The Great Western Railway Company of Tasmania has a re-organisation scheme in hand. A syndicate has been formed with a ...
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Article : 315 wordsMrs. Marmaduke Constable (nee Miss Joey Gougenheim) died to-day at Darlinghurst. The deceased was celebrated among comedy actresses, and left ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Commissioner for Lands has received from Mr. James Forward, one of the land guides in the Eastern districts, an interesting report on the condition of settlement in that ...
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Article : 30 wordsGeneral Baden-Powell, who has been appointed Chief of the Transvaal Police, will probably command 25,000 irregular police, chiefly colonial levies. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe man who made a sensational statement about being shot at Sale on Sunday has been identified as James Daley, the son of a farmer living at ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-night, after a discussion occupying the whole of the night, it was decided to submit to the Railway Standing Committee the ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Premier expresses his determination to proceed with the Cobar-Wilcannia Railway Bill, which was "counted out" on the third reading in the Legislative ...
Article : 127 wordsAt the inquiry concerning the Fairfield ballast train disaster, Mr. Anderson, C.E., who continued his expert evidence to-day, gave, at the request of the ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Boxers are reported to be massing along the course of the Grand Canal, which runs northwards from Tien-tsin. Dr. Morrison, the "Times" ...
Article : 63 wordsEx-President Kruger arrived at Delagoa Bay on Tuesday. ...
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Article : 68 wordsThe affairs of the Modern Permanent Building and Investment Society are in an encouraging condition. At a meeting to-day it was stated that loans ...
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Article : 87 wordsIt has now been ascertained that 5,000 lives were lost at Galveston. Many of the ruins were burnt in order to cremate the dead bodies within. ...
Article : 96 wordsGeneral Duller has captured several tons of food. Thirteen waggons, some containing ammunition, were found at the foot of a precipice, having been ...
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Article : 57 wordsA court of inquiry has been held at Pretoria, in connection with the treatment meted out to the British prisoners by the Boers. A scathing verdict was ...
Article : 240 wordsDr. O'Brien, of Warrnambool, is seeking to obtain £1,000 damages from Dr. Scott, of Warrnambool, for alleged libel. The trouble arose out of ...
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Article : 40 wordsColonel A. R. F. Dorward, of the British Royal Engineers at Wei-hai-wei, is in command of the allied expedition to Paotingfu. Japanese siege guns are ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Borchgrevink, the leader of the Antarctic expedition which, sailed from Hobart in the Southern Cross on December 19, 1898, and which returned to ...
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Article : 72 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that France, America, and Japan hare agreed to withdraw outside Peking. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe steamer Medic arrived to-day with the invalided soldiers. The latter were welcomed by a large assembly. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe spring show of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society opened to-day. The exhibits in the various sections were well up to the standard of ...
Article : 56 wordsAt the Queensland Rifle Association's meeting to-day the Queen's prize was won by G. Shaw with a score of 361. Shaw also won the Queen's prize last ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 104 words"Ever since the British occupation of Pretoria" (writes the special correspondent in London of a Sydney paper) "the Boers have been buzzing round their ...
Article : 346 wordsHugh Mahon was again charged, in the Kalgoorlie Police Court to-day, with having been responsible, as editor, for a criminal libel, said to have been ...
Article : 420 wordsThe New Zealand and Australian Land Company has declared a dividend of 5 per cent, on the ordinary shares. ...
Article : 26 wordsA little girl named Gladys Ballard, residing at Rosalie, died in the hospital yesterday. A post-mortem examination, revealed that she had been, suffering from ...
Article : 27 wordsThe will of the late Hon. S. Tomkinson was lodged for probate to-day. The estate, which is valued at £30,000, has been bequeathed absolutely to the ...
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Article : 29 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-night the Premier stated that £1,016 had been paid to Mr. Dickson for the federal delegation to London. Mr. Dickson had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 173 wordsGodfrey Hester and E. Hester appeared at the Bridgetown Police Court yesterday charged with having stolen a coir and a calf, the property of ...
Article : 131 wordsLord Salisbury, who proceeded a month ago to the Vosges for the benefit of his health, has arrived at Brussels on his homeward journey. i ...
Article : 31 wordsOn account of the almost total failure of crops in successive years, the Premier to-day promised a deputation of Northern farmers that the Government ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Baroness Burdett-Coutts yesterday entertained 85 invalided colonial soldiers. ...
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Article : 128 wordsGeorge Vostock, who fell foul of Detective M'Manammy in an attempt to procure a partner in an alleged turf company, was sentenced to three months' ...
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Article : 177 wordsJohn Kettle (26) and Maurice M'Namara (17) attended a dance at Numurkah last night, and had an argument, which ended in blows. This led ...
Article : 77 wordsOn Tuesday last it was stated that two natives had died on the way to Roebourne Gaol, being among a gang committed for having stolen cattle. ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Fri 21 Sep 1900, Page 4
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