The rains are delaying the advance of the British relief column in Ashanti. ...
Article : 21 wordsThere was a crowded audience, including a large number of ladies, at the Victoria-hall, Fremantle, last night, to hear addresses against the Commonwealth ...
Article : 8,567 wordsIn the police court, before Mr. J. A. Wright, R.M., on Thursday, Hans H. Felstead, a sailor on the Finnish ship Lochee, and Thos. Mann, a coal lumper, ...
Article : 520 wordsThere is no news to hand of further fighting in South Africa. Grave charges have been made by Mr. Burdett-Coutts, M.P., in a letter to the "Times," regarding the treatment of the British sick and wounded in South Africa, it being alleged that the field hospital arrangements are altogether ...
Article : 161 wordsDr. Napier, who some months ago was thrown from a horse and seriously injured, has now recovered. He will resume his duties in the Adelaide Hospital on July 16. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Kaiser has authorised the German residents of Hong Kong to volunteer for the defence of that colony. The railway from Taku to Tien-tein, ...
Article : 100 wordsColonel James Willcocks, who is in command of the Kumasi relief column, has cabled that Sir F. M. Hodgson intimated on the 17th inst. that he could ...
Article : 102 wordsCaptain Wellington, private secretary to Lord Tennyson, has received an appointment in England. He will leave in the R.M.S. Britannia on July 19. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn connection with the supposed wreck on the south coast of Kangaroo Island, she search party so far has discovered nothing of; importance beyond a. little wreckage, which ...
Article : 36 wordsTo-day the Legislative Assembly adopted the Address-in-Reply to the Governor's Speech. There is a desire to get on with the serious business of the session as quickly as ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Colonial Marriages Bill, which was recently passed by the House of Lords, has been blocked in the House of Commons by Messrs. J. G. Talbot and ...
Article : 64 wordsA respected resident of the Rydal district named Peter Martin died to-day at the age of 104 years. ...
Article : 33 wordsTwo hundred of Admiral Seymour's wounded have been brought into Tien-tsin. Fifty thousand Chinese prevented the ...
Article : 38 wordsMajor Edmund John Phipps Hornby, Sergeant Parker, Gunner Lodge, and Driver Glassock, all of the "Q" Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery, have been ...
Article : 234 wordsCorporal A. Bette, of the Tasmanian Mounteds, was killed at Donkerhoek. Bugler Hortle and Private G. Kingston, of the Victorian Mounteds, and ...
Article : 79 wordsA daring jewellery robbery was committed at Bendigo early this morning. A window of James Knowlton's jeweller's shop was smashed, and a large quantity of watches ...
Article : 47 wordsThe French consuls at Shanghai and Chefoo report that the Foreign Minister have left Peking. Escorted by Chinese troops, they proceeded along the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe combined missionary societies of the city held a service of supplication in the Congregational-hall this afternoon. Sister Garland, who has been engaged in ...
Article : 165 wordsAbbas Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt, has arrived at Buckingham Palace from Port Victoria, where he was recently de-tained by a bad throat. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe steamer Brisbane, inward bound from Kaipara, grounded in the West Channel at the Heads this morning. Shortly afterwards she was floated off, and reached the wharf ...
Article : 32 wordsA special meeting of the Mount Deddick Silver and Lead-mining Company to-day authorised the directors to cell the property to an English syndicate, whose shares are ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Jacobus N. P. Botha, member for Aliwal North, and colleague of Mr. J. W. Sauer, the late Commissioner for Public Works, has been arrested on a ...
Article : 35 wordsLord Brassey has arrived at Southampton on board his steam yacht, the Sunbeam. When interviewed in regard to the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe latest message from Admiral Seymour was heliographed to Tien-tsin. The message stated that the Admiral's force was surrountded, and that ...
Article : 59 wordsThe weather is cold and wintry. In various parts of the country heavy falls of snow have been reported. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Andrew Leitch, an old resident of the Ararat district, was found drowned in the River Murray at Echuca to-day ...
Article : 22 wordsThere is great indignation at Cape Town owing to the condition of the military hospitals, and the absence of comforts for the invalided soldiers. ...
Article : 118 wordsTwo thousand persons attended a conversazione held in connection with the Colonial Institute yesterday. Those present included the Agents- ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Walmer Estate, containing 13,000 acres, near Horsham, in the Western District, has been offered to the Government for closer settlement purposes. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the police court on Thursday morning, before Mr. W. H. Timperley, R.M., Isaac Place was charged by Police-constable M'Caul with drunkenness in ...
Article : 186 wordsThe cable message delays of the last few days is being used here as an excuse for an attack on Mr. Watt in his dealings with the Eastern Extension Company. It is urged ...
Article : 138 wordsIt is officially announced in Cape Town that no troops will be withdrawn from South Africa until the end of the war. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. W. R. Caries, the British consul at Tien-tsin, cables to the effect that Sir Robert Hart, the inspector-general of Customs and Posts, has announced that ...
Article : 113 wordsThe cases of Fleming versus the Bank of New Zealand and the Commissioners of Taxation, New South Wales, versus Kirk, have been decided by the Judicial ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. C. T. Ritchie, president of the Board of Trade, addressed a meeting of the Imperial Commercial Congress yesterday. ...
Article : 50 wordsMessrs. Fischer, Wolmarans, and Weasels, the Boer delegates, who have been on a visit to America, have sailed for France. A new Boer committee has ...
Article : 44 wordsTo-night a fire broke out at Williamstown, and resulted in the destruction of three shops and their contents, and the partial destruction of a fourth shop. The damage is roughly ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Czar of Russia has issued a ukase prohibiting the playing of baccarat everywhere, including private houses. [Baccarat is a French game of cards, ...
Article : 136 wordsDr. Treves, the well-known surgeon, who accompanied Sir William MacCormac to Sooth Africa to take part in field hospital work, has been interviewed ...
Article : 49 wordsSir George Turner, who concluded his speech by moving, amid Opposition cheers, "And we [?] desire to inform your Excellency that your advisers do not possess ...
Article : 330 wordsWheat has relapsed about a shilling. The visible wheat supply in America to the east of the Rocky Mountains is 58,119,000 bushels, against 57,428,000 ...
Article : 34 wordsCommissions in the Imperial army have been granted to Lieutenant J. E. Westgarth and Lieutenant J. E. F. D'Apice, of New South Wales; also to ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Legislative Assembly sat all night discussing the Supply Bill, and an amendment reducing the rote of £1,500 to Mr. Barton by £500. ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Shanghai correspondent of the London "Express" states that Admiral Seymour has been relieved, and has reached Tien-tsin. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe wool market is depressed, as consumption has fallen in all the manufacturing centres. It is expected that at the next sales merinoes will show a ...
Article : 50 wordsLord Tennyson, in reply to a query respecting the whereabouts of the Imperial Bushmen Contingent, received a message from Sir Alfred Milner to-day ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Chinese desperately resisted the relief of Tientsin until the 4 7-10in. guns from H.M.S. Terrible were brought to play upon the Krupp guns which were ...
Article : 90 wordsOne case of plague occurred to-day. The following is a summary of the braidings cleansed in the quarantine areas:—Duellings, 5,002; shops and dwellings, 808; churches, ...
Article : 69 wordsThe invalided soldiers by the steamer Australasian reached Sydney to-day. They were accorded a hearty reception. A private cable message was received ...
Article : 53 wordsMelbourne, Jane 28.—Wheat opened strong at 3s. ld. to 3s. l½d., bat owing to a reported reaction in London 3s. was the best offer at the close. Holders are asking 3s. 1d. and 3s. ...
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Advertising : 105 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor has received official confirmation of the report that Lieutenant Tremearne sailed for England invalided. ...
Article : 22 wordsParliament passed the Bubonic Plague Prevention Bill through all its stages to-day. The measure gives the Governor in Council comprehensive power of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe sum of £500 was realised by the benefit performance organised by Mr. George Musgrove and Mr. Frank Gerald, and held at the Alhambra Music-hall on ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 6 Jul 1900, Page 3
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