Parliament was prorogued by commission today with the usual ceremony. The Queen's speech commences by stating that the relations between Great Britain and ...
Article : 367 wordsAn albatross dropped dead on Sunday on the beach at Fremantle. The bird, on being inspected, was found to have a tin band round its neck, with the following message in French ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Politische Correspondent states that, in conformity with an understanding arrived at with the British Government, the French are preparing to evacuate the New Hebrides, and ...
Article : 63 wordsA conference, comprising three members of the Trades Hall Council and a similar number from the Australian Natives Association, the Amalgamated Miners' Association and the ...
Article : 1,062 wordsBoth Houses of Parliament meet to-day at the usual hour. The preliminary business in the Legislative Assembly is to be followed by the consideration in committee of a message ...
Article : 4,218 wordsThose unaware of the occasion might experience a sense of surprise yesterday morning, not only at finding Jewish places of business closed on a Monday, but at meeting ...
Article : 1,016 wordsThe Council of the University of Melbourne met yesterday afternoon, at the Law Courts, when the Chancellor, Dr. Brownless, presided, and there were present -- the Vice-chancellor, ...
Article : 1,091 wordsThe Politische Correspondent, a semi-official journal, states that an arrangement between France and England regarding the New Hebrides is impending, on the basis that ...
Article : 57 wordsThe claims are being prepared by counsel for Mr. Cornwell, of Samoa, for compensation for the destruction of houses at Savaii by the Germans, on land awarded by the High ...
Article : 98 wordsIt is considered probable that the reparation made by Bulgaria in suppressing the Rustchuk journal, which recently published an article containing insulting reference to the German ...
Article : 40 wordsThe steamship Otway left Fremantle on Saturday night to rescue the passengers of the steamer Perth, off Point Cloates, 150 miles from Gascoyne. ...
Article : 210 wordsIt is announced that the suppression of the Rustchuk Journal has failed to appease the German Government, who have threatened to bombard Rustchuk. ...
Article : 35 wordsGeneral Boulanger, ex-Minister for War in France, and, now the commander of one of the army corps, addressing the officers on the occasion of the experimental mobilisation of ...
Article : 81 wordsA destructive fire has occurred at Grenfell. It broke out at 8 o'clock last night at Axtain's store, and in an hour the whole block was in flames. All the buildings from Forbes-street ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Indian Government, which declined to arrange for the official representation of the country at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition from considerations of the expense that ...
Article : 66 wordsThe public demonstration in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, which was commenced in Philadelphia on Thursday, was ...
Article : 113 wordsAt the meeting of the executive committee of the Bulli Fund to-day the mayor introduced Mr. R. G. Benson, representative of the Victorian subscribers, to the fund. The Victorians ...
Article : 481 wordsThe barque Lizzie Iredale, which sailed from Newcastle, New South Wales, on the 5th of March, for San Diego, California, has been posted at Lloyd's as missing. The crew of Sir Edward Walker, the founder of the corps of commissionaires in Loudon, has left for Sydney for the purpose of forming a branch of the corps in Sydney, composed of ...
Article : 101 wordsA meeting of farmers interested in the erection of a grain store at Wunghnu railway station was held in the Mechanics' Institute on Saturday, when about 40 farmers attended. ...
Article : 117 wordsThis afternoon a married man named Michael Moruane, aged 38 years, a resident of Barwon Heads, was accidentally killed at Marshalltown. He was driving a horse and ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Times of to-day publishes a statement to the effect that the British and French Governments have arrived at an agreement by which the supervision of the Suez Canal shall ...
Article : 111 wordsThe new steamer Oceans, built for the Peninsular and Oriental Company, has been launched at Belfast. ...
Article : 26 wordsA deputation, consisting of Messrs. B. Douglas, Owers, Miller, Shaweross and Band, representing the original trustees of the Trades Hall, had an interview yesterday with Mr. ...
Article : 585 wordsAnother of the promoters of the wheat "Corner," which was lately organised in California, named Dresbach, has failed, with liabilities stated at 12,000,000 dollars. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe sittings were resumed in the evening; the president, Mr. H. A. Harwood, in the chair. Alter some discussion it was resolved that Mr. W. G. Spence should be allowed to sit as ...
Article : 1,398 wordsMozart's great opera, Don Giovanni, was performed last evening at the Theatre Royal for the first time by Simonsen's Italian Opera Company. Like Rossini's Barber of Seville ...
Article : 332 wordsCount Kalnoky, the Austrian Premier, who has been on a visit to Prince Bismarck, returned to Vienna yesterday. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe divorce suit Dorn v. Dorn and Nicholson was continued this morning before Mr. Justice Stephan. The case for the defence having closed, petitioner was ogam shortly ...
Article : 137 wordsAn indignation meeting, to protest against the Chief Justice's interdiction, was held on Saturday at the town hall. The building was crammed with people, and resolutions were ...
Article : 108 wordsThe cargo of frozen meat by the Orient R. M. S. Potosi has been opened, and found to be in very good condition. ...
Article : 26 wordsFor the forthcoming International Yacht Race, 3 to 5 is being laid on the American yacht Volunteer against the British yacht Thistle. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe mails per R. M. S. Massilia, from Melbourne 10th August, were delivered in London to-day rid Brindisi. The mails per Union Company's R. M. S. ...
Article : 43 wordsA daring case of housebreaking took place between the hours of 2 aud 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the residence of Mr. A. Farmer, situate in one of the busiest portions of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 226 wordsThe case of the New Zealand clergyman the Rev. Wm. Radcliffe, who has been several times before the South Australian courts on a charge of contravening the bankruptcy laws of ...
Article : 282 wordsA hawker named Harry Scott, living at Devenish, was charged at the police court to-day with having attempted his life by placing his head on the railway line near the station ...
Article : 105 wordsAlfred John Thurlow, of Albert-terrace, Stead-street, South Melbourne, plasterer. Causes of insolvency : Bad debts and losses on contracts. Liabilities, £133 0s. 11d.; assets, ...
Article : 35 wordsOn Saturday the discovery of gold was reported on Mount Darnick, Manfred Run, near Ivanhoe. The only official Information which has come to hand is the following telegram, ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 20 Sep 1887, Page 5
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