The United Bazaar held here at Easter realised £310. Things at the Goulburn weir are becoming active, over 100 men being camped in the ...
Article : 571 wordsThe following appointments and notifications appear in last nights Government Gazette:— Messrs. J. A. Panton, J. M'Donald, and B. ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Melbourne Zither Club, conducted by Mr. J. P[?]eger, gave their fourth subscription concert last night in the Athenæum-hall, in the presence of a fairly numerous audience. ...
Article : 383 wordsAlthough so early in the session, the Ministry have been called on to cope with obstruction of the most pronounced type, and it is the intention of at least some members ...
Article : 1,021 wordsThe directors of the Bank of England have this day reduced the minimum rate of discount to 2½ per cent. BATAVIA, APRIL 15. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe inquest on the Bulli disaster was resumed to-day, and after several miners had been examined as to their experience with gas in the mine, Mr. M'Kenzie, the examiner ...
Article : 660 wordsMr. Chamberlain has visited Ayr, where, he has been warmly welcomed. Speaking with reference to the Irish Land Bill brought forward by the ...
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Advertising : 524 wordsAbout midnight one of the most serious fires ever experienced in Rochester occurred, when Mr. Thomas Spencer's large flour mill was totally destroyed. The building, which ...
Article : 238 wordsThe Bank of England returns for the past week show the proportion of reserve to liabilities to be 50 per cent., as compared with 46 per cent. last week. ...
Article : 58 wordsNumerous meetings have been held in London and the provinces, at which resolutions were passed strongly supporting the Crimes Bill brought forward by the ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the wool sales to day 11,800 bales were offered, making a total of 160,000 bales during the series. The tone of the market is firm. ...
Article : 41 wordsDr. Cameron Lees, who has undertaken the temporary pastorate of the Scots Church, Melbourne, leaves to-day for Australia, by the R.M.S. Austral. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Progressive Society of Carpenters and Joiners (South Melbourne branch) held their usual meeting at Lording's Hotel, Windsor, on Wednesday evening. It was decided to ...
Article : 134 wordsThe New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Ruapehu, from Auckland 10th March, left here this morning en route for London. ...
Article : 25 wordsAdmiral Fairfax arrived to-day by the R.M.S. Shannon, and was received by Admiral Tryon on board the Nelson. Admiral Fairfax's flag was hoisted on the Rapid, which ...
Article : 274 wordsThe April sittings of the Echuca General Sessions were held to-day before his Honour Judge Worthington. The principal case was one against Alfred Beale, who was charged ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. Robert Wisdom, one of the New South Wales delegates to the Imperial Conference, has been offered and has accepted the honour of knighthood. ...
Article : 40 wordsTheophilus Young, charged with illegally selling tickets in an art union (which purported to be in aid of the Bulli disaster relief fund), was presented at the City Police Court ...
Article : 295 wordsNews has just been received that one of the regular steamers running between Newhaven and Dieppe has run ashore on the rocks near Dieppe, and has become a ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Treasury consents to the amendment of the Colonial Register Act in the direction desired by the Australian delegates. ...
Article : 28 wordsMary Ann Martin, of Smith-street, Collingwood, general storekeeper, wife of James Martin, labourer. Causes of insolvency— Falling-off in business through two large cash ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. Lorimer, the Victorian Minister of Defence, intends to ask the Admiralty to pay off in Australia the crews of Her Majesty's war ships on the Australian ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Minister of Mines is to be interviewed on Friday next by a deputation from Sandhurst, and he will be requested to call on Mr. Lansell to reduce the water in his ...
Article : 279 wordsSir Samuel Grifith, the Premier of Queensland and delegate from that colony to the Imperial Conference, has paid a visit to Merthyr Tydvil, in Wales, ...
Article : 50 wordsIt is understood that, owing to the cost of the resumption of the land on the proposed Brisbane and Cleveland railway, amounting to £1,800 per mile, the Minister of Works has ...
Article : 177 wordsMr. Alfred Deakin, the Chief Secretary of Victoria, returns to the colony by the P. and O. Co.'s Royal mail steamer Parramatta, which sails on the ...
Article : 35 wordsJohn Dalton, a painter, 25 years of age, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver at Collingwood at half-past 10 o'clock on Thursday night. He was ...
Article : 227 wordsThe steamer Lubeck arrived from the Islands to-day. She reports that H.M.S. Diamond, with Sir Charles Mitchell, the Governor of Fiji, on board, arrived at Tonga ...
Article : 93 wordsIt is probable that H. M. S. Imperieuse will succeed the Nelson on the Australian station. [The Imperieuse is a twin-screw steel ...
Article : 53 wordsThe delegates to the conference are to be entertained at a banquet by the committee of the House of Commons which was appointed to consider the question of ...
Article : 38 wordsLord George Hamilton, the First Lord of the Admiralty, with the colonial delegates to the Imperial Conference, paid a visit to Portsmouth dockyard to-day, and ...
Article : 83 wordsThe British art collection which is to be sent to the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition is valued at £30,000. ...
Article : 29 wordsShortly after 10 o'clock last night the attention of Constable Kinneburgh, who was on duty at Prince's bridge, was attracted to a young woman who appeared to be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsThe shareholders in the Bank of South Australia have authorised the holding of a general meeting to deal with the question of the future disposal of the reserve ...
Article : 66 wordsUnder the Gold Mining Act, Brady, the discoverer of the Teetalpa Goldfields, was entitled to a bonus of £1,000, provided that 500 men were working on the field six months ...
Article : 316 wordsThe committee of management of the Alfred Hospital met on Friday afternoon, when there were present—Messrs. R. L. J. Ellery (president), J. Thomson, J. Blyth, ...
Article : 219 wordsThe Daily News of to-day publishes a leading article on the question of marriage with a deceased wife's sister. It expresses a hope that the discussion on ...
Article : 58 wordsDalgety and Co. Limited have placed on the market 4 per cent. debentures to the amount of £250,000, the minimum being fixed at £97 10s. ...
Article : 31 wordsA resident of Hunter-street, named E. Leviny, has written to the borough council stating that a few days ago two of his cows died under suspicious circumstances, and the ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales commence about the 25th inst. ...
Article : 18 wordsOne hundred officers in the Bulgarian army have been cashiered, for taking part in the various conspiracies in that country since the kidnapping of Prince Alexander ...
Article : 48 wordsBREWARRINA, APRIL 15.—The weather continues fine, the days being warm and the nights cool, Grass and herbage are abundant, and all classes of stock are in splendid condition, 249 fart cattle, mixed ...
Article : 624 wordsThe Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's s.s. Tainui, from Lyttelton 5th March, has arrived. Her cargo of frozen mutton, 35,000 carcases, has been ...
Article : 48 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the committee of the Austin Hospital for Incurables was held at the Assembly-hall, Collins-street, on Thursday afternoon. Present—Dr. M'Crea ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 305 wordsBOORT, APRIL 15.—Very heavy rain fell throughout the district yesterday, which will in some measure retard tillage operations for a time. The early sowa crops will now have a splendid start; the ...
Article : 450 wordsRussia has promised to inform the Porto of the names of certain candidates for the Bulgarian throne, from whom a selection might be made that would be ...
Article : 37 wordsSir Charles Tupper, late High Commissioner in London for the Dominion of Canada, has been entertained at a banquet in Montreal. ...
Article : 101 wordsSir,—The council of the University issue invitations to ladies and gentlemen to be present at the annual commencement this afternoon. The invitations are issued through ...
Article : 247 wordsA telegram has been received from the agent-general, Mr. Adye Douglas, stating that he will leave London for Tasmania on the 9th July. This will necessitate ...
Article : 78 wordsSir,—In the Government Gazette of March 18 appears on page 930, under the heading of department of Mines and Water Supply, a list of geological and running maps published ...
Article : 227 wordsThe following passengers to and from Adelaide passed through Serviceton on on the day specified:— SERVICETON, FRIDAY. ...
Article : 134 wordsMr. F. H. Frazer was elected to-day a member of the House of Representatives for Te Aro. Messrs. M'Mahon and Leitch have ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 16 Apr 1887, Page 10
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