All the Government officials were thrown into a state of excitement on December 1st, when it became known that the telegraph office had been robbed ...
Article : 1,456 wordsThe French disciplinary troops in Madagascar, engaged in operations against the Sakalava, tribe on the west coast of the island, have mutinied. ...
Article : 74 wordsThomas Speeding, from one of the Western Australian goldfields, immediately on his arrival at Melbourne, was duped by a "confidence man," who ...
Article : 42 wordsThe appeal case of Broughton versus the Commissioner for Stamps has been dismissed with costs, and judgment has been reserved in the case of the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Cuban tariff has been fixed on a basis equal for all nations, including the United States, the same as in the Philippines. ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is reported that the bubonic plague his broken out at Tamatave the chief port of the capital of Madagascar. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe municipal elections to-day crested considerable interest in the city and suburbs. For the Mayoralty of Adelaide Mr. A. W. Ware, the licensee of the ...
Article : 63 wordsIt has been decided by the Powers to allow the Turkish flag to float on an island at the mouth of the Soda harbor, on the north-west of Crete, which is ...
Article : 42 wordsSir Clements K. Markham, K.C.B., president of the Royal Geographical Society, is writing to the presidents of the Australasian Geographical and ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Chamberlain says that there is no permanent Anglo-American alliance, but a closer touch between the two great nations, and that where their ...
Article : 41 wordsThe body of a newly-born male child was found at Parkvill to-day. ...
Article : 14 wordsAt Broken Hill to-day a man named T. Garmody, an old Melbourne miner, was killed by a falling piece of timber while he was working in a shaft. ...
Article : 37 wordsLord Lister, President of the Royal Society, declared at a meeting of that body yesterday that Dr. Koch's and Dr. Turner's serum injection for the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe barque Meran, from Kaipara, with a cargo of timber, met with severe weather. A tremendous sea broke aboard, and considerable damage was ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day, prices for merinoes were unchanged, and for crossbreds they were irregular and weak ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate has attacked the grant made by Nicaragua to the Eyre and Cragin syndicate for a ...
Article : 382 wordsA serious block in the perishable products branch of the export trade has occurred. The Government refrigerating chambers contain over 1,000 tons of ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Aborigines Board, at its meeting to-day, reported that there were 3,230 full-blooded blacks and 3,600 half-castes in the colony. The annual average ...
Article : 46 wordsIt was reported on Monday that fighting had occurred on the Swat River, in the north-west of India, between the followers of the Mad Mullah (a native ...
Article : 193 wordsThe medical opinion concerning the remains which were found under the floor of a hotel at Murrumburrah recently, and supposed to be those of Mr. ...
Article : 50 wordsIn addition to the defeat of the Khalifa at Sherkela, last week, when he fled to El Obeid, news has been received from the Soudan that Osman Digna ...
Article : 54 wordsWheat.—The visible supply of wheat in America cast of the Rocky Mountains is 45,993,000 bushels this week, as against 42,965,000 bushels a week ...
Article : 31 wordsAn elderly man, named Samuel Egan, residing at Carton, was knocked down by a fire-cart to-day, and killed. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe revenue for November was £847,643, being an increase of £66,119 over the corresponding period of last year. ...
Article : 20 wordsDuring the last three months the drain on the Bank of England gold reserve has been exceptionally heavy, £500,000 having been exported to ...
Article : 76 wordsAn Italian named Peter Beechaz, who was found guilty at Sale of having committed a criminal offence on his daughter, 15 years of age, was sentenced to ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is stated that Her Majesty the Queen, on her return homeward next spring from Cimiez, in the south of France, will meet the Emperor William ...
Article : 53 wordsThe man Noonan, who was injured at the Broken Hill Junction mine, died to-day. At the inquest on Charles Lovelace ...
Article : 94 wordsThe revenue for November amounted to £559,997, being an increase of £45,968 over that of the corresponding period of last year. The net Customs ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Legislative Council to-day passed the Public Service Code Bill, with amendments. In the House of Assembly to-day the ...
Article : 127 wordsThe revenue for the month of November was £313,156, an increase of £32,000 over the corresponding period of last year. The expenditure for the ...
Article : 59 wordsAt the international conference which is being held in Rome to consider what steps should be taken to suppress the anarchists, the members have ...
Article : 92 wordsThe United States of Central America have dissolved the union, and each country has resumed absolute sovereignty over its own affairs. ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Darenburg, a leader-writer on the Melbourne "Age," died to-day. ...
Article : 12 wordsA court martial was held to-day on the flagship H.M.S. Royal Arthur, to inquire into the grounding of H.M.S. Mildura at the New Hebrides. The ...
Article : 76 wordsEllen Washington was fined at Meningie to-day for having milked a cow with, a tuberculous udder. Nine cases of tuberculosis and one of cancer were ...
Article : 41 wordsThe gunboat Gayundah is in active commission as a naval training vessel. She will regularly cruise along the coast. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe stevedores and coal-lumpers are at logger-heads. The former have intimated that after December 12 they will engage all the labor required through a ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Chamberlain has invited capitalists to aid in reviving the sugar industry in the West Indies. Sir Thomas J. Lipton, the well-known ...
Article : 62 wordsA fire which occurred at East Moonta to-day destroyed a seven-roomed house, the property of a mining company, and the whole of its contents. The ...
Article : 41 wordsAlready Lord Kitchener's appeal for foods to establish a Gordon College at Khartoum has resulted in the collection of £40,000. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 wordsThe Department of Education has arranged the dates for the triennial elections in connection with the district boards of education in various parts of ...
Article : 362 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, in referring to the adverse vote on the Estimates, the Premier said that he intended to bring the matter forward in ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Gordon, stipendiary magistrate, resumed his duties on the Adelaide bench to-day, after a lengthened holiday. He was warmly welcomed by the ...
Article : 26 wordsThe municipal elections to-day resulted as follow:—Cook Ward, Norton; Brisbane Ward, Taylor; Macquarie Ward, Dymock; and Fitzroy Ward ...
Article : 24 wordsThe threat of Count Thun-Hobenstein, the Austrian Premier, that if Prussia continued to expel Poles and Czechs from its territories Austria would ...
Article : 66 wordsNews was brought into the town at about 11.15 this morning that some shaft timber on the Lady Florence mine was clotted with blood, and that some ...
Article : 319 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Rowland Gwynne, 46 yean of age. He was chief clerk and receiver of revenue in the patents office. ...
Article : 26 wordsAs a result of outside competition, the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Shaw-Savill Company have agreed to reduce the sailing vessel freight to ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the federal resolutions were considered in committee. Provision for the referendum was omitted by 25 votes to 10. The ...
Article : 153 wordsDaring the voyage of the steamer Kalgoorlie from Melbourne a child named Rita Murdoch died from gastritis. The body was brought to Port ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Auckland Exhibition was opened to-day by His Excellency the Governor, Lord Ranfurly. Mr. Meadows, the general superintendent, in the course of an ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. George Brookman has provided the trustees of the Adelaide Museum with the necessary funds for the erection, outside the museum building, of ...
Article : 75 wordsCount Thun-Hohenstein, the Premier of Austria, and Baron Desderius Bauffy, the Hungarian. Premier, have agreed on a provisional ausglich (the bill ...
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Advertising : 22 wordsThe Renmark fruit crop is estimated at about 270 tons, of which grapes will yield about 200 tons. Hailstorms caused about havoc among the stone ...
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Advertising : 82 wordsMr. Schultze, the Government viticulturist, has resigned his position. ...
Article : 13 wordsThere is a probability of sufficient money being raised to extradite Myers, the young man who suddenly disappeared a few days ago. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Dickinson said that Judge Noel had not resigned. The Premier said thai the total cost ...
Article : 77 wordsThe "Government Gazette" contains a regulation framed to prevent the introduction of tick fever from Queensland and the Northern Territory. The ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Rudick, the recently-appointed daily expert, considers that the climatic conditions of the North Island should enable it to produce butter and cheese ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. J. W. Brown, L.L.B., was admitted to practise at the bar of the Supreme Court to-day. ...
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Advertising : 23 wordsDuring the September quarter the imports were valued at £1,699.000, as against £1,800,000 for the corresponding period of 1897. The exports were ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 9 Dec 1898, Page 2
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