The Orient Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Cuzco, Radler, commander, from London, arrived all well this morning. Three deaths occurred during the passage, two being ...
Article : 148 wordsMr. Service's anticipation that he would be able to explain to the Assembly yesterday the provisions of the Federal Council Bill was not realised. The hon. gentleman found that his ...
Article : 5,108 wordsThe first report of the Railway Commissioners, covering a period of eighteen months, ending 30th June last, was laid on the table of the House last night. At the outset the ...
Article : 2,975 wordsThe Premier and Minister of Public Works yesterday received a deputation from the Municipal Association in reference to the question of providing a substitute for [?]. Mr. Beaver, ...
Article : 925 wordsNo fresh cases of small-pox have appeared at the quarantine station, and the last case having occurred in Sydney on tho 26th ult, unless a fresh outbreak lakes place before ...
Article : 134 wordsIt is announced that the representatives of the Great Powers at the conference now being held in this city have formally intimated to the Sultan their condemnation of any violation of ...
Article : 72 wordsA deputation from the Victorian Chemists' Assistants' Association waited last night upon Mr. A. Deakin, M.L.A., Solicitor-General, who has charge of the Factories' Bill now ...
Article : 386 wordsThe Executive Council have decided to allow the law to take its course in the case of Wm. Edward Gordon, who was sentenced to death at Rockhampton, on the 16th September last, ...
Article : 139 wordsA reply couched in the most insulting and arrogant terms has just been received from King Theebaw, of Burmah, in answer to the proposal made by the British Government to act as ...
Article : 93 wordsAn official despatch from Manilla, reporting the German seizure of the island of Yap, in the Caroline Group, reached Madrid on the evening of the 4th, and, being immediately made known ...
Article : 1,043 wordsGeorge Barrow, proprietor of the Smith Australian Times, was sentenced to-day to six months' imprisonment without hard labor for libelling Samuel Tomlinson. ...
Article : 174 wordsThe British India Steam Navigation Company's Chartered steamer Wistow Hall, which left Brisbane on 7th September, left here to-day on her homeward voyage. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe twenty-seventh annual spring show held under the auspices of the Ballarat Agricultural and Pastoral Society, was opened to-day. The attendance of visitors for a first day was ...
Article : 425 wordsMr. Bird did not attend in the House of Assembly this evening, but forwarded a letter addressed to the Attorney-General, withdrawing the statement reflecting on the financial ...
Article : 70 wordsArrived.--From Port Augusta: Ariadne, bq., sailed 2nd June, (This vessel put into Bahia on 26th August for stores.) ...
Article : 36 wordsA man named William White, a carter, aged 76, committed suicide at No. 54 Heath-street, Port Melbourne, shortly before three o'clock yesterday afternoon, by shooting ...
Article : 245 wordsAfter some formal business in the Assembly this afternoon, the second reading of the Polynesian Amendment Bill was proceeded with. Mr. Hume Black, on behalf of the planters. ...
Article : 131 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Messrs. Roes and Symon urged that constitutional usage would be violated by the re-trial of the Daly River native murderers without quashing their ...
Article : 139 wordsSeveral publicans were summoned at the City Court yesterday on charges of Sunday trading and opening their bars to the public. Mr. Call, P.M., presided, with the following ...
Article : 663 wordsThe Chief Secretary yesterday received a deputation of representatives from the Victorian, Barwon, Ballarat and Williamstown woollen mills, who stated that they did not consider any ...
Article : 513 wordsProbate was granted to the wills of the following deceased persons:--Eliza Matilda Clarke, £650, on the motion of Mr. Kelleher; John Donaldson, £805, on the motion of Mr. ...
Article : 334 wordsA meeting of the Painters and Decorators' Society was held last night; Mr. Booth, president, in the chair. The chief business was the election of delegates to represent the society ...
Article : 359 wordsThe sittings of the Federated Seamen's Conference have been suspended for the present. The chairman, Mr. Wright, and the secretary, Mr. Mansfield, are attending the Eight ...
Article : 164 wordsThe election excitement is increasing throughout the metropolis and country. It is fiercest at St. Leonards, where Mr. Dibbs, the Premier, and Sir Henry Parkes are among the ...
Article : 339 wordsSIR,--I am glad to sea by the proceedings in the Scots' Church last night that the members of that church are waking up to discern wherein lies the real point at issue. A gentleman asked ...
Article : 392 wordsIn the District Court yesterday, Henry Bachelor was charged with a breach of the municipal by-laws, by obstructing the footpath in front of the Opera House and refusing to move when ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. Chomley prosecuted for the Crown. LARCENY AS A SERVANT.--John Evans pleaded guilty to stealing stamps valued at nearly £400, the property of his employer, Mr. ...
Article : 302 wordsMr. Call, P.M., held a sitting of the Licensing Court at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, when the following transiers were granted:--Albert Hotel, Victoria-street, from Sarah N. Waldock ...
Article : 121 wordsA deputation from the Political Short Hours' League, introduced by Mr. W. Collard Smith, waited upon the Hon. Mr. Deakin, at the Parliament Houses, last evening, and presented ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 16 Oct 1885, Page 5
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