One hundred and eighty inventions have been entered for the bonus of £1,000 offered by the Government for an efficient method of ventilating mines. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Mount Barker Dairying Company was held to-day. The balancesheet showed a credit balance of £894. ...
Article : 41 wordsIn their criticisms of the life of Prince Bismarck, the French newspapers are agreed that while the work of the deceased was glorious his methods ...
Article : 58 wordsAlleged Larceny.—John Kenna was charged with having stolen a watch belonging to Albert Ashton, from the Miners' Rest. The accused was remanded. ...
Article : 692 wordsIt is reported from Washington that representatives of the United States appointed to treat with Spain as to negotiations for peace will probably ...
Article : 82 wordsAt Northampton on Saturday a boy named Frank Johnson, the son of the chairman of the roads board, was hunting cattle in the neighborhood of East ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Hospital Saturday fund received during the year just ended amounted to £3,287. Of this £2,900 will be distributed. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. Jules Gascard states that the rumors of the death from thirst of three of his drovers must be untrue, as none of his men was in the district mentioned. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe export of coal from Newcastle to Western Australia for the week ended July 30 was 1,750 tons. It was carried in the steamer New Guinea. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Fitzroy footballers arrived to-day. They will meet a team from the Norwood Club to-morrow. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe secretary for Education is visiting New South Wales with a view of obtaining information and guidance in connection with the projected scheme of ...
Article : 30 wordsMonday's Perth, papers were due at Albany at 9.36 last night. They will be distributed to-day, two days old. The subscribers are disgusted with the ...
Article : 148 wordsWith regard to the proposal to connect Sydney with North Shore by means of tunnels, Mr. John Salman intends to apply to Parliament for the introduction ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Customs receipts for July were £41,204, being a decrease of £10,000 as compared with those of July, 1897. ...
Article : 21 wordsCount Herbert, the eldest son of Prince Bismarck, has received the following message from the Emperor William:—"I mourn the loss of Germany's ...
Article : 132 wordsThe residents of Puerto Rico extended a welcome to the American troops, and 2,000 of them have volunteered to serve in the United States army. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe detectives have reported on the explosion at the Australian Explosives Company's works, which occurred yesterday. They were unable to discover ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Attorney-General has not yet determined whether any action, will be taken on the finding of the jury at the inquest on the body of Maud Catchlove ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Government intends to give women occupying seats on Charitable Aid Boards increased powers. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is reported in Yokohama that the Hawaiian Government will pay £40,000 as compensation, for the exclusion in August of last year of Japanese laborers ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, a bill was introduced to protect workmen's wages up to the amount of £2 against ganishees. ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Hobart Gas Company has declared a dividend of 16s. for the half-year. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Criminal Sessions were resumed at Adelaide to-day. Haroid Henry O'Leary acknowledged having embezzled £8 14s. In consideration, of his good ...
Article : 313 wordsTwo members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Deandris and Turati, have been sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment for having been concerned in the ...
Article : 35 wordsAt present it would appear that Mr. Dowley, R.M., will be the recipient of another pair of white gloves in his capacity of chairman of the Cue Quarter ...
Article : 319 wordsThe weather is now more settled, and rain has almost ceased. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe members of the German Club in Perth will meet at the club's premises, William-street, on Wednesday evening next to mourn the loss of the departed ...
Article : 30 wordsThe hearing of the case against Joseph New Raynor, who was charged with having embezzled the sum of £35 from the Railway Department at ...
Article : 142 wordsAn open verdict of "Found drowned " was returned at the interest on Arthur Davis, journalist, whose body was found in the Elwood Canal. A night watchman named Stephen Marsden was sentenced to two years' imprisonment to-day for having had skeleton keys in his possession. He was also ...
Article : 69 wordsYesterday in the House of Lords the Earl of Kimberley, Leader of the Liberals, asked the Marquis of Salisbury what the Government was doing to ...
Article : 211 wordsGermany has advised the Sultan to acquiesce in the policy of the European Powers to prohibit reinforcements for the Turkish garrisons in Crete. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt appears that the unsatisfactory state of the affairs of the Standard Bank, Limited, is being rapidly pushed to a head. Tomorrow court proceedings ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Welsh strike continues. The colliery owners have definitely refused to make any concessions beyond the renewal of the old sliding scale and an ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Drainage Bill, providing power for municipal councils to effect drainage, was read the second time. ...
Article : 77 wordsAn accident occurred on Aug. 2 on the Menzies line near the Kalgoorlie railway station. Three trucks were damaged, but the block to traffic lasted only a ...
Article : 332 wordsIt is reported in Paris that Persia had arranged to borrow.£1,250,000 from Britain, but when the Russian Government heard of the negotiations it ...
Article : 50 wordsThe R.M.S. India took for London £45,000 in specie on account of the Bank of Victoria and the National Bank of Australasia, and 20,342oz. of bar ...
Article : 37 wordsAt about 11 o'clock last night the police station was visited by a colored gentleman, who bore is one hand a hatbox-which was afterwards found to ...
Article : 378 wordsThe new steamer Perth sailed for Fremantle to-day. She has on board 50 bullocks and 200 sheep. ...
Article : 21 wordsA story of a sensational character concerning the daughter of a well-known household is being circulated. The girl, who was suffering from a painful ...
Article : 94 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Bank of Victoria was held to-day. The net profits were £24,300. The sum of £22,600 was carried forward. The last ...
Article : 61 wordsThe examination of Mr. Ernest Terah Hooley before the official receiver was resumed yesterday. Mr. Hooley declared that he was ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Pope has sent a message to the two Archbishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland urging them to make greater exertions to convert the ...
Article : 47 wordsA special train will run to Bunbury in connection with the visit of the Parliamentary party to the Collie coalfield next Friday. About 25 guests have ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Australian Sheep-breeders' Association, began its sheep show to-day by judging of the grassfed merinoes. The severity of the season detracted from ...
Article : 96 wordsThe sugar planters in British Guiana have appealed to the Imperial Government for aid pending the establishment of countervailing duties to check the ...
Article : 34 wordsAt the Broken Hill Criminal Sessions to-day, David Edwards, lately paymaster of the Broken Hill Proprietary mine, was sentenced to three years' ...
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Advertising : 159 wordsAt the police court yesterday two boys, named Walter Foster and John William Hawkins, were charged with having stolen a scarf pin, valued at 30s ...
Article : 51 wordsDepartures.—For Sydney—Steamer Stuttgart, 3,209 tons; and steamer Port Albert, 2,256 tons. For Brisbane— steamer Duke of Norfolk, 2,438 tons. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe ceremony of unveiling the monument to the late Marcus Clarke, subscribed by his admirers in South Australia, took place in the Melbourne ...
Article : 132 wordsWith reference to the complaint of the Broken Hill Fire Brigade regarding the non-payment of contributions by the Underwriters' Association ...
Article : 58 wordsOn Sunday last the rector of Dongarra, the Rev. B. T. Richardson, held farewell services in the parish church previously to his departure for ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Mundijong Literary and Debating Society held its fortnightly meeting on Friday last. The subject for debate was "Local Option." Mr. Rudd spoke in the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe telegraph line has been interrupted between Sydney and Goulburn since 3.40 o'clock by a severe snowstorm. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. Thomas Cuthbert, after 15 years service with the Australian Drug Company, is Leaving for Western Australia. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 5 Aug 1898, Page 1
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