A lonely spot on the lower reaches of the yarra was yesterday afternoon the scene of an extraordinary occurrence. The locality is so isolated that though the case occurred ...
Article : 821 wordsTo-day's issue of "The Age" consists of 10 pages, each of nine columns. On page 9 will he found two interesting personal sketches--one of M. Loub[?]t, the new President of the ...
Article : 4,149 wordsTelegrams from Manila report tho resumption of fighting between the American forces under General Otis and the Filipino Independents, under similar conditions to those ...
Article : 258 wordsA large deputation waited on the Premier yesterday, in support of the proposal that the route of the Collingwood railway should be deviated, in order that the Hue should ...
Article : 1,836 wordsDoth Houses met to-day at 4.30 p.m. The Upper House managers proceeded to the tree conference on the Federal and Euabling Bill at 3 p.m., as the House previously ...
Article : 735 wordsThe Royal Geographical Society's appeal to the liberality of the British nation to organise a national Antarctic exploration expedition on an effective scale has at length ...
Article : 164 wordsIn the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday, M. Del[?]asse, Minister for Foreign Affairs, tabled the Soudan Convention to Which Lord Salisbury and M. Cambon, ...
Article : 103 wordsAn inquiry was commenced by the Public Service Board, at the Yarra Bond Lunatic Asylum yesterday into charges brought by the matron, Mrs. Irwin, against Dr. W. ...
Article : 766 wordsThe French press in discussing the terms of the Soudan Convention, suggest an alteration providing for the settlement of the Newfoundland simultaneously with the ...
Article : 340 wordsTho committee appointed by the Presbytery of Melbourne North to [?]ate the charge of heresy brought by the Rev. D.S. M'Eachran ...
Article : 369 wordsThe "National Zeitung," a lending Berlin journal, states that, owing to the slight response made to the German proposal for the partition of Samoa by England and ...
Article : 59 wordsThe casualty lists in the fighting north of Manila are at present incomplete and some what confused. No estimate can be made of the Filipino losses, except from the corpses ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Dally News" reports that Prince von Hohenlohe, the Gorman Chancellor, has decided to abandon the claim of Mataafa to the Samoan ...
Article : 86 wordsIt is reported from Manila that General Otis, the American military commander in the Philippines, bus purchased from the Spanish Government 13 small gunboats ...
Article : 49 wordsReplying last night in the House of Commons to Sir Charles D[?]ke, Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies, said the Government expected that the select committee to ...
Article : 66 wordsTelegrams from the Soudan report that the Berber and A[?]bara railway to Khartoum will he completed by November next. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Italian Government has decided to suspend all negotiations with China for the acquisition of at lease of Sanmum Bay and territorial rights at Che-kiang, pending the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe American soldiers wounded in the severe lighting against the Filipinos are being attended to by the surgeons of the war ships of foreign powers at Mauj[?]a, as well ...
Article : 84 wordsAt the meeting of the Viticulture Board yesterday, the phylloxera outbreak at Toolamba was mentioned by Mr. Kavanagh, who urged that the hoard should recommend the ...
Article : 381 wordsA dispute relating to the big steamship Bover[?], which Mr. Justice Hood was at first disposed to regard as a mutter that any two business men "ought to be able to settle ...
Article : 419 wordsNotwithstanding the alleged continuous decrease of for seals on the north- eastern American coasts, the results of the Newfoundland seal fishing season are the largest ...
Article : 60 wordsThe London "Standard"states that a mystical healer, known as "Dr. Edwards," who in 1893 was practising in the Australian colonies, is now creating a sensation in Paris ...
Article : 51 wordsA revival of public indignation against Mr. Russell Alger, Secretary for the Army, and Colonel Engan, head of the Commissar[?]at department, has occurred in America in ...
Article : 178 wordsThe severity of the winter on the North Atlantic coasts, evidenced by ice- bound vessels in New York Harbor was particularly felt in Canadian waters, especially in the ...
Article : 113 wordsMrs. Jepson is 41 years of age. She was in a highly excited state when arrested, talking wildly and incoherently, but became comparatively qul[?]t after being taken to the ...
Article : 1,022 wordsWheat.--The quotations for wheat are 6d. per quarter lower for the week. ...
Article : 22 wordsIn the Legislative Council the report of the managers was brought up and read. No discussion followed, the adoption of the report being held over till to-morrow. ...
Article : 212 wordsArrived,--Duke of Argyll, steamer, from Brisbane 4th February; Wakool; steamer, from Melbourne 20th January; Northern Monarch, ship, from Brisbane 20th ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. Ritchie President of the Board of Trade, has decided to drop the project he had contemplated of compelling all railway companies in Great Britain to use a[?]tomutic ...
Article : 149 wordsThe R.M.S. Oriental arrived Plymouth from Australia morning of 26th inst. R.M.S. Britannia arrived at Suez from Australia on 27th inst. ...
Article : 44 wordsA strike took place on the Maffra Cultivation Company's beet field yesterday, when 40 men, who wore in receipt of 15s. per week and keep, refused to work, and demanded ...
Article : 106 wordsIt is reported that the scuts of Forrest and Campbell, who were returned for North Brisbane and Moreton respectively, will be challenged on the grounds that they are members ...
Article : 137 wordsAt the Collingwood court yesterday Mrs. Gertrude Fanny Scott was sued by her mother-in-law, Mrs. Eliza Scott, for the restitution of a diamond ring, valued at £17 ...
Article : 206 wordsA fire occurred on the steamer Indramayo, Which arrived at Auckland this morning from Sydney. The fire was subdued after three-quarters of an hour's work. When ...
Article : 117 wordsThe following rearrangement of portfolios was gazetted to-day:-- Mr. Rutledge, Attorney-General. Mr. Wilson, Postmaster-General and ...
Article : 37 wordsThe will of the into Senior Constable Waldron, who was known as "the strongest man in the police force," has been filed for probate. The deceased made his will on 27th ...
Article : 196 wordsAt Fremantle this morning, two representatives Of the union were allowed on the jetty to interview the free laborers, The interview lasted about six minutes, and at its ...
Article : 173 wordsSpeaking at a banquet at Coromandel yesterday, the Governor, Lord Ranfurly, said that New Zealand had in the past decade shown a marvellous increase ...
Article : 174 wordsAt Balmain to-day, Peter Olsen was charged with shooting at his wife, Minnie, with intent to murder on 6th inst. Accused's wife said she asked him to have--a cup of tea ...
Article : 163 wordsThe hearing of the suit, in which Isaac Charles Berg[?]ofer, telegraph operator, petitioned for divorce from Lillian Constance Berghofer (formerly Renfrey), on the ground ...
Article : 153 wordsMary O'Rielly, of Garfield-street. Allendale, near Creswick, widow, of no occupation. Causes of in solvency: Sickness and death in family, and want of employment. Liabilities, £17 195; assets £5; ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 29 Mar 1899, Page 5
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