A meeting of the Municipal Council of Victoria Park was held on Tuesday evening, in the council-chamber. There were present—The Mayor (Mr. R. T. ...
Article : 385 wordsMr. Samuel Beddome, for many years police magistrate at Adelaide, died at his residence in Brougham Place this morning. He was widely known as the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe London "Times" alleges that M. Alexander Pavloff, the Russian Ambassador at Peking, has not supported the claims which have been put forward by ...
Article : 40 wordsIt is said that Spain is ready to proclaim an armistice in Cuba on condition of the withdrawal of the American warships in the vicinity of the island. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Board of Health has released from quarantine 22 passengers and 170 of the crew of the R.M.S. Australia. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe ketch Earl of Ulverstone which went to get salvage from the schooner Mariner at Hummocks Island, off the coast of Tasmania, went ashore there ...
Article : 60 wordsThe United States Government has sent vessels to Havana to embark the American Consul, the other American officials, and all the American citizens ...
Article : 37 wordsM. Alexieff, who has been acting as the Russian financial adviser of the Government of Corea, has been appointed the commercial agent for ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Chinese Government has agreed to accede to the demands of the French in Southern China, but has reserved British rights in any extension of French ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Royal Agricultural Show was opened to-day, the weather being splendid, while the attendance was good. The show compares favorably with previous ...
Article : 148 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the East Fremantle Municipal Council was held, last night, when, there were present—The Mayor (Mr. M. L. Moss), and Crs. ...
Article : 433 wordsThe war feeling is deepening in America, and General Woodford, the American Ambassador at Madrid, has sent his family to Paris. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe police have ascertained detimbaly that five aud not six children were swept away in First Creek, Chapman being the only one of whom all trace is ...
Article : 121 wordsReplying to an Auckland deputation, the Premier declared that the defences were being attended to by the Government, which had under consideration a ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Russian Government has closed Sebastopol (the Russian port in the Blade Sea) and Cronstadt (the Russian port in the Baltic) to merchant ...
Article : 33 wordsGeneral Sir William Lockhart, commander-in-chief of the Indian army, left Peshawur yesterday amid a scene of the greatest enthusiasm. ...
Article : 86 wordsAn unfavorable bulletin has been issued from Hawarden. Mr. Gladstone is reported by his medical attendants to have taken an unfavorable turn. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Berlin "Neueste Nachrichten," in commenting on the announcement that Britain has secured a lease of Weihai-wei, says that Germany is now ...
Article : 53 wordsAn inquest was held this afternoon on the body of Herbert Milewski, seven, one of the victims of the drowning fatality. The evidence corresponded in the details ...
Article : 112 wordsThe petroleum bore at Moturoa has reached a depth, of 2,050ft. The bore is filled with water and gas, which are heard roaring below. It is hoped that ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Irish National League has written to the leagues in Sydney and Melbourne suggesting that a message of sympathy in his illness should be ...
Article : 39 wordsThe American freight opposition has completed arrangements to the entire satisfaction of Sydney merchants. Messrs. Falk and Co. have been ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday the Duke of Devonshire announced that Kiao-Chau would be a free port, and he pointed out that whereas the occupation ...
Article : 425 wordsIn connection with, the Snell will case Mrs. Spell to-day in cross-examination denied having done anything in the way of preparing or forging the document ...
Article : 102 wordsYesterday the sheriff received the following order from Warden Hare:—"I hereby order the release of Patrick Hughes and William ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Duke of York visited the Australian Art Exhibition, this morning. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Governor received a[?] from the Secretary of State granting him six months' leave. His Excellency proposes to visit England in the latter part ...
Article : 42 wordsVirgin left this morning to attempt to break the cycling record from Broken Hill to Adelaide. He expects to arrive in Adelaide on Friday. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe steamer Belgica, which left Antwerp in August last with the Gerlache Antarctic expeditionary party, has been wrecked off Cape Horn. The explorers ...
Article : 77 wordsSir George Dibbs has been very ill during the last few days. He is now recovering, but is not yet able to leave his bed. ...
Article : 29 wordsWhile a constable was returning from an unsuccessful search in the Torrens River to-day for the body of the lad Chapman he came across the body of a ...
Article : 90 wordsTo-day a young man named Thomas Young, residing at Prahran, was knocked down by a train at North Melbourne, and sustained severe injuries. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe ordinary meeting of the Subiaco Municipal Council was held on April 6, there being present.—The Mayor (Mr. H. Doyle), and Crs. Hetherington ...
Article : 564 wordsThe brig Lalla Rookh, well known in. the coal trade, foundered on Tuesday night in Darling Harbor. The vessel had 50 tons of coal being shifted when ...
Article : 59 wordsThe will of the late Wm. Peterson, merchant, of Melbourne, has been filed, for probate. The estate is valued at £108,000, of which £28,000 is realty. ...
Article : 49 wordsNews has been received that a reconnoitring party of the Anglo-Egyptian expedition on the Upper Nile approached within 200yds. of the camp of Mahmoud ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Premier was spoken to last night by one of our representatives concerning the release of the prisoners, and was told that there appeared to be a general ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. Charles Bethell, of the firm of Bethell, Gwyn, and Co., left for London on April 6 in the steamer Karrakatta. Before this fine vessel cast-off from the ...
Article : 215 wordsThe body of the woman found in the Torrens has been identified as that of Sarah Jane Morgan, whose husband is at present somewhere in Western ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Government has received an important proposal from the firm of R. Broadbent, which, operates largely in frozen meat and other colonial produce. ...
Article : 134 wordsA plasterer named William Brown, married, was plastering the rear of the Exchange Hotel in Russell-street, when a rung of the ladder broke and he fell 40ft. ...
Article : 52 wordsDr. Cockburn, the Minister of Education and Agriculture, has been appointed to succeed Mr. T. Playfair as Agent-GeneraL Dr. Cockburn will accordingly ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Government Statist has issued incomplete details of the wheat yield of 1897-8. The figures show an increased yield of 3,334,734 bushels compared ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Government of Natal has offered to supply gratis to the Imperial Government an annual subsidy of 12,000 tons of coal for British warships calling at ...
Article : 58 wordsThe news of the release of the Ivanhoe Venture men from the Fremantle Gaol was hailed with delight by the miners here, and hopes are entertained that ...
Article : 52 wordsDr. Gresswell has submitted a report to the Board of Health. He complains that the board's staff is not large enough to adequately watch the health of this ...
Article : 52 wordsGreat satisfaction was expressed on the receipt of the news this evening of the liberation of the diggers from the Fremantle gaol The Premier is ...
Article : 74 wordsIt is understood that the Premiership has been offered to Mr. T. J. Byrnes, who will give a definite reply in a few days. ...
Article : 148 wordsWilliam Hudson, who relieved William Duke, a passenger bound for Western Australia in the s.s. Wollowra, of £10 by means of the confidence trick ...
Article : 35 wordsThe consignment of apples received in the R.M.S. Cuzco is in excellent condition. The Tasmanian lots are selling at from 10s. to 15s, a case, and a few of ...
Article : 49 wordsThe South Australian federal delegates are arranging the times and places at Which they will speak on the Commonwealth BilL and the approaching ...
Article : 102 wordsThe tennis tournament was brought to a close this afternoon, in the presence of a large attendance. The single championship of the colony was won by ...
Article : 148 wordsChief Justice Way was the recipient of a congratulatory address from Ius brother judges and the staff of the Supreme Court to-day, wishing him and ...
Article : 39 wordsSir William Harcourt, the leader of the Opposition, maintained that the Government had abandoned the policy of "equality of advantage" in favor of a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 95 wordsProfessor Bernard has already succeeded in taking some wonderfully clear photographs of the moon with the aid of the great Yerkes telescope. His ...
Article : 109 wordsAt a meeting of the League of Wheelmen the Westralian league, having' complied with the conditions, was admitted under the reciprocity agreement. ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Hughes, M.L.A., at a meeting to-night defined the attitude of the Labor party towards the Constitution Bill. If the Convention had provided for ...
Article : 48 wordsAn application was made to the Meat and Dairy Board by the Bergl Australian Company operating at Gladstone to erect boiling-down works at ...
Article : 93 wordsMrs. Fraugott Adam, a resident of Mannum, has been gored by a bull in an awful manner. The affair happened in the absence of her husband, and she ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 8 Apr 1898, Page 1
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