The French Cabinet has adopted a scheme of national defence, the estimated cost of which is 1,500,000,000 francs (about £60,000,000). ...
Article : 121 wordsIt has been definitely decided that Mrs. Brookman, wife of the donor of £10,000 towards the new School of Mines, will lay the foundation stone early in March. ...
Article : 84 wordsBishop Kelly is to be presented by his friends and admirers with a purse of sovereigns to-night at the Convent Hall. The Bishop leaves for Perth, en route to ...
Article : 96 wordsThe surgeons attached to General Warren's ambulance declare that the Boer artillery fire at Spion Kop wrought awful carnage. They also ...
Article : 513 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, the adjournment of the debate on the Address-in-Reply was moved by Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, the ...
Article : 225 wordsMr. R. B. Wise emphatically denies the report that he intends to accept the appointment of Agent-General if it is offered to him. ...
Article : 30 wordsA complimentary banquet to Mr. James Wilkerson was given last night at the Transcontinental Hotel, and proved a great success. After active service on the ...
Article : 209 wordsA fourth Cavalry Brigade will, it is announced, embark immediately for South Africa. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. F. Howard, an officer of the telegraph branch of the Postal Department, who was despatched to America, England, and the Continent in January, 1899, to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 5,597 wordsThe following Colonial bred and owned horses are among the acceptors for the important events of the forthcoming racing season:— ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Ashburton mailman reports that one inch and a half of rain has fallen at Glen Florrie Station, one inch and 20 points at Hooley and New's, and about ...
Article : 186 wordsThe Minister of Lands has received the following reports on the work of their offices during January from Government land agents in the country:— ...
Article : 328 wordsCount O'Brien, of Spain, and Mr. Donald McIntosh, the well-known Victorian pigeon shot, have agreed to divide the first and second moneys in ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. R. H. Rose, jun., J.P., of Roelands, died at the hospital this morning after a month's painful illness. The harbour is full of shipping. The ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Yaralla arrived yesterday with 11 tons of merchandise and seven passengers, and sailed again on the same day. At a meeting of the Chamber of ...
Article : 112 wordsA farmer named Whittaker, who was lately arrested at Frankfort, in Kentucky (U.S.A.), for shooting Mr. Goebel, an ex-Democratic Senator, ...
Article : 36 wordsThe trade relations between this colony and the West have been remarkably slow to benefit from the general improvement in business that has been ...
Article : 177 wordsThe British Government have decided to convert Gaja, an island in British North Borneo, into a naval base ...
Article : 57 wordsDr. Black, the principal medical officer, when interviewed yesterday, stated that in his efforts to guard against the introduction of bubonic plague to this colony, he ...
Article : 267 wordsThe Italian Government has addressed an ultimatum to the Porte in connection with the refusal of the Turkish Government to surrender ...
Article : 54 wordsAccording to the latest heliograph message received from Sir George White, the garrison at Ladysmith is not despondent. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Empress Dowager and Queen Regent of China has directed the Tsungli-Yamen and her Viceroys to forcibly resist foreign aggression. ...
Article : 30 wordsM. Waldeck-Rousseau, the French Premier, has reprimanded His Eminence Cardinal Richard, Archbishop of Paris, and has suspended the ...
Article : 63 wordsOn Monday last C. Chapman arrived from Phillips River, bringing a prospector named Robert Alexander, who had been the victim of an accident. He was ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Alfred Drury, the well-known London sculptor, has been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. ...
Article : 23 wordsGeneral Kelly-Kenny, whose headquarters are at Rosmead Junction, has now a force of 8,600 men under his command. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe gold received at the Melbourne mint during January, totalled 58,614oz., compared with 68,820oz. for the corresponding month of last year. ...
Article : 27 wordsRussia, it is announced, has guaranteed a large Persian loan on the security of the Customs revenue of the country, excepting as regards the ...
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Family Notices : 26 wordsIt is stated locally that the steamer Airlie has been floated off a reef north of Cocktown. SYDNEY, February 1. ...
Article : 63 wordsAbout one-third of the men connected with the Carpenters and Joiners' Society struck to-day. They demand an increase of wages from 9s. to 10s. a day. The event ...
Article : 56 wordsA young man named Walter Price, employed as the cyanide expert at the Golden Horseshoe, died from the effects of cyanide poisoning at the Boulder private hospital ...
Article : 39 wordsOn Tuesday morning a man named F. Plummer, employed underground at the Golden Horseshoe, met with a severe accident. Whilst working in a new chute the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe earnings of the Melbourne Tramway Company during the month of January amounted to £39,219. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Council agreed to-day to meet an hour earlier for the remainder of the session. The House then proceeded to deal with the Factories and Shops ...
Article : 71 wordsLord Roberts has allowed it to be understood that the colonial troops in South Africa will be assigned an important share in the military ...
Article : 96 words{No abstract available}
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 2 Feb 1900, Page 5
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