Contrary to expectations, the team to represent Australia in the next test match was not selected to-night. It is now thought that other alterations may be made ...
Article : 54 wordsThe necessary authority having been obtained from Sir John Forrest for the commencement of contour surveys of an area of 25 square miles around Bombala and ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Deakin), returned to Melbourne on Tuesday. Mr. Deakin will take up his political work again to-day after his brief holiday at Point ...
Article : 2,445 wordsThe "Galton" system of finger prints for the identification of criminals is to be adopted from January 1 in all prisons throughout this State. ...
Article : 35 wordsA syndicate of Persian merchants, backed by Russian concessionaires, have arranged for the construction of a railway from Teheran, the capital of Persia, to Shirwan, a ...
Article : 98 wordsReplying to a correspondent who had complained of the disadvantages which British life assurance companies have hitherto experienced in the colonies, compared with ...
Article : 270 wordsMr. William Evans, Protector of Chinese in the Straits Settlements, who has been connected with the Government of that colony since November, 1882, has left ...
Article : 241 wordsM. de Lessar, the Russian Minister at Pekin, has informed the Chinese Government that the extreme cold interposes an insuperable obstacle to the hurried ...
Article : 194 wordsJohn Martin, of Newbridge, committed suicide on Saturday by blowing his brains out with a gun. He sat on a chair and exploded the weapon by pushing the trigger ...
Article : 48 wordsShortly after 12 o'clock the match between New South Wales and Victoria was resumed on the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Tne weather was dull and threatening, and ...
Article : 1,518 wordsA serious gas explosion occurred on the premises of Mr. A. E. Bennett, dentist, of Gertrude-street, Fitzroy, to-day. The house is under process of being enlarged, ...
Article : 118 wordsA number of peasants were making fireworks near Naples, when an explosion occurred, killing eight of the operatives and injuring five others. ...
Article : 35 wordsMessrs. Champion & Dight, solicitors, of Sydney, attempted to-day, in the interests of Hans Max Stelling, to serve a writ for £1,000 damages for alleged false ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Government of the State of Panama, which recently declared its independence of the Republic of Colombia, has expressed its willingness to assume its share of the ...
Article : 57 wordsMrs. A. Wilkinson was bitten by a tiger snake on Saturday evening at Neerim; having gone into the yard she felt a pricking sensation on her leg but took no notice of it. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe unemployed trouble in Cape Town has become exceedingly acute. It was recently stated at a meeting of Rand mineowners that prospects did not admit of ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Russian Government have ordered from meat packers at Omaha (Nebraska) a million pounds of tinned meat, to be delivered at San Francisco on January 26 for ...
Article : 228 wordsThe death is announced of Sir. William Allan, who had sat as Liberal member for Gateshead since 1893. Death was sudden, and the result of heart disease. ...
Article : 142 wordsOn Christmas Eve a waterspout burst over White Cliffs, accompanied by fierce winds, which demolished the camps, un roofed houses, and did other damage. For ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Treasurer has had no communication from Sir George Turner yet concerning the date of the proposed conference of Treasurers. Mr. Kidston has suggested the last ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Thibetans are amazed at the occupation of Fort Phari, which is situated at an altitude of 24,000 ft., by a British garrison, which formed part of a force of 800 Pioneers ...
Article : 94 wordsMr. Goodall Keswick, the journalist who in September last recorded the disaster by which four mountain climbers lost their lives at Sea Fell, Cumberland, the highest ...
Article : 153 wordsA sad drowning case occurred in the Nepean River, near Penrith, last night. A lad, aged 11, son of Mr. Roland Gow, walking along a log when he slipped and ...
Article : 87 wordsThe latest intelligence from Somaliland states that Colonel Kenna, with a composite force of 500 men, has attacked and defeated 2,000 Somalis at Jedbali, killing 100. ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. G. H. Reid, who arrived at Perth last night, will probably return by the mail steamer India on Thursday. He went for a drive to-day with Sir John Forrest, and ...
Article : 170 wordsThe death occurred yesterday of George Gissing, the well-known novelist. George Gissing, who was born at Wakefield, in Yorkshire, in 1857, his father being ...
Article : 147 wordsThe three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lumby, jun., of Hopefield, met her death in a shocking manner on Christmas afternoon. While her parents were ...
Article : 85 wordsPope Pius X. has directed the strict observance of the former, Pontiff's instructions prescribing the use of Gregorian chants. His holiness condemns the transformation ...
Article : 56 wordsThe general superiority of the Japanese fleet is certified by all authorities. Russia has eight battleships, displacing altogether 96,712 tons, mounting 20 12-in., 12 10-in., 57 ...
Article : 215 wordsKing Edward has purchased the wellknown gelding Sackbut, for which he has paid 2,000 guineas. He intends to start the horse in the Maiden Plate at the Kildare ...
Article : 56 wordsThe inquest on the body of Paul Caulfield, who died from injuries received in a Christmas brawl at Woolloomooloo, was advanced a stage to-day. Two brothers, ...
Article : 164 wordsSir George Clarke, Governor of Victoria, who was recalled to London for the purpose of drafting, with two other commissioners, a report on the state of British ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 wordsThe Federal Naturalisation Act comes into force on January 1, on which day all existing naturalisation rights become possessed of a national character, being ...
Article : 54 wordsWheat.—A cargo of 6,500 quarters of South Australian wheat (December and January) has been sold at 30/1½ per quarter, and 13,500 quarters of New South ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. Morgan is again urging that the mail steamers should call at Pinkenba, and is communicating with the Queensland, members with a view to securing their ...
Article : 40 wordsSalamis, steamer, 4,508 tons, at London, from Sydney, October 30. Ionic, steamer, 3,344 tons, at London, from Wellington November 14. ...
Article : 33 wordsCaptain A. Mills, master of the steamer Paroo, was to-day fined £10 for a breach of the Immigration Restriction Act. The defendant's counsel pleaded guilty, and said ...
Article : 47 wordsThe progress returns in connection with the referendum for the reduction of members of the State Parliament are as follow: —For 125 members, 59,328; for 100 ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Daily Telegraph's war correspondent at Tokio declares that whatever the issue, no surrender on the part of the Japanese Government is probable. They have ...
Article : 142 wordsAn influential deputation of Church of England clergymen recently waited on the Archbishop of Sydney and presented a memorial asking him to forbid the use of ...
Article : 84 wordsRepresentative A. Poynton has received the following communication from the secretary to the Department for Home Affairs: —"With reference to your telegram of ...
Article : 159 wordsThe correspondent of the London Times at the Black Sea port of Odessa telegraphs that the Russian transport Ekaterinoslaff has sailed with 2,000 picked recruits, several ...
Article : 140 wordsAn inquest was opened to-day on the jockey, August Farrell, who was killed in the Hurdles yesterday. After evidence of identification had been given the ...
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