The Channel Squadron has been ordered to leave Gibraltar for home on December 10. Other preparations in anticipation of ...
Article : 43 wordsHarrold Bros.' case was resumed in the Insolvency Court to-day. It lasted half the day, when it was adjourned to Friday, owing to Mr. Kingston's ...
Article : 61 wordsYesterday at the Imperial Institute Mr E. Lidgey, of the Victorian Mines Department, who was sent to England by the Government of Victoria last year to ...
Article : 57 wordsCaptain Alfred Dreyfus, who is now a prisoner at Cayenne, has been permitted to send a cable message to his wife in Paris. ...
Article : 81 wordsA verdict of accidental death, was returned at the inquest held to-day on the woman Chambers, whose clothing was ignited at a fire, and who died from the ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is reported that the Czar, in conversation with a British diplomatist, said that the Powers ought to agree not to increase their armaments for a period of ...
Article : 67 wordsDisorderly Conduct.—George Borth-wick was charged with disorderly conduct, but was let off with a caution, this being his first offence. John Seymour ...
Article : 598 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture, speaking at Rockhampton to-day, said that federation was far more important than separation. Queensland would be ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is reported from Berlin that the Emperor of Germany gave an audience yesterday to colonel Schwartzkoppen, who was the military attache at the ...
Article : 370 wordsTwo persons have been arrested at Fulham, London, on suspicion of having received the Dowager-Duchess of Sutherland's jewels. Some of the jewellery has ...
Article : 273 wordsApplication was made in the Banco Court to-day to allow Mr. J. W. Brown to apply for admission as a barrister. Previously to his receiving the degree ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Admiralty considers that the proposed construction of a graying dock at Hobart is unnecessary from an Imperial point of view. ...
Article : 31 wordsSevere snowstorms and gales have been experienced in New York. The railroad and street traffic is paralysed. A dozen fatalities have occurred in ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. A. H. Landseer, a member of the House of Assembly for Mount Barker, is again seriously ill. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe first batch of exhibits for the Greater Britain Exhibition, will be despatched on December 13. The exhibits weigh between one and two tons. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe military authorities have decided not to waste any more time In the pursuit of the Khalifa, who was reported to have fled to El Obeid. ...
Article : 52 wordsIn view of the probability of the Government, for legal reasons, again tendering £75,000 in gold for the purchase of the North-terrace line, belonging to ...
Article : 89 wordsThe sum of £930 in notes was mysteriously disappeared from the till of the Newtown (Auckland) branch of the Bank of New Zealand. ...
Article : 31 wordsAmerican firms are Bending large quantities of rails to Bombay, Barbados and Ireland. ...
Article : 20 wordsReuter's Press Agency reports that the Spanish Government has accepted the conditions of peace laid down by the United States. ...
Article : 31 wordsA man named Knaak who is at natural realised American subject, was arrested yesterday in a Berlin cafe on a charge of lese-majestic. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Tennant is leading Mr. Haslam by considerably over a thousand votes for the election to the Legislative Council for the Northern district. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe correspondent of "The Morning Herald," accompanied by the Mayor and Messrs. John Cleary and Watson, the superintendent of permanent way ...
Article : 1,676 wordsLieutenant-Colonel J. F. Lewis, of the Royal Engineers, after having inspected Wei-hai-wei on behalf of the British War Office, considers that the place is likely ...
Article : 37 wordsArthur Barton was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment at Cootamundra to-day for having maliciously attempted to wreck a train. He also received ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Cape Assembly has passed the Redistribution of Seats Bill. ...
Article : 23 wordsLord Salisbury has declined to ask the Sultan of Morocco to compensate the Tourmaline prisoners, as they were arrested in an attempt to create a ...
Article : 78 wordsThe fifth ordinary general meeting of the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank Ltd., was held yesterday at Winchester House, London, E.C. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe report of the committee appointed by the Sydney Corporation to inquire into the alleged writing off of rates by aldermen exonerates the aldermen ...
Article : 28 wordsJohn Roberts the champion of England, has accepted C. Dawson's challenge to play a match 18,000 up, commencing on March 20. Both players ...
Article : 182 wordsAn important debate on the Dreyfus case took place yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies. M. Poincare, who was Minister of ...
Article : 541 wordsAt Broken Hill Alderman Tinnane is suing Alderman Wright for £200 for allied slander, uttered at a council meeting. ...
Article : 21 wordsCharles Lovelace, who was injured in the Broken. Hill South, mine is in a dangerous condition. His recovery is doubtful. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, the Crown Lands Bill was passed through committee. In the House of Assembly to-day, Mr. ...
Article : 117 wordsCommunications have been passing between the Imperial postal authorities and the Postmaster-General of the United State as to the establishment ...
Article : 68 wordsTo-day a meeting of 60 aldermen, representing municipalities within the metropolitan area, unanimously approved of the proposal for a Greater ...
Article : 37 wordsThe R.M.S Orient sailed to-day for London. She took 5,500 sovereigns on account of the Orient Steam. Navigation Company, London. ...
Article : 26 wordsPrince Louis of Battenberg fell down the shell-room hatch of H.M.S. Majestic yesterday, and was severely injured. [His Serene Highness Prince Louis ...
Article : 87 wordsLord Mount-Stephen has distributed £560,000 among 35 of his relatives, instead of making them his heirs in his Will. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe "Petit Journal," of Paris, reports the arrest of a man named Lehmann, who confessed to being guilty, with two accomplices, of the murder of [?] and his housekeeper ...
Article : 263 wordsThe National Bank of Australasia and the Bank of Victoria, have notified their intention of making further payments on deferred deposit receipts, the ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Legislative Assembly to-day discussed the proposed works on the northern rivers at a cost of £1,100,000. The House approved of the expenditure of ...
Article : 80 wordsLieutenant Biddlecombe, of the Victorian Navy, who has completed a short course of gunnery and torpedo work in England, has passed his examination. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. G. H. Jenkins, C.M.G., clerk of the Parliaments and of the Legislative Council, has been appointed to act as, clerk of the Federal Council, which will ...
Article : 34 wordsArrival.—Steamer Stas[?]furt 2,083 tons, from Adelaide; barque Marie, 1,022 tons, from Sydney; and steamer Gulf of Siam, 2,126 tons, from Brisbane. ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, the Land Bill was read the second time. The Municipal Overdrafts and the Employers and Employes Act ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Carlton Club, London, has decided to return the sum of £10,000 which Ernest Terah Hooley contributed to the funds for the Conservative party ...
Article : 34 wordsThe forthcoming public and bank holidays have been arranged as follow:—Christmas, December 24, 26, and 27 ; New Tear, January 2 and 3. ...
Article : 29 wordsAt a meeting of the shareholders of T. K. Bennet and Woolcock, Limited ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 2 Dec 1898, Page 1
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