The members of the Railways Standing Committee indulged in some plain speaking to-day in reference to the attitude of Mr. ...
Article : 86 wordsAt the sitting of the Raid Committee of the House of Commons yesterday, Mn Hawkesley, of the Eastern Telegraph Company, who ...
Article : 197 wordsWe quote the following interesting article from the London Standard of April 17:—An important change is rapidly spreading ...
Article : 1,474 wordsMr. Gordon was one of the most successful editors and publishers of the day, and his abode in a highly fashionable suburb of the great ...
Article : 893 wordsIt is announced that 4,000,000 persons are now employed on relief works in the distressed districts of India. ...
Article : 30 wordsAt about 1 o'clock this morning a sharp shock of earthquake was felt in the city. Rain fell heavily, and there in no indication of the ...
Article : 31 wordsThe report of the Department of Public Instruction was laid on the table of the House to-night. It states that in the year 1896 there ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Princess Christian (H.R.H. Princess Helena), the Duchess of Connaught, the Duchess of Teck, and many other leading ...
Article : 318 wordsAn application was made to-day for the forfeiture of one of the sections held by the Silver Queen Company, on the ground of the ...
Article : 37 words"Unsettled weather prevails in the colony. Light showers have fallen at scattered places in the Riverina, while rain is reported ...
Article : 84 wordsA young man named Walter Findlay has been arrested at Napier on a charge of having tried to poison an infant with verdigris. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe, half-yearly meeting of the Broken Hill Block 14 Company was held to-day, when a balance of £29,305 was shown to the credit of ...
Article : 74 wordsThe bookmakers intend to appeal to the Privy Council against their exclusion from the racecourse. ...
Article : 20 wordsHeavy rains have fallen since an early hour this morning. The Government astronomer reports that the rain extended, inland over ...
Article : 33 wordsExperiments in regard to the inoculation of cattle show that out of some 600 cows treated between 20 and 30 per cent, have ...
Article : 32 wordsThe report of the Public Works committee on the question of extending the railway into the city has been completed, and will be ...
Article : 82 wordsTwo miners named Jas. M'Anally and Patrick Dwyer, while working in the main shaft of the North White Feather Consolidated mine ...
Article : 218 wordsSir Hartley Williams is progressing favorably, and hopes to leave the hospital by the end of the week. ...
Article : 22 wordsIn view of the approaching commemoration of the 60th year of Her Majesty's reign, honorary membership of the Royal Colonial ...
Article : 60 wordsA proposal to restrict the franchise has been dealt with by the Volksraad of the Orange Free State, the motion having been ...
Article : 55 wordsA large meeting of influential citizens was held at the Town-hall this afternoon, under the presidency of the Mayor, to consider a ...
Article : 153 wordsTo-day Captain Ramsay and William Woodly, the captain and chief mate respectively of the China steamer Tsinan, were fined ...
Article : 66 wordsIn the Dominion House of Commons at Ottava Canada, Mr. W.S. Fielding, Minister of Finance, has proposed to extend the ...
Article : 561 wordsThe Bishop of London writes to the London press to clear up a point as to which a mistake may have been committed. The ...
Article : 235 wordsAn extraordinary disturbance has occurred in the Reichsrath of Austria proper. Startling scenes arose during the debate on the ...
Article : 189 wordsNews has been received that people are dying at the rate of hundreds per day in the large districts of China owing to the famine. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe new wing of the City Night Refuge was formally opened to-day by the Mayoress, who stated that last year the refuge fed 6,000 ...
Article : 61 wordsRecent inquiries have confirmed Mr. H. C. Eussell's original deductions regarding the cycle theory. The sunspot theory has now ...
Article : 96 wordsA meeting of the delegates to the Rugby Union was held at the Westralia Hotel last night. Mr. P. C. Rose, of the Pirates Football ...
Article : 393 wordsAn important judgment was given to-day in the Full Court on an appeal to set aside an order of Mr. Justice Owen in the case of ...
Article : 71 wordsVesuvian, the second favorite for the Epsom Derby, was scratched for the classic race yesterday. Vesuvian is owned by Sir Frederick ...
Article : 119 wordsA kind of Maori Parliament sitting near Greytown, in the Wellington district, haB adopted an address, to the Queen, in which ...
Article : 70 wordsA meeting of the Record Reign Committee was held in the council-chamber last evening, when the sub-committees presented their ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Block 10 despatches during the week amounted to 519 tons The mill treated 2,159 tons of crudes, returning 501 tons of ...
Article : 36 wordsSir Charles Lilley, the ex-Chief Justice of Queensland, who has been, staying in Sydney, is confined to his bed at the Hotel Metropole ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is probable that a recount will take place in connection with the polling for the district of Albert for the House of Assembly. It ...
Article : 72 wordsAs already stated, the colonial Premiers are to be magnificently entertained at the Hotel Cecil, which has 1,700 rooms, and the ...
Article : 251 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, a petition was presented from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, praying for the ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Ambassadors have now presented their joint note to the Porte relative to the conditions of peace. Germany is waiving her ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 123 wordsMr. J. T. Keats has been appointed special magistrate vice Mr.J. Rudall, deceased. Dr. Goldsmith has been appointed medical ...
Article : 30 wordsAnother good fall of rain has taken place throughout the colony. ...
Article : 14 wordsIn the police court to-day eight bookmakers were fined £10 each, with costs, for breaches of the Betting House Suppression Act. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe New South Wales mounted (contingent arrived at Hounslow station on April 23. Outside the station the men formed up, and ...
Article : 345 wordsA syndicate has been formed in Adelaide for the construction of the Great Western railway in Tasmania. ...
Article : 19 wordsSir Philip Fysh received a telegram to-night intimating, that Sir Richard Baker had telegraphed the £10,000 deposit as required ...
Article : 59 wordsA site has been selected for the erection of a sawmill plant and wharf at Jervis Bay in connection with the scheme for cutting and ...
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The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955), Thu 27 May 1897, Page 4
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