SIR,—In your issue of Saturday you stated that steps were being taken to form an Association having for its object the reform of our present constitution. To ...
Article : 210 wordsThe only business before the Fremantle Police Court on Thursday last, November 25th, consisted of a charge against Wm. McCormack for assaulting his wife by ...
Article : 1,230 wordsALARMING DEFECT OF MODERN EDUCATION AND JUVENILE GOVERNMENT.—CONFINEMENT IN SCHOOL BELOW FOURTEEN ...
Article : 1,508 wordsReferring to the recent festivities at Albany in connection with the initiation of the railway the Australasian of November 13 says:—At the turning of the first sod of the ...
Article : 803 wordsThe present month has been sadly interrupted by the holidays consequent on the racing carnival. The Assembly has, however, male good progress with the ...
Article : 1,221 wordsSIR,—Most people have heard the proverb, "He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day," and this seems to be the line of policy adopted by Sir Thomas ...
Article : 328 wordsAt a meeting of the representatives of the various livery companies at the Guildhall on September 29 Alderman Sir Reginald Hanson was formally declared ...
Article : 416 wordsSIR,—Sir Thomas Campbell wrote to the "Albany Mail" that I was unwilling to continue to discharge the duties of my office under those conditions "which it has ...
Article : 162 wordsThe best concert of the series was given at the Oddfellows' Hall, Fremantle, on Wednesday evening, in aid of the Literary Institute. It was under the patronage of ...
Article : 341 wordsSIR,—In reply to Mr. Hensman's letter of yesterday, I have only to say that I know little more of his case than is known to the public. When I wrote that the conditions ...
Article : 181 wordsThursday's Gazette contains, among other announcements, the following:— That Mr. G. W. Leake, Q. C., Police Magistrate, Perth, will act as Resident ...
Article : 442 wordsSIR,—Sir Thomas Campbell made statements in public which I denied and which I called upon him to prove if he could. The proof which he has at last given, after some ...
Article : 140 wordsA shockingly sudden and fatal accident occurred at Guildford last Saturday morning. It appears that a man named John Crawford, of about forty years of age, had ...
Article : 270 wordsThe new time-table for controlling the traffic on the Eastern Railway from December, was issued this morning. We have not time now to make a complete ...
Article : 415 wordsAt the fourth series of colonial wool sales in London the quantity catalogued as having come from Western Australia amounted to 1,285 bales. Of the condition of the ...
Article : 353 wordsSIR,—I notice with surprise that a resident storekeeper here is going to apply for a wayside house license at the licensing meeting in December at Pinjarrah, and I ...
Article : 414 wordsUpon the subject of "Colonial Adhesion the Australasian of November says:—The system of defence can never be regarded as complete until both Albany and Torres ...
Article : 308 wordsThis was a claim of £13 10s, 9d., for goods sold and delivered. The defendant claimed a set-off, but on the face of the set-off it was shown that the amount of the set-off ...
Article : 646 wordsA special meeting of the Fremantle Municipal Council was held on the 23rd instant. Present, the Mayor (Mr. D. K. Congdon) and Councillors G. A. Davies, Thos. Haley ...
Article : 1,131 wordsWe regret to learn that last Wednesday night Mr. W. Drabble, a well-known old colonist, met with a very severe accident indeed. It appears that about the middle ...
Article : 159 wordsA meeting was held last Friday evening at the Freemasons' Hotel, Fremantle, for the purpose of making arrangements to hold the annual races at Woodman's Point. ...
Article : 591 wordsA terrible accident, which was attended with fatal results, occurred at Fremantle on Friday morning. At about ten o'clock Mr. Frank Hanham took a pistol to shoot ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Wed 1 Dec 1886, Page 2
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