As reported in our issue of yesterday, the committee which was appointed to prepare a school children's programme for January 1 met on Saturday evening ...
Article : 684 wordsCommandant Ferreira, whose attack on Vryheid was repulsed, had with him a force of twelve hundred men. The Boer casualties numbered one hundred. ...
Article : 86 wordsCoolgardie, s.s., 2,500 tons, A. Sco[?] master, from Melbourne. Passengers as perlist telegraphed from Albany and previously published. M'llwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co. ...
Article : 2,170 wordsOwing to the Jingoes in the Senate threatening to abrogate the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the New York "Times" urges President M'Kinley to withdraw ...
Article : 62 wordsOwing to the recrudesence of anarchy around Peking, Generalissimo Walder see has apportioned to the Allies spheres within which to carry out ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Postmaster-General returned from Sydney to-day. He does not feel called upon at present to make public what decision, he and Mr. Crick arrived at ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Governor-General has practically recovered from the fatigue of Saturday's procession, and finds a rest on shore is greatly benefiting his health. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe German training frigate Gne[?]nau, having pasted her anchor in a storm, has been wrecked in the outer harbor at Malaga, where she sank ...
Article : 52 wordsFive thousand men are being recruited in England for service in the South African constabulary. ...
Article : 28 wordsFrom the top rung of an iron ladder leading to the highest platform in the demo of the Exhibition buildings, James E. Sherrard, the secretary of the Exhibition ...
Article : 111 wordsThe "Standard" special correspondent thus describes the position off the troops on the occasion of General Clements's recent reverse:—The Northumberlands ...
Article : 317 wordsMr. St. John Brodrick, Secretary of State for War, has appointed a committee, consisting of Messrs. Clinton, Dawkins, Beckett, and Mather ...
Article : 86 wordsThe London Deep Leeds, Ltd. (South Africa) has been placed on the market for flotation. The nominal capital is £650,000, the ...
Article : 60 wordsFollowing the example of New South Wales, the Government has introduced a bill, winch was circulated to-night, to prevent plumping at the Federal Senate ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Lieut.-Governor states that he has received no despatch directing him to attend the swearing-in of Lord Hopetoun as Governor-General. His announcement ...
Article : 61 wordsWangaratta has been in a state of [?] all day, owing to the bush fires which threatened to overwhelm the town. The business places were closed and nearly 1,000 ...
Article : 54 wordsRegarding the gentlemen to be sent for by the Governor-General to form the first Federal Ministry, all kinds of absurd rumors were afloat in the city, but nothing ...
Article : 57 wordsSaturday night's programme was successfully repeated last night by Mr. Arnold Jarvis, the Lingard Sisters, and the other members of Messrs. Jones and Lawrence's ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Stirling divorce case was resumed to-day. The court was crowed. Robert Andrew Stirling, once of Melbourne's well-known surgeons, seeks a divorce from his ...
Article : 643 wordsMr. A. H. Lennox, a missionary engaged in the Northern Territory, reached Adelaide to-day. He has ridden 2,000 miles on a bicycle in about eight weeks. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe members of the Fremantle Municipal Council tendered a complimentary social to the Mayor (Mr. E. Solomon, M.L.A.) and Miss Solomon, last evening ...
Article : 411 wordsIn Sydney to-day was the hottest day this season, the temperature being 10[?] degrees in the shade. In the inland districts the heat was terrible. ...
Article : 39 wordsMiss Viotti Pearce's farewell benefit took place last night at the Theatre Royal, winch was kindly lent for the occasion by Mr. T. G. Molloy. In Mendelssohn's ...
Article : 283 wordsSerious bush fires raged close to Bombala yesterday and to-day. Half of the townspeople are out bailing with the fire. ...
Article : 101 wordsWhilst the British, mounted troops from Aliwal and Rourville were opposing two Boer commandoes near Zastrom last Friday, a party of Brabant's Horse ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Premier has been in communication with the Governments of the eastern colonies with regard to the manner in which the troops representing West Australia ...
Article : 154 wordsSir William J. Lyne has definitely, decided to run for the House of Representatives. He has selected the electorate which includes The Hume, a port of which ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Roman Catholics of the district are so dissatisfied with the present state of the Coningham divorce case that they are willing to subscribe towards ...
Article : 62 wordsAn engineer named Frederick Woods, 38, residing at Glebe, was killed at freeman, and Sons' mills, Pyrmont, this morning. He was found on the engine-room ...
Article : 40 wordsThe reference is our leading columns of Saturday to the Premier's speech at Bridgetown, where he was reported to have stated that the had in his hands as ...
Article : 395 wordsUtley's sawmills, the largest in the Dubbo district, were burned down to-day. The sawmills and the offices were, destroyed with all the contents. The Occidental ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Mayor to-day received a telegram from Perth stating that the Government had granted £500 to Kalgoorlie and Boulder for the Commonwealth celebrations. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Sydney Branch of the Federated Seamen's Union to-night had under consideration the agreement entered into by the delegates at the recent conference ...
Article : 112 wordsA telegram was received from Wilson's Promontory to-night to the effect that the steamer Moellilian was disabled and wanted assistance. ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Mayor has applied to the Premier for £50 as a grant to assist in the Commonwealth celebrations, and also for 400 medals to be distributed among the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Cabinet has decided to recommend that the sentence on Sarah Fogo, [?] was sentenced to death at Dunedin recently for the murder of her husband ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 21 Dec 1900, Page 13
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