A long meeting of the Cabinet was held yesterday, the subjects under consideration being the additional estimates and the Public Works Committee. Subsequently, in the evening,the additional estimates were ...
Article : 309 wordsThe Italian troops at Ambalagi, in Shoa, a country lying to the south of Abyssinia Proper, but usually accounted as one of the three divisions of the State ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,867 wordsSaid Pasha, who recently fied to the British Embassy because he was in fear of his life, and who was harboured there by Sir Philip Currie, the British ...
Article : 100 wordsThe United States Government has advised Venezuela to comply with the demand made by Lord Salisbury, Minister for Foreign Affairs, for the payment of ...
Article : 60 wordsThe reply of the Governor to the address of the Council was read last night by the President, who then announed the receipt of the messages form the Assembly stating that they had agreed to the ...
Article : 1,739 wordsAbout 2 o'clock to-day the craue employees at the dyke refused to turn to unless the crane contractor, Mr. James Russell, dismissed one of the hands whom they did not wish to work with, but ...
Article : 187 wordsThe United States Senate has instructed the Committee on Foreign Affairs to inquire into the liability of the United States to Great Britain in connection with ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is rumoured that a revolution has taken place in Ashantee, and that King Prempeh, who has been defying the British, and whose actions led to the war ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. G. K. Green, an experimental wheatgrower, has on his farm at Tumut Plains 20 acres of ma[?]ficent wheat grown from seed originally supplied by the Agricultural Department. He ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the Assembly last evening the Minister for Works (Mr. J. H. Young) gave notice to move to-day,—"That the undermentioned members be appointed to constitute, with five members of the ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Emperor William has decided to give a great fete in Berlin on the 18th January to celebrate the anniversary of the proclamation of the German Empire ...
Article : 42 wordsIt was recently announced that Jaboz Spencer Balfour, who has been sentenced to 14 years' penal servitude for the Liberator Building Society frauds, would ...
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Article : 61 wordsThe Premier has received a telegram from Mr. G. H. Reid stating that he was hopeful that the Federal Enabling Bill would pass the Legislative Council within a fortnight. Mr. Turner does not ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Gorman military budget shows an increase of 61,000,000 marks on the budget of 1891. The naval budget shows an increase of 20,000,000 marks since ...
Article : 37 wordsThe wheat crops are averaging splendidly, carly sown giving from four to six bags per acre. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe conference between the New South Wales. Postmaster-General (Mr. Cook), the Victorian Postmaster General (Mr. Duffy), and the Queensland Postmaster-General (Mr. Thynne), met yesterday at ...
Article : 616 wordsBar silver is quoted at 2s 6 3-16d per ounce standard. ...
Article : 16 words"I have been 42 years on New England," said a squatter recently," and I have lost more sheep within the past three years than I lost during the previous 39. Three years ago I lost 350, and the ...
Article : 876 wordsA storm of cyclonic violence swept over the city and suburbs this evening. Numerous reports of serious damage have been received from many parts, dwellings, churches, and other buildings ...
Article : 162 wordsThe scandals in Madrid, caused by the arrest of 13 members of the municipal council on charges of having defrauded the public, have caused an agitation for ...
Article : 60 wordsThe minimum wage question engaged the attention of the Metropolitan Board of Works at a meeting to-day. It was unanimously resolved that a clause be inserted in the board's contracts ...
Article : 351 wordsSeparation Day was to-day observed as a general holiday. The principal event was the Q.T.C. races, which attracted a large gathering. A Mackay telegram states that since Saturday ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Charles Gallway, a well-known gentleman, has eloped with his brother's wife. They proceeded to the Grand Hotel, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Oroya's intercolonial mails left Adelaide at 5.7 p.m., and will overtake to-day's Melbourne express at Murray Bridge. ADELAIDE, Tuesday. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe first wool sale of the season at Timaru was held to-day. Prices, as compared with the opening rates of last year, show an all-round rise of from l¼d to 1¾d. ...
Article : 61 wordsSir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, has bought the Galton Bertillon apparatus for the identification of criminals for use in New South Wales. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe annual dinner of the Fort-street Old Boys' Union was held at Aarons' Exchange Hotel on Tuesday evening. The headmaster (Mr. J.W. Turner) presided, and the attendance numbered about 70. ...
Article : 565 wordsThe Golden Gate mine is at present under offer. Development work is being pushed ahead, and excellent stone is being raised. There is a large formation at a depth of 160ft. Ninety tons from ...
Article : 590 wordsMr. Purkess, manager of the Woodford Green branch of the London Joint Stock Bank, has confessed to having embezzled the funds of the bank to the extent of ...
Article : 42 wordsH.M.S. Orlando left the anchorage at Fremantle yesterday, and proceeded to Albany. RearAdmiral Bridge expressed great pleasure at the manner in which he had been received and ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Additional Estimates for the year 1895-6, laid upon the table of the Assembly last, evening. provide for an additional expenditure for the year amounting to £206,815, of which £119,500 ...
Article : 530 wordsThe British steamer Principia has been wrecked on the Faroe Islands, in the North Atlantic. Twenty-nine of those on board were ...
Article : 66 wordsAn accident which resulted in very serious injuries to two men occurred during some blasting operations in connection with the sewerage works near Womyss-street, Stanmore-road, yesterday ...
Article : 317 wordsAt the wool sales to-day the bidding was spirited, and the highest prices obtained during the present series of sales were realised. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Presbytery of Sydney met last night at St. Stephen's Church, Phillip-street. The Rev. J. Auld, M. A., was moderator pro tem. At the scderunt the Revs. B. Berry (Moss Vale) ...
Article : 183 wordsThe members of the committee appointed by the depositors in the City of Melbourne Bank have conferred with Mr. C. J. Stewart, the official receiver, upon ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Premier laid upon the table of the Legislative Assembly last night the Treasurer's advance account for the month of November. The total amount advanced was £8033. The usual sums for ...
Article : 64 wordsIn reference to the item of £25,000 on tho Additional Eatimates as a six months subsidy to the railways, it may be mentioned that Mr. F. Clarke, M.L.A., has given notice to ask the Colonial [?] ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 11 Dec 1895, Page 7
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