The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Australian Joint Stock Bank was held to-day. The report showed a profit of ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Defence Department has decided to hold a military encamp ment at Ballarat during Easter. ...
Article : 19 wordsIn last week's issue of "The Morning Herald" a paragraph appeared in which it was stated that as far back as June last a black ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Anglo-Australian banquet, which was held last night at the Hotel Cecil, London, to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the ...
Article : 611 wordsThis is the sequel to the recent cause celebre, in which Air. Jay, the London money-lender, sued Sir Tatton Sykes and his wife, Christiana Anne Jessica, lady ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 240 wordsFurther statements appear in the German newspapers to the effect that Menelik, King of Abyssinia, and the Khalifa, have entered into an ...
Article : 43 wordsThe value of the staple produce exported during December was £293,388, a falling off of nearly .£150,000. There was also a ...
Article : 40 wordsThe inquest on the body of John Smith, who was found dead at Collingwood with his skull fractured, was concluded to-day. A ...
Article : 64 wordsThe prisoner John Scott, who escaped yesterday from the Biloela gaol, was recaptured last night in Hyde Park. During the afternoon ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Chief Secretary has ordered the publication of the evidence taken at the inquiry of the board of management of the Adelaide ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Baribas have welcomed the occupation by the British of Berehere and [?]esha. [?]eaha is a Borgu town, not far from Nikki ...
Article : 31 wordsThe report of the Railway Commissioners for the quarter ended December 31 shows that, compared with the revenue for the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company has declared a dividend of 5 per cent., and carried forward £4,971. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Glasgow and Sheffield workmen have accepted the terms ef the masters. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe board of inquiry into the cause of the recent fire has taken further evidence of a contradictory nature regarding the time the fire ...
Article : 69 wordsThe agricultural statistics show that the season's wheat yield is estimated at 6,770,253 bushels, and oats 10,691.550 bushels. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsEarly this morning a watchman named Hathawav discovered three men endeavoring to break into the Arncliffe Post-office. He called ...
Article : 168 wordsThe steamer Baluchistan (1,529 tons) has been again seized by H.M.S. Lapwing at Muscat, the port at tie entrance of the Persian Gulf. ...
Article : 203 wordsAn appalling disaster is reported to have occurred in America. A fire broke out in Spokane, a city on the Spokane River, near ...
Article : 81 wordsThe population of the colony on December 31 was 768,910, an increase of 14,894 for the year. The excess of arrivals over departures ...
Article : 26 wordsThe excessive heat experienced early this month has had a bad effect in greatly increasing the number of infectious diseases ...
Article : 73 wordsIt will be remembered that after his return to Perth from an extended tour of the north-west in 1896 Bishop Riley addressed a letter ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsThe first annual meeting of the North Fremantle Fire Brigade was held at the fire station, North Fremantle, on Jan 27 there being ...
Article : 473 wordsThe health of Mr. Gladstone, who was recently reported to be suffering severely from facial neuralgia, is improving. ...
Article : 25 wordsA conference of Ministers of Mines of the neighboring colonies arranged by Mr. Foster to discuss matters of interest to the mining ...
Article : 54 wordsA meeting of the Aborigines' Protection Board was held en Jan 27 but, as usual, the proceedings were not open to the press. We ...
Article : 231 wordsA robbery having been reported from Boorabbin at Mrs. Oliver's restaurant, Constable O'Doxovan proceeded there yesterday and took ...
Article : 154 wordsThe annual meeting of the Benevolent Society was held to-day. His Excellency the Governor,[?]Hampden, said that it was always ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Meat Producers Committee, representing colonial freezing companies in the United Kingdom, has decided to ask the ship-owners and ...
Article : 52 wordsThe admirals ia. charge of the warships off Crete have ordered four of the ringleader in the recent Mohammedam riote at Horakiion ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Government has placed on exhibition at the Geographical Museum the mineral specimens which are to be sent to the Paris ...
Article : 59 wordsThe directors of the Australian Agricultural Company, of 196 Gresham House, Old Broad street, Louden E.C., hare recommended ...
Article : 36 wordsA preliminary inquiry was held this afternoon before Mr. J. A. Wright, R.M., and Mr. J. Moir, J.P., into the cause of the ...
Article : 366 wordsThe "Government Gazette" gives the population of the colony in November as 354,938, an increase of 3,000 over the return for the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe rusk for land on the Headington Hill Estate was phenomenal. There were Selectors from New South Wales, Victoria ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Canadian Government has sanctioned a land-grant railway from Glenera, on the Stickeen River, to the Teslin Lake, distance of 150 ...
Article : 64 wordsOn Jan. 27 the Fremantle Local Board of Health held a special meeting in the Council chambers at the Port. Mr. Solomon )mayor) ...
Article : 287 wordsAt the police court this morning the cases arising out of the recent arrests in connection with the jewellery robbery from Peillon's ...
Article : 135 wordsTo-day the Speaker entertained Mr. J. Garard, the Minister of Education in New South Wales, and Mr. Thomas Glassey, the ...
Article : 55 wordsFrom Bundaberg it is reported that at high tide water is flowing in the port holes of the steamer Ranelagh. Attempts to pump the vessel ...
Article : 67 wordsLord George Hamilton, M.P., the Secretary of State for india., addressed his constituents at Chiswick last night. He declared that ...
Article : 72 wordsLord Kilmorey has written to Messrs. C. M. and J. D. Muirhead, solicitors, to the effect that he will leave England in March on behalf ...
Article : 58 wordsA story highly characteristic of two eminent predates and of their respective styles is now "going the rounds." Soon after his ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Chief Inspector of Stock has received a letter from Mr. Chas. Gcodliffe, of Batavia, who lately forwarded some ticks from there ...
Article : 76 wordsPetty pilfering has been proceeding on a wholesale scale at Port Adelaide lately, and two offenders I who were caught stealing a bottle ...
Article : 53 wordsIt will doubtless surprise many to learn that the dealers in human hair do not depend on chance clippings here and there, but there ...
Article : 152 wordsAt the annual conference of the Political Labor League of New South Wales, held yesterday at Newcastle, a resolution in favor of ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Marine Board has completed its inquiry into the cause of the explosion on the steamer Tyro, in the Murray River, three months ...
Article : 54 wordsThe international commissioners' scheme controlling the finances of Greece has been baaed to a large extent on the suggestions of the ...
Article : 74 wordsIt ia rather startling to hear of a plant giving out heat just like an animal. But it has ton been proved conclusively that some at ...
Article : 97 wordsThe return of the collector of Customs of the passengers who arrived in and departed from the colony during December is a ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 4 Feb 1898, Page 2
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