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  2. N. Z. LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO.

    Owing to the banking crisis in Australia, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, has suspended payment pending ...

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  3. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    This morning by the express from Melbourne 33 non-unionists arrived in Adelaide, under engagement to the Adelaide Steamship Company, to take the place of the crew of the Innamincka, who ...

    Article : 658 words
  4. QUEENSLAND.

    A deputation from the committee of tho unemployed waited upon the Mayor this morning to request permission to march through the streets m procession, and present a ...

    Article : 269 words
  5. THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

    The principal event in connection with the shipping strike yesterday was the arrest of the crews of the A.U.S.N. Company's steamer Cintra and the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Barrier· ...

    Article : 1,985 words
  6. AMUSEMENTS.

    Miss Cicely Staunton's arewell appearance and benefit will take place at the Y.M.C.A. Hall on Friday night, when the contralto will sing for the last time Vacc[?]j's fine [?]ria, "Se tu Dorm." ...

    Article : 186 words
  7. THE POSITION OF STEAMERS.

    The Cintra (A.U.S.N. Company) left last evening at 7.15. instead of 5 o'clock, for Melbourne, with a non-union crew. The union hands were arrested during the morning for de[?]rting. ...

    Article : 197 words
  8. FITZ GERALD BROTHERS' CIRCUS.

    The fifteenth bi-weekly matince of Fitz Geralds' circus, opposite the railway station, will be given this afternoon, when the programme which has proved so popular since Saturday will be placed ...

    Article : 87 words
  9. FILLIS;S CIRCUS.

    The mid-week matince will be given at the Exhibition Buildings this afternoon, commencing at 3 o'clock, upon which occasion the management will present a programme specially adapted to the ...

    Article : 277 words
  10. NEW ZEALAND.

    The steamer Waitara, belouging to the Waitara Harbour Board, has been totally wrecked on the Mokau bar. No lives were lost. ...

    Article : 34 words
  11. THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE SHIPPING ACT.

    As stated in our issue on Monday last, Mr. See was unable to receive a deputation from the Seamen's Union with respect to the administration of the Shipping Act. The following is Mr. Se[?]'s reply: ...

    Article : 525 words
  12. THE NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALL TEAM.

    The general feeling throughout the colony is that the New Zealand football team should meet the New South Wales again. It is thought that only test matches should be played now, and that there ...

    Article : 185 words
  13. MELBOURNE FAT STOCK MARKET.

    The supply of fat-heep in the live stock market to-day was rather heavier than that of last week, 20,000 having been yarded, including about 3500 useful to superior Riverina wethers. Prime merinos were ...

    Article : 241 words
  14. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    In the Assembly last night the second reading of the Treasury Bill was moved by the Premier. The measure was opposed by Messrs. Canning, Loton, Dehamel, and Sholl: but on a division, ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. AUSTRALASIAN PARLIAMENTS.

    The Legislative Council to-night, on the motion of Mr. Wynne, agreed to the immediate construction of two railway lines in the Mallee country from Boort to Quambatook, and Dimboola to ...

    Article : 575 words
  16. "ANTIPODE A:" A LOST CONTINENT.

    Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, of the Natural History Museum, lecturing at the Royal Institution on "The Geographical Distribution of Birds," has elaborated Mr. H.O. Forbes's theory of the geography of the ...

    Article : 1,086 words
  17. LORD KINTORE'S VISIT TO SYDNEY.

    Lord Kintore, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of South Australia, left for Sydney by the express in order to install Sir Robert Duff as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New South ...

    Article : 95 words
  18. NEW ZEALAND.

    An extraordinary scene took p[?]ace in the House to-day. Mr. Cadman, ex-Native Minister, challenged Mr. R[?]s who had made charges against him to resign his seat, and fight an election The ...

    Article : 51 words
  19. THE EXECUTION OF ARCHER.

    George Martin Walter Archer, who on 10th June last was found guilty of the murder of Emma Harrison in her lodgings at the corner of Bourke and Burton streets, Darlinghurst, on 25th March, was ...

    Article : 855 words
  20. COUNTRY NEWS.

    A public meeting was held at Burringbar last night and was largely attended. It was proposed by Mr. P. Geoghegan.—"I That the proposed railway station site is totally unsuitable, being in a ...

    Article : 2,281 words
  21. INCREASED LIGHT DUES.

    A well-attended meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held to-day to consider the Government proposal for increased light dues of 50 per cent, on ocean steamers. Messrs. Mu[?]ke, ...

    Article : 421 words
  22. NEW SOUTH WALES LOCAL OPTION LEAGUE.

    A meeting ef the central committee was held in the Temperance Hall on Monday afternoon. The Rev. F. B. Boyce occupied the chair. It was reported that the Congregational Total Abstinence Society had ...

    Article : 492 words
  23. [BY TELEGRAPH.]

    Respecting the suspension of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Mr. Battley, general manager of the company, New Zealand, states that the suspension is absolutely due to the ...

    Article : 292 words
  24. QUEENSLAND.

    In the Assembly to-day, when the HOUSE met, Sir Thomas M'llwraith made a Ministerial statement in reference to the Ministerial crisis. He said that, on the Governor's arrival from ...

    Article : 882 words
  25. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    News is to hand that extraordinarily rich stone has been found on the Robertson-M'Farlane lease, 2½ miles south from Bayley, adjoining the north end of Jackson's lease, which is now under ...

    Article : 172 words
  26. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

    Stock passings: 1700 [?]wes, from Gum Holes to Flemington, via Rylstone, Cox Brothers owners, Perry in charge; 200 mixed fat cattle, from Pillicawarran[?] stat[?]n to Lue, Cox, Dowling and Co. ...

    Article : 138 words
  27. THE DIVISION OF ELECTORATES.

    At the Newcastle Borough Council last night, when the aldermen were discussing the question of a request to the Electorates Commissioners to confine the electorate of Newcastle, as far as possible, within the ...

    Article : 75 words
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