Last evening news of a very painful nature was received in the city announceing the occurrence of a fatal accident at Katanning, whereby a young lady residing ...
Article : 420 wordsThe recent removal of the embargo which had been placed on the introduction of Kimberley cattle into the southern districts has been a subject of considerable ...
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Article : 326 wordsMr. Richardson, manager of the Albany branch of the Western Australian Bank, will relieve Mr. Harkness, the manager of the Kalgoorlie branch, as the latter has ...
Article : 206 words"Jem" Wray, formerly of New South Wales, has issued a challenge for a sculling contest to W. Haines, the English sculler, offering to row ...
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Article : 110 wordsBaron de Thielmann, the German Ambassador at Washington, has assured Colonel John Hay, the United State Secretary of State, that if the ...
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Article : 1,006 wordsThe Nicaragua Canal Bill, which has just passed the United States Senate, provides for the completion of the work within six years. ...
Article : 106 wordsEfforts are being made to secure a greater measure of uniformity in the services of the Church of England. To this end it is proposed that ...
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Article : 345 wordsThe following additional appointments have been gazetted in connection with the administration of the Soudau:— ...
Article : 109 wordsCount Muravieff, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has informed the Porte that Russia and Austria will, if needs be, prevent the ...
Article : 50 wordsA meeting of the Leederville water conference was held last evening in the local council chambers, when there were present —The Mayor (Mr. J. Veryard), Crs. J. T. ...
Article : 932 wordsA Gatton telegram states that the witnesses who proceeded to Toowoomba to-day, returned subsequently to Gatton, all having identified Burgess as the man seen at ...
Article : 335 wordsThe rising of Chinese rebels in the Nganh-wei province is spreading. The Imperial authorities at Peking have ordered the neighbouring ...
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Article : 37 wordsH.M.S. Penguin, lately employed on Admiralty surveys in Australian waters, has been recommissioned. ...
Article : 23 wordsA sad drowning accident occurred on Saturday morning. Mrs. J. R. Cooke, whilst on a visit to her relations, Mr. Geo. Lukin, near York, went for a bath in the ...
Article : 287 wordsYesterday, in the Prussian Diet, Dr. Von Miguel, Minister for the Interior, explained, in connection with the expulsion of Danes from Northern ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. A. Peattie, a partner of a wellknown firm of Glasgow lawyers, has absconded. An examination of the books of the ...
Article : 41 wordsA robbery took place at the Seabrook battery on Saturday night. The thieves broke into the room containing a safe which had over £150 in it, and broke the ...
Article : 101 wordsThe United States Senate has resolved to ask President M'Kinley to place before it all correspondence which has passed between the agents ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Coinage Committee of the United States House of Representatives has reported favourably upon the Gold Standard Bill. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe following cases were dealt with in bankruptcy yesterday morning, before the Registrar, Mr. Moseley, the examinations being adjourned until the dates named:— ...
Article : 64 wordsDuring the present series of colonial wool sales in London 46,315 bales have been catalogued and 44,356 bales sold. ...
Article : 107 wordsSir John Forrest, Mr. J. W. Hackett and Mr. A. P. Matheson were entertained by the Ministry at luncheon at Parliament House to-day. Other visitors present were: ...
Article : 52 wordsOn Saturday, the 14th inst., a public meeting of residents of the Upper Blackwood was held on one of the Government reserves to consider some of the ...
Article : 283 wordsA terrible accident is reported from Tingha, a mining locality about 60 miles from Armidale. Yesterday af afternoon, Mrs. Patrick Bourke, a resident of Tingha, ...
Article : 161 wordsHis Holiness the Pope, who was recently reported to be suffering from a mild attack of influenza, although still in a weak condition, has ...
Article : 35 wordsA man named Walter Derbyshire, while working in an open cut at the Lindsay Gordon mine, three miles from town, was this morning painfully injured by an ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr. George Throssell, M.L.A.) yesterday received a telegram from the postmaster at Onslow, stating that the Ashburton River ...
Article : 111 wordsJas. Sommerville, of Goulburn, cyclist, who fell at the Electric Light Carnival at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday night died to-day in the Sydney Hospital ...
Article : 45 wordsThere was a large attendance at Cremorne Gardens last night, and the repetition of Saturday's new programme was the source of much enjoyment. Though as ...
Article : 111 wordsThe half-yearly general meeting of the Union Bank of Australia was held to-day. The statement of accounts ...
Article : 66 wordsJohn R. Mitchell, an elderly man, working at the chlorination works at the Proprietary Mine last evening, whilst hoeing hot stuff undermined a mass, the top of ...
Article : 132 wordsMiss Catherina Devine, an artist of Sydney, committed suicide on Saturat Hanley, in Staffordshire. A coronial inquiry was held and a ...
Article : 89 wordsIt has been decided to accept the Government's offer for the transfer of the mortgage on the exhibition building from the National Bank to the Savings Bank. ...
Article : 104 wordsA goldfields warden visited Echunga last week and inspected the claims of the National Gem Prospecting Association and granted leases for diamond mining to the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe following gold shipments were sent away by the R.M.S. Rome last night:—To Bombay, Union Bank, five boxes of gold specie, of the value of £25,000; to London, ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 24 Jan 1899, Page 5
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