Alfred Thomas and Charles Green have been arrested on a charge of vagrancy. Thomas has been identified as being the man who passed a forged ...
Article : 45 wordsThe steamship Omrah, with two-thirds of her cargo, has made prolonged trials, during which the vessel steamed 17½ knots per hour, with substantial ...
Article : 597 wordsThe French estimates of expenditure for the year are £140,000,000 sterling, and the national debt is £1,400,000,000.[ In addition to this stupendous amount ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Egan, the chief of the American Commissariat Department, has been ordered to be court-martialled for having caused General Nelson A. Miles, the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe heavy gales that have been raging throughout the United Kingdom have caused great loss of life and properly. ...
Article : 80 wordsRegistered Companies.—The following companies were registered in the Supreme Court last week:—Mulline "Mining and Milling Company, limited ...
Article : 1,488 wordsThe brigantine, Sir Henry, has been wrecked. The cargo was jettisoned, and the crew abandoned the vessel. ...
Article : 20 wordsA man named E. Devane has been arrested on a charge of having attempted to commit a criminal assault on Florrie M'Grath. ...
Article : 29 wordsCaptain Alfred Dreyfus has thanked M. de Freycinet, the Minister of War, and General Boisdeffre, formerly chief of the staff of the French army, and his ...
Article : 48 wordsA burglary took place yesterday at the Bendigo Hotel, Collingwood. Money, jewellery, and scrip, of a total value of £200, were stolen. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Board of Agriculture desires uniform intercolonial quarantine regulations. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe source of the outbreak of phylloxera at Geelong has not been discovered. Experts are of opinion that it came from some external source. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe gale made a gap of 100 yards in the sea wall at Llanfairfechan. The Liverpool express stopped close to the gap. ...
Article : 48 wordsPresident M'Kinley is satisfied that the treaty of peace with Spain will be promptly ratified, and he intends to allow Congress to settle, in 1900, the ...
Article : 39 wordsA. E. Trott continues to secure high bowling averages in South Africa. Against a cricket team of 15 at Port Elizabeth he took 10 wickets for 45 ...
Article : 40 wordsA public meeting, held at Zeehan, passed a resolution protesting against the threatened influx of Austrians. ...
Article : 18 wordsJohn T. Harry, the agent for the M'Culloch Carrying Company, who went-out shooting, has been found drowned in a lagoon at Burramine, near the ...
Article : 30 wordsLewis, a railway official at Oxley, has made an important discovery on the scene of the murder of the lad Hill. The nature of the find has been withheld. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Trade Union funds have amounted in sir years to £9,220,620, of which £1,582,446 have been expended in working expenses. ...
Article : 133 wordsA great crowd assembled at the Exhibition to witness the tug-of-war between C. A. Sampson and seven men. Part of the contract was that Sampson should ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. Andrew Carnegie, the well-knows Pittsburg manufacturer, has offered to the Spanish Government 20,000,000 dollars if it will grant independence to the ...
Article : 45 wordsThere are no further developments in connection with the boot box tragedy. There is no change in the demeanour of any of the three accused. ...
Article : 140 wordsA boating accident occurred in the river on Sunday evening. Had it not been for the prompt assistance rendered by the water-police a fatality would ...
Article : 418 wordsIt is reported that the Philippine insurgents are willing to accept an American proectorate, limited to a definite period. Meanwhile, they refuse all ...
Article : 37 wordsSince the fire in Argyle's paddock, near Kyneton, the charred remains of an elderly man named James O'Connell, whose but was burned down, have been ...
Article : 28 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Kelson Dingley, the member for Maine, in the American House of Representatives, who was reported last week to be in a ...
Article : 56 wordsA fall of earth occurred at the Band and Albion United mine at Ballarat. Twelve men were entombed, but they were eventually rescued unhurt. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. G. It. Lee Hunte, who was recently appointed Administrator of British New Guinea, in succession to Sir, William M'Gregor, has left London for ...
Article : 57 wordsThe goods-shed at the Darnum railway station has been entered by a burglar. A swagman was arrested, and a fully loaded revolver was found in his ...
Article : 44 wordsThe rumor current in the United States that Germany has been assisting the insurgents in the Philippines is officially denied, and Herr von Bulow ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 186 wordsBert Johnson, in a statement to the police at Gatton, said that he treated two men, apparently tramps, at the Brian Boru Hotel on December 26 last. ...
Article : 406 wordsThe Chinese camp at Ararat has been burned down. Twelve places were destroyed, including the joss house, and a large store. Some of the places are ...
Article : 44 wordsIn consequence of the introduction of Imperial penny postage in Canada, Americans are sending letters in bulk to the Dominion, in order to take ...
Article : 54 wordsMessrs. Laird Brothers, of Birkenhead, and Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron. Company, of Jarrow, Newcastle-on-Tyne, have each, taken a, contract to ...
Article : 111 wordsThe heat has returned. Yesterday the thermometer registered 100deg. in the shade, and to-day it wag 104deg. There was a cool change to-night. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Cecil Rhodes, who has arrived in London, is asking the Imperial Government to guarantee the interest on £2,000,000, for the construction of the ...
Article : 57 wordsA valuable collection of stud stock for various breeders has arrived from London. It comprises a choice consignment of Shropshire ewes and a sire ...
Article : 42 wordsThe White Star liner Oceanic has been launched at Belfast. This vessel, which has been built by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, is the ...
Article : 194 wordsCaptain Thomas Cowling, a well-known figure in mining circles, and particularly in connection with copper mines, is dead. ...
Article : 21 wordsOne hundred and fifty-one of the rebels in Sierra Leone have been sentenced to death, but it is anticipated that the sentences on half of the prisoners will be ...
Article : 43 wordsCaptain Thomas, of the Broken Hill Junction North mine, has sustained a fractured wrist as tan result of a buggy accident. ...
Article : 29 wordsA sadden death occurred in the city on Sunday afternoon. A man named Arthur Deacon, who resided at 9 Brisbane-street with Max Posner, was found ...
Article : 272 wordsCandles.—Foreign stearine are quoted at 4[?] per Ib. [The quotation of 3[?], on Friday was sent in error.] ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Premier has received a reply from Mr. Raid, acknowledging his acceptance of the proposal for a conference of Premiers, and stating that he had invited ...
Article : 132 wordsThe National Rifle Association has decided to reduce the bull's-eye at the 200 yards range to seven inches, and the inner circle to 16 inches, at all the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Lithgow miners have been notified that when the weighing clause comes into operation they will be paid by the hour instead of by the ton of coal. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Lucas. M.A, who was lost on Mount Kosciusko, has been found. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe death is announced of Colonel Rowe, President of the Water and Sewerage Board. He was 70 years of age, and was for some time an architect in ...
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Advertising : 93 wordsThe death is announced of Nubar Pasha, the Egyptian statesman. [The deceased, who was born in Smyrna in 1825, and educated in Francs, was ...
Article : 105 wordsEarly on Saturday morning the police received information that an indecent assault had been committed on a girl under the age of 14 years. After ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Federal Council will commence its sittings on January 24. The woman who possesses the longest head of hair in the world is said to be ...
Article : 96 wordsSir Richard Seddon states that the Austrian immigrants' difficulty has been settled. The Imperial Government has asked that those Austrians coming to the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe New Zealand Cricket Council has decided to send a team of cricketers to visit Australia. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 20 Jan 1899, Page 6
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