The following letter was yesterday received by the secretary of the New South Wales Cricket Association from Major Wardill, manager of the Australian Eleven: "Since I wrote you on the ...
Article : 556 wordsHurstville.—A special meeting of the Hurstville Council was held on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of electing a Mayor for the ensuing twelve months. A great amount of interest was taken ...
Article : 1,121 wordsLONDON, February 16.—It is reported from the Azores that a steamer, the name of which is not known, rescued a boat load of people from the Hamburg-American liner Bulgaria. ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON, February 16, 3.30 p.m.—It is feared that the Anglo-American Commission will not arrive at an agreement owing to difficulties in connection with tariff ...
Article : 289 wordsLONDON, February 16.—Further advices from the Philippines state that the American, troops, using Hotchkiss and Gatling guns, occupied Jaro, near Iloilo, in the island of ...
Article : 257 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday Morning.—The whole force of the Metropolitan Eire Brigade, comprising 20 hose carts, 7 steamers, 3 ladders, and 98 men, turned out yesterday afternoon to ...
Article : 437 wordsLONDON, February 16, 3.30 p.m.—The Cunard line steamer Etruria has arrived at New York, after a terrible passage from Qneenstown. ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, February 16.—Reinforcements are being sent to the United States army in the Philippines. An additional regiment is under orders to start immediately from San ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, February 16, 3.30 p.m.—The barque Asterion, 509 tons, which left London on January 25, for Nelson, New Zealand, encountered the storms, and has put into ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, February 36, 3.30 p.m.—The debate in the House of Commons upon the Address-in-Reply to the Speech from the Throne was continued last night. ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, February 16, 3.30 p.m.—A destructive fire has occurred in the machine shop in the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York. The damage is estimated at 1,000,O00dol ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, February 16.—In consequence of the terrible weather New York was completely isolated on Monday both from land and sea. The harbor ferries were useless. The ...
Article : 82 wordsAs stated in the "News" of yesterday, the steamer Orara, when entering the Tweed River Heads at 1 p.m., struck the bar, and drifted on to the northern beach, and was caught on the rocks. The ...
Article : 686 wordsIn furtherance of the movement started some time ago, with the view of having Mr. George Pidding sworn in as a special constable at the Belmore Markets, a meeting of producers and ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, February 1G.—The death is announced of Sir Joseph William Chitty, K.B., one of the Lord Justices of the Court of Appeal, aged 71. ...
Article : 399 wordsLONDON, February 16.—The plague has broken out at Knapmusden, in the Transvaal. ...
Article : 17 wordsWe have received the following letter:—"18 Lewingtonlane, North Sydney, February 16, 1899. The Editor of the 'Evening News.' Sir,—Seeing a report of my case, I wish to say that when ...
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Advertising : 303 wordsLONDON, February 16.—General Mercier, who was Minister for War when Captain Dreyfus was convicted, testified before the Court of Cassation that he communicated ...
Article : 135 wordsThomas Clancy, alias Johnson, a laborer, 21 and Minnie Williams, 27, dressmaker, were charged at the Glebe Police Court yesterday with having assaulted James Ferry and robbed him of a ...
Article : 220 wordsLONDON, February 16, 3.30 p.m.—The French Patriotic League declares that the army regulations permit the enrolment of military officers as members. ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, February 16.—The death is announced of Mr. Henry Jones ("Cavendish"), the well-known authority on whist, aged 68. (Mr. Henry Jones was a son of the late Mr. H. D. ...
Article : 165 wordsLONDON, February 16, 3.30 p.m.—A meeting of the committee of the Gladstone National Memorial Fund was held to-day. The Prince of Wales, who presided, reported that ...
Article : 94 wordsA meeting of the Water and Sewerage Board was held on Wednesday at their offices, Pitt-street. The president (Mr. Jacob Garrard) was in the chair, and a full attendance of the board was ...
Article : 424 wordsLONDON, February 16.—General von Gassier, the Prussian Minister for War, in explaining the object of the bill introduced in the Reichstag for increasing the strength and ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON. February 16.—The Australian horse Newhaven II., Sst 91b, has accepted for the Liverpool Spring Cup of 800 sovs, distance 1 mile 3 furlongs, to be run on March 23. ...
Article : 37 wordsTephritis trionis it is called, and the name is not half so bad as the insect itself. It has wrought havoc in Queensland, and has long been known in New South Wales, but it is only ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, February 16.—Mr. W. Randall, the Queensland Immigration Agent, has been lecturing in Shropshire on the advantages of Queensland as a field for emigration. As the ...
Article : 93 wordsAbout the cost attractive event on the harbor to-morrow will be the general, handicap of the Sydney Flying Squadron, over their triangular course, starting and finishing at Clark Island. The best of the ...
Article : 356 wordsLONDON, February 16.—Tenders for the 3 per cent. Victorian loan of £1,600,000, the minimum for which was fixed at 95, were opened to-day. ...
Article : 55 wordsSir,—In your leader on "Federal Finance" of yesterday's date you state: "He (Mr. Bruce Smith) showed that the committee allowed £32,500 for audit and the bookkeeping system, though Mr. Lockyer (the N.S.W. ...
Article : 226 wordsLONDON, February 16. — Many of the Italians in Istria, part of the coast province of Austria Hungary, are threatening to imitate the Roman Catholics in Germany in going ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, February. 16.—Earl Beauchamp, the new Governor of New South Wales, will join the steamer Himalaya at Marseilles. A farewell banquet is to be tendered to Earl ...
Article : 48 wordsNew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's cable: Wheat market quiet. Victorian wheat is worth 32s 3d per 4961b. ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, February. 16.—The United States House of Representatives has not allowed Mr. Hepburn's Nicaragua Canal scheme to form part of the Appropriation Bill. ...
Article : 28 wordsNew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's cable: The tallow market has a hardening tendency. ...
Article : 21 wordsLONDON, February 16.—The Antwerp wool sales will open on the 21st and close on the 23rd; 6668 bales will be offered, including 850 bales of Australian wool. ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, February 16, 3.30 p.m.—The visible supply of American wheat; according to "Bradstreet's," te 52,431,000 bushels. ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Fri 17 Feb 1899, Page 6
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