On Saturday a fire broke out at Paris Creek, about four miles from this town, and burnt a lot of grass and timber in the neighboring paddocks. The wind was very strong, ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Chamberlain, speaking with reference to the labor question in South Africa, at a banquet given in his honor at Johannesburg, warmly denied that he had agreed to ...
Article : 194 wordsIn reply to the British note justifying the imposition of a countervailing duty on Russian bounty-fed sugar, and denying that such a duty conflicts with the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Government of the Dominion of Canada are sending a special mission to England with the object of inducing the men who served in the recent war, and are ...
Article : 106 wordsThe guests at the welcoming banquet tendered to Mr. Chamberlain on his arrival at Johannesburg included Lord Milner and General Louis Botha. The Mayor of the ...
Article : 433 wordsThe railway revenue last week showed a decline of £5,886 as compared with the corresponding period of last year. The shortage for the current year up to date is over ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Federal Cabinet will at its meeting on Tuesday consider whether the cost of refunding to the sugar planters of New South Wales and Queensland who employ ...
Article : 237 wordsThe State Government to-day agreed to the arrangements entered into by the Minister of Railways and the representatives of the New South Wales Government ...
Article : 379 wordsGeorge Mann, blacksmith, of Lake Boga, with his father-in-law (Mr. Free), and his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, left that place in a spring-cart to obtain fruit from ...
Article : 200 wordsSilver is quoted at l/93/4 per oz. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe finding of the Court of Enquiry into the wreck of the Elingamite was given this morning by Mr. Haselden, the stipendiary magistrate. It is contained in a bulky ...
Article : 1,147 wordsThe French Government, under the terms of a secret agreement alleged to have been made with the Chinese Imperial Government, claims to be entitled to control the ...
Article : 44 wordsA cruel-affair occurred here on Friday evening, when Mr. S. M. Hoad lost a pair of pomes and Mr. A. Roepke a horse, all valuable animals, through poison having ...
Article : 96 wordsJanuary 19.—The steamer Mermaid arrived on Saturday afternoon with a large party on board, who propose dredging for shells and other marine curiosities around ...
Article : 96 wordsConstable McKinnon arrested at Maryborough on Friday a decently-attired man, 50 years of age, said to be a tramp, on a charge of unlawfully assaulting a little girl ...
Article : 110 wordsThe magnificent bas-relief of the "Descent from the Cross," executed by the famous sculptor, Luca Della Robbia, which has for many years adorned the sacristy of the ...
Article : 351 wordsThe members of the Federal party who are visiting West Australia in connection with the opening of the goldfields water supply scheme reached Fremantle in the Britannia ...
Article : 319 wordsWhilst a number of young men were training on the local cycle track on Friday evening, one of the riders, named W. Whitehead, came down, with the result ...
Article : 82 wordsThere is a growing conviction in South Africa that the Kaffirs have been badly managed, and that the methods of recruiting them are defective. It is believed that ...
Article : 48 wordsJanuary 17.—A social was held in the hall here on Wednesday, January 14, in aid of the church. A New Year's tree was provided, and during the evening songs and ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. GoldSpink held an enquiry at the Melbourne Children's Hospital respecting the death of Dorothy Merrillees, aged 21/2 years, which resulted from dreadful burns ...
Article : 100 wordsThe managing engineers connected with the Chamber of Mines at Johannesburg have informed Mr. Chamberlain that the earnings of the 12,000 whites engaged on ...
Article : 103 wordsOn Friday evening last Mr. P. J. Kain, of this place, met with a serious accident while returning from Kadina. The horse he was driving first attempted to bolt, but ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Premier and the Minister of Railways to-day had a long consultation in regard to the affiliation of the railway unions with the Trades Hall. As a result ...
Article : 440 wordsThe special committee appointed by the City Council, to report on street improvements, presented their report on Monday afternoon. The committee consisted of the ...
Article : 277 wordsAn agitation is being vigorously carried on in the country to induce the Government to increase the amount of seed wheat to be given to drought-stricken farmers. ...
Article : 68 wordsSince Mr. Beaglehole put down the first successful artesian bore in this neighborhood on his property twelve or eighteen months ago Mr. Griffith, of Penfold, has ...
Article : 256 wordsThe directors of the principal gold mining companies operating on the Rand, Johannesburg, contemplate an expenditure of £50,500,000 on developing their properties ...
Article : 205 wordsThe City Council this afternoon accepted the tender of the Adelaide Steamship Company for the supply of engine coal for one year at 19/ per ton, for the electric supply ...
Article : 92 wordsThe dedication by Prince Chun of the arch erected to commemorate the late Baron von Ketteler, the German Minister in Pekin, and to record the regret of the ...
Article : 149 wordsThe secretary of the Victorian Cricket Association this morning received a telegram from the secretary of the Tasmanian Cricket Association, notifying that they ...
Article : 66 wordsLatest advices with reference to the situation in Morocco state that the Sultan's uncle, with 5,000 troops, has left Fez, the capital, and has started for Teza, after ...
Article : 49 wordsThere was a very large attendance, at the Sydney Cricket Ground to-night to witness the continuation of the League of Wheelmen's meeting. The racing was of a most ...
Article : 721 wordsFor some time it has been an open secret that some boot retailers have been selling Melbourne-made boots as of English manufacture, thereby netting a higher price. ...
Article : 177 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the—shareholders of the Northern Territory Land. Company was held at the office of Messrs. G. P. Harris, Scarfe, & Co., Gawler-place ...
Article : 267 wordsA successful test has been made at Sandy Hook, a peninsula at the mouth of the lower bay of New York Harbor, with a new 16-in. coast defence gun. ...
Article : 103 wordsOn Thursday Mr. R. W. E. Bodey (equine dentist) operated on a horse belonging to Mr. D. Kay for a swelling in the jaw, and extracted a stone fully half a pound in ...
Article : 59 wordsThe death is announced in his 78th year of M. Henri de Blowitz, who retired last month from his position as Paris correspondent of the London "Times." ...
Article : 541 wordsAdvices received from Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, state that the officer in command of the British twin-screw torpedo boat destroyer Panther, tried to enter ...
Article : 74 wordsThe export trade of Port Pirie for 1902 is shown by the following returns:— SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTS. Wheat—1,112,542 bushels.......... £180,264 ...
Article : 90 wordsYesterday a steam crane was dispatched from Newport to Wandong, the scene of the wreck of the goods train on Thursday morning, for the purpose of lifting the ...
Article : 144 wordsGeorge Palmer, the barman at the Commercial Travellers' Club, who told the sensational story yesterday of how he was tied up by two armed and masked men and ...
Article : 71 wordsThe death is announced at the age of 81 of Sir Joseph Sebag-Montefiore, a son of Mr. Solomon Sebag, who, on succeeding in 1885 to the estates of his maternal ...
Article : 46 wordsA terrible marine fatality is reported from Ballycottin, a town situated 121/2 miles south-east of Queenstown, Ireland. The City of York Steam Packet ...
Article : 74 wordsJanuary 19.—On Sunday the body of Mrs. G. Lohrmann was buried in the Freeling Cemetery. Mrs. Lohrmann was an old resident of this place, having resided here ...
Article : 58 wordsThe monthly meeting of the committee of the Orphan Home for Girls was held at the home, Carrington-street, on Monday, January 12, under the presidency of Mrs. Farr. The Secretary (Mr. ...
Article : 459 wordsThe passengers by the International Navigation Company's steamer St. Louis, 11,629 tons, which, going dead slow, passed Nantucket, and signalled that her boilers had ...
Article : 97 wordsAt the Sydney wool sales to-day 7,473 bales were offered, of which 6,119 found buyers, in addition to 1,367 bales reported to have been sold privately. The bidding ...
Article : 57 wordsIt is now regarded as unlikely that the State Parliament will be able to proceed so early as was at first anticipated to the election of a member of the Federal Senate in ...
Article : 125 wordsJanuary 19.—Before Mr. Joseph Bell today Frederick Barns was charged on the information of Mounted-Constable Searson with being drunk in Railway-terrace early ...
Article : 55 wordsIntelligence has been received that Princess Louise, who has been divorced by her husband, the Crown Prince of Saxony, [?]as travelled to Mentone with M. Giron, the ...
Article : 61 wordsA young lad, Jasper Chapman, aged 14, son of Mr. Richard Chapman, residing at Manilla, yesterday morning went out to hunt for a hare for dinner. As he did not ...
Article : 84 wordsJanuary 17.—The Mount Gambier Building Society, which went into liquidation about seven years ago, is yet without a final winding up. At the request of a number ...
Article : 250 wordsWe have received one guinea from "H.B." for the fund. Mr. E. J. Burrand, of Yarrandale, has collected 13 bags of wheat for the fund. ...
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Advertising : 203 wordsA fire occurred yesterday afternoon at the Tiverton station, the woolshed and contents owned by Mr. R. H. Roberts, and managed by Mr. S. E. Roberts, being totally ...
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Advertising : 253 wordsMrs. Russell, wife or an employe engaged on the Hay line, met with an accident which resulted fatally. While preparing tea her dress became ignited, and before the ...
Article : 49 wordsOn arrival here last evening from the north the Maranoa struck the rocks opposite Wellington road, Kangaroo Point. The impact was rather severe. The vessel ...
Article : 43 wordsArthur Stach, a Civil servant, was charged at the Perth Police Court to-day with having stolen a silver toilet case, valued at £6, from a room at the ...
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Advertising : 57 wordsJanuary l8.—At a meeting of the directors of the Caledonian Society held on Friday evening, the secretary (Mr. D. Caldwell) presented an interim financial statement in ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Postmaster-General left Brisbane this afternoon for Southport. He will proceed from there to-morrow to [?]weed, on his tour among the northern rivers of New ...
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Advertising : 58 wordsThe Fire Brigades Association has received applications for subsidy from four Australian brigades wishing to attend the competitions in March. It was decided to ...
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Advertising : 69 wordsAn infant at Bayswater, near Perth, became very ill last Friday. Medical assistance was obtained, and on the following morning the father called at the surgery ...
Article : 114 wordsJanuary 17.—A spell of hot weather set in this week, and yesterday the thermometer registered 103 ° in the shade. At 3 p.m. to-day the record was 106 ° in the ...
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