The fortnightly meeting of this council was held at the municipal-chambers last Friday, when there were present—Cr.Veryard (Mayor), Wiltshire, Smith, Basan ...
Article : 1,129 wordsPiet de Wet, a brother of the Boer General, is guiding General Elliott's column, which is sweeping the north-east portion of the Orange River Colony. The country ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Royal visitors rested to-day. With the exception of naming Alexander-avenue, which is a sew drive running along the banks of the Yarra, their official labors in ...
Article : 252 wordsThis afternoon Mr. Holder's late Ministerial colleagues bade him. farewell on his retiring from State politics. High [?] were paid to the many estimable qualities ...
Article : 66 wordsPrivate J. Warburton, of the Tasmanian Bushmen, who was recently severely wounded at Kraipan, between Kimberley and Vryburg, has succumbed to his ...
Article : 33 wordsThe matter of, a fire brigades' procession on the occasion of the Royal visit was mooted yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Fire Brigades Board. The ...
Article : 116 wordsThe following [?] have been, sustained by the Victorian Bushmen at Quaggashock:— Mortally Wounded.—Private M.E. ...
Article : 36 wordsA further report has been received from the Minister of Mines in regard to the Olary goldfield, to the effect that, although very little work has been done, the ...
Article : 96 wordsThe proceedings that followed in the House of Representatives were not in harmony with those that had preceded them, and it is to be fervently hoped that ...
Article : 234 wordsIn connection with the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of York, one of the most interesting functions will be the presentation to their Royal Highnesses of a ...
Article : 247 wordsA Reuter's telegram from O'okiep, 90 miles from Port Nolloth, in Namaqualand, states that on Tuesday Colonel Shetton photographed the lacerated back of a man ...
Article : 97 wordsH. Parker, solicitor, of Crookwell, appeared before the Full Court to-day to answer a charge that he had neglected to pay over £15 to a client. It was stated ...
Article : 179 wordsAbout thirty residents of South Fremantle attended at the Wesley-hall, Mandurah-road, last evening, for the purpose of discussing the advisableness of forming a ...
Article : 692 wordsAfter a dull threatening morning rain commenced to fall at noon to-day, and a heavy shower, accompanied by thunder, commenced shortly after 1 o'clock, and ...
Article : 39 wordsLongton, a Colesberg rebel, has re-entered Cape Colony at the bead of 100 men. It is unofficially reported at Rosmead Junction, in the Cape Midlands, that ...
Article : 62 wordsThe acting Premier (Mr. Rutledge) is much annoyed at the alteration of arrangements in connection with the visit of the Royal party. What was the most vexed ...
Article : 172 wordsMelbourne may really now be adjectived "Marvellous." The masses have made it so. The greater majority appear to live in the streets, which are never wholly ...
Article : 412 wordsA meeting of the Volunteers Football Club was held in the Prince of Wales Hotel last night. The annual report and balance-sheet were adopted, and all the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe elements have favored royalty to a surprising extent. Since the commencement of the celebrations numerous showers have fallen, but not one has interfered in ...
Article : 677 wordsParliament has been further prorgned till June 11, bat probably a dissolution will take place before that date. ...
Article : 22 wordsIn connection with the recent capture of a number of Boers by Major Viall's in the northern Transvaal, it appears that the British force travelled at the rate of 40 miles ...
Article : 54 wordsAnother ease of smallpox is reported from the quarantine station, the patient being a. member of the New South Wales ambulance division of the China Naval ...
Article : 35 wordsThe members of the building committee appointed by the townspeople to look after a site for the Sailors' Rest, and to obtain funds to put up a building, met on the ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Victorias Government is inviting tenders for the balance of the issue authorised by the Railway Loan Act of 1900, amounting to £500,000, in the form of 3 ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Kruger has received a letter from Roossenekal containing some sensational statements in regard to the recent peace conference between Lord Kitchener and ...
Article : 108 wordsThe acting Premier has interviewed the Governor, and the new arrangements hare been discussed. It is understood that Lord Lamington intends to make ...
Article : 61 wordsA start has been made by the Municipal Council to improve Leschenault-square. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe rush to clear spirits, although not quite so marked as last week, continues, and the fact that Victorians duties are, roughly speaking, lower than, the average ...
Article : 53 wordsComplaints are being received from residents on die Vasse-road regarding the malodorous nature of the Chinese gardens there. Probably a petition will be got up ...
Article : 47 wordsAttention is directed to advertisements in regard to the supply of Chinese and Japanese lanterns, and also of bunting of different shades. All particulars can be ...
Article : 359 wordsAfter an exhaustive investigation into the circumstances which led to the foundering of the barque Artisan, near Cape Patterson, on April 23, the Court of ...
Article : 64 wordsThos. Shannahan was charged this morning with having, on May 7, unlawfully assaulted an aboriginal named "Billy," by striking him on the head. The evidence ...
Article : 111 wordsThirty of tie Metropolitan Mounteds whole skirmishing at Maraisburg, in Cape Colony, lost four men killed and six wounded. ...
Article : 41 wordsAn interstate conference of the League of Wheelmen was held at the offices of the Victorian League on Tuesday and Wednesday. Amongst other things the ...
Article : 157 wordsThe threatening meteorological conditions at Fremantle yesterday, and the rapid fall of the barometer during Wednesday night, warned mariners that unpleasant ...
Article : 531 wordsThe Mansion House national memorial fond took amounts to £95,000. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Collie mines, during the last three or four weeks, hare been entirely crippled by the want of trucks. Last week the mines only worked half-time. The industry is ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 24 May 1901, Page 1
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