The End of the Session.—It is hoped that sufficient progress will be made with the business before the two Houses during to-day and the first day or two of ...
Article : 3,989 wordsThe s.s. Machaon, of the Alfred Holt Co., arrived this evening from the Eastern colonies on her way to London, Hall, and Antwern, with wool. The vessel is ...
Article : 356 wordsThe Monowai, from Sydney, made one of the fastest trips on record, namely, three days nineteen hours. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe South Australian missionaries, Miss Chapman and Miss Way, are reported to be safe at Taiyuen-fu, the capital of the province of Shan-si. ...
Article : 98 wordsSignor Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, has, it is announced, discovered a means of controlling the air waves. It is claimed that this ...
Article : 89 wordsFresh finds of coal, copper, gold and diamonds have been made in the Transvaal, within 20 miles of Pretoria. It is stated that Mr. Kruger has been ...
Article : 60 wordsYesterday, Mr. Kruger and M. Waldeck-Rousseau, the French Premier, exchanged brief interviews. In neither case did the audience last more than ...
Article : 1,459 wordsThe credit of putting up a West Australian record for stonewalling—if it be possible that credit can attach to su[?] a proceeding—belongs to the Legislative ...
Article : 1,302 wordsThe case of the boy Charles Frederick, against whom sentence of death was recorded at Maryborough last month for criminal assault on a girl, was considered ...
Article : 47 wordsLord Wolseley, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, will relinquish that position on Friday. General Sir Evelyn Wood will act as ...
Article : 37 wordsSir Langdon Bonython, of Adelaide, is inspecting the Technical Institutions in Paris. He was much impressed with what he ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Rev. W. G. Marsh, rector of St. Luke's Adelaide, has been appointed Australasian delegate to the jubilee celebrations of the American Y.M.C.A., to ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Russian naval budget for 1901 has been increased from 60,000,000 to 97,000,000 roubles. It is intended to build five ironclads ...
Article : 42 wordsCaptain Duff and Mrs. Corbett are attending Lady Hopetoun, who is suffering from fever at Colombo. The Countess hopes to be able to ...
Article : 42 wordsThe United States warship Kentucky has been sent to Smyrna to enforce the appointment of an American Consul at Kharput in Armenia, where several ...
Article : 43 wordsQuotations compare with those of a fortnight ago as follows. The figures for the earlier period are given in parentheses:— ...
Article : 129 wordsThe body of a man who was decapitated by a train at North Essendon last evening, has been identified as that of Robert Watson, a sand carter, 35 years ...
Article : 159 wordsWaziristan, a highland country between the Gomul and Kurram Passes, in the north-west of India, has been blockaded by British-Indian troops. ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. John Long, the United States Secretary to the Navy, will, it is understood, recommend Congress to authorise the construction of two new ...
Article : 39 wordsThe inquiry into the cause of the fire at the Golden West Restaurant on Thursday last, was resumed this morning, before Mr. E. P. Dowley, R.M., Coroner, ...
Article : 735 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, the Attorney-General introduced a Bill providing for a Public Service Classification Board, the board to inspect each ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Legislative Council to-night passed the Excise Duties Bill. Mr. Wise moved the second reading of the Women's Suffrage Bill. He admitted that he had ...
Article : 328 wordsThe Assembly to-day passed the Legitimation Bill through Committee. The Legislative Council passed the Old Age Pensions Bill. The House ...
Article : 291 wordsThe quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,105,000 bushels, and for the Continent 1,145,000 bushels. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn the summons division of the City Police Court to-day, Henry Daniels, who represented Cambooya in the labour interest in the last Parliament, presented ...
Article : 126 wordsA week ago the Attorney-General wrote to Mr. Oliver the Federal Capital Commissioner, for his views regarding the relation of the State which had to ...
Article : 300 wordsA meeting of the protectionist members of the Legislative Assembly, who are united in offering themselves for election to the Federal Parliament, was ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Boyce, counsel for "Jimmy" Governor at the trial last week, asked the Judge to reserve certain points for the decision of the Full Court in connection ...
Article : 141 wordsA destructive fire occurred this morning in Argent-street, six shops being burned down and another partially gutted. The fire broke out in a fruit shop, ...
Article : 210 wordsA man, whose pro-Boer sympathies found vent in the destruction of a specimen of illustrated war incidents, was charged at the City Court to-day with ...
Article : 99 wordsThe hearing of the charge against Ernest R. Abigail, solicitor, of attempting to persuade a person to make a false statements in the Conningham divorce ...
Article : 160 wordsA line-repairer named M. Cooney left Kiandra on Thursday last with a telephone for Yarrangobilly Caves, and as nothing was subsequently heard of him ...
Article : 60 wordsThe organising committee in connection with the Commonwealth inauguration celebrations has decided to recommend to the Government that, instead of ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Premier to-night forwarded authority to the Agent-General to sign the contract for the acceptance of the tender for the Pacific cable. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe divorce suit Scott v. Scott, in which the wife petitioned for divorce for desertion, was further heard to-day by Mr. Justice Hood. The petition was ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the course of a speech at St. Kilda to-night, Sir George Turner stated that when he retires from the Premiership to seek a seat in the Federal Parliament, he ...
Article : 56 wordsJohn Robertson, a member of the second Queensland contingent, who returned two months ago from South Africa, committed suicide at ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Mines Department has received a telegram from the Warden at Clermont notifying that payable gold has been discovered at Fiddlers' Creek, five miles ...
Article : 36 wordsThe inquest was concluded to-day on the bodies of the two men, Fenen Steen and Robert Irving, who were killed by the explosion of a steampipe at the Carlisle ...
Article : 75 wordsAt a meeting of the executive of the Amalgamated Miners' Association at Bendigo to-day, attention was devoted to the discussion of the Chiltern strike ...
Article : 137 wordsAn Austrian named Govan Raduneich, aged 31 years, was killed at the Paddington Consols mine this afternoon by a fall of mullock while working in the stopes. ...
Article : 35 wordsAn old man named David Bush was ki[?]ed by a train at the railway crossing near Bowden this afternoon. ...
Article : 29 wordsAn unknown man was run over by a train and cut to pieces near Broadmeadows to-night. ...
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Advertising : 1,178 wordsThe first Wesleyan Floral and Industrial Exhibition was opened to-day by Mr. J. Ewing, and was a great success. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe late discovery of water in a cave at Eucla has lately been visited by a large party. one of which, an old resident of the district. well acquainted ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 29 Nov 1900, Page 5
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