The twenty-fifth annual conversazione of the Royal Colonial Institute, which was held on Wednesday evening in London, was attended by some 2,000 ...
Article : 157 wordsA boy named Gordon Herbert, who is 12 years old, and resides at Mount Gambier West, met with a painful accident. He was playing with ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Carlton Brewery Co. made a profit of £29,627 during its past year. Out of this, £26,077 was paid in in-terest on debentures. ...
Article : 31 wordsLord Salisbury has informed the Royal Geographical Society that the Government is unable to undertake an Antarctic expedition. ...
Article : 168 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly on June 30, the debate on the Address-in-Reply was resumed by Mr. Moran. He referred to the division, on the ...
Article : 2,754 wordsAdmiral Camara, the commander of the Spanish fleet which is en route to the philippines, has the suez Canal. ...
Article : 28 wordsMrs. Elizabeth Miller, a boarding house-keeper at Port Melbourne, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having attempted to procure a girl ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Americans are displaying great activity in Cuba. Thirteen thousand troops have gone to the front, and General W.R. ...
Article : 49 wordsThree men named [?] Prenderville, Matthew Daley, and Peter Murphy were committed for trial today on charges of common assault and ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Marine Board commenced an inquiry to-day regarding the grounding of the steamer Adelaide in the Port River on June 14.Captain Lockyer and the ...
Article : 111 wordsThe body of a newly-born female child, with a piece of tape tied tightly round its neck, was found in a drain at Northcote to-day. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe two American auxiliary cruisers the St.Louis and the St. Paul 11,629 tons each, chased the Spanish mail steamer Antonio Lopez, 3,709 ...
Article : 120 wordsReuter's Press Agency reports that the following Cabinet has been formed in Italy to succeed the Rudini Administration: -General Luigi Pelloux ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Public Service Board to-day delivered its decision on the charge of carelessness against Thomson, a drawback officer of the Customs ...
Article : 46 wordsThe following commissioners have been appointed by the Imperial Government to settle, in conjunction with the American representatives, the ...
Article : 114 wordsIn 1873 a loan of £160,000, at 4 per cent., was floated for the construction of the railway from Kingston to Narracoorte. The Savings Bank tendered for ...
Article : 84 wordsA young woman named Catherine Tolly was arrested at Nhill to-day on the suspicion of having murdered the infant, whose body was found at the ...
Article : 30 wordsThe German Colonial Association has protested against the alleged violation by Britain of German rights under the Niger Convention. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt a meeting of a number of members of the House of Commons.it was decided to introduce a bill to suppress the practice of extreme ritualism in the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Essendon District Dog and Poultry Society, which opened its show to-day, claims to have achieved a record for the colony in regard to the ...
Article : 55 wordsStill another pioneer of the colony has passed away, in the person of Mr Benjamin Ragless, of Wakefield-street. He arrived in 1838, and was engaged in stock-raising all his life. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe ship Galatea, bound from Hamburg for Sydney, has gone ashore at Yarmouth, and has been abandoned. [The Galatea is a three-masted vessel ...
Article : 82 wordsThe gipsies who began to tramp to Melbourne have evidently found the undertaking too great, for they have returned, and are now wandering ...
Article : 35 wordsA meeting of the Parliamentary Labor party was held to-day, the object being to discuss the attitude of its leader, Mr. Trenwith, over the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Russian Government is sending 1,500 troops to Port Arthur. ...
Article : 23 wordsPrince Ahmed Saafeddin, the Khedive's cousin, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for having attempted to murder his ...
Article : 54 wordsThe colony is threatened with the invasion of another pest, foxes having been seen in the vicinity of the city. A couple were lately killed at Glen Osmond, ...
Article : 37 wordsThe return of Victorian gold received at the Melbourne mint shows that in June 76,475.36oz. was received. The total for the six months was 398,177oz., ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Chinese Government has ordered the substitution of modern subjects for antique classical essays in the examinations for official degrees. ...
Article : 31 wordsNews has reached Adelaide of the death in Sussex (England)of Mr. Thos Martin, formerly of Adelaide, where he amassed an immense fortune. Under ...
Article : 152 wordsIt is announced that Messrs. William Moran and Company, tea and indigo merchants, of Mangoe Lane, Calcutta, have suspended payment. ...
Article : 26 wordsYesterday at the United Club, London, E.C., Lord Salisbury made an important political speech, in which he declared that, apart from the great ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Duke of Cambridge has accepted the position of president of the "Greater Britain" Exhibition, which is proposed to hold next year in the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe steamer Manawatu, which was sunk through a collision with the Edina, was raised to-day. ...
Article : 18 wordsMr. C. T. Ritchie, the President of the Board of Trade, intends to appoint a conciliator to intervene in the strike among the miners in South Wales. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe revenue returns were issued tonight, and show that the total receipts for the quarter were £704,421, and for the year £2,561,520, a decrease of ...
Article : 103 wordsThe visible supply of wheat in America, east of the Rocky Mountains, is 20,784,000 bushels, as against 23,240,000 bushels last week. ...
Article : 32 wordsMadame Melba re-appeared in grand opera at Covent Garden Theatre last night, and achieved an immense success. There was an enormous audience. ...
Article : 32 wordsAmong the passengers in the R.M.S. Oruba, bound for the west,was Mr. L. R. Menzie, the discoverer of the Menzies goldfields, who is going to settle ...
Article : 35 wordsA very serious accident occurred at the bicycle race meeting which was held yesterday at the Crystal Palace Sydenham, Lodonn. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe wheat market is slow, and there has been a fall of 6d a quarter. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Royal Commission to inquire into Mr. Levien's charges sat to-day, but little was done to advance the inquiry, as no witnesses were in attendance. ...
Article : 175 wordsOwing to the disturbances in connection with the anti-Semitic riots in Galicia, in Hungary, the province has been placed under martial law. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day competition was aminated. Prices for merino wool were well maintained at an advance on yesterday's quotations. For ...
Article : 111 wordsThe revenue returns were published to-night, and show satisfactory results. An increase of £250,000 was shown over the revenue of the ...
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Article : 118 wordsThe Bank of England rate of discount has been reduced to 2½ per cent. ...
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Article : 43 wordsNarrawin Station, situated 60 miles from Girilambone, with 17,060 cattle and horses, was submitted by auction to-day. It was sold for £16,000 to ...
Article : 33 wordsAt Broken Hill the treasurer of the hospital has received from a firm of Melbourne solicitors a cheque for £100, to be divided between the local hospital ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 8 Jul 1898, Page 2
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