To-day Sir Henry Parkes, G.C.M.G., M.L.A. will complete the 41st year of his Parliamentary' service. As it was thought that the veteran statesman might be able to communicate some ...
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Article : 1,737 wordsThe Bank of England has reduced the charges for inscribing and managing colonial loans by £100 per £1,000,000. This will result in a saving of £4000 per ...
Article : 61 wordsThe bill introduced in the House of Commons last evening to abolish plural voting at Parliamentary elections is identical with the mensure of last year, except ...
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Article : 112 wordsHaving disposed of the third reading of the Begs Cattle Saleyards Bill, the Legislative Council proceeded to deal with the Bankruptcy Acts Amendment Bill i committee. That portion ...
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Article : 93 wordsSpain has joined the Powers which protested against the terms of the treaty of peace between China and Japan. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe capital of the St. George Proprietary Gold-mining Company has been fully subscribed. MAY 1. ...
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Article : 211 wordsSir Thomas Fowell Buxton has been officially gazetted as Governor of South Australia. ...
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Article : 59 wordsThe Changsha, from Hongkong, landed 12 Japanese here, and sailed south before noon. The captain states that suspected cases of the plague were reported at Canton, but none at Hongkong, ...
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Article : 79 wordsAt the local court, before Judge Boucant and four special jurors to-day, the Hon J. L. Parsons, ex-Minister of the Crown and lately member of Parliament for the Northern Territory, sued ...
Article : 284 wordsMr. James Cosmo Newbery, C.M.G., analyst to the Mines Department, and superintendent of the Technological Museum of Victoria, died at 7 o'clock to-night from internal hemorrhage. His ...
Article : 229 wordsIt is reported that the commission appointed to inquire into the alleged atrocities in Armenia has found that the massacres are proved. ...
Article : 31 wordsHerr Wishmann has been appointed Governor of German East Africa. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe Glasgow Gold Mines Company has completed the purchase of two properties at Twentyone Mile, on the road to Black Flag. ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. David Lindsay, the Australian explorer, is to read a paper before the Geographical Congress on Australian exploration. ...
Article : 26 wordsM. Tricoupis, the Premier of Greece, whose party has just been defeated at the Parliamentary elections, intends to retire from political life. ...
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Article : 97 wordsThe marriage of Colonel Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford, V.C., to Lilian Warren, Duchess of Marlborough, widow of the eighth Duke of ...
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Article : 155 wordsA few days ago another lot of coach horses was stolen from the changing station on the road from Forbes to Condobolin, on the south side of the river. It will be remembered that several lots of ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Chief Secretary to-day stated that a bill is to be prepared dealing with the subject of the defences of the colony. It has not yet been drawn, but it will be drafted upon the basis of the report ...
Article : 327 wordsAn American named Howard, who dressed well and lived in a very stylish manner in chambers in Belgravia, has been arrested on a charge of forging ...
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Article : 28 wordsThe Australian Estates and Mortgage Company proposes to issue £500,000 worth of second mortgago debentures. ...
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Article : 35 wordsThe death is announced of the Rev. Evelyn Gisborne Hodgson, formerly inspector of schools at Sydney. The late Rev. Evelyn Gisborne Hodgson, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 2 May 1895, Page 5
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