The public business of the session is practically completed, and little remains to be done beyond selecting the site for the Federal Capital. During the current week the ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Hague International Arbitration Court has held its first sitting for the consideration of the order of priority which the claims of Germany, Italy, and Great Britain ...
Article : 201 wordsThe South-street Debating Society's competitions were continued on Saturday, when the children's contest had the chief place on the programme. ...
Article : 225 wordsA cashier in Bornstedt, Saxony, made use of the telephone at the time when a thunderstorm was threatening. While speaking he suddenly received a terrible electric shock, ...
Article : 60 wordsThe anniversary of St. Andrew's Sabbath School was celebrated by three special services yesterday at which there were very large congregations. The interior of the ...
Article : 1,116 wordsLately the Minister for Lands and Agriculture (Mr. Taverner) issued instructions for the valuation of the various water frontages throughout the State. For years past ...
Article : 174 wordsThe "Hospital" remarks that the common house-fly is one of our worst enemies as a carrier of disease organisms. The "Musca Domestica," as it is called ...
Article : 91 wordsCharley Green, the oldest man in Sussex, is 109 years old. He was born on 22nd August, 1794, at Selsey, Sussex. Sight and hearing have now failed him, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 wordsThe new Ministry is so like the old one that it is difficult to realise that there has been any change. The one difference is the absence of the striking figure of Sir ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs has received a letter from the Rev. M. Fraser stating that a party representing the Societie Francaise, the French land company ...
Article : 104 wordsThe report of the Budget Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies has been presented to the Chamber. It states that France has now reached the ...
Article : 93 wordsA birth has been announced in the Danzig papers in the following curious manner: —"Since this morning I am here; The painter, Nagurski of Ohra, is my ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Election Campaign Council, which will be known in future as the Scripture Instruction Campaign Council, met at the Bishop's vestry, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Friday. The ...
Article : 306 wordsThe Senate on Thursday afternoon last carried an amendment in the Defence Bill in favor of the appointment of a Council of Defence. Sir John Forrest, who has charge ...
Article : 79 wordsA story which has been going the rounds, that the late Lord Salisbury was once refused admission to the Casmo at Monte Carlo is reaffirmed by in a letter to the ...
Article : 266 wordsKing Alfonso XIII., the Prince of the Austurias, and the Prince of Monaco, on board the yacht Princesse Alice, belonging to the last-mentioned, took part in some ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Government, having determined to keep the cost of the elections down to the lowest possible point, has arranged that where possible officers of the Postal ...
Article : 96 wordsIt does not follow, however, that Mr. Deakin is wanting in constructive ability, or that even higher attribute, the capacity to say "No," and keep to it. There are, ...
Article : 436 wordsThere has been a triple execution in New York. Three brothers, named Van Wormer, who were convicted of having murdered their ...
Article : 41 wordsActive operations are to be resumed by the British forces in Somaliland in the middle of this month. It has been decided that if the Mullah ...
Article : 61 wordsGrains of wheat and of peas found in Egyptian tombs, where they must have lain for from 3000 to 4000 years, have been planted in this country, and have duly germinated. ...
Article : 197 wordsA fatal accident occurred at half-past 7 last night on the dam connected with Sumsion's brick yard, at North Broken Hill. Wm. Bothwell, a single man, 30 years of age, lost ...
Article : 130 wordsAh effort is being made to terminate the long-continued strike of men formerly employed in the slate quarries of Lord Penrhyn, in Wales. ...
Article : 261 wordsSo many American miners have just been naturalised in upcountry British Columbia constituencies that in several of these they will hold the balance of power at the coming ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Railway department has decided to run a mixed train on and after next Tuesday on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays to and from Maryborough and Avoca. The ...
Article : 65 wordsA deadlock has occurred between the buyers and sellers of hides in Sydney, and the usual weekly sale did not take place to-day. The dispute has arisen in consequence of certain ...
Article : 202 wordsThis characteristic has been claimed for Turkish for its freedom from inflection and other complications, and for Italian, which, in its colloquial form, may be admitted to be ...
Article : 190 wordsMary and Charles Milner, the two children who disappeared from their parents' residence at Kensington on Wednesday last, have been restored to their mother and ...
Article : 124 wordsA great deal of interest is being aroused in the Canton of St. Gall as the time approache, for the arrival of a rich American colony whose agents have been recently buying the ...
Article : 107 wordsThe bill which has been drafted for the purpose of fixing the site for the Federal capital consists of one clause only, and a blank has been left for the insertion of the name ...
Article : 244 wordsC[?]rtis Jett and Thomas White, parties to a vendetta, who assassinated James Marcum, the presceuting attorney, have been convicted of the murder at Cynthiana, ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. William Summers, a resident of Lonsdale-street, had a rather exciting experience last night. He was walking along Queenstreet on his way home, when three men ...
Article : 113 wordsThe jury, after being locked up all night, failed to agree on a verdict in the Mooney Mooney poisoning case, and the prisoner, Thomas M'Donald, alias George Rowley, was ...
Article : 89 wordsA serious railway c[?]llision is reported [?]o have occurred on the Servian frontier, when the Orient express collided with a goods train. ...
Article : 62 wordsIn "1815, Waterloo," by Henry Houssaye, translated by Arthur Emile Mann, and published by A. C. Black, we have minutely described for us the untoward events which ...
Article : 175 wordsMr. Forest Moore and Miss Mabel Pullam. of Cleveland, wanted to marry, but their parents, regarding them as too young, forbade them to see or communicate with each ...
Article : 118 wordsJames Greenland, who was awaiting trial in gaol at Greenbushes, near Port Augusta, for horsestealing at Hergott Springs, escaped by scaling the wall last night ...
Article : 65 wordsA number of municipal councils, including those of Bendigo, Geelong, and Creswick, have replied to the circular recently sent out by the Minister of Public Works requesting ...
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Advertising : 44 wordsAs time goes on the general election, approaches with giant strides, and in a few short weeks members may be expeetcd to begin the hard work of touring the electorates. ...
Article : 326 wordsThe estimated population of the State at the end of September was 227,961, an increase of 1054 for the month, and an increase of 14,487 for the 12 months. Of the ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. G. Darwin has shown, by a very exhaustive series of experiments, that the result of the variations of barometic pressure on a yielding body like the earth must be to ...
Article : 137 wordsIt is a mistake to say that Scott alone discovered the Highlands, although amongst the first to point out to all the world their chief beauties. "The Lady of the Lake" did ...
Article : 194 wordsMatters are proceeding quietly in connection with the strike of Chinese furniture makers. The strikers still fear that European workmen will undercut them, while they are ...
Article : 71 wordsThe committee of the Soldiers' Memorial met on Saturday night at the Town Hall, the Mayor presiding. It was reported by the town clerk that the sum of £375 was in hand. ...
Article : 245 wordsA special meeting of the Hospital Sunday committee will be held in the Town Hall to-night at 8 o'clock, when arrangements will be made to invite another speaker in place of ...
Article : 93 wordsSir,—I read with interest the correspondence about this case. I was not one of the 14 who signed the cabmen's letter, because I was not asked to do so, but ...
Article : 212 wordsBernard Seidel, aged 85, living at Clifton Hill, was knocked down by Constable Tonkin while riding a bicycle at Queen's Parade. Seidel was removed to the hospital suffering, ...
Article : 36 wordsAs the result of severe burns received in experimenting with the X rays and radium. Mr. Charles Dally, one of Mr. Edison's assistants, recently developed cancer, which ...
Article : 222 wordsPeter Fitzmaurice was arrested to-night on a curious charge of false pretences. He attempted to sell to Wm. Hamilton, restaurantkeepr, of Bourke-street a bottle of colored ...
Article : 42 wordsReferring to the sentences, of solitary confinement in the famous Humbert trial, the London "Daily Mail" publishes the following:— ...
Article : 156 wordsA few weeks ago the Minister for Lands and Agriculture (Mr. Taverner) requested the manager at the Leongatha Labor Colony to find out how many men on the place ...
Article : 119 wordsThe body of the man named John Scott, ironmonger, found at the Cliffs, Brighton Beach, was removed to the morgue, and at the inquest the cause of death was shown to ...
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Advertising : 41 wordsAs soon as Parliament rises, the Govern ment will frame its manifesto, and the Prime Minister will explain the Ministerial programme at Ballarat The main plank in ...
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