At the adjourned conference of the South Australian Federal delegates to-day the arrangements for the Federal campaign were discussed, and a further ...
Article : 79 wordsAt the Cue Police Court on Wednesday a young man named Frank Coleman was committed for trial on a change of having broken into and stolen from the ...
Article : 42 wordsAt Broken Hill to-day Robert James, a shift boss at the Central mine, was killed by a fall of ore in the stopes at the 400ft. level A shot was fired, and ...
Article : 80 wordsIt is reported from Washington that there is a danger of the Republican "Jingoes" in Congress combining with the Democratic party to pass a ...
Article : 46 wordsA formidable palace conspiracy has been discovered at Peking, and it is said to imperil some of the highest personages at the Court of the Emperor. The ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Registrar of the Adelaide University has received a cable message from London confirming the statement published a week ago that Mr. Frederick ...
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Article : 159 words"The Journal of St. Petersburg," which is the organ of the Minister of the Foreign Office, declares that the occupation of Wei-hai-Wei by the British ...
Article : 71 wordsGeneral F. Lee, the American representative at Havana, reports that some 200,000 of the peasantry in Cuba have died from starvation. Horrible details ...
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Article : 327 wordsA crowded meeting of citizens was held to-day for the purpose of forming an Anti-Convention Bill League. The principal speakers were Sir Julian Salomons ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. Richard Butler, the new Minister of Education and Agriculture, was sworn in to-day. Dr. Cockburn will not be formally appointed Agent-General till ...
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Article : 81 wordsThe Foreign Relations Committees in the American Senate and House of Representatives are discussing the President's message to Congress. The ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Emperor of China, in replying to the reference by the Czar of Russia to the cementing of the ties of friendship between the two countries, alludes to an ...
Article : 39 wordsRepresentatives of the whole of the shipping companies engaged in the intercolonial trade waited on the Minister of Agriculture to-day regarding the ...
Article : 96 wordsAlthough the railway passenger traffic showed a substantial increase during the Easter holidays over that for the previous year, there was a decrease in the ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. W. J. Lyne, M.L.A., the leader of the Opposition, addressed a crowded meeting in the Masonic hall to-night on the federation question. The Mayor ...
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Article : 50 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on the body of John Anderson, seaman, who fell into the river at the Port on Easter Monday. The evidence revealed ...
Article : 88 wordsHenry Williams, a colored man, who came over to Albany from Sydney with the launch The Bruce, was drunk and disorderly in Stirling-terrace on Tuesday ...
Article : 77 wordsPercy Cavill, the Australian amateur champion swimmer, has Bailed in the R.M.S. Ophir for England to compete for the championships there. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe London "Times" says that the Russian Government is expediting the construction of the trans-Siberian railway, and that in consequence of the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe yearling sales were concluded to-day at Randwick, 87 lots realising 5748 guineas. The highest figure was 400 guineas for a brother of Toreador, who ...
Article : 105 wordsEdward Hopkins died suddenly at Alice Springs from poisoning. He took what he thought was fruit salt, bat it was really strychnine contained in a ...
Article : 36 wordsThe A.N.A. Conference came to a close on Tuesday night. Yesterday the various delegates were shown round the town, and in the afternoon they were ...
Article : 181 wordsThe twenty-fifth half-yearly meeting of the Manchester Ship Canal Company was held at Manchester recently, Mr. J. K. Bythell presiding. The chairman ...
Article : 505 wordsAt the second trial of Emile Zola in "Connection with the Dreyfus affair, the change against the famous novelist will be confined to the imputation which he ...
Article : 98 wordsThere is much popular feeling in Spain against any surrender of Spanish rights in the Cuba affair. In Madrid and other towns very ...
Article : 64 wordsTo-day at Port Pirie 11 of the crew of the Scottish. Minstrel who behaved so riotously were brought before the court Ten were sentenced to two months' ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Premier addressed a meeting in the Town-hall at St. Kilda to-night for the purpose of explaining the Constitution Bill, and stating the position the ...
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Article : 286 wordsA meeting of the Executive was held to-day, and subsequently a "Gazette Extraordinary" was issued notifying that the resignation of Sir Hugh Nelson, had ...
Article : 194 wordsTo-day a respectable young married woman named Annie Holland, whose husband is in Western Australia, was found in her house in Almond-place ...
Article : 101 wordsMadrid is quieter. The Spanish Premier, Senor Sagasta, has expressed the opinion that the message of President M'Kinley is sot hostile ...
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Article : 35 wordsThe Spanish Government has bought two of the finest steamers of the Hamburg-American line. The vessels are suitable for being transformed into ...
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Article : 45 wordsIt is reported from Sierra Leone that renewed fighting has taken place in the hinterland, and that fifty men in the West Indian Regiment are missing. ...
Article : 33 wordsA hitch has occurred in connection with the trial of Field Barrett, solicitor, on a charge of having received £.200, the property of H. G. Searle. Several ...
Article : 80 wordsGray's Australian starting machine is being adopted on the German race courses. In Austria and Hungary a local invention of a similar nature is ...
Article : 47 wordsA German-Belgian company has been formed to promote the construction of a railway from the Caspian Sea to Teheran, the capital of Persia. ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is understood that Sir Hugh Nelson previously to hie retirement forwarded a circular letter to the Premiers of the other colonies on the subject of the ...
Article : 172 wordsAt an inquest on the body of a youth named Thomas Edgar, who died from a gunshot Wound in the knee, caused by a gun held by his companion having gone ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the Coolgardie Police Court on Wednesday John Donnelly pleaded not guilty to a charge of having on the 5th inst. feloniously uttered a bank note ...
Article : 509 wordsEighty-six students and socialist agitators have been arrested at St. Petersburg. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Customs officers seized on the steamer Airlie to-day a quantity of goods alleged not to hare been, declared. A quantity of Maltese lace, alleged ...
Article : 45 wordsQueen Victoria, who is at Cimiez, in the South of France, has made arrangements for an interview to-day with M. Felix Fsure, the President of the French ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Jews of the United States are said to have had, or are about to have, a novel suggestion made to them. It is that they shall approximate their Sabbath to ...
Article : 111 wordsOn Friday the Bank of Victoria will repay another 20 per cent. of its long dated deposits. When the operation is completed the institution will have ...
Article : 68 wordsIn accordance with the notification which was given last month, the Austrian naval and military forces have left Crete. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 15 Apr 1898, Page 1
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