, Thomas Gingell, said to be over 70 years of age, attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself. There is a ...
Article : 129 wordsThe directors of the British & Australasian Trust & Loan Company, Limited, have declared a dividend at tlhe rate of 5 per cent. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Cuzco, from London, arrived here at 5 a.m. to-day. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe War Office authorities have caused to be published, an official denial that 50 desertions have occurred at the Shorncliffe Camp. They explain that many of the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe opening or the cricket season took place yesterday under very favorable conditions. The following were the results of the day's play:—Melbourne, two wickets for ...
Article : 108 wordsTo-day's price of bar silver is 2/2? per oz. ...
Article : 14 wordsKauri Gum.—At to-day's sale of kauri gum, 2,450 cases were offered, and 1,200 cases sold, at full prices. Fine three-quarter scraped realised 120/ to 130/. ...
Article : 253 wordsThe new War Office Board, to be constituted in furtherance of Mr. Brodrick's reform proposals, is to he analagous to the board presiding over the navy, otherwise ...
Article : 94 wordsGeorge Serinesne, aged 20, (has been arrested on several charges of selling bogus gold to a number of Chinese and European dealers in Ballarat. The police state that ...
Article : 60 wordsThe South-street competitions were continued yesterday. Amongst the awards made were:—Mezzo soprano solo, first, Miss F. Gloster, Melbourne; second, Miss ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Lords of the Admiralty have issued instructions te the Devonport Dockyard for the building of a new battleship of 16,500 tons displacement and 425 ft. in length. ...
Article : 42 wordsThomas Smith, a line repairer, was riding a railway tricycle between Macorna and Tragwel yesterday when a train from Bendigo ran him down and fearfully ...
Article : 42 wordsA number of Turks have captured and beheaded Halin, the brigand who caused the death of M. Stamboloff, the Bulgarian statesman. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe prize distribution in conection with the annual Scripture examination of the South Australian Sunday-school Union took place at Pirie-street Wesleyan lecture-hall ...
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Advertising : 1,167 wordsA large number of Freemasons attended at the hall in Flinders-street on Saturday night to witness the installation of Brother James Scott as W.M. of the Commercial Lodge, No. 39. The ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mon 21 Oct 1901, Page 5
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