The 25th annual meeting of shan holders of the Fremantle Benefit Building and Investment Society was held at the Town-hall at the Port on Monday. The ...
Article : 443 wordsIt has been decided to repair the steamer Time at Port Adelaide. It is anticipated that the work will occupy about a fortnight. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe barque John o' Gaunt, from Liverpool, arrived to-day. During the voyage a seaman named Cormack fell from the main-top-sail yard and was ...
Article : 35 wordsThe authorities at Washington are very distrustful in regard to the territorial designs of Russia and Germany in China. It has accordingly been ...
Article : 63 wordsThe British railway companies threaten to combine against the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, owing to the letter's interference with the ...
Article : 378 wordsGeneral Ian Hamilton captured 13 Boers, a number of carts, and quantity of stock at the Pienaar's River station, on the northern railway line 40 miles ...
Article : 46 wordsDe Wet alone has made attacks on the line, and so far has met with great success. With us (says "Banjo" Paterson) at this town is a young ...
Article : 398 wordsThe steamer Mapourika was successfully floated off Mabel Island to-day. The damage to the steamer is only trivial. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. Walter Griffiths, M.P., who is seriously ill with typhoid and pneumonia, was reported to be a little better this morning. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Federal Electorates Bill has now been taken over by the Chief Secretary, who has been selected to introduce it out of compliment, on account of the ...
Article : 50 wordsA bill has been prepared for the purpose of giving effect to the requirements of the Colonial Stock Act recently passed in the British Parliament. The ...
Article : 109 wordsPresident Kruger has promised the burghers that the advent of a Radical Ministry in England after the coming elections will be the harbinger of peace. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Russians have occupied Yangtsun, 20 miles from Tien-tsin, on the Peking railway. It was recently reported that Yangtsun was again being ...
Article : 47 wordsLarge numbers of stock continue to be despatched to the southern markets. Shearing has been completed on several of the stations, the clip being a very ...
Article : 32 wordsLord Roberts is at Belfast, which is about 140 miles to the east of Pretoria on the line to Delagoa Bay. He has reconnoitred the enemy's ...
Article : 94 wordsIn connection with the deaths John Tisdale and Jas. Paton, who recently were killed at the Great Eldorado mine, the coroner's jury returned a verdict of ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Chinese who were defending the Imperial City at Peking against the Allies have retreated towards the north. The Chinese admit that they ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsAdmiral Sir E. H. Seymour has written to Admiral Courrejolles, the French naval commander in China, in reference to the action of the French blue-jackets during the unsuccessful attempt which ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. Holder has been communicating with the Premiers of the other colonies regarding the question of the competition which is going on between the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Boers have blows up the railway near krugersdorp. ...
Article : 14 wordsA French steamer, homeward bound, signalled while passing Constantinople that there were three cases of bubonic plague on board. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe invalided soldiers who arrived in the steamer Damascus were entertained at luncheon by the Minister of Defence to-day, who welcomed them on ...
Article : 34 wordsThe R.M.S. Omrah, the largest vessel of the Orient line, and the third English mail steamer to make Fremantle, instead of Albany, the last Australian port ...
Article : 419 wordsConsiderable interest is being evinced in the betting cases now before die court. To-day Constable Walls was charged with betting on the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe hospital ball on Friday night was a great success, the room being crowded. A substantial addition was made to the hospital's funds. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe London "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent writes apropos of the arrival of Buraham, the scout, at Southampton:— ...
Article : 555 wordsYorkshire has won the cricket county championship, having gone through the season without losing a match. [Up to a month ago, when the last ...
Article : 497 wordsThere is only a month's food supply at Tien-tsin. Reuter's agent at Tien-tsin advises that the Japanese on the 23rd inst. held the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Police Department received in formation, on Monday of three cases a robbery in Kalgoorlie during Sunday night. The first report stated that a ...
Article : 482 wordsThe Wilkie divorce case was continued to-day. The respondent, Adam Wilkie, denied emphatically his wife's allegations of ...
Article : 188 wordsAn undesirable new arrival was brought up in the police court on Monday morning charged with having no visible means of support. The ...
Article : 139 wordsShortly after the R.M.S. Australia left Sydney, a passenger named Mrs. Irene King died from uraemia. The deceased was the wife of Mr. Kelso King, of Sydney. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe St. Petersburg correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" states that Russia intends to insist on the restoration of the "statu quo ante bellum" ("state ...
Article : 67 wordsTo-day the Lieutenant-Governor officially opened the Australian, sheep-breeders' annual show, at Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co.'s warehouse. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Shanghai states that Germany has engaged certain residents of Shanghai and Hankow to act as intelligence officers for 12 ...
Article : 54 wordsGeorge Harper, lately financial secretary of the Victorian Lodge, Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows, in Sydney, has been arrested here. There is a ...
Article : 51 wordsA lot of rain fell during last week. A spell of fine weather would do an immense amount of good to the crops. The Blackwood River has been very high this ...
Article : 212 wordsThe new premises of the licensed Victuallers' Association were opened in "The Block," Collins-street, this afternoon. Speeches were made by ...
Article : 47 wordsA weird story is told by the Berlin correspondent of the "Daily News," which is stated to be Hie account given at Charbin of the origin of the anti-foreign ...
Article : 173 words"Baby Mine" is the title of an interesting and practical little book, dedicated to "mothers," by Dr. E. Paget Thurstan, which should prove of great ...
Article : 217 wordsAn important and somewhat interesting case is likely to shortly engage the public attention. Messrs. J. Falkingham and Sons, railway contractors, have ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. J. F. O'Dyer, the Government mining surveyor, died suddenly in View-street, Bendigo, this evening, from heart disease. His age was 70 years. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn response to the request of a deputation of last week, the Premier sent a cable message to Mr. Chamberlain to-day, suggesting that the French ...
Article : 111 wordsThe inquest concerning the deaths of the victims of the fatal fire at Ballarat was concluded to-night. A verdict of "accidental death" was returned. ...
Article : 27 wordsAfter recent events in China there is some thing quite pathetic in the article contributed by his Excellency Wu Ting Fang to the "North American Review" ...
Article : 438 wordsMr. H. Shall and Mr. David Forrest paid a short visit to York, and will leave for Perth in the Albany express to-morrow. Mr. Sholl has made ...
Article : 73 wordsAt Broken Hill last night the bar of Hegarty's Hotel, South Broken Hill, was entered by burglars, and between £20 and £30 was stolen ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 31 Aug 1900, Page 15
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