THE death of a banker named Carew is reported from Yokohama, Japan, under circumstances almost identical with those which surrounded the notorious Maybrick case. ...
Article : 167 wordsMESSRS. William Henry Banks and John Edward Castree, as aldermen, and Edward James Thompson and Benjamin Smith, as auditors for the Municipality of Blackall, ...
Article : 42 wordsTHE A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamer Arrawatta left yesterday for Sydney. The passengers included Sir Hugh and Lady Nelson for Hobart. Four sailing boats and about forty [?] ...
Article : 46 wordsHARRY WESSELL, a sugar planter, residing near Avondale, aged 25, committed suicide to-day by shooting himself with a gun, blowing his skull off. Recently he had had trouble ...
Article : 49 wordsTHE funeral of Mr. E. D. Graham, solicitor, who shot himself in the head with a revolver, took place yesterday and was largely attended. ...
Article : 31 wordsA PRELIMINARY forecast of the wheat yield of the colony shows an anticipated deficiency of half-a-million bushels. ...
Article : 26 wordsA FIRE broke out in the premises of the Queensland Mercantile Company, Creek street, to-night. The damage done was trifling, the flames being speedily ...
Article : 31 wordsA TELEGRAM received from St. Oeorge today states that Bertie Johnson, while shooting birds in a garden a mile from town, handed a Winchester rifle to his sister, who ...
Article : 52 wordsThe barque stranded in Jurian Bay proves to be the Europa. She struck at 9 p.m. Sunday week. All hands, fifteen in number, were saved. The captain attributes the ...
Article : 49 wordsIT is proposed in New York to hold an international celebration at the conclusion of the arbitration treaty between Great Britain and America. ...
Article : 70 wordsAs the steamer warrego was being coaled to-day, one of the firemen named Lynch, aged 26, single, was boned in a fall of coal and was taken out dead. ...
Article : 35 wordsTwo goods trains collided a Goodna yesterday, through which three trucks were smashed, but no one was injured. ...
Article : 24 wordsA SAD fatality occurred at Enfield yesterday afternoon. Two boys named Kerslake, aged respectively 10 and 8 years, were bathing in a waterhole when they got out of their depth. ...
Article : 92 wordsTHE Rockhampton Municipal Council have decided to write to the Premier protesting against the inadequate compensation awarded for the wharves and river frontages, and ...
Article : 49 wordsWITH a view to guarding against the introduction of the bubouic plague into Western Australia, all vessels coming to Freemantle from Kurachie, Bombay, or Hong Kong are ...
Article : 42 wordsTHE Embassies at Constantinople have learned that anarchy prevails in six northeastern provinces of Asia Minor, and that a strongly-worded revolutionary manifesto has ...
Article : 36 wordsTHE body of Mrs. Frank Clifton was found on the beach near Bowen. She is supposed to have committed suicide. ...
Article : 24 wordsA LAD named Carr Smith was drowned in the river Tamar on Saturday through the capsize of a sailing boat. A man named Edward Fisher was cut to ...
Article : 41 wordsTHE Transvaal Executive have promised Mr. Barney Barnato to assist him in procuring an adequate supply of labor for the mines in the Rand, and also to take steps to ...
Article : 60 wordsTHE conference of shipowners and engineers was resumed yesterday, when the owners submitted their reply to the statement of the engineers, but no details were ...
Article : 107 wordsThe negotiations between the Queensland National Bank and British depositors is still proceeding satisfactorily. It is understood that the arrangement is a slight modification ...
Article : 194 wordsTHE seaman's Union has asked shipowners for an increase of wages to the extent of £1 per month and 1s. 6d. per hour overtime. ...
Article : 31 wordsTHE telegram in another column stating that Victorian farmers have explored the Central District lands with satisfactory results will be hailed with intense gratification by all those ...
Article : 251 wordsTHE Indian plague has now broken out at Poonah. The population of Bombay Presidency is half depleted, and commerce is paralysed. ...
Article : 267 wordsMR. WILLIAM BRADY, a bookkeeper, employed by Messrs. John Cooper and Sons, ironmongers, of Elizabeth-street, was found dead in the shop with his throat cut and a bullet ...
Article : 483 wordsCARDINAL MORAN'S candidature for the Federal Convention is exciting a good deal of interest. Fear is expressed that sectarian bitterness will be aroused. ...
Article : 27 wordsANOTHER trouble has arisen at the Stockton mine. The wheelers have given 14 days' notice of their intention to cease work, unless their wages are increased by 1s. 6d. per day. ...
Article : 36 wordsTHE Premier (Mr. Nelson) says he attends the Premiers' Conference at Hobart this year only in the capacity of a listener. He makes it understood that nothing which transpires ...
Article : 52 wordsMATTHEW O'LEARY, an old colonist of the Albury district, died last night at the age of 102 years. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe usual quarterly meeting of this Board was held on Monday, January 4th, 1897. Present—Messrs. J. Wiley (chair), Baylies, Macansh, Kelly and Mackin. The minutes of ...
Article : 390 wordsTHE barque St. Mary Bly, from Sharpness, has arrived, and reports that off Tasmania a heavy gale struck the vessel and two of the crew, named Frederick Smith and Frank ...
Article : 41 wordsTHE appointment by the Minister for Mines of O'Connell, as chairman of the Mining Commission, has not given entire satisfaction. It is rumored that some merabers of the ...
Article : 47 wordsSEVERE storms occurred in various parts of New South Wales on Saturday and Sunday. A settler named Wellis was killed by lightning near Cassilis. ...
Article : 29 wordsSOME Danish officers while exploring the Pamirs discovered a tribe of pigmy sun worshippers. ...
Article : 20 wordsCENTRAL QUEENSLAND is attracting the attention of Southern farmers. Two wellknown Victorian families named Griffiths and Warwick are now in Brisbane on their ...
Article : 95 wordsAN important meeting between Mr. Reid, Premier of New South Wales, and other colonial Premiers, on the federation question, will be held in Melbourne to-day. ...
Article : 30 wordsTHE Sultan consents to the appointment of a joint European and Turkish Commission to control the Budget and expenditure. The Porte has accepted the European ...
Article : 42 wordsAT tne St. Kilda Police Court to-day, a baker's assistant named Isaac Hutt was committed for trial on a charge of maliciously wounding a cyclist named Cutmore. The ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. W. BARRY was droving two hundered bead of fat cattle near here, when lightning struck the mob, killing eight, and blinding twenty-five others. ...
Article : 29 wordsTHE French Government purpose introducing a Bill for marking frozen meat. ...
Article : 17 wordsTASKER, a chess player, defeated Stimitz, of Moscow, the Russian champion. ...
Article : 16 wordsTHE inquest as to the death of Margaret Eleanor Watson, a young woman, who was found dead through a shot in the head on a bench in Middle Park in November, was ...
Article : 97 wordsTHE labor organ, The Worker, has published a report from Mr. Curtis, secretary of the Hughenden branch of the Bush Workers' Union, who, in his report, predicts shearing ...
Article : 162 wordsTHERE was another scene at Bow church at the confirmation of Dr. Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury. Mr. Creighton, a layman, very strongly protested against Dr. ...
Article : 45 wordsINFORMATION has been received from Bonny, one of the principal towns in the Niger Coast Protectorate, on the east coast of Africa, which warrants the belief that a dreadful ...
Article : 478 wordsTHE Spanish Government have adopted a scheme for reforms in Cuba, which are intended to pave the way for autonomy, but without the surrender of Imperial power. It ...
Article : 45 wordsIT is urged that great sup[?]neness is being shown by the Australian Governments in their attitude towards the New Hebrides, and it is alleged that the control of the Islands is ...
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