The following is a copy of the letter sent by the Acting Premier (Hon. J. H. Gordon) to the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth respecting the payment of ...
Article : 881 wordsDuring the last few days the citizens of Adelaide have had a fruitful source of complaint in the effects of the heat wave which has passed over South Australia, but ...
Article : 483 wordsThe terrible fire which consumed the larger portion of the great lunatic asylum at Colney Hatch, near London, and which resulted in the cremation of 52 lunatics, ...
Article : 2,611 wordsMr. Chamberlain, in a speech at Vryburg, said the only evil influence he feared was that of mischief-makers, who were forcing themselves into ...
Article : 136 wordsIntelligence has been received to the effect that while the vessels of the Mediterranean squadron were conducting manœuvres in the Corfu ...
Article : 144 wordsHis Majesty King Edward VII. has given his approval to a proposal for the establishment of an institution in Dublin, to be called the Royal Hibernian Military School, ...
Article : 59 wordsNo fresh cases of plague have been reported, and the patients are making satisfactory progress. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Postmaster-Gneral (Mr. Drake) returned on Saturday to Melbourne from his prolonged holiday in Queensland. ...
Article : 20 wordsA sensational occurrence took place on the Unley-road on Saturday evening, when a young woman, Miss Julia Kingston, was bailed up by masked men and robbed. ...
Article : 286 wordsMr. O. T. L. O'Brien (senior officer of Customs in Hobson's Bay) had a remarkable escape from being maimed for life while on duty last Saturday. By a mischance Mr. ...
Article : 97 wordsFor preventing the introduction of plague into Victoria, it has been provided that in the case of vessels arriving from Fremantle, the crew and passengers will be medically ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Home Secretary (Mr. Akers-Douglas) has decided that the law shall take its course in the case of Annie Walters, a married woman, aged 51 years, who ...
Article : 86 wordsA lamptrimmer (Jas. Miller) had a thrilling experience at Flinders-street station on Saturday night. He slipped and fell between the rails just behind a train that had ...
Article : 79 wordsAmong the passengers by the Canadian mail steamer Moana was Mr. W. L. Allardyce, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary and Treasurer of Fiji, who has been administering ...
Article : 143 wordsUpon the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain at Kimberley, the capital of the great diamond-mining centre of South Africa, the mayoress of the town presented ...
Article : 170 wordsIt is proposed in connection with the Scottish memorial to the late Queen Victoria to erect a church in memory of the Scotsmen who fell during the war in South ...
Article : 67 wordsWilliam Parker Owen, secretary of the Premier Sunrise (New Zealand) Gold Mining Company, and the Indian Glenrock Mining Company, who early this month, ...
Article : 50 wordsEdward Brooks, a fireman, 50 years of age, committed suicide at St. James' Church of England Mission, Bourke-street, on Saturday, by shooting himself in the head. The ...
Article : 107 wordsIt having transpired that the Ameer Habibulla Khan of Afghanistan has purchased from Germany 100 guns, including 12 mountain quick-firers and l8 field pieces, ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Austrian Reichsrath has ratified the agreement entered into by the sugar convention at Brussels. ...
Article : 24 wordsMedical specialists here attach little importance to the report that Miss Thorne, a student in chemistry at Sydney University, has discovered a cure for consumption. Dr. ...
Article : 350 wordsSir Edmund Barton will leave for Melbourne to-morrow night. The object of his visit is to attend to departmental matters. It is the Prime Minister's intention to visit ...
Article : 58 wordsThe committee of the Villiers and Heytesbury Agricultural Association at Warrnambool have under consideration the dangers of the introduction of the noxious weed ...
Article : 76 wordsA great improvement is reported in the condition of Signor Prinetti, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, who, while awaiting an audience with King Victor ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. G.W. Smalley, the American correspondent of the "Times," contradicts, on the highest authority, Germany's representations that England sought ...
Article : 39 wordsIn reference to objections made by Sir John See and Mr. Philp to the payment b New South Wales and Queensland of the sugar rebate, the Prime Minister says that ...
Article : 65 wordsA miner of Ballarat East, Richard Nankervis, aged 49, has been seriously injured by a fall of earth. His injuries include fracture of the spine and several ribs are also ...
Article : 60 wordsSir Wilfrid Laurier (Premier of the Dominion of Canada) has introduced a Bill into the Canadian House of Commons for the purpose or establishing a naval reserve. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Pretender to the throne of Morocco has suspended his advance on Fez, and has retreated to his old position, in order to attack the rear of the Government forces. ...
Article : 37 wordsViscount Cranborne (Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), speaking yesterday at Sheffield, expressed himself as shocked at the reckless way in which ...
Article : 135 wordsHenry A. Smith, aged 31, described as a cook and bricklayer, was on Saturday arrested at Ballarat on a charge of arson in attempting to burn down the house in the ...
Article : 113 wordsA board is about to be appointed by the Federal Government to consider the question of building the railway to West Australia. The members will be experts, and ...
Article : 51 wordsThe people in the United States are greatly agitated at the news that German agents at Santiago, a seaport in Cuba, have proposed the immediate purchase of the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe railway employes in Holland have commenced a strike in order to give their practical support to the dockers now on strike and test the trade union question. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe prediction as to hot weather on Saturday was more than realised, the thermometer going up to 105 deg. in the shade during the afternoon. It was, however,a bright, ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" is evidently of a suspicious turn of mind. He writes:- The salary of the judicial officer whom the ...
Article : 254 wordsOn Saturday afternoon a seaman committed suicide on board the sailing ship, Peleus, which is discharging rails at the Williamstown railway pier. Thomas Brown, ...
Article : 134 wordsThe directors of Messrs. D. & J. Fowler have declared a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn connection with the alleged bribery committed at recent municipal elections in Shrewsbury, several canvassers of the city have admitted that they were paid for ...
Article : 43 wordsReuter's correspondent states that events in Macedonia are being keenly watched at Odessa, where the commissariat department has been ordered to be prepared for ...
Article : 40 wordsThe directors' report and balance-sheet of the National Land and Mortgage Company of New Zealand show a profit for the year of £30,262. A further dividend of 1/3 ...
Article : 68 wordsThe revenue returns for January amounted to £882,010, as compared with £965,421 for the corresponding month of last year, the decrease being £83,411. There was an ...
Article : 108 wordsAn interesting letter, containing an account of the voyage of the Tilikum, the Indian war canoe, from South Australia to Tasmania, was received by Mr. C. Fisher, of ...
Article : 356 wordsThe Victorian bowling championship was won on Saturday by C. H. Livesey, of Brighton. He defeated Hambleton by 12 points, and followed this up by beating W. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. William Elton, the popular actor, who was for many years a leading member of the Williamson Comic Opera Company in Australia. ...
Article : 34 wordsThree thousand Chinese Government troops have been ordered to the borders of the province of Kwaichow, where the rebels are strong. The rebels declare their ...
Article : 50 wordsThe following are the latest quotations on the London Stock Exchange:- Broken Hill Proprietary, £1 12/6. Associated, £2 5/. ...
Article : 47 wordsDespite the great [?]eat on Saturday night, an enormous audience filled the Town Hall to give Mr. Armes Beaumont, the veteran tenor, what proved to be the most ...
Article : 122 wordsThe bidding at the wool sales to-day waa slack, and there were considerable withdrawals. Merinos and crossbreds were fully 5 per cent. below the opening rates. ...
Article : 35 wordsA national conference of local authorities and members of the various employers and workmen's organisations will be opened in the Guildhall on February 27 tp consider the ...
Article : 39 wordsA wood-carter, Peter Brown, was taken to the Government hospital by the police, having been found in an exhausted condition near the police station on Friday ...
Article : 84 wordsSenator Reid has resigned his position as Minister for Education in the State Cabinet. In an interview with Mr. Irvine on Saturday he intimated that he desired to be relieved ...
Article : 302 wordsThe following prices were realised at yesterday's wool sales:—Moxotavia, 7¼d.; Yannary, 7¾d.; Teapid, 7?d.; Wellshot, 8d.; Tid, 8?d.; Gingie, 9?d.; Binnum, 14?d.; ...
Article : 30 wordsSilver is quoted at l/9?d. per oz. ...
Article : 15 wordsGeorge Hankin, 22 years of age, was drowned in the Saltwater River at Maribyrnong, on Saturday while bathing from a boat. The deceased was a bootmaker living ...
Article : 126 wordsIt is announced that the Cuban disbanded army has threatened to occupy vaious towns and forcibly collect 15 million dollars to satisfy claims for arrears of pay. The ...
Article : 57 wordsFrozen Meat.—At the frozen meat sale the following prices were realised:— New Zealand sheep, crossbred wethers and maiden ewes Canterbury, light 5d.; ...
Article : 156 wordsThe bidding at Saturday's wool sales was spirited, but prices were unchanged. There was a little irregularity in the quality of the wools offered, and some of the best ...
Article : 72 wordsThe following additional subscriptions have been received by the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce:- Y. Fisher, Kooringa........ £0 5 0 ...
Article : 78 wordsA miner, Andrew McCombe, was killed in the Golden Horseshoe mine on Friday evening, through falling down a winze connecting the 800 and 700-ft. levels. How the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe new tariff adopted by Austria Hungary gives Hungary complete control of the Austrian market for grain and cattle. The new Russian tariff trebles the duty on ...
Article : 43 wordsCharles Selhurst, or Frost, was taken to the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday morning with his throat cut. He was considered to be in a critical state, but there has ...
Article : 293 wordsThe sensational report that an hotel near Delegate had been stuck up by armed men was added to yesterday by news reaching Bombala that the Delegate to Bombala ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. Philp and Mr. Leahy returned from the southern States on Saturday night. Mr. Philp would not express any opinion as to whether the Victorian Government had ...
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