The towns of Manzanillo is anxious to surrender to the Americans, but the Spanish commander desires the American fleet to make a naval ...
Article : 75 wordsTenders were opened to-day for credit foncier bonds to the extent of £12,400. The public subscribed £1,700, and the Savings Bank ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 79 wordsThe electoral campaign at the Cape continues to attract much attention. On Saturday Mr. Rhodes delivered an important speech, in which, he declared ...
Article : 94 wordsA meeting of justices of die peace was held to-day, when it was decided to farm an association, with the object of furthering the interests of the honorary ...
Article : 45 wordsTenders were opened on Monday for the furniture required for the new can-teen at the forte. The lowest, that of W. Sangster, in the sum of £44 19s., ...
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Article : 150 wordsConstable Andrew Edward Travers, who was charged with having committed perjury in connection with his evidence in the Police Court, has been acquitted ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Parliamentary Select Committee and others visited the site of the proposed new cemetery at Parafield to-day. The general opinion was that the site ...
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Article : 57 wordsThe death is announced of Dr. L. J. Hollis, ex-M.L.A. for Goulburn. ...
Article : 16 wordsNews has been received that, after a slight skirmish with the Spaniards, the American brigade, commanded by Colonel Haines, captured Guayama, a ...
Article : 33 wordsAt the Central Criminal Court to-day, sentence was passed on Alice Short, convicted of the manslaughter of a woman who had been nursed by her, and who ...
Article : 65 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Walter Wren, M.A. the well-known private tutor. [This famous "crammer," a product ...
Article : 123 wordsThe consul for Germany has furnished a return showing that the Australasian goods exported to Germany during 1896 were valued at £5,000,000. The ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Rhodes declares that the unrest in Sooth Africa must continue until the new people in the Transvaal have sat on the privileges of the old, and that the ...
Article : 45 wordsDuring the rough weather of last week the steamer Despatch grounded near Port Albert. The steamer Glenelg grounded inside the Lakes Entrance ...
Article : 28 wordsAll the energies of the American War Department are concentrated on bringing Major General Shafter's army away from Santiago. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe outbreak of lawlessness continues. The dwellings of several persons in East Adelaide have been entered in broad daylight, and a quantity of jewellery ...
Article : 30 wordsLupton and Stephenson, directors, and Walter Watts, solicitor, were convicted on Saturday of conspiracy in the formation of the Lydenburg ...
Article : 46 wordsA public meeting was held Monday to express disapproval of the manner in which the chairman conducted the meeting on Saturday night, when it was ...
Article : 123 wordsThe activity which has characterised the Newcastle coal trade daring The last few months continues. During last week nearly 70,000 tons of coal were ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Minister of Defence, Mr. W. M'Culloch, M.L.C., has recovered from his attack of influenza. The Commissioner for Lands and Surveys, Mr. R. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. George Main, the head-keeper of the Cape Jervis lighthouse, is dead. Hie deceased was one of the oldest light house-keepers in the colony. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe late Mr. "Tom" Sadler, of South Yana, left property valued at £70,350. Several small bequests to charities were provided for. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Queen Regent of Spain has approved of the reply which the Spanish Government has sent to the United States. ...
Article : 145 wordsA selector named Thomas Flaherty was found Hanging by a trace to a tree near his residence at Warren to-day. ...
Article : 22 wordsSplendid rains have fallen in the north as far as Oodnadatta. ...
Article : 15 wordsIn the cricket match, between Surrey and Yorkshire, which was begun on the Kennington Oval on Thursday and finished on Saturday, the former proved ...
Article : 246 wordsAt the inquest on the body of Richard Holder, who was killed at Cheltenham, a verdict of accidental death was returned. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn view of the recent objections of the Imperial military authorities to Australian-tanned leather, the Minister of Agriculture has decided to send to ...
Article : 65 wordsThomas Brunnell, with, several who was arrested at Keilor for cattle stealing, has confessed to having stolen 80 head. He had been at it for eight ...
Article : 53 wordsA terrible railway accident is reported from Gmund, in Bohemia. A mail train collided with another train, and seven persons were killed and ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the Insolvency Court to-day the first hearing in re Frank. Gray, under committal on a charge of conspiracy, was adjourned, counsel being restricted ...
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Article : 651 wordsThe new city abattoirs at Newmarket were opened to-day by the Mayor, Mr. M'Eacharn. They are thoroughly up-to-date. ...
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Article : 251 wordsThe Department of Agriculture has decided to hold batter shows every four months in Sydney, at which prizes will be given for the best boxes. The ...
Article : 49 wordsPersistent reports are in circulation that a mail boot has foundered in the Straits of Belle Isle (the most northern of the two channels which connect the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Commissioner for Taxes is sending officers to the country with, a view to increasing the revenue, it has been discovered that numbers of persons have ...
Article : 44 wordsThe annual sale of stud cheep, conducted by Messrs. Powers, Rutherford, and Co., was opened to-day in the presence of a number of visitors. The ...
Article : 74 wordsThe delay of the Government in appointing &n Agent-General is causing irritation. The view has been expressed, that when Parliament meets the ...
Article : 76 wordsNo fewer than 647 students have been enrolled for the present term of the School of Mines and Industries. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe New York "Nation" observes:—It is rather a weariful business to go over the facts about Britain's colonial trade. Bat take a single instance ...
Article : 311 wordsThe Kauri Freehold Gold" Estates Company is offering for sale £32,860 worth, of 7 per cent, debentures. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe band of Greek gipsies, which is advancing on Melbourne, is causing anxiety to the Ministry. The last halt; was made at Ararat. This did not ...
Article : 142 wordsThe final examination in connection with the affairs of Harrold Bros, was resumed in the Insolvency Court to-day. The whole of the day was spent in the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Mopnindie mail coach was capsized near an embankment to-day through a fractious leader jibbing. The driver and the passengers on the ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is reported that the Indians have massacred 40 Government officiate, and some women and children in a village in Western Guatemala. ...
Article : 62 wordsA somewhat remarkable case was heard in the Insolvency Court to-ady. John Curtis, a turf commission agent, when under examination, said that he ...
Article : 102 wordsThe residents of Cannington are displaying great interest in the site of their proposed recreation reserve, as could be Been at Monday's meeting, presided ...
Article : 441 wordsMr. A. Crawford, dairy expert to the Department of Agriculture, who made a trip to Northam, reports to the secretary for Agriculture as follows:—"The ...
Article : 424 wordsThe following is the report of the Victoria. Hospital for the week ended August 6:— Remaining in the hospital from last week, males 11, females 2; ...
Article : 197 wordsMr. Harry Trott, the well-known cricketer, is dangerously ill He was returning home to South Melbourne to-day when he was seized with an ...
Article : 69 wordsSir J. T. Lipton, the well-known provision merchant, has handed over to the Princess of Wales £700,000 for an Alexandra, Trust, which is to establish ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Adelaide Municipal Council has received four tenders for the electric lighting of the city. They will be considered on Wednesday. ...
Article : 24 wordsA fatal accident occurred at the Sooth German mine at Maldon this afternoon. A piece of stone, about two tons in weight, crushed two men named William. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Adelaide Chamber of Commerce has received a letter from Mr. J. Creed, of Sydney, regarding the annexation of Hawaii by the United States, and ...
Article : 134 wordsThe French Admiral in the China; Seas has asked for reinforcements to be sent to Kwanghauwan, in South China, on the ground that the natives are ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Southern Cross has arrived in the Thames, and will commence to load forthwith. [The Southern Cross is a barque which ...
Article : 67 wordsA disastrous fire occurred shortly before midnight in the pile of buildings situated at the corner of Bourke and Elizabeth streets, and known as ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Shanghai-Wusung railway has been completed. This line, at the mouth of the Yangtaze-kiang, is about 30 miles in, length. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe delegates arrived from. Norseman at 6 o'clock on Monday evening. They were met three miles oat of the town by a large number of people in ...
Article : 91 wordsThe condition of Ernest Frayne, who was stabbed in the back at the Port Adelaide school, is not serious. ...
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Article : 87 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Byrnes) will leave at the end of next week for Sydney in order to attend the conference of Premiers called to consider the New Guinea ...
Article : 37 wordsSix boys, charged with burglary at Railwaytown, were fined £1 each. The bench recommended their parents to flog them. ...
Article : 24 wordsAt Rockhampton a young man named Charles Hickmott committed suicide because he had been "chaffed" about a recent burglary which occurred at the ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Justice C.J. Manning, one of the judges of the Supreme Court, died suddenly this morning. For some years he had been a sufferer from hemorrhage. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Workers' Association held a meeting on Monday to follow on the line of the Chamber of Mines in considering the Mining Bill The recommendations will be to hand to-day. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 12 Aug 1898, Page 7
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