Early this morning a collision occurred between a goods train and a special with 120 passengers two miles from Wairewa, near Dunedin. The night was dark and foggy, and ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Premier (Hon. C. C. Kingston) and Mr. E. L. Batchelor addressed the electors of West Adelaide at the Cumberland Hotel on Thursday evening. Alderman Wells presided ...
Article : 1,842 wordsThe meeting of teachers has condemned the distinction made by the Government in the grants paid to voluntary and Board schools. ...
Article : 35 wordsMrs. Shanaban, of Warrnambool, [?] one of her children had cut the heads. off some wax matches, and thinking it had swallowed them, gave it an emetic, which ...
Article : 607 wordsIt is reported that Sir George Reid, president of the Royal Scottish Academy, Mound, Edinburgh, has purchased nine pictures on behalf of the Auckland Art Gallery. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Government of the Dominion of Canada have cabled to Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, offering to raise and thoroughly equip a regiment of ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Institute Hall, Tynte-street, North Adelaide, was crowded "on Thursday evening, when Mr. C. Tucker (Mayor of the City) addressed the electors of the ...
Article : 112 wordsIt is reported that a syndicate of English bankers have offered the Italian Government a loan of £20,000,000 with which to prosecute the war in Abyssinia. ...
Article : 51 wordsMiss Goswell, who resides with her parents in Bridge-road, Marrickville, got up before daylight this morning to attend to a crying baby and struck a match, which set fire to the ...
Article : 113 wordson Wednesday evening at the Mount Barker Institute the Hon. Dr. Cockburn and Mr. A. H. Landseer addressed a meeting of the electors of the district of Mount Barker. ...
Article : 2,991 wordsThe Government of the Dominion of Canada, who recently on behalf of the Canadian House of Commons protested against the restrictions placed upon the importation of live stock into ...
Article : 150 wordsIt is understood that the Czar of Russia for some time past has been vainly urging the Emperor William of Germany to enter into a combination for the purpose of embarrassing ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the Police Court to-day Alfred E. Martin a young man who had been arrested at Cockburn, South Australia, was charged with the larceny of groceries, patent medicines, ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Coolgardie and Eucla telegraph construction party arrived in the ketch Swift on Wednesday, April 1. and the members of the party played a cricket match with the ...
Article : 412 wordsThe latest telegrams from Buluwayo state that in the recent encounter between a force under the Hon. Maurica Gifford, R.N., and the rebel Matabeles the settlers, who ...
Article : 107 wordsThe report and balance-sheet issued by the directors of the Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company show the net profits for the year to have been £67,738. , ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Sultan of Turkey, in answer to the protest of the foreign ambassadors in Constantinople, with reference to the alleged expulsion from Diarbekir of Mr. Napp, an American ...
Article : 57 wordsLatest advices from Buluwayo convey the intelligence that the Chartered Company's troops in the capital are short of rifles, and that further supplies are anxiously awaited. ...
Article : 80 wordsWilliam Harrison, a young man, was placed on trial at the, Criminal Court to-day on a charge of the larceny of deposit receipts on the Bank of Victoria for £900. together with a ...
Article : 192 wordsMessrs. Henry and Frederick Ellis were drowned while out fishing in a boat at Torquay, 14 miles from G[?]long, last evening. The boat capsized in a gale. The hats of the men ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is announced that the new treaty proposed by the French Government with respect to Madagascar has been accepted by the foreign consuls at Antananarivo with the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe shareholders of the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank have expressed their approval of the modified form of the Bill now before Parliament, which was promoted by ...
Article : 100 wordsThe return from the Lake View mine for the past fortnight is 517 oz. of gold from 180 tons of stone. McPherson's Reward Company cleaned up ...
Article : 214 wordsLast evening two burglars, entered the house of Mr. Alfred Anderson, pianoforte-tuner, in Metford-street, St. Kilda. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were absent in Ballarat, a servant ...
Article : 78 wordsAt about 3 o'clock this, morning Constables Thompson and Draper saw two figures emerge from under the verandah of a butcher's shop in Nelson-street Annandale. They called upon ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Canadian House of Commons is busily engaged in discussing the Manitoba Schools Bill, the consideration of which has resulted in a protracted debate. ...
Article : 287 wordsThe New Zealand Investment. Company made a profit of £2,615 on its last halt-year's operations and a dividend of 6 per cent has been declared. A sum of £600 is passed to the ...
Article : 53 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on the body of Amy Hoppenworth, who was killed on Easter Monday, by the breaking of a davit on the steamer Naomi, which went on an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsNumerous complaints have been made to the Harbor Trust lately of a breach of the regulations by steamers passing up and down the river in not stopping their propallers, while ...
Article : 83 wordsSatisfactory developments have occurred on the Hanover lease, which is one and a half miles east of Coolgardie. The property was bought four months ago by the Central ...
Article : 210 wordsAt Woollongong to-day Charles Edward Eglose, the late secretary of the Woollongong Harbor Trust, pleaded guilty to [?] £1,104 3s. 3d. belonging to the trust. An ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 63 wordsA Chinese leper, Hock [?] a market gardener, of Enfield, was arrested yesterday in a terrible condition. His arm, knee, and finger joints were withered away. Hock ...
Article : 116 wordsIt is understood that Sir Edward Braddon has sent a telegram to Sir John Forrest urging that immediate action should be taken by Wast Australia in concert with the other ...
Article : 154 wordsThe death is announced in London of Mr. Charles Wilson, the well-known Australian squatter. ...
Article : 21 wordsis composed of smokers of Froesard's Cavour Cigars; mild and fragrant. Packets 8 for 1s. ...
Article : 18 wordsSeven candidates have come out to contest the district of Onkaparinga, and four of these, Messrs. R. Caldwell W. H. Duncan, C.G. Gurr, and G. H. Sitters. addressed the ...
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Advertising : 389 wordsA rich find is reported from the Mount Margaret district, but the prospectors will not divulge the locality. ...
Article : 22 wordsIt has been reported to the police that last Saturday a supposed madman ran about Meyer's Hotel at Mount Burgess brandishing a knife. He was secured and tied up until ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. H. J. Scott arrived at Perth from Kalgoorlie today and left at once for Adelaide. He has secured several promising properties. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Crown Prosecutors have not yet completed the consideration of the evidence given before the Lormer Board with a view of determining whether further proceedings should ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Fri 10 Apr 1896, Page 5
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