WHEN it was at last definitely announced that H. R. H. the DUKE OF EDINBURGH would visit the Australasian Dependencies of the ...
Article : 791 wordsA promise of work on the Hergott Springs railway line and in connection with, the conservation of water was made by the Commissioner of Works to-day ...
Article : 96 wordsThe steamer Guthrie has arrived from Hong Kong bringing news of the capture, by pirates, on October 18, of the steamer Greyhound, trading between Hong Kong ...
Article : 216 wordsSIR,—I noticed in a recent issue of the Inquirer some very just remarks and suggestions with reference to the land laws, and how they ought to be administered in ...
Article : 620 wordsThe Court re-opened at half past ten o'clock, when the adjourned case of GEO. CROSS v. G. W. FLOYD was proceeded with. i ...
Article : 825 wordsThe Court reopened at half-past ten o'clock, the first case called on being that of GEO. CROSS v. G. W. FLOYD. ...
Article : 1,517 wordsHewat's defalcations while acting as Secretary to the Permanent. Equitable Building Society in Adelaide have been discovered to extend to upwards of £9,000. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the Parliament Sir John Robertson moved an amendment upon the Address-in- Reply to the effect that the House had no confidence in the Ministry. The debate is still proceeding. ...
Article : 38 wordsH.M.S. Swinger left for New Guinea, suddenly, this afternoon, it is supposed for the purpose of assisting the Opal in co-operating with the expeditionary search party. ...
Article : 36 wordsThis morning a deputation consisting of the proprietors of the Jarrahdale Timber Station waited upon. Sir F. Napier Broome, at Government House, to express their willingness to extend their railway inland ...
Article : 161 wordsThe homeward R.M.S. Ballaarat, with His Excellency Sir Frederick Broome and his Private Secretary (Hon. J. G Amherst) on board, left Glenelg for Albany ...
Article : 40 wordsThe weather here for the last fortnight has been very caprieious—changing suddenly from heat to cold—and much rain has fallen; besides we have had even frost, late ...
Article : 214 wordsPUBLIC OPINION is greatly divided in pronouncing upon the subject of the contemptuous indifference with which the CHIEF ...
Article : 759 wordsThe first sod of the Mt. Gambier and Narracoorte Railway was turned this morning by Mr. J. Riddock, of Yallum, in the presence of a large number of spectators. Mr. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Government has received an intimation from the United States police authorities to the effect that Wood, the South Australian defaulting public Trustee, was ...
Article : 31 wordsSir F. Napier Broome returns to W.A. by the R.M.S. Ballaarat. ...
Article : 17 wordsGreenough news is flat, as usual But the residents of that well-to-do and business part—the Front Flats—were certainly amused with the telegram published in The ...
Article : 430 wordsAn explorer who has just returned to Brisbane from New Guinea expresses strong doubts as to the troth of the rumour regarding the massacre of the New Guinea ...
Article : 45 wordsUNACCUSTOMED to having twenty-four hours idle time on hand, the average middle class youth of both sexes but too generally find ...
Article : 942 wordsSIR,—Allow me to draw your attention to the following enclosure, which is a short sub-leader in the Adelaide Observer, on this subject, and to ask you to reproduce it. I ...
Article : 409 wordsH.M.S. Opal left here yesterday with the New Guinea Search Expedition. ...
Article : 17 wordsA mass meeting of the unemployed was held this morning, and another one will take place this afternoon. Nearly five hundred persons met in front of the Parliament ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Court re-opened at ten o'clock, when the case of CROSS v. FLOYD was resumed. Counsel on each side having ...
Article : 639 wordsA schooner is being fitted out in Sydney which is to be despatched to Thursday Island for the relief of the New Guinea Expedition. ...
Article : 31 wordsAdmiral Tryon had a large number of hands employed night and day in fitting out H.M.S. Opal, which has received instructions to organise a thorough search of New ...
Article : 39 wordsThe lessees of several runs in the Kimberley district waited upon Sir F. N. Broome in Melbourne, representing to His Excellency the heavy expense they had been put ...
Article : 96 wordsWe are still in the same unsettled state respecting the appointment of R.M. for this district and it is indeed time that the Government filled this office, as the present state of things is to say, the least. ...
Article : 452 wordsIt is expected that the Opal's mission to New Guinea will extend over a period of about two months. ...
Article : 32 wordsSUMMER is again rapidly advancing upon us, and the [?] heat of the sun is already beginning to parch up the natural herbage of the ...
Article : 795 wordsSIR,—I wish to reply to a letter, signed "A Voice from the Hills," which appeared in your issue of last Saturday, the 14th instant. ...
Article : 322 wordsThe Queensland Parliament was prorogued on Thursday. The Governor's Speech congratulated the House upon the passing of the Federal Council Bill, and ...
Article : 42 wordsA proclamation in the Gazette prohibits the introduction of sheep into Queensland from Western Australia, owing to the existence of scab. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt is thought that the Federal Adopting Bill is unlikely to pass Parliament. ...
Article : 21 wordsA conference has been held between the employers and the bootmakers, but no decision has been arrived at. Consequently the strike still continues. ...
Article : 26 wordsA large meeting is to be held this afternoon to pass a vote of condolence and give an expression of sympathy to Mr. Stead Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette. ...
Article : 35 wordsAt a meeting of the Victorian Branch of the Geographical Society reference was made to the reported massacre of the New Guinea Expedition. Approval was ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Wed 25 Nov 1885, Page 2
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