The members of the Ministry were busy on Saturday considering the proposed now bill to deal with banking matters. In the morning Mr. M'Millan, ex-Colonial Treasurer, was called in ...
Article : 889 wordsThe House of Commons has adjourned over Whitsuntide until the 29th instant. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe liquidators of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, the London Chartered of Australia, and the Colonial of Australasia will pay the Victorian ...
Article : 198 wordsThe match between the Australian Eleven and Marylebone C.C. and Ground was resumed to-day at Lord's. The weather was fair, and the wicket was in ...
Article : 940 wordsSIGNOR GIOVANNT GI[?]TT[?] the Italian Premier, has resumed owing to the rejection of the Estimates, which was due to the personal unpopularity of one of the Ministers. ...
Article : 8,035 wordsThe death is announced, at his residence, Newport, of the oldest Victorian colonist in the person of Captura David Fermaner, for a long period Harbour Master and pilot at Port Albert. Captain ...
Article : 236 wordsThe Australian Eleven will commence a match at Sheffield to-morrow against Yorkshire. The following have been selected to represent the home team:— ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. P. M'Lagan, the Gladstonian Liberal member for West Linlithgowshire in the House of Commons, is about to resign his seat. ...
Article : 28 wordsLord Wolverton, one of the Lords-inWaiting, has resigned his office at Court owing to a disagreement on the Home Rule question. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe following have been chosen to represent All England in the first test match, England v. Australia, to be played at Nottingham on 25th June for ...
Article : 237 wordsMr. H. Asquith, the Home Secretary, has refused to grant an application for the release of Gilbert, the Irish-American dynamiter. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe convi[?]t Scott will be executed iu Auckland Gaol to-morrow morning. He has not yet made any confession. The Government is of opinion that, should the ...
Article : 83 wordsPolling took place yesterday in seven electorates, but the returns so far are very incomplete. The labour party, however, scored heavily almost everywhere, and from present returns it appears ...
Article : 395 wordsThe Standard considers the scheme for the reconstruction of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney an improvement upon the schemes of the other ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Dangar addressed another large audience in the Alexandria Hall on Saturday night. He obtained a good hearing, in reply to a question, he said he objected to the income tax, because it had never ...
Article : 125 wordsCreditors' petitions for compulsory winding-up have been presented against the Queensland National Ba[?]k and the City of Melbourne Bank. The petitions will ...
Article : 61 wordsSir Edward Braddon, Agent-General for Tasmania, gave a banquet last night in honour of Viscount Gormanston, the Governor-designate of Tasmania, and ...
Article : 126 wordsThe London directors of the Bank of Victoria have decided not to call any meetings of the bank's contributories, having been legally advised that it is ...
Article : 39 wordsThe difficulty regarding the [?]wing [?]ates at the local collieries has now reached a critical stage. An aggregate m[?]ers' meeting was held last night, and it is currently rumoured to-day that if the men's offer ...
Article : 84 wordsA renewed sharp advance has taken place in Australian Government stocks. MAY 21. Victorian 3½ percents, are quoted at 88; ...
Article : 43 wordsJohn Randall was heavily fined by the local Bench yesterday for stripping bark on Crown lands. The evidence showed that over 100 fine timber trees, worth £1 each, had been destroyed for one sheet of ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Victorian Horse Artillery team have visited Woolwich Arsenal. They were much impressed with the firing of a new field gun. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe interest on the railway debenof Western Australia, which is due in June, is locked up in the National Bank of Australasia. The company has postponed the ...
Article : 50 wordsA well-attended meeting of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association committee was held yesterday evening, when Mr. G P. Wilson was elected vice-president, vice the late Mr. Fitzhardinge ...
Article : 202 wordsThe following are latest quotations for bank shares:—Bank of Australasia, £67 10s; Bank of New South Wales, £50; and Union Bank of Australia, ...
Article : 34 wordsA disastrous landslip has taken place at Vaerdalen, in Norway. Forty farms suddenly sank in, the place being converted into a slimy lake. One hundred persons ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. T. J. Byrne, Attorney-General, speaking at Sandgate in support of the Ministerial candidate last night, said there was ample money to carry on present work, to meet the demands of the Savings ...
Article : 232 wordsWith reference to the abandonment by the Attorney-General of the prosecutions in connection with the Mercantile Bank, the Premier states that the question of placing Sir Matthew Davies ...
Article : 223 wordsThe first battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment, which was ordered to Egypt at the time of the late crisis, will return to England early in June. ...
Article : 42 wordsAbout 7 o'clock this morning three watermen'[?] skiffs, containing altogether seven occupants, put off to meet the barque Salamanca, front Melbourne, which was then nearing port. ...
Article : 222 wordsThe barque Templeton met with frightful weather in the Atlantic. During a heavy gale a yard, on which 10 men were engaged in taking in sail, was carried ...
Article : 48 wordsH.R.H. the Princess of Wales and her daughters have returned to London after an extended absence on the Continent. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Zeehan Tramway Company have p[?]chased the whole of the jarr[?]h sleepers, rails, &c., from the New Dundas Tramway Company. The Goverum[?]nt has not yet given a final ...
Article : 145 wordsSignor Giovanni Giolitti, the Italian Premier, has resigned owing to the rejection of the Estimates, which was due to the personal unpopularity of one of the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Presbyterians in America are agitating for the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Methodists have appointed a day ...
Article : 45 wordsAnother diver is reported to be dead through diving in deep water, but this time the fatality occurred some distance from where the others met their death. The deceased was working from Mr. ...
Article : 210 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday at the residence of Mr. Baines, of Mulgoa Forest, before Mr. W. O. Turner, coroner, touching the death of Walter Jackson, Several witnesses were ex[?]mined, from ...
Article : 2,228 wordsThe scheme of reconstruction of the E. S. and A. C. Bank has been prepared, and will be submitted to meetings of shareholders and depositors on Thursday. The new bank will have a paid-up ...
Article : 202 wordsThe French press, in referring to the recent reverse suffered by the French troops in Siam, alleg[?]s that the British are backing up the Siamese Government ...
Article : 46 wordsA serious accident occurred at the Chicago Exhibition on Saturday. A platform at the Women's Congress gave way. Seventy-five ladies seated on the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe R.M.S. Parramatta, Captain Harris, commander, arrived from Colombo at 4 p.m. to-day. The following are the passengers:— ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Czar of Russia has abolished corporal punishment amongst female convicts in Siberia. ...
Article : 24 wordsM. Charles de L[?]sseps, who received a heavy sentenoe in connection with the Panama Canal scandals, is in the prison hospital, suffering from severe melancholi[?] ...
Article : 35 wordsMadame Melba appeared last night in Signor Leon Cavallo's opera "Ipagliacoi," which has never been before produced in London. The performance was a great ...
Article : 32 wordsSir Anthony Brownless is recovering slowly from the effects of his recent accident. He suffers from difficulty in breathing, and from sleeplessness, in consequence of intense pain in the chest, ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Commissioner of Public Works, accompanied by the Engineer-in-Chief and Mr. T. Burgoyne, M.P., travelled to the North last week, and made arrangements for pushing on public ...
Article : 62 wordsBroken Hill Proprietary [?]hares are quoted at £[?] 15s. ...
Article : 19 wordsPratt's dog biscuit factory, in London, has been burned down. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Rif[?]ce says that Graham is an excellent batsman, and displays splendid form in the out-field. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 22 May 1893, Page 5
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