The recent order from the British Admiralty for armor plates assures two years' work for leading works in Sheffield. ...
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Article : 82 wordsThe steamer Warnambool, which left Sydney on October 29, has sailed from Cape Town for London. ...
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Article : 33 wordsThe British Admiralty has directed that all repairs to the ships of the Channel Squadron are to be effected by January 14. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe demand which Mr. W. Conyngham Greene, C.B., the British agent at Pretoria, made on President Kruger for the dismissal of a field cornet at ...
Article : 95 wordsThe holidays passed off quietly. Heavy rain fell and interrupted all sporting events. ...
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Article : 39 wordsChristopher Evans was killed at Peak Hill by a falling tree. ...
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Article : 63 wordsChristmas Day passed off quietly. The usual church, services were held. On Boxing Day the principal city attractions were the races. There was also a ...
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Article : 37 wordsCanada has agreed to share five-ninths of the cost of the construction of the Pacific cable on. terms of equality with Britain. ...
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Article : 26 wordsThe intercolonial cricket match, victoria v. New South. Wales, was commenced on Saturday. Worrell's innings was one of the best ever seen on a bad wicket ...
Article : 774 wordsThe Austrian Government has expressed to Prussia, its regret at the threat of Count Thun-Hohenstein, the Austrian Premier, who recently declared ...
Article : 46 wordsFive thousand British subjects marched to the residence of the British, vice-consul of Johannesburg, and handed to him the petition, which has been ...
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Article : 21 wordsRas Mangascia, the Abyssinian rebel chief, has implored the Emperor Menelik to pardon him. [It was reported a fortnight ago that ...
Article : 46 wordsThe season's railway wool traffic shows a decrease of 22,362 bales from July 1 to date. ...
Article : 19 wordsMajor Marchand is about to ascend the Bahr-el-Ghazal River, east of Darfur. ...
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Article : 45 wordsAs the steamer Paroo was leaving for Sydney she lost her propeller. Her passengers were transferred to the steamer Pilbarra. ...
Article : 25 wordsTwo of the principal leaders of the Opposition in the Hungarian Parliament, Herr Kossuth and Dr. Apponyi, declare that the party will accept the Provisional ...
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Article : 376 wordsMadame Paulmier has been fined £600 for having shot M. Olivier, the sub-editor of "La Lanterne," a Paris journal. ...
Article : 66 wordsPrince Ranjitsinghi, the famous cricketer, will return from India in April. ...
Article : 18 wordsA man named Webber, formerly a miner at Walhalla, and lately living at Northcote, committed suicide by shooting himself on Christmas morning. It ...
Article : 50 wordsA treaty has been concluded between Abyssinia and Italy. The Emperor Menelik recognises the present frontiers of the Italian colony of Erythrea, with ...
Article : 43 wordsThe local option poll at Gladstone, which rejected the proposal to issue further licences, has been upset, owing to the result not having been forwarded to ...
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Article : 54 wordsThe President of the Court of Cassation has interrogated . M. Dupuy, the Premier, on the Dreyfus case. ...
Article : 28 wordsH. Horanszki, the President of the National party in the Hungarian. Diet, crossly insulted Baron Banffy, the Premier, and accused him of deceit. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Prussians threaten to transfer to the guardianship of Gennano-philes, those children of Schleswig parents that are sent to Danish schools. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn the police court to-day three men were remanded to Thursday on a charge of having picked a woman's pocket in the crowd at the Semaphore station on ...
Article : 57 wordsThe recommendation made by the anti-anarchic conference in Rome, that an international bureau should be established, linking the police departments ...
Article : 40 wordsIt has been ascertained that M. Emile Zola has been living in an English village during the past five months. ...
Article : 27 wordsMichael O'Neil was drowned while bathing in a creek at Darebin, where he was staying for a holiday. He resided at North Melbourne. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe proposed duel between Baron Banffy and Herr Horanszki has been abandoned, the latter having refused to discontinue his revelations, and having ...
Article : 46 wordsGermany insists that the new Anglo-German commercial treaty must allow German goods to enter British colonies on terms of equality with British goods. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Customs Department statistics are important. They show that since 1888 there has been a steady decrease in the importation of tea from China ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Spanish marshals, Campos and Blanco, and other marshals of the army are strongly opposing the entry of Marshal Weyler into the Cabinet. ...
Article : 44 wordsBrown, a seaman on the steamer Pilbarra, has been presented with a testimonial by the passengers for having saved a lady passenger who fell ...
Article : 38 wordsMiss Florence Young, the Australian actress, who was formerly a member of the Royal Cornier Opera Company, has scored a success in the pantomime of ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is intended to convert Wake Island (which, is situated south of the Anson Archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean, and was recently seized by the United States) ...
Article : 41 wordsThe College of Cardinals has protested in an allocution against the persecution of the clergy. The protest apparently refers to the vigilance of the Italian ...
Article : 48 wordsThe helping-hand mission in connection with the Seventh Day Adventists was formally opened to-day. The head-quarters of the mission are at Chicago ...
Article : 68 wordsAt the inquest held to-day on the infant of James Walker, which died suddenly, die evidence showed that death was due to suffocation. The mother ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Ameer of Afghanistan has written a letter to the Indian Government to inform it that he expects it to cheek tie incursions from Waziristan, a district ...
Article : 42 wordsMiss Nellie Stewart, the well-known Australian actress, who is playing the part of the principal boy in the Drurylane pantomime, has achieved a great ...
Article : 41 wordsTwo powerful American corporations are seeking for a concession from the American Government to lay a cable from America to China via Hawaii, the ...
Article : 34 wordsThe vessel Wana Wana has been wrecked off Samara during a cyclone. The owners, Messrs. Wittenon Bros, and Kennedy, are safe, but the boats have ...
Article : 36 wordsMany of the smaller offenders in the Milan riots have been amnestied. The public sent about a quarter of a million post-cards to the Government ...
Article : 38 wordsA splendid collection of wild animals and birds was received to-day from Calcutta for the Zoological Gardens. ...
Article : 20 wordsNubar Pasha, the famous Egyptian statesman, is reported to be dying. ...
Article : 21 wordsIt is admitted that there has been a large increase in American exports to Canada, despite the fact that the Canadian tariff discriminates in favor of ...
Article : 35 wordsArrivals.—Steamer Afrikander, 1,793 tons, from Port Pine; steamer Kaikoara, 2,883 tons, from Wellington; slap Kilmorey, 1,569 tons, from ...
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Advertising : 119 wordsOwing to the expulsion of Russians from Germany the authorities at St. Petersburg have threatened to retaliate by expelling the German inhabitants of ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Boring Day railway receipts from the three city stations amounted to £4,016, as against £2,818 last Boxing Day. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe steamer Zalla, which was recently acquired by the Union Company, was wrecked on Friday off Sandy Cape about thirty miles north of Pieman ...
Article : 134 wordsThe death is announced of Dr. Thomas Nulty, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Heath. (Ireland). [The deceased took a prominent part ...
Article : 67 wordsOn Sunday night it was reported to the Beaconsfield police that a man named Alexander Johnson, had been seriously stabbed, and it was alleged that his ...
Article : 185 wordsAn Order-in-Council has been made reducing the period of quarantine for sheep and cattle from British possessions from, 60 to 40 days. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Russian Government has failed in its attempt to place a loan of 90,000,000dol. (about £18,000,000) with the bankers in the United States. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe conference of Ministers of Agriculture, to be held on January 12, will discuss the rates of ocean freight on perishable produce to London, and a ...
Article : 34 wordsThe North German Lloyd Steamship Company has removed its contract with ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 30 Dec 1898, Page 1
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