The Premier is in receipt of a copy of the annual report on the strikes and lookouts of 1889 furnished to the Board of Trade by Mr. John Burnett, labor correspondent to the Board. ...
Article : 5,137 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Nolan, M.P., asked the Government whether Great Britain would combine with other powers to provide a suitable reward to Dr. ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. Fitzgerald, the Australian labor delegate, has had an interview with Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons lobby. ...
Article : 181 wordsThe career of Charles Bradlaugh, whose demise in his 57th year is announced by cable, bears a singular resemblance in its main incidents to that of the publisher, William Hone, ...
Article : 722 wordsThe report of the finance and control committee in connection with the late shipping stike is to be presented to the Trades Hall Council next Friday. The ...
Article : 696 wordsThe old saw that "prevention is better than cure" is quite as applicable to crime as to disease, and the "dignified and stately" tramp of the constable or the glint of his helmet has ...
Article : 1,557 wordsMr. J. G. Blaine, Secretary of State of the United States, denies that he is pressing the Canadian Government to accept a treaty providing for the natural products ...
Article : 143 wordsAnother crisis is approaching in the shipping trade, and a severe struggle is expected to take place shortly between the federated ship owners and the trade ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Supreme Court of the United States has reserved its decision in the case wherein the legality of the seizure of a Canadian scaler in the Behring Sea has ...
Article : 55 wordsA settlement has been arrived at between the directors of the Scotch railway companies and their employes, who have been on strike for some weeks. ...
Article : 75 wordsSmall-pox has broken out at Madrid. The disease is present in a most virulent form, and 3000 deaths have already taken place. ...
Article : 58 wordsA committee of members of the Pastoralists' Union sat yesterday for a considerable time at the offices at the Olderfleet, to arrange the details in connection with despatching shearers, ...
Article : 831 wordsThe wool sales are proceeding, and the market is very active. Bidding is spirited. American buyers are in force, and buying largely. ...
Article : 35 wordsA deputation representing the Textile Workers' Association, accompanied by delegates of the Trades and Labor Council, to-day waited on Messrs. Vicars and Company, woollen ...
Article : 122 wordsIt is reported that a French transport, with 700 troops on board, has foundered in the China seas. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Railway Commissioners' report for the quarter ending 31st December last showed, that at the end of last year there were 2182 miles of line open as compared with 2171 miles ...
Article : 196 wordsIt is reported that the Ameer of Afghanistan is dead. ...
Article : 19 wordsSir James Ferguson, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, stated that the three powers concerned in Samoan ...
Article : 81 wordsA union has been formed at Berlin to counteract the anti-Semitic movement in Russia. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe townspeople are making active preparations for the reception of his Excellency the Governor to-morrow. A triumphal arch is being erected over the bridge at Commissioner's ...
Article : 91 words"General" Booth will inaugurate to-morrow his scheme for the relief of the paupered classes by opening a receiving house at King's Cross, established in ...
Article : 42 wordsBaron Worms, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, said that the Colonial Office fully endorsed the action of Sir J. B. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe appeal entered by Mr. Duncan, the proprietor of the Matrimonial News, against the decision of the Bankruptcy Court ordering him to undergo a term of ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Minister of Mines Mr. Outtrim, concluded his visit to the Ballarat district to-day. In the forenoon he visited the School of Mines and delivered an address, in which he advocated ...
Article : 162 wordsAt the Chamber of Commerce to-day, Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., acting for the executors and trustees of the late Mr. Wm. Alison, offered the Canonbar and Merryvale ...
Article : 223 wordsThe sentence of death passed upon Michel Eyraud, the murderer of M. Gouffé, a process server, in Paris, has been commuted. At the trial Eyraud was found ...
Article : 69 wordsThe weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show the proportion of reserve to liabilities to be 46 per cent., being 1 per cent. higher than a week ago. ...
Article : 181 wordsMr. James M'Intosh and Mr. A. W. Martin, representing the Council of Agricultural Education, were present at the closing ceremony at the Longerenong Agricultural College to-day. ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Irish Relief Fund started by the Earl of Zetland, the Lord Lieutenant and Mr. Balfour, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, has now reached the total of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 237 wordsThe body of a young woman named Amy Boehmer, a recent arrival from England, was found in Lake Wendouree this morning, near Fry's flour mills. Deceased, who was about 27 ...
Article : 270 wordsThe shearers at Logan and Gordon Downs having finally refused to sign the pastoralists' agreement on the 27th instant, employers are compelled to endeavor to procure labor ...
Article : 118 wordsThe whole of to-day was occupied at the Masonic Hail, in Yarra-street, in drawing the tickets for the art union organised by the freemasons of Geelong. Much interest was ...
Article : 141 wordsArrived.--From Wellington: Pleione, ship, sailed 25th October. From Port Chalmers; Nairnshire, steamer, sailed 12th December. ...
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Advertising : 89 wordsMessrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Company Limited have received the following telegram from their London house, dated 29th inst.:-- Wool.--The sales continue with attendance as ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 31 Jan 1891, Page 9
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