THE wholesale poisoning of town dogs is one of those periodical visitations with which all residents of inland towns have had experience. On Saturday and Sunday nights ...
Article : 175 wordsA GIRL named Agnes Howard, aged seven years, daughter of a farmer at Sandy Creek, was playing with a loaded gun, when the weapon exploded, blowing part of her face ...
Article : 41 wordsTHE death sentence passed upon Mrs. Carew for murdering her husband, a Yokohama banker, has been commuted to penal servitude for life. ...
Article : 36 wordsTHE Eighteen-Mile Island, Fitzroy River, has been placed under quarantine restrictions in consequence of the presence of ticks. It is believed all the country between ...
Article : 43 wordsTHE foreign Ambassadors have completed their scheme for Turkish reforms, the chief proposals of which are now being submitted to the Porte. ...
Article : 26 wordsRICHMOND OLIVER and William White Watson were to-day committed for trial for conspiracy and forgery involving the sum of £2000. ...
Article : 25 wordsTHE Premiers' Conference concluded to-night. A number of resolutions were passed, but it was decided to postpone the question of intercolonial reciprocity until after the ...
Article : 33 wordsTHE Spanish Government have decided to grant Cuba an Assembly with right to frame a Budget and control of the Customs. Spain to appoint a Governor and to retain the power ...
Article : 40 wordsTHE total crushings of the colony for the month of January were 33,616 tons, yielding 43,329ozs. of gold. Charters Towers heads the list with 14,330 ozs., and Crocodile Creek ...
Article : 38 wordsMR. J. S. EDGAR, Curator of Rockhamptan Botanical Gardens, is about to pay a visit to the West, to encourage the Centralians to go in more for beautifying their homes ...
Article : 502 wordsAN unknown steamer collided with the B.I.S.N. Company's steamer Duke of Buckingham, and the latter vessel had to put back to the London docks for repairs. ...
Article : 49 wordsTHE Premiers of the various colonies left for home this afternoon. It was decided they could not collectively accept Mr. Chamberlain's invitation to London, but ...
Article : 40 wordsA DEADLOCK has arisen in connection with the election of a Mayor for North Brisbane; neither of the aspirants to office axe disposed to give way. ...
Article : 68 wordsA GREAT fire occurred last night at the Fairfield Shipbuilding yards, Glasgow (formerly owned by Messrs. John Elder and Company). A large quantity of machinery was ...
Article : 47 wordsCAPTAIN Benicke, of the small steamer Scotsman, was killed to-day through a collision with a yacht. ...
Article : 24 wordsA SERIOUS shooting case is reported from Horn Island, near Thursday Island. A man named Thomas Harris snot another man named Charles Cookburn in two places, and ...
Article : 48 wordsTHE Italian Government has decided to expend £1,160,000 annually during the next ten years in additions to the navy. ...
Article : 24 wordsNEWS received from the country districts that the damage caused by the recent gale was much more severe than was at first reported. The west coast of the North Island ...
Article : 53 wordsA DILLONITE member of the Irish Party named E. V. Knox, has been expelled from the Party. ...
Article : 22 wordsCARDINAL MORAN to-doy informed a deputation that he would attend to their request and allow himself to be nominated for a seat at the Federation Convention. ...
Article : 34 wordsDUEING 1896 the gold exported from New Zealand was 1,041,761 ors., against 1,162,164 ozs. for the previous year. The population of the colony is estimated ...
Article : 51 wordsTHE House of Commons have passed a vote of £798,000 for the expenses of the Dongola expedition. ...
Article : 22 wordsTHE Government have received a letter from Sir Audley Coote stating that whenever the New South Wales Government desires to have the present cable extended ...
Article : 55 wordsSIR MICHAEL HICKE-BEACH, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in an important speech, said that Great Britain declined to be wormed out of her Egyptian policy by the monetary ...
Article : 35 wordsNews has been received from San Francisco of the arrest there by the detectives despatched from New South wales of the man Butler, who is wanted in New South Wales in ...
Article : 1,428 wordsTHESE has been another serious rising in Crete, which resulted in the burning of the Christian quarters at Cornea. Three hundred persons were killed. ...
Article : 50 wordsA FURTHER horrible fact came to light to-day regarding the murder of Mrs. Lylield at Rosebrook, near Port Fairy. Sirs. Caroline Snell, daughter of Lyfield, has confessed that ...
Article : 240 wordsTHE steamer City of Amera has been wrecked on the Spanish coast. Thirty-five were drowned. ...
Article : 19 wordsTROUBLE is threatened between the Transvaal and the Cape Governments owing to the action of the Transvaal authorities in arresting as a vagrant a wealthy Cape contractor, ...
Article : 74 wordsAT the monthly licensing court held on Wednesday, the 3rd instant, before the P.M. (Mr. P. G. Grant) the application for transfer of the license of the Federal Hotel from Peter ...
Article : 406 wordsA GREAT fire took place at Camdentown, a suburb of London, last night. Among the buildings destroyed was Maple & Co.'S extensive and world-renowned art furnishing ...
Article : 41 wordsAN important assets company is being formed to acquire the remaining assets of the English and Australian Mortgage Bank, the Mercantile Bank of Australia, the Federal ...
Article : 40 wordsTHE Customs authorities have imposed a fine of £1000 on three Syrian storekeepers in Stanley-street, South Brisbane, for undervaluing their goods. The fine has been paid. ...
Article : 127 wordsIHE ten-mile bicycle championship of Victoria was run on Saturday, there being an immense crowd of spectators. Kuhle beat Porta after a hard spin, Walne being third. ...
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Advertising : 193 wordsSERIOUS floods are reported from Gippsland, with great damage to crops. ...
Article : 17 wordsWILLIAM FRANCIS, a young man, who has returned from Geraldton, relates a recent terrible experience in the bush. He left Lake Way on the 11th of last month for Cue with ...
Article : 271 wordsSIR H. M. NELSON leaves Hobart for Brisbane to-day. ...
Article : 14 wordsA PROCLAMATION will be issued to-morrow declaring German New Guinea infected with small-pox. All vessels arriving from there will be subjected to quarantine. ...
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