The chances of a settlement of the shipping difficulty have improved very much during the last 24 hours--at any rate, so far as tho marine officers' dispute is concerned. Yesterday ...
Article : 4,756 wordsJust as the whole community was being aroused to the magnitude of the threatening trouble in the shipping trade, a reasonable hope of better things is held out by an offer ...
Article : 693 wordsNo advance has yet been made towards settling the strike of railway employes on the railways in Wales, and the whole traffic is still suspended. ...
Article : 204 wordsUp to the present the Minister of Railways has not announced to Parliament his views as to the power that should be conferred upon the proposed select committee in considering the lines in ...
Article : 1,183 wordsA miserable tragedy occurred last night at Marlborough House, Parliament-place, which appears to have been the result of a love quarrel. The parties to the unfortunate affair were ...
Article : 1,061 wordsAffairs in the Central American Republics continue in a very unsettled state. War is stated to be imminent between San Salvador and Honduras. ...
Article : 50 wordsIn view of the threatened strike in the snipping trade, careful attention is being given to the supply of coal in Melbourne, both in the hands of consumers and in the yards of the ...
Article : 903 wordsIntelligence from St. Petersburg states that the Czar has adopted the children left by Major Panitza, who, in accordance with the sentence of a court martial, was ...
Article : 69 wordsA special meeting of the council of the Brisbane district of the Australian Labor Federation will be held to-morrow to consider the course of action to be taken in regard to ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. H. H. Champion, who has for many years been well known throughout England in connection with the labor movement, and who arrived in Melbourne by the last mail steamer ...
Article : 1,300 wordsIt is announced that a convention has been concluded between representatives of Great Britain and Portugal with reference to the South African dispute. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe strike of coal miners at Cardiff remains unsettled, all efforts to arrive at a mutually satisfactory compromise having failed. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe cholera epidemic is reported to be abating in both Spain and Palestine. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe breach of promise case commenced in the Second Nisi Prius Court on Wednesday was concluded, before Mr. Justice Webb and a jury of six, yesterday. The plaintiff, Annie Graham ...
Article : 457 wordsGreat consternation has been created amongst vino growers in Germany by the discovery that the much dreaded disease, phylloxera vicstalrix, which has brought ...
Article : 51 wordsA strike has taken place amongst the workmen engaged at a quarry in Arklow, near Dublin, owned by Mr. C. S. Parnell, the Homo Rule lender. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe potato blight is spreading through several parts of Ireland, and serious fears are entertained that the potato crop throughout the country will be greatly ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Bailees, the Imperial Postmaster General, has, in response to the appeal for reinstatement made by the 400 men who were dismissed in connection with the ...
Article : 64 wordsIn connection with the strike which is threatening disaster to the industries of the colony it may be interesting to review briefly the matters which are standing in the way of a ...
Article : 648 wordsThe Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce has carried a resolution protesting against the concessions proposed to be granted to the Eastern Extension and China ...
Article : 62 wordsFears are entertained that a renewal of the recent insurrection in the Argentine Republic will shortly be experienced. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe programme of last night's concert consisted of the works which came out third in the recent voting, and the selection of pieces arrived at in this somewhat haphazard fashion ...
Article : 614 wordsActing under the provisions of the Silver Bill recently passed by Congress, the United States Government has purchased 310,000 oz. of silver. The purchases will ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, Mr. Dibbs, the leader of the Opposition, asked the Treasurer, Mr. M'Millan, if, in view of what had taken place on the previous evening, he was prepared to ...
Article : 343 wordsWhen the strike was first threatened private families began to lay in a stook of firewood anticipating a rise in the price of this fuel, and the indications in the yards yesterday showed ...
Article : 108 wordsTo the ordinary consumer the outlook is not so serious now as it was two years ago, owing to the enterprise that has been put into the development of the brown coal deposits in ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Australian Eleven to-day commenced at match at Portsmouth against a combination team representing the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge ...
Article : 77 wordsSergeant Doherty, the officer in charge of the East Melbourne station, was called, and at once repaired to the house, when he informed Turner he would arrest him on a charge ...
Article : 310 wordsThere was a large attendance at the Maldon police court this morning, when the young man William Campbell was charged on remand with shooting at and unlawfully wounding one ...
Article : 189 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions an elderly man named Jas. O'Neill was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for inflicting injuries on his wife. The woman gave birth to a child, and ...
Article : 134 wordsThe members of the old Marine Officers' Association continue to stand firm to their intention of coming out to-morrow failing concessions by the owners, which are not now likely ...
Article : 435 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Mr. Castine resumed his speech on the no confidence debate. He attacked the Government generally. Mr. Lamshed censured the Opposition generally ...
Article : 100 wordsSIR,--In order to add to the popularity of the above show, I would suggest that a ballot of the patrons be taken on the question of the handsomest dog in the show, irrespective of class or ...
Article : 100 wordsLast night the Federal, a now steamer, built in Sunderland for Messrs. J. M'Ilwraith and Co., Melbourne, and now making her maiden voyage. put An for coals. The master reports ...
Article : 87 wordsThe matters connected with the difficulty between the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company and the Federated Seamen's Union remain unchanged at present, and there has been no ...
Article : 213 wordsMessrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Company have received the following telegrams :-- "Cobham Lake station, Silverton, New South Wales.--Fifty points rain here 12th ; looks like more." ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day a transcript of the English Libel Bill was passed. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 15 Aug 1890, Page 5
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