Mr. George Kennan, the well-known American explorer, with a journalistic companion, started on a visit to Mont Pelee a week ago, and has not yet returned. ...
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Article : 144 wordsHer Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands has given a sum of 1000 marks (£50) towards the fund for the relief of the sufferers from the disaster in the British ...
Article : 44 wordsWoolloongabba ... Every Saturday Q.T.C... May 31 Q.T.C... June 3, 21 Ipswich Amateur... June 7 ...
Article : 1,308 wordsTHE Supreme Court has been occupied for the last few days in heating a case in which Henry Macbeth applied to have probate of the will of Jacob Adeville, saddler, late of ...
Article : 207 wordsTHE London "Daily Mail" states that the Government have received more hopeful cable messages from Pretoria with regard to the peace negotiations. ...
Article : 53 wordsDETAILS of the floating of the New South Wales 3 per cent. loan of £3,000,000 show that there were 8863 applicants, and the total amount applied for was £35,420,400. ...
Article : 61 wordsA meeting of 170 trades union delegates, representing 1,000,000 trade unionists, has been held in London to protest against the duties on wheat and other grain proposed by ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Edison, the famous American electrician and inventor, claims to have invented a storage battery which will be able to drive an electric motor-car for a distance of 100 miles ...
Article : 39 wordsThe second session of the 19th Parliament of New South Wales was opened at noon to-day. In the Legislative Council the Hon. G. F. ...
Article : 362 wordsInformation is to hand of an interesting archæological discovery at Phoestos, in the island of Crete, where the remains of another Mycennaen Royal palace have been unearthed. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Rev. J. E. Mercer, who has been elected Bishop of Tasmania in succession to Bishop Montgomery, will be consecrated in St. Paul's Cathedral on the [?] He ...
Article : 38 wordsM. de Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the "Times," states that the new French Ministry, necessitated by the resignation of the present Premier, M. Waldeck-Rousseau, ...
Article : 58 wordsHis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, in addressing the National Rifle Association, last night, referred to the situation in South Africa, and said a little daylight was now ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is announced that Miss Ada Crossley, the Australian contralto singer, has abandoned her proposed Australian tour. ...
Article : 18 wordsA shock of earthquake has been experienced in the island of Corfu, one of the Ionian isles. Snow, permeated with ashes, has been falling at Lucerne, in Switzerland. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Louis Arens has made a successful debut at the Covent-garden Theatre in Wagner's celebrated opera, "Lohengrin." ...
Article : 21 wordsTHE scrutiny of votes in connection with the election of three directors for the A.M.P. Society was concluded to-day, with the following result:—R. J. Black, 62,280 votes; ...
Article : 476 wordsIt is announced that another meeting of the Cabinet is to be held to-morrow (Friday). ...
Article : 21 wordsHerr Ballin, the manager of the Hamburg-American line, who was stated to have been offered a salary of 1,000,000 dollars a year to manage Pierpont Morgan's shipping ...
Article : 58 wordsSerious complaints are being made concerning the apricot pulp which has arrived from Victoria. A large percentage of the tins were blown. This is attributed to faulty pulping, ...
Article : 39 wordsInformation has been received that Major Collett, with a party of the Jansonville Horse, made an attack on the Boers at Somerset East, in the east of Cape Colony, on ...
Article : 66 wordsThe shipment of apples by the steamships Orizaba and Hector have been landed in good condition, and placed on the market. Prices were unchanged. ...
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Advertising : 808 wordsThe Boers have made an attack on Roobepoorte, but were repulsed. ...
Article : 20 wordsAs a result of the recent artillery experiments with capped shot, the Admiralty have decided to re-design the six armoured cruisers of the improved "County" class, which were ...
Article : 63 wordsA section of the inhabitants of Malta are objecting to sing the "Te Deum" on the occasion of King Edward's coronation. His Holiness the Pope has issued an emphatic ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Rights Hon. R. J. Seddon, the New Zealand Premier, has left Capetown, and had an immensely enthusiastic send-off. The loyalists in Cape Colony, while admiring Mr. ...
Article : 54 wordsDefinite information has now been received of the foundering of the British-India Company's steamer Camorta, in the Bay of Bengal. (A cable message dated 15th instant stated: ...
Article : 61 wordsSir J. G. Ward, apparently speaking with inside knowledge, has expressed the belief that peace in South Africa will be declared within a week. ...
Article : 39 wordsWhen the torpedo-boat destroyer Recruit went aground off the Cornwall coast it was found that the supply of rockets was short, and live shells were fired landward during the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe funeral of the late Lord Pauncefote, British Ambassador to the United States, took place at Washington yesterday, and was of a most impressive character. The ...
Article : 64 wordsThe silk casing of M. Santos Dumont's navigable balloon, with which he was, intending shortly to give an exhibition from the Crystal Palace, has been wantonly cut. The ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the Legislative Council, Mr. Orr, in moving the Address in reply, made an earnest appeal on behalf of woman suffrage, and also said be favoured substantial reduction in the ...
Article : 161 wordsON Monday night the volcano of Mont Pelee, in the island of Martinique, was again in activity, vomiting forth clouds of black smoke, which covered the town of Fort de ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Hon. Joseph I. Tarte, Canadian Minister for Public Works, in a speech delivered at Montreal, stated that if Mr. Pierpont Morgan bought out the Canadian Pacific ...
Article : 81 wordsThe number of deaths from smallpox reported in London during the past two weeks was 24 and 37 respectively. ...
Article : 26 wordsTHE regular fortnightly meeting of the above lodge was held in the lodge-room, Olympic Hall, on Wednesday night, May 21. The N.G., Bro. W. Jeffrey, presided, and two candidates ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, is suffering from a chill and an attack of goat, and is compelled to absent himself from the House ...
Article : 39 wordsThe French Chambers have been asked by the Government to vote 500,000 francs (£20,000) for the relief of the distress in Martinique. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Government of Great Britain and France have formally recognised the now Republic of Cuba. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Admiralty have administered a severe reprimand to Rear-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, M.P., for some of the Speeches recently delivered by him, while he was still ...
Article : 51 wordsOn the island of St. Vincent there has been a deluge of heavy rain, which has washed away the earth aid exposed the corpses in their shallow graves. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Chilian and Argentine Governments have signed the agreement mutually restricting the increase in their navies. The agreement also includes a proviso that his Majesty ...
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