A formidable task has been completed by the Home Affairs Department. Everything requisite to every contingency connected with the holding of the elections has been ...
Article : 197 wordsThe conference of representative Federal and State electoral officers, which commenced on Tuesday, has been concluded, and reports will be submitted to the Premiers of the ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Acting Postmaster-General, Mr. Groom, has approved of arrangements being made for the transmission of mails between Balmain and Sydney by land, instead of by ferry ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Executive Council has authorised the scquisition of land at Mount Nelson, Hobart, as a sito for a fort. ...
Article : 21 wordsPlaygoers throughout the Commonwealth will be interested to learn that a meeting of theatrical managers was held in Sydney last night to consider the question of some kind ...
Article : 978 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said: "Earl Cromer, the British Diplomatic Agent in Egypt, considers ...
Article : 112 wordsThe "Times" states that the statement of Sir Edward Grey as to the increase of the British garrison in Egypt, and his reference to the Porte's action, constitutes ...
Article : 49 wordsA battery of horse artillery and three companies of the 2nd Battation of Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, recently at Crete, have been transferred to Egypt. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Cairo correspondent of the "Times" asserts that a report is credited in official circles that the Turks have destroyed the boundary pillars at Rafa, near El Arish, ...
Article : 37 wordsThe report published by the "Tribune" that the First Division of General French's Army Corps had been instructed to prepare to mobilise is officially denied. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe annual report of Lord Cromer on the administration of Egypt is a record of solid progress. Lord Cromer submits, for the consideration of all parties ...
Article : 72 wordsMuch satisfaction is expressed in the Vryheld district, which has been annexed to the Transvaal, at Mr. C. J. Smythe, the Premier, asking Mr. Grobelaar, the district ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Russian 5 per cent, loan of £02,000,000 has been over-subscribed. The Russian portion, £30,000,000, and the French portion, £50,000,000, were ...
Article : 40 wordsFearing that disturbances will arise in Paris on May Day, the Government has had the garrison increased to 57,000, and the police strengthened by 30,000. ...
Article : 56 wordsLieutenant Carlyon Bellairs, R.N., M.P., on being interviewed, said he considered that Captain Creswell greatly underestimated the cost of his Australian ...
Article : 73 wordsThe remains of Admiral Paul Jones, which were exhumed and transported from Paris, after being escorted across the Atlantic by French warships, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 231 wordsThe "Western Morning News," issued at Plymouth, has published an interview— purporting to be with an Australian Agent-General, whose name, however, is not ...
Article : 253 wordsThe Agents-General of Australia signed n statement that not one of them had granted such an interview as is published by the "Western Morning News," and ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. C. A. Julius and Mr. E. Thorme, formerly residents of Queensland, participated in the discussion which the interview evoked.. ...
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Article : 39 wordsThe Senate of the Dominion of Canada, has adopted the invitation already adopted by the House of Commons to King and Queen Alexandra to visit Canada. ...
Article : 38 wordsPlague in Kashmir, on the north-west frontier of India, has attained great virnlence. In a week in the capital there were 285 deaths from the epidemic. The troops ...
Article : 45 wordsSir Edward Grey announced in the House of Commons yesterday that the negotiations now proceeding with China did not contemplate any alteration in the ...
Article : 36 wordsGreat Britain and Russia have severely admonished the Porte for occupying Passvah, which is Persian territory. Persia is willing to submit her claims to ...
Article : 320 wordsWhen Cossacks arrived in the Shusa district of Armenia, instead of protecting Armenians who went to welcome them they fired volleys among the villagers. The ...
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Advertising : 24 wordsThe Most Rev. Dr. Bourne, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, in addressing the Catholic Truth Society, read a manifesto signed by himself and the ...
Article : 139 wordsThe "Standard," commenting upon the speech of Dr. Bourne, says it is difficult to see how the Marquis of Ripon, Lord Privy Seal, who became a Roman Catholic in ...
Article : 77 wordsIn Committee of Supply last night a motion was proposed to cancel the salary, £2000, of the Lord President of the Council, on the ground that it is a sinecure. ...
Article : 152 wordsSix men disguised as soldiers gave the password at the Treasury at Dushet, Transcaucasia, and having thus secured an entrance they looted the vaults, obtaining ...
Article : 37 wordsProfessor Mattuccl, who is in charge of the Observatory on Mount Vesuvius, reports that the volcano is very quiet, and the crater very broad and deep. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Senate of the United States has ratified the Alaskan Boundary Treaty, providing for the demarcation of the unlocated part of the 141st meridian west ...
Article : 150 wordsColombo newspapers by the last ma[?] record a thrilling story of the sea. The British steamer Northumbria arrived at Galle recently with Captain Pedersen, of the Danish iron ...
Article : 452 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 6 9-16d per ounce standard, an advance of [?]d since Wednesday. ...
Article : 26 wordsMy first visit to Chinatown was made some years ago, on the evening of the Chineso New Year. A friend on the staff of one of the San Francisco newspapers wished me to see the ...
Article : 1,899 wordsThere has been another shock of earthquake at San Francisco. It lasted for a minute, and caused many of the buildings which had been burnt to collapse. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Royal Insurance Company estimates that its losses in connection with the destruction of property at San Francisco will probably amount to £1,350,000. ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. M. G. Rosenthall, of Manly, has been advised by cable of the safety of his son, Mr. Philip Rosenthall, who has been resident in San Francisco for some time past. ...
Article : 226 wordsIn connection with a settlement of their losses, the directors of the New Zealand Insurance Company are sending Mr. Minn[?]tt, secretary of the company, to San Francisco by ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. South, the New Zealand Government agent at San Francisco, has cabled Mr. Seddon:—"Three-fourths city destroyed; all our Government records buried." ...
Article : 30 wordsA private cable message received by a Sydney business firm yesterday stated that Los Angeles is safe, and that the damage done at San Francisco has been exaggerated. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe steamer Moana, which is leaving Vancouver on 27th, with San Francisco mails, will call at Auckland, and land the New Zealand portion there, after which she will proceed ...
Article : 103 wordsSir,—The news that Millet's painting, "The Man With the Hoe," has been destroyed in the San Francisco fire, is received with deep regret, not only by lovers of such art as that ...
Article : 699 wordsThe full force of the violent westerly gales which have been operating on the Victorian and Tasmanian coasts reached the South Coast districts of this State during the course of ...
Article : 425 wordsThe steamer Zealandia, which arrived at Sydney last night from Auckland encountered very heavy weather co[?]ditions in the Tasman Sea. Captain G. F. Eutwisle states that ...
Article : 191 wordsLast night the westerly wind developed in force, and so severe were some gusts that it was found impossible for residents to sleep, so terrified were they that at any moment ...
Article : 454 wordsThe most severe gale over experlenced here occurred last night and to-day. doing a good deal of damage to property. Fences, hoardings, and outhouses were blown down, and ...
Article : 92 wordsA terrific westerly gale blew last night and to-day. Several properties have been damaged and trees uprooted. The new School of Arts, which cost £2000, was injured. The back wall ...
Article : 74 wordsA terrific gale is being experienced in this district. Houses have been unroofed, trees uprooted, and fences blown down. The damage to property is very great. ...
Article : 35 wordsRumours are current to the effect that changes in the Ministry are [?]ly to take place. Mr. Walter James will shortly retire from the Agent-Generalship, and it is said ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Deakin arrived in Camperdown this afternoon to address a public meeting, on Federal political subjects. He left Melbourne by the quartet to 11 train and travelled by train ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 28 Apr 1906, Page 11
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