The action for slander instituted by Sir W. Gordon Cumming against Mrs. Arthur Wilson, her son and others, who accused him of cheating at cards, was continued ...
Article : 242 wordsThe threatened deadlock between the Treasurer and the chairman of the Railway Commissioners has been stayed off by the receipt of a letter by Mr. Munro, in which the ...
Article : 3,345 wordsFresh rioting has occurred at Wu Such, on the Yellow River. The Chinese customs officer and a French missionary have been murdered, while their houses were ...
Article : 47 wordsA meeting of the Standing Committee on Railways was held yesterday afternoon at Parliament House. Present:—Mr. T. Bent, M.L.A. (chairman), Messrs. Buchanan, Gore, Melville ...
Article : 1,924 wordsMr. R. W. Best, M.L.A, delivered a lecture last night on Federation in the Fitzroy Town Hall under the auspices of the local branch of the Australian Natives' Association. The chair ...
Article : 3,490 wordsWhat appears to have been a carefully matured plan to cause a serious conflagration at Pentridge will occupy the attention of the visiting magistrates this morning, when two ...
Article : 712 wordsIf there is anything genuine in the partial contradiction made by the Railways Commissioners in reference to the engineering blunders made in the construction of the Dean's Marsh ...
Article : 688 wordsThe little news that was received in Mel- yesterday was confirmatory of the wreck of the Taramung near Cape St. George, the rocky headland just south of Jervis Bay where she ...
Article : 331 wordsThe French and American Ministers at Pekin have requested the Chinese authorities to provide protection to Europeans against rioters. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe discussion upon the political labor platform recommended by the convention of the trades and labor bodies of Victoria, which sat at Melbourne a week ago, was resumed at an ...
Article : 1,249 wordsThe Legislative Chamber at Ottawa has been draped in black, and the body of Sir John Macdonald will he laid in state in the hall until Thursday. ...
Article : 111 wordsA further small quantity of wreck age is reported to have been cast ashore at Milton and other places from the Taramung, but no trace of bodies or survivors has been found. The ...
Article : 136 wordsSir William Hart Dyke, Vice-president of the Council of Ministers, has introduced into the House of Commons a bill amending the Education Act, and providing for free ...
Article : 104 wordsLord Salisbury, speaking in the House of Lords, paid a high tribute to tho character of the late Sir John Macdonald. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe easterly gale which has been raging along the coast for several days increased in violence to-day, and was the cause of a series of shipping disasters, no fewer than five coasting vessels ...
Article : 293 wordsIt is expected that Sir Charles Tupper, High Commissioner for the Canadian Dominion in London, will succeed the late Sir John MacDonald, as Premier of ...
Article : 44 wordsThe hill prohibiting seal fishing in Behring Sea until May, 1892, passed by the House of Commons last week, has now been passed by the House of Lords. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Turkish brigands, who derailed the express train from Constantinople, and carried off several tourists travelling by it to Vienna, have now released their ...
Article : 44 wordsThe expulsion of Jews from Russia has led to their immigration to Germany in alarming numbers. Eight hundred have arrived at Charlottenberg, a town which ...
Article : 44 wordsUp to last night about 420 candidates had declared themselves far the elections, or an average of three for each sent. The crop of would be ...
Article : 720 wordsGreat excitement has been occasioned at Iquique owing to the American admiral taking possession of the warship Itala, without discharging the 5000 rifles taken ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Chief Secretary, in reply to a question, informed the Assembly to-day that the Government, although they had given no formal undertaking to that effect, intended to pay the ...
Article : 326 wordsThe Czar has issued an ukase, in which he condemns the violent animosity shown recently by his subjects towards the Jews in Russia. He orders the bitter persecution ...
Article : 70 wordsThe insurgents have offered to hand over the provinces of Taena and Arica, which form part of the Chilian Republic, to the Government of Bolivia, on condition of ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is still raining, and the weather has turned very cold. The shearers' camp presents a most desolate spectacle. The police report that they have met a few men with swags tramping out ...
Article : 151 wordsThe directors of the omnibus companies have offered the drivers now out on strike to reduce their working hours to 12 per day, but they insist, on reducing wages at ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Czar has rejected the overtures made by the French Government for the establishment of an offensive and defensive alliance between the two nations. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Russian Government is adopting at system of protective tariffs to co-operate with the countries of Western Europe in the trade to Eastern countries, and in older ...
Article : 40 wordsAt the police court to-day the case against Kewley, charged as an accessory before the fact with the burning of grass on the Lorne station, was withdrawn by the police and the accused ...
Article : 73 wordsSteps have been taken by Russia to establish agencies in Great Britain, France and Italy with the view of extending her export trade in wheat. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt a meeting of the city council to-day the following resolution was carried :— That the city solicitor be instructed to prepare a bill to regulate the height of buildings within the ...
Article : 205 wordsThe owners of the Clyde ship building yards decided to reduce the wages of all men in their employ by 5 per cent. The workmen refused to accept the reduction ...
Article : 54 wordsA telegram was received this morning from Augathella, stating that Neilson's shop there had been fired. Fortunately the fire was seen in time and extinguished. It was discovered ...
Article : 258 wordsNews has been received from Hayti to the effect that during the revolution in May last 150 persons were executed. ...
Article : 26 wordsO'Donovan Rossa, the noted Fenian, has sailed from the United States for Ireland. [Some of the above messages appeared in a portion of yesterday's issue.] ...
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Article : 63 wordsArrived.—From Sydney : Port Pirie, s., sailed 8th April, via Hobart 12th April. From Wellington : Cape Wrath, ship, sailed 24th February. ...
Article : 38 wordsA meeting of the Poowong East Railway League was held on Monday evening to advocate the proposal to construct a line from Monomeith to M'Donald's Track. Mr. Wm. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 10 Jun 1891, Page 5
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