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  2. THE VICE-REGAL VISIT TO NEW CALEDONIA. A RAINY RECEPTION.

    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 ...

    Article : 1,307 words
  3. VICTORIA. [BY TELEGRAM.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

    During an interview between a deputation had the Acting Minister of Railways in reference to the construction of a line from Dimboola to W[?]rop, Mr. D. Elder, of the New Zealand ...

    Article : 107 words
  4. SPECIAL CABLES. FROM THE HERALD'S LONDON CORRESPONDENTS. MR. G. R. DIBBS.

    Mr. G. R. Dibbs and Sir Saul Samuel are to be entertained at a banquet on Wednesday by the City Livery Company of the Fishmongers. ...

    Article : 40 words
  5. SPECIAL CABLES. FROM THE HERALD'S LONDON CORRESPONDENTS. GENERAL ELECTION IN ENGLAND.

    The polling in the following constituencies to-day resulted as under:— LICHFIELD (STAFFORDSHIRE).—Major Darwin (Unionist) defeated Sir J. Swinburne (G. L.) ...

    Article : 127 words
  6. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    THE elections in Great B[?]tain have concluded, the result being as follows:—Conservatives, 268; Unionists, 46; Gladstonian Liberals, 275; Nationalisists, 72; and Parnellites, 9. ...

    Article : 7,745 words
  7. THE MINEES' STRIKE AT BROKEN HILL. SAFETY OF THE PROPRIETARY MINE.

    Mr. Warren, manager of Block 10, says that nothing of importance has occurred at his mine. The water in Campbell's shaft has risen some little distance above the floor of the 600ft. level, but the rise ...

    Article : 1,121 words
  8. THE VICTORIAN SCRIP.

    Victorian scrip is now quoted at £92. There has boon a rise all round in other colonial Government stocks, owing to purchases made for the purposes of ...

    Article : 41 words
  9. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Marine Board has received a report that a large iron barque was early this morning 25 miles from Troubridge Light, showing a signal that something was wrong with her steering gear. She ...

    Article : 126 words
  10. VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.

    A number of residente of Ballarat and Creswick to-day asked the Minister for Lands that 200 acres of a worked-out auriferous area near Creswick, about to be thrown open for selection, ...

    Article : 136 words
  11. NEW ZEALAND SECURITIES.

    At a meeting of the New Zealand and River Plate Land Mortgage Company, Mr. Thomas Russell stated that the depreciation in New Zealand se[?]urities if ...

    Article : 48 words
  12. SUMMARY OF RESULTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 words
  13. POLITICS AT THE CAPE.

    The Legislative Assembly of Cape Colony has, by a majority of five, read the Franchise Bill a second time. The measure increases the electoral ...

    Article : 33 words
  14. RETRENCHMENT IN THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

    The Education Department has commenced to carry out tho schemo of retrenchment as to the closing of superfluous Schools in the metropolitan districts. ...

    Article : 31 words
  15. AUSTRALASIAN PARLIAMENTS. [BY TELEGRAPH.] (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.) VICTORIA.

    In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. E. Murphy gave notice of motion,—"That in view of the recent investgation into the affairs of the Real Estate Bank of Victoria, together with the ...

    Article : 499 words
  16. MISADVENTURE TO THE COUNTESS OF HOPETOUN.

    The Countess of Hopetoun met with an alarming misadventure in Swanston-strect this morning Whilst driving with her two children and the nurse one of the horses slipped aud fell on the wooden ...

    Article : 92 words
  17. THE CHOLERA IN RUSSIA.

    The mortality from cholera in Russia is vastly increasing. Further rioting has taken place at Saratov. The fury of the mob was directed against the doctors, ...

    Article : 56 words
  18. MISHAP TO THE SAVAN SPIT LIGHTSHIP.

    Between 2 and 3 o'clock this morning the residents of Queenscliff were startled by the report of a signal rocket from the signal station at Queenscliff. It was ascertained that the west channel ...

    Article : 276 words
  19. OUTBREAK OF THE PLAGUE.

    It is reported that the plague has broken out at Khorassan. ...

    Article : 19 words
  20. MOROCCO.

    The newspapers of Paris are jubilant over the course of affairs in Morocco, and they admit that the rebuff given to Great Britain in Morocco is due to the action of ...

    Article : 100 words
  21. CONGRATULATORY TELEGRAM TO MR. GLADSTONE.

    The 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 words
  22. CHILI AND THE UNITED STATES.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 42 words
  23. GALE IN PORT PHILLIP.

    During the north-west gale yesterday the small cutter Annulus, moored inside the Pope's Eye Fort, capsized and sank, with about a ton of blasting gelatine on board, intended for blowing ...

    Article : 44 words
  24. THE BISLTCHEFF MURDER TRIAL.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 72 words
  25. OUTRAGE ON THE HIGH SEAS.

    Two men belonging to the American schooner Undine have been arrested at Ascension Island and sont to Manila on a charge of murdering most of the crew and ...

    Article : 49 words
  26. THE IMPERIAL BANKING COMPANY.

    The 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 words
  27. QUEENSLAND.

    In 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 words
  28. THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.

    Dr. Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, principal of the Royal Academy of Music and a distinguished composer, has been chosen as conductor of the London ...

    Article : 224 words
  29. A RIOT IN HUNGARY.

    A 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 words
  30. THE EARL OF ORKNEY.

    The 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 ...

    Article : 47 words
  31. MERCANTILE BANK OF AUSTRALIA.

    An overflowing meeting of shareholders of the Mercantile Bank of Austialia was held to-day. Sir Graham Berry, the chairman and liquidator, arrived a few minutes late and took the chair. ...

    Article : 139 words
  32. ACTION OF THE DIRECTORS APPROVED.

    Mr. J. J Weston informa [?] that the following address to the Barrier Ranges Mining Companies' Association is now being signed by a large number of sharcholders:—"We, the undersigned ...

    Article : 103 words
  33. THE SMALLPOX OUTBREAK.

    The medical officer at the Qunrantine Station telegraphed to the Board of Health yesterday stating that all persons detained on the healthy ground are well. The patients on the ship ...

    Article : 293 words
  34. THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE OF GREAT BRITAIN.

    The 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 words
  35. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    In 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 words
  36. DEATH OF MR. THOMAS COOK.

    The 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, ...

    Article : 221 words
  37. THE RECEPTION AT NOUMEA.

    Our special correspondent, writing from No[?]mea on 16th July, sends the following account of the vice-regal visit:— On Tuesday, the 12th instant, the Semaphore ...

    Article : 1,976 words
  38. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—Except as a resident of the colony, I am in no way interested in the present lamentable struggle between the [?]wners and their workmen at Broken Hill, but everyone who has the interests of ...

    Article : 294 words
  39. A WILL CASE.

    A 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 ...

    Article : 80 words
  40. ACTION FOR LIBEL.

    An action for libel was conunonccd to-day by Edward Williams, chief cook of the steamer Barcoo, against tho Age, claiming damages £2000. The alleged libel is contained in an ...

    Article : 288 words
  41. OBITUARY.

    Mr. 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 ...

    Article : 38 words
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