The hearing of the libel action Cowlishaw v. the Sydney "Bulletin" was continued to-day. The action arose over a paragraph which appeared in the paper ...
Article : 99 wordsThe warden, Mr. F. Hare, adjudicated in the Warden's Court this morning. Before the charges of larceny of ore were taken he gave his decision on the ...
Article : 615 wordsThe annual meeting of the British Association was opened at Bristol to-day, under the presidency of Professor Sir William Crookes, F.R.S., the proprietor ...
Article : 165 wordsWalter Moyle, a young man, was committed for trial to-day on five charges of house-breaking in the suburbs. In each case entrance was effected in broad ...
Article : 61 wordsTo-day the Premier, Sir George Turner, informed a deputation which waited on him on the subject of habitual drunkenness that he had so much ...
Article : 82 wordsOne of the Egyptian gunboats, after having proceeded 60 miles up the White Nile, sighted 1,000 horsemen galloping towards the south. ...
Article : 78 wordsIn connection with the serious disturbances in Candia, it appears that the commandant of the Highland Light Infantry held a position near the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe body of the woman found in the Bay has been identified as that of Lottie Jackson, who was living with a lighter-man. She became intemperate, and ...
Article : 73 wordsA terrific storm occurred to-day at Renmark. Enormous hailstones fell, and great damage was done to houses and orchards. ...
Article : 22 wordsA division of the British troops marched round the city of Omdurman. The display greatly impressed the inhabitants of the town. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Broken Hill Corporation has decided to use electricity for street lighting. It was resolved to ask the Government to construct water works under the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe first reports of the disorders at Candia under estimated the extent of the disturbances. The Turkish troops behaved ...
Article : 267 wordsAbout three hundred farmers visited the produce export depot to-day at the invitation of the Government. They inspected the extensive additions recently ...
Article : 113 wordsThe weather in London is extremely hot. Yesterday it was 91deg. in the shade. It is said to be the hottest September ...
Article : 40 wordsAn elderly man named William Edgar has been found dead in a hut near Broken Hill. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe body of Frederick Hall, a tailor, of North Melbourne, was found to-day on the railway line between St. Eilda and Middle Park in a mutilated ...
Article : 30 wordsTo-day the new City Hotel, erected by Mr. Robert Wolfe, at the* intersection of Murray and King streets, will be formally opened. The building has been well-designed and ...
Article : 208 wordsAn old time insolvency case was reopened to-day in peculiar circumstances. In 1891 Henry Arthur Trower and another, trading as Meyerfield and Co., ...
Article : 113 wordsAccording to Mr. John Munro's article in "Cassell's" Lord Kelvin has started America by an estimate of the speedy end of the human race. We are, he ...
Article : 645 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture informed a deputation at fruit-growers to-day that the Government was favorable to the holding of an annual fruit ...
Article : 48 wordsA great sensation has been caused in German military circles by a gambling scandal, which has just come to light. Among those implicated are Prince ...
Article : 122 wordsAt the Agricultural Bureau Congress to-day it was resolved to ask the Government to introduce legislation to fix the standard weight of a bag of chaff. At ...
Article : 111 wordsTo-day the Full Court considered the appeal lodged by the Crown in the case affecting the will of the late James Austin to recover probate duty. The ...
Article : 37 wordsThe information that the Farmers' and Settlers' Association had amalgamated with, the Co-operative Wool and Produce Company has caused comment. ...
Article : 106 wordsAt a meeting of the Trades Hall tonight the report exonerating Mr. Trenwith from a charge of misrepresentation in connection with the unemployed ...
Article : 34 wordsWhen the mallee fires are raging and the timbers falling fast, And the north wind seems to scorch you like a blazing f[?]e blast. ...
Article : 289 wordsAt the meeting of the Melbourne Liedertafel this evening to consider the question, of holding a concert in memory of the late Mr. Julius Herz ...
Article : 45 wordsTo-day a youth named Robert Bass, who was arrested at Mount Gambier on a charge of having embezzled money from his employer, was remanded. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe by-election at North Down was fought between two Conservatives, Mr. Houston and Mr. Corbett. The latter was defeated by 280 votes. At the ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Ebenezer Ward, a member of the Legislative Council, was chained to-day, with offensive behavior in a public place. He argued at length as to the invalidity ...
Article : 46 wordsThe V.R.C. committee is considering the removal of the disqualifications imposed in connection with pony meetings. Keera has been scratched for the ...
Article : 32 wordsTo-day the federal Presbyterian Assembly discussed the proposed onion of the churches in the five colonies. The committee reported that New South ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Royal Agricultural Society's show was continued to-day. Mr. P. Waite's Speaker secured the first prize in both hunters' classes. Mr. Murray's sable ...
Article : 65 wordsThe August gold yield totalled 82,100oz. The total for the eight months was 529,339oz., being an increase of 22,223oz. over the ...
Article : 30 wordsArrival.—Steamer Duke of Portland, 2,487 tons. Departures.—For Sydney—Ship Pomona, 1,200 tons; barque Aristides ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the Mitchell police court to-day a married woman, was charged with cruelty to child five years of age. The evidence showed that she reared the child like a ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Sydney Smith, lately Minister of Mines, has been asked to oppose Mr. Barton for the Hastings and Macleay constituency. He will reply to-morrow. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe preparatory work of duplicating the Port Darwin overland telegraph line is proceeding. Tenders have been let for the cartage of material from ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. Chamberlain, the Secretary for the Colonies, has arrived in New York. In an interview, a report of which is published in the New York "Herald," ...
Article : 105 wordsThe case against the four alluvialites, Burns, Burke, Miller, and Regan, for alleged larceny of ore from, the Venture Company, then came on for hearing. ...
Article : 594 wordsThe Opposition "stonewall" for 66 hours, as a protest against the alleged refusal of the Government to give full information regarding certain financial ...
Article : 46 wordsThe divers who have been at work upon the R.M.S. China, which went ashore on Azalea Point, Perim, in March last, and which was expected to ...
Article : 63 wordsFor the week ended September 3 the, births were 202 and the deaths 72. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe final meeting of the distressed farmers' fund relief committee was held to-day. It was reported that no further relief was required, as the prospects of ...
Article : 60 wordsAn animal like a large lizard, believed to be a kumi, has been observed near Gisborne. The kumi has not been seen for three generations. A party is out ...
Article : 35 wordsThe inaugural meeting of the Institute of Hygiene was held to-night. Mr. Campbell delivered an address on "Tuberculosis," which he described as one ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 191 wordsThe Spanish Cortes is debating in secret the terms of the treaty of peace about to be concluded with America. It is said that the Carlists and the ...
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Advertising : 71 wordsIn the Central Fire Station at the Port last night the Fremantle Fire Brigade held what is intended to be the first of a series of quarterly "smoke ...
Article : 204 wordsHis Excellency the Governor and Lady Burton will leave for England on September 29. Chief Justice Way will act as Administrator during the absence of ...
Article : 30 wordsThe board to inquire into the cause of the wreck of the. steamer . Annie M'Dougall at Macquarie Bar sat at Strahan to-day. ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the Full Court to-day the appeal of Harrold Bros, as to whether or not the debtors were entitled to payment from the estate for solicitor's costs in ...
Article : 42 wordsSir Claud Macdonald, the British ambassador at Peking, has confirmed the news of Li Hung Chang's dismissal. The German, press declares that Li ...
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Advertising : 96 wordsA murder and suicide in Petrie terrace were discovered to-day. Samuel Foote reported to the police that a woman named Mary Gray, who had been cohabiting with him, had been ...
Article : 92 wordsA 300-guinea ram, from the Scone flocks, was shipped to Melbourne to-day to the order of Mr. Percy Chiroside M.L.A. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Governor in Council has signed an agreement allowing green fruit from New South Wales to be imported free of duty. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 16 Sep 1898, Page 2
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