Tenders have been called for a postal mail service between England and Australia to take effect on the termination of the present contract with ...
Article : 114 wordsEarly this morning Messrs. Howard Smith and Sons received a telegram from Phillip Island, from the first mate of the steamer Gambier, stating that he, with a crew of four ...
Article : 287 wordsThe Federal Council reassembled this morning at 11 o'clock, when the president announced the receipt through the Governor of a reply from the Secretary of State for the ...
Article : 875 wordsRecently [?] safe in the china warehouse of Messrs. Wright, Hansen, & Co., Little Collinsstreet. was robbed of £43 in cash and £150 in cheques. On Friday a young man named ...
Article : 417 wordsOF all classes of the community the one least sympathised with in its time of misfortune and least believed when describing its losses is the squatting class. ...
Article : 8,687 wordsIt is expected that the new Ministry now being formed will include the following:—The Right Hon. H. C. E. Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer; ...
Article : 157 wordsThe following is the final selection of the Australian cricketing team to visit England under the auspices of the Melbourne Cricket Club:— ...
Article : 179 wordsAmong the members of his last Cabinet with whom Mr. Gladstone in his task of forming a new Ministry has been in communication is Sir Charles ...
Article : 76 wordsThe annual meeting of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company was held to-day. The profit and loss account showed that £8,234 1s. 4d. was available for disposal, and ...
Article : 528 wordsA public meeting was held in the Town Hall to-night, the mayor presiding, for the purpose of raising funds towards the assistance of the settlers and their families who were ...
Article : 150 wordsIt is stated that the Earl of Selbourne will decline if invited to accept again the post of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. ...
Article : 29 wordsIt is announced that the Marquis of Hartington, who agreed to accept a seat in Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet, has withdrawn his consent. The Earl of Derby ...
Article : 55 wordsConsiderable anxiety is felt for the safety of the steamship Venice, which left Hongkong for Sydney on December 28 via Port Darwin, She is now thirty-five days out, and no news ...
Article : 79 wordsM. Isanoff, the Bulgarian Minister who is charged by Prince Alexander to negotiate for an absolute union of Bulgaria and Roumelia, has drawn up an ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Great Powers have formally presented to the Bulgarian and Servian Governments a further demand for the demobilisation of the armies of those ...
Article : 37 wordsThe financial statement of the Tongan district, which was laid before the Wesleyan Conference to-day, showed a deficiency of £2,000, A subscription-list to defray this amount was ...
Article : 93 wordsArrived : From Newcastle—Camba, ship, sailed October 24. From Port Augusta, Oaklands, barque, sailed October From Cossack, Chiselhurst, barque, ...
Article : 98 wordsA meeting of the laymen of the Church of England was held in the Diocesan Registry this afternoon, when a resolution to the following effect was passed:—"That a committee be ...
Article : 127 wordsSir—Your correspondent " George " is quite mistaken. If our scheme is adopted and the people decide for a reduction in the number of hotels, the Licensing Bench would be expected ...
Article : 99 wordsThe members of the Federal Council were entertained by the Tasmanian Ministry on Saturday at a picnic on the Huon River on board the Southern Cross. The guests, ...
Article : 51 wordsSir—As I know your paper is read all over the colonies I take this opportunity of requesting yon to insert these few lines for the benefit of any person who may have any intention of ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Mira Flores, barque, 500 tons, bound from London to Fremantle, struck on a reef at the northern aid of Rotness Island, and has since become a total wreck, but without loss ...
Article : 60 wordsHeavy rains fell last night in the south, intermediate, and western districts, and also along the coast. In the north-west of the colony a splendid rainfall is recorded. ...
Article : 81 wordsWool sales.—Since our last telegram there is no change for the bulk of wools. Prices for good wools are well maintained, but for inferior sorts are ...
Article : 74 wordsA horrible child murder was committed on Saturday at Indoroopilly. A young married woman named Mary Newman was observed setting some bushes on fire in the back yard of ...
Article : 314 wordsA deputation from the corporation and town waited on the district council on Saturday requesting that the district road leading to Beetaloo might be made fit for traffic. The ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Feilung, steamer, arrived yesterday from China, and left at noon today with the following passengers: —Mr. Fullwood, for Thursday Island; Messrs. J. D. McDonald ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Swedish brig Norman, Captain Ohlsen, was wrecked on January 16 on Dungeness Reef, where the Queensland Government schooner Mavis was lately lost. The wreck ...
Article : 64 wordsIn 1883 shopkeepers in Rundle-street received notices from Mr. Worsnop, town clerk, ordering them to paint out or otherwise obliterate the numbers by which their places ...
Article : 126 wordsA case of supposed suicide occurred to-day. It appears that early this morning Mrs. Daniel Jane was discovered drowned in a tank on her premises, Wallaroo Mines. The deceased had ...
Article : 70 wordsOn Friday evening a farmer and vigneron named John Plum, of Wangaratta, was found burned to death in his house at Eastcourt. The deceased lived by himself apart from his ...
Article : 89 wordsA deputation from the Seamen's Union waited on the Treasurer this morning asking him to appoint a commission to enquire into a number of abuses in connection with shipping, ...
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The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), Tue 2 Feb 1886, Page 5
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