The angry discussion in the Portuguese General Cortes concerning the proposed ratification of the convention defining the British and Portuguese spheres of ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Government intended to have devoted the entire sitting of the Legislative Assembly yesterday to the consideration of the estimates, found itself baulked in a most maladroit manner by ...
Article : 3,275 wordsAt the Southampton police court to-day 13 of the unionists who were alleged to have been ringleaders in the serious disturbances which recently took place at ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Legislative Assembly continued its sitting from yesterday till this morning. Alter long discussion the Treasurer's advance account for £200,000 was agreed to by 40 to 20 votes. ...
Article : 351 wordsThe refusal of the stevedores' laborers to handle the cargoes of ocean-going steamers coming round from Sydney has led to a general strike of the members of the society, and ...
Article : 395 wordsAt the meeting of the Trades Hall Committee of Finance and Control last evening, some information was received respecting the state of affairs in Sydney. It was announced that two ...
Article : 154 wordsAt a meeting of farmers hold at the Railway Hotel, Strathmerton, on the 13th inst., the following resolutions were unanimously carried:- ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Watchmakers and Jewellers' Association held a well attended and unanimous meeting at the Trades Hall last night. It was announced that the voluntary contributions to the strike ...
Article : 92 wordsOwing to the dissatisfaction felt at the action of the Portuguese Government in dealing with the African question, changes in the Government have been decided on, ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Labor Defence Committee to-day received telegrams stating that the Wagga branch of the Shearers' Union were sending £1100 to the strike fund the Cobar shearers are sending ...
Article : 701 wordsGreat excitement exists at the Cape of Good Hope owing to the arrival at Cape Colony of a Portuguese vessel which has on board a large number of African natives ...
Article : 154 wordsThe hearing of the charges against the crew of the steamship Tenterden for wilful and continued disobedience of the lawful commands of John Francis Morrison, the master of the said ...
Article : 1,199 wordsThere were few developments of importance yesterday in connection with the existing labor difficulty. The Employers' Union have not as yet decided to assent to the proposal for a ...
Article : 695 wordsSir T. M'llwraith delivered his financial statement to-night. The following are the taxation proposals:- 14s gallon duty on spirits, 12s. gallon excise duty on Queensland spirits; ...
Article : 116 wordsThe strike of stevedores' laborers caused a good deal of excitement at Williamstown yesterday, and a groat deal of interest was manifested respecting the operations at the mail ...
Article : 284 wordsThe epidemic of cholera in Spain continues to extend. It is stated that at present four thousand persons are suffering from the disease in that country. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 164 wordsThe election of a Brazilian Congress which is to administer the local government in place of the Provisional Government which has been in existence since the ...
Article : 71 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day, the proposal by the Treasurer with reference to the Federation convention, that the Assembly appoint four delegates, and tho Legislative ...
Article : 58 wordsA meeting of the Tanners and Curriers' Association was held at the offices of the Employers' Union yesterday afternoon. Mr. Michaelis presided and about 30 members were ...
Article : 289 wordsThe statement that the German authorities have resolved to sanction slavery within the territory of the German East African Company has been officially ...
Article : 244 wordsA largo meeting of Salvationists was held last night in the Town Hall, for the purpose of welcoming back to Australia " Colonel" Pollard, who has been on a visit to England, and who ...
Article : 538 wordsEarly this morning a truck at Hamilton railway station, laden with furniture, was discovered to be on fire. Before assistance arrived the whole of the contents were totally destroyed ...
Article : 76 wordsI have just returned from Peak Hill. There are over 2000 people on the field, but nothing at all to warrant the exaggerated reports which have appeared in a section of the press. ...
Article : 146 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day Mr. Piggott moved the adjournment of the House to call attention to the present condition of the city owing to the strike. An animated debate ...
Article : 325 wordsUnder the present law Chinese may, after the expiration of three years from the date of the discovery of a goldfield, onter upon such goldfield. It will be three years next Sunday. ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Commissioner of Customs received a telegram yesterday from Captain Anderson, stating that he would start from Newcastle with the s.s.Easby about with 1600 tons of coal on ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Emperor William of Germany, who is to hold a conference to-day in a Silesian town with the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and the King of Saxony, arrived ...
Article : 47 wordsM'Auliffe, the American pugilist, is favorite for the boxing contest which takes place between him and F. P. Slavin, the Australian champion, at the Ormonde Club ...
Article : 45 wordsTo-day has been the quietest since the strike started. No meetings have been held, and it was announced from the balcony of the Theatre Royal this afternoon that the Labor Defence ...
Article : 219 wordsThe mayor has drafted a scheme for the settlement of the dispute. He is of opinion that the conference, as proposed, without definite lindes being laid down, would be simply waste of ...
Article : 1,910 wordsThe Sandhurst and Eaglehawk Electric Tramway Company has decided to suspend operations on next Wednesday, owing to the failure of the storage system, particulars of ...
Article : 137 wordsComparatively speaking there was very little doing at the Trades Hall yesterday, as the unionists were waiting for a reply from the employers respecting the proposed conference. ...
Article : 329 wordsThe R.M.S. Valetta, from London 22nd August, left Colombo for Australia on the evening of the 16th inst. The R.M.S. Britannia, from Melbourne 30th ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 wordsAt the City Court yesterday Edward Byers, a bair dresser by trade, was charged with several offences. The charges were-(1)Stealing orders for £9 7s. 6d., the property of the Metropolitan ...
Article : 186 wordsThe following private messages have been received, hearing data 17th September:— By Dalgety and Company Limited. Wool Sales.—There is now a good selection of ...
Article : 71 wordsFrederick Augustus Atkins, of Rose-street, Temperance Township, carpenter. Causes of insolvency: Inability to realise on freehold property, and having to pay heavy interest on borrowed money. ...
Article : 42 wordsA Circular issued from the Wagga branch of the Shearers' Union states:- On Saturday all the Sydney trolly and draymen came out, 1000 of them, at the request of the strike ...
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Advertising : 498 wordsA number of the trader untouists of Ballarat have resolved by boycott those local shopkeepers who have joined the Employers' Union. In several cases boycott has been already applied. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 19 Sep 1890, Page 5
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