The foundation-stone of the main tower of the new central railway-station was laid on Saturday afternoon by,-the State Premier. Elaborate preparations had been ...
Article : 535 wordsThe report of the Royal Commission on the South African war, issued this week, is remarkable for two reasons. In the first place it amounts to an indictment of the ...
Article : 1,513 wordsReports to hand to-day show that very heavy rains have fallen throughout the State, and particularly on the coast. Al Raymond terrace during yesterday and last ...
Article : 442 wordsGeneral Botha explains that he has been misunderstood by the Afrikander Bond, and that in the speech to which Mr. Merriman recently referred it was far from his ...
Article : 107 wordsThe People's Journal, a London weekly, states that the gentlemen appointed to enquire into the case of the late General Sir Hector Macdonald have unanimously found ...
Article : 155 wordsSir Henry Drummond Wolff, the Wellknown British diplomatist, who prior to his retirement from the Imperial service was engaged in important missions to ...
Article : 183 wordsThe case of Mr. Sam Parks, wallang delegate of the Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Union, of New York, whose conviction on a charge of levying blackmail on employers by ...
Article : 490 wordsLieutenant-General Sir J. D. P. French (commander of the First Army Corps), speaking at a military dinner yesterday, stated that Mr. St. John Brodrick's energy ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. Charles Schwab, who lately retired from the management of the great American Steel Trust (in which he represented the Carnegie interest), is devoting some of his ...
Article : 72 wordsThe War Office authorities have decided to rearm,the cavalry with a new light straight thrusting sword in lieu of the present weapon. The gun committee have ...
Article : 83 wordsNews has only now reached Europe of a serious mishap which befell the French steamer Amiral Guedon, in the vicinity of the Arabian coast early in August. ...
Article : 97 wordsThe colonial Agents-General have arranged to attend in a body at the Colonial Office for the purpose of bidding Mr. Chamberlam farewell on the occasion of his ...
Article : 46 wordsThe exports of Siberian butter to Great Britain in 1898 totalled only 150,000 poods (a pood being slightly over 36 lb.). In 1902 the quantity exported to Great Britain ...
Article : 64 wordsIndignation meetings have been held in London and Manchester to protest against the recent Turkish massacres and Turkish misrule generally. Resolutions were passed ...
Article : 250 wordsThe wool sales were continued to-day, when prices were fully maintained. The sales included Tramperdown 8?d.; Matamata, 9?d.; Walhallow, lO?d.; Fairfield, ...
Article : 86 wordsW. Wright, one of the leading steeplechase jockeys of France, has been killed as the result of an accident at the races at St. Ouen, in the department of Sonne, 13 miles' ...
Article : 39 wordsA public open-air meeting was held at Boulder on Saturday to consider the introduction of alien labor in the Transvaal. The Mayor (Mr. W. T. Rabbish) presided, ...
Article : 204 wordsThe members of Warner's team for Australia were tendered a most enthusiastic send-off when the vessel left Tilbury Docks. The vessel had sailed before ...
Article : 103 wordsCo-operative societies have subscribed upwards of half of the shares in the Bethesda workmen's new quarries, and of £20,000 rerequired £18,000 has been subscribed. The ...
Article : 68 wordsSome excitement was occasioned at Nelson's Bay to-night by a report from the coast that a large iron sailing vessel had gone ashore at Mora. Point. The vessel is ...
Article : 257 wordsSilver is quoted at 2/3 7-16 per oz. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe following are the latest quotations on the London Stock Exchange:— Associated Mines, £2 3/9. Broken Hill Proprietary, 30/. ...
Article : 45 wordsA serious tram collision occurred yesterday afternoon on the Drummoyne line, four persons being injured. A tram was stationary at the end of the double line, ...
Article : 162 wordsCharles Thorn, a wharf laborer, was engaged coiling a rope on the mail steamer Omrah, when he suddenly reeled' and fell. The Civil Ambulance Brigade was ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Russian Government, in a further note to the Bulgarian authorities, have reherated their determination to leave Turkey a free hand, to deal with any ...
Article : 491 wordsFather Robinson, of Melbourne, lectured on Australia, at the Rotunda, Dublin, yesterday, the Lord Mayor presiding. The attendance was so large that many were ...
Article : 122 wordsConsols are1 quoted at £88 2/6. ...
Article : 11 wordsThe Rev. W. Watt, who has just arrived from the NewHebrides, states that trouble has arisen on the island of Epi between the French residents and an Englishman named ...
Article : 231 wordsThe balancer-sheet of the New Zealand Shipping Company shows a profit of £54,742. The sum of £10,57O has been carried forward. ...
Article : 34 wordsA serious railway collision occurred at Lawson last night. A stock train, which left Wentworth Falls at a quarter past 6 o'clock, had reached the distant signal when ...
Article : 467 wordsThe city editor of the Times, referring to the weakness of investment securities, explains it partly on the ground of the realisation of three large estates, whose owners ...
Article : 82 wordsOn Saturday a football match between the premiers (East Fremantle) and South Fremantle was won by the former by three goals nine behinds to three goals five ...
Article : 34 wordsA burglar's kit, comprising a sandbag, revolver, and cartridges, keys, and bullseye, was found by Detective Fraser and Constable Wilkin at the back of the Adelaide ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 180 wordsThe premiership of the Lawn Tennis Association was won on Saturday by Fremantle, who defeated East Perth after an excinng contest. ...
Article : 27 wordsCopper.—Copper is quoted at £55 10/ on spot and at three months. Lead.£The quotation for lead is £11 1/3. Frozen Meat.£At the frozen meat sales ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Minister of Customs has requested Dr. Wollaston (Comptroller-General of Customs), who is now in Brisbane, to enquire into the charges made- against Mr. ...
Article : 68 wordsMiss Ada Crossley met with a painful accident early yesterday morning. In accordance with her usual custom Miss Crossley was going through a course of physical ...
Article : 217 wordsOur London correspondent, writing under date August 28, remarks:—Suggestions for the naming of the Commonwealth capital are very numerous in the London press, ...
Article : 111 wordsThe fair in connection with the Mitcham Boys' Club was continued on Saturday afternoon and evening. The chief attraction at the fair was the Hertfordshire school of straw plaiting and ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Czar and Czarina of Russia are visiting the latter's relations at Darmstadt. They hare their children with them. The Grar (accompanied by Count Lamsdorff) ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mon 28 Sep 1903, Page 5
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