The New South Wales 3 per cent. loan of £1,500,000 has been fully subscribed at about 1¾ per cent. premium. ...
Article : 96 wordsMr. F. H. Piesse, the Director of Public Works, arrived from Kalgoorlie in a special train at 10 o'clock this morning. He was ...
Article : 855 wordsThe Postmaster-General, seeing the success which has attended the telephonic communication between Newcastle and Sydney, has decided ...
Article : 52 wordsAnother heat wave is passing over the colony. In Melbourne yesterday the thermometer registered 109 in the shade, and at Geelong ...
Article : 64 wordsIn consequence of the report from Major Machonald, who is in command of the punitive expedition against Mwanga in Uganda ...
Article : 83 wordsIn Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, it is reported that the "mother lode" has been discovered at Klondyke, and that it is ...
Article : 423 wordsA young woman named Florrie Everard was seriously burned on the head and neck while endeavoring to extinguish a fire in a shed ...
Article : 50 wordsThere is a man in Scotland who used to write many readable and constructive things. He signed himself "A Country Parson," and a ...
Article : 789 wordsTo-day the Governor, Lord Gormanston, laid the foundations-stone of the new Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum, which is intended to ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Treasurer (Mr. Holder) left to-day to Attend the meeting of the Federal Finance Committee in Melbourne. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Telegraph Department has accepted tenders for the supply of 50 bicycles to be used by telegraph messengers. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Justice Hood granted a rul[?]nisi to-day in an application to review the decision of the Licensing Court granting a wine licence to ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Chas. Bendin PowelL, another of the earliest settlers in the colony, died to-day at the age of 88 years. He arrived in the colony in the year ...
Article : 45 wordsBush fires are still burning in all directions. The atmosphere is hazy, and the weather is warm. A strong seabreeze is blowing, but ...
Article : 128 wordsThe proceedings of the Scientific Congress yesterday consisted chiefly of he reading of papers and the discussions thereon. Among the ...
Article : 102 wordsCount M. de Leontieff, the Russian who was recently appointed by Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia to be Governor-General of the equatorial ...
Article : 60 wordsThe London "Daily News" of to-day has published a sensational article on the condition of Persia, which country, it is alleged, in on ...
Article : 40 wordsThe latest bulletin regarding the condition of Mr. Thomas Worsnop, the Adelaide town clerk, who is Buffering from jaundice and ...
Article : 35 wordsA trial shipment of apples under the cool air process is to be gent to London shortly. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe body of a newly-born female child was found in the Port Melbourne Lagoon. There was a wound in the back of the head, from which ...
Article : 34 wordsThe residents of Clare and the surrounding districts propose to, erect a memorial to the late Mr. P. P. Gillen, who died suddenly from ...
Article : 42 wordsItaly has forestalled Russia by occupying Raheita, a coastal town in Somaliland. ...
Article : 17 wordsAt the Redfern Police Court a number of cases have been heard, which on the part of the "push" ...
Article : 106 wordsIn the Perth Police Court yesterday H. E. Crawley, on remand, was charged with having obtained £25 from Mrs. J.M. Glass by means of ...
Article : 384 wordsThe debris of the ruins of Messrs. Sargood, Butler, Nichol, and Ewen's warehouse caught fire to-day. Dense volumes of smoke brought ...
Article : 66 wordsThe explanation put forward by Sir Christopher Furness of his attitude to the engineering strike has satisfied the engineers, and the ...
Article : 223 wordsWith reference to the request of the Imperial Government t Australia to assist in fitting out an expedition to the Antare[?]ic regions ...
Article : 46 wordsThe London "Daily Chronicle" of this morning asserts that some 40,000 dervishes are gathered together at Omdurman and 20,000 ...
Article : 49 wordsCount Esterhazy has been unanimously acquitted of the charge of having had treacherous relations with a foreign power. The ...
Article : 72 wordsThe promised change came this morning, when the thermometer dropped to 84deg. in the shade. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe banking returns for the fourth, quarter of 1897 are now complete. Eleven, backs doing business in Victoria furnished averages ...
Article : 69 wordsA number of applications for special facilities and assistance hare been made to the Railway Commissioners by stock-owners who wish, ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Societe Anonyme du Cercledes Etrangers de Monaco has arranged to pay to Prince Albert of Monaco an additional sum of ...
Article : 133 wordslately there have been quite a number of escapes from the girls' reformatory. It was reported to-night that two had been added to ...
Article : 44 wordsLast night a fire broke out in the tannery of Mr. J. C. Steele, situate in Macauley-road, North Melbourne. Before assistance could be ...
Article : 52 wordsCommander Arthur Ward Torlesse, assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, has been appointed to the command of H.M.S. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Colonial Secretary has made arrangements for a trial of deep sea fishing on the coasts, and trawling operations are to be carried on ...
Article : 38 wordsA rather startling allegation was made at a meeting of the shareholders of the National Building Society to-night. It appears that ...
Article : 120 wordsBoth the Canadians and the Americans denounce the recently enacted restriction in the United States which aims at the ...
Article : 298 wordsNo word has been received of the steamer Rob Roy, which left Brisbane on Sunday for Rockhampton. The steamer Adelaide, which ...
Article : 41 wordsTo-day the Marine Board discussed the accident to the Innamincka, and decided that the matter be remitted to the Marine Court for ...
Article : 65 wordsThe delay in completing the negotiations for a Chinese loan in London is attributed to the dilatoriness of the Chinese authorities ...
Article : 36 wordsWhen the steamer Katoomba was proceeding down the river yesterday, the current carried her against the barque Cairnsmore. ...
Article : 25 wordsSir Matthew White-Ridley, the Home Secretary, addressed a meeting of his constituents last night at Fleetwood, in Lancashire. He ...
Article : 105 wordsCommunication by telegraph throughout the colony has been interfered with owing to the floods. At Brisbane the river is still rising ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 14 Jan 1898, Page 1
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