The Customs receipts for the month were £2,643; excise duty, £8 19s.; harbour dues, £687; internal revenue, £187 19s. Total, £3,527. ...
Article : 260 wordsIt is stated that President Steyn has persuaded the Free State burghers to continue their resistance. The argument he is credited with ...
Article : 436 wordsAt a meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday afternoon, Mr. R. Lewis moved that Mr. Tucker be requested to resign his position as chairman of the board. He ...
Article : 281 wordsSir Fowell Buxton, formerly Governor of South Australia, in a letter to the "Times," warmly defends Sir Samuel Way, Chief Justice of South Australia, ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Parliamentary bye-election for South Manchester, rendered necessary by the Marquis of Lorne's succession to the Argyll Dukedom, took place ...
Article : 114 wordsThe three men, Walsh, Nolan, and Dultman, who were lately arrested on a charge of having attempted to dynamite the Thorold Lock of the Welland ...
Article : 62 wordsAn officer of the French army recently communicated to a politician, the contents of certain documents at the War Office, relating to the Dreyfus case. ...
Article : 93 wordsAn outbreak of the bubonic plague is reported from Cairo, in Egypt. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe rainfall in New South Wales, especially on the coast, during the past 72 hours has been remarkably heavy, Sydney registered 10 inches up to 9 o'clock this ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. M. S. Warton, Resident Magistrate, has gone to England on a six months' leave of absence Mr. Gibbons has arrived from Perth to carry on the ...
Article : 259 wordsLieut. Scott, of H.M.S. Majestic, has been selected to command the National Antarctic Expedition, now in process of organisation. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe following are the latest quotations for the under mentioned Australian stocks:— Associated (W.A.), £2 17s. 6d.; ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Privy Council appeal case, Gray v. Australian Gold Discovery Company, has been abandoned. ...
Article : 21 wordsMajor Tunbridge, of Queensland, has been selected to command the Second Regiment of Australian Bushmen. The regiment is now being organised ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Queen has been pleased to present her portrait to the Hospital for Sick Children. In forwarding the photograph Lord Hopetoun said he had been ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Powers have represented to the Tsungli-Yamen, or Supreme Council of China, the necessity of suppressing the secret society known as the "Boxers." ...
Article : 60 wordsAt to-day's colonial wool sales in London, there was strong competition. Prices were unchanged. The sales have now closed. ...
Article : 193 wordsThe resident magistrate (Mr. Finnerty) has received a communication from the Crown Law Department, stating that it has been decided to establish a Court of ...
Article : 75 wordsLieut. Roberts, a, nephew of Lord Roberts, was accidentally shot a day or two ago at the Modder River by his servant. ...
Article : 37 wordsSir,—In your issue of the 23rd inst., a letter appears under the above heading, signed by "Ozone." It is perfectly true that this commonage is shamefully ...
Article : 144 wordsSir William Henry White, Director of Naval Construction to the British Admiralty, has resigned. Sir William has taken this step ...
Article : 45 wordsA pleasant function took place in Gordon's Hotel yesterday afternoon, when about 40 ladies and gentlemen assembled to bid good-bye to Mrs. D ...
Article : 268 wordsThe captain and crew of the barquentine Niels Ribe, which was wrecked on a reef 35 miles from Levuka, arrived yesterday from Noumea and Fiji by the steamer ...
Article : 93 wordsPortugal has, it is announced, removed the embargo recently imposed at Delagoa Bay on foodstuffs intended for the Transvaal. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe plague scare at Fremantle is in a quiescent state, no fresh cases of disease having come to light since the death of Malet. On Saturday the last of the ...
Article : 172 wordsColonel Bethune has furnished a report on the reverse which lately over-took Captain Goff's squadron of Horse while marching between Vryheid and ...
Article : 52 wordsSir,—Will you please give me a short space to say the statement published in the "W.A. Church News" on the 15th inst., regarding the Rector of Northam's ...
Article : 312 wordsThe aboriginal Billy Broome, who was found guilty of the murder of Mary Le Blowitz, at Stantion Harcourt, has confessed to the crime. The Cabinet decided this ...
Article : 84 wordsThe barque Vidylia, 664 tons, ran into anchorage to-day showing signals of distress. A heavy sea was on at the time, and a launch which went off immediately ...
Article : 215 wordsEleven thousand additional troops will, it is announced, embark for South Africa next month. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. Warren, manager in Australia for the Eastern Extension Company, has replied to the amendments suggested by Mr. Crick and Mr. Watt to the agreement ...
Article : 78 wordsThe annual meeting of the parishioners in connection with the Church of England was held here last night. The reports showed progress in every branch of church ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Prince of Wales has, in guarded terms, expressed approval of a scheme recently propounded by the London "Daily Express' for commemorating the ...
Article : 129 wordsThe New South Wales Commissioners who are dividing the colony into districts for the federal elections, have nearly completed their work, and their ...
Article : 193 wordsSir,—Will your correspondent "An Englishman and Ex-Naval Officer" kindly inform me where the flag he complains about was displayed. There was ...
Article : 151 wordsYesterday morning Harry Ralph had a narrow escape from a violent death at Mulbne. He had descended a well 140ft. deep, and was returning to the surface by ...
Article : 59 wordsThe body of John Hayman, stationmaster at Walkaway, was found in the bush near the station to-day by Constable Lucas, of Greenough. A revolver ...
Article : 123 wordsThe weather is cool and cloudy. During the past week half an inch of rain fell locally, and at Ore Station and Bootys about an inch and a half fell. There are ...
Article : 61 wordsSir,—In your issue of yesterday appeared some interesting extracts from letters sent by two members of the Western Australian nurses' contingent ...
Article : 141 wordsFarming operations are in full swing, but more rain is necessary. There is every prospect, however, of a change. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,830 wordsProfessor Ulrich, head of the Otago School of Mines, while gathering geological specimens at Flagstaff Hill, Port Chalmers, in company with his son, fell nearly 100ft., ...
Article : 41 wordsGeneral Snyman, who for so long commanded the besiegers at Mafeking, is now entrenching at Bulfontein, ten miles east of the lately beleaguered ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 28 May 1900, Page 5
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