At the invitation of the Government of New South Wales a large party of ladies and gentlemen proceeded to Newcastle on Saturday to take part in the celebration of the centenary of that city. The party ...
Article : 2,943 wordsThe Federal Convention will meet this morning at half past 10 o'clock, when the difficult task of providing for the solution of deadlocks will be again taken in hand. In regard to this matter, there has ...
Article : 1,300 wordsThe W.C.T.U. Convention has passed the following resolution:—"That this convention regrets the injustice shown towards the women of Australasia by the delegates who voted against ...
Article : 95 wordsThe sailing season was opened by the Queensland Yacht Club on Saturday. The weather was delightfully fine, and the afternoon was very favourable for sailing. There was a large ...
Article : 85 wordsOwing to an alleged breach of agreement between the banks regarding the exchange rates the Union Bank of Australia, Limited, has retired from the association, with the result that the ...
Article : 75 wordsReports have been received from the north-western frontier of India giving further particulars of the night attack made by the Mohmands upon the camp of ...
Article : 245 wordsM. Hanotaux, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, states that the Turkish troops will withdraw from Thessaly directly an instalment of 25,000,000 ...
Article : 103 wordsAt the ivitation of the Government a large party of ladies and gentlemen, including federal delegates and members of Parliament, proceeded to Newcastle on Saturday to take part in the ...
Article : 7,446 wordsBishop Julius, of Christchurch (N.Z.), who is staying in Melbourne for a few days on his return from England, preached in St. Paul's Cathedral this morning and also in the evening. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture, who has been visiting the central districts, returned to Brisbane on Saturday night. The chief object of Mr. Thynne's visit was to acquaint himself with the ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Hon. J. H. Young (Minister for Works) and party visited the local institutions on Friday, and in the evening were entertained at a social evening at the Royal Hotel. The Mayor (Alderman Lovett) ...
Article : 1,564 wordsA mass meeting of members of the Victorian Railway Daily-paid Employees' Union was held this afternoon, at the Gaiety Theatre, to consider the scale of wages drawn up by the officers of the ...
Article : 119 wordsFifteen of the Mounted Infantry who represented Queensland on the occasion of the Jubilee celebrations in England, returned by the mail train last evening. A very large crowd, ...
Article : 147 wordsA Parliamentary Bluebook dealing with the Behring Sea Fisheries dispute has been published. Lord Salisbury, in the course of a ...
Article : 122 wordsThe railway revenue for August shows an increase of £1681 as compared with the corresponding month of last year. The returns for July showed an improvement to the extent of £4025, ...
Article : 64 wordsA mass meeting of miners was held in the Social Hall this evening, Mr. Otto Jaeger (chairman of the strike committee) presiding. The object of the meeting was to hear addresses from Messrs. Watson ...
Article : 1,199 wordsSince taking charge of the railways Mr. Mathieson has strictly worked on the lines had down by Mr. Eddy, that there must be no "outside" interference with the administration of the ...
Article : 72 wordsThe rifle shooting was concluded on Saturday. The conditions with regard to the weather were not so favourable. A most remarkable score was made by Mr. J. Hamilton, M.L.A., in the ...
Article : 193 wordsThe barque Helenslea was totally wrecked on August 24 on Inaccessible Island, the most westerly of the Tristan da Cunha group, in the Atlantic Ocean, ...
Article : 96 wordsAccording to the evidence of Mr. H. W. Jenvie, electrical inspector of the Post and Telegraph Department, the recent fatality to the boy who climbed a pole at Malvern and laid hole of the ...
Article : 98 wordsA Reuter's telegram from Russia states that Herr Andrée's balloon, which left Dane's Island, Spitzbergen, on a voyage to the North Pole, was sighted from ...
Article : 51 wordsThe first shipment of butter to Loudon for this season left on Saturday by the Himalaya, the quantity exported being 27 tons; but during the next few months some very large shipments will ...
Article : 42 wordsAt the entrance to the poop of H.M.S. Rapid, which last evening anchored off Woolloomooloo Bay, stands a Solomon Island sentry—a hideous wooden god with shining and monstrous eyes. The face ...
Article : 798 wordsThe steamer Circassia, 4272 tons, belonging to the Anchor Line, which broke her shaft in the Atlantic while on the voyage from New York to the Clyde, has ...
Article : 58 wordsA telegram from Bridgewater, near Dunolly, reports the narrow escape from drowning of two children of Mr. T. Campbell. They were playing about a water millrace when a boy about three years ...
Article : 387 wordsMrs. Brown Potter and Mr. Bellew opened a season in London at the Duke of York's Theatre last night in "Francillon." ...
Article : 68 wordsDr. Thornton, Bishop of Ballarat, has postponed his departure for Australia until October 28, and expects to reach Sydney about the middle of December. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Rev. Aubrey Price, of Clapham, has died from the effects of a revolver wound. He stated that the wound had been ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. A. E. Stoddarts team of English cricketers who are to tour Australia took their departure from London to-day by the Orient liner Ormuz. ...
Article : 261 wordsThe first of a series of three swimming contests between J. H. Tyers, ex-amateur champion of England, and Percy Cavill, of Sydney, long-distance amateur ...
Article : 132 wordsSir George Turner, Premier of Victoria, has invited the delegates from Victoria to meet him at Parliament House at half-past 9 o'clock this morning to discuss the situation with regard to the ...
Article : 107 wordsThe new Mining Bill provides that every foreign mining company doing business in this colony shall make adequate provision in New Zealand for the transfer ...
Article : 173 wordsAs there will be an evening sitting of the Federal Convention to-day the hour for Major-General French's dinner party this evening, at Victoria Barracks, has been altered to 6.30 o'clock, to meet the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe train which arrived here at noon to-day brought a distinguished party of visitors, consisting of the following delegates to the Federal Convention:—The Hon. Sir Joseph P. Abbott, K.C.M.G., ...
Article : 239 wordsSaturday's Hobart Exchange sales and quotations were:—Clifton, buyer 6s, seller 6s 2d; Celebrook, buyer 37s, seller 39s: North Cutty Sark, seller 12s; Fabl Ore, buyer 3s, seller 3s 2d; Hercules, buyer 37s ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales have closed. Of the total quantity offered only half was sold. Prices are unchanged. ...
Article : 24 wordsAt the headquarters of the Theosophical Society, 12 Margaret-street, a large audience gathered to hear a lecture by Mr. James Scott, M.A., on "The Astral and Mental Planes." The lecturer pointed ...
Article : 149 wordsThe old man who was killed on the railway near York Plains, presumably by a passing train, has been identified as Peter M'Gee, who had been roaming about the district for years, and was ...
Article : 62 wordsOn Saturday evening a single woman named Emily Harvey, aged 31 years, residing at No. 177 New South Head-road, Paddington, was stabbed in the left groin, the wound being inflicted by a man ...
Article : 309 wordsYour correspondent visited Dickenson's shaft of the Proprietary mine this morning, where everything was very quiet. The doctor, who is still in attendance night and day, states that none of the men ...
Article : 309 wordsThe Central Wine Association of Victoria has been awarded the grand prix at the Brussels Exhibition. Sept. 18. ...
Article : 108 wordsAt Ford's boatbuilding yard, Berry's Bay, there is nearly completed and shortly to be launched a handsome new cruis[?]g yatch for Mr. F. Woolcott-Waley. The new craft will be 41ft. long overall ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 217 wordsThe steamer Merrie England, which arrived from New Guinea on Thursday, brought as passengers Mr. Gibson, Miss Lavissey, and two miners, one of whom is destitute. Further ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Diamond Jubilee Charity Carnival, which has been open at the Town Hall throughout the week, was well attended on Saturday. In the evening the hall, with its decoration of flags, ferns, ...
Article : 148 wordsADELAIDE.—Arrivals: September 18, Dovedale, s., from Newcastle; Helen Nicol, s., from Devonport; Nemesis, s., from Melbourne; Innamincka, s., from Fremantle; Bullarra, s., from Western Australia; Oceana, ...
Article : 130 wordsOatmeals breed weevils and contain oat [?]usks, get sour, produce dyspepsia. Eat QUAKER OATS, and ENJOY YOUR BREAKFAST. It costs a little more.—[ADVT.] ...
Article : 34 wordsGet a packet of Ogden's Guinea Gold, and you have struck a pure and unadulterated Cigarette.— Advt. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 20 Sep 1897, Page 5
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