It is officially announced that one thousand Imperial troops and volunteers will sail for Australia on November 7, to assist in the inauguration of the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe committee which is sitting in South Africa inquiring into the concessions granted by the late Government of the Transvaal to various companies has ...
Article : 109 wordsOn their arrival at Paoting the British and French expeditions rescued the following members of the China Inland Mission:—The Rev. Mr. Griffith and ...
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Advertising : 1,546 wordsThe building of a new Roman Catholic Church for Greenbushes has been started, and when finished it will overlook the town from a commanding position. It is ...
Article : 493 wordsA most determined suicide was reported to-day from Bethanga. Michael Cleary, who arrived in that town in search of work, borrowed a razor from a ...
Article : 50 wordsThe funeral of the late Arthur Leslie Frewin took place on Tuesday morning. It was the largest funeral seen in Geraldton for years. Crowds lined the footpaths ...
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Article : 512 wordsThe meeting of the Australian Institute of Mining Engineers was continued to-day, when papers of a technical character were read and discussed. Amongst ...
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Article : 39 wordsMr. Kruger, before leaving Delagoa Bay for Europe, sect a farewell message to his wife:—"Trust in the Lord, for He rules." He also referred her to the ...
Article : 43 wordsChinese pirates looted a British passenger steamer while plying between Hong Kong and Macao, a Portuguese possession 38 miles to the south-west. ...
Article : 60 wordsWin. Henry Hawthorne, the youth who stuck up the hotel at Boort, pleaded guilty at Castlemaine to-day. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment ...
Article : 60 wordsThe City of London Volunteers received a great welcome on arriving at Southampton. They afterwards proceeded by train ...
Article : 43 wordsA telegram was received by the Governor to-day from the Secretary of State for the Colonies that the cable report of the guard of honor for the Duke ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Court of Marine Inquiry held an investigation to-day into the circumstances attending the grounding of the steamer Nemesis in the West Channel in July ...
Article : 63 wordsRussia and France have agreed unconditionally to the Anglo-German agreement, as all the existing treaties are respected. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe reception of the Volunteers in London was marked with extraordinary fervor and enthusiasm, the acclamations being deafening. The streets were ...
Article : 239 wordsShanghai reports that Li Hung Chang and Prince Ching propose to negotiate with the Powers on the following basis:— ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Executive Council to-day formally appointed Mr. Wise, the Attorney-General to the Legislative Council. ...
Article : 25 wordsLate last night a man named Alex. Campbell, a recent arrival from Melbourne, who is staying at the Hotel Metropole, was suddenly set upon by two ...
Article : 72 wordsA special session of the Supreme Court was held on Thursday, before Mr. A. Madden( Commissioner) and a jury. Thers was only one case on the calendar Narli ...
Article : 292 wordsThe gold bullion in the possession of the United States Treasury is valued at no less than £90,000,000. This is the largest gold fund in the ...
Article : 38 wordsOn the arrival of the R.M.S. Britannia Captain Wallington received a telegram from Sir William J. Lyne to the effect that Government house in Sydney would ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Rev. A. Sangster, M.A., B.D., of Northam, has been holding services in the Oddfellows hall. It has been decided to establish the Presbyterian Church in ...
Article : 221 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Factories Amendment Bill passed the third reading. In committee, the clause defining a factory was amended so as to ...
Article : 121 wordsAlford, the teller of the First National Bank, New York, who recently absconded, and whose defalcations were said to amount to 700,000 dollars, has been ...
Article : 36 wordsThe steamer Afric arrived at Albany to-day with 19 Australian invalided soldiers. Among them is Private F. W. Bretag, of the Second Western Australian ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Premier has cabled through the Foreign Office to extend invitations to the United States to be represented at the Commonwealth celebrations. ...
Article : 102 wordsA severe earthquake is reported from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. The British Legation was destroyed, and the Minister, Mr. W. H. D. Haggard ...
Article : 71 wordsLord Roberts reports that the propertied Boers are increasingly anxious to cooperate for peace, as the present guerrilla warfare is pressing on them ...
Article : 33 wordsArrivals.—Woodville; Olga; Surrey, steamer ; Pehr Ugland, barque ; Margaret Galbraith, ship; Antarctic, barque; Southern Cross. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe case of Figgis v. Figgis and Bids, co-respondent, was heard to-day. The plaintiff was awarded £500 for the loss of his wife. Divorce proceedings will ...
Article : 48 wordsThe steamer Harlech Castle, of the Union Castle line, is to sail from Cape Town for Australia on Saturday, with 25 officers and 700 men, belonging to the ...
Article : 42 wordsSevere gales have taken place in the north of England, the heavy rains causing floods on the River Tyne. The flood waters damaged the railway ...
Article : 55 wordsThe terrible hurricane which destroyed Galveston, Texas last month was followed by very severe weather along the Atlantic coast, especially off ...
Article : 254 words"Jimmy" Governor was brought before" the Wingham Police Court to-day, charged with the murder of Ellen Josephine Kerz, at Breelong on July 20 He ...
Article : 136 wordsGeneral Knox and Colonel de Lisle blocked an attempt which was made by General de Wet to recross the Vaal River into the Orange River Colony ...
Article : 77 wordsYesterday afternoon the general purposes committee of the Perth Municipal Council had under consideration the question of the vacancy that will shortly be ...
Article : 250 words[?] Christian Victor has succumbed at [?] enteric fever. [?] Victor Albert ludwig Ernest Anton, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., was the ...
Article : 167 wordsReuter cables from Cape Town to the effect that the recently-constituted High Treason Tribunal is trying a man named Smith, a Cape policeman, on a charge of ...
Article : 243 wordsFine, fresh weather, with a few showers, principally in the south coastal districts. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe maximum temperature at the Perth Observatory yesterday was 69.0, and the minimum 61.6. ...
Article : 17 wordsAt 9 a.m. yesterday the reading of the barometer was 30.07. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 2 Nov 1900, Page 11
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