The "Daily News" publishes a telegram from the Cape, under date the 6th of June, with details of the proposals for peace recently made by Cetewayo. These ...
Article : 201 wordsAn important meeting of delegates, about forty representing the various shires surrounding Geelong, was held at the Town Hall on Saturday last, to confer on ...
Article : 1,261 wordsThe weather in England has been of unusual severity, and the prospects of the coming harvest are seriously injured. Proclamation has been made that prayers ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the House of Commons a long and animated discussion took place on the Army Discipline Bill. The Government, yielding to the determined opposition ...
Article : 100 wordsSIR,--From the tenor of 'A Ratepayer's,' letter in your journal, I expected to hear of the jobs at Barwidgee Creek and the one at Wooragee. By recent proceedings ...
Article : 426 wordsThe death is announced of the Countess of Waldegrave, one of the leaders of society in London. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe House of Commons has decided to appoint a Minister of Agriculture. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe corn market is steady, and prices have advanced from 1s to 1s 6d per quarter. Home deliveries are small. ...
Article : 48 wordsSIR,--In your issue of the 5th inst., a letter appears, signed by James Gearing, taking exception to the evidence given before the Closed Roads Commission by ...
Article : 674 wordsIn the House of Commons a motion which has recently been introduced for the appointment of a Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, with a seat in the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe tin market is heavy and unsettled, with receding quotations. Present price, £64 12s 6d per ton. ...
Article : 18 wordsFurther advices from Cape Town state that the second division under Major-General Newdigate, which is operating in the Utrecht district, has cleared the entire ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following is the remainder of The news brought by the R.M.S. Siam:-- LONDON, June 6. Floods are reported from Asiatic Russia, ...
Article : 145 wordsThe proposal of Germany for a reduction of the rates on telegraphic messages sent in connection with the Sydney and Melbourne exhibitions has been submitted ...
Article : 66 wordsAdvices from the Cape of Good Hope have been received to-day to the 17th ult., announcing that the British troops have again commenced their advance from ...
Article : 79 wordsColonel Colley, the viceroy's secretary, has been appointed chief of Sir Garnet Wolseley's staff for Natal. Mr Shaw, the British resident at Mandalay, is dead, ...
Article : 216 wordsSir Arthur Gordon, the Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of Polynesia, has sailed on his return to his post. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe latest advices from the seat of war at the Cape have not confirmed the reports previously current of the conclusion of an armistice. A suspension of hostilities ...
Article : 53 wordsThe English harvest prospects are unfavorable, in consequence of the crops in several districts having been partially damaged by excessive rains, which have ...
Article : 35 wordsIncendiary fires continue to be of frequent occurrence in Russia, where the reign of terror is increasing. Many Nihilists have been arrested, including ...
Article : 232 wordsFurther advices have just been received from the Cape of Good Hope to 24th June, announcing that General Crealock, commanding the first division, consisting of ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Board of Trade returns for the past month have been published to-day. The exports from the United Kingdom amounts to £14,500,000, showing an increase of ...
Article : 35 wordsAnother social earthquake in Philadelphia. What earth Quakers those folks are! The man who believes he can move the ...
Article : 729 wordsThe City of Irkutsk, one of the largest towns in Siberia, has been partially destroyed by fire, which is believed has been caused by the act of an incendiary. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe introduction of Prince Bismarck's protective tariff has been postponed until the 1st of January next. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe San Francisco mail, which left Sydney on the 22nd May, was delivered in London on July 7th. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe new Ameer has sent a letter to the Viceroy, thanking His Excellency for the hospitable reception given him at Gundmauch. He says he hopes to visit the ...
Article : 169 wordsIn the House of Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked if he could approximately state the cost of the Zulu war at the present time. In reply, ...
Article : 49 wordsMessrs Money Wigram and Co.'s steamship Northumberland at Suez on July 7th. from Melbourne. All well. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsThe Government have, in accordance with the promise recently made, published a blue-book of the diplomatic correspondence which has passed in reference to the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe eruption or Mount Etna at the present time is of greater magnitude than any former one for many years past. During the last ten days several new ...
Article : 95 wordsThe German Government has sent a despatch to Captain Werner, the officer who recently concluded the treaty with Samoa, disapproving of his intervention ...
Article : 36 wordsA curious story, says the "Pall Mall Gazette," is being told in Paris about an arm-chair which has been bequeathed by an old woman, who has just died in one ...
Article : 403 wordsIt is understood that the new postal contract with the P. and O. Company for the conveyance of the Australian mails will commence next January. The service ...
Article : 111 wordsNotwithstanding the vigourous measures which have been adopted by Government for the suppression of the Nihilist and other secret societies, the revolutionary ...
Article : 32 wordsA Royal Commission has been appointed for the purpose of inquiring into the causes operating to bring about the existing depression in the agricultural districts of ...
Article : 40 wordsSIR,--This case, which was heard at the Milawa Court of Petty Sessions, on the 16th July, in which Constable Bolton sued Mr Nolan for illegally impounding ...
Article : 429 wordsAn explosion has taken place at the Blantyre collieries, Lanarkshire, causing the death of twenty-seven persons. ...
Article : 21 wordsOwing to the partial failure of the harvest, it is estimated that France will have to purchase this year no less than 500,000,000 kilogrammes of foreign ...
Article : 37 wordsThe protectionist and conservative policy which is being pursued by Prince Bismarck at the present time has brought about a Ministerial crisis, and the ...
Article : 66 wordsLord A. Loftus, the new Governor of New South Wales, leaves Liverpool for New York, to-morrow, the 7th inst., in the s.s. Bothnia, of the Cunard line. He ...
Article : 87 wordsDissension has broken out amongst the Liberal party. Great dissatisfaction is existing amongst a large section with the cautious policy adopted by the Marquis ...
Article : 61 wordsIn consequence of an adverse vote in the Chambers, which was tantamount to a direct vote of want of confidence, the Ministry formed a few months ago by ...
Article : 39 wordsSir Bevys, the winner of the Derby, belongs to Mr Leopold Rothschild, and was ridden by the jockey Fordham, who had never before won a Derby, ...
Article : 446 wordsPolitical feeling is becoming greatly excited. Several very angry scenes have occurred in the House of Commons. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe new protectionist tariff of Prince Bismarck will be brought into operation on the 1st of October next. ...
Article : 28 wordsOwing to the expressions of opinion in Parliament, flogging in the army has been virtually abolished. ...
Article : 28 wordsA small party of Italian emigrants will, it is announced, sail in the course of September next for New Guinea, where they intend to settle. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe court of inquiry, presided over by General Marshall, appointed to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the death of the Prince Imperial, has censured ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the House of Commons a motion was brought forward for an address to the Crown, proposing a Royal commission to inquire into the causes of the agricultural ...
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