The postal returns show an increase of ten per cent. on the outward, and of one per cent. on the inward mails, as the result of the reduced postage rate. ...
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Article : 1,129 wordsRumours are afloat in the City that the liquidation of the estate of Baring Bros. & Go., will result in a loss of 5s. in the pound. The Standard, however, ...
Article : 702 wordsThe Victorian £3,000,000 loan at 3½ per sent., for which the minimum was fixed at £98, has proved a failure. The total amount subscribed is £1,833,000, ...
Article : 889 wordsA representative et the South Australian Register waited on Mr. John Forrest, Premier of Western Australia, at the York Hotel, this afternoon. He gleaned from him some of his ...
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Article : 59 wordsSir George Grey reached here from Melbourne this morning. Although rain was falling heavily when the train arrived, several thousand persons assembled at the station to ...
Article : 289 wordsThe Pastoralists' Uunion sub-committee has drawn up a scheme to provide for the establishment of district committees in Victoria and South Riverina. The head quarters ...
Article : 69 wordsSir George Grey, Mr. John Forrest, and the other Western Australian delegates were banquetted at the Town Hall to-night. Mr. Forrest, in reply to the toast of " Our ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Glanworth free labourers have arrived. There was no hostile demonstration. The men marched to the trains under a guard of police and military. The trains were ...
Article : 212 wordsThe following are yesterday's quotations: —Gold—Central, sellers 25s, buyers 17s 9d; No. 1 Central Extended, sellers 1s 8d, buyers 1s; Frasers, sellers 9s; Fraser's South (pro), ...
Article : 230 wordsThe betting on the Adelaide Cap is as follows: 100 to 30 Enuch and Lawyer, 14 to 1 Quality and Mistletoe, 10 to 1 Stanley and Masher, 7 to 1 Britannia, and 20 to 1 others. ...
Article : 52 wordsSIR,—Will you allow me to suggest through your valuable paper, what, in my humble opinion, might prove of service to the community at large. Visiting a friend's house by ...
Article : 161 wordsMessrs. Dalgety & Co., Limited, report under date, London, 27th Feb.:—The first series of colonial wool sales for the present year, which commenced on the 27th ult., ...
Article : 465 wordsA meeting of the above Council was held on the 10th inst. Present: The Mayor and Cr[?] Cook and Sinclair. The following account was passed for ...
Article : 390 wordsBourke, the murderer of his fellow prisoner in Hamilton Gaol, has been pronounced sane. Dr. Crane, Roman Catholic Bishop of Sandhurst, has been presented with a purse of ...
Article : 57 wordsAT the City Police Court, yesterday, Elisa Docherty was sent to prison for 14 days, without hard labour, for assault THE Taylor-Carryington Company performed ...
Article : 1,436 wordsMr. Joseph Taylor Monger, one of the best known settlers in the Eastern distriots, died at his residence at eleven o'clock last night, from heart disease. The deceased gentleman, ...
Article : 177 wordsHeavy rains have fallen in the far North and the North East. The mails have been delayed, and the country is flooded. In agricultural areas fine rains have fallen, which ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 15 Apr 1891, Page 3
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