The Right Hon. W. H. Smith maintains that a debate on the question of the Queensland Governorship would be premature and injurious. The matter was receiving careful ...
Article : 87 wordsThe health of Mr. John Bright has suffered a serious relapse. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. Agar Wynne, of Terinallum, is the only candidate nominated for the vacancy in the Legislative Council for the Western Province, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. T. P. Cumming. ...
Article : 322 wordsThe Presbyterian General Assembly continued its sittings to-day. The report from the committee appointed to consider the question of Jubilee celebration was adopted. The report recommended ...
Article : 154 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the bill prohibiting public officers from engaging in outside work met with some opposition. Mr. Service suggested that public servants should be allowed to work after hours. ...
Article : 499 wordsA matter of interest to Australian shippers was settled in the City of London Court lately. A dispute about the rate at which freight should be charged on a shipment to Australia of a quantity of galvanised iron by the steamer Gulf o Venice was heard ...
Article : 312 wordsThe Dowager Empress of Germany has arrived at Windsor. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe demand made by the British ironworkers for an advance on the existing rate of wages has been submitted to arbitration. ...
Article : 29 wordsA strong garrison is being massed at Suakim before commencing an attack on the trenches of the rebels under Osman Digna. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Pope will shortly issue an Encyclical letter in favour of a general disarming of the military forces in Europe. ...
Article : 27 wordsAn interruption on the line connecting sydney with Grees Cape, Gabo, and Wilson's Promontory yesterday proved a source[?] of disappointment to a good many yachtsmen interested in learning how the Volunteer, and the Assegai, and the Miranda are ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Jubilee Conference of the Baptist Association was continued to-day. In the morning the Rev. J. A. Soper, of New South Wales, read a paper on "A Powerful Pulpit." The members were entertained by ...
Article : 82 wordsItaly and Zanzibar have renewed friendly relations. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe order which the English Government have given will involve them in an expenditure vastly in excess of the sum that they pledged themselves to spend under the terms of the Imperial defence agreement, while the vessels now being built ...
Article : 321 wordsSeveral extensive failures in the grain trade have taken place in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Odessa. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe President of the National League in America has appealed to the Irish-Americans to subscribe to the Parnell Defence Fund. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe China Navigation Company's steamer Taiyuan was to leave Wellington for Hongkong, via Sourabaya, on Monday last. The ship Oneida, from Melbourne for Sydney, cleared with 3945 sacks ot flour as part cargo. ...
Article : 973 wordsMr. A J. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is indisposed. He caught a chill, and has been compelled to keep to his bed. He is in a feverish state. ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Mr. Hussey gave notice of motion to the effect that it is highly desirable that the Government be apprised of the name of the proposed successor to Sir William Robinson before the ...
Article : 770 wordsA local option poll was taken to-day in the East Ward, which forms the principal business portion of the city of Brisbane, on a resolution that no new licenses be granted. Very little interest was apparently ...
Article : 244 wordsThe Shipping Committee will sit on Wednesday next to consider a proposal for an increase of freights. ...
Article : 24 wordsSix thousand five hundred sheep pushed yesterday for Nilanglo, Routledge owner, Vaughan in charge. The weather is hot and dry. BOURKE, TUESDAY. ...
Article : 285 wordsMr. Collyns has secured a space of 200ft. at the Paris Exhibition for the display of wines, and he is willing to exhibit the wines of any Australian growers. ...
Article : 42 wordsIn the Assembly to-day a bill was introduced allowing the Government to impose a tax on sheep and cattle outside the settled districts, the proceeds to be spent in the destruction of wild dogs. The Council's ...
Article : 127 wordsThe relations between Italy and France are [?]mproving. ...
Article : 19 wordsA great improvement is manifest in the Irwin coal seam as the men sink deeper. A considerable amount of capital is forthcoming for further operations. The coal is considered excellent for steam purposes. The ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, Mr. Gladstone declared that the question relating to the arrears of rent in Ireland was primarily entitled to the attention of Parliament. Mr. ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Legislature has passed a resolution in favour of inviting a conference of delegates from the Australasian colonies, to assemble at King George's Sound, to consider the proposed fortifications in that locality. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe New Zealand branch of Cook's Tourist Agency was inaugurated in Auckland to-day with great ceremony. The leading citizens were present. A great increase in the tourist traffic is anticipated this summer, ...
Article : 102 wordsSir,—Now that it is almost definitely settled that New South Wales will adopt the system of payment of members it may not be out of place—it certainly cannot be of out of reason to deprecate the initiation of a measure that will ...
Article : 523 wordsAt a meeting of the Executive to-day Mr. Bird, the Treasurer, was appointed to succeed Mr. Braddon as a member of the Federal Council. Beautifully fine weather has set in. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Intercolonial Temporance Convention was opened this morning in the Temperance Hall, presided over by Mr. Munro, M.L A. Among the delegates appointed to take part in the conference were the following:— ...
Article : 346 wordsIn the case Toy v. Musgrove on application was made to Mr. Justice Kerford to-day in the Supreme Court that the defendant be, allowed to pay into Court the amount of the judgment and the taxed costs ...
Article : 322 wordsThe Peninsular, the latest addition to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, has been launched from the yard of Messrs Caird and Co., ot Greenock, a firm that has built a number of vessels for the same company. ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Egyptian Government proposes to extend the operation of the mixed tribunals for another year, or to prolong their operation on a wider basis for five years. ...
Article : 41 wordsFresh out of dock at Melbourne, the above " Port" liner yesterday returned to this port in ballast. She has had a good freight from Calcutta in her since she left here last, having carried the larsest, or one of the largest, cargoes of cornsacks to ...
Article : 206 wordsM. Goblet, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, states that France has not pledged herself to co-operate with the vessels of the other European Powers in the blockade of the ...
Article : 88 wordsSir,—Allow me a short space to say a few words upon the appointment of Governors to colonies having Responsible Governments. The present mode of appointments of those high functionaries by the Imperial Government commends ...
Article : 362 wordsA telegram from Sandhurst states that a serious explosion occurred at Arblaster's powder factory, at Job's Gully, near Eag[?]hawk, this afternoon. A man named Philip Meurer was so severely injured that he ...
Article : 252 wordsImportant alterations in connection with the postage rates to the United Kingdom will shortly be brought into effect by the Victorian postal authorities. For some months past the question of reducing the letter ...
Article : 163 wordsA wire the other day advised the S[?]nderland-built barque Lois, 393 tons, bound from Bluff to Port Pine, with a cargo of red pine, as in distress off Port Phillip. She is now in Melbourne repairing. It appears that last Saturday week the wind ...
Article : 215 wordsThe yacht Volunteer, from Sydney, which is to take part in the Centennial Regatta, made her appearance in Hobson's Bay to-day. The yacht left Sydney on the morning of the 11th instant, and had moderate ...
Article : 237 wordsMr. Raikes, the Postmaster-General, has announced that the British postal authorities will commence to carry 4d. mails between the United Kingdom and the Australian ...
Article : 49 wordsThe weather on the southern; western, and eastern coasts of Australia has been exceptionally bad for about two or three weeks past. Vessels bound to the principal ports in the four colonies comprised in the boundary indicated have almost in every instance ...
Article : 286 wordsYesterday was one of the pleasantest days that have passed since the opening of spring. It was neither hot, dusty, nor windy, and the temperature throughout the day was mild in the extreme. The wind, the little there was, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 21 Nov 1888, Page 10
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