In the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon the Vice-President of the Executive Council (Mr. Hughes) moved the second reading of the Australasian Federation Enabling Bill. He said he did not think it ...
Article : 3,924 wordsAt the weekly sales by auction at Australasian tallow to-day 950 casks were offered, of which 3OO casks wero sold. Mutton, fine, realised 25s 9d; mutton, ...
Article : 47 wordsSir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in delivering the Budget speech in the House of Commons on the 13th instant, announced that in ...
Article : 280 wordsA pessimistic opinion prevails in Russia in regard to the proposed international disarmament conference. The " Daily News " says the result of ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Council were quite an animated appearance. There were some 50 members present, which, is an unusual attendance for the Council. Before the Enabling Bill came on Mr Hughes ...
Article : 771 wordsIn thE LegislativE Council yesterday the second reading of the Australian Federation Bill was moved by the President of the Executive Council in a long speech, and was agreed to without ...
Article : 7,988 wordsAt a meeting of the Board of Public Health today the secretary reported the receipt of the following telegram from Mr. Reid, the Premier of New South Wales, which had been transmitted ...
Article : 271 wordsThe additional details of Colonel Picquart's evidence published by the Paris " Figaro " to-day indicate that General Boisdeffre, formerly head of the General ...
Article : 174 wordsAt the quarterly meeting of the local Land Board, held at the City Courthouse to-day, an application was made by Dr. W. L'Estrange Eames for a special lease of 2 roods 21 perches of Crown lands at ...
Article : 515 wordsA conference of delegates from public bodies, convened by the committee of the unemployed, met at the Athenæum Hall to-night. A committee of 20 persons representing various bodies, and including several ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. Tom Mann, the president of the Workers' Union and other trade societies, has abandoned the labour organisations and purchased a public-house at ...
Article : 45 wordsThe annual movable meeting of the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society began in the Hibernian Hall to-day. Deputies from all the colonies were present. Brother Heydou, chief ...
Article : 58 wordsFurther advices from Manila state that the American, cruiser Yorktown visited Baler, on the east coast of the island of Luzon, in order to relieve the Spanish ...
Article : 67 wordsIn accordance with the desire of the Government to reward the northern blacks for the assistance they rendered to the survivors of the recent hurricane, Dr. Roth, the official protector ...
Article : 176 wordsMr. J. W. Taverner, the Victorian Minister for Agriculture, who has arrived in London, is co-oporating with the Agents-General in protesting against the ...
Article : 74 wordsHerr Pollak, of Vienna, has invented an apparatus capable of telegraphing 60,000 words per hour. ...
Article : 20 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons last night, Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, said that the question of the Pacific cable ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Union Company's steamer Australia, 459 tons, W. J. Rogers, struck south of West Point on the West Coast, 30 miles south of Hunters, while on the trip from Launceston to Strahan ...
Article : 184 wordsLeading people in Sweden, fearing that the fate of Finland in the Russofication of the Grand Duchy will overtake their country, are appealing to Great Britain ...
Article : 34 wordsThe barque Coriolanus sailed to-day for Panama with 1320 tons Duckenfield coal. The barque Carrollton left for San Francisco with 2136 tons Wallsend coal; and the steamer Moresby was despatched ...
Article : 162 wordsE. L. C. Wilson, charged with having committed a criminal offence at Ipswich, in October last, was yesterday found guilty of an attempt to commit an offence. Mr. Justice Chubb, in ...
Article : 316 wordsTwenty-two thousand miners employed in the collieries of Charleroi and Mous, Belgium, have struck work for an advance of 20 per cent, in wages. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe steamer Gasposia, which was reported to have had a terrible experience in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in the North Atlantic, in consequence of being ...
Article : 80 wordsA special meeting of members of the recentlyformed Newcastle and District Agricultural, Horticultural, and Industrial Association was held in the Council Chambers to-night. Mr. H. W. Lee ...
Article : 236 wordsThe " Economist " strongly condemns the action of the holders of the New Zealand Midland Railway Company's debentures in petitioning the London ...
Article : 54 wordsThe anniversary services of the Point Piper-road (Woollahray Congregational Church and the tenth anniversary of the pastorate of the Rev. John Fordyce, M.A., were celebrated by a public meeting in ...
Article : 812 wordsThe French Government has decided upon spending £4000 annually for the purpose of sending 200 marriageable girls to the French colonies, and providing them ...
Article : 36 wordsThe copper market is excited, the present quotation being £75 per ton. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Chief Inspector of Police received telegrams from the police at Yarrawonga and Benalla to-day reporting the discovery of the dead body of an old man named Butler at Mansfield. ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Grassendale's cargo of 12,300 quarters Victorian wheat, January shipment, has been sold at 28s 3d per quarter. ...
Article : 25 wordsA special meeting of the general committee of the Newcastle Hospital was held in the boardroom of the institution to-night for the purpose of considering the report by Mr. W. L. Vernon, Government ...
Article : 157 wordsMr. Justice Simpson opened the Circuit Court here this morning. Mr. P. K. White prosecuted for the Crown. Two criminal cases were set down for hearing. The civil cases are light. John Charles ...
Article : 122 wordsAt the Epsom Spring Meeting yesterday, the contest for the Westminster Plate resulted as under.— WESTMINISTER PLATE of 200 sovs., for ...
Article : 115 wordsA successful conversazione in connection with the Newcastle Australian Church took place at the Masonic Hall to-night, and was very largely attended. The Rev. Donald Fraser, M.A., presided, ...
Article : 116 wordsTo-day's Exchange quotations were:—South Hercules, buyer 1s 9d, seller 2s 1d; Mount Black, buyer 6s 5d, seller 6s 8d, Mount Lyell, buyer £8 3s; Mount Lyell Blocks, buyer 11s 6d; Central Lyell ...
Article : 375 wordsA meeting of railway officers representing Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland, will be held in Brisbane on Tuesday next to discuss matters of intercolonial interest. Mr. ...
Article : 113 wordsNelson Brothers, Limited, importers of frozen meat, have decided to reduce their capital. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture has been advised by the manager of the South Australian Wine and Produce Depot in London, that he has, in conjunction with Messrs. Blandy Brothers, ...
Article : 139 wordsTwo miners named John Patterson and Alexander Beatson were killed by a fall ot earth while working in a sluicing claim in Southland. The Dairy Commissioner has decided that all ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 20 Apr 1899, Page 7
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