For several days work at the main jetty. Fremantle. has proceeded in such a quiet fashion that the police authorities were induced to believe that the ...
Article : 2,008 wordsThe will of the late Mr. W. C. [?] has been lodged for probate. The deceased practised here for some years as a solicitor. The estate is sworn at ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. E. Jerome Dyer (formerly of Victoria, and at present secretary of the Australasian Chamber of Mines in London) and Mr. Thomas Cornish (formerly ...
Article : 195 wordsThe "North German Gazette' Etates that Mr. William L. Chambers, the Chief Justice of Samoa, was entitled to determine only on the question of the ...
Article : 204 wordsDr. J. A. Cockbura, Agent-Genera! for South Australia, read a paper at the Colonial Institute yesterday, on South Australia as a Federal Unit." ...
Article : 263 wordsA mail train was delayed for 80 minutes while travelling through four miles of grasshoppers near Capella. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Wellington Rugby Union lias decided to recommend that the New Zealand Union should send a team to Sydney to meet the Englishmen, provided ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Premier, on being seen last night by one of our representatives with regard to the trouble at Fremantle, said:—"The Government intends to enforce citizens who sesire to earn their livelihood. As far as the Government is concerned, it is its bounden duty to protect ...
Article : 109 wordsThe thermometer to-day registered 100 degrees in the shade. A change is predicted. ...
Article : 15 wordsA disastrous bush fire has occurred at Coomandook, and the Government survey camp was destroyed. ...
Article : 17 wordsA skeleton has been found near Auckland. It is believed to be that of a j man named Bowden, who disappeared in 1879. I ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. R. Barr-Smitli has presented £200 to the Deaf and Dumb Mission funds. ...
Article : 17 wordsA man named Wall lias been fined £10 at Christchurch, for having distributed indecent matter contained in a medical advertisement in a newspaper. ...
Article : 26 wordsA dispute occurred at Bunbury at about midnight on Sturday between. the lumpers employed in loading the after-hatch of the steamer Karrakatta ...
Article : 247 words"General" Booth arrived in the express train this morning. He left the train at North. Melbourne in order ta avoid a demonstration by his followers, who ...
Article : 52 wordsThe inquest on Thomas William Miller and Elizabeth Allardyce, who committed suicide at Newcastle, was continued to-day. George Dallas, an ...
Article : 441 wordsA Renter's telegram from Washington states that the British, German, and United States Governments have agreed to obliterate all traces of the recent ...
Article : 43 wordsThe latest news, from the Philippines is to the effect that the American troops have stormed Pasig, alter a sharp fight. [Pasig is a town on the island of ...
Article : 68 wordsSpeaking in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, Admiral Canevaro, Minister of Foreign Affairs, made a statement in regard to Italy's position in China, and ...
Article : 171 wordsThe case of Detective-Sergeant Dungey and his agent, Dora Bromley, against whom a true bill on charges of conspiracy was recently found in ...
Article : 53 wordsContinuing his remarks, Sir Thomas Fowell Barton said that he admired the striking courage which had been shown by the Australian colonists in ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Agents-General for the Colonies are urging Mr. Joseph C[?]amberlain, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to come to a speedy decision in regard ...
Article : 72 wordsThe shade temperature to-day was 99 degress. A change is predicted for to-morrow evening. ...
Article : 17 wordsDuring the passage of the ship Muncaster Castle from London to Melbourne, the second mate, G. Banthorp, was lost overboard on the evening of January 26. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Chief Secretary, Mr. A. 1. Peacock, this afternoon, decided that the whole of the reward of £550, in connection with the boot-box tragedy ...
Article : 225 wordsThe hearing of the "tote" prosecutions arising out of the raid on Wren's shop was partly concluded to-day. Schutt was fined £50 (in default three ...
Article : 87 wordsIt has been definitely decided that Mr. Cecil Rhodes's Trans-African railway and telegraph line shall pass through German East Africa. Mr. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe debate on the second reading of the Federal Enabling Bill was continued in the Legislative Council to-day. The second reading was agreed to on the ...
Article : 54 wordsNews has just been received that the Tsungli-yamen has expressed its willingness to negotiate with Italy. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe strike at the Outtrim colliery has been brought to a termination, the directors having expressed the belief that ail the matters hare been settled in a ...
Article : 35 wordsA suggestion was made recently by the Imperial Treasury authorities that the Agents-General should submit a substantive scheme in regard to the ...
Article : 124 wordsThe British and French drafts of agreement on the question of the settle-ment of the Kile difficulty have been exchanged hy the two Governments. ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has introduced in the House of Commons a House Purchase Bill Under the provisions of the bill ...
Article : 153 wordsUnless the £1,000,000 loan to placed on the London market Metropolitan Board of Works be floated at something near three per cent. the ...
Article : 36 wordsAt Zalgoorin to-day two brothers, George and Robert Carr, who were work-ing in the Black Coon claim, were injured by a fall of earth. George Carr ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the Fremantle Police Court yesterday, before Mess's. J. Lilly and I. W. Bateman, J.P.'s, Julian Sigaro who on the previous day had been dismissed ...
Article : 346 wordsThe House of Lords has given its decision in the appeal case Powell v. the Kempton Park Racecourse Company. It has decided that the bookmakers' ...
Article : 227 wordsA telegram received from Cooktown states that the steamer White Star visited the Pelican, Hanna, and Birkett Islands. The schooner Meg Merrilees was ...
Article : 317 wordsThe Allan liner Castilian, 8,800 tons, which recently went ashore at Gannet Loch, in the Bay of Fundy, while trading between Liverpool and St. John's ...
Article : 43 wordsThis afternoon Mr. Darley, the engineer-in-chief, gave the Public Works committee a large quantity of information regarding the proposed locking of ...
Article : 72 wordsThe death is announced of Lady Ridley, the wife of the Home Secretary, Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart Her Majesty the Queen has telegraphed from ...
Article : 81 wordsWheat.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,146,000 quarters, against 3,019,000 quarters a week ago, and for ...
Article : 94 wordsThe R.M.S. Mariposa took away to San Francisco £200,000 worth of specie Half of it was to the account of the Bank of Australasia, and £50,000 ...
Article : 46 wordsThe bubonic plague, which was recently reported to have made its appearance at Yeddah, in Arabia, has now readied Mecca. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Gatton inquiry was resumed to-day. William Ariell, sergeant of police, gave evidence as to McNeil calling on him on the morning of the l ...
Article : 69 wordsThe odds of six to five are being laid on die Oxford crow in connection with the forthcoming University boat race. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe series of March wool sales was discontinued to-day owing to a dense fog which prevailed in the city. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 17 Mar 1899, Page 9
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