During the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Jones from their house in Porter-street, Kalgoorlie, on Monday afternoon, some thieves opened the bedroom door, and ...
Article : 142 wordsThe three stowaways in the train yesterday were fined to-day for having travelled without tickets. They were allowed to proceed, as they were not ...
Article : 92 words"Kitty" an aboriginal girl, 16 years of age, was charged before Mr. R. C. Loftie, acting R.M., and Messrs. C. M'Kenzie, W. G. Knight, and Graham ...
Article : 210 wordsRios, the Spanish, agent, is negotiating with the insurgents for the release of the Spanish prisoners. The Americans hare been ordered to ...
Article : 40 wordsLord Kitchener has telegraphed from Khartoum thai, the allegations made by Mr. Bennett, the correspondent of the "Wesminster Gazette," that the ...
Article : 63 wordsA man named Hill suffered a fearful death to-day at Bingara. A mass of earth fell on him, and while he was helpless a swarm of ants assailed him ...
Article : 59 wordsTen of the merchant guilds at Amoy (a treaty port in the province of Tokien) have sent petitions to the German Government to be allowed to take out ...
Article : 61 wordsA trolly, laden with quarry machinery, was descending a steep gradient at Willunga to-day, when the brake broke. The horses bolted, and the driver, a man ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Board of Exports has received an offer from an English firm to negotiate for a supply of colonial honey and beeswax. ...
Article : 25 wordsH.M.S. Orlando, formerly flagship on the Australian station, and H.M.S. St. George have been ordered to join the China Squadron. ...
Article : 64 wordsSenator William B. Frye, of Maine, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, has absolutely confirmed the policy of the open door in the Philippines. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Savings Bank returns for December show an increase of deposite over repayments of £8,794. ...
Article : 20 wordsLord Cromer, the British Agent in Egypt, and Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, the Sirdar, gave an audience yesterday to the shieks (the tribal leaders) ...
Article : 261 wordsThe intercolonial cricket match, South Australia v. New South Wales, was commenced to-day. The weather was perfect, but the wicket was only ...
Article : 288 wordsFrederick Colman, a member of the firm of Lee and Co., of Maitland, died suddenly from poisoning. At the inquest to-day, an open verdict was ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Marine Board has refused Mr. Lund's request to allow his shipmasters to qualify for pilotage exemption certiucates in respect of Port Adelaide. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Early Closing Act is being enforced in town. The ordinary shops suspend business at 6 p.m. The hair-dressers release their employes at 7.30 ...
Article : 39 wordsGeneral Otis suspects that Agirinaldo, the rebel leader, is plotting to attack Manila. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe stock-owners in the Hunter district are becoming alarmed at the spread of ticks to the southward, and are urging the Government to take ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. T. H. Jones, Mus. Bac, has been offered the position of organist om St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, in succession to the late Mr. Neville Barnett. It is ...
Article : 36 wordsThe British Government is about to purchase a portion of the island which is leased from the Chinese, and dominates the harbor of Wei-hai-wei. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe new gun invented by Dr. R. J. Gatling has burst. [It iras reported last month that Dr. Catling's latest invention had been ...
Article : 44 wordsThe next animal conference of the Roads Boards of the colony will be held at Coolgardie during the currency of the Exhibition. ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Bishop of Near Guinea, in a letter, described the recent hurricane. Hie states that the mission lost, its boats and twelve months' provisions. ...
Article : 28 wordsA fatal accident occurred on Jan, 6 at the Queen Margaret mine, when trucker, named Michael Corbett, was smothered in a pass. The deceased was ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. J. Chitleborough has been appointed secretary of the Sporting League of South Australia* ...
Article : 17 wordsThe federal delegates held another meeting today, and further discussed the New Sooth Wales Parliamentary resolutions. The decisions arrived at ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Comtesse De Martel, a. French authoress, has been fined 5,000 franca (£200) for having libelled M. Trarioux, the ex-Minister of Justice, in connection ...
Article : 38 wordsA lad named Hill, 15 years of age, of Wundal, has mysteriously disappeared. He left for Goodna, riding a pony, on a visit to a relative, over a fortnight ...
Article : 94 wordsAdmiral Palumbo, the Italian Minister of Marine, has announced that the Government is about to construct two battleships and six others. ...
Article : 29 wordsInterest is being aroused over the Parliamentary elections. The ballot for Labor candidates, 22 of whom are wanted, will close next week. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe first meeting of the newly-appointed School Board was held on Tuesday, Mr. E. Edwards and the Rev. E. Williams being reappointed chairman ...
Article : 326 wordsIt is said that the Court of Cassation complete its inquiry into the Dreyfus case by the end of January. ...
Article : 35 wordsC. A. Sampson, die strong man, has challenged Professor Miller to a weightlifting contest. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe case of John Gray, who was charged with Joseph Ettershank with the robbery of a Gladstone bag containing about £60 from the Shamrock Hotel ...
Article : 377 wordsThe Rot. A. R. Edgar, the Westeyan Methodist clergyman, and "Major" Eddy, will return to Melbourne in the R.M.S. Oceana and the gteamer Naming ...
Article : 31 wordsA Chinese cook employed by Messrs M'Donald Fisher, and Co. did not turn up to work on Thursday morning. The police were informed of his absence, and ...
Article : 88 wordsThe following Australian horses have been nominated for the principal handicans to be run next season:— Lincolnshire Handicap.—Uniform ...
Article : 75 wordsOver 500 persons inspected the head of the victim of the boot-box tragedy to-day, and were unsuccessful in identifying it. Three hundred police ...
Article : 64 wordsAccording to the London "Times," Lord Crooner, the British Agent at Cairo, has made the plainest assertion of British sovereign rights In the Soudan that ...
Article : 38 wordsSince Friday week the residents of Fremantle have felt somewhat anxious owing to the fact that "Jack" Baker, who escaped from the Fremantle Prison ...
Article : 309 wordsLord Hopetoyn, who was Governor of Victoria from 1889 to 1895, has been appointed Chancellor of the Royal Viotorian Order. ...
Article : 47 wordsColonel D. F. Lewis has rooted the dervishes of Ahmed Fedil on an island near Roseires, on the Blue Nile, killing 500, and capturing 1,500. The Maxim ...
Article : 194 wordsA rather extraordinary case came on for hearing before Mr. A. S. Roe, P.M., at the Perth Police Court on Jan. 6 when. Agnes Howland, a domestic ...
Article : 478 wordsTo-day, four persons were fined £100 each, for having had in their possession i goods on which Customs duty had not been paid. It is alleged that die goods ...
Article : 57 wordsArrivals.—Steamer Indramayo, 2,709 tons, from Wellington; steamer Gulf of Genoa, 2,175 tons, from Melbourne; steamer Maori, 4,155 tons, from ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. Powell Clayton, the envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Mexico for the United States, has been installed in the position of ambassador. ...
Article : 246 wordsAt the adjourned inquest held to-day on William Arnold, who died from, injuries caused by boiling pitch, a verdict of accidental death was returned. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe body of an unknown woman, was found to-day in the Yarra at Abbotsford. ...
Article : 17 wordsThere was a large audience at the Opera House to-night, in the expectation that there would be trouble. Nothing exciting occurred. Sampson, the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Spinaway, bound from Hong Kong to Fremanile, has effected repairs to her leaks at Esquimault, B.C., and has re-started (or Fremanile, after ...
Article : 60 wordsThe monthly meeting of the Helena Vale Municipal Council and Local Board of Health was held on Thursday night. There were present—The Mayor (Mr. F. ...
Article : 178 wordsIn regard to Mr. Reid's letter, Sir EL i W. C. Braddon thinks that the Premiers, should consider the amendments, with a view to arriving at an agreement that ...
Article : 90 wordsSamory, the rebel chief, who has given so much trouble in West Africa, has been banished from the Congo Free State. ...
Article : 222 wordsWriting from Hawarden on behalf of Mrs.Gladstone and herself, Mrs. Drew has pent the following sympathetic letter to the secretary of the Cretan Celebration ...
Article : 248 wordsNews received from Apia states that litigation concerning the election of a king is still proceeding. One of Matasfa's chiefs has threatened to assassinate the ...
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Advertising : 150 wordsHis Excellency the Governor of Victoria, Lord Brassey. and party, have made an enjoyable tour of the colony. They will leave for Melbourne ...
Article : 28 wordsMelbourne, January 6.—There are heavy supplies of butter of doubtful quality; factory is Is to Is. lid. There is an improved demand for eggs, at a ...
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Advertising : 103 wordsMr. S. BL Gollan has sold the racing mare Triant D'Eau to an English buyer. The amount has not been disclosed. ...
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Advertising : 30 wordsA Melbourne syndicate is interesting, itself in the copper deposits in the Auckland district. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 13 Jan 1899, Page 6
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