Mr. Blacker opened the business in the Assembly on Thursday with an enquiry whether Mr. Owen Smyth had seen the report by Professor Lowrie which reflected ...
Article : 1,504 wordsThe President, Senator Sir Richard Baker (S.A.), took the chair at 2.30 p.m. —Elections and Qualifications Committee.— Senator O'Connor, Vice-President of the ...
Article : 364 wordsToronto is a charming city. Built on the shores of Lake Ontario, it has the advantages of a seaport. The city slopes up gradually from the lake shore, and the slope is ...
Article : 1,872 wordsThe late Empress Frederick's estate has been valued at £545,000. Her Majesty bequeathed to each of her six children, including the Kaiser William the sum of ...
Article : 46 wordsAs already announced, the Lords of the Admiralty are having built, ny Messrs. Vickers, Son, & Maxim, at Barrow-on-Furness, five submarine torpedo boats for ...
Article : 153 wordsAffidavits have been taken showing that the Boers have been guilty of treacherously shooting Australians. Lord Kitchener, the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in ...
Article : 500 wordsPrince Chun, brother of the Emperor of China, and his suite are at Basle awaiting the Emperor Kwang Su's sanction to the condition under which alone the mission ...
Article : 105 wordsNew York advises that while the City of Trenton was making a passage on the De-laware River yesterday, the boiler of the steamer exploded, nearly wrecking the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Constitution Bill brought down to the Assembly by the Government proposed reducing the number of city members by two and the country legislators by 16. This ...
Article : 560 wordsThe Liedertafel concert, which will be given on Monday next at die town hall, promises to be of musical interest. The soloists will be Misses Evelyn Jones ...
Article : 296 wordsThe terms of peace formulated by the Powers and accepted by the Imperial Court require that China shall for two years prohibit the importation of firearms, ...
Article : 216 wordsThree more men have been rescued alive from the drives in the Donibristle Colliery. One had been entombed 66 hours, and is in a pitiable state of exhaustion. All hope ...
Article : 46 wordsAn Admiralty committee has recommeded that various reforms should be effected in the victualling of the navy, and that the recognised number of daily meals ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Flour Millers Association passed a resolution to-day recommending to the Federal Treasurer that the duties on wheat should be 1s. per cental, and on products ...
Article : 36 wordsThe United States Government has decided to discontinue the purchase of Australian coal for use on American transports while crossing the Pacific. When the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe organs of the Vatican support the agitation promoted by the discontented native inhabitants of Malta, and renew their attacks upon the British Government. ...
Article : 282 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Premier said there had been misconception in connection with the pay to soldiers who went to South Africa. To keep faith with ...
Article : 329 wordsThe "Times" states that the proceeds of one man's blackmail for a year in connection with the New York Fire Brigade contracts amounted to £10,000, and that every ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Speaker, Representative Holder (S.A.), took the chair at 2 p.m. —Petitions.— Representative Solomon (W.A) ...
Article : 446 wordsThe ordinary half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Adelaide and Suburban Tramway Company, Limited, was held at the National Mutual Buildings on Thursday ...
Article : 618 wordsA telegram from China reports further massacres in the interior. It is stated that six Christians have been killed at Kulija, the capital of Dzungaria, on the Hi River, ...
Article : 42 wordsHis Majesty the King has approved of the Hon. Alfred Jerome Cadman, formerly Minister of Native Affairs in New Zealand, retaining the title of "Honourable." I ...
Article : 36 wordsJapan is sending a commission, comprised of leading merchants, to Russia, for the purpose of opening up markets in that country for Japanese goods. The mission ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Australian bowlers will return to their homes by the steamship India. Mr. John Young, manager of the team, entertained the leading English bowlers in ...
Article : 49 wordsExtraordinary interest continues to be taken in Germany in the case of the dargoon Marten, who was condemned to death on charges of mutiny and of having ...
Article : 149 wordsC. B. Fry, the Sussex crack batsman, has just compiled four successive centuries. ...
Article : 18 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr.Sterry drew the attention of the House to the injustice to vignerons which was being caused through the dematuration of wine ...
Article : 127 wordsThe British Shipping Federation, having received no request from Australia in respect to the Customs Machinery Bill before the Commonwealth Parliament, will take ...
Article : 97 wordsUnion Shipping Company of New Zealand.— The directors of this company have placed an order at Dumbarton for a new steamer of 4,500 tons, capable of travelling ...
Article : 58 wordsIt is reported from Cape Colony that a part of the Boer commando led by Scheepers is near Mossel Bay, which is situated 240 miles east of Cape Town. ...
Article : 118 wordsAt the annual social of the Machine-gun Corps Rifle Club on Thursday evening Lieut.-Col. G. H. Dean called attention to the subject of the national memorial ...
Article : 157 wordsFollowing upon the discovery of extensive misappropriation of the funds of the Melbourne University, the police have been informed that an audit of the accounts of ...
Article : 332 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Givens moved to the effect that the Government should erect in the state a central refinery in connection with the sugar ...
Article : 194 wordsThe police received information to-day from the Taroom police that a girl named Ellen Jonquay and her child, aged two months, had been found murdered in the ...
Article : 265 wordsAt a meeting of the municipal corporation of Marseilles yesterday a member moved a resolution congratulating the Government of France on the visit of the Czar ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Parliamentary Committee took further evidence to-day with reference to tied houses. Mr. A. C. Browne, licencee of the Oxford Hotel, Erskine street, ex-president ...
Article : 313 wordsThe Commander-in-Chief recently ordered 200 Yeomanry recruits who had arrived at Cape Town to return to England, as he considered they were physically unfit for ...
Article : 92 wordsWhen the Defence Bill ig considered in committee Representative McCay (V.) will propose the insertion of clauses to provide that boys over 12 years of age attending ...
Article : 865 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day a motion was carried in favour of the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the native question. The proposition ...
Article : 56 wordsAdvices from Constantinople and Paris agree in stating that, although the immediate cause of the rupture between France and the Porte was the unreadiness of the ...
Article : 67 wordsA detachment of sharpshooters, in country north of Ladybrand, Orange River Colony, have captured five Boers and a large number of horses at a farmhouse, which ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the course of the debate in the House of Representatives to-day on the budget speech several Government supporters urged that the time had arrived when the ...
Article : 105 wordsPresent—The mayor (Mr. J. W. Caire), Aldermen Malin, Hains, Todd, and Moyers, Crs. Wilks, Fricker, Jurs, Butler, Shorney, Cooper, King. Oswald, Lambert, Gilleland, Dowsett, Widdop, ...
Article : 671 wordsPte. Fred Cook, of Western Australia, has been dangerously wounded by accident at Middle Kraal. Lieut. D. G. Turleston, of the 7th New ...
Article : 46 wordsA Bill to amend the Parliamentary Elections Act was read a first time in the Legislative Assembly to-night. It provides for the extension of the franchise to women ...
Article : 110 wordsNearly 500 officers of the Salvation Army, including several from Queensland, South Australia, and Now South Wales, are in town attending a series of spiritual ...
Article : 166 wordsA board to enquire into the case of Mr. G. W. Davies, the late secretary to the Commissioner of Railways, was appointed to-day. It is constituted of three members ...
Article : 70 wordsSir—The Sole and only reason why I and other members of the Legislative Council agreed yesterday to adjourn for a fornight was, as the Hon. J. J. Duncan, the leader ...
Article : 269 wordsA phenomenal rise in the values of sheep took place at the Homebush market to-day. The supply was light on Monday, and a rise was made of 1s. to 2s. per head. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe secretary of the A.N.A at Cobar, in a letter to the secretary of the same organization at Broken Hill, says:—"Owing to the recent dry weather several mines ...
Article : 317 wordsT. Niblett and Fred Simpson, belonging to the warship Archer, were drowned in the harbour to-day through the capsizing of the captain's gig. When near the wharf ...
Article : 55 wordsAt the quarter sessions to-day John Ford, who was convicted of publishing a defamatory libel reflecting on E. W. Holder, was sentenced by Judge Murray to ...
Article : 112 wordsThe hearing of the charge against Louis Henn of having forged the accounts of the Tasmania Mine was concluded to-day. Accused was found guilty and was sentenced ...
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Advertising : 196 wordsAt a public meeting in connection with the Australian Natives' Association tonight a resolution was passed protesting against the appointment of a town clerk ...
Article : 46 wordsOperations in shares in the Duke of York Mine were carried on to-day without excitement. No sales were effected till the afternoon, when about 1,200 changed hands ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Fri 30 Aug 1901, Page 5
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