The Government has resolved to increase the price of water at the Beetaloo reservoir from 3s. to 6s. per thousand gallons. This action ...
Article : 81 wordsPresident Paul Kruger has declined to grant the franchise to men residing in the Transvaal who have been married in England or ...
Article : 33 wordsThe column under the command of Colonel A. G. Hammond, V.C., has arrived at Lundi Kotal (in the Kyber Pass) which was burned in ...
Article : 74 wordsYour house takes fire. What burns first? The lightest and most inflammable stuff, of course—fur[?]iture, doors, shelves, floors, panelling ...
Article : 724 wordsA report received from Shanghai States that the British Squadron in Chinese waters is anchored in Port Sazlton. ...
Article : 29 wordsWhen the R.M.S. Orotava arrived to-night the harbormaster at Port Melbourne ordered her to the shore berth, though two berths nearest ...
Article : 97 wordsA cyclone or "willy willy" occurred at Onslow on Monday morning. The weather looked anything but promising, and the class, which ranges ...
Article : 590 wordsThe third day of the intercolonial match was oppressively hot, and the attendance numbered about 1500. The visitors, who had lost ...
Article : 462 wordsA storm burst over the city on Tuesday night, and did considerable damage. The rainfall for the 24 hours ranged from 4½in. to 6 in. in ...
Article : 53 wordsThe attempts made to re-form the Japanese Cabinet have failed. The vacancies in the Cabinet caused by the resignation of Count ...
Article : 549 wordsNews received at Lagos from the interior states that a British force of Hausas has occupied Hesha and Berehere. ...
Article : 84 wordsSir Henry Norman has resigned the Agent-Generalship on the ground of ill-health. Mr. C. S. Dicken will temporarily fill the position, and it ...
Article : 32 wordsThe following scratchings are announced :—Standtsh Handicap— Ailsa Craig, Waraka, Mainstay. Bagot Handicap—Burrabari. Welter ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. C. Sankaran. Nayar, a member of the Council of the Governor of Madras, has been appointed chairman of the Indian National ...
Article : 241 wordsThe outcome of the evidence given at tee inquest on the body of the seaman Lee, who was killed at Port Adelaide on Christmas ...
Article : 36 wordsTo-day was very hot. The thermometer registered 98 degrees at half-past 10, 101 degrees at half-past 1, and 100,3 at 4. A change ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Henry Dobson, M.P., an ex-premier, who is spending his holidays at his suburban residence on the Huon road, was crossing a ...
Article : 78 wordsA sad revolver accident happened in the vicinity of Alice Springs on Christmas Day. A miner named Olney had occasion to take the ...
Article : 83 wordsIt is reported from Athene that the Greek Government is engaging Austrian officers to reorganise the army. ...
Article : 27 wordsJohn Ross, who was recently employed in the National Bank, was arrested last night, at Geelong railway station, on a charge of having ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Sublime Porte has requested permission to send 50,000 troops to the relief of the Turkish garrison in Crete. The admirals of the ...
Article : 36 wordsA special meeting of the board of directors of the Sydney Hospital was held to-day for the purpose of electing six resident medical officers for ...
Article : 79 wordsFor four days in succession the thermometer has registered over 105 degrees in the shade. It was thought that the climax had been reached ...
Article : 90 wordsCases arising out of the till robbery ai the Denver City Hotel were called on at the police court this morning, when George M'Pherson ...
Article : 172 wordsWith reference to the incident in which the Turkish forts at Preveza fired upon the Greek gunboat at Aktium, in the Gulf of Arta, the ...
Article : 44 wordsBrigadier General Alfred Gaselee's brigade has succeeded in destroying the defences of the rebellious Zakka Khels. ...
Article : 63 wordsFrom [?] to December 25 the stamp duties yield £13,219, and the land and income tax £15,000. The latter showed an increase of ...
Article : 37 wordsThe libel action of J. H. Carruthers (Minister of Lands) against George Lonsdale and John Norton was continued to-day. ...
Article : 263 wordsRussia has now submitted a proposition that Prince George of Greece (the second son of King George) should be appointed ...
Article : 46 words"Jake" Gaudaur, of America, the champion sculler of the world, has expressed his willingness to row James Wray, of New South Wales ...
Article : 371 wordsAn extensive bush fire started at Spring Gully, near Echunga, today. It swept around the country for miles, and burnt wattle ...
Article : 85 wordsAnother sensation was provided to-day, and on this occasion the express train from Perth was the scene of the trouble. When within ...
Article : 297 wordsAt the police court to-day Harriet Merton was charged with having sold whisky on the 26th inst. without a licence. The defendant ...
Article : 358 wordsGermany has declared that its withdrawal from Kia-Chau is conditional on its receiving a suitable station elsewhere. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. Patrick Jordan, a resident of Hamley Bridge, who had reached the ripe age of 103 years, died to-day. He was hale and hearty to ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Russian authorities have ordered to China, for convoying purposes, the first-class cruiser Vladimir Monomakh, which belongs to ...
Article : 95 wordsWork was resumed at an early hour in the shaft at South Yarra where the sad accident happened yesterday. When the men ...
Article : 255 wordsThe match between Stoddart's English eleven and eighteen of Bendigo was finished this afternoon, being won by the Englishmen ...
Article : 66 wordsYesterday the Postmaster-General received the following telegram from Mr. F. Inkpen, postmaster at Onslow, giving particulars of ...
Article : 234 wordsThe Japanese naval authorities are showing remarkable activity in the harbour of Nagasaki. Nagasaki is an important seaport and ...
Article : 84 wordsAt Broken Hill the temperature to-day was 107. The total rainfall for the year is only 5in., or the lowest on record. ...
Article : 24 wordsAs the result of the outbreak of lawlessness at Coolgardie, two detectives and three constables arrived in the express train to-day to ...
Article : 106 wordsSir W. Macgregor, the Governor of New Guinea, has heard nothing of his rumored appointment as Governor of the Gold Coast. An ...
Article : 62 wordsHer Majesty Queen Victoria is about to visit Cimiez, near Nice, in the south of France. It will be remembered that on Her Majesty's ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. George Barnes, general secretary of the Amalgamated Engineers' Society, declares that the engineers on strike are still fighting ...
Article : 113 wordsThe British Foreign Office reports that Germany is pushing trade m Japan much more vigor than Britain. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe London "Standard" of this morning complains that the British Government is doing nothing in Eastern Asia. The "Standard" ...
Article : 63 wordsThe provisional agreement between the Government and the British-India Company for the revision of the mail contract has not found ...
Article : 86 wordsA man dropped his wig on the street, and a boy who was following close behind the loser picked it up and handed it to him. " Thanks, ...
Article : 52 wordsLord Salisbury, the British Premier, has refused to adopt coercive measures with regard to Canada discontinuing sealing operations. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 31 Dec 1897, Page 1
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