The Acting Commissioner for Police on Tuesday received the following telegram from Inspector D. Graham, of Townsville: Mrs. Powell reported to the ...
Article : 98 wordsIt is reported that a Chinaman named Gin Lin suicided in Boggo road gaol on September 18. The usual magisterial inquiry will be held. ...
Article : 369 wordsColonel Penshing, in charge of a number of United States troops operating against the Filipinos, reports having captured seven forts, killing 25 of the enemy and wounding ...
Article : 39 wordsA number of rails were removed from two lines oh which the Czar was expected to travel from Korak homewards. The express preceding the Czar's train was wrecked, but ...
Article : 46 wordsThe report recently received that the British steamer Nithsdale had foundered, and the captain and 13 of the crew drowned, proves incorrect The vessel was only stranded, and ...
Article : 53 wordsNowrojee Manockjee Wadia, a Bombay Parsee, has given £1,000,000 for the relief of persona in any country who may have been deprived of their means of subsistence ...
Article : 36 wordsGympie had a unique as well as unpleasant experience on the night of September 16. For nearly a week now the bush fires for miles round hare raised volumes of ...
Article : 127 wordsThe corporation of Bombay, after voting an address of welcome to H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught in connection with his forthcoming visit to India, have rejected a motion ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Home Department (the Right Hon. A. AltersDonglas) has declined to interfere with the sentence of three months' imprisonment ...
Article : 64 wordsAn awful tragedy is reported from the hopfields of Kent. Foot girls have been burnt to death in a hop-picker's barn near Canterbury. Their mother has been arrested ...
Article : 43 wordsThe first recommendations of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the sentences passed by courts-martial in South Africa, and to report on the expediency of a ...
Article : 85 wordsCaptain M'Lean, commander of the United States cruiser Cincinnati, which was recently despatched to the Isthmus of Panama in view of the activity of the revolutionists in ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Durundur repurchased estate, which will be thrown open, in all probability, on October 21, for selection, has recently been visited by fire, but it is not thought the ...
Article : 143 wordsWireless telegraphy for general purposes being now considered to he assured, Germany has initiated an intercolonial conference, to be held in October, to adopt roles for the use ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Morning Post" urges the Government to make an authoritative declaration as to its proposals for the taxation of the new South African colonies. ...
Article : 80 wordsAn inquiry has been held with regard to the alleged overcrowding of the troopship Oswestry Grange, which has arrived from South Africa, measurements being takeu ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Laidley people have good reason to feel uneasy regarding their supply of water for household purposes, it being estimated that the top lagoon, whence the only ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Marquis of Salisbury, the late British Premier, who is visiting Switzerland, is reported to be ill, and confined to his bed He is at present being attended by an English ...
Article : 164 wordsThe portmaster (Captain J. Mackay) has forwarded to the Treasurer for information the following telegram received from the inspector of pearl fisheries at Thursday Island: ...
Article : 74 wordsA new first-class cruiser named the Berwick, which has a speed of 23 knots an hour, was launched yesterday at Glasgow. LONDON, September 22. ...
Article : 410 wordsThe Do Beers Company intend to contest legally tho claim for £1.000,000 made by the Inland Revenue Commissioner for income tax on the past profits of the company. The ...
Article : 85 wordsMany of the shearers and hands on the Bundaleer shed hare been laid up by some hind of an epidemic, probably a bad form of influenza. One poor fellow (says the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe South Brisbane police report the discovery of the dead body of a bushman at Brown's Plains road, about 16 miles from Brisbane, at 11.30 a m. on Monday, and which ...
Article : 138 wordsThe steamer Newington, when four and ahalf miles from the volcano of Sonfriere, recovered the end of the broken cable to St. Vincent The cable was found to be in a ...
Article : 81 wordsThe acting Commissioner of Police on September 18 received the following telegram from Sergeant King, of Normanton: "A fire broke out this morning in the kitchen of a ...
Article : 93 wordsIn the Caps Colony Assembly yesterday, the debate oil the resolution by Mr. J. X Merriman, denouncing the movement for the suspension of the constitution of Cape ...
Article : 301 wordsWanora railway station, on the Brisbane Valley branch line, was on Saturday evening last, the scene of a fire which might have resulted somewhat disastrously had it not ...
Article : 173 wordsGeneral Botha delivered a lecture at Rotterdam yesterday, in which he stated that as a result of the war in South Africa 20,000 women and children were dead, 4,000 men ...
Article : 124 wordsA deputation recently waited on the Hon. J. Leahy, Minister for Railways, asking that the increase of 50 per cent put on the freights on certain lines in the north be reduced. The ...
Article : 93 wordsThe matter of the supply of water for the town still occupies the consideration of the council (says the Mount Morgan correspondent of the Rockhampton "Record" a of September ...
Article : 150 wordsIn the "Roumanian Bulletin" a protest is made against the treatment of the Jews in that country by the publication of letters from prominent persons deploring the ...
Article : 151 wordsA Berlin telegram to the "Daily Mail" dated August 9 says:—August Bochm, a shoemaker, served 50 years' imprisonment for murder. Last May ...
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The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), Fri 26 Sep 1902, Page 27
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