The revenue for April was £332,306, an increase of £39,000 compared with the returns for April of last rear. The expenditure vas £202,000, a decrease ...
Article : 46 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Congregational Union and Home Mission was resumed this afternoon. In [?]cordance with a notice of motion, Mr. ...
Article : 545 wordsLater reports received from Manila announce that the American squadron, is blockading the town. The disasters which attended the ...
Article : 178 wordsThere is much popular excitement in Madrid, where the Government has proclaimed martial law. It is reported in America that a ...
Article : 49 wordsThe railway which is being constructed by the Russian Government between Merv and Kushk, in Turkestan, north of Afghanistan, is practically ...
Article : 39 wordsThere is an alarming increase of typhoid at Port Pirie. There are 60 cases in the Town Hospital, and the accommodation is quite inadequate. ...
Article : 42 wordsA dispute took place at Cunnamulla on Sunday between. Burford, a professional pugilist, and William McCaffrey, a navvy. Burford, it is alleged ...
Article : 38 wordsThe corporation of the City of New York has declared that it will not recognise the contracts entered into by its predecessors in office. The result ...
Article : 51 wordsThe boy Reynolds, who was lest by bis parents on Queen's bridge on Sun-day, was found in the Prescott Hotel, Elizabeth-street. He bad bidden ...
Article : 53 wordsDr. Cockbura, the Agent-General, Professor Bragg, of Adelaide University, and Mr. J. H. Finlayson have been appointed delegates to represent the ...
Article : 53 wordsH.M.S. Torch has left for Hokianga to assist if necessary in quelling the native disturbance. The Maoris are still anxious to fight, and care is needed ...
Article : 87 wordsThe quantity of wine exported from South Australia during 1897 was 513,827 gallons, an increase of 122,794 gallons over the retain for the previous ...
Article : 39 wordsThe committee of the Marine Underwriters' Association has adopted the following rates of war risks on merchandise from this port to South Africa:— ...
Article : 42 wordsThe serious bread riots in Italy continue. Yesterday at Bari (a seaport of Naples) the military forces were called; oat to suppress the distarlbance, and five ...
Article : 43 wordsThe will of the late Sir J. L. Dobson, Chief Justice of Tasmania, bag been filed here. The Tasmanian estate is valued at £29,126 and the Victorian at ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Central Board of Health has not removed the restrictions concerning the isolation of Mr. Packard, who was a passenger in the R.M.S. Orizaba. Dr. ...
Article : 42 wordsTo-day Robert Bass petitioned for a divorce from his wife, Kate Bass, for adultery with Richard Thomas, who was the co-respondent. The parties ...
Article : 71 wordsInformation received by to-day's mail shows that the colliery dispute in South Wales is having a direct bearing on the situation in the far East. There ...
Article : 134 wordsThe mail steamer Gothic, while on the voyaga from Hobart to Wellington, reports having sighted a mysterious steamer near Farewell Spit. The Gothic ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Australian horse Merman, by Grand Flaneur from Seaweed, has been backed down to 6 to 1, and is now the second favorite for the Chester Cup, to ...
Article : 51 wordsIn connection with Harrold Bros. insolvency case the solicitors for A. L. and. E. E. Harrold having determined that until they were paid certain costs ...
Article : 219 wordsThe R.M.S. Orotava to-day took away gold specie valued at £78,500 for London, in addition to £12,500 in bars and sovereigns for transhipment at ...
Article : 30 wordsTwo Spanish commanders were killed during the engagement, and no Span-ish warships surrendered to the Americans ...
Article : 263 wordsOwing to the high cost of the mining of New Zealand coal there is no immediate chance of the colony sharing in the international demand for coal. It ...
Article : 47 wordsArrivals.—Steamer Australasian 2,333 tons, from Sydney; ship Neotsfield, 1,822 tone, from Sydney; ship Invercargill 1,246 tons, from Lyttelton; ...
Article : 171 wordsThe revenue returns for April show a substantial improvement, the total being £652,766, an increase of £48,903 over the corresponding month of last ...
Article : 52 wordsA shipment of 400 cases of oranges and lemons in the s.s. Elingamite from Sydney has been condemned, it being infected with red scale. The fruit was ...
Article : 30 wordsThree vessels sailed from Newcastle to-day for San Francisco with coal, flying the British flag. It is stated that last week the Sydney underwriters ...
Article : 41 wordsAttention is directed to an advertisement in another column, calling a public meeting in the Town Hall, on Thursday, the 5th inst., for the purpose of ...
Article : 70 wordsWalter Coultas was fined £2 at Hawthorn to-day for having neglected to have his child Vaccinated. In defence he stated that his wife was the " bose." ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Governments of Portugal and Japan have declared their neutrality during the war between Spain and America. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe trial of Mrs. Camilla Nicholls, of Pitt-street, Kensington, London, for having caused the death of her domestic servant, Jane Popejoy, by ill-treatment ...
Article : 129 wordsRepresentatives of the Master Tanners' Association, interviewed the Minister of Agriculture to-day in reference to the landing of hides in the colony. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Treasurer has decided to increase the grant for seading a team of riflemen to Bisley to £1,700, in order to allow of belter representation of the colony. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe initial meeting of the Anti-Commonwealth Bill League was held in the Adelaide Town-hall to-night in the presence of a good attendance. The principal speakers were Messrs. H. E. ...
Article : 111 wordsOn Tuesday a meeting of this society was held at St. George's Hall. The prscident (Dean Goldsmith) delivered an address on the subject of the ...
Article : 467 wordsMr. W. Anderson, member for Windermere, died at Ballarat to-day at the age of 42 years. He was a prominent ent member of the A.N.A. ...
Article : 26 wordsAt the Criminal Court yesterday Mr Acting Justice James sentenced the following prisoners:—FORGERY AND UTTERING. ...
Article : 364 wordsArthur Hobart, an elderly man, was convicted to-day of having set fire to a dwelling at a time when persons were in it. He was sentenced to death, Mr. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe latest accounts of the operations of the American squadron in the Bay of "Manila state that Commodore George Dewey, the American commander, found ...
Article : 344 wordsThe Governor has appointed Captain Henry Guy Feilden, of the Seventh Battalion of the King's Royal Rifles, as, his private secretary, vice Captain ...
Article : 29 wordsThe death is announced of Prince Kung, the President of the Tsuugliyamen (the Chinese Supreme Council of State). During the recent crisis in China the ...
Article : 55 wordsTo-day, Verity Johnson, a colored wan, was sentenced to imprisonment for 6 years for housebreaking. The prisoner complained that he had not had a fair ...
Article : 48 wordsA deputation from the Canley Tale Fruit Association waited on the Minister of Agriculture to-day, and urged a quicker inspection of vineyards under ...
Article : 101 wordsAn enthusiastic meeting in opposition to the Constitution Bill was held at North Melbourne to-night, when addresses were delivered by Sir Bryan ...
Article : 54 wordsA Cingalese, named James Weerasuoha, who arrived in the R.M.S. Oratava yesterday, reported to the police that at a, hotel in the city three ...
Article : 80 wordsThe wheat market is a shade quieter, but holders of stocks are firm. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Spanish steamer Argonauta, a vessel of 938 tons, belonging to Menendez and Co., has been captured by the Americans at Cienfuegos, a town in the ...
Article : 66 wordsA manifesto on the Commonwealth Bill has been issued by Messre. M'Lean. Graham, Outtrim, Webb, and O'Neil, M.L.A.'s, to farmers, graziers ...
Article : 117 wordsThe first mayoral inspection of Sydney "rookeries" for 10 years took place to-day, and by a peculiar colncidence Mr. John Harris who was mayor at ...
Article : 65 wordsThe copper supplies to hand since the date of the last report amounted to 23,811 tons, and the deliveries to 22,944 tons; the stock is now 28,891 tons ...
Article : 41 wordsParliament was opened to-day, and the Governor's speech coincided with the forecast telegraphed. The business was merely of a routine character. It is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsA deputation waited on the manager of the Dudley Colliery to-day to ascertain whether it woe his intention to resume work when the time Lad expired for ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Finance Commission appointed by the Government to arrive at the troth on the federal financial question has decided that the press shall not be ...
Article : 85 wordsAt present the stock of tallow is 31,779 casks; the imports since the date of the last report, 4,667 casks ; and the deliveries, 4,092 casks. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Finance Committee of the American Senate has omitted the tonnage dues on foreign shipping from the schedule of the new war tax. This step ...
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Advertising : 98 wordsThe consignment of Australian apples received in the R.M.S. Ormuz is in excellent condition. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Fruit Association of Sydney is publishing a letter stating that the regulations which are being enforced in the other colonies in reference to the ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 6 May 1898, Page 9
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