By 1,775 votes to 959 the ratepayers of Adelaide have decided in favor of a public trial of lighting the city by electricity. ...
Article : 35 wordsDuring Saturday and Sunday there was quite a lengthy chapter of accidents in and about Perth. Fortunately none was fatal, though one or two were ...
Article : 679 wordsThe police are on the look-out for a party of escapees from New Caledonia. ...
Article : 22 wordsAn important admission is reported to have been made by M. Cavaignac, the late Minister of War in the French Cabinet, in reference to the Dreyfus ...
Article : 152 wordsThe application which was made by the Sultan for the trial of the ringleaders in the Cretan rising by an international commission has been refused. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe terrible hurricane which occured in the West Indies raged for seven hours. It is said to have been the worst that ...
Article : 160 wordsThe news that Sir H. H. Kitchener, with 1,800 Soudanese, 100 of the Cameron Highlanders, and some Maxim guns, had started for Fashoda, has ...
Article : 45 wordsThe American members of the Peace Commission, which is about to meet in Paris, have left the United States for Europe. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe House of Representatives has passed the second reading of the Old Age Pensions Bill. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe National Rifle Association matches wero concluded yesterday in bad weather. The Loyd-Lindsay Match, was won by Corporal Owen's ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Louis De Rougemont, the "traveller " who has been addressing the British Association, was in Wellington at the time of the wreck of the steamer ...
Article : 62 wordsSome more of the ringleaders have been surrendered by Edhem Pasha to Admiral Noel, but it is considered doubtful whether the worst offenders have ...
Article : 92 wordsAccording to the London "Daily Telegraph," Sir H. H. Kitchener will present an ultimatum to Major Marchand, the French leader, requiring him to quit ...
Article : 82 wordsThe party which visited the spot near Gisborne, in a tree near which a strange animal, supposed to be a kumi, was reported to have been located, found that ...
Article : 114 wordsThe American terms are:— 1. The absolute cession to the United States of all the Spanish West Indian Islands except Cuba. ...
Article : 200 wordsThree members of the Dominican order of priests arrived in the R.M.S. Oriental to-day. They are the vanguard of the pioneer order of preachers ...
Article : 39 wordsGeneral Zurlinden, the Minister of War, and M. Tillaye, the Minister of Public Works, have resigned on account of their inability to agree to a re-trial ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Paris "Temps" says that France attaches real importance to the mission of Major Marchand, and that, any act of the British which menaces the French ...
Article : 179 wordsTwo suicides have been reported to the police. Mrs. T. Miller cut ber throat at her residence at Mitcham. She was the wife of a laborer, and had ...
Article : 62 wordsOn Sunday the attention of the Colonial Secretary (Mr. G. Randell, M.L.C.) was drawn to two articles which appeared in the "Sunday Times," stating ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsThe A.J.C. spring meeting was brought to a successful conclusion yesterday. The principal event, the Randwick Plate, run over three miles at ...
Article : 674 wordsUnder the auspices of the British Association for the Advancement of science now sitting at Bristol under the presidency of Sir William Crookes, F.R.S. ...
Article : 150 wordsMr. R. Jordan, the champion draughts player of the world, arrived to-day in the R.M.S. Oriental, en route to Melbourne. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Home for Weak-minded Children, which is the only one of its kind in the colonies, was opened yesterday by Lady Burton. Mr. Joseph Symon ...
Article : 63 wordsA highly-placed Corean official has confessed that he ordered the Emperor's cook to poison His Majesty. This order was given by the official ...
Article : 66 wordsThe French Colonial Office received the following information in May as to the Marchand mission:—One of the parties, led by Captain Germain, set out ...
Article : 201 wordsA pack of forty larrikins attacked the police, who were arresting a man for insulting behavior. They severely injured Senior-constable Charles, and ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales dosed firm. The demand for crossbreds increased. Out of 4,477 Australian bales on the catalogue 2,702 were sold at an advance ...
Article : 38 wordsJames Horsburgh, who was well known at Ararat, was killed by being thrown from his bicycle. His neck was broken. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe American and French mission stations at Hochau and at Chung-King-fu, in the province of-Szu-chuan, have been burned by the mob. At ...
Article : 50 wordsThe race between the Maid of Kent and the Irex took place yesterday, and resulted in a defeat of the latter. The Maid of Kent easily, led by eight ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. E. Burney Young, of the South Australian depot, has inspected the French vineyards in the Champagne and Bordeaux districts. He reports ...
Article : 71 wordsThe detective who is investigating the Sandy Creek mystery says that he is certain that the remains are those of Frederick Wilson, who was recently a ...
Article : 41 wordsOne of the severest storms experienced for years passed over the colony on Saturday, day, and left wreckage from Portland to Vanishing Point, near Gabo Island. In ...
Article : 123 wordsThe death is announced of Major George Jean de Winton, F.R.G.S. [The deceased was the on of Captain de Winton, of Somersetshire. He was ...
Article : 199 wordsThe preliminary heats for the "Sports man" Championship Challenge Cup (a sweepstake of £50 each being added) were rowed on the Thames yesterday. ...
Article : 195 wordsMr. Georg Wyndham, the member' for Dover, has been appointed to the position of Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, recently held by ...
Article : 257 wordsShortly before 8 o'clock on Saturday morning a man named Michael[?] was walking across the third Causeway Bridge when he noticed what appeared ...
Article : 340 wordsThe dispute between the Co-operative Wool and Produce Company and a section of the wool buyers has terminated. Three thousand bales will be offered for ...
Article : 51 wordsOn Monday J. H. Tyers challenged Percy Cavill, the Australian swimmer, to swim one mile for £100 a side. Yesterday the challenge was accepted. ...
Article : 73 wordsSome weeks ago, when a young man named William Tattam was charged at the Perth PoliceCourt with an attempted indecent assault on a little girl, a heated ...
Article : 217 wordsMr. Charles P. Trevelyan, the son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, is visiting the colonies, and is at present at Sydney. He had an interview with the Minister ...
Article : 65 wordsAlleged Assault.—Frank Hopkins, a married man was charged with having assaulted Annie Jackson, a resident of South Fremantle. The ...
Article : 136 wordsRequiem masses, which were held for the Empress "of Austria in London and in the other European capitals, were largely attended. ...
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Advertising : 130 wordsMr. James Crombie, member of the Legislative Assembly for the Warrego constituency, is dead. He had been ailing for some time. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe divers who have been at work upon the R.M.S. China, which went ashore on Azalea Point, Perim, in March last, and which was floated ...
Article : 44 wordsYesterday a Manila man named Sotaria was fined £20 for having failed to enter in bond articles belonging to an aboriginal in his service Sotaria left ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 23 Sep 1898, Page 13
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