Mail Steamers.—The homeward-bound Orient mail steamer Oruba passed Breaksea at a quarter-past 2 p.m. yesterday, and should reach Fremantle shortly ...
Article : 3,784 wordsThe annual rifle competition for the Fleming Cup took place to-day. The weather was fine and clear, with little wind blowing, though the bitter cold in ...
Article : 477 wordsAt a meeting of the Donnybrook Progress Association, it was agreed to take steps to form a railway league to help the Collie people in their endeavours to ...
Article : 275 wordsColonel Rawlinson lately visited a part of the Transvaal difficult of access in the Magaliesberg Mountains. He found a number of Boers engaged in ...
Article : 675 wordsDuring Saturday and yesterday matters in connection with the strike of "farm" labourers at Fremantle were very quiet. An effort was made by the ...
Article : 2,003 wordsMr. Balfour has replied to the memorial lately addressed to him by a large number of Unionists, urging that the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill be referred to ...
Article : 79 wordsThe directors of the Citizens' Life Assurance Co. have engaged Mr. Ralph Price-Hardy, a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, London, to conduct the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Committee lately appointed to report on the expediency of amending the King's Accession Oath have furnished their report. ...
Article : 83 wordsAn attempt was made yesterday to wreck the up and down London to Edinburgh express trains. The plan contemplated a collision near ...
Article : 73 wordsA recrudescence of the rebellion in Manchuria is reported. The "Times" correspondent at Shanghai declares that a number of refugees, ...
Article : 89 wordsThe debate in the House of Lords on Mr. Brodrick's proposed army reforms has revealed the existence of some anxiety in official circles, as to whether. ...
Article : 79 wordsHoppner's famous portrait of Lady Louisa Manners has been sold at auction, realising the enormous sum of 14,050 guineas. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe French Chamber of Deputies has adopted the Senate's amendments to the Religious Associations Bill. The measure aims at restricting the civil power ...
Article : 52 wordsThe King has been pleased to institute a Conspicuous Service Cross as a decoration for warrant and subordinate officers in the Navy. ...
Article : 35 wordsSaturday was the last day of the first financial half-year of the Commonwealth. The actual new expenditure consequent upon federating was £125,943. The ...
Article : 649 wordsThe selection of a Town Clerk for Sydney is not to be made in London, as the cable received yesterday inferred. The applications of seven of the British ...
Article : 270 wordsHerr Gentzsoli, second managing director of the Leipsiger Bank, which lately suspended payment, has been arrested. ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Robinson Nelson, an American millionaire, has given 462,000 dollars (about £92,400) to the Harvard University. ...
Article : 51 wordsSpeaking at a banquet in London, General Sir Frederick Carrington, late Commander of the Rhodesian Field Force, paid a warm tribute to the ...
Article : 54 wordsA strike has occurred among the harvesters of Ferrara, a northern province of Italy. Hundreds of Piedmontese peasants have replaced the strikers. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe "Pester Lloyd," a daily newspaper published at Buda Pesth, is responsible for the statement that in connection with the purchase of Hungarian horses ...
Article : 59 wordsOwing to the reports of the splendid crops in America, the wheat market is depressed. The heavy supplies of flour also tend to make the outlook ...
Article : 238 wordsA large and enthusiastic public meeting was held last night in connection with the Collie-Goldfields Railway League. Mr. J. C. Coombes was appointed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsThe British Admiralty are engaged in conducting a series of experiments at Portsmouth with submarine torpedo destroyers. ...
Article : 39 wordsAn influential deputation of country members of Parliament yesterday waited upon the Commissioner of Crown Lands, and presented a petition from farmers ...
Article : 226 wordsSir Andrew Clarke, Agent-General for Victoria, and formerly Director of Works of the Navy, was interviewed yesterday with regard to the harbour works now in ...
Article : 83 wordsSeveral important alterations in connection with the Fremantle Harbour Works have been decided upon, the chief of which will be the protection of the ...
Article : 455 wordsThe Rev. Harry Braddock, of the Church of England Parochial Mission of London, after carrying on most successful services here and at ...
Article : 347 wordsThe creditors of the bankrupt Duke of Manchester have agreed to accept 12s. 6d. in the £. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsThe Warrimoo, with the Governor-General and Lady Hopetoun and suite, arrived early yesterday morning. The official landing took place at 11 o'clock. ...
Article : 311 wordsSir William Lyne had arranged to leave for Tasmania yesterday afternoon, to represent, with Sir Phillip Fysh, the Federal Ministry during the Royal visit, ...
Article : 153 wordsThe revenue for the financial year, which expired yesterday, reached £5,087,264, being £604,914 in excess of the estimate made by the ex-Treasurer, ...
Article : 230 wordsFollowing are the latest quotations for the undermentioned Australian mining stocks:—Chillagoe (Q.), 18s. 9d.; Mount Lyells ...
Article : 122 wordsMrs. Craigie McIntosh was poisoned at her house, in Spencer-street, yesterday, under peculiar circumstances. Her youngest child took a box of matches off ...
Article : 77 wordsA fatal accident happened last evening to Thos. Newbond, a labourer employed at the sewer works, in East Prahran. The side of an open cutting ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Taviuni, which arrived from the Islands yesterday, brought news that the barque John Gambles, of Liverpool, bound from Peru to Auckland with 1,600 ...
Article : 90 wordsThe quantity of Victorian gold actually received at the Melbourne Mint during June was 82,310oz., as compared with 75,580oz. for June of last year. ...
Article : 75 wordsA telegram was received from Mildura on Saturday, stating that the passenger steamer Shannon had struck a reef about six miles from Mildura. The ...
Article : 80 wordsA heavy thunderstorn passed over here yesterday. Rain fell in torrents, 47 points being recorded. All the dams are fell. This morning the weather was ...
Article : 40 wordsA telegram was received to-day from Cape Otway stating that a steamer bound eastward, off Moonlight Head, at 12.50 a.m., burned what appeared to ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 1 Jul 1901, Page 5
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