It is reported that Prince Bismarck has engaged Herr Bnsch, superintendent of the library bureau, to inspire the press with the substance of the official papers ...
Article : 259 wordsThis morning's gauge showed that during the preceding twelve hours the river had fallen an eight of an inch. About 100 men and 35 women and children were sent away by boats ...
Article : 1,318 wordsThe complex network of points facing tho Nos. 1 and 2 signal boxes was responsible yesterday evening for another alarming railway accident. Shortly before 10 o'clock, ...
Article : 1,156 wordsThe Postmaster-General has received a report from the officials of the department relative to the projected reduction in the postal rates between Great Britain and the Australian ...
Article : 4,180 wordsThe resolutions embodying the proposals made by Mr. G. J. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his budget statement, were last night adopted by the House of ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Parnell, in moving his amendment, in the House of Commons, on the motion for the second reading of the Irish Land Purchase Bill introduced by Mr. Balfour, ...
Article : 174 wordsHer Majesty Queen Victoria, who has for some weeks been visiting Aix-les-Bains, the well known French watering place, has now started for Darmstadt on the return ...
Article : 40 wordsThe annual dinner in honor of the Eight Hours anniversary was held at the Trades Hall last night. The chairman of the anniversary committee (Mr. J. F. Sitch) presided, and was ...
Article : 2,780 wordsThe mayor to-day received amongst other subscriptions to the Bourke relief fund £250 from the Silverton Tramway Company and £5 from the Earl of Kintore. Mr. Geo. Rignold ...
Article : 458 wordsThe Agents-General for the Australian colonies are to have an interview with the Postmaster-General, Mr. Raikes, on Friday relative to the proposal of the Imperial ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. .G. C. T, Bartley, member for Islington, consented to withdraw a motion of which he had given notice on the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe United States Senate has passed the bill authorising the holding at. Chicago, in 1893, of the Great World's Fair. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe World states that the Right Rev. Dr. Barry, ex-Bishop of Sydney, has refused to accept the bishopric of St. Albans. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. John Dillon, M.P., alluding to his recent visit to Australia, states that there is anappearance of general comfort amongst all classes in the colonies that he believes ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Orient Company's R.M.S. Liguria, when about to anchor off Gibraltar, fell foul of two steamers, with both of which she collided slightly. Two of her plates ...
Article : 71 wordsIt is confidently hoped that the sum of £1,000,000, required by the Midland Railway Syndicate for the construction in West Australia of the railway from Guild. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe officers of the American branch of the Irish National League have written to Mr. John Dillon, M.P., requesting him to endeavor to induce Mr. Parnell to consent ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Australian cricketing eleven, who are passengers by the R.M.S. Liguria took advantage of the detention caused by the accident to have some practice ...
Article : 53 wordsThe select committee of the House of Commons to which has been referred the bill introduced by the Government authorising the establishment of ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Emperor William is now on a visit to Bremen, where he has been received with great enthusiasm. Speaking at a banquet to-day his majesty stated that ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. M'Kenna, the vice-president of the Irish-American National League, has resigned. He declares that he cannot agree to the holding of a convention which would be ...
Article : 55 wordsSIR,--I was very pleased at reading the leading article which appeared in to-day's issue of The Age, which refers to the tardiness shown by the New South Wales Government in coping ...
Article : 114 wordsThe report that Mr. W. O'Brien, M.P., is about to marry a Parisian heiress is declared to be a canard. ...
Article : 27 wordsSignor Succi, the Italian faster, who is now attempting a fast of 40 days, taking nothing but painkiller and water, is confident that he will accomplish the task he ...
Article : 48 wordsThe strike still continues at the Hoffman Brick Company's works, and there is no prospect of a settlement, as the men are fully determined to hold out, being hopeful of gaining the day. ...
Article : 384 wordsThe New York laborers and socialists have resolved to organise a monster procession in honor of the eight hours principle on 1st May. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe United Devonshire murder case was concluded to-day at the Supreme Court. Mr. Smyth, Crown prosecutor, addressed the jury, after which Mr. Pennefather, in a long and ...
Article : 459 wordsDr. Giffen, the well known statist, giving evidence before the colonisation committee, declared that the idea of carrying out immense schemes of emigration from ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Czar has denounced the cruelties practised on female and other prisoners in Siberia, and it is stated that the Government are about to prosecute the officers ...
Article : 42 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Frederick Hansborough Dutton, one of the pioneers of settlement in South Australia. ...
Article : 66 wordsColonel Serpa Pinto, the Portuguese officer whose exploits in Africa, attracted great attention, and who was recently elected to represent Lisbon in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsThe sculling match for £100 aside between George Bubear, ex-champion of England, and Robt. Brown, a rising Clarence River man, took place this afternoon over the championship ...
Article : 389 wordsThe report that J. L. Sullivan, the champion boxer, had died through bursting a blood vessel, has proved, to be unfounded. ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. F. C. Cowen's new Scandinavian opera, entitled Thorzgrin, has been produced at the Drury-lane Theatre and has proved a great success. ...
Article : 32 wordsSir John A. Macdonald, Premier of Canada, has stated in the Canadian Parliament that the sending of the commission to Australia with the object of ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Shannon, from Melbourne 21st March, arrived at Suez on the evening of the 21st instant. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt the Richmond Court yesterday a married woman named Marion A. Gibson sought to recover from a respectably dressed young girl named Clara Pierrepoint, tbe sum of £6 2s., alleged ...
Article : 397 wordsThe Portuguese Government have permitted the people to hold the belief that the Portuguese were merely temporising with England, and that in reality they ...
Article : 73 wordsA serious railway accident occurred this afternoon at Dookie. Porter Williams, while shunting some trucks, was caught between the buffers and sustained severe internal injuries. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Russian authorities have held a formal inquiry into the allegation that a Russian officer, for a money consideration, gave to Baron von Plessen, a German ...
Article : 64 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Congregational Union was continued to-day. The Rev. J. Potter read a paper on the Spiritual Needs of Christian churches. Mr. Begg, of Kyneton, drew ...
Article : 248 wordsAccounts have been received of further hostilities between the French expeditionary force and the native troops in Dahomey. A strong body of native troops ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 199 wordsThe Liverpool dock laborers have passed a formal resolution calling on Mr. T. P. O'Connor, the representative of the Scotland division of Liverpool in the House of ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. M"Coll, M.L.A., yesterday introduced a deputation to the Minister for Water Supply, consisting of a number of farmers whose holdings were situated within the external boundaries of the Millewa ...
Article : 348 wordsOwing to a very extensive " creep " in the roof of the Wallsend Colliery 240 men have been thrown out of work. The " creep" -- was first noticed some days ago, so that ...
Article : 117 wordsThe directors of the Mount Zeehan mine, Tasmania, which was recently recently registered with a capital of £276,000, have refused to accept the ...
Article : 42 wordsA meeting was held this afternoon to consider the present unsatisfactory state of the railway arrangements connected with the traffic between Geelong and ...
Article : 173 wordsMr. Stephen Mason, ex-member for Mid-Lanark shire, and formerly chairman of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, is dead. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 135 wordsJohn Ice, well known throughout the district, was arraigned at the Circuit Court to-day, before Judge Windever, on the charge of having Bordered his little boy, Charley Ice, a few ...
Article : 87 wordsA conference of delegates representing municipal councils assembled at the Fitzroy town hall yesterday afternoon, at the invitation of the local council, to consider what stops should be ...
Article : 179 wordsThe circuit court was continued to-day, when Judge Windeyer passed the following sentences: --Richard Tonkin, alias Terrible Dick, inflicting bodily harm, 3 years' penal servitude; ...
Article : 137 wordsThe shipment of Tasmarian apples brought by the P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Oceana has been submitted to auction, and excited brisk competition. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe water is getting away very slowly, having fallen altogether about 9 inches. Boats are still plying along the main streets, and it will be Weeks before foot traffic is resumed. A rescue ...
Article : 107 wordsThe body of a young woman, apparently about 27 years of age, was found yesterday by a man named Thos. Higgins floating beside the St. Kilda pier. The remains, which were ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 24 Apr 1890, Page 5
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