Appended is a list of the appointments that were made at Wednesday's meeting of the Executive Council:—Sheard ...
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Article : 149 wordsProfessor George Forbes, the famous electrical engineer, who recently "harnessed" Niagara, is now devoting his attention to the ...
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Article : 531 wordsAt the last sitting of the Raid Committee of the House of Commons, Major Sir John C. Willoughby, Bart., who had just been ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Convention Sat for only 13 minutes to-day. Sir John Forrest gave notice of his intention to apply for leave of ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Italian Government has intimated that it will not permit Admiral Canavero, who is in charge of the combined fleet, to command ...
Article : 40 wordsThe court opened shortly after 10 a.m. yesterday. Mr. Burnside, Crown Solicitor, appeared for the prosecution, Mr. Sayer ...
Article : 843 wordsOn Tuesday afternoon the opening of the Geraldton Gasworks took place in the presence of the Mayor and councillors of ...
Article : 320 wordsAthens is greatly excited, and the populace hurrah at the mention of the possibility of war. Matters are at present quiet on ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Leader of the Opposition, asked the Government to grant ...
Article : 103 wordsThe consignees consider that the bulk of the apples which have just been received from Victoria in the R.M.S. China were despatched too ...
Article : 94 wordsJohn Carter, 45, was found dead in Woodward-street this morning. The deceased was a miner, and had visited a store in the street, and ...
Article : 141 wordsSir J. Gordon Sprigg, K.C.M.G., Premier of Cape Colony, was examined before the Raid Committee of the House of Commons ...
Article : 62 wordsIn the constitutional committee the clause relating to the appointment of Ministers of State was accepted, except that it was made ...
Article : 157 wordsMr. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has made a statement to the effect that the case of Lieutenant Eloff ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Sultan of Zanzibar has now abolished the legal status of slavery, that is, the law under which slavery is permitted. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe House of Commons yesterday adopted a motion directing the attention of the Government to the question of the British food supply ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Congress of Venezuela has unanimously ratified the arbitration treaty under which the boundary dispute is to be submitted to ...
Article : 183 wordsAt a meeting of the Queen Margaret No. 1 South today Mr. Bright presided over a large attendance, and another lively scene ...
Article : 376 wordsThe death is announced of Canon Gregory, who was for many years incumbent of All Saints, St. Kilda (Vic). Canon Gregory was one of the ...
Article : 125 wordsAn extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Perth Gas Company, Limited, was held at the Town-hall yesterday ...
Article : 318 wordsMr. G. H. Reid states that he has bo desire to see Sydney the federal capital, but he suggests that it should be on neutral ...
Article : 42 wordsA man named Samuel Collins was severely injured at Moore's sewage contract at Richmond this afternoon. He was putting in a drive ...
Article : 81 wordsIt will be remembered that & settler on the Fitzroy was shot dead some six weeks ago by a number of natives, who were believed ...
Article : 382 wordsMr. O. Burt, Principal Under-Secretary, received a telegram from the Premier yesterday stating that Mr. J. W. Hackett, M.L.C., had ...
Article : 47 wordsMiss Marion Terry, a well-known , actress, and a sister of the famous Ellen Terry, has recovered £500 damages from the ...
Article : 70 wordsIt bas been arranged that Mr. Brown, the Government geologist, shall make an extended tour of the western borders of the province ...
Article : 130 wordsOwing to the absence of two of the Ministers, the consideration of the case of the condemned youth Phillips has been postponed for ...
Article : 46 wordsThe inquest on the body of Thompson, who was killed at Block 10 mine on Monday, was concluded last night, when a ...
Article : 86 wordsThe body of an elderly man was found in the Yarra to-day. There were several stones in his pockets, and two wounds on his head. A ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Solicitor-General has decided not to proceed further with the prosecution of Joseph Putt, a baker, who has stood three trials ...
Article : 35 wordsThe following are among to-day's London Stock Exchange quotations :—Bank of Australasia; £46 ; Union Bank of Australia ...
Article : 35 wordsA statue erected to the memory of Mr. J. Ballance, the late Premier of New Zealand, was unveiled to-day in the Parliamentary grounds ...
Article : 41 wordsA robbery under arms was committed by a man named Alfred Renard at Lower Longley last night. The place broken into was ...
Article : 197 wordsRain is very much wanted in the various parts of the country, and its continued absence is causing the outlook to become very ...
Article : 61 wordsThe House of Lords has passed the bill providing an amended scheme of reconstruction for the London Bank of Australia. ...
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Article : 137 wordsThe Barrier branch of the A.M.A. has voted £250 a week to the bootmakers' strike fund. ...
Article : 23 wordsA grand Australian fair in aid of St. Mary's Cathedral was opened by Cardinal Moran to-day in a building specially erected for the ...
Article : 120 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions to-day, Thomas Lawless. 55, was found guilty of an indecent assault on a small boy two years of age. ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Warrior Adelaide Company expects its winding plant every day, it having left Melbourne over a month ago. ...
Article : 95 wordsThe people of Memphis are appealing for relief for some 6,000 sufferers by the great flood at Memphis, on the left bank of the ...
Article : 84 wordsAfter having been locked up all night in the case against Constable Hammond, who was charged with a midnight assault, the jury were ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 9 Apr 1897, Page 1
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