Lord Brassey arrives in Melbourne from his Sydney visit in the Sunbeam to-day, and will attend a meeting of the Executive Council at 2.30 this afternoon, held for the purpose of ...
Article : 4,933 wordsOtto Shadler, aged 30 years, had been missing during to-day from the Nurses' Home at Manly, and his battered and mutilated body was found at 5 o'clock ...
Article : 247 wordsNothing has transpired, as far as the Railway Commissioners are yet aware, to explain the derailment of the Adelaide express on Wednesday morning. The board of officers who were ...
Article : 328 wordsExtraordinary enthusiasm has been displayed in Vienna in connection with the visit of the Emperor William of Germany to that city. In honor of the event a grand ...
Article : 223 wordsThe small "stonewall" party in the Dominion House of Commons in Canada which has assiduously opposed the bill introduced by the Government dealing ...
Article : 143 wordsThe inquiry into the complaints made by Mr. Sangster, M.L.A., Against the Marine Board and its officers, whom he charged with serious neglect of duty in allowing vessels to leave [?] ...
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Article : 106 wordsThe Chief Engineer of Water Supply has prepared a report on the condition of the irrigation works at Mildura, a duty which is imposed upon him under the Mildura Water Trust Act ...
Article : 1,002 wordsThe half yearly statements of these two companion have just been issued, and disclose the above startling figures. The Madame Berry has ceased actual work after paying dividends every ...
Article : 507 wordsThe Secretary for the Colonics has received a telegraphic despatch from Sir Hercules Robinson, High Commissioner of South Africa, giving an alarming account ...
Article : 163 wordsAn inquest was held to-day on the body of William Down, who jumped over South Head on Tuesday. The body was identified by Patrick Mack, with whom the deceased ...
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Article : 825 wordsThe Rev. Mr. Napp, American missionary at Diarbekir, in Asia Minor, whose unexplained disappearance from the scene of his labors led to a report that he had ...
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Article : 222 wordsThe Arab tribes friendly to British rule in the country south of Wady Halfa are rendering valuable assistance to the Egyptian troops. ...
Article : 73 wordsOn 4th April last Constable Ryan entered a hair dressing saloon kept by one Tom Child at 471 Elizabeth-street and took a seat among "the gilded youths that sat along the barber's ...
Article : 277 wordsPreparations are being made on the most lavish scale for the Czar's coronation ceremony, to take place at Moscow next month. The proceedings will be conducted on a ...
Article : 50 wordsFears are expressed that the glowing accounts given with reference to the recent alleged finds of gold on the Darling Range, near Perth, will not be maintained by actual results. Ugly ...
Article : 143 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the Right Hon. A. H. D. Acland, Liberal member for Rotherham and vice-president of the Council of Education in the ...
Article : 117 wordsThe French Government has sent reinforcements to all the frontier posts in her East African possessions. The ostensible reason for this action ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Bulletin mine, Bamboo Creek, reports [?] up a crushing of 170 tons for 425 oz. gold. This property has been handed over to the Bamboo Consolidated Company, and is now ...
Article : 177 wordsSultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey is manifesting sudden and remarkable favor towards Bulgaria. His Majesty has created Prince Ferdinand a marshal of the Ottoman ...
Article : 49 wordsCriticising the recent speech delivered by Mr. Chamberlain at the Canada Club, in which the Secretary of State for the Colonics advocated Imperial ...
Article : 126 wordsThe following statement of the affairs of the Federal Bank of Australia is extracted from a report which has been issued by Mr. C. J. Stewart, the official receiver, at the same time ...
Article : 595 wordsA dull, unintelligent looking man named John M'Laughlin was tried before Mr. Justice Hood in the Criminal Court yesterday on a charge of having unlawfully assaulted Susan ...
Article : 593 wordsThe R.M.S. Victoria, W. D. Worcester commander, arrived from Colombo at 3 p.m. to-day. Passengers in the saloon are:--Messrs. Grant Latham, Huntington and wife, Morris and ...
Article : 110 wordsThe second reading of the private bill to authorise a modification of the terms of reconstruction of the English and Scottish Bank of Australia in respect to interest on ...
Article : 65 wordsThe South Mount Lyell Mining Company, Tasmania, is issuing under the reconstruction arrangement shares to the amount of £600,000. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Brown Hill mine is opening up the 180 feet level from the main shaft, where the lode is from 12 feet to 14 feet wide. The south drive is being pushed on to strike the rich ...
Article : 452 wordsA new mail steamer built for the Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Co. at Greenock was to-day successfully launched on the Clyde and christened the India. ...
Article : 34 wordsA telegram has been received at Brussels stating that the trial of Major Lothaire, a Belgian officer who caused a British trader named Stokes to be hanged ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsMr. Hesketh, electrical engineer for the borough of Blackpool, in Lancashire, has received the appointment of Electrical Engineer to the Queensland Government. ...
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Article : 298 wordsBefore the city police court to-day an elderly Chinaman named Lee Fook prosecuted three other Chinamen for assault. The matter arose out of the perjury cases tried some time ...
Article : 216 wordsThe R.M.S. Nairnshire left Colombo on 14th inst., homeward bound. F.M.S. Armand Behic passed Colombo homewards on 12th inst. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Newcastle colliery dispute is still unsettled. The miners at the Borehole colliery have decided to take their tools out of the mine on Saturday morning, and have instructed their ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Lady Maude G.M. Co., Coolgardie, has been registered with a capital of £130,000, shares for £25,000 to be issued. The Hesperus G.M. Co., Kalgoorlie, has ...
Article : 43 wordsThe action brought in a German court by the owners of the German mail steamer Elbe against those of the Scottish steamer Craithie for damages, on account of the ...
Article : 82 wordsMichael Munza, Charles Peterson, George Schroeder, Leo de Hardt, Andrew Johnson, Harry Halmquist and William Soderquist, able seamen on the British ship Westward Ho, were ...
Article : 204 wordsTwo young men, named William and Isaac Hogan, found guilty at the Quarter Sessions today of inflicting grievous bodily harm on Edward Bezer, were brought up for sentence this ...
Article : 166 wordsAn inquest was held by Mr. Candler, the coroner for Bourke, at the Morgue yesterday on the body of Alice Sibley, aged 36, whose body was found on the Brighton beach on ...
Article : 171 wordsThe committee of the Druids' Gala at a meeting held last night voted £50 to the fund in aid of the sufferers by the colliery disaster at Brunnerton. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 17 Apr 1896, Page 5
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