At the conclusion of the address delivered in the Norwood Hotel last evening by Mr. T. P. Draper, who is contesting the election to the East Ward in the City ...
Article : 1,187 wordsDr. Kelly, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Geraldton, arrived here yesterday, and was accorded an enthusiastic reception. His Lordship left Perth for Geraldton on ...
Article : 2,144 wordsAbout 6 o'clock this evening there was a fair gathering in the Masonic Hall, when Mr. E. M. Clarke, J.P., presented to Sir John Forrest a gold watch and chain, ...
Article : 1,086 wordsA boy naned Robert Peters was charged at the State Children's Department, today, with discharging a firearm and wounding Adam Adamson in the seek, when the ...
Article : 527 wordsJohn Corcoran was charged at the police court this morning with having caused, through negligence, the death of Thomas Kearnan, in the Boulder South mine. ...
Article : 279 wordsThe board of management appointed to control the arrangements for the test matches between the next Australian Eleven and All England ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Chinese reformer, Kang Yuwei, now a fugitive at Hong Kong, has addressed a memorial to the European Ambassadors at Peking. ...
Article : 130 wordsCommenting upon Mr. Chamberlain's speech at Manchester, the French, press professes to be astonished and disappointed to find that Great ...
Article : 247 wordsIt has transpired in connection with Mr. Hooley's political aspirations that Earl De la Wari' proposed, while the Marquis of Abergavenny ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the betting on the Manchester November Handicap, to be run on Saturday, 26th inst., "Mr. Jersey's" Australian bred horse Merman is ...
Article : 42 wordsA shocking railway accident is reported from Canada. The report states that owing to the fault of a switchman a collision ...
Article : 53 wordsThe first intercolonial match of the season for the Sheffield Shield was concluded on the Adelaide Oval to-day. When stumps were drawn on the previous day ...
Article : 664 wordsThe Spanish Commissioners attending the Peace Conference at Paris persist in refusing to discuss the future sovereignty of the ...
Article : 86 wordsBaron Murman, a Viennese, has been sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for communicating Austrian military secrets to Russia. ...
Article : 28 wordsLord Herschell, who was Lord Chancellor during Mr. Gladstone's last Administration, and who has been on a visit to Amerca for the ...
Article : 119 wordsThe fact is mentioned as a striking commentary upon the Czar's recent disarmament proposals that Russia has ordered twenty-five torpedo ...
Article : 38 wordsLa accordance with the recommendations of the French Court of Cassation, two advocates will, it is announced, proceed to Cayenne to assist ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the annual conference of the Baptist Union to-day, the High Church movement in the Church of England was adversely criticised as distinctly Romanish. One ...
Article : 73 wordsA report from Vienna states that it is intended that the Peace Congress which has been convened on the initiative of the Czar for the end of ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Senator Dingley, the author of the Dingley Tariff Act, states that no tariff legislation will be undertaken by the United States Congress ...
Article : 37 wordsThe well-known clipper Samuel Plimsoil was towed into port to-day in a seriously disabled condition. She was laden with a cargo of wool. The ship set ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Italian Parliament was opened yesterday. In the speech which King Humbert delivered on the occasion he expressed ...
Article : 81 wordsThe steamer Tekoa arrived at Lowhead from London to-day, with 500 tons of machinery for the Tasmania mine, Beaconsfield. This is the largest vessel ...
Article : 198 wordsThe British naval stations at Halifax and Esquimault in Canada, are to he immediately reinforced by five hundred troops. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe display of Leonids, or meteors, in some parts of America on Monday night was a most brilliant one. One meteor which passed through ...
Article : 110 wordsAt North Adelaide to-day Mr. Arthur Shorney was found dead, hanging from a garden swing at his residence. The deceased was a well-known sharebroker. ...
Article : 104 wordsOwing to the reluctance of Colonel Chefki Bey, the Turkish Governor of Crete, to leave the island Admiral Pottiers took steps to compel his ...
Article : 37 wordsThe decapitated body of the man found on the railway track, yesterday, at the North Williamstown station, has been identified as that of John McLeod, who ...
Article : 49 wordsThe recent publication of a letter by Count Ernst, the Regent of Lippe-Detmold, protesting against the action of the Kaiser in limiting the honours ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Anderson, the general manager in Australia of the Orient Company, arrived by the Orient to-day, and left by this evening's train for Perth. ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Rev. James Stewart, of Lovedale (Cape Colony), has been elected Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland for the year 1898-9. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe approaching marriage is announced of Madame Adelina Patti, the famous singer, to Baron Cederstrom. ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, the Gawler Waterworks, involving an expenditure of £225,000, was carried. The Assembly sat till 1 o'clock this ...
Article : 312 wordsAt a meeting of the City Council to-day the Mayor (Alderman Harris) explained that at the end of 1898 the city overdraft would amount, after allowing for certain ...
Article : 117 wordsThe estimate of the wheat crops of the colony, compiled by the Sydney Morning Herald, shows that the area under grain this season is 1,043,000 acres, from which ...
Article : 134 wordsThe debate in the Assembly on the vote of censure motion was continued to 1.40 this morning. The division resulted as follows:—For the Government, 63; ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Boers, under General Joubert, have, it is announced, captured the stronghold of the rebel chief M'pefu. ...
Article : 30 wordsCount Stolberg-Wernigerode, of the German army has been sentenced to forty months' imprisonment and to be dismissed from the service for killing ...
Article : 126 wordsThe action of the Australian vendors of the Londonderry mine, Coolgardie (W.A.) against the Earl of Fingall and the executors of the late ...
Article : 58 wordsThe condemned man Archer maintains a composed domeanour, and is apparently resigned to his fate. He is very attentive to the ministrations of the clergyman in ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Whittingdale Johnson, Stipendiary Magistrate of Sydney, died here to-day. He came here from Sydney with Mr. O'Maley Clark for the benefit of his health. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe woman McWilliam, who recently entered a tea-room in Wellington and shot another woman, was sentenced to-day to seven years' imprisonment. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe wholesale business of Messrs. Erich and Company, of Brisbane, is being converted into a limited liability concern. ...
Article : 67 wordsAt Geelong to-day Wm. Stevens, a young roan, married, pleaded guilty to attempting to wreck a train near Port Fairy. Mr. Justice Hodges remanded him for ...
Article : 57 wordsAn elderly woman, Mrs. Mary Mercovich, was killed to-day at Craigieburn. She was thrown from a buggy through the horse bolting. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe visible supply of wheat in America east of the Rockies, is estimated at 39,153,000 bushels. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 18 Nov 1898, Page 5
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