On Wednesday, the 16th inst., the ploughing match of the Swan Agricultural Society took place, as per advertisement. The day, as usual, was very wet and stormy, which prevented many ...
Article : 372 wordsDeath of the Rev C. CLAY.—We much regret to learn that the Rev. C. Clay, chaplain in the Champion Bay district, is dead. The intelligence reached Perth not long after the departure ...
Article : 450 wordsThe Attorney-General has got his Bankruptcy and Imprisonment for Debt Bills read a second time, but it is with the understanding chat several matters of principle shall be open to discussion on ...
Article : 2,020 wordsSIR,—Your contemporary of the Gazette has inserted a letter (which he says he has received from a correspondent) in which it is made to appear that two gentlemen (who hold the Hon. W. Bateman in ...
Article : 635 wordsWe learn, says the Cape and Natal News, that Mr. Thomas Page, C. E.—well-known in Europe, India, and America as acting engineer of the Thames Tunnel under Sir Isambard Brunsel, and ...
Article : 808 wordsThe Newcastle Temperance Society has once more girded itself to the task, and intends pushing forward the good work for which it was established. I see by a notice issued that a meeting is to be held on ...
Article : 334 wordsSIR,—Will you be so good as so inform me as to whom the congregation of our Cathedral are indebted for the state of mud and filth in which the newly' formed paths were seen last Sunday? There is some ...
Article : 133 wordsJune 15.—George Seymour, t.l., out after hours and using obscene language; fined 20s, or 2 months' hard labour. Michael Barron, p.p., absconding from the Perth Cemetery road party; 6 ...
Article : 287 wordsThe following is an abstract of the Bills to be submitted to the Legislative Council at the ensu-ing session, commencing on Saturday next:— A Bill to amend an Ordinance for the better ...
Article : 450 wordsSIR,—In the present excited state of the community, I fear the remarks 1 am about to make will meet with little favour. It is notorious that we are all Timber-mad at ...
Article : 839 wordsWe are happy to announce that, owing to the continuance of calm, fine weather for the last few days, the farmers have been able to sow their seed, and get in their winter crops of potatoes. The ...
Article : 896 wordsSIR,—These have been described as "imperfect plants," and I shall try and draw an analogy between them and the volatile and imperfect disposition we exhibit, akin to the ephemeral life of that plant—the ...
Article : 881 wordsThe correspondent of the Bombay Gazette, des-cribing a visit to Cairo, writes:—"There, round the corner, not far from the Esbekich, is Sir John Lawrence in a telegraph office, sending a message to ...
Article : 468 wordsIt was late at night before the light-house on Breaksea Island, at the entrance of the Sound, heaved about in sight, and notwithstanding that we had shipped about 1,000 tons of coal at Galle, there now ...
Article : 2,158 wordsThe news from Now Caledonia is of a very startling character. It appears that four Europeans aud a loyal native were massacred in a boat at a coast settlement, and subsequently cooked and eaten. The ...
Article : 201 wordsSIR,—You last week published—no doubt inadvertently—a letter under this heading, signed "PERTHITE." It was a personal attack, dictated, apparently, by personal motives only, and to make it ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Wed 23 Jun 1869, Page 3
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