The mission vessel Southern Cross, which was launched from the shipyards of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth, & Co., at Walker-on-Tyne, on February 11 last, and ...
Article : 1,294 wordsThe Federal Cabinet met to-day, but contrary to expectations, dealt only with, departmental matters, no reference of any kind being made to the vacant portfolio ...
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Article : 570 wordsThe resumption of the debate on the proposal to increase the annual contingent of recruits supplied by Hungary to the Austro-Hungarian army, was the occasion of a ...
Article : 157 wordsThe speech delivered by Mr. Deakin on the second reading of the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill was ia his best style. On some of the abstruse points, however, he ...
Article : 850 wordsReferring to a proposal for the importation of 10,000 Indian coolies for purposes of railway construction in the Transvaal colony, Lord Milner states that the labor ...
Article : 211 wordsModern conditions of war make it imperative that those who lead should be those who instruct. Saddlery of a description effective for ...
Article : 419 wordsTruth states that the nephews and grandnephews of his Holiness the Pope are preparing to dispute his will, under the terms of which all the property of which he ...
Article : 277 wordsThree inches of rain fell in London during the 24 hours ended at 9 o'clock this morning. Great damage has been done by the excessive downpour in the valley of the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Minister of Defence circulated tonight a statement explanatory of the Defence Estimates for 1903-4. The Minister points out that the Defence Estimates for ...
Article : 178 wordsThe second-class twin-screw steamer Melampus, 3,400 tons, Captain Vernon A. Tisdall, which is stationed at Kingston (Ireland) as a coast guardship, yesterday ran ...
Article : 145 wordsFurther rains are reported from the country districts of Victoria, and farmers are hopeful of the splendid early promise of the season being fulfilled. The winter ...
Article : 419 wordsThe Prime Minister has received an important cable message with reference to the Brussels Sugar Bounties, Convention, and its effects. The message runs:—"Brussels ...
Article : 179 wordsIn a match between the Marylebone Cricket Club and, the Grange team this Aveek Albert Trott (late of the Melbourne Cricket Club) took five wickets for l8 runs, ...
Article : 129 wordsIn commemoration of her visit to Ireland Queen Alexandra has given £580 for distribution among the poor of that country. In voyaging from Bancran to Killary Bay, ...
Article : 82 wordsThere was an immense gathering at St. Mary's Cathedral this morning when solemn dirge was sung and a pontifical high mass was celebrated for the repose of the soul of ...
Article : 156 wordsA large party of members of the British House of Commons will, in November next, return the recent visit to London of a number of French legislators belonging to the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Treasurer, speaking today with respect to the Federal Budget speech stated that while he had the greatest respect for the spirit of caution which was so ...
Article : 267 wordsBrigadier-General Manning, in his report concerning the reverses sustained by the British forces in their operations against the Mullah in Somaliland, attributes the ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the temporary Supply Bill for nearly two millions passed through all its stages without amendment. Mr. Lee's amendment to ...
Article : 457 wordsThe following is a copy of a letter from Archbishop O'Keily to Mr. G. Grundy, the secretary of the Anglican Synod:- Archbishop's House, Glen Osmond, July ...
Article : 431 wordsThe trial of Ernest McDonald, a middleaged man, described as a farm laborer, on a charge of having on May 13 last, at Mooney Mooney, murdered Mary Ann Keane, was ...
Article : 252 wordsThe shareholders in the North Mount Lyell Company yesterday carried a resolution in favor of a voluntary winding-up, preparatory to amalgamation with the ...
Article : 55 wordsWith reference to the question of the compensation rights of those railway employes who were concerned in the late strike the State Government have come to a final ...
Article : 80 wordsWhitaker Wright, the organiser of the London and Globe Finance Corporation, Avho was recently arrested in New York on a charge of fraud, has been ...
Article : 49 wordsGeneral Kuropatkin (the Russian Minister of War), who recently returned from Tokio, having failed in his mission to induce the Japanese Government to waive their ...
Article : 90 wordsAn action for £1,500 damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by Charles Brockwell (engineer) whilst employed in the defendants' mine, Avas brought against ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Ben Davies, the well-known tenor singer, has received an offer of an engagement to tour Australia next winter. Mr. Davies, who is 45 years old, was ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. W. H. Brown (leader of the Labor Party) states that the Queensland, Labor Party will at the forthcoming Federal elections allow each candidate ...
Article : 270 wordsAt the conclusion of the football match between Footscray and Richmond last Saturday week the captain of the latter (Alexander Edwards) and a member of the ...
Article : 83 wordsSir Edmund Barton's reply to the statement of the Hon. R. S. Guthrie of reasons why the Seamen's Union cannot trust the Federal Ministry to pass an ...
Article : 349 wordsA sensational occurrence is reported from Folsom, a village with 1,500 inhabitants, situated 21 miles each-north-east of Sacramento, in the State of California. ...
Article : 139 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the second reading of the Sugar Convention Bill, which had been moved the previous day by Mr. Gerald Balfour (President of ...
Article : 181 wordsThe delivery of water for domestic use is now proceeding without difficulty of any kind. The mains are all filled, including those at South Broken Hill, and the carters ...
Article : 252 wordsThe hearing of the action Darling v. Carter was concluded before Mr. Justice Hodges to-day. The plaintiff was Mr. John Darling, M.P., trading as John Darling & Son, ...
Article : 108 wordsThe impression created by Sir George Turnpr's Budget Speech is thus described by the Melbourne Age on Wednesday-:- "A budget of hard facts-very hard facts— ...
Article : 253 wordsWith regard to the floating of the Queensland loan of three-quarters of a million, at £96, it transpires-that in spite of the cheap price, the favorable terms, the unusual ...
Article : 109 wordsTwo fresh cases of smallpox were reported to-day, one being a domestic servant, Nellie Jackson, employed at Newstead, and the other a man named Dimsey, ...
Article : 203 wordsWith the desire to avoid possible loss of life the Government inspector has ordered the suspension of operations at the 2.200 and 2,260-ft. levels of the Star of the East ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Indian native press is solid against the proposals of Mr. Brodrick, Secretary for War, to charge a proportion of the cost of maintaining an army in ...
Article : 64 wordsThe startling assertion is made in a pamphlet issued by the attendants and nurses at the Victorian asylums that at two of the big institutions near Melbourne certain ...
Article : 130 wordsAs the result of the explosion yesterday of a powder magazine, in the United States Cartridge Company's factory, at Tewkesbury, in Massachusetts, 25 persons were ...
Article : 73 wordsAt a public meeting, held in St. James' Hall, London, last night, a resolution was carried, protesting against the taxation of food as a source of great danger to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsMinisters intend to open Parliament on 'August l8. The death is announced of Captain Samuel Kennedy. The deceased was for ...
Article : 38 wordsMelbourne is eyed askance by many members of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce. They see that, little by little, she is fastening on federal institutions, and so ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Kate Tatham, from Newcastle, got into dangerous proximity to Cape Kidnappers during the gale. She signalled for assistance, and was towed into port. ...
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Advertising : 156 wordsThe shareholders in the Cunard Steamship Company have ratified the agreement with the Imperial Government by which, in return for a subsidy of £1,000,000, the ...
Article : 95 wordsThe following are the quotations for colonial Government stocks:—Victorian 4 per cent., £104, as against £105 on July 24; Queensland 4's, £104, as against £105; ...
Article : 48 wordsAt the Police Court to-day Frederick Holmes, trading as Hatton & Laws, for a breach of-the Customs Act, was fined £5, and 8/ costs. Defendants' agent made a ...
Article : 46 wordsThe New Zealand Government are about to take in hand a water-power installation scheme in connection with the Huka Falls, and have engaged a Swiss engineer named ...
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Advertising : 39 wordsThe Government intend to advertise in England and America for a person to fill the position of director of agriculture. ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Fri 31 Jul 1903, Page 5
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