The selection of a new King of Samoa has resulted in war between the opposing factions of Malietoa and Mataafa. Full news of the trouble was received in ...
Article : 1,958 wordsVICE-REGAL.—His Excellency the Governor (Sir Gerard Smith), who visited Perth in order to attend the meeting of the Executive Council on Wednesday, ...
Article : 3,284 wordsAt the Police Court to-day, Annie Ohlmstrom was committed for trial for attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the Torrens at midnight on Saturday. ...
Article : 620 wordsThe fund for the establishment of a Gordon College at Khartoum, which was started at the instance of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, now ...
Article : 44 wordsSenator Bacon, speaking yesterday in the United States Senate, suggested that Great Britain was eager for America to annex the Philippines, ...
Article : 151 wordsYesterday, M. Paul Cambon, the French Ambassador in London, received a deputation from the Arbitration and Peace Association. ...
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Article : 100 wordsMr. John Morley, Liberal M.P. for the Montrose Burghs, addressed a meeting of his constituents yesterday, at Brechin, in Forfarshire[?] He ...
Article : 410 wordsMr. Lidgey, the Victorian mining representative in London, delivered a lecture before the British Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, yesterday ...
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Article : 124 wordsMr. John Daly, the ex-convict, and twenty-four of his supporters have been elected under the new Irish Local Government Act for the ...
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Article : 1,063 wordsThe British gunboat Metemmeh has captured 2,000 Dervishes belonging to Ahmed Fedil's force. Ahmed Fedil, however, again ...
Article : 105 wordsH.M.S. Pylades, a third class cruiser of 1,400 tons, at present on the Australian station, will, it is announced, be "commissioned in ...
Article : 88 wordsA bankruptcy inquiry was held yesterday into the affairs of the Simpson Lever Chain and (Cycle Company. Mr. Horton, one of the Directors, ...
Article : 72 wordsAt a conference of Bishops of the Anglican Church at Lambeth yesterday, a resolution was carried in favour of the promotion of a reform of the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe United States Senate, yesterday, resumed the debate on the Nicaragua Canal Bill. In view of the construction and ...
Article : 69 wordsThe coffin of Christopher Columbus, which was recently transported from Havana, in Cuba, to Spain, was opened at Cadiz. ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Government of Sweden has prepared a scheme for an experimental mobilisation of the army. At the opening of the Swedish ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the course of his criticism of the French budget, M. Pelletan informed the Chamber of Deputies that the parliamentary control of Colonial ...
Article : 59 wordsA special meeting of the Claremont Municipal Council was held in the Claremont Hall last evening for the purpose of[?] considering correspondence from ...
Article : 636 wordsA Renter's depatch from New York states that the American-Canadian Commissioners have arrived at an understanding, and that, as the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Rev. J. A. Burns, who has been pastor of the local Presbyterian Church for nearly four years, has resigned. He intends to remove, with his family, to one of the ...
Article : 158 wordsThe bulk of the Austrians who arrived by the s.s. Mokoia are still in town. The Consul states that thirty or forty will proceed to work to-morrow. He also states ...
Article : 78 wordsAt yesterday's Colonial wool sales in London, Messrs. Charles Balme and Co., Messrs. Jacomb and Sons, and Messrs. Buxton Ronald and Co., ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Paris Temps is throwing cold water on the Czar's peace proposals. The Paris correspondent of the London Daily News declares that a ...
Article : 77 wordsAn unusual accident occurred on the Port road to-day. A couple of horses attached to a van belonging to the Adelaid[?] Chemical Works took fright and bolt[?]d. ...
Article : 113 wordsNews has been received of a serious revolutionary movement, resulting in fighting and bloodshed, in Samoa. The London Daily News remarks ...
Article : 109 wordsThe owners of the White Star line of steamers are having a cargo boat built which is to be bigger than the Oceanic, also three liners each of ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the council chamber at noon to-day Mr. Lefroy, the Minister of Mines, was formally welcomed to Coolgardie by the acting-Mayor (Cr. Moore), and members of the ...
Article : 216 wordsThs Premier, Mr. Dickson, left to-day for Melbourne to attend the Premiers' Conference. ADELAIDE, January 18. ...
Article : 69 wordsDespite the Czar's peace proposals, it is stated that the Russian military and naval estimates for 1899-1900 will show an increase of 35,000,000 ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Spanish Carlists are jubilant at the prospects of their cause. They believe that wholesale desertions from the army would ...
Article : 41 wordsColonel Parsons, the British Governor of Kassala, and the Emperor Menelik have come to an agreement regarding the boundaries of the ...
Article : 35 wordsA violent thunderstorm passed o[?] Nelson last night. Near Blenheim House a rider was killed by lightning. Great damage was done to crops. ...
Article : 35 wordsLast week a dock labourers strike took place at Wapping among the non-unionists, who demanded the same pay as the unionists. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe annual report and balance-sheet of the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., was published to-day. The directors recommend the ...
Article : 106 wordsSir Thomas Fowell Buxton, the Governor of South Australia, has been elected President of the Anti— Slavery Society. ...
Article : 72 wordsInquests were held at the morgue to-day on the bodies of five boarded-out infantal. The evidence showed that death was du[?] in each case to unsuitable food. In one ...
Article : 58 wordsThe man William Johnson, who recently confessed that he was concerned in the theft of the Dowager-Duchess of Sutherland's jewels from ...
Article : 62 wordsThe inquest on the body of Mabel Ambrose, the victim of the Yarra tragedy, will be opened on the 25th inst. Meantime the police will be engaged in ...
Article : 108 wordsThe outlook in the Philippines is becoming more pacific. The citizens are returning to Manila. ...
Article : 38 wordsChief Justice Way has been ill for the past two or three days, and has been obliged to cancel all his engagements for this week at least. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe R.M.S. Rome leaves to-morrow with at least —105,000 in gold for India. There is a possibility of more being shipped before the boat leaves. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 20 Jan 1899, Page 5
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