Articles from page 5: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. CABLE MESSAGES. A HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.

    A fearful story of official outrage committed in connection with a labor trouble comes from the United States. A strike having occurred at a colliery. ...

    Article : 203 words
  3. SAD DEATH BY ELECTRICITY.

    A shocking case of death from electricity took place at Malvern on Saturday evening the victim being Richard Truswoll, a youth aged 17. Young Truswell, it appears, had been ...

    Article : 389 words
  4. A MINE ON EIRE.

    Another of those conflagrations which add to the risks of mining broke out this morning in the Proprietary mine. Between 6 and 7 o'clock; Carroll and Bolitho, two shift bosses, and ...

    Article : 489 words
  5. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    Parliament will reassemble to-morrow, When the two Chambers will meet at the customary hour. The business before the Houses will be purely formal, comprising ...

    Article : 3,645 words
  6. CABLE MESSAGES.

    News of a very sad disaster in the Arctic seas has been received. The steam whaler Naurach whilst on a whaling cruise was caught between ...

    Article : 155 words
  7. CABLE MESSAGES.

    The latest news from Klondyke is of an alarming character. A famine is threatening at Dawson City, the settlement near Klondyke. ...

    Article : 60 words
  8. RELIGION IN STATE SCHOOLS.

    The Education department had received a letter of protest from Archbishop Carr with regard to the character of some of the reading matter in recent issues of what are ...

    Article : 894 words
  9. FREE-TRADE IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    It is not nice in any dispute to be told that one is a perverter of the truth, but this is what an outspoken man has often to put up with. The other day there was ...

    Article : 2,575 words
  10. THE TRADES CONGRESS.

    The Trades Congress at yesterday's sitting passed resolutions in favor of compulsory inspection of boilers and examination of persons placed in charge of boilers; for ...

    Article : 129 words
  11. THE PEACE TERMS.

    Although it was believed that Germany had been placated in regard to the financial portion of the peace treaty between Turkey and Greece by the powers agreeing to ...

    Article : 129 words
  12. THE WHEAT HARVEST.

    The Mark-lane quotations for wheat show an advance of 6d. per quarter. Beerbohm's Corn Trade Circular states that the world's visible supply is 4,654,000 ...

    Article : 42 words
  13. AN AMERICAN RAILWAY DISASTER.

    A telegram from New York reports a terribly fatal railway collision between a passenger and a goods train near Newcastle, Colorado. The boilers of the ...

    Article : 60 words
  14. EXCITING INCIDENT AT A LECTURE.

    The persons who attended Mr. Stirling's le[?]ture on Geology, in the Working Men's College, on Saturday night, experienced for a brief space of time intense excitement. The lecture ...

    Article : 308 words
  15. THE SILVER QUESTION.

    A suggestion was recently made by the United States that the Bank of England should arrange that one-fifth of its reserve be held in silver. The "Times" ...

    Article : 55 words
  16. THE FEDERAL CONVENTION.

    It is generally assumed now that the Federal Convention will adjourn at the end of the present week. When seen on the subject to-night, Mr. E. Barton, leader of the House, said that if Sir George Turner and ...

    Article : 490 words
  17. AN OVERDUE STEAMER.

    The Circassia, one of the vessels of the Anchor line, voyaging between Now York and the Clyde, is some days overdue, and some anxiety is felt concerning her. ...

    Article : 78 words
  18. THE WAR IN CUBA.

    The insurgent party in Cuba has captured Victoria di las Tunas, on the eastern side of the island, after five days' siege. This is an important strategical ...

    Article : 76 words
  19. A SERIOUS POSITION.

    Since midday the fire has assumed sensational features. During the morning men worked below, and only a few Word affected by the noxious fumes arising from ...

    Article : 540 words
  20. THE LONDON MARKETS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 499 words
  21. THE SOUDAN EXPEDITION.

    News has been received from Abu Hamed that four gunboats are now proceeding up the Nile to Berber in connection with the advance of the ...

    Article : 36 words
  22. THE WELSH COLLIERY TROUBLE.

    The coal miners of South Wales, where a strike has been threatened against the action of the mine owners in reducing their output, have decided, on a ballot, ...

    Article : 46 words
  23. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Mr. Richard Holt Hutton, editor of the "Spectator," and a well-known essayist, is dead. C. F. Barden, the English Cyclist, has ...

    Article : 103 words
  24. THE TICK PLAGUE IN QUEENSLAND.

    A meeting of stock owners was held this afternoon to interview Mr. Thynne on the tick quarantine question. Seventy gentlemen were present, and Mr. Andrew Small, ...

    Article : 333 words
  25. SPAIN AND AMERICA.

    The Spanish Government has decided to concede to the United States, where agitation in favor of the Cuban insurgents has boon strongly pressed, a reduction in ...

    Article : 43 words
  26. CHINA AND GERMANY.

    The Chinese Government has ceded to Germany Port Lung and Yung Kow, and large territories near Tien-Tsin. ...

    Article : 23 words
  27. THE SCRIPTURE EXTRACTS.

    As an indication of the character of some of the religious reading in the School Papers we give the following extracts from the papers issued for the months of July and ...

    Article : 471 words
  28. BOGUS CHAMPAGNE.

    A small consignment of liquor, bottled and labelled to indicate that it was French champagne, was recently detained by the Customs department for examination. ...

    Article : 177 words
  29. WEST AUSTRALIAN MINES.

    Important discoveries have been made at the Great Boulder during the last few days. In each case an entirely new lode of rich oxidised ore has been discovered. One ...

    Article : 336 words
  30. BREACH OF THE GAME LAWS.

    As administrators of the game laws of the colony, the Customs authorities have for some time past been interesting themselves in a new form of evasion of the protection ...

    Article : 440 words
  31. FIRE STILL RAGING.

    The fire continues to gain and is driving all the workers out of the 200 feet level, and men are now laboring at the 300 and on the surface. Four and six inch pipes are being ...

    Article : 412 words
  32. VIEWS OF ANOTHER PRACTICAL MAN.

    Sir,--Referring to your leading article in to-day's issue of "The Age," as a visitor to Melbourne I went out to Newport yesterday, and could not help ...

    Article : 321 words
  33. A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTION.

    The election to fill the vacancy, in the central District for the Legislative Council, caused by the resignation of Mr. D. M. Charleston, took place on Saturday, and resulted as follows:-- ...

    Article : 91 words
  34. THE CONDEMNED MAN HALL.

    The convict Hall will be executed at 10 a.m. to-morrow for the murder of his wife. He is now showing what the chaplain considers humble peni[?], and the rev. gentleman ...

    Article : 130 words
  35. THE MAIL STEAMERS.

    Q.R.M.S. Duke of Buckingham left Batavia on 9th for Australia. ...

    Article : 14 words
  36. CHARGE OF SHOPLIFTING.

    In the Richmond court on Saturday, before Mr. Keogh, P.M., and Dr. Branson, J.P., James Laffan, carriage cleaner on the railways, and his wile, Jane Laffan, were charged with stealing a quantity of ...

    Article : 270 words
  37. A LABOR MEMBER "MOVED OFF."

    About a month ago now by-laws to prohibit loitering on the streets came into operation. So far no prosecutions have arisen under them, but two or three experienced constables have been put ...

    Article : 259 words
  38. A CHINESE WIFE TRIES TO FRIGHTEN HER HUSBAND.

    A Chinese woman named Irene Ah Sim and her two little children were brought to the Melbourne Hospital yesterday by a friend, who said the woman and children had been poisoned, and though ...

    Article : 237 words
  39. AT ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL.

    Speaking at St. Patrick's Cathedral last evening, Archbishop Carr read the resolutions (already published in "The Age") recently adopted by the bishops of the ...

    Article : 552 words
  40. NEW INSOLVENTS.

    Bruce M'Eachern, of Bell-street, Coburg, laborer. Causes of insolvency: Losses on contracts, sickness in family, and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £66 10s. 7d.; assets, 5s.; deficiency, £06 5S. 7d. Mr. Jacomb, assignee. ...

    Article : 36 words
  41. LAW LIST.--THIS DAY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 words
  42. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 112 words
  43. SUICIDE AT MALVERN.

    A married man named Alfred Cullen, 60, committed suicide at Malvern on Saturday. He left his home in Gertrude-street, Malvern, at 10 a.m. on Saturday, and at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, ...

    Article : 97 words
  44. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 67 words
  45. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 70 words
  46. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 52 words
  47. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 80 words
  48. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 18 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$