Mr. W. C. Grasby says:—I have noticed several paragraphs under the above heading in your excellent dea "The Producer column. The first referred to the planting ...
Article : 344 wordsThe demand for water yesterday was not so keen as on the previous day. Orders were received for 48,000 gallons. The quantity of water pumped into the mains yesterday ...
Article : 286 wordsThere was a somewhat stormy interchange between two members at a special meeting of the Adelaide Hospital Board on Friday. ...
Article : 1,050 wordsA youth, Sydney Victor Butler, was charged at the Ryde Police Court to-day with attempting to poison the Thacker family on July 3. Sergeant Ross said that ...
Article : 260 wordsThe President took the chair at 10.30 a.m. NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTORAL DISTRICTS. Senator Pulsford (N.S.W.) moved the adjournment of the House for the purpose of ...
Article : 362 wordsThe proceedings in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, during the consideration of the Juvenile Smoking Suppression Bill, on Tuesday night, were rudely ...
Article : 432 wordsThe action of the Railways Commissioner in giving notice that certain employes in the railway service would be asked to work 9½ hours daily was discussed at the Trades ...
Article : 298 wordsThere was much speculation in the city on Friday as to the causes of Dr. Ramsay Smith's suspension, and the subject was the one theme of conversation. The ...
Article : 1,977 wordsA fire, attended by sensational circumstances, broke out early this morning on board the four-masted barque Earl of Dunmore, lying off Watson's Bay. The ...
Article : 1,237 wordsAt a meeting of the Executive Council today authority was given for the purchase from the Colonial Ammunition Company of eight million rounds of.303 ball cartridges ...
Article : 81 wordsThe secretary of the Unemployed League announces that the following articles were distributed at the Central Market on Friday:—250 loaves bread, 120 2-lb. tins jam, ...
Article : 34 wordsHay-cutting has started in some parts of the north, and at Nelshaby, near Crystal Brook, binders have already been at work. Several crops in this locality are ready to be ...
Article : 44 wordsThe New South Wales Public Works Commission met at the Town Hall to-day to examine witnesses in connection with the Broken Hill water supply. ...
Article : 276 wordsThe barrier system at the Port Adelaid: railway-station is the cause of much incon venience to the travelling public. Frequently, and generally at the most ...
Article : 93 wordsBy the steamer Winfield which sailed for Western Australia on Friday afternoon, three large consignments of pigs, numbering 563 in all, were sent to Fremantle. ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. F. W. Biden, temporary officer in charge of the electoral office in Sydney, has been appointed Commonwealth electoral officer for New South Wales; and Mr. J. J. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Speaker took the chair at 10.30 a.m. SIR WILLUM MCMILLAN'S RETIREMENT. Mr. Reid (N.S.W.) called attention to a paragraph appearing in that morning's Age, ...
Article : 644 wordsThe Adelaide University Sports Association held an inaugural athletic sports meeting on the Adelaide Oval on Friday afternoon. There were about a thousand ladies and gentlemen present. The ...
Article : 543 wordsSir Edmund Barton says he cannot yet mention a date when the proposals of the Government for, fixing a site for the Federal capital will be taken. The matter may ...
Article : 73 wordsThe committee of the Port Unemployed League appeal to benevolently disposed residents of the city of Port Adelaide and other towns for assistance: either in cash ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Treasurer (Hon. R. Butler) has had prepared the following statement, showing the revenue and expenditure of transferred departments, &c., for the last four years, ...
Article : 249 wordsMr. James Fry, a member of the grain trade, died to-day at. Sutton Park, Newlyn, at the advanced ages of 82. The deceased during his lifetime built up a very extensive ...
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Family Notices : 67 wordsA youth, Roy Henwood, living at Wyman-street, was given charge of a horse and cart, and sent to procure a load of water at Tester's Dam, on the ...
Article : 106 wordsWholesale dismissals are not to eventuate in the Victorian Civil Service as was at first rumored. Instead the Government have decided upon modified percentage ...
Article : 30 wordsThe North Adelaide police received an intimation on Friday afternoon to the effect that at about noon that day [?] man, James Hines, an employe of the City ...
Article : 43 wordsWhen the steamer Edina was off the Port Arlington pier to-day, a woman, travelling from Melbourne to Geelong, fell overboard from the stern of the vessel. A ...
Article : 44 wordsThe following telegram was received from the postmaster at the Meadows on Friday: —"A slight shock of earthquake was felt here about 9.20 this morning." News has ...
Article : 48 wordsA serious accident happened in Elizabethstreet to-day, as the result of which Edward Hopper, a railway employe, lies in the Melbourne Hospital in a critical ...
Article : 53 wordsThe flotation into a company of the principal mines on the Euriowie tin fields has been undertaken by Mr. H. P. Rogers, who represents an Adelaide syndicate. Mr. ...
Article : 128 wordsOn Friday evening Professor Ennis, Mus Doc. (director of the Elder Conservatorium) gave the second of his lectures on the development of the violin sonata, in ...
Article : 208 wordsA writ has been issued on behalf of Mr. L. J. Davis, trading as Messrs. Davis and Fisher, of Bridge-street, Sydney, claiming £10,000 from the proprietors of the Argus ...
Article : 37 wordsA shocking railway fatality occurred at Rockdale station this morning, a guard, Thomas Holland, being run over and almost cut to pieces. The unfortunate man had ...
Article : 234 wordsOver 6 in. of rain has fallen this month. A gale was blowing to-day, and the steamer Wollowra had a rough time from Cape Leeuwin to Fremantle, but came ...
Article : 37 wordsA petition for a change in the Constitution of Fiji was forwarded to tne King in April and has been laid before his Majesty. The reply from Mr. Chamberlain, the ...
Article : 192 wordsMary Haliday and Louisa Wilson were remanded at the Perth Court to-day on a charge of stealing jewellery, from a cabman, named McFarlane. It is alleged that ...
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Advertising : 455 wordsTo-day is the last of the Society of Arts Exhibition. It will be open from 10 to 5 and from 7 to 9.30 p.m. In the evening a reading on "Florentine art," illustrated by ...
Article : 74 wordsStanley Fielder has been arrested, as the result of the verdict of a coroner's jury, on a charge of having set fire to adjoining premises owned by Mr. C. Molyneux. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Legislative Assembly sat till 11.30 last night, discussing the Electoral and Inspection of Machinery Bills. An argument arose between the Labor and Country ...
Article : 52 wordsSir—The board of management of the above institution having received the following communication, it is deemed by us so wise and good an arrangement as to be ...
Article : 398 wordsThe Premier to-day informed a deputation from the Chamber of Commerce that he did not see why Chinese and Japanese boats should not carry ...
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Advertising : 157 wordsThe railway earnings for the fortnight ended August 8 were £777. The Agricultural, Horticultural, and Industrial Society's show was held in the ...
Article : 132 wordsWilliam Percy Bennett and Richard John Butler, who were arrested recently in connection with the stealing of gold ore valued at £1,000 from the Kalgurli mine, were ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. T. Price, M.P. (leader of the Labor Party), introduced a question affecting the apprentices at the Islington workshops at a meeting of the Trades and Labor Council ...
Article : 363 wordsA large deputation of pastoralists from all parts of Queensland waited upon the Premier to-day, the Minister for Lands also being present, and asked for the ...
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Advertising : 132 wordsThe result of the Christchurch Grand National Hurdles was as follows:—Waiwera, 11 st. 4 lb., 1; Trade Wind, 10 st. 4 lb., 2; Evening, 9st., 3. Won easily. Time, 3 min. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe news has just been received that an aboriginal has been shot by a mining prospector, named Snape, at a place 50 miles south-west of Daly River. Some natives ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Ionic, arrived to-day from London and discharged 380 tons of cargo from the stream by means of lighters. She will resume her voyage to Wellington to-morrow. ...
Article : 61 wordsSix inches of rain has fallen during the last 36 hours. Considerable damage has been done by the overflowing of streams. The city and suburban railway services are ...
Article : 53 wordsMajor Knowles, paymaster of the local forces, has been placed on the military retired list, and attached to the civil branch of the military forces. His present position and pay are not ...
Article : 102 wordsNo further cases of smallpox have occurred since Saturday. William Cox died in the isolation hospital early this morning. Florence Jackson, another patient, is not ...
Article : 52 wordsThe second of a series of long-distance races, under the auspices of the Quorn Cycling Club was run off to-day. There was a slight wind, but otherwise it was a prefect afternoon. Eleven ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Sat 15 Aug 1903, Page 8
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