It will be remembered that Mr. G. T, Simpson, the member for Geraldton, took his seat at the opening of the present session while laboring under a ...
Article : 721 wordsThe match was resumed at Derby this morning in showery weather. The wicket was still in good condition, but there was only a small attendance of ...
Article : 375 wordsInterviewed June 29 by a reporter of this paper Mr. Walter James said that he was more than gratified at the early success of the movement. He had ...
Article : 557 wordsThe sensational features that have surrounded the baby O'Callaghan case were added to to-day by a suggestion of perjury. Maurice Dillon, the son ...
Article : 115 wordsThe British Government is hiring six transports, to convey troops to the Cape in the event of war being declared against the Transvaal. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is stated that the Turkish Government hoodwinked the powers in connection with the recent frontier disturbance between the Servian and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 153 wordsTwo young ladies named Mary Currie and Mary Honey, residing in Carrington-street, when retiring to bed—the other members of the family being out— ...
Article : 156 wordsAn enthusiastic meeting was held in Cape Town yesterday, in support of the claims of the Uitlanders. The Mayor presided, and there were some 6,000 ...
Article : 208 wordsA petition, in favor of bringing the printing trade under the Factories Act in the new bill has been signed by the leading master printers, and forwarded ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 156 wordsAt Newcastle to-day, some members of the crew of the ship Marion Ballanlyne were tightening a cable, when the vessel was lifted by a heavy swell. The capstan ...
Article : 59 wordsNews from Newfoundland is to the effect that a French fishing vessel has been seized for having infringed the laws as to the obtaining of bait. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe report of the inspector of the Department of Neglected Children and Reformatory Schools shows that it costs Victoria £50,000 a year to manage that ...
Article : 42 wordsAmong the works of the session, Mr. J. Brunker, the Colonial Secretary, has prepared a bill dealing with the publication and advertising of obscene ...
Article : 37 wordsIt may not be generally known that the late Sir Archibald Michie never drew the pension to which he was entitled under the now defunct Act as an ...
Article : 46 wordsSeveral cases of bubonic plague were reported some time ago from Alexandria, in Egypt. Subsequent reports were of a ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Woodford Leonard, a Johannesburg barrister, brother of the er-Attorney-General of Cape Colony, and also leader of the Transvaal National Union, ...
Article : 109 wordsThe libel action brought by W. B. Melville against the proprietors of the "Sunday Times" "was concluded to-day. Mr. Justice Stephen, in summing up, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe former manager of the Land Credit Bank, George Nicholson Taylor, who in 1892 was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for fraud in connection with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 233 wordsIn the event of the British Government deciding to support the Pacific Cable, the Eastern Cable Companies will offer to construct the line via ...
Article : 58 wordsThe barque Charles Racine, from New York, met with exceptionally bad weather. For two days the wind rose to hurricane force, and the decks were under water. ...
Article : 65 wordsA collision took place near Auckland to-day between the Taviuni, bound for the South Sea Islands, and the scow Rover, bound for Whangarai. The ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is believed in Pretoria that Mr. A. Fischer, the member of the Executive Council of the Orange Free State, who is at present paying a visit to President ...
Article : 69 wordsRain fell during the night at Leeds, but this morning the weather was beautifully fine. The wicket was in a rather soft condition. There were ...
Article : 401 wordsMr. J. H. Laity, the head master of the Drouin West State school, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. He was unconscious all day, and expired ...
Article : 56 wordsAt the June series of wool sales, which opened yesterday, the prices for merinoes and fine crossbreds exhibited a hardening tendency. Low crossbreds ...
Article : 190 wordsThe racing yacht Jessie, of Sydney, arrived to-day with, its owner and party, en route for Thursday Island. ...
Article : 25 wordsMrs. Clark, who also was interviewed, said: —"I certainly did not expect that our work would have been rewarded so quickly, although, to my mind, the final ...
Article : 331 wordsA very successful conversazione was held by the Royal Colonial Institute yesterday, there being about two thousand guests present. ...
Article : 118 wordsAt the Perth Police Court on June 29, before Mr. A. S. Roe, P.M., A. H. Bailey, licenses of the Narrogin Inn at Armidale, was charged with having had for sale on his ...
Article : 659 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day. Mr. Madden asked for another explanation about the missing document in connection with the Macedon land case. ...
Article : 100 wordsA very old resident, Mr. George Car, of Pateena, died to-day at the age of 74 years. He was a sporting enthusiast. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe following are among the acceptances for the Liverpool Cup:—New-haven (handicapped at 9.9), Merman (7.12), and Survivor (7.9). ...
Article : 74 wordsA severe drought has caused great distress among the islanders of the Gilbert Group. The steamer Emu arrived from the Group to-day, and Captain Wavish, ...
Article : 271 wordsA telegram has been received from Palmerston that the steamer Airlie, while bound from Port Darwin to Sydney, went ashore on the west spit, off ...
Article : 68 wordsIt is understood that the Indian Government intends to ask Britain for a subsidy for the construction of the new and shorter telegraph line which was ...
Article : 95 wordsA brother of Luccheni, the Italian anarchist, who assassinated the Empress of Austria at Genera in September last, has been arrested at Metz, in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsMr. L. Kaine left in the R.M.S. Orient to-day to take charge of that company's branch at Albany. He relieves Mr. Day, who has received six months' leave ...
Article : 33 wordsThe wheat cargo of the ship Mermerus, comprising 68,569 bushels, has been sold at 29s. 6d. per quarter. The Mermerus sailed from Adelaide for London via ...
Article : 35 wordsEdward Mavis, who was arrested at Port Adelaide on a charge of drunkenness, took poison while in a cell. An emetic was administered, and he ...
Article : 30 wordsSerious riots have taken place in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, owing to the Proportional Representation Bill which has been introduced in the ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Russian Government is devoting the sum of thirteen million roubles (£2,031,000) to the port of Vladivostock, its chief naval station on the ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. B. Danks, representing the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and Mr. Thomas Pratt, of the London [?] Society, have written to the press ...
Article : 95 wordsThe latest number of "Weddel's Review," which is issued periodically by the firm of Weddel and Co., colonial commission agents, 16 St. Helen's-place, ...
Article : 124 wordsIt is understood that a cheque for £21,000 has been paid into the Treasury. It is probably in connection with the estate of the late T. Martin, who died in ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Headingley Ground at Leeds, where the third test match was begun yesterday, is probably Yorkshire's finest ground, as well as being one of the ...
Article : 108 wordsA report of an interview which, a press representative had with Mr. Bannigan, the inspector of factories, shows that "sweating" not only exists in Adelaide ...
Article : 41 wordsIn the Glenelg railway case bit, Q.C., after an address extending over three days, brought his remarks to a close this afternoon. The case was then adjourned to July 11. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 7 Jul 1899, Page 2
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