Serious riots have broken out in Porto Rico. For a considerable time the residents of that island have viewed with feelings of hostility the supremacy ...
Article : 146 wordsThe proposal of the Premier to reduce the subsidies paid to municipalities from £1 to los on the general rate will, if adopted by Parliament, make a difference of £1400 ...
Article : 65 wordsAt the Police Court today Frederick Leslie was fined £20 for illegal betting, and John Jewett £5 for aiding and abetting. ...
Article : 29 wordsTenders for pipes in connection with the goldfields water scheme will be opened at the Public Works Office, Perth, at 8 o'clock to-morrow evening ...
Article : 92 wordsThe conviction of Professor Hautmont on a charge of supplying noxious drugs with intent has been quashed by the Full Court on the ground that there was ...
Article : 53 wordsA communication has been received from the annual conference adverse to Methodist Union, Queensland as at present arranged declining to transfer ...
Article : 27 wordsA numerously attended meeting of stockowners at Goondewinde decided to ask the Governments of New South Wales and Queensland to make a new ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Customs revenue from July 1 to August 20 shows a decrease of £3828 on the corresponding period of last year. Excise, stamps duty, and land and ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Railway Department is largely increasing the rolling stock in order to meet the heavy grain traffic which is expected next season. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe trial crushing of the Golden Crest mine, situated four miles turned 42oz of smelted gold from 145 tons. Six pennyweights per ton remain in the ...
Article : 32 wordsJohn Young was charged at the Police Court to-day with assisting to conduct a tote shop. The hearing occupied the whole day, and was ...
Article : 32 wordsSplendid rains have fallen throughout the agricultural districts. The Commissioner of Railways has received reports that all the railway dams ...
Article : 31 wordsIt has transpired that on the 15th the Government Printing Office was broken into, the object apparently being to get access to the police examination papers. ...
Article : 35 wordsCatherine Thompson secured a divorce from her husband, Malcolm Thompson, who deserted her and went to Westralia in 1894. She has not heard from him ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Right Rev Dr Riley. Anglican Bishop of Perth, passed through Coolgardie to-day on his way to Perth. He was returning from Menzies, where he had been assisting at the ...
Article : 39 wordsA wire has been received from the postmaster at Widgemooltha stating that Mr Jas. Smith, of the Flinders mine, has seen two rabbits in the bush. ...
Article : 34 wordsWheat is extremely quiet owing to the small demand. Victorian, lots are offering at 3s 8d, but with no results. ...
Article : 21 wordsA deputation waited on the Home Secretary in reference to the alleged irregularities in connection with a female leper at the station in Pearl Island. It ...
Article : 86 wordsCredit foncier bonds to the amount of £12,850 have ben subscribed for. The public tendered for £2550, the Savings Bank taking the balance. ...
Article : 26 wordsIn the Probate Division, London, last month, before Mr Justice Barnes and a special jury, the hearing was again continued of the case of Kingsbury and ...
Article : 1,649 wordsThe state of Porto Rico continues very unsettled. From all parts of the island most piteous appeals are being made by Spaniards to the Americans to ...
Article : 63 wordsAn accident happened during the demolition of the running- sheds at the Adelaide railway yard, which are being removed with a view to the erection of a ...
Article : 236 wordsIn the Supreme Court to day Ormuz D. Sookhia sued Mahomet Lassan for £589 16s commission in respect to a deal in camels. The case rested on ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Melbourne Hydraulic Power Company have declared a dividend of 10 per cent. ...
Article : 15 wordsA nurse named Elizabeth Taylor has been tried on a charge of using an instrument with illegal intent. The jury disagreed, and she was remanded to the ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Jumbunna coal miners struck to-day for not being permitted to ride from the mouth of the pit on the bins to the railway siding, a distance of half a mile. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Spanish authorities at Madrid have appointed Commissioners to carry out the evacuation of Cuba. Marshal Blanco, the Governor-General and ...
Article : 61 wordsNothing is more "a matter of taste" than food. In every land custom has most arbitrarily declared what shall or shall not be esteemed as a delicacy. The ...
Article : 722 wordsDudley F. Palmer, aged 23, suicided at Sale to-day by shooting himself through the heart. He was an accountant in the Commercial Bank. It is stated ...
Article : 33 wordsDuring a dense fog in the harbor this morning the Manly steamer Narrabeen collided with the Government steamer Kate, which was towing a powder barge. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe City Council have taken the insurance of the Council's property from 10 companies who were carrying the risks of the Corporation, and who did ...
Article : 61 wordsA despatch has been received from General Merritt, who has charge of the American troops operating in the Philippines. The despatch states that the ...
Article : 111 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions to-day a Japanese named Jonoski Takuma, whose wife is an English woman, was tried on a charge of forging and uttering ...
Article : 47 wordsHolt and party, of Friday West, have cleaned up a crushing of a parcel of 15 tons at the Queensland Menzies battery for a return of 15oz 12dwt. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe annual report of the Savings Bank shows that the funds have reached the record total of £3,192,912. ...
Article : 20 wordsAt a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to-day the Fremantle Chamber communicated that it would attend a conference regarding a uniform ...
Article : 29 wordsMichael Murphy, who was convicted of robbing Thomas Kennedy by the confidence trick, and who was remanded for sentence on account of it being supposed ...
Article : 52 wordsSome excitement was caused here on Saturday and Sunday by news which was rapidly circulated to the effect that good alluvial had been discovered at ...
Article : 135 wordsA very curious affair is reported to have taken place at Kiao-Chou, the port on the coast of China recently occupied by Germany. It is stated that Herr ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Bishop of Geraldton, the Bishop of Sale, and Father Collins were the guests of Archbishop O'Reilly to-day, who drove them through the Hills. ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the inquiry into the bankruptcy case of Ernest Horton a witness named Robert Bennett was committed for 14 days for prevaricating and giving evasive ...
Article : 37 wordsHarrold Brothers' insolvency case was resumed to-day, when A. L. Harrold's examination was continued. The greater part of the day was spent in ...
Article : 60 wordsThe body of James Fishlock, of Wollongong, has been found in the Cordeaux River with a rope attached to a stone round his neck. ...
Article : 28 wordsProbate duty amounting to £3000 was paid to-day by the estate of John Starkey, cordial manufacturer, whose will was sworn at £101,187. ...
Article : 23 wordsSplendid rains are reported to have fallen at Yerilla last week. Over one and a half inches were registered. ...
Article : 22 wordsAt a meeting of the Brown Hill No. 1 South G.M. Company held to-day it was decided to wind up. Everyone knows that the streets o ...
Article : 248 wordsSpeaking at a luncheon to the Premier of Queensland to-day Mr Reid regretted that Queensland was not associated in the federal negotiations. ...
Article : 147 wordsThe elections for the Legislative Assembly at Cape Colony have not yet been concluded and continue to excite intense interest throughout South ...
Article : 103 wordsA water shaft which is being sunk for, a public battery has struck good water at a depth of 70ft, will be sunk another 30ft yet. ...
Article : 66 wordsA number of new buildings have been erected or are in course of erection in this town. Notably amongst the former is a handsome stone edifice erected by ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the inquest on the man Saint, who was killed on the railway at Block 10, a verdict of accidental death was returned. ...
Article : 34 wordsA native prisoner named Stone Soak Jimmy passed through here to-day in charge of a constable for Coolgardie. The prisoner was sentenced to two ...
Article : 86 wordsSix hundred tons of New Zealand potatoes were sold at 85s for shipment by the Urmston Grange which sails to-morrow for Manila, the capital of the ...
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Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 - 1954), Tue 23 Aug 1898, Page 5
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