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  2. STATE POLITICS. THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY.

    The executive officers of the Progressive party affect to be amused with the forecast issued by the secretary of the Liberal party as to the probable result of to-morrow's poll. Asked, however, as to their ...

    Article : 263 words
  3. A DISASTROUS CYCLONE. GALES OFF THE COAST.

    It was mentioned in connection with the stranding of the steamer Manly, which took place on Sunday night and is referred to elsewhere, that though the southerly and south-west gales were not as heavy ...

    Article : 858 words
  4. THE ROYAL VISIT. THE LEAVE TO THE POLICE.

    The Premier states that the action in connection with granting a g[?]atuity and special leave to the police, because of overwork during the time of the Royal visit, was taken at the request of the ...

    Article : 411 words
  5. CHINA. EMPEROR AND EMPRESS DOWAGER.

    The Marquis Tseng, a director of the Archives of the Imperial House, has received a telegram from Si-an stating that the Empress Dowager has fixed the capital at ...

    Article : 148 words
  6. SPECIAL CABLES. FROM THE "HERALD'S" LONDON CORRESPONDENTS.

    The steamer Mohawk, with 900 American excursionists aboard, struck a rock off Glen Island and sank in 20 minutes. A terrible panic occurred among the passengers. All, ...

    Article : 60 words
  7. ARRIVAL OF THE INNAMINCKA.

    The Innamincka, previously reported as being in Broken Bay, made the port last night at a little before 9 o'clock. It appears that she was somewhat short of fuel, and ran into that convenienr place to ...

    Article : 157 words
  8. AN ITALIAN BATTLESHIP ASHORE.

    The Italian battlesliip, Andrea Doria, is ashore at Gallipoli, Southern Italy. (The Andrea Dotia is a battleship of 11,000 tons displacement. She was built in 1885. Her spend is ...

    Article : 62 words
  9. PROPOSED EVACUATION OF SHANGHAI.

    Liu-kun-yi, the Viceroy of Liang-kiang, with his headquarters at Nanking, urges the Allies to evacuate Shanghai. There are persistent reports among the ...

    Article : 49 words
  10. OLD TIME ELECTIONS.

    To-morrow the electors of New South Wales will have to vote for the members who will form the Legislative Assembly of this State. To some this will be a new duty. To others, who have voted for ...

    Article : 1,177 words
  11. VESSEL ASHORE IN THE BAY OF FUNDY.

    The Anchor liner Armenia is ashore in the Bay of Fundy, between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. ...

    Article : 27 words
  12. REPORT FROM THE OBSERVATORY.

    Mr. Hunt, who is conducting affairs at the Observatory in the absence of Mr. Russell, at present on sick leave, when seen by a "Herald" reporter, said that the storm was part of that extensive ...

    Article : 279 words
  13. PREPARATIONS IN ADELAIDE.

    At the finance committee meeting of the Citizens' Committee this afternoon the sum of £868 was voted to the hospitals and charitable institutions in connection with the Royal visit. It was resolved that a ...

    Article : 81 words
  14. THE SOUDAN.

    A small British-Egyptian Expedition is establishing posts in the Bahr-el-Ghazal province of the Soudan. The Belgians are withdrawing to Kero. ...

    Article : 334 words
  15. THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. WARNING TO WAVERERS.

    Colonel Hickman has warned the residents of the Somerset East District, Cape Colony, that "sitting on a fence " is not permitted. He has also stated, that those residents who ...

    Article : 55 words
  16. VICTORIA. CABLE MESSAGE FROM THE KING.

    The Lieutenant-Governor received the following cable message from Mr. Chamberlain in reply to the address to his Majesty adopted by both Houses of Parliament on June 18:—"London, June 28. I ...

    Article : 99 words
  17. SHIPWRECK RELIEF SOCIETY.

    Immediately news of the wrecks was received in Sydney Captain Webber, secretary of the Shipwreck Relief Society, wired to Richmond River and Shellharbour to ascertain if any assistance from the society ...

    Article : 88 words
  18. REBELS SENTENCED.

    Roelf Latigan has been sentenced at Colesberg to 15 years' imprisonment for having joined the Boers, and for having participated with them in the fight at Damplaats. ...

    Article : 41 words
  19. STAMPING LETTERS BY MACHINERY.

    Mr. Leads, of the Postal Department, gathered interested groups in the mailroom of the General Post Office to-day to see the Barr-Fyke machine put to its best speed in stamping the Sydney ...

    Article : 80 words
  20. THE STRANDING OF THE STEAMER MANLY.

    In a second edition of the "Sydney Morning Herald" issued yesterday, further particulars were published of some perilous experiences of the officers and 50 passengers on the ...

    Article : 2,993 words
  21. SOME STEAMERS' REPORTS.

    Captain M'Donald, of the Kalgoorlie, reports that from Pert Phillip Heads to Gabo Island he experienced a strong S.S.E. wind and high sea, the[?]ce to arrival yesterday a S.S.E. gale and very high sea. ...

    Article : 104 words
  22. THE CAPE RAIDERS.

    Constant skirmishes occur in the midlands of Cape Colony. The Boers invariablry retreat with some loss. ...

    Article : 29 words
  23. THE REVENUE.

    The Premier, who is also Treasurer, is very well satisfied with the state of affairs disclosed by the annual revenuue returns. He thinks that when he makes his budget statement he will be able to announce a ...

    Article : 212 words
  24. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER,

    During the gale on Sunday night portion of the Brighton baths was washed away. Mr. Thomas Saywell had recently effected repairs to the structure by replacing the outer boundary of iron railing with ...

    Article : 522 words
  25. IN THE TRANSVAAL.

    The Boers who still keep the field in the Transvaal are suffering from disease and want of food. Small parties almost nightly attack the smaller towns, hoping to obtain food from ...

    Article : 48 words
  26. THE DIVISION IN THE LIBERAL PARTY.

    Forty Liberal members of the House of Commons are urging Mr. H. H. Asquith, M.P., whose recent utterances as a Liberal Imperialist betrayed the widening of the ...

    Article : 84 words
  27. FACTORY LEGISLATION.

    It has been suggested that the Commonwealth Government should at once take stops to "acquire " factory legislation under a resolution passed in the House of Representatives last week, Mr. Peacock ...

    Article : 344 words
  28. BOER PRISONERS.

    The Boer prisoners have been removed from the Green Point Camp, near Capetown. Most of them have been sent to refugee camps. ...

    Article : 28 words
  29. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

    Private D. M'Anley, and not Manley as previously reported, was wounded at Hamelfontein. ...

    Article : 21 words
  30. THE BRITISH REVENUE.

    The quarterly revenue returns of the United Kingdom were published to-day. They show that the revenue for the quarter ended June 30 amounted to £20,631,275. To this amount ...

    Article : 41 words
  31. CABLE FROM LIEUTENANT-COLONEL LASSETTER.

    The following cablegram was received from Lieutenant-Colonel Lassetter:—"All well. Wolverdiend, June 28." Wolverdiend is a station on the Transvaal south-western railway, 54 miles from ...

    Article : 35 words
  32. THE TUG PROTECTOR CAPSIZED.

    The tug Protector was crossing in on the bar at a quarter to 7 this morning, Captain Lewis and seaman Tobiason being at the wheel. The vessel was negotiating the outer break when a heavy sea struck ...

    Article : 426 words
  33. SOUTH AFRICAN CASUALTY LIST.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 words
  34. HEAT IN NEW YORK.

    Terrible boat is occurring in New York. Seventeen deaths from sunstroke are reported. Six people committed suicide and many have become insane. ...

    Article : 32 words
  35. AUTOMOBILE RACING.

    The racing automobiles, which started in their contest from Paris to Berlin on Thursday, arrived at Berlin yesterday. M. Fournier, who led at Aix-la-Chapelle ...

    Article : 225 words
  36. RETURNING TROOPS BY THE DAMASCUS.

    The steamer Damascus arrived at a late hour last night from Capetown with 38 Australian soldiers belonging to New South Wales, Victoria Western Australia, and New Zealand. The following belong ...

    Article : 97 words
  37. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. FINANCES OF THE STATE.

    The Treasurer, Mr. R. Butler, was questioned this morning with reference to the finances of the State during the financial year ended June 30. Mr. Butler said:—"I think Mr. Holder's estimate will be ...

    Article : 135 words
  38. RETURNED TROOPERS ENTERTAINED.

    A social was tendered to the returned troopers, J. C. Chanter and A. Fortescue, in the School of Arts, Moama, last Saturday evening. The Mayor of Moama presided, and proposed the toast of the evening. ...

    Article : 118 words
  39. PROGRESSIVE DEMONSTRATION.

    The final effort of the Ministerial party will be made at the Town Hall to-night, when a demonstration under the auspices of the Political Progressive Association will be held. Proceedings will ...

    Article : 76 words
  40. REMARKABLE CASE OF SUDDEN DEATH.

    A remarkable case involving the death of an elderly woman and the illness of her sister occurred at the Glebe yesterday, when Emily Harriet Taylor, aged 62, was found dead in her bed, and Mary ...

    Article : 406 words
  41. A SERIES OF BURGLARIES.

    A series of during burglaries has been perpetrated in the town of Unley recently. On Friday afternoon the house of Robert Elliott, of Cambridge-terrace, Now Parkside, was entered while the occunants were ...

    Article : 306 words
  42. MINISTERIAL PROGRAMME.

    In another column will be found a programme published by the Ministerial party. The list includes all the most prominent planks of the Progressive platform. ...

    Article : 28 words
  43. MEMORIAL TO A TROOPER.

    A carved English oak prayer desk, with crimson velvet attachments, was unveiled and blessed in St. Peter's Church, East Maitland, on Saturday, by Dean Stretch, of Newcastle, as a memorial ...

    Article : 63 words
  44. WRECK AT SHELLHARBOUR.

    The long chain of ugly jagged rocks which jut well out to sea on the southern boundary of the entrance to Shellharbour was yesterday the medium for the destruction of the steam drogher Alexander Berry. ...

    Article : 959 words
  45. ELECTION NOTES.

    Mr. Frank Furnell has addressed meetings at all the different centres throughout the electorate, and at a meeting of his committees held in Ryde on Saturday last it was announced that the aggregate ...

    Article : 94 words
  46. INTERRUPTION IN POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

    The postmaster at Manly advises that no steamer went out until 3 p.m. yesterday for Sydney. Mails due there at 11.45 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. could not come on, but a mail would arrive there with the 2.15 p.m. ...

    Article : 62 words
  47. THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT.

    The Netherlands Cabinet (M. N. G. Pierson, Premier) has resigned in consequence of the Liberals having lost 13 seats in the recent elections for the Second Chamber. ...

    Article : 35 words
  48. THE AUSTRALIAN BOWLERS.

    Playing at Edinburgh yesterday the Australian bowlers were defeated by the Lutton PlaceClub. The scores were—Mr. Young's rink,—to 22; Mr. Rodgers' rink, 20 to 18; ...

    Article : 59 words
  49. STATE OF THE BAR HARBOURS.

    The pilot at Forster yesterday wired —"Bar shoaled up owing to the heavy sea. The tag could not cross out to tow a schooner into port." The pilot at Tweed River wired:—" 8ft. 9in. on ...

    Article : 96 words
  50. WITHDRAWAL OF A CANDIDATE.

    At a meeting last night at the Glebe Town Hall, in the interest of Mr. I. R Cohen, the selected Progressive candidate for Annandale, the chairman read a telegram as follows:—"My committee consider my ...

    Article : 85 words
  51. BROKEN HILL MINING DISASTER.

    The Royal Commission on the South Mines catastrophe resumed its sittings this morning in the Town Hall Amongst the witnesses were W. Rowe, underground manager of the Central mine, and P. ...

    Article : 76 words
  52. NEW ZEALAND.

    Parliament was opened by commission to-day, and members were reswora. Resolutions of condolence with the King on the death of Queen Victoria and congratulations to the King on his accession were ...

    Article : 59 words
  53. LATEST FROM THE COASTAL STATIONS.

    At 8 o'clock last night the reports from the coastal stations gave the weather still boisterous, with the sea still high. Tweed Heads reported a fresh southerly, with a heavy son; Byron Bay, S.W., ...

    Article : 247 words
  54. THE CITY RAILWAY.

    A circular issued by the executive of the City Railway Extension Alliance was sent last week to each candidate at the forthcoming State elections asking for some expression of opinion on the above subject. ...

    Article : 145 words
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