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Article : 91 wordsViscount Gormanston, the Governordesignate of Tasmania, will sail for Hobart on June 27. ...
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Article : 108 wordsThe annual meeting of the shareholders of the Grand Coffee Palace was held today. The year was started with a balance on the wrong side of £648, but this was ...
Article : 105 wordsR[?]nding the proclamation of a quarantine ground for stock in the hundred of Davenport; dedicating lands in the hundreds of Bartleth, Stewart, Wauraltee. Yadnaria, ...
Article : 200 wordsThe totalizator cases were before the City Court to-day, when Alexander Calder, Edward Harrison, and Henry Cohen were charged with being the keepers of common gaining houses. ...
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Article : 27 wordsWreckage, apparently belonging to a vessel of about 400 tons, built of Oregon pine, has drifted ashore at Tutcia. ...
Article : 24 wordsDavid Crow, a steerage passenger on board the Waihora, jumped overboard and was drowned. Crow was formerly employed in the New South Wales ...
Article : 42 wordsThe North Brisbane Corporation has arranged with the Union Bank to carry on, and there will be no need to discharge the employes. All laborers ...
Article : 120 wordsAt the Water Police Court to-day two men named Fred Ogle and Louis Hallstein were remanded on a charge of being concerned with James Leonard in a ...
Article : 96 wordsAn inquest was concluded to-day on the bodies of an unmarried woman named H. E. Blom and her child. The woma died ...
Article : 125 wordsAt a meeting of the members of the Metropolitan Permanent Building and Investment Society to-day power was given the liquidators to compromise with ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the District Court to-day a woman, Annie Wilson, was charged with dispatching an obscene letter through the post to Mrs. Cuthbert, whose husband is living ...
Article : 55 wordsThe American files show that the ship King James, a four-masted coal vessel from Newcastle to San Diego, was burned at sea. The cargo caught fire on March ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Fort Congregational Literary Society after having been in recess for a number of months reopened for the winter cession on Thursday evening, when Mr. A. W. Dobbie ...
Article : 157 wordsThe ship Ulidia, which left Fremantle last night in ballast for Newcastle, ran upon a reef a couple of miles south of Rottnest. The steamer Dolphin ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Miowera, the pioneer steamer of the new Vancouver mail service inaugurated by Huddart, Parker, & Co., left for Vancouver via Brisbane and Honolulu ...
Article : 187 wordsAn enquiry was held at Guildford yesterday into the recent collision on the private zig-zag railway-line of the Canning Timber Company. The evidence showed ...
Article : 53 wordsThe manager of the Union Shipping Company has notified his intention to maintain the coastal fares at last summer's rates notwithstanding the ...
Article : 194 wordsReports are to hand to cue effect that good alluvial gold has been struck on die Burra Burra run, between Parkes and Condobolin, and about 40 miles ...
Article : 126 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Universal Permanent Building and Investment Society was held to-day. During the half-year the company repaid £16,174 ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Seddon, the Premier, delivered at Napier to-night his first public address since his appointment. The Premier declared the intention of the Government ...
Article : 151 wordsParliament is to be further prorogued till probably June 28, when it is likely that the Houses will assemble. ...
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Article : 209 wordsThe native depredations in the Murchison district have ceased, the additional police protection being sufficient to keep the aborigines in check. ...
Article : 30 wordsSir Geo. Dibbs's examination in bankruptcy was again called on to-day, but with the consent of the petitioning creditor was further postponed till June ...
Article : 35 wordsSome stone has been struck at the 130ft. level at Fraser's South mine which is very rich in quality, and it is estimated that it will average 5 oz. to the ton. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Governor has dispatched the following cable to the Queen:—"On behalf of the Government I offer my humble compliments to her Majesty the ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Fri 19 May 1893, Page 5
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