The Commonwealth Government has agreed to pay the New South Wales Railway Department £72,179 per year for the conveyance of mail matter. ...
Article : 194 wordsVeterinary-Captain Kendall, of the Victorian Bushmen, has sailed for England. ...
Article : 418 wordsChinese officials, it is stated, offered some Indian officers two cartloads of silver if they would not disclose the discovery made recently of a number of ...
Article : 488 wordsDr. Black, the president of the Central Board of Health, informed a reporter of the "West Australian" last evening that a case of sickness had ...
Article : 687 wordsAbout a quarter past 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Chief Harbourmaster (Captain Russell) received, at Fremantle, the startling intelligence that a ...
Article : 949 wordsA public meeting ot ratepayers, convened by the Mayor (Mr. W. G. Brook-man, M.L.C.), at the request of a number of citizens, was held in the Town ...
Article : 3,619 wordsAn extraordinary scene occurred in Rundle-street this morning. When a sale of salvage goods started at Martin and Co.'s an immense crowd of women ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Government Entomologist has reported that hundreds of fruit trees in the New Norfolk district are infected with the San Jose scal. ...
Article : 25 wordsDetective-Inspector Christie, of the Customs Department, who is to shadow the Duke of Cornwall while in Australia, will take up his quarters at Government ...
Article : 274 wordsAn Arab rising has occurred in Algeria. The Arabs, after having enjoined the European inhabitants to embrace Islamism, sacked the village of ...
Article : 75 wordsA large weatherboard house at the corner of Addis and Cassidy streets, Piccadilly, owned by Mr. Alfred Martin, Perth, and which was unoccupied, was ...
Article : 35 wordsHis Excellency Sir Arthur Lawley will land at Albany at 3 o'clock this afternoon. He will be received by a guard of honour. Mr. B. C. Wood ...
Article : 1,695 wordsLord Cromer, speaking at Alexandria yesterday, declared that Great Britain had no intention of endeavouring to Anglicise Egypt. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe annual breakfast of the Hibernian Society on Sunday in St. Benedick's Hall, which was presided over by Cardinal Moran, alforded him an opportunity ...
Article : 377 wordsMr. R. Philp, Premier of Queensland, who is at present visiting South Africa, has been entertained at Durban by the Scottish and Australian residents. ...
Article : 33 wordsAt the City Court to-day, Charlotte Sadler, wife of the actor of that name, better known as Walter Baker, was charged with assaulting Miss Frances ...
Article : 305 wordsThe Orient Company's new liner Orestes is to be 700 tons larger than the company's last steamer, the Omrah. She will, therefore, have a tonnage of 9,000 ...
Article : 37 wordsAn explosion has occurred at Hornu colliery, near Mons, in Belgium, Eighteen miners were killed. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe contents of the reservoir of benzine at Greisheim, in Germany, where a fire occurred, have been successfully diverted into the adjacent river. The ...
Article : 38 wordsGeneral Sir Henry Norman, formerly Governer of Queensland, has been appointed Governor of Chelsea Royal Hospital for old and disabled soldiers. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe following telegram was yesterday forwarded by His Excellency the Administrator to Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and ...
Article : 79 wordsFor several days past rumours have prevailed at Fremantle of alleged irregularities in connection with a large business firm. The Western Australian ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Mapourka, a large coastal steamer, was struck by a tidal wave, 25ft. high, yesterday outside Port Nicholson. The deck fittings were wrecked, and the saloon ...
Article : 37 wordsThe second presentation of the sensational drama "Man to Man" by the Rignold Dramatic Company at the Theatre Royal last night drew a large audience. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe disabled steamer Alala arrived in Hobson's Bay this morning from Portland, in tow of the tug Eagle. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day John Edward Rigby, hotelkeeper at Cunningham, was charged with having feloniously slain an aboriginal, named Henry ...
Article : 49 wordsGeorge Schofield, a dry blower, 50 years of age, committed suicide at Kanow[?] on Saturday afternoon, by blowing off his head with a detonator. ...
Article : 32 wordsA telegram from Low Head, Tasmania, yesterday afternoon, stated that Captain J. Nott, of the cutter Arrow, reported that the Ketch Loona was wrecked on the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Bruce Woollen Mills, Core, have been burnt down. The insurances amounted to £24,800, equally divided between the Victoria and Alliance offices. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 30 Apr 1901, Page 5
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