The leading merchants in Manila have petitioned Lord Salisbury, the British Premier, to prevent Spain from regaining supremacy in the Philippines. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe proposal pat forward by the Czar of Russia for a general disarmament has evoked widespread attention. The foreign press generally is ...
Article : 193 wordsA terrible tragedy was enacted this morning in a tobacconist's shop in George-street, near the railway station. A tobacconist named Napoleon Jean ...
Article : 785 wordsThe Mount Gambier Building Society, in liquidation, which was recently involved in litigation, is likely to be subjected to further trouble, the liquidator ...
Article : 65 wordsSome members of Parliament, intend to form an association to be known as the Institute of South Australia. One of the objects will be to establish a ...
Article : 55 wordsJohn Passfield, lately of Western Australia, has made an important discovery of a large pyrites lode in the neighborhood of Macclesfield. The lode, which ...
Article : 44 wordsThe return to New York from Cuba of the 71st regiment of the American army was made the occasion for a great popular demonstration. ...
Article : 53 wordsSpeaking at Rosewood in advocacy of the inoculation of cattle against tick, the Minister of Agriculture advised the farmers and graziers not to put it off in ...
Article : 83 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. John More, of Gumeracha, at the age of 86. He arrived in the colon in 1840. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn the City Police Court to-day Isabelle Moir was committed for trial on a charge of having abandoned an infant. It is alleged that soon after its birth ...
Article : 43 wordsMiscellaneous.—Hugh Kilpatrick and Mary Davenport, a well-dressed young woman, were separately charged with, drunkenness, and fined lOs. each. James ...
Article : 93 wordsTwo burglaries are reported from Murray Bridge. The sum of £28 was stolen from the house of Mr. Opie, and a small amount from the residence of a ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Spanish Government has appointed the following representatives to take part in the Peace Commission which is about to meet in Paris:—Senor Leon ...
Article : 65 wordsMiss Ferule, during the voyage of the steamer Narrung from Cape Town, fell down a coal-bunker and broke her leg. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. L. Prince has been appointed mining registrar for West Pilbarra, in succession to Mr. Grimish. Mr. Prince is at present clerk of the courts, and will ...
Article : 246 wordsDuring the recent season the Forests Department distributed for planting 236,589 trees of various sorts and 21,140 vines. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Mount Morgan mine has paid a dividend of 7d. per share for August. This is equal to £29,166. ...
Article : 22 wordsLast week, 900 tons of Newcastle coal were shipped to Western Australia. ...
Article : 21 wordsA Chinaman named Chang You, who was suffering from "beri ben," died in the hospital to-day. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Cabinet discussed the proposed alteration of the tick quarantine boundaries to-day. It is understood that the line acceptable to New South Wales has ...
Article : 38 wordsIn the police court August 30. before Mr. Wright, R.M., and Mr. F. Bird, J.P., James Hazel, at the request of his wife, was pat on the prohibited list for 12 ...
Article : 219 wordsRefugees from Omdurman report that new earthworks have been constructed by the dervishes and that Osman Digna and one of the Emirs are in the vicinity ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the Banco Court to-day a Chinaman appealed against a conviction recorded against him of having carnally known an aboriginal girl under 16 years ...
Article : 69 wordsAt Broken Hill to-day, William Rite was sentenced to five months imprisonment on two charges of having obtained money by means of valueless cheques. ...
Article : 27 wordsA meeting of farmers to-day formed a company for the control of the export of milling wheat. Mr. J. Darling, of South Australia, created a scene by ...
Article : 61 wordsThe action brought by Mr. M. C. Cowlishaw for £2,000 damages from William M'Leod for an alleged libel published in the "Bulletin" in connection ...
Article : 68 wordsThe 31st annual Trades Union Congress was opened at Bristol to-day. The Chief subject of discussion was that of the federation of the various ...
Article : 185 wordsA man named Patrick Chalmers has been committed for trial on several charges of burglary. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Anglo-Egyptian force at Wadi-Obed, which is 18 mills from the Khalifa's advance post at Kerreri, has occupied a camp which had been just ...
Article : 78 wordsAt the inquest held at Bendigo to-day on the skeleton found at 5-Mile Creek, a patient in the hospital said that he knew that two mates at the creek had ...
Article : 79 wordsNo trace has been discovered of Kitchener, the defaulting Rechabites' secretary, although a diligent search has been made for him for months. ...
Article : 26 wordsSir Joseph P. Abbott has resigned his seat on the board of directors of the Australia Joint Stock Bank. He declines to give any reason for his retirement. ...
Article : 32 wordsA special meeting of the Adelaide Municipal Council has ratified the provisional agreement with the Electric Light and Motive Power Company for ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Mundijong Literary and Debating Society held its fortnightly meeting last Friday. The subject for debate was, The Legalisation of the Totalisator." ...
Article : 65 wordsDuring the past six months there has been friction in Sydney over what is practically a combination of leading English insurance companies doing ...
Article : 118 wordsAssault.—George Burkinshaw wag fined 5s. for having assaulted George West, licensee of the Great Western Hotel The informant did not press ...
Article : 550 wordsThe chaplain of the Gordon Boys' Home at Cobham, Surrey, recently received a letter from General Gatacre, in the Soudan, in which he expressed his ...
Article : 96 wordsHews has been received that a human body has been found at the Thomas River, near the spot where the body of a man named Allan M'Donald was ...
Article : 106 wordsJohn Power, whose alleged stealing of a purse lay at the foundation of the Thornett-Power shooting sensation, was brought up on Aug. 30on a charge of ...
Article : 47 wordsSir Charles Todd reports that splendid general rain fell during the last 24 hours. It extended as far north as Hergott. Upwards of an inch and a ...
Article : 41 wordsAnother serious Alpine accident is reported from Switzerland. Dr. John Hopkinson, F.R.S., the celebrated electrical engineer, and his two daughters ...
Article : 128 wordsThe present famine in Russia is accentuating the distress in that country. In the provinces of Kazan and Yaroslav, where the Restitution is particularly ...
Article : 59 wordsThe bubonic plague is raging with, renewed virulence in Bombay. Sixty deaths are reported daily. Among the latest victims is Dr. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Produce Export Depot last week received 2,940 gallons of wine, 17,000 rabbits, a number of sheep and lambs, and 600 gallons of wine for shipment ...
Article : 32 wordsA public meeting at Newtown decided be form a new volunteer regiment, 600 strong, from, the Newtown and South Coast districts. A number of those ...
Article : 30 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows was held to-day. There was a credit balance of £200. Satisfactory progress has been ...
Article : 27 wordsThe steamer Albany on Sunday brought from the Nor'-West 100 bullocks for Mr. S. Burges. The animals were in splendid condition, although a ...
Article : 75 wordsRain, the outcome of the disturbance from Western Australia was almost general throughout the colony to-day. ...
Article : 18 wordsDuring the past week two thousand three hundred deaths from the plague have taken place in the Bombay presidency. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Rhodes, in a final speech to the electors, said that the whole colony would be with him five years hence, and meanwhile he would continue to advocate the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe action brought by Letitia Williams, widow, against James Christopher, chemist, for damages for the death of her husband, was continued to-day. The ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Royal Commission which was appointed to consider the best means for the alleviation, of the sufferings of the aged poor met to-day, after a two ...
Article : 35 wordsDepartures.—For Sydney-Steamer Prinz Regent Luitpold, 3,920 tons; steamer Ivanhoe, 1,437 tons; ship Dechmont, 1,727 tons; and the dredger ...
Article : 78 wordsSir Charles Todd, the Postmaster-General, reporting on the proposed alteration of standard time, says:—"Our zone system of time reckoning has met ...
Article : 93 wordsIn response to a request from the settlers of Newtown, Mr. E. C. B. Locke, M.L.A., addressed a meeting in the Agricultural-hall on Saturday afternoon. ...
Article : 382 wordsMr. Foster Fraser, who left London on July 17, 1896, with Mr. Edward Loan and Mr. Henry Lowe, cycle round the world, has returned with his two ...
Article : 44 wordsActive negotiations between [?] Britain, and Russia in connection [?] the Chinese question are being carrie on between Sir Charles Stewart ...
Article : 79 wordsThe R.M.S. Arcadia, which left to-day, took gold Shipments to London. The National Bank of Australasia sent £20,000 and the Bank of Victoria ...
Article : 48 wordsA serious fire has occurred at Smyrna, in Asia Minor. The Customs Houses were destroyed. ...
Article : 28 wordsKing Mabetoa, of Samos, died from [?] typhoid fever on August 22. There consuls, with the Chief Justice as president, from a board of control pending ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the Banco Court to-day the will of the late W. K. Simms, a wealthy brewer, was again considered. The questions for decision were whether, before he-died ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 2 Sep 1898, Page 1
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