The Speaker took the chair in the Legislative Assembly at half-past 4 o'clock. The question before the House was the motion by Mr. Lyne as follows:—"(1)That the [?]ction of ...
Article : 9,816 wordsThe Employers' Federation is arranging a mutual benefit scheme, by which each workman will be compelled to pay a weekly sum sufficient to provide for all ...
Article : 45 wordsThe revenue for the month of October amounted to £499,229 as compared with £545,754 for October last year. This is a decrease of £46,525, and not only wipes out the sum that the Treasurer ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. S. W. Burgh, one of the non-official members of the Executive Council of the Transv[?]l, will oppose President Kruger at the Presidential election owing ...
Article : 47 wordsThe tribesmen are resisting the forward movement of the expedition under Sir William Lockhart. They attacked the baggage guard at close quarters, and ...
Article : 89 wordsAs the result of an interview with Mr. [?]. T. Ritchie, President of the Board of Trade, the representatives of the employers and the wor[?]men in connection ...
Article : 74 wordsPoliticians are always very much concerned to show the immaculate purity of their motives— how this move originated in the single-hearted desire for the country's weal, or that in the lofty ...
Article : 1,381 wordsA petition has been forwarded to the Queen from Toronto requesting her Majesty to permit her Jubilee gifts to be placed on exhibition in Canada. ...
Article : 34 wordsAt the weekly auctions of Australasian tallow 2750 casks were offered, of which 1475 were sold. Fine mutton, 20s; medium mutton, 18s; fine beef, 18s 9d; ...
Article : 42 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the National Bank of Australasia, Limited, was held to-day. Mr. John Grice, who occupied the chair, reviewed the facts and figures contained in the report and ...
Article : 160 wordsThe first election for the Mayoralty of Greater New York took place yesterday, and resulted in the return of Judge Van Wyck, the nominee of Tammany Hall. ...
Article : 122 wordsA Convention has been entered into by the representatives of the United States, Russia, and Japan, under which pelagic sealing in Behring Sea is to be suspended. ...
Article : 42 wordsA steamer reports having passed a German squadron engaged in the work of surveying Tongthu, 30 miles from Fuchan, China. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 270 wordsReplying to inquiries made by Sir Andrew Clarke, Acting Agent-General for Victoria, the leading railway companies of Great Britain strongly advise direct ...
Article : 43 wordsThe force which is to occupy Kassala, in the Eastern Soudan, on the retirement of the Italian garrison, will consist of 2000 Egyptians and a battery of artillery. ...
Article : 37 wordsA little girl named Augustine Barbara Adams, daughter of a guard at the Yatala Labour Prison, was accidentally poisoned on Monday through taking "rough on rats." ...
Article : 104 wordsThe "Daily News" says that the Emperor Francis Joseph intends to use his influence to obtain concessions with the view of securing the prolongation of the ...
Article : 38 wordsJ. H. Derbyshire, the amateur swimmer, of Manchester, swam 100 yards at Glasgow yesterday in 60 seconds, beating all previous records for the distance. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe death is announced of Lieutenant-Colonel Chard, V.C., the hero of Rorke's Drift. [Lieutenant-Colonel John R. Merriott Chard, ...
Article : 365 wordsThe Ministerial supporters held a caucus this afternoon. It was announced that Ministers would continue to hold office for the present, and proceed at once with the business of the country. In ...
Article : 123 wordsThe federated miners in Belgium have rejected a proposal to inaugurate a general strike to obtain a diminution of the hours of labour, but they have ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Joseph Fox, an electrician in the employ of the Brisbane Tramway Company, met with a fatal accident in Roma-street this morning. Mr. Fox was engaged in doing some repairs to the ...
Article : 467 wordsThe Paris "Debats," in an article yesterday, says it is confident that the Anglo-French Niger Commission will have a successful issue. ...
Article : 31 wordsA rich development has occurred in Brookman's Boulder mine. In the main shaft crosscut at 300ft., going west, a rich vein of sulphide ore has been struck. It is now 3ft. and widening, and is supposed to be a ...
Article : 303 wordsShortly after 2 o'clock this morning the fire bell rang out, and the alarm was given that the Bijou Theatre was on fire. The building is situated in Main-street, in close proximity to Weisberger's ...
Article : 439 wordsIn the course of a speech which he delivered yesterday Lord Rosebery said that Mr. Chamberlain's scheme of an Imperial Zollverein would, if carried out, make the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe death is announced of Sir Rutherford Alcock, formerly British Minister at Pekin, aged 88. [Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., was educated ...
Article : 184 wordsThe "Times," in an article to-day, praises the pluck of Mr. James Huddart in obstinately starting the Canadian Pacific line of steamers from Sydney to ...
Article : 127 wordsTo Lord and Lady Brassey has fallen the dist[?]nction of having given a [?]all destined to be almost historical in the social records of a truly remarkable year. It was, indeed, the entertainment of the ...
Article : 614 wordsA rumour went the rounds of Orange to-day to the effect that the strike was to be called on again in consequence of Mr. L[?]ck only paying 7s instead of 7s 6d. The rumour, however, proved to be without ...
Article : 416 wordsThe steamer Friederich der Grose has arrived, flying the yellow flag, having called at Aden. The local health authorities have granted her pratique. ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the Assembly Sir H. T[?]zer, speaking for Sir Hugh Nelson and replying to Mr. Glassey, said the Government had been in correspondence with the Queensland National Bank Committee ...
Article : 128 wordsThe shares in the Jarrahdale Jarrah Forests and Railway Company, which was formed with a capital of £300,000, have been allotted. ...
Article : 29 wordsA telegram received by the Commissioner of Police reports that many miners are leaving Kurnalpi for a new alluvial rush which has broken out 40 miles east of that place. There is very ...
Article : 58 wordsThe municipal elections in England and Wales have resulted in the Liberals gaining 68 seats formerly held by Conservatives, and the Conservatives securing 31 ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the Legislative Council the Chief Secretary stated that the Australasian Governments are considering what action should be taken to make satisfactory provision for the protection of ...
Article : 138 wordsA fire broke out in a gumdigger's whare near Auckland, the occupant being suffocated by smoke. After five days' debate, the O[?]go Presbyterian ...
Article : 94 wordsColonel Lassetter, the officer commanding the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, and Mrs. Lassetter will sail for Sydney in January. ...
Article : 28 wordsA nice rain has fallen in the country lying between the Murrumbidgee and the Lachlan rivers in the south of the colony. It extended to Hay and down to Deniliquin, but the best part of it fell in the ...
Article : 356 wordsSome time ago it was announced by the Minister for Lands that arrangements were being made to [?] 20,000 acres of timber land near Jervis Bay to [?]mpany under certain conditions for the export ...
Article : 247 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the Circuit Court Bill was road the second time. In the [?]ourse of the debate several members emphasised the necessity of appointing an additional Judge or additional ...
Article : 216 wordsThe steamer Moa[?], Captain Carey, arrived from San Francisco to-day. She brings the following passengers:— For Sydney: Mesdames L. L. Smith, E. P. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Hon. J. T. Byrnes, Attorney-General of Queensland, addressed a meeting of city merchants yesterday upon the resources of Queensland. The Earl of ...
Article : 78 wordsA meeting of representatives of friendly societies of the district was held at the Royal Hotel to-night for the purpose of making final arrangements in connection with the Hospital Saturday ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 4 Nov 1897, Page 5
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