The survivors from the British steamer Roraima, oneof the vessels burned at the Port of St. Pierre, Martinique, as the result of the volcanic cruptions at Mount ...
Article : 87 wordsA number of natives, whose kraal was recently burned by Boers, discovered and attacked the latter's laager at Schiepersney, where they killed 30, the ...
Article : 738 wordsOwing to the heavy rain which fell last night, it was found, when an inspection of the wicket was made this morning, that it was too soft for play to ...
Article : 94 wordsThe charter by Messrs. Howard Smith and Co. of the steamer Tagliaferro was definitely arranged for this evening. The vessel is expected to arrive at Albany any ...
Article : 322 wordsIn the Kalgoorlie Police Court to-day, Wm. Winning was remanded for eight days on a charge of having stolen a gold medal and a silver watch chain, the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe arrival of the R.M.S. Rome, with the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, Mr. Edmund Barton, P.C., and the Federal Minister for Defence, Sir ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,597 wordsRecently there has been an abundant rainfall throughout the Ularring district, and the threatened water famine has disappeared. The average fall ...
Article : 207 wordsSir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society, in a letter to the "Times," urgently appeals to the public for a sum of £6,000 to ...
Article : 64 wordsThe commander of the French cruiser Suchet, which was in the neighbourhood of Martinique at the time of the calamity, has reported to his Government ...
Article : 124 wordsLanding parties at St. Pierre state that the fire is burning itself out. They describe the town as a heap of ruins. They found no one alive, and the ...
Article : 116 wordsAll the French Ministers have been re-elected. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe Kaiser William, being desirous of giving the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine some special proof of his goodwill, has abolished the Staatholders' ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Wesley Sunday School anniversary celebration passed off very successfully yesterday. Sermons were preached in the morning, afternoon, and evening by ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. Drake, the Postmaster-General, states that he to-day came to an arrangement with Mr. Warren, representing the Eastern Extension Telegraph ...
Article : 182 wordsThe cable ship Puyer Quartier has brought 450 survivors from St. Pierre to Fort de France; on the western coast of the island of Martinique. ...
Article : 45 wordsM. Severo, a rival of the aerial navigator, M. Santos Dumont, was killed yesterday in Paris. He made an ascent in his air-ship, ...
Article : 54 wordsGreat streams of lava from the Souffriere now separate, the northern and southern portions of the island of St. Vincent. ...
Article : 107 wordsFrom Saturday last Cobb and Co.'s coaches throughout the whole of Queensland ceased running. The firm spent £20,000 a year in wages and £22,000 a ...
Article : 775 wordsHot mud and cinders continue to fall throughout the island of Martinique, causing the death or injury of many in parts remote from the scene of actual ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Orient Steam Navigation Company's new steamer Orontes has been successfully launched at Goyan. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Attorney-General's attention was drawn to-day to the new railway rates that came into force in Western Australia on May 5. He was informed that these ...
Article : 252 wordsThe steamer Derwent sailed to-day for Sydney with a non-union crew. No attempt was made by the owners to secure a crew during Sunday, and it was not ...
Article : 164 wordsThe French warship Suchet, while returning from Guadaloupe with provisions, re-passed St. Pierre on Saturday. Her commander reports that the town ...
Article : 65 wordsAnother account of Thursday's holocaust has been published. It states that a sudden fiery flash caused an immense rent on the western ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Paris "Temps" states that the whole of the north-eastern portion, of the island of Martinique is covered by waves of lava. ...
Article : 56 wordsA woman died at the hospital to-night under circumstances which indicate plague. A girl is reported to be in a dying condition in the same ...
Article : 55 wordsThis morning Lord Hopetoun, accompanied by Lord Tennyson and Major Willoughby, inspected the Art Gallery and the Zoological and Botanical Gardens, ...
Article : 203 wordsSir,—May I ask if there is not a limit to the hour of sale of a Sunday newspaper? It is not enough that one has the sanctity of one's Sabbath upset by ...
Article : 175 wordsIt is stated that, despite the engulfing of a factory at the foot of Mount Pelee, on Wednesday last, the Governor of Martinique issued a report reassuring ...
Article : 62 wordsThe British cruiser Pallas, at Jamaica, has been ordered to proceed to St. Vincent. Clouds of ashes from Mount Pelee and ...
Article : 43 wordsIt was stated yesterday that writs had been issued in Paris for the arrest of a man named Humbert, the son of an ex-Minister of State, his wife, and wife's ...
Article : 115 wordsTwo craters on La Souffriere, a volcano on the British island of St. Vincent, are in eruption and are covering the northern districts of the island with ...
Article : 76 wordsLord Monson, the British Ambassador at Paris, has expressed to M. Loubet, the French President, King Edward's profound sympathy with the ...
Article : 35 wordsA telegram from Norfolk Island states that the cable steamer Titus arrived there on Friday. Three sections of the Pacific cable were completed, and handed ...
Article : 122 wordsMr. Charles Arnold, of Sydney, has presented the Derbyshire Cricket Club with the sum of 500 guineas. Mr. Arnold, the generous donor of this ...
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Advertising : 542 wordsHeavy ashes fell on a steamer 250 miles from the island of St. Vincent. Fork lightning is said to be incessant over the entire disturbed section. ...
Article : 35 wordsCaptain Loddon, of the British steamer Roddam, who escaped with his life, but not without serious injury, and who is at present in hospital at the island of ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 13 May 1902, Page 5
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