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  2. THE STRIKE.

    Up to the present no definite action has been decided upon by the Governments of N.S W. and Victoria in reference to the proposal to insist upon a conference being held between the employers ...

    Article : 609 words
  3. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    Mr. Henry William Danby, of Danby, Son, and Co., Melbourne died this morning, aged 58. He arrived in the colony in 1853. On Friday night nearly a quarter of a ton of ...

    Article : 84 words
  4. THE COLONIAL DEFENCES.

    Captain A. D. Moore, R.N., has been appointed by the Admiralty to proceed to Australia in order to advise the Imperial Government upon the question of ...

    Article : 63 words
  5. THE AUSTRALIAN STRIKE.

    Mr. G. A. Edwards, secretary of the Sydney Labour Defence Committee, has cabled to Mr. John Burns, chairman of the London Dockers' Union, for a loan of ...

    Article : 146 words
  6. CABLEGRAMS.

    Germany and Austria are parleying with a view to deciding upon common action against the injurious effects of the operation of the American M'Kinley Tariff. ...

    Article : 36 words
  7. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    THE London shipowners have adopted the plan of engaging on the vessels what men they require, instead of getting them from the offices in the usual way. As a result of this action union ...

    Article : 9,725 words
  8. A VICTORIAN MILITARY OFFICER AT CHATHAM.

    Major Hoad, of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, has gained special certificates for topography of fortification and field works at the School of Engineering, Chatham. ...

    Article : 48 words
  9. QUEENSLAND.

    The first Sunday service was held to-day in the new Baptist Tabernacle, which is the finest ecclesiastical building in Brisbane. There were crowded congregations both morning and evening. ...

    Article : 39 words
  10. AFFAIRS IN MELBOURNE.

    A most violent outrage in connection with the strike occurred at Port Melbourne early on Saturday morning. The plan adopted by the police for the protection of free labourers has been for detachments of police to ...

    Article : 1,945 words
  11. THE MINING EXHIBITION.

    The following awards have been made in connection with the Mining Exhibition at Sydenham:- New South Wales:—Coal: Brazenall's, ...

    Article : 242 words
  12. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    From a racing point of view the sports on the Adelaide Oval on Saturday afternoon, under the auspices of the Cricketing Association and the Cyclists' Union, were the best, most successful and ...

    Article : 331 words
  13. CHIEF JUSTICE OF SAMOA.

    Herr Conrad Cederkranz has been appointed Chief Justice of Samoa. ...

    Article : 18 words
  14. THE ILLNESS OF THE GUARDS AT BERMUDA.

    It is now reported that but one death has occurred in the 2nd battalion of Guards sent to Bermuda, and that five men are ill in the hospital. ...

    Article : 38 words
  15. THE LABOUR TROUBLES IN ENGLAND.

    The London shipowners are now engaging men on bourd the vessels for which they are required, instead of getting them from the offices in the usual manner. ...

    Article : 84 words
  16. UNIVERSITY HONOURS FOR A VICTORIAN.

    Mr. John Henry Michel, a graduate of the Melbourne University, has been elected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. ...

    Article : 27 words
  17. THE LATE STRIKES IN FRANCE.

    President Carnot has pardoned a number of men who were imprisoned for breaches of the law by taking part in disturbances arising out of the late strikes. ...

    Article : 38 words
  18. THE LATE MRS. BOOTH.

    Fifty thousand persons from all parts of the kingdom have viewed the body of the late Mrs. Booth, wife of General Booth, the founder and leader of the Salvation Army, ...

    Article : 45 words
  19. THE PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR.

    The Pesther Lloyd, a semi-official Vienna journal, publishes what it regards as a reliable version of the reported attempt on the life of the Czar of Russia in a ...

    Article : 88 words
  20. NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The Darwin and Palmerston Pine Creek railway earnings for the week ended October 4 were £1041. H.M.S. Rapid arrived on Wednesday, and has since ...

    Article : 107 words
  21. ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL.

    It is reported that a fiotilla of Portuguese gunboats will be formed across the mouth of the Zambesi to passively resist the entrance of the British squadron ordered to ...

    Article : 56 words
  22. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL AT ALBANY.

    The R.M.S. Ballaarat, E. Ashdown, commanner, arrived from Colombo at 4 p.m. The following are the passengers:- For ALBANY: Mrs. Sayer. ...

    Article : 173 words
  23. THE CORRIMAL AND KEMBLA MIINES.

    Work at the Mount Kemblamine is proceeding quietly, but very slowly, since a few of the men employed have no more than superficial acquaintance with their duties. Last night some free labourers were lodged in a tunnel of ...

    Article : 296 words
  24. BOATING FATALITY ON THE YARRA.

    This morning four young men hired two boats at Richmond for a row down the Yarra. They reached Prince's Bridge, where the water being choppy one boat began taking in water, ...

    Article : 178 words
  25. THE POTATO BLIGHT IN IRELAND.

    The Government has advanced to the Midland Railway Company the sum of £400,000 to construct lines of railway in the worst potato-blighted districts in ...

    Article : 60 words
  26. THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN PORTUGAL.

    General Goussa has succeeded in forming a new Ministry in Portugal, after several others had failed. ...

    Article : 33 words
  27. POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN SWITZERLAND.

    Another popular outbreak is feared in the canton of Ticino, in Switzerland. It is reported that the Provisional Government, which was dissolved in consequence of the ...

    Article : 73 words
  28. THE TIPPERARY CASES.

    Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien, who were summoned under the Crimes Act to appear at the Tipperary court, did not answer to their names when called upon, and their ...

    Article : 102 words
  29. ALBURY AND BOARD.

    The Albury Land Board concluded its sittings on Saturday, when the following cases were dealt with:- Applications to substitute other improvements in lieu of fencing—Samuel Heron, refused; John ...

    Article : 139 words
  30. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

    The R.M.S. Alameda arrived from San Francisco yesterday. The following is a list of the passengers for Sydney:- Miss K. Murray, Mesdanes A. E. Eitel, W. ...

    Article : 183 words
  31. LATEST FROM MOUNT KEMBLA.

    I reached the colliery about 7 o'clock last evening, meeting en route hundreds of men and women returning, several of the weaker ones betraying unmistakable evidence of exhaustion from their 30 miles' ...

    Article : 1,037 words
  32. FAILURES ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE.

    Four stockbrokers failed to-day. Further failures are expected to take place. There is tremendous excitement on the Stock Exchange. ...

    Article : 94 words
  33. MOUNTAIN RESERVES.

    An important meeting of the trustees of the mountain reserves, to which all the trustees were invited, was held at the Carrington Hotel yesterday afternoon. Mr. F. C. Goyder, who was appointed chairman, ...

    Article : 280 words
  34. THE DYNAMITE CRUSADE.

    Mr. Michael Davitt, in a series of articles published in the Labour World, asserted that he was prepared to prove that James M'Dermott, of Brooklyn, was in 1883 ...

    Article : 86 words
  35. AMERICAN COMMERCIAL.

    Wheat, No, 1, 1dol 32½c. to 1dol. 33¾c; flour, family extras, 4dol. 25c to 4dol 50c.; bakers' extras 4dol. 15c, to 4dol, 25c.; barley, 1dol. 50c. for standard Chevalier, and 1dol. 30c. to 1dol. 35c. ...

    Article : 73 words
  36. THE QUEENSLAND COAL MINERS.

    A large meeting ef miners was held at Bundamba, near Ipswich, last night, to consider the advisableness of forming a union among the coal miners there Mr. M'Donald, president of the ...

    Article : 266 words
  37. THE INTERNATIONAL GLOVE FIGHT.

    Slavin and M'Auliffe, the principals in the recent international glove light at the Ormonde Club, have been arrested. Both men have been admitted to bail in ...

    Article : 56 words
  38. THE EASTERN SOUDAN.

    The negotiations which have for some time past been in progress between the representatives of England and Italy, with the object of delimiting the respective ...

    Article : 64 words
  39. THE TAMWORTH MURDER CASE.

    The case against Jimmy Ah Dett, for the murder of Sarah Evelyn Donalds at Quirindi on the 22nd April, was resumed at the Circuit Court to-day, the jury having been locked up all night. For the defence two ...

    Article : 129 words
  40. SLAVIN AND THE STAGE.

    F. P. Slavin, the Australian pugilist, one of the principals in the late glove fight at the Ormonde Club, has received an offer from a theatrical manager in New York to play ...

    Article : 74 words
  41. DEATH OF THE REV. J. FINLAYSON.

    The Rev. J. Finlavson, minister of the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia, stationed at Brushgrove, died last night. The decessed, who had been in the charge since his arrival in the colony three years ago, ...

    Article : 75 words
  42. THIRSK OCTOBER MEETING.

    The Thirsk October Meeting opened to-day, when the Thirsk Autumn Handicap, 1 mile, was won by Mr. W. C. Cooper's oh m Lady Betty, by St. Albans—Pardon. ...

    Article : 60 words
  43. SUPPOSED INCENDIARISM.

    Information was received here yesterday that the woolshed at Packsaddle station had been burnt to the ground, including; 40 bales of scoured wool, the property of E. W. Donnelly and Co. The damage is estimated ...

    Article : 59 words
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  45. LATE SHIPPING.

    Changsha (s.), 2269 tons, from Hongkong. Passengers— Mr. and Mrs Collins and familly, Messrs. Haines and M'Keddie. For Melbourne: Mr. Thomson. Second-class, for Melbourne: Mr. Evans, and Mrs. On Mob Chang. ...

    Article : 43 words
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