The steamship Lusitania, Capt. Charlton, from London via Plymouth and the Cape, arrived here to-day. The following is her passenger list: -- First saloon: Mr. J. S. Bloomfield, ...
Article : 77 wordsAn influential deputation from the Anti-Slavery Society and others interested waited on Eari Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to urge ...
Article : 120 wordsIrish affairs have again occupied the attention of the House of Commons. Mr. Parnell, the Home Rule leader, submitted a motion censuring the administration of the Coercion ...
Article : 5,375 wordsAs there seems to be a good deal of doubt, and possibly not a little ignorance, even among those who are supposed to have put their signature to the Articles of Faith, drawn ...
Article : 2,612 wordsMr. Justice Williams was presented with an illuminated address by the members of the Australian Natives' Association, at his chambers, yesterday. There were about twenty ...
Article : 1,006 wordsMr. Lackey, replying to a large and influential deputation, promised that the Cook's river tramway should be proceeded with. Another large deputation waited on the ...
Article : 482 wordsThe Boer objections to the draft convention having been overcome, the Transvaal difficulty may be said to be settled, unless the Volksraad, which has yet to be elected, should ...
Article : 253 wordsCharles J. Guitean, who attempted to assassinate President Garfield at Washington on 2nd July, and who has since been confined in gaol there, made a ...
Article : 83 wordsThe strike amongst the sailors in the port of London has terminated. The shipowners agreed to take the grievances of which complaint was made into ...
Article : 50 wordsAn unprovoked attempt at [?]murder, and afterwards at self-destruction, was committed at a little after nine o'clock yesterday morning, by a Spaniard named Marcus C[?]ota, at a house ...
Article : 674 wordsThe rinderpest is again proving most destructive amongst cattle, and in Lancashire the losses from this cause have been heavy. Great fears are entertained ...
Article : 36 wordsThe sugar market is steadier, and prices are advancing. Quotations have risen 6d. per cwt. ...
Article : 21 wordsM. Littr[?], the celebrated French philosopher, who died recently, received the sacraments of the church as he lay speechless but apparently conscious, and is added to the number of those ...
Article : 573 wordsThe greater part of the last two sittings of the House of Commons has been occupied with a debate upon the affairs of Ireland and the policy pursued ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Ministerial picnic to the princes was an immense success. There was a large gathering at Enoggera. The funeral of Bishop O'Quinn took place ...
Article : 97 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening Sir Charles Dilke, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, announced that the French ...
Article : 75 wordsA very representative meeting was held this afternoon to consider what means were the best to be adopted to raise subscriptions on behalf of the distressed Jews in southern Russia. ...
Article : 382 wordsThe bulletin issued to-night by the medical attendants on General Garfield is of a reassuring nature. The General has rallied from his recent relapse, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 235 wordsThe Government of India has received information to day from Afghanistan, to the effect that the Ameer Abdur Rahman, having received reinforcements, ...
Article : 42 wordsBRIGHT SHIRE. -- Cr. M'Lean was re-elected president, and the annual allowance fixed at £50. CHILTERN SHIRE. -- Jno. Gilmour, sen., was ...
Article : 126 wordsThe following notifications appear in yesterday's issue: -- APPOINTMENTS. -- Magistrates -- Central bailiwick: Joseph Edwin Dowling, Kilmore. Midland ...
Article : 317 wordsThe American Agricultural Bureau has to-day published a report, in which the belief is expressed that the crop of spring wheat will show a serious ...
Article : 42 wordsLarge withdrawals of gold from the Bank of England continue to be made. The sum of £205,000 was taken out, to-day for shipment to North ...
Article : 38 wordsSIR, -- I am very glad to see that the Castlemaine Presbytery have tabled an overture for the Melbourne Assembly to deal with the charges made by Mr. J. C. Stewart against the standards, ...
Article : 511 wordsAt the general sessions to-day, before Judge Hackett, Frederick Hemers, a lad about 17, was charged with having on the 6th August attempted to commit an unlawful offence upon a married ...
Article : 283 wordsThe Royal mail steamship Hydaspes, which left Melbourne on 19th July with the homeward Australian mails, arrived here on the 6th inst. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 wordsThe Casterton Pastoral and Agricultural Society's annual ploughing match came off yesterday, at Sandford. The weather was rather unfavorable, rain falling more or less during the ...
Article : 170 wordsSIR, -- Under the above heading a report appears in to-day's Age of a case against Mr. W. Holmes. Nugget Hotel, Carlton, charged by "Smith Brown" with having taken payment ...
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Advertising : 159 wordsThe Barunga, barque, from Port Pirie with wheat, whose arrival in the English channel was reported on the 10th inst., was subsequently ordered on to Calais, ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 20 Aug 1881, Page 5
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