A great assemblage of the Liberal Unionist party was held in Dublin yesterday, comprising the leading representatives of Irish commerce, the manufacturing ...
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Article : 91 wordsThe report of Major-General Schaw, who was appointed by the Government some months ago to inspect the defences of New South Wales, was laid on the table of the ...
Article : 445 wordsThe Governor is visiting the Newcastle and Hunter River districts, and is meeting with enthusiastic receptions in all the centres of population. ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Colonial Treasurer delivered his financial statement shortly after the dinner hour to-day. He commenced by repudiating the statements which had lately appeared in the ...
Article : 1,572 wordsBy the arrival of the R.M.S. Massllia at Adelaide yesterday we have received the following from our London correspondent:— LONDON, OCT. 28. ...
Article : 1,634 wordsMr. Gillies has handed to us for publication a copy of the following memorandum which has been forwarded to Sir Henry Parkes:— ...
Article : 647 wordsThe stonewalling of the Australasian Naval Forces Bill was carried on untill after 4 o'clock this morning, but the Government eventually succeeded in breaking down the opposition, ...
Article : 391 wordsIn connection with the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, applications for about 400,000 square feet of space have been received from 650 British and 150 ...
Article : 108 wordsAt the Esk Police Court yesterday, Charles Herman Goff was fined £15, or in default six months' imprisonment, for placing a fishplate and several dogspikes on the Brisbane ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Orient and the P. and O. Companies refuse to sign the contract for the conveyance of the Anglo-Australian mails unless parcels are exempted. They also ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Earl and Countess of Carnarvon were to-day entertained by Mr. J. C. Bray at a luncheon at his private residence. They afterwards visited Parliament, and in the ...
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Article : 195 wordsGreat excitement provails in Paris, in view of the presidential election, which takes place to-morrow. The section of the Radical party headed ...
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Article : 60 wordsAt a crowded meeting in the Town-hall to-night, it was decided to give Beach a public testimonial, and £500 was collected in the room. Beach, after receiving the stakes in ...
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Article : 238 wordsThe Times, in a notice of the Picturesque Atlas of Australia, declares that, for that class of publication, the work is unrivalled. ...
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Article : 44 wordsThe Legislative Council to-day referred the Normanton to Cloncurry Railway deviation to a select committee, carried the Supply Bill and the Marsupials Bill through all their ...
Article : 79 wordsSir Henry Parkes has received the communication from Mr. Gillies protesting against New South Wales assuming the name of Australia, but he is too much occupied with ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Times urges that before M. Pasteur's proposal for exterminating rabbits in Australia by the introduction among them of an epidemic disease is tested, a ...
Article : 51 wordsLOCKHART.—DEC. 1.—Stock Crossing.—This day, 16 horses and five foals from Tallem Bend, going to Nhill, Robert Sorby owner. Heavy rain fell yesterday, and it is still showery. ...
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Article : 54 wordsBurns, the Socialist leader, and Mr. R. G. B. Cunninghame Graham, M.P. for Lanarkshire, who were arrested for participating in the recent unemployed ...
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Article : 42 wordsMr. David Sheehy, member of Parliament for South Galway, has been arrested for having delivered speeches of a seditious character. ...
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Article : 103 wordsSir,—Referring to Mr. Atkinson's letter, in The Argus of to-day. I beg to state that the sentence he cites owes its insertion to misapprehension. No such clause ...
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Article : 70 wordsA young man giving the name of Thomas George Brett was arrested yesterday by Constable Fitzgerald, of South Richmond, on a ...
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Article : 107 wordsThe following passengers left Melbourne for Adelaide by the express train yesterday:— D. Tweddle, M. E. Kearney, Schmidt, Adelaide; ...
Article : 87 words"Mr. William O'Neill, lessee of the Cathedral Hotel, Swanston-street, Melbourne, says:—"We pronounce Clausen's New York Champague Lager Beer a great success. All our patrons praise it highly, and ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 2 Dec 1887, Page 8
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