In Bishop Henry Codman Potter, who passed peacefully away at Coopertown, New York, on Tuesday night, after a long illness, the United States has lost not ...
Article : 831 wordsYesterday morning Constable Donovan, of Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, was informed by William Rankin, a young man, who had been ...
Article : 206 wordsThe final contests in connection with the South Australian Literary Societies' Union competitions took place at the Victoria Hall on Monday evening. The ...
Article : 446 wordsTommy Bums retained the boxing championship of the world this afternoon, when he knocked out Bill Squires, the champion of Australia, in 13 rounds, surrounded by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,651 wordsThe Sultan of Turkey is instituting severe economies ia his expenditure. He has dismissed 64 of his aides-de-camp, and has also decided not to longer maintain his ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Observer, in an article on the needs of the British Navy, advocates the inclusion in the building programme of the construction of 30 battleships of the ...
Article : 81 wordsPresent.—The Mayor (Mr. Frank Johnson). Ald. Wens, Simpson, Bonython, Isacs, and Baker, Crs. [?], Angas Johnson, [?], [?], Sketheway,Clucas, Glover, Myers. [?], ...
Article : 1,010 wordsKnocked out Fred Thornton, Detroit, 5 rounds. Knocked out Fred Thornton, Delray, 5 rounds. —1901.— Knocked out Dick Smith, Mount Clemens, 9 ...
Article : 435 wordsThe Premier of Queensland (Mr. W. Kidston), who at the invitation of the Irish members, is visiting Ireland, was accorded a reception by the Nationalist Party at ...
Article : 74 wordsAn inquest has been opened at Young concerning the murder and suicide, the victims of which were Jean Wallace Drummond and Edward Sylvester Lillis. The ...
Article : 124 wordsCorrespondence is proceeding between the Netherlands Government and President Castro with reference to the Dutch threat to block the Venezuelan ports. In ...
Article : 108 wordsUnder the provisions of the Small Holdings . Act of 1907, applications were received in the six months ended June 30, 1908, in connection with 17 schemes from ...
Article : 87 wordsThe heating of a charge against Louis [?] (despatch officer at the G.P.O., Melbourne), which was conducted by the Public Service Enquiry Board, has resulted ...
Article : 119 wordsFor years there has been a bitter feud between the Tobacco Trust of America and some of the growers in the Kentucky State. It led to bloodshed, firing of premises, ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Legislative Assembly of the Transvaal has agreed to the Bill which has been introduced by the Government to take the place of the Voluntary Registration ...
Article : 111 wordsIn the presence of His Excellency the Governor and Lady Le Hunte, Mr. Mark Hambourg, the renowned pianist, is to the first of two recitals in Adelaide this ...
Article : 252 wordsThe decision of the master bakers endorsing the original proposal of the operative bakers that all work should be prohibited between 8 p.m. and 6 p.m., ...
Article : 114 wordsI was born on June 17, 1881, at Hanover, Ontario, my father being French and my mother German. My parents moved to Chesley, Ontario, when I was still very ...
Article : 792 wordsAdvices have been received from Bergen, an important town on the west coast of Norway, of a terrible wreck on the rocky shore near Strandvik, a little town about ...
Article : 105 wordsThere are many indications of fresh unrest among the natives of Zululand. In consequence of this the Premier of Natal (Mr. F. R. Moor) has sent troops and ...
Article : 60 wordsThere was considerable excitement at Moonta Bay this afternoon. A whale, from 70 to 80 ft. long, was sighted within 400 yards of the shore. Four of the Simms ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Rev. John Llewelyn Dove. M.A. of Durham, has been appointed head master of Wanganui College, New Zealand. He was an assistant master of ...
Article : 66 wordsOn Monday the members of the district introduced to the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Hon. L. O'Loughlin) a deputation from the Stockport. Mudla Wirra North. ...
Article : 261 wordsOn Saturday the World's Touring Company started on its first trip from the central station. 88 Rundle street, with over 70 persons on board. The tour, occupying ...
Article : 117 wordsRussia is suffering from an awful scourge of cholera. During the week ended August 20 1.145 cases were reported, of which 517 proved fatal, but since Thursday 2,024 cases ...
Article : 48 wordsPresent.—The Mayor (Mr. A. S. Lewis), Aid. Cooke, [?], Macklin, and Pengilly, and Crs. Eicke, Orchard, Hantke, Pearson, and Cromptoa. Finance—Receipts including loan of £2,100 ...
Article : 352 wordsThe English chess championship has been won for the fourth time by H. E. Atkins, of Leicester. In the match for the championship of the world at Dusseldorf Dr. ...
Article : 219 wordsBruce's competitions were continued on Monday evening. A capital musical and elocutionary programme was carried out by Misses E. James. D. Hart. Kathleen Lee, ...
Article : 94 wordsMr. John Gates, a millionaire, of Washington. U.S.A., has started the construction of a golfcourse and racecourse surrounded by a concrete automobile track. ...
Article : 133 wordsThe City Council has accepted the tender of Mr. H. Henningsen for the erection of a refuse destructor at the corner of Spencer street and Lonsdale street, and next to ...
Article : 48 wordsAt the Unley Town Hall on Monday evening a successful concert in aid of Kyrs College sports fund was held. The programme submitted was as follows:— ...
Article : 86 wordsThe old man, Pearson, who had been missing from his home at Tonimbuk since Friday morning, was found by bis grandson on Saturday standing chin-deep in a dam. ...
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Advertising : 449 wordsPresent—The Mayor (Mr. R. G. Thistleton), Crs. Bonython, Silver, and Scott. Finance—Receipts, £31; payments. £45: payments recommended to be paid, £30. Adopted. Town Clerk ...
Article : 82 wordsA peculiar circumstance was observed at Picola in connection with the rain which fell on Saturday morning. The water caught in the tanks was discoloured by ...
Article : 56 wordsST. PETERS CLUB.—The animal business meeting was held at the Maid and Magpie Howl on Monday evening. Mr. U. W. [?] presided over a large attendance in his report the ...
Article : 223 wordsThe indomitable swimmer, T. W. Burgess, who has many times attempted to swim across the Channel between England and France, failed again on Saturday after ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 wordsSir—This question has been ably dealt with by several correspondents, especially Mr. Simpson Newland, who is perhaps the most capable man in South Australia to ...
Article : 390 wordsThe Pure Foods Committee have decided to refuse the request of the Melbourne and Suburban Retail Master Dairymen's Association that the standard of fat solids ...
Article : 51 wordsSeveral of the mining companies, including block 10. Junction North, Block 14 and the Silverton Tramway Company, have made donations toward furnishing new ...
Article : 264 wordsJ. Pollard, a minor was admitted to the hospital to-day in peculiar circumstances. About three months ago he was severely injured in the South Mine by an explosion, ...
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Advertising : 378 wordsA strange story has been told by a resident of the Beaudesert district, to the effect that while riding home on Sunday a strange animal—dark or brown in colour ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Tue 25 Aug 1908, Page 6
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