Since the beginning of the Boer war, 2,000,000 florins (£100,000) have been collected in Holland for the Boers. Of this sum 450,000 florins are still ...
Article : 90 wordsThe King and Queen were much interested in some remarkable sheep dog trials on the Isle of Arran. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe long-pending slander suit instituted by Messrs. Wernher, Beit and Co., the well-known South African banking firm, against Mr. Arthur Markham, Liberal ...
Article : 313 wordsThe following message has been received here from Melbourne:—"Minister directs as follows:—That all previous instructions regarding men landing for the ...
Article : 230 wordsAbout half an hour after it met yesterday, the Assembly once more got on to its favourite bone—the Railway Commissioner system. Mr. Nanson attacked ...
Article : 963 wordsIn the House of Assembly to-day, the Government modified its proposed texation on insurance premiums, and fixed the tax at 10s. per £100 for life policies ...
Article : 76 wordsIn the Senate to-day the consideration of the tariff was resumed, in Committee, on the requests that the House of Representatives had not agreed to. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,329 wordsMount Pelee, on the French island of Martinique, in the West Indies, continues in a state of violent eruption. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe inquest concerning the deaths of certain miners who lost their lives in the Mount Kembla colliery disaster was continued to-day. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe long-distance swimmer, Holbein, started from Grisnez on Wednesday afternoon on a third attempt to swim the English Channel. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Oswestry Grange, a sister ship to the Drayton Grange, has started from South Africa for Southampton with 2,000 troops. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Secretary of the Decimal Association asserts that 290 members of the House of Commons are prepared to support a measure for the compulsory ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Collector of Customs, Mr. Clayton T. Mason notifies by circular, dated August 27, the following official Federal tariff decisions:— ...
Article : 271 wordsThe Hague International Arbitration Court has been convened to arbitrate upon its first case. This is a long-standing difference ...
Article : 87 wordsIt was reported in the Press yesterday that a trial had been made of the new Class F engines which have recently been imported, from designs by the Omer ...
Article : 539 wordsAlthough the inhabitants of Norfolk Island have, by a plebiscite, determined to remain a Crown Colony, it has been stated in Federal circles that the British ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Commission which has been organised by Mr. Alfred Mosley to study in America problems connected with the relations of labour and capital, methods ...
Article : 142 wordsCopper.—Copper on spot is quoted at £51 12s. 6d. per ton, and forward at £52 10s. Tin.—Tin on spot is quoted at £122 ...
Article : 56 wordsPresident Roosevelt, of the United States delivered an address at Augusta, The capital of the State of Maine, yesterday. ...
Article : 121 wordsOwing to a strike among the miners of the Stavely Coal and Iron Company, in Derbyshire, the directors have decided on a lockout. They have given the whole ...
Article : 52 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day Jas. Sullivan, a farmer, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having indecently assaulted his step-daughter. Alice ...
Article : 154 wordsEva French, who appeared in the Kalgeorlie Police Court to-day to answer a charge of having solicited prostitution in Brookman-street, made a serious ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Drayton Grange Commission sat again to-day. Lieut.—Col. Embling; acting P.M.O., said that he thought that lives would ...
Article : 123 wordsA President Roosevelt has delivered an important speech, in which he has renunciated the Monroe doctrine. "The Monroe doctrine," declared the ...
Article : 177 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day. The Treasurer said, in reply to Mr. Clarke (N.S.W.), that his advance fund ...
Article : 405 wordsA series of earthquake shocks occured at Malanom, in the Philippines, and near the headquarters of the American army. ...
Article : 48 wordsA serious explosion of steam occured this afternoon on the steam collier Duckenfield, belonging to Messrs. J. and A. Brown. Two lads were killed, and ...
Article : 168 wordsThe "Novosti," a St. Petersburg journal, states that the amended German Tariff Bill is undoubtedly prohibitve, and must lead to a tariff war between ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the inquest in connection with the death of John Bingham, who died in St. Vincent's Hospital, on Sunday last from the effects of a fracture of the skull, the ...
Article : 206 wordsA sensation was caused at Thames to-day by the arrest of a woman, named Mrs. Taylor, on a charge of having attempted to murder Michael Whelan. ...
Article : 163 wordsSir,—You recently published a report of an interview with Ministers by a deputation on behalf of sleeper-hewers, and reference has been made in Parliament ...
Article : 190 wordsThe blasting operations that are in progress on the eastern side of Gibraltar have disclosed a mammoth cave 350ft. long by 70ft. high. The cave abounds ...
Article : 49 wordsThe King of Italy has arrived at Potsdam. His Majesty, who was effusively welcomed by the Kaiser, will make a great; State entry into Berlin to-day. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe P. and O. Company, the Orient Company, the New Zealand Shipping Company, the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company the Messageries-Maritimes, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Melbourne Typographical Society has determined to send out two unemployed printers in order to see whether or not the men can earn a fair living by ...
Article : 73 wordsA Spanish anarchist has been arrested at Nice. It is reported that he was under orders to kill the German Kaiser. ...
Article : 34 wordsNotwithstanding the refusal of the Victorian Ministry to allow members of rifle clubs to travel on the railways free of charge under certain conditions, Sir ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Premier made a statement as to the Ministerial position consequent on the adverse vote on the income-tax proposal ...
Article : 62 wordsIn the Campbell railway action to-day, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant, and also found that Campbell was identical with the man who was ...
Article : 64 wordsThe New Zealand Government lately applied to the British Admiralty to raise its subsidy to the Calliope dock, at Auckland, to £150,000, such subsidy to ...
Article : 46 wordsFurther evidence was taken to-day at the inquest concerning the death of W. H. L. Ranking, of Tinderry Station. Drs. McKillop and Burkett were ...
Article : 67 wordsAn outbreak of ruffianism is reported from Paris. Gangs of "Hooligans" are said to be daily indulging in fighting among ...
Article : 50 wordsRachel Samel, the young woman who was alleged to have killed her newlyborn child on Monday afternoon, by placing it in a grate and setting fine to ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. McGowan moved—"That, in the opinion of this House, the Government should establish State ironworks." The ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. and Mrs. Seddon have visited Dublin, where they were the guests of the Earl of Meath. ...
Article : 26 wordsOn Wednesday evening last a number of Cue citizens tendered a farewell social to Mr. W. H. Greenard, Inspector of Mines, who has been transferred from ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Council of Churces has resolved to ask the Federal Government to invite the people of the Commonwealth to observe Sunday, September 7. as a day of ...
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Family Notices : 42 wordsIn the Leonora Police Court to-day four persons were fined £30 each, with costs, on charges of sly-grog selling Several other prosecutions are pending. ...
Article : 29 wordsA cyclone has occurred at Majorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands, in the Mediterranean Sea. Many houses have been destroyed. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 29 Aug 1902, Page 5
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