The Admiralty authorities have finally ] selected the first-class twin-screw cruiser the Crescent, 7,700 tons, now berthed at Portsmouth, as the new flagship on the ...
Article : 85 wordsAt a meeting of shareholders in the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank the chairman of directors (Mr. C. J. Hegan) stated that in future the bank will ...
Article : 63 wordsSilver is quoted at 32d. per oz. ...
Article : 18 wordsLord Brassey, in a published letter on the state of the British navy, urges the adoption of immediate measures for its improvement. ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Australian Eleven arrived here on Saturday. All are inclined to be reticent regarding the damaging rumors, but they said enough to make it certain that serious disagree- ...
Article : 973 wordsA serious outrage by Anarchists is reported from Paris. In the midst of a debate an infernal machine was yesterday thrown from the gallery of the Chamber ...
Article : 222 wordsAn enthusiastic meeting of electors was held on Saturday to consider the Balaklava agitation for the removal of the chief polling ...
Article : 59 wordsThe fact that the St. Peter's were such a long way in the rear doubtless detracted from the attendance at the Oval on Saturday morning, as, barring a number of enthusiastic boys ...
Article : 782 wordsMrs. Rebeoca Bushell, one of the oldest residents of Hindmarsh, and at one time prominent vocalist in Adelaide, died on Friday at her residence, West Hindmarah ...
Article : 302 wordsShares in the Bank of Australasia are quoted at £66. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Jolly Miller arrived at 10 a.m. on Saturday, and left again for Murray Bridge at 11 a.m. Two cricket matches were played on ...
Article : 165 wordsOwing to the unfavorable condition of the money market Messrs. Chaffey Bros., Limited, have deferred till next year their proposed issue of debentures to the ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Bill for -the amendment of the Employers' Liability Act has been altered in committee of the House of Lords, a clause being inserted to ...
Article : 100 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. G. W. E. Russell, Under-Secretary for India, introduced a Bill empowering the Calcutta Government to raise a loan ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the strange case of attempted suicide by John Leslie at the South Melbourne lock-up, the Chief Commissioner of Police has had a report made by Sergeant Monckton and endorsed by Inspector Webb. In ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Commission (consisting of Sir J. Lyell, Sir W. Roberts, Mr. R. Mowbray, M.P., and Mr. Pease) appointed to consider whether the growth of the poppy ...
Article : 114 wordsOn Monday evening Mr. R. Haselgrove, mayor, and Messrs. D. Dunn, Robert Truscott, and Phillip Jackson, councillors, with F. W. Gurner as auditor, were sworn in. ...
Article : 291 wordsLady Somerset and others who take an active interest in the reformation of female inebriates are urging that the cost of maintaining existing female ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Eastern Suburban Band, under the baton of Conductor A. Heath, gave an enjoyable concert from the large lawn of the Bo[?] Gardens on Sunday afternoon. Despite the ...
Article : 189 wordsThe trial of the two brothers Rorique, charged at Brest with the murder of the captain and crew (six in all) of the Tahiti schooner Niuroahiti in the South Seas. ...
Article : 325 wordsThe death, in his 77th year, is announced of Sir George Elvey, K.B., who was organist to the Queen from the year of her accession till 1882, and composed ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Scotch colliery Strike has terminated in favor of the employers. The refusal of Mr. Gladstone to intervene in, the dispute was a great discouragement to ...
Article : 79 wordsThe police authorities have received intelligence of a conspiracy to blow up Eton College with dynamite and special precautions are being taken for ...
Article : 31 wordsA man, name unknown, was killed by being run over by a tram at Prahran on Saturday night. A pawn ticket found in ...
Article : 30 wordsThere was a fair attendance at the Bijou Theatre on Saturday evening, when Canard's company of song and dance artists appeared in another new programme. The ...
Article : 306 wordsIt transpires that during the late Midland colliery strike, when the Marquis of Londonderry- is said to have -made profits exceeding £250,000, some 15,000 ...
Article : 52 wordsDr. Bevan leaves Perth on Tuesday for Melbourne. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe quantity of wool disposed of at the London sales to date amounts to 118,000 bales. Good merino wools are dearer and inferior and faulty weaker. ...
Article : 33 wordsA miner named Heigga, aged 50 years, died suddenly this afternoon at the Imperial Restaurant. ...
Article : 23 wordsI Reaping is in full swing and the crops are turning out above expectations. So far the results average about 12 bushels. The grain in most cases is plump and is fairly clear of ...
Article : 84 wordsA railway guard at the York railwayStation fell from an engine during shunting on Friday. The train passed over him. He was removed to the hospital. ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. R. Reid, the Minister or Defence, leaves for Adelaide on Tuesday to join the R.M.S. Oceana. He is proceeding to ...
Article : 28 wordsA shocking tragedy took place at Wilcannia on Saturday, when Miles McGrath, a son of the licensee of the Cricketers' Arms Hotel, deliberately shot an old ...
Article : 161 wordsMr.' c. B. Harness, who is on bail awaiting his trial for fraud in connection with the Electropathic Belt Company, of which he was manager, addressing a ...
Article : 80 wordsA team of strathalbyn cricketers journeyed to Finniss and played a match with the Finniss club on Saturday. The Finniss men were disposed of for 60 runs, while the Strath- ...
Article : 367 wordsThe strawberry fete in aid of the funds for furnishing the Angas wing of the Children's Hospital was held on the grounds of that institution on Saturday afternoon and evening. ...
Article : 632 wordsThe steamer Norkoowa, belonging to Messrs. McIiwraith, McEacharn, & Co., which left Geelong on Friday with a cargo of wheat for Sydney. met with an ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Commissioner of Lands has received the following wire from Mr. Woodward, the acting warden of the Dundas goldfields, who arrived at ...
Article : 86 wordsVarious improvements are being carried out in the French home defences, and with a view to minimising the danger of invasion the months of the principal ...
Article : 121 wordsAn abandoned child, about six weeks old, was picked up on Friday night near the Toorak railway-station. It was in a dirty state and had a broken feeding ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. C. Proud lectured at the Adelaide Democratic Club on Sunday evening on "Ho[?] the drones control the bees." There was a good attendance and Mr. W. S. Bickford, the president, occupied the chair. The lecturer, ...
Article : 262 wordsA girl, aged 5 years, daughter of Thomas Gorman, a selector, near Goulburn, was burnt to death to-day by setting fire to some grass with matches. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsThe depositions in the Mercantile Bank case have been copied, but it is now stated that they will not be considered by the Crown Prosecutor this year, as the ...
Article : 48 wordsNews by the Monowai states that the people of. Hawaii are much disturbed at a rumor that the ox-queen will be reinstated by the United States, but no ...
Article : 67 wordsAn official report has been received by the Commissioner of Police of a terrible tragedy at Ducie River, Gulf of Carpentaria, when ten native policemen were ...
Article : 139 wordsThe eastern suburban friendly societies held a church parade on Sunday afternoon in aid of the Christmas cheer fund, though owing no doubt to the great heat experienced during the ...
Article : 467 wordsCyril Haviland, the – secretary to the School of Arts, surrendered at the Central Police-station on Saturday, and was formally charged with the theft of a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 40 wordsIt is with regret we announce the death of Captain James Brinsden, late general secretary to the Federated Employers' Council of South Australia, and also secretary to the ...
Article : 343 wordsThe pupils of Mr. and Mrs Boult and Mr A. C Quinn gave a most enjoyable invitation concert at the Victoria Hall on Saturday afternoon, both vocal and instrumental selections ...
Article : 297 wordsThe weather was very hot to day, and the thermometer registered over 100 degrees in the shade. Strathalbyn, December 10. To-day the heat was most oppressive with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsIt is stated that Mr. Heydon, M.L.C., has been offered and has accepted the office of Attorney-General in the room of Mr. Barton, resigned. ...
Article : 148 wordsJohn Home, employed in the kitchen of the Imperial Arcade Hotel, fell with a lift 100 ft. on Saturday, but jumped just as it reached the bottom and escaped ...
Article : 50 wordsIt appears that the Hindoo who committed suicide in suck a determined manner at Fitzroy on Friday night is not the person he was supposed to be. The ...
Article : 86 wordsOn Saturday afternoon a steamer crowded with passengers from Cabarita ran into the Ryde-bridge, Parramatta River. The boat was much damaged and ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Metropolitan Board of Works Officers and Servants Committee have agreed to recommend a curtailment of the pay of officers taken over from the Go- ...
Article : 78 wordsThe selection committee of the New South Wales Cricket Association has chosen the following to represent New South Wales in the match against South Australia to be ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Justice Holroyd is engaged, it is said, in the preparation of the case which he has been asked to state for the Full Court with regard to the case of Mrs. ...
Article : 74 wordsAlderman Manning was on Saturday re-elected Mayor of Sydney after a close contest with Alderman S. E. Lees by 13 votes to 11. The mayoral allowance was ...
Article : 49 wordsAt Redfern on Saturday Charles Grimes was sent to gaol for one month for assaulting his wife by cutting her face with an axe. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe annual meeting of the Fresh Air League was held on Saturday, Lady Duff presiding. The report stated that 200 men, women, and children were sent ...
Article : 52 wordsTwo men, Sydney Reid and Henry Hughes, with Martha Reid and a woman named Hughes, have been arrested by ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mon 11 Dec 1893, Page 5
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