The American cruiser Baltimore is hurrying with all speed to Tientsin, the port of Peking, in order to land troops to protect the American Legation ...
Article : 38 wordsIn the Legislative Council on Oct. 5 Mr. Kidson gave notice that he would move for leave to introduce a bill for the purpose of amending the Municipal ...
Article : 562 wordsAt the Nottingham meeting yesterday the chief race, the Nottingham Handicap, resulted as follows:— Nottingham Handicap, of 535 sovs. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe will of the late Captain Webb has been filed for probate. The estate is sworn at £28,275. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Home of the Good Shepherd is evidently a pet charity, or "The Sign of the Cross" would not have been neglected for the hotch-hotch, or ...
Article : 508 wordsThere were heavy seas at Greymouth to-day, and it is feared that the Mapourika has been damaged. ...
Article : 25 wordsLouis de Rougemont, the modern Crusoe, delivered a lecture yesterday at St. James's Hall, London. He bared his arms to the audience, in ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Russian Government is having a fast steamer built especially for trading to Eastern Asia. The vessel is expected to make the ...
Article : 40 wordsApplication was made in chambers to-day for bail to be allowed to Dr. and Mrs. Wilson, charged with murder in connection with an alleged illegal ...
Article : 64 wordsThe imports last rear amounted to nearly £8,000,000, and the exports to £9,700,000. ...
Article : 15 wordsIt is generally thought that a sufficiently strong team of cricketers to visit Australia cannot be found. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe recent hurricane in the West Indies did great damage at Barbados, where it is estimated that £37,000 will be required to re-build the cottages ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsA collision occurred to-day between the Newcastle coasting schooner Bessie Maud and the british India Company's steamer Virawa. The former was ...
Article : 46 wordsThe produce export depot shipped 2,557 lambs, 172 sheep, and 420 boxes of butter last week. ...
Article : 19 wordsPresident Kruger is enrolling 5,000 burghers against Nipefu, the rebel chief in Swaziland, but the British resident in the Transvaal have refused to obey ...
Article : 38 wordsJ. Treloar, of Cygnet River, was thrown, from his horse to-day through, the girths Josening. He struck his head on the road. One of his feet was ...
Article : 52 wordsThe servants of the Dowager-Empress arrested the Emperor when trying to escape from the palace at Peking. His Majesty, who has been ill and ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Reid, states that he hopes to get the federal resolutions disposed of before he delvers his Budget speech at the end of the present month. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe copper supplies to hand since the. date of the last report amounted to 20,657 tons, and the deliveries to 21,471 tons ; the stock is now 27,583 tons, and ...
Article : 43 wordsThe plague at Bombay is increasing. During the past week there have been 4,000 deaths in the presidency. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe body of a man named Steigelman, who was drowned in the Blue Lake, Mount Gambier, a fortnight ago, has not been recovered, despite a ceaseless ...
Article : 29 wordsThe hearing of the case against John Norton for having shot at Richard Denis Meagher, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, was, on the ...
Article : 52 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Reid announced that Mr. Justice Owen had consented to act as a Royal Commissioner to inquire into the ...
Article : 122 wordsIn the Divorce Court to-day the decree nisi in the case Jones v. Jones and Symon was made absolute, the petitioner to have the custody of the children. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe matter of the payment of £124,000 by the Sydney Municipal Council to the Government for a portion of the site of the new Victoria ...
Article : 141 wordsThe anti-foreign feeling is spreading in Gulls, and the fleets of the Powers are assembling at Tientsin. The American gunboat Petrel, 892 ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Royal Niger Company is transferring its headquarters from Asaba, 150 miles from the mouth of the Niger, to Burnta. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Customs receipts for July [?] to date show a decrease of £1,168, and the excise duties a decrease of £350. ...
Article : 21 wordsDr. Kelly, the Bishop of Geraldton, is still in the eastern colonies. He visited the Roman Catholic institutions at Randwick, Sydney, last week with ...
Article : 45 wordsMajor Marchand, the leader of the French volunteer party at Fashoda, has been promoted to the rank of major in the French army. ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. and Mrs. Kemp, of Modbury, celebrated their diamond wedding to-day. They are 86 and 84 years of age respectively. They arrived in the colony in ...
Article : 31 wordsAccording to the Paris correspondent of the London "Observer," Major Esterhazy has confessed that the General Staff have him the information ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the House of Assembly to-day Mr. King O'Malley intimated that he would move that the question of the employment of barmaids should be submitted ...
Article : 118 wordsAt Maitland to-day Gavin Houston was run over by a mail-train, and killed. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe police report thai there is thing fresh in regard to the gy which, occurred in Kalgoorlie yesterday-Yesterday afternoon the accused ...
Article : 228 wordsThree houses at Wallaroo were burglariously entered on Sunday, and jewellery and clothing taken from each. The jewellery has been recovered. The ...
Article : 35 wordsIn connection with the Druce mystery, which is puzzling the people of England, Sidney George Druce, a resident of Sydney, it is claimed, is the real ...
Article : 100 wordsThe detachment of Cameron Highlanders which as seat to Fashoda has been ordered to return to Cairo. The position, taken up by the British ...
Article : 87 wordsAt the Perth Police Court Tuesday six men, named John M'Cann, William M'Cann, Joseph Schutz, Christopher Donnelly, Patrick Donnelly, and Henry ...
Article : 307 wordsAfter a large number of motions had been handed in the Premier tabled the report of the Select Committee on the Perth water supply and the ...
Article : 866 wordsA lady doctor named Nancy Guilford has been remanded at London on the charge of the manslaughter of a girl, whose dismembered limbs were found ...
Article : 37 wordsA whale, from 60ft. to 80ft. long, came within a quarter of a mile of the Glenelg jetty this afternoon, and disported itself for some time. The sight was a ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day, Charles Williams and John Perks were found guilty of burglary at Norwood on Eight Hours Day. Perks, who has long ...
Article : 96 wordsTo-day the Legislative Council rejected the Wages Attachment BilL. The Administration and Probate Acts Amendment Bill passed its third ...
Article : 45 wordsArrivals.—Barque Silverhow, 1,177 tons; ship Bracadale, 1,962 tons; barque Earl of Zetland, 1,461 tons; and steamer Oldenburg, 3,167 tons. ...
Article : 89 wordsAt a caucus meeting of Ministerialists the threatened trouble regarding Mr. Dickson's appointment as Premier was averted. Mr. Philp, who was ...
Article : 76 wordsThe preparations which have been made by the Sultan for the visit of the Kaiser to Jerusalem have emptied the Turkish Treasury. ...
Article : 247 wordsIn the Central Criminal Court to-day Napoleon Jean Lisson was charged with having, on August 30, murdered Edith Lillian Gorrick. ...
Article : 262 wordsJohn Myers, charged with the murder of his paramour, Marion Robinson, at Collingwood, has been remanded. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. James Levis, a visitor from Sydney, fell from a mail train to-day, and injured his spine. ...
Article : 24 wordsMessrs. Caird and Co., Limited, of Greenock, Scotland, are building a steamship of 10,000 tons for the Peninsular and Oriental Company. ...
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Advertising : 83 wordsAt the inquest on the body of Elizabeth Morris, found dead in her bed, evidence was given that the house was destitute of all furniture, except a bed. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Eos, and Australian trader, has arrived at Valparaiso with her hull damaged. [The Eos is steel barque of 1,076 ...
Article : 37 wordsLegal proceedings are being taken against a well-known stock and share broker in connection with some transactions in scrip belonging to a certain ...
Article : 106 wordsThe managers of the agricultural colleges at Dookie and Longerenong report that there are excellent prospects for the harvest. It is probable that the yield will ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 7 Oct 1898, Page 1
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