Further news has reached Cairo respecting the reception of Major-General Gordon at Khartoum, where he arrived yesterday. ...
Article : 76 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the adjourned debite on Sir Stafford Northcote's motion, to the effect that the recent disastrous events in the Soudan ...
Article : 94 wordsIt is announced that a meeting of the Emperors of Germany, Austria, and Russia will shortly be held. ...
Article : 41 wordsExtraordinary and unlooked for is the success which has attended that wellmeant but unhappy experiment, the introduction of the rabbit. Never did a ...
Article : 8,704 wordsA Royal Commission has been appointed, in accordance with Lord Salisbury's recent motion in the House of Lords, to inquire into the housing of the ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Minister of Works intends to revise the railway goods rates, and to provide greater facilities for the carriage of produce. ...
Article : 404 wordsTelegrams have been received here stating that the British troops which left here last week for Suakin are now arriving at that port, whence they will ...
Article : 45 wordsSome remark has been caused in Government circles by the fact that no agents have been appointed by the Australasian colonies authorised to ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Dutton, the Minister of Lands, in moving the second reading of the Pastoral Leases Act Amendment Bill last night, read section 54 of the act proposed to be repealed ...
Article : 1,014 wordsNews has been received via Suakin that a sortie has been made by 200 men from Tokar, during which several of the Arab insurgents investing the town were ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Admiralty have politely declined the offer made by Mr. Murray Smith to place the Victorian gunboats at the disposal of the British adimial commanding ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Fawcett, the Postmaster-General, still requires letters for Queensland and New Zealand, intended to be forwarded by the P. and O. Company's steamers, to ...
Article : 47 wordsSome of the accounts received here having stated that General Gordon, in the proclamation which he issued on the eve of his arrival at Khartoum, announced ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Victorian torpedo boat Childers has arrived at Malta. ...
Article : 19 wordsEdward Hanlan, the Canadian champion sculler, sailed from San Francisco for Sydney on Monday. ...
Article : 24 wordsDetachments of bluejackets belonging to the Mediterranean Squadron have been landed to replace the troops that have been drafted to Cairo. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Orient Steam Navigation Company's steamer Austral has been chartered for the Atlantic trade. ...
Article : 22 wordsIn compliance with a commendation from Sir Evelyn Baling, another battalion of infant[?]y and a battery of artillery have received instructions to proceed at once ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Edwin Brett, formerly general manager of the London Chartered Bank of Australia, Melbourne, has been appointed chief manager of the Oriental ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Government have accepted the tender of Messrs. Law and Co., of Glasgow, to convey bounty immigrants to Queensland in April, and for two other steamers to ...
Article : 210 wordsThe list of arrivals for the present series of wool sales is closed. The total number of bales is 357,000, including the shipments by the Iberia, Etna, Shannon, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe election of a member of Parliament for Northampton, which was rendered recessary owing to Mr. Bradlaugh's recent resignation, took place yesterday, ...
Article : 62 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, in reply to a question, the Commissioner of Public Works said that the Government were fully alive to the unsatiafactory condition of the finances ...
Article : 526 wordsThe Government has declined the offer made by Mr. Murray Smith, agentgeneral for the colony of Victoria, to place the Victorian gunboats at their ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. Anderson, of Stawell, has entered an opposition against Mr. Hawkes' patent for adjusting the break of gauge on railway lines. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the wool sales to-day 12,300 bales were offered, making a total since the commencement of the series of 63,400 bales. The market continues steady, but ...
Article : 105 wordsThe report as to the American sheep at Maitland being free from the scab has been confirmed by Mr. Bruce, the chief inspector of stock, who returned to Sydney to-day. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe homeward mails ex Orient Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Iberia which left Melbourne on January 11, were delivered here to-day via Naples. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Amalfi, s.s., from London to Adelaide, &c., put back to London to repair damage caused by collision. The vessel will have to be discharged before repairs ...
Article : 53 wordsConsols are unchanged, at £101. The market rate of discount is 1/8 below the minimum bank late. Colonial Government Securities.— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 222 wordsUsual Thursday business. IN CHAMBERS. His Honour Mr. Justice Holroyd will take chamber business at a quartor-past 9 o'clock. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 21 Feb 1884, Page 5
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