The monthly meeting at the board of management of the Homoœopathic Hospital took place on Wednesday. Alderman H. T. Gould was in the chair, and ...
Article : 418 wordsThe Trade Commissioner for Canada (Mr. D. H. Ross) visited the Minister for Customs (Mr. Chapman) yesterday to urge the claim of Canada to ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the Senate to-day, Senator Millen presented a petition praying for a reduction of the duty on watches and clocks to 10 per cent. ad valorem. ...
Article : 282 wordsA large meeting at Johannesburg yesterday passed resolutions inaugurating a boycott of the Asiatic traders and the employers of Asiatics. ...
Article : 56 wordsMrs. Robinson, the New Zealand witness in the Druce case, who is charged with having committed porjury, has made a full confession, and admits that ...
Article : 53 wordsThe three assassins of King Carlos and the Crown Prince of Portugal have been identified. One was Luis Lopez, formerly engaged in commerce, and ...
Article : 171 wordsWhen the Robinson case was called on yesterday, Sir Charles Mathews in formed the magistrate (Mr. Rutzen) that the prisoner had made a full ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Prime Minister (Hon. A. Deakin) has received the following telegram from the Consul-General for Germany at Sydney:—"In face of the ...
Article : 176 wordsLord Ampthill raised a debato in the House of Lords yesterday with regard to the treatment of British-Indians in the Transvaal. He expressed ...
Article : 225 wordsSeveral of the leading French newspapers eulogise King Manuel's courage in ridding himself of Senhor Franco's senseless and criminal policy of ...
Article : 29 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, the Prime Minister, Sir H. CampbellBannerman, moved on address expressing horror mid indignation at the mad, ...
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Article : 126 wordsThe committee of the Maternal and Dorcas Society held than usual monthly meeting on Tuesday There were present:—Mrs. Hudspeth (president), and ...
Article : 57 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Bellerive branch was held at the Belleriveinstitute last evening, President G. W. Allwright in the chair. The secretary ...
Article : 144 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. W. Long's amendment to the Address-in-Reply to the King's speech, expressing regret that no reference had ...
Article : 182 wordsSome alarm was caused in certain circles by an advertisement that a living picture show, comprising such attractions as prize fights and the ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Coul Mining Court met again to-day, only to adjourn to Monday next, by which time it is hoped the Minors[?] Federation will be in a position to ...
Article : 305 wordsIn the new Cabinet which is being formed, Sonhor S. C. do Sousa Telles has replaced Sephor Mines as Minister for War. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Governor of Natal (Sir Matthew Nathan) announced yesterday at an indaba at Nqulu, which was attended by 250 chiefs, that the Natal, Government ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the Senate to-day, Senator Best announced that the Government had expressed to the Governor-General, on behalf of the people of the ...
Article : 365 wordsA meeting of the committee of management of the Tasmanian Cricket Association was held last night. Mr. W. J. Campbell presided, and there were ...
Article : 573 wordsThe Rev. W. Beck, of St. Andrew's, Launceston, has been nominated for the moderatorship of the Presbyterian State General Assembly. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe M.C.C. committee has adopted the following new rule which was suggested last week by the County Advisory Committee:—"A cricketer may not ...
Article : 158 wordsLord Brassey, speaking at Cambridge yesterday, said Great Britain's navy was falling below the two-Power standard. He hoped that in time the rivalry ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Lord Mayor of Sydney (Alderman "Hughes) called upon the Mayor of Launceston (Mr. P. Boland) at the Town-hall to-day. Subsequently His Lordship was ...
Article : 42 wordsTo-day, Cup Day, was observed as a half-holiday in the city. The weather kept fine from noon, and some river excursions were fairly well patronised. ...
Article : 94 wordsAt the instance of the Labour party, Mr. G. Barnes will move in the House of Commons that the status of the Ministerial portfolio of they Board of Trade ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Britain Steamship Company's steamer Windsor, 2,892 tons, which left Fremantle on Saturday for Hongkong, was totally wrecked on the well-known ...
Article : 148 wordsGilbert and Sullivan's opera, "The Gondoliers," was produced at the Albert-hall to-night by a company of amateurs from Hobart, before a brilliant ...
Article : 133 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Asquith) aims at setting asid £8,000,000 for old-age pensions. The age at which ...
Article : 66 wordsA meeting of the London creditors of Messrs. McArthur and Co. was held yesterday. The meeting unanimously accepted a scheme submitted for the ...
Article : 105 wordsIt is reported at Washington that when the Pacific Fleet returns, Admiral Evans will leave at Manila four powerful cruisers, or four of the weakest ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Belgian Premier, M. Schollaert, has asked the Congo Government to open up fresh negotiations regarding the annexation of the Congo Free State ...
Article : 51 wordsAt the Police Court to-day Charles Shearing alias Michael White, who was arrested on a charge of larceny at Ringarooma, in August last, was remanded ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Lady Edeline Strickland, accompanied by Mrs. A. Hean, and attended by Captain Cottrell-Dormer, A.D.C., visited the Homœopathic Hospital in ...
Article : 268 wordsIt was stated last week that the ship Eclipse, 1,469 tons, bound from Newcastle to San Francisco, had been abandoned. ...
Article : 225 wordsThe quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,555,000 quarters, and for the Continent at 1,435,000 quarters. ...
Article : 44 wordsAt A meeting of the National Rifle Association of Great Britain yesterday, Major Richardson, who was shooting captain of the British team that visited ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Licensing Bench to-day granted a provisional certificate to P. E. Karlsen in connection with hotel promises to be known as the Pioneer Hotel, Rosebery. ...
Article : 160 wordsThe following, were closing rates to-day for Australian stocks:—Australian Land, Mortgage, and Finance, £100; City of Sydney, £101; Melbourne Gas ...
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Article : 31 wordsThe United States naval authorities are having built a submarine of the Lake type. It will have a steaming radius of 3,000 miles, and a speed of ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Walter Runciman), replying to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, stated that Raisuli was ...
Article : 47 wordsTwo sergeants and thirty men perished last week in the snowstorm that suddenly enveloped a company of the Foreign Legion in Algeria. ...
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