The three masted schooner Heath, in ballast, from Sydney to Newcastle, went ashore early on Friday morning, at Cape Three Points, during thick weather, and became a total wreck. A ...
Article : 324 wordsA meeting of shareholders who were dissatisfied with the proceedings at the first half yearly meeting of the Royal Standard Investment Company Limited, held on Friday ...
Article : 528 wordsGreat interest was manifested in the business of the Malvern bench on Saturday last, the court house being thronged so that there was hardly even standing room. There were about 24 ...
Article : 888 wordsThe delay which has taken place in the publication of the report upon the recent frauds committed in the Registrar-General's office is inexplicable. The board which investigated the ...
Article : 4,659 wordsThe appointment of Sir Henry Wylie Norman as Governor of Queensland, in succession to the late Sir Anthony Musgrave, and of the Earl of Kintore as ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. W. Westgarth, the well known financier, speaking with reference to the new loan of £3,000,000 about to be floated in London by the Victorian Government, ...
Article : 102 wordsMatters in connection with the threatened strike in the building trade remain in much the same state as they were a fortnight ago. It is probable, however, that the men will come to a ...
Article : 472 wordsBy the arrival of the Mariposa yesterday the following details of further fighting in Samoa have been received :— APIA, 28TH DECEMBER. ...
Article : 648 wordsThe bill authorising the construction of the Nicaragua Canal has been passed by the United States Congress. The new survey of the Nicaragua Canal, which ...
Article : 498 wordsProfessor Geffcken, who was arrested some months ago on suspicion of having supplied the press with copies of the late Emperor Frederick's diary, and who has ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. Gladstone has written a letter concerning the prospects of the Home Rule movement, in which he expresses his earnest conviction that the people of England ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Economist, referring to the financial difficulties which have overtaken the Panama Canal Company, states that the company is in a hopeless situation, and ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. George Lansell has received a reply from the Water Supply department to his application for the use of the motive power of the Coliban water channel. The department agrees to ...
Article : 280 wordsThe season of the combined Italian and English Opera Company assembled by Mr. Simonsen concluded on Saturday evening with a performance of Maritana. Madame Simon- ...
Article : 198 wordsFuller information regarding the serious disturbance which arose at Olphert, County Donegal, when the residents strenuously opposed the attempt which was made ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, to which was referred the question whether, in view of the probable failure of the Panama Canal Company, it would be ...
Article : 134 wordsAt the South Melbourne court on Saturday Walter G. Sharpham and James Carmichael were placed on their trial on the charge of stealing a cash box containing £354 11s. in cheques ...
Article : 530 wordsA serious colliery explosion is reported from the city of Orviedo, in the north-west of Spain. The effects of the explosion have not yet been fully ascertained, but up to ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. W. O'Brien, M.P for the North-East division of Cork, and editor of United Ireland, has again been arrested on a charge of inciting tenants to join the "plan of campaign." ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Donald M'Crae, a colonist of 52 years' standing, died somewhat suddenly at his residence, Raglan-street south, yesterday morning. The deceased gentleman, who was 84 years of ...
Article : 172 wordsA well known burglar and garroter named John Chamberlain was arrested at Fitzroy early on Sunday morning by Constable Sheehan. The constable noticed Chamberlain going up ...
Article : 203 wordsThe New York Chamber of Commerce has invited Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P. for Canterbury, who is now visiting America, to deliver an address on the advantages of reduced postage. ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. .John Finucane, M.P. for Limerick East, has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment on the charge of inciting tenants to resist the payment of rent. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe total quantity of wheat afloat is 2,238,000 quarters. Best Australian, ex warehouse, is quoted at 42s. to 42s. 6d. per 496 lb. Off coast cargoes, ex shin, c. f. and ...
Article : 99 wordsIf a decrease in the number of insolvencies is sufficient evidence, the past year has been much more prosperous than its predecessor. The schedules filed during 1888 were 209, as against ...
Article : 491 wordsLieutenant Wissmann, who was originally selected as leader of the expedition organised in Germany for the relief of Emin Pasha, but who has now given place ...
Article : 213 wordsA meeting of the Operative Bakers' Society was held on Saturday evening; Mr. M' Conachy, president of the society, occupied the chair. The business was for the most part of a routine ...
Article : 831 wordsThe recently announced process for refining Sugar by electricity in a few hours, and at far less cost than the present methods, proves to be a swindle. The perpetrators ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 815 wordsMr. William Waters, licensee of the Red Lion Hotel, corner of Cardigan and Pelham streets, Carlton, has reported to the local police that between a quarter past 12 on Friday night ...
Article : 194 wordsThe Hour market is quiet but steady. Prices for Australian are unchanged. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have declared a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, with a bonus of 5 per cent. In addition a sum ...
Article : 69 wordsThe leather market is quiet, but prices are fairly maintained. ...
Article : 14 wordsNew Zealand hemp is quoted at £36 15s. to £37. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe South Australian Land Mortgage Company announces its intention to offer debentures to the amount of £100,000, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Union Steamship Company's s. Mariposa, from San Francisco 15th December, arrived here yesterday, and sailed for Sydney later in the day. The following is the saloon passenger ...
Article : 91 wordsAn inquest was held by Mr. Candler, the District Coroner, at Malvern, on Saturday, touching the death of Mr. David Smyth, who expired at his residence in High-street, early on ...
Article : 142 wordsAn Egyptian soldier has arrived at Cairo from Wady Haifa. He states that Emin Pasha was attacked in the neighborhood of Wady Haifa by a force comprising 6000 of ...
Article : 88 wordsNews has been received from Suakim that the dervishes under Osman Digna, who were routed in the recent engagement near Suakim, and afterwards suddenly left ...
Article : 59 wordsThe police having been successful in arresting three men named Cotton, Smith aud Ferris, known to be accomplices of the notorious burglar Murphy (commonly designated " Spud " Murphy), ...
Article : 549 wordsThe following is the commercial summary received by the Mariposa:— SAN FRANCISCO, 15TH DECEMBER. Wheat, 1 dol. 47 c. to 1 dol. 50 c. The ship ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 wordsThe Australian Mortgage Company have declared a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent, and a bonus of 2 per cent. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Eight Rev. Dr. Webber, Bishop of Brisbane, who has been visiting England, and is now about to return to Australia, was entertained by a number of his friends ...
Article : 92 wordsThe revenue derived from probate duties on the estates of deceased persons during the past year shows a large increase on 1887. The receipts were £220,169 aud £137,546 ...
Article : 336 wordsJake Kilrain, a well known American pugilist, has accepted a challenge from Sullivan, also well known as a pugilist. The match is to take place in a 24-feet ...
Article : 45 wordsA horrible murder is reported from Young, the victim being a hawker named Olmund. Olmund was camped on the Morengo-road, about a mile from the town, near the ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Maori footballers yesterday played a match against a team representing Kirkstall. The match was won by the Maories. ...
Article : 49 wordsA terrible earthquake has occurred in Costa Rica, the southernmost State in Central America. The intelligence already to hand states that a great, number of ...
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Advertising : 156 wordsSIR,—In another column I acknowledge various donations for the above fund received since my last advertisement. You will also find a list from Miss Campbell of donors to her ...
Article : 153 wordsThe schooner Buster was on Saturday picked dp by the steamer Mount Kembla, which is now on the way back to Sydney. The crew were rescued by the Buninyong. ...
Article : 42 wordsA most deliberate case of suicide took place here to-day. A man named Harry Darcy, recently employed as a barman in one of the shanties on the Bacchus Marsh railway line, ...
Article : 87 wordsA man named John Tanner, 46 years of ago, was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital early on Saturday morning, suffering from a self-intlicted wound in his throat. Tanner was a boarder at ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 7 Jan 1889, Page 5
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