An enginedriver, John Sutton, was shot by a woman. Mary Sullivan, as he was leaving the station yard at Cowra about 11 o'clock to-day. The woman is a strange" ...
Article : 426 wordsA case of general interest was before the District Court to-day. It was the first under a recent amendment of the Marriage Act, which allows a woman who is enceinte ...
Article : 110 wordsSir Andrew Clarke, Agent-General for Victoria, has informed the Right [?]on. Joseph Chamberlain that Victoria desired to be placed on the same footing as New ...
Article : 177 wordsLord Kitchener has reported to the War Office that General PhiliP Botha, a brother of the Boer Commander-in-Chief, was killed in an action at Doorberg, and that ...
Article : 216 wordsSir George Turner, of Melbourne, the Federal Treasurer will be returned to the Commonwealth Parliament unopposed, Mr. F. E Healey having withdrawn ...
Article : 616 wordsThe Ophir, with the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York on board, has arrived at Gibraltar after a somewhat rough passage across the Bay of Biscay. The ladies ...
Article : 64 wordsThe new Victorian 3 per cent, loan of £3,000,000, the minimum for which was fixed at £93 10/, is now quoted at £94 10/. The old stock is quoted at £84 2/6 ...
Article : 50 wordsA concentrating movement of British troops is going on at Tientsin. A number of outposts and soldiers previously forming lines of communication are being gathered ...
Article : 182 wordsA Lascar seaman, who recently arrived from Cape Town on the transport steamer Simla, of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's line, has been placed ...
Article : 47 wordsThe cordite now being turned out by the British Government for small arm cartridges is of a much superior quality to that formerly made. Tests are being ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Railway Department is inviting applicants tor 700 vacancies in various branches of the service, it is understood that the majority ot the positions will be ...
Article : 39 wordsShippers and others complain strongly of the new daylight inspection regulation of ships enforced at Adelaide. It is stated ou good authority that if this continues for ...
Article : 43 wordsThe [?]eturns of the Bank of England for the wee[?] ending on Wednesday, published to-day, [?]w that the reserve of notes and coin held by the bank is £25,684,000, as ...
Article : 280 wordsMr. J. J. Fenton, Assistant Government Statist, has issued his first estimate of the wheat crop of Victoria ior the season 1900-1901. The total area sown for grain was ...
Article : 86 wordsThe German-Australian line steamer Chemnitz, which left Sydney for Hamburg on January 14, collided with and sank the steamer Tay off Flushing. Of the crew of ...
Article : 42 wordsIn consequence of recent storms over 300 vessels have been compelled to remain in the estuary of the Thames until the elements abate. ...
Article : 33 wordsLatest advices with regard to the disputed ownership of the territory at Tientsin, now occupied by the railway siding in course of construction by Mr. Claude W. ...
Article : 162 wordsIt is announced that Germany will shortly issue a 3 per cent, loan of £15,000,000, fixing the minimum at £87 10/. ...
Article : 27 wordsA girl told the Collingwood bench to-day that she worked 94 hours in a week for 7/. On one day she put in 21 hours, from 4 a.m. to 1 a.m. Her employer, a baker, ...
Article : 69 wordsThe students of St. Petersburg, who recently broke out into riot, as a protest against the excommunication of Count Leo Tolstoi, are preparing a gigantic petition ...
Article : 57 wordsAt the wool sales to-day competition was good, and full prices were obtained. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Treasurer to-day arranged to provide, an additional sum of money for the regrading of railways, to find work for the unemployed. Additional men are also to be ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Brisbane River this morning presented an interesting sight, immense masses ai tangled growth, known as the water hyacinth, brought down by flood waters ...
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Article : 75 wordsThe Minister of Railways has at last awakened to the fact that an attempt must be made to cope with the block in the grain traffic. He has authorised the construction ...
Article : 52 wordsThe ship Discovery, which has been built at Dundee in connection with tlie National Antarctic expedition, which is to be sent out this year, was launched yesterday. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe sudden death of Elizabeth Harper, wife of Constable J. B. Hairper, at he[?] residence, Newtown, was further enquired into to-day by the coroner. ...
Article : 328 wordsThe launch of the twin-screw battle-ship Duncan, 14,000 tons, wihich has been built by the Thames Ironworks and Ship-building Company at Blackwall, took place ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the "China Gazette," which is published at Shanghai reported on Wednesday that all the Russian warships in Japanese waters had sailed ...
Article : 77 wordsPapanni, steamer, from Timaru January 12; Aberdeen, irom Sydnev January 18. DEPARTURES. For Melbourne—Loch Katrine, from ...
Article : 44 wordsMajor Knight, who has for some time past been attached to Lieutenant-Colonel H. de B. de Lisle's column, which has been pursuing General Christian De Wet's ...
Article : 118 wordsThe steamer Papanui, which left Timaru on January 12, and arrived in London on Wednesday, brought the French barque Vigo iuto port, after towing her for two ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Treasurer proposes to allot the remaining £32,000 of the £1,000,000 loan at £99 next week in the order of priority of applications. ...
Article : 27 wordsBritish 2¾ per cent. Consols (Goschen's) are quoted at £95 15/, as against £96 10/ a week ago. Quotations for colonial Government stocks compare with those of ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Government have decided that as the visit of the Imperial troops has fallen through there shall be no official proclamation in this State of the accession of King ...
Article : 66 wordsViscount Cranborne, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, speaking in the House of Commons yesterday, stated that the Government regarded the assurances ...
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Article : 151 wordsSir Langdon Bonython and Mr. W. Copley visited the public school at Wallaroo on Thursday, and were then shown through the smelting works by his Wor ...
Article : 96 wordsA resolution, moved by the Marquis of Salisbury for the appointment of a joint Committee of members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, to ...
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Article : 256 wordsSir Alfred Milner, Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, and British High Commissioner for South Africa, has made the following appointments ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Sat 23 Mar 1901, Page 7
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