Both Houses meet to-morrow afternoon, but the Legislative Council only pro forma, as the want of confidence debate is still hanging over the head of the Government, and until it has ...
Article : 4,191 wordsThere' is still no prospect of an early settlement of the strike of dock yard laborers, which has arisen from the refusal of the shipmasters to grant an increase of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 wordsThe collision between the Centennial and the Kanahooka proves to be more serious than at first anticipated, and it is now believed that two, and perhaps three, lives have been lost. After the ...
Article : 527 wordsMysteries of the kind dear to readers of sensational novels are more common than is ordinarily supposed. Not a week passes but a coroner's jury, hastily summoned ...
Article : 1,812 wordsA brutal assault was committed about 1 a.m. yesterday on a police constable named Albert Vizard, stationed in Carlton, and the officer last night lay in the Melbourne Hospital in a very ...
Article : 363 wordsThe Gold Commission, of which Mr. Bell, M.L.C., is president, illustrates the maxim that large bodies move slowly. Consisting, as it docs, of seventeen members, whose proceedings ...
Article : 1,117 wordsThe new buildings for the Convalescent Home for Women, in course of construction at Clayton-road, about 2 miles beyond Oakleigh, are now nearly completed, and will, it is expected, ...
Article : 658 wordsThe appointment of Sir Henry Loch, retiring Governor of Victoria, as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, is formally notified in the Gazette. ...
Article : 35 wordsAn open air meeting was held here on Saturday afternoon outside the Victoria Hotel, called in response to a requisition to consider the stock tax. Cr. Ford, president of the Shepparton ...
Article : 331 wordsThe British Government has declined to comply with a request that it would protect Canadian scalers against the threats made by the United States authorities, that ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Belgian Government has agreed to pay an annual subsidy to the Nord-deutscher Lloyd Shipping Company, in return for certain concessions to be made ...
Article : 59 wordsThe wheat market is somewhat stronger. Best Australian, ex warehouse, is 6d. higher, being now quoted at 39s. to 39s. 6d. per quarter. New Zealand long berry has ...
Article : 67 wordsA fatal accident occurred near Naylor's Gates, between Tarro and Hexham, on Friday night. Three young men, named Martin Carroll, Henry Carroll and Arthur Buxton had been to the ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Emperor William, who recently left Berlin for the purpose of visiting Alsace- Lorraine, and who met with an enthusiastic welcome on his visit to Strasburg ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Company's R.M.S. Rome, from Melbourne 12th July, arrived at Plymouth on the morning of the 24th inst. ...
Article : 23 wordsAt a special meeting of the Rutherglen and Murray District Vine Growers' Association, held in the shire hall on Saturday, and largely attended by members, the Government ...
Article : 338 wordsCaptain Planck and crew of the composite barque Wind Hover, bound from Newcastle to Batavia, arrived to-day. He reports losing the vessel in Bramble Bay on Tuesday night, at 12 ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Gorman Government, which has heretofore exercised only nominal control over German New Guinea, leaving the work of administration principally to the ...
Article : 49 wordsA conference of the representatives of the associated coal proprietors and miners' delegates was held at Newcastle yesterday to discuss the minors' general agreement. Sir. Jesse Gregson, ...
Article : 280 wordsMr. J. M. Pratt, one of the candidates for the North-western Province, addressed a meeting of the electors here on Saturday afternoon, and was very well received. He announced ...
Article : 138 wordsA shocking occurrance took place hero last night whereby a man named Fuller, a tailor, got shot. It appears that Mr. E. Stribling, of the firm of Goyder and Hay, stock and station ...
Article : 163 wordsThe schooner George Noble, from the Gilbert Group to Sydney, has put into Havannah Harbor, New Hebrides, in charge of the chief officer, and reported that the captain (J. P. Gadyard), ...
Article : 67 wordsThe following officers have passed examinations, as under:-For promotion to rank of major in militia; Captain J. Taylor, 2nd Battalion Victorian Rifles; Captain F. Hughes, ...
Article : 205 wordsDr. Youl, City Coroner, held an inquest on Saturday at the morgue on the body of Philip Inglefinger, which was found in the Yarra on Thursday last. The deceased was son of a ...
Article : 310 wordsShearing is proceeding quietly at Brookong, Kentueky and Murrumbidgeo sheds generally. The roll was called at Mr. Devlin's Deepwater station, between Wagga and ...
Article : 290 wordsThe annual parade, under the auspices of the Elmore District Agricultural and Pastoral Association, was held in the association's show yards this afternoon, when the following horses were ...
Article : 75 wordsAt the principal association football match on Saturday at the Oval, between the Port and Norwood clubs for the premiership, the game was very rough. One player had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsMr. W. G. Walker, the president of the Malvern branch of the Australian Natives' Association, entertained about 60 of the members and friends at his residence, in ...
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Article : 220 wordsAn accident occurred yesterday to a young man named Blakely, whilst shooting rabbits at Joyce's Greek. He was walking through some bush when the gun belonging to his companion ...
Article : 78 wordsA fatal accident happened on Saturday to a seaman named Thomas Koring, aged 35 years, employed on board the American ship Don Adolphus, lying at the south wharf of the Yarra. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 26 Aug 1889, Page 5
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