STRANDING OF A WHALE.—Our Busselton correspondent telegraphed on Aug. 18:—A large finback whale, about 70ft. in length ...
Article : 5,853 wordsThe long and vexatious delay in the settlement of the treaty of peace is causing great dissatisfaction in Greece, aud now some 3,000 ...
Article : 258 wordsIn the Fremantle Town-hall on Aug. 17 " Commandant" Booth, of the Salvation "Army" received an enthusiastic welcome on the ...
Article : 922 wordsGreat interest is being taken in the swimming match for £200 a side between " Joe " Nuttall, the English professional champion ...
Article : 62 wordsIn response to the protest of the Viceroy of India (the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine), the Ameer of Afghanistan has issued a firman ...
Article : 79 wordsJudge Molesworth delivered judgment to-day in the application of Arthur Garner, theatrical manager, for an unconditional certificate ...
Article : 34 wordsIn the Legislative Council today the Chief Secretary laid on the table plans for the new art gallery, also a design for the public library. ...
Article : 44 wordsA cutting competition has been started at Newcastle between the Coal Trimmers' Co-operative Association and the master trimmers. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Melbourne Tramway Company has declared a dividend of 3d. per share, which with a similar interim dividend has absorbed ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Monorieff, the engineer-in-chief of the South Australian railways, who attended the conference in Melbourne on the ...
Article : 46 wordsA serious condition of affairs is reported from Ireland. It is found that the potato blight is ravaging the western counties of Limerick ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Ameer of Afghanistan has censured the Governor of Jellalabad (a city on the Cabool River and midway between Cabool and ...
Article : 42 wordsThe steamer Larnaca, which is chartered by the Adelaide Steamship Company, was reported at Port Phillip Heads this morning ...
Article : 52 wordsFrom July 1 to August 14 the stamp duties yielded £4,235, and the land aud income tax £3,666. ...
Article : 20 wordsIt is stated that some 25,000 of the Spanish soldiers who were sent to quell the rebellion are on the sick list in Cuban hospitals. ...
Article : 259 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Sleath moved the second reading of the Totalisator Bill. Mr. Crick, who opposed the ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the past the justices of the peace have been in the habit of signing documents without the payment of fees, but since the ...
Article : 63 wordsOwing to the frontier troubles and the disturbed state of the country generally reinforcements will be sent out to India in ...
Article : 28 wordsThe statement of the captain o the Larnaca is that the steamer left Adelaide on Sunday. When off Cape Northumberland the ...
Article : 127 wordsLord Salisbury refuses to acquiesce in the occupation of Thessaly by Turkey pending the payment of a portion of the war ...
Article : 44 wordsMessrs. W. Weddell and Co., the colonial produce agents, have completed their inquiry into the circumstances attending the ...
Article : 170 wordsSir Philip Fysh will leave Launceston for the Convention on Thursday week, lie will remain in Melbourne for a few days to ...
Article : 64 wordsThe split in the Labor party has culminated in the resignation of Mr. D. M. Charleston, member of the Central Division in the Legislative ...
Article : 87 wordsThe steamer La Belgica, with M. de Gerlache and the members of his Antarctic expedition, sailed yesterday, and the Dutch and ...
Article : 321 wordsThe following telegram was published by a Straits Settlement newspaper on July 20:—"The Pegu was pirated by 11 A Chinese men ...
Article : 574 wordsWhen he was being tried by the military court at Madrid for the assassination of the late Senor Canovas, Premier of Spain, the ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Legislative Council has received a large number of petitions for and against the recognition of God in the Federal Constitution. ...
Article : 25 wordsCorporal Hewitt, while riding e bicycle to-day, was run into by a cab. He sustained a fracture of the skull and his condition is now ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the Legislative Council this evening the Wangaratta to Whitfield Railway Bill passed all its stages. The Minister in charge of ...
Article : 78 wordsSir George Turner reached Largs Bay to-day. In the course of an interview, he said that while in England he strongly urged that ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Sydney oranges which were received in the Orient Company's R.M.S. Oruba have now been sold, realising from 12s. to 13s. per case. ...
Article : 195 wordsPresident Kruger is opposing the abolition of the dynamite monopoly, as recommended by the mining and industrial commission. ...
Article : 233 wordsThe schedule of Sydney Smith, a Melbourne gentleman whose estate was recently sequestrated compulsorily, has been filed in the ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the House of Assembly to—day the Treasurer expressed the opinion that the Convention could, under the existing Act, adjourn for ...
Article : 182 wordsThe colonial bishops who have been attending the Pan-Anglican Conference are now making final arrangements to return to their ...
Article : 117 wordsIn the case of M'Kenna v. the Adelaide Steamship Co., for breach of agreement, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £30. ...
Article : 34 wordsSir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart., Liberal member for the Forest of Dean division of Gloucestershire, has entertained the New ...
Article : 74 wordsAt a meeting of the Federated Stewards and Cooks' Union tonight it was resolved that subscription lists should be circulated ...
Article : 50 wordsThe gold medal of the Cobden Club (an association for the spread of free trade) has been bestowed upon Sir Wilfrd Laurier, P.C. ...
Article : 62 wordsA court-martial was held to-day to bear the charges of forgery, embezzlement, and desertion against Ernest Wright, chief ...
Article : 72 wordsGeneral Albertone, the Italian officer who had arranged a duel with Prince Henry of Orleans, has abandoned the contest. The Prince ...
Article : 49 wordsA very concrete interest was given to one side of the liquor question on June 30 by Mr. E. N. Buxton, of the well-known firm of ...
Article : 167 wordsRegimental Sergeant - Major Algie, of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, who has received six weeks' training at Aldershot, has obtained ...
Article : 47 wordsParliament will be opened during the last week in September. ...
Article : 16 wordsA girl bas died at Bethnal Green, London, from Asiatic cholera. The doctors think that this is probably a sporadic or ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Count of Turin was accorded a great popular reception on returning to Italy after his duel with Prince Henry of Orleans at ...
Article : 40 wordsThe drought which has prevailed south of Canterbury has broken, the first rain for many months having fallen. ...
Article : 20 wordsIn the Legislative Assembiy to-day, in reply to a question, Mr. Brunker said that there was no record that the late Mr. Eddy had ...
Article : 125 wordsOwing to the scarcity of the supply Bradford "tops " have risen ½d. per lb. August 17. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe woman Looney, who ran amok at Fielding with a revolver, fired six shots. She reloaded and began to shoot again. She has ...
Article : 40 wordsArrivals—Steamer Yarrawonga, 2,553 tons, from Sydney ; barque Lintrathen, 699 tons, from Auckland ; and barque Loch Rannoch ...
Article : 61 wordsDuring gunnery practice on H.M. third-class screw cruiser Champion, 2,380 tons (Captain C. H. Cross), one of the ships of the ...
Article : 44 wordsAt Townsville to-day the left arm of a man, in a decomposed state, was found floating in Boss Creek. ...
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