A White Book has been presented to the British Parliament upon the relations between English colonists and the native populations in the Western Pacific, and, according to the ...
Article : 678 wordsRain set in here last evening, and appeared to promise a welcome downpour after the long drought, but unfortunately, after a few intermittent showers of no use to the district ...
Article : 499 wordsAbout eight o'clock last night, while the gangway leading from the punt to the jetty, at Middle Head was crowded with visitors, it gave way, and a number of persons ...
Article : 458 wordsThe following items of news are extracted from the San Francisco papers to the 17 the March:-- GREAT BRITAIN. ...
Article : 281 wordsThe seventh intercolonial bowling match between representatives of Now South Wales and Victoria commenced to-day on the Balmain Bowling Club's grounds. The contest was ...
Article : 189 wordsA rather alarming fire occurred at Fort Melbourne, between two and three o'clock yesterday morning, on the promises of the Scotch Distillery Company, of which Messrs. G. ...
Article : 379 wordsA tragedy occurred at the Vaudeville Theatre on the night of the 12th March, involving the death of Ben Thompson and King Fisher, tho two most noted and desperate characters in ...
Article : 263 wordsMessrs. Boyle and Scott have, by the s. Rome, received from their London agents a communication wherein they state that the visit of the Australian team to England ts causing no end of excitement in ...
Article : 402 wordsAn advanced Irish Nationalist in Paris has declared that the Nationalists are annoyed but in no wise discouraged at the failure of the dynamite attempts. A mechanism has been invented ...
Article : 407 wordsThe news of the frightful explosion at the Pocahontas coal mine on the 14th March spread rapidly throughout the surrounding section, and crowds flocked to the scene of the disaster, the ...
Article : 397 wordsIn consequence of the easy defeat of Martini Henry by Le Grand in the A.J.C. Leger, Mr. Wallace's colt has since been strongly supported for the Sydney Cup, which will be decided ...
Article : 286 wordsRain has fallen pretty generally along the coast, bat still keeps off in the interior. The sea along the coast is subsiding. A grocer's assistant named F. G. Headley ...
Article : 87 wordsSIR,--I wish to bring under your notice, and through your columns lay before the public, the injustice and tyranny of the Operative Bakers' Union. My shop is what is called a union shop, ...
Article : 335 wordsThe third event of 3 miles, for the Gland Handicap Bicycle Race, postponed from yesterday, came off this morning a little after seven o'clock, on the Camp reserve. There were six bicyclists started. W. While ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Lord Mayor of London presided over a meeting held at the Mansion House on 3rd March, to further the movement for the erection of a national monument to Lieutenant ...
Article : 667 wordsThe return chess match between the Victorian Chess and Draughts Club and the Turn Verein Chess Class win take place to-night, at the club's rooms. Cathedral Hotel, Swanston-street. Mr. G. H. D. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Commissioner of Patents, Mr. C. E. Demole, gave judgment to-day on the application of Mr. John Dixon, of Adelaide, for a patent for an improved seed sower and ...
Article : 187 wordsThe North German Gazette. considers it noteworthy that an article should have appeared in the Journal des Debate at Paris which expressed approval of Bismarck's action in regard to the ...
Article : 161 wordsA general meeting and social evening in connection with the Albert Park club will be held this evening at the pavilion, at eight o'clock, when all members are requested to attend. The business is to elect a new ...
Article : 58 wordsPresident Widener, of the Market-street and Chestnut and Walnut streets railway lines, who, in conjunction with William L. Elkins, has made an exhaustive study of ...
Article : 501 wordsThis being the off week, and the Easter holidays upon us, there is nothing special to report in connection with the mines during the past week. The Town Reef Company have ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 288 wordsEarl Granville, Foreign Secretary of State, has written to Sir Evelyn Baring, first, that the Egyptian frontier, as maintained by the English forces, shall not extend beyond the first cataract; ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 319 wordsGeneral Gordon advises the appointment of Zobehr Pasha to succeed himself as Governor of Soudan. He thinks Zobehr, if adequately supported, would dispose of the Mahdi within a year. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 wordsA terrible explosion occurred off Gravesend on 1st March, on board the passenger steamship Aberdeen, outward bound for Sydney and Melbourne. The vessel had taken on board her ...
Article : 389 wordsThe following notices were posted at the University on Thursday:-- February terra.--Second year medicine: First class, none : second class, Geo. Cempbell Kennie ; third ...
Article : 275 wordsA paper called [?] Slown, or Free Speech, appeared at St. Petersburg on the 16th March, calling on the youth of Russia to oppose a despotic form of government. It avers that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 186 wordsA rumor was current on the 16th March that the Government has received intimation to use every precaution, as dynamiters were supposed to be meditating an attack upon the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 181 wordsAn inquest was held at the Melbourne Gaol yesterday by Dr. Youl, the city coroner, on the body of Henry Frederick Davis, aged 52 years. The evidence showed that deceased had recently ...
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Advertising : 77 wordsAt six o'clock on the night of the 10th March a snow slide descended on the little snowbound statics of Woodstock, on a branch of the South Park railroad, 75 miles southwest of Leadville, ...
Article : 290 wordsA serious revolt occurred in the Zaptieh prison at Cairo on 3rd March. It was headed by several. convicts who were released by the mob from gaol at the time of the bombardment of Alexandria, ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 16 Apr 1884, Page 6
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