The Legislative Council to-day rejected the Householders' Suffrage Bill. Mr. Warren threatened to block the Loan Appropriation Bills. ...
Article : 265 wordsIn the case of Lincoln, Stuart, and Co., charged with having "sweated" a woman who, it is stated, had signed an affidavit to the effect that the charge ...
Article : 65 wordsA meeting of ratepayers of the city of Perth was held in the Town-hall on Dec. 15, for the purpose of considering the question of the water supply, for the ...
Article : 4,350 wordsMr. William Jennings Bryan, who opposed President M'Kinley for the Presidency, urges that the precedent of the establishment of an independent ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is announced that Sir William Vernon Harcourt will retain his seat in the House of Commons, but in future will act as a private member, and not as ...
Article : 43 wordsIn the local court to-day a debtor was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment for having failed to attend the last sittings of the court, in answer to an unsatisfied ...
Article : 84 wordsStewart Briggs an ex-policeman and artilleryman, who has been lately unemployed, quarrelled with, his fiancee, Maggie Dutt, recently, and struck her. ...
Article : 152 wordsIt is now considered that the resignation of Sir W. Vernon Harcourt is final. The decision is attributed to the movement to recall Lord Rosebery to the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe schedule of James Swift, accountant, has been filed. The liabilities amount to £30,000, and the assets to £8,000. The cause of the insolvency ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Philippine insurgents consider that the Spanish Government ought to employ the £20,000,000, which have been paid by the Americans for the ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the Divorce Court to-day the petition of Stephen Williams, fanner, for a divorce from his wife, on the ground of adultery, was granted. The wife ...
Article : 83 wordsMrs. Kerr, 77 years of age, was burned to death to-day, owing to her clothing having ignited while she was burning paper under a copper. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe imports during the mouth of November reached a total value of £1,800,000, being an increase of £150,000, over the corresponding period of last year. ...
Article : 49 wordsAn inquest into the circumstances surrounding the Petersham tragedy was opened to-day. The identification of the deceased women was established ...
Article : 334 wordsIt is reported in Vienna that serious negotiations are proceeding between Russia and Britain in order to arrange a modus vivendi in China. ...
Article : 31 wordsSchneider, a London butcher, who on November 13 burned to death in an oven a baker named Berndt, and afterwards stabbed Ross, a master baker ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Alexander Murray, a well-known colonist, died to-day as the result of a buggy accident near Mitcham. ...
Article : 19 wordsAn elderly man named James M'Kay was killed near Warrnambool to-day. He was driving over a level crossing, when a goods train collided with the ...
Article : 33 wordsA notice in the "Government Gazette" states that the Indian Army Remount Department expects to purchase 1870 military horses in the colonies during the ...
Article : 29 wordsMrs. M'Nab, who was convicted of the manslaughter of her infant, whom she poisoned, and was strongly recommended to mercy, was brought up for ...
Article : 50 wordsAccording to the London "Daily News," the Russian Government induced China to withhold the balance of the war indemnity due to the Japanese, who ...
Article : 49 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, the Land Bill was passed through all its stages. The Legislative Assembly passed the ...
Article : 35 wordsThe French Government has allowed the date for the ratification of the Niger Convention to pass without having taken any steps to give adherence to ...
Article : 113 wordsThe report of Mr. Justice Owen, who, as sole commissioner, inquired into the charges made against the conduct of the Minister of Works (Mr. Young) at ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Government has decided that the colony will not be represented at the Paris Exhibition to be held in 1900. ...
Article : 22 wordsAn extraordinary demonstration is reported to have taken place in the city of Granada, which is situated 130 miles east of Seville. ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, the Probate Succession Duties Bill was shelved. In the Legislative Assembly the ...
Article : 225 wordsThe steamer Derwent collided with the steamer Mahinapua to-day, while swinging in the basin. The latter was badly damaged and her passengers and ...
Article : 37 wordsWilliam Dovers was committed for trial to-day at Bombala on a charge of having embezzled public moneys. He admitted a deficiency of £950. ...
Article : 26 wordsMark Sousee, who resided at Spring-mount, near Creswick, was discharged from a lunatic asylum recently. Last night he illused his wife, and then ...
Article : 29 wordsA serious fight has occurred in the streets of Havana between, some Spanish soldiers and a band of the Cubans. The quarrel arose from the refusal ...
Article : 74 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Premier, in reply to Mr. Gillies, said, in regard to federation, that the Premiers ought to discuss the New ...
Article : 177 wordsSeveral deaths from the bubonic plague are reported daily at Tamatave, in Madagascar. Up to the present time no Europeans ...
Article : 33 wordsSir Frederick Sargood was entertained at a dinner this evening by the members of the Legislative Council. In responding to the toast of his health, he severely ...
Article : 70 wordsAt about one o'clock this morning the church bells rang out a fire alarm, and crowds turned out into Vancouver-street, facing the Recreation Ground ...
Article : 414 wordsA serious outrage was attempted yesterday in the Belfast Court on Sir Peter O'Brien, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Goodiwindi district is in a deplorable condition, water being scarcer than for years past. ...
Article : 21 wordsFour Belgian traders are reported to have been eaten by cannibals in the district of the Upper Ubanghi, one of the largest rivers of Central Africa, and ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, a bill was read the first time to prevent the further employment of Japanese in pearl-fishing. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe evidence given yesterday at the inquest on the Royal Oak Hotel fire showed that there was plenty of time for the victims to have effected their ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. L. H. Courtney, the member for Bodmin, Cornwall, read a paper yesterday before the Statistical Society on the Congo Free State. He declared that the ...
Article : 78 wordsKing Oscar II., of Norway and Sweden, has refused to give his sanction to the recent resolution of the Norwegian Storthing (Parliament) in favor ...
Article : 51 wordsA fire, which destroyed seven buildings in Patton-street. South Broken Hill, occurred yesterday. The outbreak started in Bellamy's secondhand score ...
Article : 66 wordsIn the London Bankruptcy Court, on October 25, before Registrar Linklater, there was a sitting for the public examination of L. E. Maitland Strode ...
Article : 319 wordsThe hearing of the Tooher divorce case, in which the wife petitioned for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of desertion, and upon the circumstances ...
Article : 229 wordsNews has been received that the Ubanghi cannibals surprised and massacred seventy native soldiers who were escorting the traders. ...
Article : 27 wordsColonel John Hay, the American Secretary of State, who was formerly ambassador of the United States in London, is actively favoring a moral and ...
Article : 59 wordsA youth named Clayoreu was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with 10 lashes, for having attempted to wreck a train. ...
Article : 26 wordsArrangements have been made for an Indian cricket team to visit England in 1900. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe libel action, Dr. Sheeman versus George Crowley, was concluded to-day. A verdict was found for the plaintiff for £1,000. The libel was contained in ...
Article : 35 wordsLitigation over the late Mr. James Tyson's estate has begun. Mrs. Catherine Mulholland, a niece of Mr. Tyson, has issued a writ against John Tyson ...
Article : 142 wordsThree Afghans were fined at Bourke to-day for having absconded from the service of the Bourke Carrying Company, which offered to pay their lines if they ...
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