As soon as the City Council met on Monday afternoon the mayor, Mr. L. Cohen, intimated that he had an important communication to make respecting the water ...
Article : 848 wordsDr. A. Kuyper, Premier of the Netherlands, directly on his return to the Hague, after his recent, private visit to Lord Salisbury in London, saw Mr. F. Wolmarans, ...
Article : 348 wordsThe Pekin correspondent of the London "Standard" telegraphs that trustworthy reports have reached that city to the effect that General Tung-Fuh-Siang, who is ...
Article : 104 wordsThe railway revenue last week was £61,734, an increase of £5,876 over the corresponding week of last year. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Philp objects to the proposal that the Queensland contingent should be sent overland to Sydney. He considers that the transport should come to Brisbane. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Isthmian Canal Commission appointed by the President of the United States to consider and report upon the best route for a canal through the Isthmus of Panama, ...
Article : 276 wordsThe Premier finds the crush of business now that Parliament is in session too great to admit of his receiving deputations when the House is sitting. Accordingly he has ...
Article : 130 wordsAn inquest was initiated to-day at Stawell to enquire into the death of John Short, an engine-driver, at a sawmill, who was killed on Friday last through the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Railway Department has received information that a train ran over a man at Willowburn[?] near Toowoomba, cutting him in pieces. The man appeared to be hiding, ...
Article : 55 wordsThere is every possibility that the salvage of the abandoned vessel Port Patrick will become the subject of a lengthy lawsuit. The owners, master, and crew of the ...
Article : 257 wordsOwing to the absence of several Ministers the Cabinet meeting which was to have been held to-day was postponed until tomorrow. ...
Article : 29 wordsAlthough rain has fallen throughout the country, reports to hand show that it has not been sufficient to put water in the dams along the railway routes. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe French submarine torpedo boat Espadon was subjected to a successful trial on Sunday. She was submerged for 24 hours, and she ...
Article : 55 wordsAccording to the amended times of sitting, the Assembly met this afternoon, and proceeded quietly to business. The Conciliation and Arbitration Bill was considered in ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Prime Minister has forwarded to the principal Customs officers of each State a confidential set of instructions, as to the administration of the Alien Immigration ...
Article : 230 wordsThe military authorities have received intelligence of the death of Trooper Cross, of the First West Australian Bushmen, after a lingering illness, from consumption. ...
Article : 68 wordsGeneral Etienne states that the Government of Italy recognises that the Empire of Morocco is within the French sphere of influence, and he urges M. Delcasse, the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe chief depot in which the Boers have concentrated their principal supplies of war material is situated between the Olifant and the Crocodile rivers. It is stated to be ...
Article : 154 wordsCaptain A. Simpson, of the Aberdeen liner Moravian, was proceeded against today on a charge of committing a breach of section 18 of the Quarantine Act in going ...
Article : 149 wordsCaptain Thomson, harbormaster at Gisborne, has been killed through a buggy accident. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Russian Government is offering to conclude a trade treaty with Austria and Hungary under the terms of which important commercial concessions shall be ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Railway Department has decided to spend £308,000 in improving the rolling-stock during the next four years. The chief attention is to be paid to the proper ...
Article : 38 wordsThe barque Alexandra is expected to break up at any moment. The captain is reported to have stated, when he visited Charlestown on the morning of the ...
Article : 127 wordsThe city coroner last week, in reviewing the evidence tendered at an inquest concerning a death under chloroform, drew attention to the fact that such cases were ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Commerce Committee of the United States Senate has decided in favor of granting a general subsidy of 1,072,000 dollars and a mail subsidy of 4,700,000 dollars, with ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Postmaster-General has convinced himself that it is his duty to defend the proposed regulation by which telegraph operators, messengers, and others in the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe estate of Alexander McIntosh, merchant and grazier, late of Moree, was valued for taxation purposes at £92[?]686, the amount of stump duty being £8,897. He ...
Article : 80 wordsA day or two ago the Government received a cable message from Mr. Chamberlain, stating that the Imperial Government would gladly have the services of ...
Article : 127 wordsThe conference of representatives of the surveyors' boards of Australia resumed its work to-day. The regulations proposed far the uniform examination of surveyors ...
Article : 45 wordsIntelligence has been received of the occurrency of a terrible earthquake at Chilpancingo[?] in Mexico. Three hundred people are stated to have been killed as a result of ...
Article : 46 wordsDr. Frederick Krause, who was on Friday convicted of attempting to incite to murder, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, in giving evidence on his own ...
Article : 110 wordsIn his negotiations with the Eastern Ex[?] tension Telegraph Company relative to the Cape cable agreement, Mr. Drake has not made much progress. He has some ...
Article : 264 wordsA married man; George Harrison Pollett, aged 40, was assisting to unload a timber dray at Fitzroy to-day, when a large piece of wood fell from the top of the load. One ...
Article : 56 wordsA child, Andrew John Torning, aged 21 months, was so severely scalded at Petersham on Saturday that he died this morning. The child's mother was walking out ...
Article : 77 wordsAn international regatta is to be held in Cork in July next, and it is intended to invite Australia to send representative "eights" to compete in the chief contests. ...
Article : 41 wordsAn explosion in a spinning factory at Manresa, Spain, caused the building to collapse, the workmen being buried beneath the ruins. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe three persons accused of having caused the loss of the yacht Ariadne were charged to-day, and pleaded not guilty. The case is proceeding. The presiding judge decided ...
Article : 63 wordsDr. Cresswell, chairman of the Board of Health, stated to-day that Mr. Elliott, the smallpox patient, who was sent to the quarantine station from the steamer ...
Article : 78 wordsDuring the height of a "southerly bu'ster" early this morning, the schooner Violet Doepel, a well-known coaster, had a na[?]ow escape from ...
Article : 109 wordsIt was stated recently that the action for breach of promise brought by Miss Portia Knight, an American actress, against the Duke of Manchester had been ...
Article : 71 wordsLord Milner, High Commissioner in South Africa, has informed a correspondent that 50,000 Uitlanders, who left the [?]and on the outbreak of the war now ...
Article : 100 wordsSir Clements Robert Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, is appealing to the public to subscribe £10,000 for the purpose of equipping the Morning[?] ...
Article : 54 wordsDr. Tidswell, acting president of the Board of Health, notified the State Premier this morning that three, cases of plague have occurred in a small block of houses at ...
Article : 161 wordsA rather stylish individual, who called himself Captain Henry Lyons, of the British Secret Service, was before the City Court to-day on a charge of obtaining £22 ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Lord Chancellor last Wednesday, after a lapse of six weeks, gave the reasons for the decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the Marais ...
Article : 808 wordsThe Austrian newspapers are now decidedly more favorable in their references to Great Britain. The Vienna "Neue Freie Presse" states ...
Article : 78 wordsThe covered invitation to witness the coronation of the King can be obtained by those Australians who enjoy the dignity of being, privy councilors. To-day Mr. ...
Article : 109 wordsAmong the passengers who arrived, by the Japanese mail steamer Kumano Maru, from Japan, to-day, were two Hindoos, who shipped at Hongkong to Townsville[?] ...
Article : 280 wordsMr. Henderson, a well-known resident of Johannesburg, has offered to forfeit £10,000 if any of the charges of inhumanity brought against British soldiers during the ...
Article : 108 wordsIn the Canadian Customs Act of 1897 the subjoined clauses, which explain themselves, occur:— Whenever the Governor-in-Council has reason ...
Article : 288 wordsMr. Philp holds the same opinion as Mr. See, Premier of New South Wales, that if New Zealand is worthy of special recognition at the coronation[?] the various ...
Article : 66 wordsAt a meeting of the New South Wales Cricket Association, held to-night, it was resolved—"That Mr. M. A. Noble, sole selector, be telegraphed to[?] and requested to ...
Article : 295 wordsCommandant Scheepers, who was tried by court martial last month on thirty charges, preferred against him by Lord Kitchener, of offending against the usages ...
Article : 94 wordsMr. Leake, when interviewed to-day concerning Mr. See's statement with regard to the coronation invitations, said so far he had not received an invitation to attend, ...
Article : 115 wordsIntelligence was telegraphed from Cape Schanck at 12.30 p.m. to-day that a large steamer, having another in tow, apparently disabled, was in sight about 15 miles off, ...
Article : 230 wordsMr. John Lane, organising agent for the Cosme Colony, Paraguay, lectured here last night on the development and prospects of the community. His account of ...
Article : 137 wordsColonel Lewis Munro's column has killed four of the enemy and captured six others in the vicinity of Karmelspruit. The Boers operating in the Barkley East ...
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