Sir George William Des Vaeux, an exGovernor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western, Pacific, has been interviewed On the subject of the ...
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Article : 123 wordsSir Julian Emanuel Salomons, Q.C., Agent General for New South Wales, has been elected a bencher of Gray's Inn, which he entered as a student in 1858. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe engineer-in-chief has prepared revised estimates of the cost of erecting Government smelters at Port Augusta for £8,000, instead of £20,000. ...
Article : 30 wordsA message received from Moruya says that James Williams, who is under remand on a charge of having attempted to commit a criminal assault at ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Boers are reported to be strongly posted at Belmont, with the object of preventing the relief of Kimberley from the southwards. ...
Article : 156 wordsDaniel White and Co. v. Annie Wilson (or Hughes), claim for £25 12 s. 6d. for repairs to a buggy. Mr. Northmore for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Speed for the ...
Article : 127 wordsJames M'Leay, a plasterer, fell from a scaffold at a building in Freeman street to-day, and was killed instantly. ...
Article : 22 wordsA deputation waited on the Premier today in the interests of "second-class men." It was pointed out that some 450 of these men were unemployed, and ...
Article : 95 wordsThe select committee on the Aborigines Protection Bill reports that the measure is unworkable, and it suggests various amendments. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe British Colonial Office states that the provisions of the Anglo-German agreement of 1886 are to apply to Australian trade with Samoa. ...
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Article : 26 wordsA whale 75ft. long is ashore at Fowler's Bay, on the west coast. ...
Article : 17 wordsDefended Case.-James Shepherd V. Mrs. Anderson, was a claim for £1 19s. 4d. for having put in a counter in the defendant's shop, and altered the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Paris police, when raiding the Monastery of die Assumptionists for evading the monastery tax, seized a sum of £72,000 belonging to their ...
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Article : 50 wordsWhile Mrs. Wade, an elderly widow, was attending to the household duties at her daughter's house at the Burra last evening, her clothes caught fire, ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Bunbury Sailing and Rowing Club's inaugural regatta was held on Tuesday. The weather was fine, and there was a large number of spectators. ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Dudley Collins, who is a son of Mr. Henry ML Collins, general manager of Reuter's Telegram Company, Ltd., in Melbourne, and has been in England ...
Article : 45 wordsE. A. Johns, who has been charged with the embezzlement of £100 from the funds of the Marylands Lodge of Free Gardeners, has been remanded to ...
Article : 31 wordsThe steamer Aberdeen, from Melbourne, arrived at 10.40 a.m. She slowed down on Monday to prevent injury to the 150 troop horses which she ...
Article : 112 wordsThe opening of Mr.. Charles Wyndham's new theatre, in the Charing Cross road, is to take place on Thursday next, when the proceeds will be devoted ...
Article : 127 wordsIt was recently stated on the authority of the Peking correspondent of the London "Times" that a serious rupture was threatened between. Russia and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Early Closing Bill was carried through committee tonight, practically unamended. ...
Article : 14 wordsIn the local court on Tuesday, before Messrs. Jose and Hutchinson, the following oases were disposed of:-J. G. Smith v. Mrs. C. K. Edwards, claim for ...
Article : 190 wordsIn the contest for the trophy presented by Lord Tennyson and £37 presented by the members of the Stock Exchange, No. 1 team of the 1st ...
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Article : 569 wordsAccording to the "Aldershot News," the following officers embarked for South Africa on October 14 with Sir Redvers Buller, and will form the ...
Article : 213 wordsGeorge Shepherd, 18, was drowned today while bathing in a dam near Kapunda. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe shares which were offered to the public in connection with the Horseshoe Peak Hill Goldfield, Ltd., and the Lake Way Goldfield, Ltd., have been ...
Article : 33 wordsKate M'Carthy, a nurse girl at the Stork Hotel, was fearfully burned today, by her clothes having caught fire. She is now in the hospital in a critical ...
Article : 38 wordsSir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of Hie Exchequer, in addressing a meeting of his constituents at West Bristol last night, said that one effect ...
Article : 86 wordsColonel Schiel, who commanded the German contingent, and who was taken prisoner by the British at Elands Laagte, admits that it was intended to ...
Article : 149 wordsThe French budget committee is in favor of a large increase in the vote for the navy. M. Pelletan, who has hitherto posed ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Kaiser and the Empress of Germany have accepted an invitation from the Lord Mayor of London, Mr. Alfred James Newton, to partake of luncheon ...
Article : 61 wordsThe inquest concerning the death, of Mary Russell Jeffery, who was shot by Charles Simpson at Balaclava on Wednesday, in peculiar circumstances, ...
Article : 48 wordsA negro minstrel entertainment in aid of the funds of the Swan Bowling and Tennis Club will be held in the Vaudeville Theatre on Wednesday, the 22nd ...
Article : 130 wordsThe port of Yo-chau-fu, which is in the province of Honan, has been declared open for foreign trade. Yo-chau-fu is situated on Lake ...
Article : 131 wordsAn order was granted the other day for the sequestration of the estate of Joseph. Henry Grey, lately of Geelong, I solicitor. Today facts were brought | ...
Article : 82 wordsThe barque Oberon, 753 tone, owned by Herr G. Belte, of Elsfieth, Germany, went ashore in Androssan Harbor, in the Firth of Clyde, while proceeding from ...
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Article : 86 wordsSir Charles Holled Smith, lately military commandant in Victoria, was entertained this evening by Mr. Simon Fraser, M.L.A., at the Australian Club. ...
Article : 60 wordsA man named James Longworth was arrested on Saturday evening on a charge of the larceny as a bailee of a sum of £12 lls. 6d., the property of M. | ...
Article : 122 wordsIn accordance with the decision arrived at at a general meeting of diggers last night, all of the claims on the Adeline lead were worked again today, but ...
Article : 223 wordsThe British War Office has ordered, through the Agents-General for Victoria and New South Wales, 1,000 tons of Victoria Algerian oats; 150 tons of ...
Article : 79 wordsIn the Legislative Council this evening a message from the Queen was presented, promising attention to the Federal Bill. ...
Article : 25 wordsWheat is sixpence per quarter cheaper than a week ago. ...
Article : 24 wordsArrivals—Duke of Portland, steamer, from Brisbane (September 3) ; Maori, steamer, from Wellington (September 27); and Lord Elgin, ship, from ...
Article : 52 wordsFor having published comments on the Jackson Inquiry Board, while the matter was still sub judice, the publisher of the "Age" and the publisher of ...
Article : 43 wordsThe British Premier, Lord Salisbury, and the Commander-in-chief, Viscount Wolseley, are on a. visit to Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn infantry division consisting of 11,000 men is being mobilised. This will give General Sir Redvers Henry Buller over 100,000 men with whom ...
Article : 65 wordsThe quarterly meeting of the Southern Cross Lodge No. 13 LO.G.T., was held on 9th inst, when Bro. L. J. Moignard, L.D., installed the following officers: - ...
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Advertising : 101 wordsThe Bank of New Zealand has decided to close its Adelaide branch. The volume of business transacted does not warrant the keeping of it open. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe latest news received from Ladysmith is to the effect that on the 9th inst. the leer guns were silenced for four hours. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe bubonic plague, which has been in existence far some time in Oporto, has now made its appearance at Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. James M'Gregor, the father of Dr. M'Gregor, et the age of 97 years. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 17 Nov 1899, Page 1
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