The adjourned annual meeting of ratepayers of the city of Perth was held at the Town Hall last night. The Mayor (Mr. Alex. Forrest, M.L.A.), occupied the chair, ...
Article : 4,256 wordsOf the various open spaces in and around Perth devoted to public recreation—small in number indeed, and no doubt for that reason all the more prized—it may safely ...
Article : 2,473 wordsIn the Assembly the Premier, Mr. C. C. Kingston, stated that the Government would do all that was possible to check the practice of abortion, which was stated to be ...
Article : 272 wordsThe commercial treaty between France and Italy announced yesterday was, it transpires, concluded suddenly. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe United States Government are, it is announced, seeking to acquire from Spain Kusari, or Strong Island, one of the Caroline group in the ...
Article : 191 wordsAccording to The Times the Americans consider that their consistent support of the policy of the open door in the Far East is only a proper ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Swedish ship Mary Augusta, 1,423 tons, was stranded yesterday off Dunkirk, in the Straits of Dover. Her crew were all saved. ...
Article : 34 wordsGermany, France, and Belgium have, it is stated, decided to accord reduced freights and cheap railway rates for all goods intended for the ...
Article : 37 wordsThe boxing contest between J. J. Corbett and "Tom" Sharkey took place yesterday, according to advices received from America. Corbett was ...
Article : 224 wordsSenor Canevaro, the Spanish Ambassador in Pris, has been decorated by President Faure with the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe round drive, which has just been completed, was formally declared open for traffic by the Mayor to-day. The new road is two miles in length, and is twenty feet ...
Article : 810 wordsMr. Lambert, of Sydney, delivered a lecture last night at the Imperial Institute on "The Stalactite Caves of New South Wales." ...
Article : 114 wordsThe French mail stormer Gironde, belonging to the Messageries Maritimes Company is reported to be plague stricken. ...
Article : 47 wordsGermany, in what is described as a frigid[?] note, has informed the Vatican of its intention to maintain a Protectorate over German Roman Catholics ...
Article : 290 wordsThe Times is responsible for the statement that there is a prospect of Great Britain buying the Canadian sealing[?] fleet in the Behring Sea, ...
Article : 107 wordsThe following are the latest quotations for the undermentioned investment stocks:— Bank of Australasia, £52; National Bank of New Zealand, ...
Article : 51 wordsThe representatives of Liliuokalani, the ex-Queen of Hawaii, have addressed a petition to the United States Congress, praying that she may be ...
Article : 48 wordsThere is as little prospect as there was a year ago of a restoration of harmonious relations between the Anstro-Hungarian States. ...
Article : 93 wordsAt midnight on Tuesday, the police were informed that a man named George Pearson was lying dead in his camp. Sergeant Smith and Constable Dalton proceeded to ...
Article : 215 wordsFour hundred shareholders, representing 200,000 shares, in the Great Boulder Gold-mining Company, have addressed a requisition to the directors ...
Article : 333 wordsThe quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,581,000 bushels, and for the Continent 1,380,000 bushels. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Times correspondent at Berlin reports the existence of growing friction between the minor German states and Prussia, to which, it is stated, ...
Article : 87 wordsSIR,—The Mayor convened and presided over an adjourned annual meeting of the ratepayers of the city of Perth this evening, for the purpose of dealing with the ...
Article : 213 wordsThe s.s. Cambria arrived from Fremantle yesterday. She landed 120 tons of cargo for Busselton, and took aboard some tuart logs for M. C. Davies and Company. The ...
Article : 136 wordsNews from Samoa states that German and British warships have landed parties of bluejackets with the object of making a demonstration in consequence of the ...
Article : 50 wordsFor about the first time in the history of the colony the Cabinet and the Executive Council will meet at Launceston to-morrow for the transaction of important ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has donated from his private purse 20,000 francs (about £800) to the Geneva poor. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the Legislative Council the Plural Voting Abolition Bill was road a third time. The Dental Bill was read a second time, and passed its final stages. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 24 Nov 1898, Page 5
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