It is expected that if the coal masters persist in their refusal to grant the increase of wages demanded by the miners, 170,000 men will go out on strike at the end of the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe announcement that the Bank of New Zealand has resolved to make a new issue of shares in order to strengthen its position has led to a free criticism ...
Article : 390 wordsTHERE are abundant reasons why the understanding that the second reading debate on the Redistribution of Seats Bill shall be terminated to-morrow night should ...
Article : 3,430 wordsA most extraordinary story of miraculous escape from death was on Saturday morning reported to the Toorak police by John Orange, driver of hansom cab No. ...
Article : 775 wordsThe Newcastle miners' delegate board met yesterday, but the only business transacted was the auditing of accounts in connection with the strike fund. The following further donations ...
Article : 825 wordsOn Saturday afternoon, on the Lower Yarra river, was inaugurated on animal eight-oared race between the universities of the colonics, an event which bids fair in time to rival in ...
Article : 1,208 wordsSome dissatisfaction has been felt by the German beer exhibitors from the beginning of the Exhibition with the action of the commission in refusing them facilities for putting their ...
Article : 549 wordsThe threatened strike of coal miners in England is causing serious uneasiness. Little or no hope is entertained that the strike will be averted. The miners are ...
Article : 146 wordsIshak Khan, the leader of the revolting tribes in Afghanistan, has sustained a signal defeat at the hands of the Ameer Abdur Rahman's forces. The rebels have ...
Article : 56 wordsA very large audience attended the special orchestral concert given on Saturday afternoon. The symphony was Beethoven's third, the Eroica, its full title being "Sinfonia Eroica, to ...
Article : 559 wordsThe Right Rev. Dr. Barry, Bishop of Sydney, delivered an address at yesterday's sitting of the Church of England Congress now being held at Manchester. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe rebel forces under Osman Digna, which had taken up an entrenched position near Suakim and threatened a strong attack on the town, have again been ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. J. G. Blaine, one of the prominent leaders of the Republican party in the United States speaking at Ontario last night, stated that the union of Canada with the ...
Article : 72 wordsDetective M'Manamy on Saturday morning arrested a young man named Joseph Compton Rickett, described as a surveyor, on a charge of obtaining goods from Mr. Johnson, licensee of ...
Article : 149 wordsCardinal Moron, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, returning thanks yesterday at Dublin for the freedom of the city which had been conferred ...
Article : 150 wordsNews has been received that the expedition sent by the Indian authorities to the Black Mountain, for the purpose of punishing tho natives who murdered Major ...
Article : 68 wordsBoth Houses of Parliament will meet tomorrow. In the Legislative Assembly the debate upon the second reading of the Electoral Districts Alteration Bill will be resumed, ...
Article : 3,586 wordsAt the South Melbourne police court on Saturday, Mary Joshua, a woman about 30 yours of ago, was charged with maliciously wounding an elderly man named Patrick Fahey ...
Article : 211 wordsIn the evening, after the race, the visiting crews were entertained at a banquet at Parer's Crystal Cafe. Professor H. B. Allen, president of the Melbourne University Boat Club, ...
Article : 122 wordsOne of the trucks attached to a goods train from Seymour was discovered to be on fire between here and Nagambie on Saturday morning. On reaching Murchison station the fire ...
Article : 84 wordsGeneral Boulanger, who has recently been visiting Sweden and other places incognito, has returned to Paris. It is regarded as certain that, in addition to the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe mayor of Sandhurst has invited 120 Exhibition Commissioners and prominent British manufacturers to visit Sandhurst shortly. ...
Article : 28 wordsWheat continues to advance. Australian, ex warehouse, is quoted at 42s. 6d. to 43s., and off coast cargoes at 42s. to 42s. 6d. The total quantity of wheat afloat is ...
Article : 63 wordsThe city council of Fitzroy will be invited at its ordinary meeting on Tuesday evening to discuss the new electoral boundaries of that Parliamentary constituency. After the consideration ...
Article : 96 wordsTwo more Exhibition employes have been arrested on charges of larceny. In this instance the thefts date so far back as the last Sydney Exhibition, and it is n mere coincidence that ...
Article : 217 wordsA conference of shire councils interested in the foreclosure on the Loddon United Water Trust was held at Boort yesterday, when the Marong, Gordon, Korong, and East Loddon ...
Article : 132 wordsThe team of Maori footballers, now visiting England, have won easily their second match against an English team. ...
Article : 26 wordsA railway accident, which has since terminated fatally, occurred about 8.55 on Saturday night at the Newport railway station, on the Williamstown line. Just as the 8.45 ...
Article : 138 wordsPearson's Lake Coorong Salt Company, South Australia, has been registered, with a capital of £10,000. ...
Article : 23 wordsAt tins wool sales to-day 9000 bales were catalogued. The market remains fairly firm. The present series of sales will close on Wednesday next. ...
Article : 50 wordsAt a public meeting of electors of Grenville, held last night at Buninyong, Mr. Hedrick, mayor, presiding, resolutions were carried condemning the Electoral Bill on general grounds, ...
Article : 282 wordsThe Bank of South Australia has declared a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe following communication has been received by the chairman of the Albury Vine and Fruit Growers' Association from the secretory of the Vine Diseases Board:-- "Sir, the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 35 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's E.M.S. Massilia, from Melbourne 24th August, arrived at Plymouth on tho morning of tho 4th inst. ...
Article : 50 wordsA hew steamer, being built to the order of the Peninsular and Oriental Company for the Australian trade, has been successfully launched. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the South Melbourne police court on Saturday, Inspector Webb proceeded against Ellen Tabulo, licensee of the Minister Arms Hotel, corner of Park and Moray streets, for ...
Article : 285 wordsA special meeting of the board of management of tho Melbourne Typographical Society was held at the Trades Hall on Saturday; Mr. Geo. Jordan (president) in the chair. A letter ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 159 wordsIt has been reported that the British Government were about to annex the Savage Island, in the South Pacific. The statement is now declared to he without ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 137 wordsArrived: Scottish Chief, bq., from Port Wakefield 7th May; Kenilworth, bq., from Beachport 13th May; Mersey, bq., from Port Augusta 1st April; Oamaru, ship, ...
Article : 45 wordsA meeting of carpenters was held on Saturday morning, when men were appointed to picket the various shops from which union men have come out, and officially to advise non-unionists ...
Article : 162 wordsA terrible boating fatality occurred yesterday at Bairnsdale, by which Mr. Jones, postmaster of that town, and Mrs. Wilson and her son all lost their lives. It appears that a party of three ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 8 Oct 1888, Page 7
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