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Article : 847 wordsThe P. and 0. Co's R.M.S. Ballaarat; Captain Tomlin arrived here from Colombo at 9 a.m. to-day. The following is a list of her saloon passengers:- ...
Article : 240 wordsThe British Government will annex the Louisiade Archipelago, a group of islands S.E. of New Guineo. ...
Article : 54 wordsOur cable messages of this morning contain several references to annexations, or proposed annexations, in the Pacific. It is said that Great Britain will annex the Louisiade Archipelago, that ...
Article : 3,515 wordsSeveral angry articles have appeared in some of the leading journals of Germany with regard to the recent annexation by the English Government of the Bay of St. ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is proposed to form a British syndicate, with a capital of £5,000,000, to construct cruisers for the protection of English interests. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe affairs of the new Oriental Bank are in. a prosperous condition. The deposits now amount to £200,000. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe London market is unfavourable to the proposed New Zealand four per cent, loan for £2,500,000. The loan will probably be deferred and reduced to £1,000,000. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe committee of the West African Conference have completed their report upon the delimitation of the Congo basin, which they have presented to the conference. The committee have accepted the ...
Article : 764 wordsThe truth of the assertion which appeared in the Daily News to the effect that Bismarck is intriguing for the downfall of Mr. Gladstone's Government, has been openly admitted ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is expected that Germany will shortly annex Samoa and Tonga. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is stated that France is willing to exchange the island of Rapa for the New Hebrides. Rapa was annexed by the French, in connection with Tahiti, and is regarded by ...
Article : 82 wordsAt a Cabinet meeting held this morning the appointment of Mr. Deshon, Under-Secretary for Lands, and Mr. T.S, Sword, as members of the new Land Board, was confirmed. Mr. G, H. Newman was appointed Curator ...
Article : 294 wordsVice-Admiral Frederick Henry Stirling is a passenger by steamer for Pekin. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe Right Hon. Sir W. Vernon Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Home Department, has warned the claimant to the Tichborne estates, who was recently released from prison, ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON (via ALBANY), NOV. 28. A few days since the Prince of Wales, president of the Royal Commission for the India and Colonial Exhibition of 1886, addressed a circular ...
Article : 743 wordsThe name of a successor of Lord Augustus Loftus, as Governor of New South Wales, has been submitted to the Cabinet, but the name has not yet been made public. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe session of the French Legislature was closed to-day, when both Houses were prorogued. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe De Lisaa Pioneer Sugar Company, Northern Territory, hold its eighth half-yearly meeting to-day. Tho directors' roport, recommending the winding up of the company, was adopted. ...
Article : 359 wordsThe latest details of the recent earthquake in the Southern Provinces all confirm the disastrous effects of the disturbance. It has been proved that a great portion ...
Article : 84 wordsA fire broke out at 1 o'clock this morning at Bullock Island. It originated in a five-roomed-weatherboard house, owned by a coloured man named Domingo Lopes. He was in Newcastle when the gun gave the alarm, and his family ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Orient Company's s.s. Garonne, from Melbourne November 14, with 3224 carcases of frozen mutton, has arrived. ...
Article : 26 wordsIt is announced that Major-General Earl, C.B., with an infantry force under his command, will undertake the duty of punishing the murderers of Colonel Stewart ...
Article : 79 wordsA public meeting was hold in the Theatre Royal last night, which had been convened by the Mayor on a requisition numerously signed by the people throughout the electorates of Grafton and the Clarence. The object of the ...
Article : 443 wordsThe following passed through to-day:- For Sydney (by express): Sir Edward Strickland, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Turnbull, Minnon Turnbull (2), Mr. and. Mrs. J. Hickey, Minn Hickey, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rouse, ...
Article : 390 wordsThe Daily Telegraph this morning states that the Commodore of the Australian station has received instructions from the Imperial Government to hoist the British, flag at various ...
Article : 64 wordsA large fire broke out this morning in the saddler's shop of Mr Curran, Townsend-street, and the building being of wood it was burned down so rapidly that no attempt could be made to save any of the stock. The latter was ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Pacific Mail Steamship Company's R.M.S. City of Sydney, which left Sydney on December 4, arrived here to-day. ...
Article : 29 wordsConsols, 99?. Market rate of interest, 4¼. Tin, £75. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 36s. 6d,; New Zealand ...
Article : 27 wordsAs a result of the communications which have passed. between Mr. Service, as chairman of the Committee of Premiers, and the other Australian Governments. a joint protest will not be presented to the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 31 Dec 1884, Page 9
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