The following are further particulars of the above disaster, a brief account of which appeared in Saturday's issue:—At 9 p.m. an engine was coupled to the carriages at the ...
Article : 816 wordsMr. Parnell has given notice of his intention to move, in committee, amendments amalgamating his scheme with the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour's bill. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe statements published with regard to the scandal in connection with the Queensland Railway Employees' Life Assurance Scheme, and the negotiations consequent theron, are ...
Article : 855 wordsMr. Smith Ellis has submitted his views as regards the destruction of rust in wheat to the Government. He defines rust as an internal parasite or fungus that constitutionally affects ...
Article : 323 wordsThe Railway Commissioners, accompanied by the Chief Engineer, Mr. Lethem, surveyor, and Mr. Allan, M.L.A., arrived in town this afternoon, after making an inspection of the ...
Article : 43 wordsFrederick Goodfellow, late Lands Commissioner, at Townsville and Ingham, was, today, committed for trial on two more charges of embezzlement. The deficiency now amounts to ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. Thomas Archer, questioned by the Colonisation Committee as to the scope for emigration to Queensland, said that the only waste lands available for settlement in that ...
Article : 88 wordsThe following correspondence appeared in yesterday's Courier:— Sir,—If you will kindly allow me space, I will now give you and your readers a plain, ...
Article : 2,036 wordsThe A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Wodonga was launched, at Glaegow, to-day. ...
Article : 18 wordsMr. Donleavy, telegraph mater at Karumba, while coming up the river, in the steamar Vigilant, yesterday, fell overboard. The steamer was promptly stopped and a boat lowered, and ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Republicans in the United States Congress recommend that the Treasury shall purchase 4,500,000oz, of liver monthly, payable by notes redeemable on demand. ...
Article : 31 wordsRingmaster will carry 8st. 121b, in the Cheshire Handicap and 8st. 4lb. in the Somerset Stakes. Kirkham and Narellan have been engaged for the Hastings Plate. It is beheved ...
Article : 56 wordsNo rain has fallen lately, and the Bulloo River is now crossable. Tobacco is running short, and the supply of flour is not very large. There are a number of teams on the road ...
Article : 59 wordsArrangements are being made by the workmen in Chicago for a general strike, to take place on the let May, which will affect 12 000 firms employing 200,000 men and 24,000 ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Government of the Bahamas, Sir Ambrose Shea, has allotted 150,000 acres for the production of sisal-hemp fibre. [Baron Von Mueller, in his "Select Extra-Troploal Plants" ...
Article : 99 wordsThe twenty-first half-yearly meeting of the Mutual Life Association of Australasia was held to-day. The report of the six months. ending on the 31st of December, 1889, showed ...
Article : 500 wordsIt is reported that Sir Francis De Winton has been appointed Governor of British East Africa and will start Mombasa (the pricipal seaport of the British East African Company's ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Government propose to apply Mr. Parnell's scheme, at announced in his recent speech on the Irish Land Purchase Bill, to those disdricts in Ireland where the landlords are ...
Article : 71 wordsSir,—If you will allow me a line or two I should like to say that you have not got quite the correct version of my letter to Mr. Gray. I did not advocate the cause of any insurance ...
Article : 460 wordsH.M.S. Egeria arrived from New Zealand yesterday. She has not fewer than twenty-three of her crew under arrest, nine of the men being in irons. It appears there has been ...
Article : 222 wordsMr. H. M. Stanley, after visiting Brussels, where he had a series of receptions lasting for a week, has arrived in London. Mr. Stanley was greeted with great enthusiasm, both on ...
Article : 46 wordsAn extensive strike of railway employees has taken place in Ireland, and has completely paralysed operations on the Great Southern and Western line. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Australian cricket team have arrived in London, and are all well. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe report hat a colonial book postage was to established from the let of May, the rates being 1d. per ounce, now proves to be untrue. ...
Article : 32 wordsFew weeks now-a-days pass by but what the community is startled by the intelligence that some prominent citizen has been struck down by sickness or disease. The constant ...
Article : 557 wordsSir Graham Berry, Agent-General for Victoria, is ill. ...
Article : 15 wordsDisastrous floods along the valley of the Lower Mississippi are now being experienced, and the flood waters are imperilling the city of New Orleans. It is estimated that 5000 square ...
Article : 61 wordsFive young women, in Moscow, have committed suicide in order to avoid being arrested on a charge of being connected with the Nihilist party. ...
Article : 11 wordsSir,—In connection with the railway employees' insurance scheme. I am much surprised to find your columns open to such an unprovoked and malicious attack upon myself, ...
Article : 625 wordsMr. Gillies has telegraphed to the Agent-General asking him to ascertain the exact meaning of the clause in the West Australian Enabling Bill prohibiting legislation by the ...
Article : 98 wordsSucol, the Italian, who undertook to fast for forty days, is still strong. He finishes his undertaking to-morrow. Crowds of people are visiting the Westminster Acquarium, where ...
Article : 75 wordsLatest news from Bourke states that the water is gradually receding, and that the place is all but deserted, as all those who could get away have gone, by rail or boat, either to North ...
Article : 299 wordsA German expedition, under the leadership of min Path, has started from the east coast of Africa for Lake Tanganyika. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe inquest at Hobart on the body of Mary Cross, who was found murdered at Newton on Saturday night, was again adjourned. The case looks very black against Michael ...
Article : 47 wordsInspector Harris, who ban been in the police force for thirty four years, received intimation that be was to be removed from Toowoomba. He then petitioned to le allowed to retire ...
Article : 279 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Sir George Campbell moved the abolition of the vote of £5000 for the maintenance of a steamer for the Administrator of the Government of ...
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