M. Floquet, one of the leading French politicians, denies that he has been in any way connected with the bribery scandals. The Ministry has issued a manifesto ...
Article : 141 wordsWE are once more in the season which Christendom has consented to regard as one both of holy days and holidays. Speak of it how we may, lightly or lovingly, ...
Article : 3,598 wordsKeen interest is manifested among financial men in the city with respect to the issue of the want of confidence motion tabled in the New South Wales Assembly, ...
Article : 123 wordsA decision was given yesterday relative to the petition lodged by Mr. Pierce Mahoney, who stood for North Meath in the Parnellite interest at the late general ...
Article : 120 wordsThe amount of the Australasian borrowing offers in London for the year just closing is estimated at £9,200,000. This estimate includes both Government and ...
Article : 68 wordsOn Monday next (Boxing day) there will be no publication of The Age, and the office will remain closed until 6 p.m., when it will be opened for the convenience of advertisers. On ...
Article : 5,976 wordsThe announcement by Sir Graham Berry, the Victorian Treasurer, of a considerable deficit for the year, has not taken the city by surprise, leading financiers being quite ...
Article : 113 wordsThe division on Mr. G. H. Reid's censure motion was taken at 7.30 this morning, and resulted in its rejection by a majority of 7, 61 votes being cast for the motion and 68 against it. ...
Article : 1,177 wordsThe friends of "General" Booth are well pleased at the character of the report presented by Lord Onslow's committee, which was appointed to inquire into the disposal ...
Article : 136 wordsM. Floquet, who was Premier of France in 1888, and whose Government is alleged to have "blackmailed" the Panama Land Company in connection with the passage of ...
Article : 163 wordsImporters believe that there is a great future before the Australian fruit trade, and they foresee a good season if proper conditions are complied with. They advise ...
Article : 108 wordsThe United States Congress is discussing the immigration question, on a motion emanating from the Republican party, which proposes to suspend the operation of ...
Article : 72 wordsFollowing on the quarrel in the Chamber of Deputies, a duel has taken place between MM. Clemenceau and Deroulede. They fired three times at 25 paces, but ...
Article : 52 wordsThe weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show the proportion of reserve to liabilities to be 45 per cent., being 3 per cent. less than last week. ...
Article : 231 wordsThe St. Petersburg Gazette, discussing the Central Asian question, states that the civil war in C[?]itral, in which the Nizam, supported by the Indian Government, has ...
Article : 101 wordsA fire has broken out underground in a colliery in the neighborhood of St. Helen's, Lancashire. The efforts to extinguish it have not been successful, and it has not ...
Article : 76 wordsThe loss of the s. Nubian is attributed to the ignorance of the pilot, against whom proceedings will be taken. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Grover Cleveland, President elect of the United States, is asking Congress to grant power to the President to suspend the monthly purchase of silver which ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Cecil Rhodes, the Premier for the Cape, has urged upon the Secretary of State for the Colonies that preferential duties should be imposed in favor of Cape ...
Article : 36 wordsThe sons of Jay Gould, through their agents, have collected the obituary notices of their deceased father published in America and Europe. Put together these ...
Article : 41 wordsBradford merino top, sixties, are selling at 20d.; superfine, 20½d. to 20¾d. The market for crossbred wools is firm. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe price of silver has fallen 1-16d.; the present price is 3s. 2d. per oz. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. Montagu Williams, Q.C., police magistrate at the Marylebone court, died to-day. Mr. Williams, who was 52 years of age, has been dangerously ill for some ...
Article : 35 wordsThe R.M.S. Tara, of the Queensland Royal mail line, which departed from London on the 6th inst., left Suez on the 21st inst., outward bound, for Queensland ports. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe three powers exercising a joint control over Samoa--namely England, America and Germany--have resolved to take steps to restore order in the islands. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe R.M.S. Oruba, L. Hay commander, arrived from Colombo at 7 o'clock this morning, and sailed for Adelaide at 10 o'clock. The following are the saloon passengers. For Adelaide-- ...
Article : 178 wordsIt is announced that the trades union societies of London have decided to organise a great national exhibition of handicraft work to be held in London in ...
Article : 38 wordsMrs. Sophia Gray, wife of Mr. Gray, ironmonger, of 559 Elizabeth-street, North Melbourne, died suddenly last evening from an overdose of morphia. She was about 45 years of ...
Article : 187 wordsSeveral destructive bush fires were reported to-day from different portions of Eastern Riverina. A fire started this morning on Gerogory East and Round Hill stations, 20 miles from ...
Article : 255 wordsSIR,--In your issue of to-day appears a report of the proceedings at the Richmond council in reference to a person complaining of "boy labor" being engaged on the contract for ...
Article : 146 wordsA peculiar charge of attempted theft was heard in the St. Kilda court yesterday. The accuser was Mr. Edward Reynolds, known locally as a police court solicitor, and the ...
Article : 177 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on the body of John Wright, who yesterday, at Tichborne, shot at and wounded his sweetheart, Annie Wylie, and afterwards blew out his brains. ...
Article : 157 wordsIt is learned from the Labor Bureau that the total number of persons sent to employment from the opening of the Bureau in February last to date is 7342, and that the amount which ...
Article : 166 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 164 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 212 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 73 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 55 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 72 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 24 Dec 1892, Page 7
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: