At the half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Bank to-day it was stated that the net profits were £3,312. The chairman said that the profits were ...
Article : 69 wordsThe following are the probable starters and jockeys in the Melbourne Cup:—Battalion (Brewer), Coil (Delaney), Delaware (Moran) ...
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Article : 45 wordsA dispute has arisen in the Lower House of the Austrian Reichsrath in connection with the question of the joint expenditure of ...
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Article : 2,972 wordsThe liquidator of the Mercantile. Bank has issued a report for the year ended December last. During that period 110 debtors' accounts ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the Rookwood Cemetery to-day the body of Florence Hartley, 20, was exhumed on a coroner's warrant. The deceased was buried ...
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Article : 36 wordsA party of 11 lady missionaries left Sydney to-day in the steamer [?] for Hong Kong to join the China inland mission. ...
Article : 24 wordsHer Royal Highness the Duchess of Teck (the Princess Mary of Cambridge), whose death was reported this morning, was suffering ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Supply Bill passed through all its stages in the Assembly. Mr. Lyne gave notice that on Tuesday he would move ...
Article : 76 wordsComplaints having been made by a number of exporters of fruit to England that the cases were much damaged through the moisture ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 133 wordsMr. John Burns, the well-known labor advocate and member of the House of Commons for Battersea (London), says that be will not ...
Article : 49 wordsAt Caulfield to-day, Trent did a mile and three-quarters, and maintained 14sec. to the furlong. Gale did the journey in 3min. 13½sec. ...
Article : 399 wordsThe vote of censure has thrown the Labor party into turmoil. It is no secret in political circles that the Labor party has been greatly ...
Article : 168 wordsGeorge W. Cox, a resident of Numur[?], was convicted of incest with two illegitimate daughters aged 17 and 14 years respectively. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Duchess of Teck lived for three hours after the operation had been performed. She quite recovered from the effects of the ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Metropolitan Board of Works has successfully floated a local loan for £500,000, extending over 30 years, and bearing interest ...
Article : 64 wordsThe prospects of a conference between the men and their employers being speedily arranged are now declining. ...
Article : 62 wordsJ. H. Derbyshire, the English crack, and "Jack" Hellings, the successful Sydney swimmer, met at the Westminster baths, London ...
Article : 134 wordsAn abnormal wave of heat is passing over the colony, and in many places the thermometer registers 107deg. in the shade. ...
Article : 27 wordsA deputation from the Federated Trades Unions waited upon Mr. C. T. Ritchie, president of the Board of Trade, and asked him to ...
Article : 67 wordsTo-day arguments were heard by the Full Court with respect to the appeal ef the A.M.P. Society against the decision of Judge Murray ...
Article : 75 wordsThe visible supply of wheat east of the Rocky Mountains is now estimated at 38,506,000 bushels. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Fraser, of the Manuka Station, at Winton, has telegraphed that he has struck water, there being a flow of 120,000 gallons daily. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe London board of management of Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, announces that the profit for the year amounted to ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Premier has been advised that no separate building will be available for the exhibits of the British Empire at the Paris ...
Article : 39 wordsJ. H. Tyers, who has made most of the existing English records; J. W. Stratton, the New Zealand swimmer; and V. Lindberg, of ...
Article : 59 wordsThe British troops which have for some time been stationed at Canea and Heraklion, in the island of Crete, will shortly return ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the Close Settlement Bill passed through committee. The blocks permitted to be taken under the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Governor has despatched to Mr. Chamberlain a telegram, expressing condolence with the Queen and her family at the death of ...
Article : 33 wordsThe German press is greatly excited at the action of the Czar of Russia ia declining to receive the reigning Grand Duke Friederich I. ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the Local Court to-day Mary deLacy, proprietor ef the copyright of a book on "Vamping," sued Whillas and Ormiston, publishers ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Council of the Viceroy of India has declined to agree to the creation of a gold standard. The Council states that under the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Jarrahdale Jarrah Forests and Railways Company, Limited, has bean registered with a capital of £300,000, of which there ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the Government caucus members were asked to indicat the attitude which they would take if the Opposition moved a reso ...
Article : 162 wordsAt the Victorian Club to-night there was a large gathering when the card was called. Commencing with the Derby, Aurum was backed ...
Article : 269 wordsMr. Chauncey M. Depew, the President of the New York Central and the Hudson Railroads, has staled that be suspects foul play ...
Article : 80 wordsThe 11-year-old son of Mr. David Lindsay met with a painful accident while alighting from a tram. He fell, and one of the ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Charles John Darling, Q.C., Conservative member for Deptford, has been appointed a justice of the Queen's Bench Division in ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Trafalgar Gold-mining Company, Limited, Coolgardie, has been registered with a capital of £150,000 in £1 shares, of which ...
Article : 28 wordsThe no-confidence motion was again discussed in the Assembly this evening. Several speakers deplored the action of the ...
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Advertising : 36 wordsThe terrible epidemic of typhoid fever at Maidstone, Kent, has now been followed by an outbreak of the disease in Belfast, Ireland. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 5 Nov 1897, Page 2
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