The Stamp duties proposed by the Government are regarded with much disfavour in the city, on the ground that while some of them can practically be almost neutralised so as to produce next to ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Standard's St. Petersburg correspondent states that no exchange of views on the Pamir question has taken place between Lord Rosebery and M. de Giers. ...
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Article : 11,625 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Broken Hill South Company was held to-day, Mr. J. F. Levien presiding. The chairman stated that it had been rumoured that a call was contemplated. ...
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Article : 994 wordsThe population of Shorawak, a province of Afghanistan, have revolted against the Ameer. LATER. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe annual meeting of Fraser and Co., Limited, was held to-day. The chairman stated that the amount of undivided profits on the 30th June was £3858. The directors were not prepared to ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Samuel Holmes is arranging to send to Melbourne a complete apparatus for making briquettes out of Victorian coal. ...
Article : 24 wordsThere is a further deficit of four million lire (about £145,000) in the receipts of the Papal Treasury from the offerings known as Peter's Pence. ...
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Article : 78 wordsIt is reported that the Angherine rebels had the better of the recent battle with the Sultan's troops, of whom they killed 200 infantry and captured 60 others. ...
Article : 35 wordsA Russian gunboat seized some Canadian and American sealers at Copper Island, Behring Sea, and subjected the crews to great cruelty. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. James Munro, Agent-General for Victoria, has had an interview with the Hon. R. H. Meade, C.B., Permanent Under-Secretary to the Colonial Office, and ...
Article : 118 wordsM. Leon Perrett was summoned at the City Police Court this morning for having on the 5th and 8th August unlawfully made photographs of certain fortifications in Queensland, namely, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Central Board of Health is taking every precaution to prevent the introduction of cholera. Besides proclaiming as infected all ports in Germany, Belgium, Holland, and other places, these ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Post Office is desirous of only paying the Postal Union rates of carriage for letters by the Pacific Service, instead of 11s per lb. as heretofore. Mr. Perceval, ...
Article : 67 wordsA shocking fatality occurred at Coorparoo, near Brisbane, this morning. A family named Moody were living in a small cottage or hut, and Moody had gone to work as usual. Mrs. Moody went ...
Article : 111 wordsIt is reported that a bill is to be submitted to the German Reichstag to alleviate the obligations of the North-German Lloyd (Imperial mail line) to the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe market is not affected by the failure of Messrs. Redfern, Alexander, and Co. It is reported that the estate will realise barely 5s in the £. Opinion ...
Article : 64 wordsBar silver is quoted at 3s 2?d per ounce, being an advance of ?d since yesterday. ...
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Article : 1,053 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day Mr. Grimwade moved,—"That in the future appointments of Agent-General for the colony the Government should stipulate that the gentleman appointed ...
Article : 318 wordsMesdames Harrison, Blaine, and Foster, and other leading American ladies, have sent a petition to the Queen praying for the release of Mrs. Maybrick, who is ...
Article : 41 wordsSeveral Victorian law students, not native-born but old colonists, desire inclusion under Sir Bryan O'Loghlen's measure on the same footing as ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Marquis de Morés, who killed Captain Mayer in a duel in Paris recently, has been placed on his trial charged with homicide. The Marquis was acquitted. ...
Article : 33 wordsAn inquest on the four bodies recovered from the wreck of the barque Newfield was held yesterday, and a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned. The bodies were buried this morning ...
Article : 151 wordsWilliam Gentle, who is under arrest upon an Adelaide warrant, charged with having committed an offence against the bankruptcy laws of South Australia, has ...
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Article : 370 wordsThe death is announced of the Earl of Eglinton. The late Archibald William Montgomerie, fourteenth Earl of Eglinton, was in his 51st year. The ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the discussion on the tariff was resumed in Committee. The various items were discussed at some length, and several minor alterations made. The tax on flour ...
Article : 78 wordsA telegram received from Port Campbell states that another wreck is reported from Sherbrook, about four miles east of Port Campbell. One body, the telegram says, was seen washed up on the rocks ...
Article : 334 wordsThe first day's racing of the Derby August meeting took place to-day, when the principal event was decided as under:— ...
Article : 241 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Mr. Johnson moved for the restriction of the free distribution by Government of vines, cuttings, fruit, and other trees, to blockers and small cultivators. The debate was ...
Article : 83 wordsA provision has been included in the Electoral Bill providing that women's franchise shall not become law until June next, shortly before the general election; as it is objected that, if the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 1 Sep 1892, Page 5
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