Except to say that they are "nonsense," Mr. Mathieson declined to pass any comment on the statements Mr. Oliver, the New South Wales Chief Commissioner of Railways, has ...
Article : 799 words"The Leader" Land Map of Victoria, which will be issued as a supplement of that journal this week, will be found a most useful guide to all interested in land settlement in ...
Article : 4,130 wordsAnother meeting of the Railway Conference of Associations was held inst evening in St. James's-buildings, William-street. There was a good attendance of delegates. ...
Article : 500 wordsIt is semi-officially stated at Vienna that after a visit paid lately by the Grand Duke Sergius of Russia to the Queen of England, at Windsor Castle, her Majesty instructed ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Dreyfus revision complications at Paris appear to be becoming more and more complicated. Colonel Picquart, one of the most prominent ...
Article : 245 wordsThere appear to be good grounds for the apprehensions recently expressed in the Spanish Cortes that a Carlist rising was imminent. ...
Article : 177 wordsMr. Justice O'Connor took his seat in the Central Criminal Court this morning to hear the case in which John Norton stands committed for trial for maliciously shooting at ...
Article : 1,556 wordsWith a shade temperature of 109.4 at 3.45 p.m., yesterday has the credit of being the hottest day in any season since 1882, when, during January, a temperature of 110 was ...
Article : 784 wordsThe amount of subscriptions received up to date for the Gordon Memorial College at Khartoum, for the education of the sous of Soudanese chiefs, proposed and advocated ...
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Article : 242 wordsThe enthusiasm with which Lord Kitchener's proposal to establish a Gordon College at Khartoum has been received in England has evoked a peculiar rival proposal in ...
Article : 79 wordsThe renewed American activity in respect to the Nicaragua Canal scheme, due to the acquisition by the United States of the Philippine Islands and Hawaii, has induced the ...
Article : 262 wordsJames Maloney, aged 25, fell into the hands of the police in an unusual manner yesterday. Maloney, who describes himself as a laborer, got to work very early in the ...
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Article : 230 wordsThe Russian Government has decided to reorganise its field artillery on the model adopted by France, which has lately equipped its artillery with a new quick-firing gun. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe survivors of the wreck of the British steamer Clan Drummond, which foundered while on a voyage from Liverpool to Delagoa Bay with 39 of her passengers and crew, ...
Article : 45 wordsThe proprietors of the "Wide World Magazine," Sir G. Newnes and Co. Ltd., London, were on Saturday condemned to pay £500 damages to a Liverpool ship owner, who ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "National Zeltung," a leading Berlin journal, is urging that tho effective strength of the German army on the peace footing be increased by 17,000 men. ...
Article : 32 wordsA disastrous bush fire to-day broke out above the North Shepparton Hotel, and a tramp named James Clifford has been arrested on a charge of causing it by careless ...
Article : 200 wordsIndian telegrams report that the Swat Valley rising brought about by the Mad Mollah has practically collapsed. The prompt action taken by the Indian Government to reinforce ...
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Article : 538 wordsA press prosecution has taken place in the German principality of Lippe-Detmold in connection with the complaint recently made by Count Erust of Lippe-Beisterfeid, Regent ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 wordsF.M.S. Ville do la Ciotat, homewards, arrived Marseilles, 2 a.m., 3rd inst. ...
Article : 15 wordsHer Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, on Saturday paid a visit to the Royal Military Hospital at Nctley, Southampton, and presented ...
Article : 53 wordsThe annual exhibition of novel and graceful dances given in the Melbourne Town Hall by Mrs. and Miss Green's pupils is an event in the way of juvenile entertainment ...
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Article : 62 wordsIn response to the appeal of Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies, to British capitalists to assist in reviving the sugar industry of the British West Indies, ...
Article : 52 wordsThe following resolution, with respect to the Mildura railway proposal, has been passed by the Birchip council:— That this council cannot see its way to support ...
Article : 85 wordsThe New York Chamber of Commerce, in regard to the French proposal to withdraw from the Treaty of Paris in respect to the clauses in which privateering is renounced, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 83 words[?] train was an hour late in arrival to-day, being delayed by the fierce northerly gale. ...
Article : 25 wordsNews has been received of the abandonment in the Atlantic Ocean of the steamer Londonian, as a hopeless derelict. Eighty of the persons on board reported missing. ...
Article : 76 wordsBetween 5 and 6 p.m., when the change set in, a strong gale blew over South Melbourne, and the city was completely enveloped in dust. In the height of the storm ...
Article : 237 wordsThe R.M.S. Ophir arrived at Largs Bay from London at 5 a.m. to-day. A melancholy incident occurred in her passage down the Red Sea. On 13th November a saloon passenger ...
Article : 119 wordsThe thermometer to-day registered 106 in the shade. A hot wind prevailed, and the air was full of smoke from bush fires. At Gerogery East on Saturday a large area of ...
Article : 1,318 wordsLieutenant Wall, of the New South Wales military forces, who has been undergoing a course of military instruction in England and Egypt, has passed the War Office ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Premier was interviewed by a deputation comprising several members of Parliament, clergymen and others, appointed by a public meeting last Monday, to urge the ...
Article : 254 wordsLast night the Coburg council received a letter from the Richmond council, asking it to support the suggestion that a royal commission should be appointed to investigate the charges made against ...
Article : 158 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, the Victoria-bridge, the British Pharmacopœla and Slaughtering. Bills were read a third time. The Premier gave notice to move that in future the House ...
Article : 118 wordsAt about 9 a.m. to-day, great volumes of dense smoke came from the north of the township. The wind being heated by the fires, passed over the town, carrying large ...
Article : 392 wordsA futurist named Madame B[?] living in Peel-street, Windsor, was, along with [?] Harding, prosecuted in the Prahran court [?] not exercising proper control [?] a [?] dog. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 6 Dec 1898, Page 5
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