Melbourne is at present like a fashionable damsel half arrayed for a fancy dress ball. Some of her finery is on her back, but much of it is still lying around loose in what ...
Article : 1,700 wordsSir Samuel Way, Bart., will leave by the express train this afternoon for Melbourne. Lady Way is already in the Victorian capital. ...
Article : 1,970 wordsIntelligence has been received that the Boers now on commando are suffering severely from the extreme cold, and that their commissariat is wofully deficient. ...
Article : 138 words"I can state definitely that the Federal tariff will be brought in during the first session." This was the official utterance of Mr. Barton when seen after the Cabinets ...
Article : 457 wordsA case of importance to life insurance companies is now before the courts. The Commissioner of Taxes claims from the Australian Mutual Provident Society ...
Article : 135 wordsThe returns of the Bank of England for the week ending on Wednesday, published to-day, show that the reserve of notes and coin held by the bank is £23,468,000, as ...
Article : 283 wordsIt is stated that owing to the proposals of the Government with reference to the export duty on coal, Mr. John Wilson, representative in the Unionist interest of the ...
Article : 337 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" is responsible for the statement that a sanguinary battle has taken place near Mukden, the capital of Manchuria. ...
Article : 80 wordsA young woman, Amelia Matilda Nathen, was found dead to-day in a bedroom at her parents' residence, Redfern, with [?]wo bullet, wounds in [?]her left breast. Deceased, who ...
Article : 277 wordsA hundred returned soldiers from South Africa arrived from Sydney this morning, and were heartily welcomed. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Viceroy of Canton has abolished the privileges which the Manchus have enjoyed. Henceforth they will be placed on the same footing and treated in the same way as the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe inter-State eight-oar congest takes place on the Parramatta River to-morrow, and the fact that four States are competing has awakened considerable interest. The ...
Article : 96 wordsAn accident, which nearly proved fatal, happened to a diver on the lugger Discovery a few days ago at the pearling grounds outside the entrance to Roebuck ...
Article : 362 wordsThe committee appointed by the Foreign Ministers at Pekin to consider the subject have completed their draft of a scheme for enabling China to pay by means of a loan ...
Article : 227 wordsCharges of contempt of court against four newspapers—the "Daily Telegraph," "Newcastle Herald," "Australian Star," and "Sunday Times"—were heard before ...
Article : 150 wordsStill further details have been received of the fighting at Mahlabaturi, on the Zululand frontier, where a British magistrate, with a mere handful of men, put to flight a ...
Article : 210 wordsThe following are the latest quotations on the London Stock Exchange:- Mount Lyell, £5. Mount Lyell North, £2 ll/3. ...
Article : 33 wordsA Ministerial crisis has arisen in Prussia, consequent on a deadlock which has arisen in connection with the canal schemes of the Government. ...
Article : 152 wordsBritish 2¾ per cent. Consols (Goschen's) are quoted at £94 1O/, as against £94 5/ a week ago. Quotations for Colonial Government stocks compare with those of April ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Federal Minister for Home Affairs, Sir William Lyne, arrived this 'morning from Melbourne on a flying visit to Sydney. He leaves again to-morrow evening. Sir ...
Article : 269 wordsMISS Nellie Stewart made her farewell appearance at the Theatre Royal to-night in "Cinderella." The house was packed in all parts and hundreds were unable to ...
Article : 245 wordsA daughter of Mr. Andrew Rudd, of Queensland, has perished in a fire which occurred at a boardinghouse in Bloomsbury, where she was staying. ...
Article : 137 wordsThe open market quotations for three months' bills is 3½ per cent. The Bank of England rate is 4 per cent. ...
Article : 31 wordsJoseph Henry Grey, the Geelong solicitor, was brought up at the City Court today, on remand, charged with fraud, forgery, and uttering. He was granted bail ...
Article : 153 wordsIt is reported that an amalgamation has taken place between five of the great shipbuilding yards in America, the capital represented by the associated firms being ...
Article : 76 wordsCopper.—The copper market is steady; copper on spot is quoted at £69 15/ per ton; three months, £70 5/ per ton. Tin.—The tin market is steady. Tin on ...
Article : 195 wordsThe troopship Victorian, which left Brisbane with the Queensland Contingent on April 4, has arrived at Cape Town. Mr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State ...
Article : 221 wordsSpeaking in regard to the war loan, recently issued by the British Government, the Chancellor of tbe Exchequer has stated that of the first moiety of £30,000,000, ...
Article : 88 wordsOn the estate of the late Marquis of Bute £78,558 will be paid into the Treasury as duty. The marquis died on October 9 last. The value of the estate was sworn not to ...
Article : 61 wordsSir John Quick, who is a candidate for the Speakership, has issued to members of the House a catalogued autobiography. He points to all his most notable achievements, ...
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Advertising : 228 wordsShortly after 6 o'clock this evening, the sky being bright and clear, the comet was visible to the naked eye, and was seen to be travelling rapidly in a westerly direction. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Duke and Duchess of Fife have opened the Glasgow Exhibition, which was projected on a large scale and is described as excellent. It includes an art gallery, which ...
Article : 79 wordsThe wool sale to-day was well attended, and the bidding throughout was of an animated character, the representatives o[?] Continental buyers operating freely. ...
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Advertising : 289 wordsThe remains of the late George McSweeney, who died in the Perth Hospital on Wednesday evening from bubonic plague, were cremated at Woodman's Poin[?] ...
Article : 135 wordsThe following prices were realised at yesterday's wool sales:—Momba 5?d.; Toolamba 6?d., Ned's Corner 7d., Milo 7½d., Willandra 7?d., Aratula 8d., Gonambil ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Hon. Henry Copeland, Agent-General for New South Wales, has paid a visit of inspection to the Marine Biological Laboratory at Plymouth. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe appeal in the case of Bullivant and others versus the Attorney-General of Victoria has been heard in the House of Lords, and has been allowed. ...
Article : 35 wordsIt was announced recently that the Federal Cabinet had decided that the House of Representatives should sit four days a week, but whether the sittings would commence ...
Article : 123 wordsTIVOL Theatre, 2.30—Rickards' Variety Company. Morphettville, 1-S.A.J.C. Autumn meeting. Adelaide Oval, 2.45—Football—North Adelaide v. ...
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Advertising : 140 wordsBanffshire, steamer, from Wellington February 14; Triton, barque, from Albany December l8. DEPARTURES. ...
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Advertising : 1 wordsA la[?]ge audience of children attended the annual young people's meeting in connection [?]ith the London Missionary Society, held [?] Friday night at the ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Sat 4 May 1901, Page 7
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