The usual fortnightly meeting of the Subiaco Municipal Council was held on Wednesday, there being present—The Mayor (Mr. A. bastow), and Crs. Brown ...
Article : 733 wordsAfter a long sitting to-night the Melbourne Bicycle Club passed a resolution, to take over the control of cycle racing is Victoria, owing to the unsatisfactory ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Light, railway engineer, came to Kalgoorlie to-day, and he was interviewed by the citizens regarding the department's intentions respecting the Hannan-street ...
Article : 1,104 wordsThe Tien-tsin correspondent of the London "Standard" says it is believed that the only means of bringing the Emperor to Peking will be to threaten to ...
Article : 80 wordsThe votes polled by the Unionists in Great Britain during the recent elections totalled 2,360,852, an increase of 93,904 on the 1895 figures. The ...
Article : 103 wordsColonel E. C. Bethune ambushed a Boer commando near Vryheid, close to the Natal frontier. Sixty Boers were killed, 35 wounded ...
Article : 88 wordsAt the Ballarat Supreme Court to-day sentences were passed on the men concerned in the Glenfine "salting" case. Llewelyn Radcliffe was sentenced to 12 ...
Article : 55 wordsHerr Prozesty, a German missionary, has been tried at Durban on a charge of treason. He was found guilty, and was ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is stated in Shanghai that the recent decree of the Dowager-Empress dismisses Li Kun Yi, the Viceroy of Nanking, and that another decree orders ...
Article : 89 wordsA well-attended meeting, was held on Wednesday night in the Masonic-hall, to urge upon the Government the desirableness of establishing a State smelter at ...
Article : 381 wordsThe wool sales were continued to-day. The best price paid for merino in grease was 7¾d., and for crossbred 6d. Prices on the whole were well maintained. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe New York Yacht Club has accepted the challenge of Sir Thomas Lipton in connection with the America Cup. ...
Article : 42 wordsWhile a New South Wales patrol was inquiring at a farmhouse at Ottoshoop for concealed arms a woman snatched down a white sheet which had been hung ...
Article : 84 wordsA dispute has arisen between the seaman and firemen of the Canadian, Australian line's steamer Warrimoo, and the owners owing to the agents having refused ...
Article : 55 wordsIn consequence of the anti-Manchu revolt in the southern provinces, Li Hang Chang has ordered the Black Flags and the Kwangsi Imperial battalions to ...
Article : 40 wordsDr. Alexander MacCormack, of Sydney, has been made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (F.R.C.S.). ...
Article : 25 wordsLate to-night the Premier moved a motion providing for a Royal Commission to inquire into the relations of New Zealand with the Australian federation proposal. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe rebels under Sun Yatsen have captured Wuchau, the commercial capital of Kwangsi, and which is situated on the East River. ...
Article : 43 wordsTrooper F. Avard, of the New South Wales Lancers, has died of his wounds. ...
Article : 22 wordsImperial Consols are quoted at £98 17s. 6d., a rise of 10s. since six days ago. ...
Article : 22 wordsConstant skirmishes are taking place with small maranding bands of Boers in the Wepener and Ventersburg districts, in the Orange River Colony, and at ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Yangtse River is covered with, junks, which are carrying Chinese troops, provisions, and ammunition from Hankow to Hanchung. ...
Article : 90 wordsSevere gales have been experienced in various parts of the colony. The railway traffic across the Rimutaka had to be suspended, on account of land slips. Many ...
Article : 33 wordsIn addressing an election meeting at Toronto, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Canada, said that he agreed with Mr. Chamberlain that free trade was the ...
Article : 122 wordsCr. Moody has resigned from the Municipal Council, as he is leaving for the Philips River. At the revision Court on Thursday he took leave of his ...
Article : 66 wordsA daring sticking-up case occurred here last night. Mr. Percy H. Myhill, mining agent, on going to his office in M'Donald-street, discovered two men in the place ...
Article : 92 wordsThe War Office has notified that the order in which the troops will return to England will depend upon military exigencies, and will be based on the ...
Article : 47 wordsM. de Giers, the Russian Minister, has been ordered to return to Peking with the members of his staff. ...
Article : 29 wordsA scene occurred in the Legislative Assembly this forenoon. The House had been continuously sitting since yesterday afternoon on the Collide Railway Bill, and ...
Article : 119 wordsIt has been ascertained that the suspicious case at Limehouse, in the East-end of London, is not one of bubonic plague, as was at first supposed. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Premier, Mr. M'Lean, disclosed the Government's policy at Bairnsdale to-night. He glanced over what the Government had done, and then announced what ...
Article : 467 wordsThe municipal revision court sapt. on Wednesday. The valuations for the year were also adopted. The returns show an increase in the valuations of £700, and ...
Article : 31 wordsNeither the Premier nor the Minister of Defence can understand Lord Roberts's remarks that the colonial troops would be required for service after the ...
Article : 42 wordsA sensational accident occurred in the Magdala mine, Stawell, this morning. Four men, named Andrew Chapman, Jas. Lyall, John Dumsdale, and George Roberts ...
Article : 101 wordsGeneral Sir Frederick Carrington, commanding the Rhodesian Field Force, has written to Lord Tennyson concerning the death of Captain Hubbe, who ...
Article : 95 wordsWalter James Cope appeared in the police court on Thursday, before Mr. Jose, J.P. Mr. Barratt said that the accused was anxious to give evidence, and call ...
Article : 126 wordsThe visible wheat supply in America to the east of the Rocky Mountains is 75,535,000 bushels, against 77,408,000 bushels a week ago. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsColonel Gordon, Commandant of the South Australian military forces, returned to Adelaide to-day; He was enthusiastically welcomed. He was ...
Article : 99 wordsRain commenced in Perth at about 3 o'clock yesterday morning, and showers continued at intervals np to midday, a total of 94 points being recorded. Some of the ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Edward Dawson and F. Seymour recently found a magnificent care at a place called Yallingyup, about three miles and a half from. Dunsborough, near the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe ordinary meeting of the Ledderville. Municipal Council was held last evening. Present—The Mayor (Mr. J. Veryard), and Crs. H. Dickson, Thompson, Reece, ...
Article : 337 wordsPrince Clovis Zu Hohenlohe-Schilling-furst has resigned his position as Chancellor of the German Empire and Premier of Prussia, owing to old age. ...
Article : 94 wordsMostly fine, moderate weather throughout the colony, south of the latitude of Geraldton, with scattered clouds and a few showers, principally in the S. coastal districts.—W. E. ...
Article : 41 wordsMrs. A. F. Love, of Perth, has lately received three letters from her son, Private A. Love, or the First Western Australian Contingent, from which the ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 26 Oct 1900, Page 5
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