The team of riflemen to represent Victoria in the next English tournament is now being chosen. Colonel Price will have personal command. The captain of the team will be Captain M'Leish, of the ...
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Article : 176 wordsSignor Rudini has formed an ad interim Government in Italy, The new Government will take steps to effect reductions in the expenditure of the country. ...
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Article : 9,051 wordsIn the American House of Representatives a resolution to tack a Free Coinage Bill on to the Supply Bill was ruled out of order on a narrow division. The opinion ...
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Article : 31 wordsSir Harry Atkinson has consented to act as one of the delegates at the Federal Convention in Sydney. SUNDAY. ...
Article : 315 wordsChina is about to issue a 4½ per cent, loan of £7,000,000. The minimum is fixed at 95. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Parnell claims that he has secured the nomination of a majority of candidates in the Irish constituencies at the next election. ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is considered probable that the decision of Mr. Justice North as to the power of the dockowners to compel shipowners to discharge their own vessels in dock will ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Pall Mall Gazette commends the course pursued by Mr. H. H. Champion in connection with the late strike in Melbourne, and says that subsequent events ...
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Article : 45 wordsThe seamen and firemen at Hull, as well as other labour unions, have refused to work with free labourers. ...
Article : 43 wordsBy an avalanche at a village in the Canton of Glarus, in Switzerland, 22 persons were killed. ...
Article : 25 wordsArchbishop Carr, of Melbourne, and Bishop Moore, of Ballarat, received a cordial welcome on their arrival at Dunedin last night. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe French Budget Committee has reduced the duty on colonial sugars to three francs. ...
Article : 26 wordsA telegram from Tambo states that strike matters are quiet there. The Charleville carriers refuse to carry Lange's Downs wool, but there is a probability of the Central Queensland carriers conveying it to ...
Article : 75 wordsEfforts are being made to establish steam communication between Wellington and Tahiti. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Cardiff coal labourers' strike has been endorsed by the Dockers' Union. Three thousand men are idle. The strikers' executive committee has asked the railway ...
Article : 74 wordsA rumour has been put in circulation to the effect that an arrangement has been concluded between France and Portugal whereby the former country acquires the ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. Wragge issued the following special forecast at 11 o'clock this morning:— Shipping interests are advised that steep barometric gradients exist between Smoky Cape and ...
Article : 69 wordsThe death is announced, after a brief illness, of Mr. C. Brown, formerly a member of the House of Reprasentatives. At a meeting in Dunodin, under the presidency ...
Article : 66 wordsThe cable ship Recorder and the hulk Baroon Slort were both stranded yesterday morning on the Madgee Reefs. The Recorder, which was under full steam, endeavoured to clear her chains from ...
Article : 257 wordsThe heads of the agreement between the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and the colonies for the reduction in the cable rates, have been cabled to Australia for ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Press Annual Boatrace was rowed yesterday, on the Salt Water River. Three crews competed, representing the Argus, the Daily Telegraph, and the evening Standard, The last-named crow won ...
Article : 44 wordsA serious rising has taken place among the Arnauts in Old Servia. Troops have been despatched to suppress the outbreak. ...
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Article : 642 wordsIn connection with the Chilian revolt severe fighting has taken place in the streets of Castro and Chilian, when numbers of the contestants were killed. ...
Article : 118 wordsThe committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives of the United States has passed a strong resolution of sympathy with the Jews in the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe vexed question of the bridge over the Murray at Tocumwal or Corbram is in a fair way of being settled. A Victorian official some time ago reported in favour of Tocumwal, and last ...
Article : 151 wordsLord Sheffield is organising an English cricket team to play a series of matches in Australia in the autumn. The project has been favourably received. ...
Article : 47 wordsTerrible floods have taken, place in certain districts of China, and have spread desolation in their course. At present it ib estimated that not less than 1000 ...
Article : 50 wordsNews from Suva to-day reports the total wreck of the barque Loch Naw, of Sydney, on the northern coast of New Caledonia, having drifted on to a reef during a calm. All the crow were saved. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe banking returns for the whole of the Australasian colonies for the final quarter of 1890 are as follows:—Deposits, £110,860,143, a decrease on the preceding quarter of £993,052; advances, ...
Article : 55 wordsA terrible accident occurred on Saturday on the Yarra, near the Queen's Bridge. The Elingamite, for Sydney, was about to swing from the wharf for the voyage to Sydney when two of her seamen, ...
Article : 189 wordsFreights by steam cargo boats to New Zealand average 7s 6d per ton above rates for sailing vessels. Shippers are objecting to the difference. ...
Article : 41 wordsAt an inquest held at Wellington on the body of an expressman who died there in the hospital, the doctor said that death was due to the bite of a katipo spider, but that had the deceased's blood not ...
Article : 132 wordsSir William Fitzherbert, late Speaker of the Legislative Council, died to-day. Sir William Fitzherbert immigrated to New Zealand in 1842. He was appointed Treasurer of the colony in ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 9 Feb 1891, Page 5
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