Of late years the chief French possession in the Pacific has had a knack of coming to the front, mostly in an unpleasant manner. We usually, as Australians, connect New Caledonia with escaped ...
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Article : 107 wordsMr. G. R. Dibbs and Sir Saul Samuel are to be entertained at a banquet on Wednesday by the City Livery Company of the Fishmongers. ...
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Article : 100 wordsThe following telegram, signed by Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, was to-day sent by Dr. O'Donnell, chairman of the National League of Victoroa, at the instance of the Home Rulers of this colony, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Chilian Government has agreed to pay to the United States an indemnity of 75,000dol. in gold for the attack on the seamen of the American warship ...
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Article : 44 wordsThe trial at Sofia of the l8 prisoners implicated in the murder of M. Beltcheff, the Bulgarian Minister of Finance, in March, 1891, has been concluded. Four ...
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Article : 49 wordsThe affairs of the Imperal Banking Company were under investigation by the Insolvency Court to-day, when two directors were examined at length before Judge Molesworth. The ...
Article : 249 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the whole sitting was occupied in discussing tho Elections Bill in committee. The various clauses were discussed at cousiderable length, but no important ...
Article : 350 wordsDr. Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, principal of the Royal Academy of Music and a distinguished composer, has been chosen as conductor of the London ...
Article : 224 wordsA number of riotous reapers rose in the village of Jamasi, Hungary, recently. One hundred and eighty of them attacked and killed the Inspector of Police. The ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Earl of Orkney (the Right Hon. Edmund Walter Fitzmaurice) was married to-day to Miss Connie Gilchrist, formerly a member of the London Gaiety Burlesque ...
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Article : 293 wordsThe Rev James H. Rigg, D.D., has been chosen president of the Wesleyan Conference of Great Britain for the year. James H. Rigg was born in 1821, at ...
Article : 145 wordsIn the Assembly this afternoon, the Government stateel that they could not override the statute so as to admit boring apparatus for artesian water to be introduced into the Territory free of ...
Article : 269 wordsThe death is to-day announced of Mr. Thomas Cook, the founder of the Tourists' Bureau, in his 84th year. Thomas Cook was born at Melbourne, Derbyshire, ...
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Article : 294 wordsA contested will case was determined to-day by Mr. Justice Hood. Joseph Moses, of South Geelong, died in May, leaving the whole of his property, valued at £4668, to the Melbourne ...
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Article : 288 wordsMr. J. Macgregor, the well-known canoeist and author of "Rob Roy on the Baltic," "Rob Roy on the Jordan," "A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 21 Jul 1892, Page 5
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