Mr. Gladstone spoke at some length in the House of Commons to-day upon the situation in Egypt, and announced that he intended to-morrow to ask a credit for the relief of General ...
Article : 92 wordsA fatal collision occurred near Gravesend this morning between the steamship Dione, 422 tons, belonging to the Tees Union Steamship Company, and the steamship Camden, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Australian eleven commenced their twenty-third match in England at Canterbury to-day, against an eleven of Kent, composed as follows :--S. Christopherson, Lord Harris, ...
Article : 208 wordsA feeling of disappointment will be experienced this morning at the result which has attended the effort to pass the proposed Enabling Bill through the House of Commons. The ...
Article : 4,365 wordsThe term allowed by France to China for payment of the indemnity of £10,000,000, demanded for the recent outrage at Lang Son, expired on the 1st inst. No definite reply has ...
Article : 120 wordsIn the House of Commons last night, Mr. Gladstone replied to a question asked by Mr. John A. Blake, the member for Waterford county, with respect to the proposed Enabling ...
Article : 177 wordsThe representatives of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies met to-day at Versailles, to confer upon the amendments introduced by the former into the bill for the reform of the ...
Article : 58 wordsIt is understood that the Government will ask Parliament for an additional credit of £300,000 for the proposed expedition to relieve General Gordon. ...
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Article : 110 wordsThe Daily News of to-day, in referring to the statement made by Mr. Gladstone in Parliament yesterday, states that it has reason to believe that a prominent statesman, a ...
Article : 61 wordsThe British-India Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Waroonga left here to-day on her homeward Voyage. ...
Article : 20 wordsThree determined prisoners, undergoing sentences at Pentridge, yesterday afternoon unsuccessfully attempted to escape from the outside portion of the Pentridge prison enclosure ...
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Article : 281 wordsThe estimates of expenditure for 1884-85 were brought down in the House of Assembly to-day. The unexpended balances to be revoted amount to £77,207 ; the proposed new ...
Article : 114 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Commissioner of Lands expressed the hope that he would be able to introduce the Pastoral Leases Bill next week. The Roads Bill ...
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Article : 82 wordsThe small-pox scare has reached here. A man named Colin Campbell, who has been ailing for about a week, but who was walking about up till to-day, has been pronounced by ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 6 Aug 1884, Page 5
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