The proposal of the Government to abolish "plumping" at Parliamentary elections was rejected by the Legislative Assembly yesterday after a protraced discussion. Nobody appeared ...
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Article : 81 wordsAt the half yearly meeting of the London Chartered Bank of Australia, which was held yesterday, Sir. James Francis Garrick, late Agent-General for New ...
Article : 138 wordsThe ship Langstone had nearly completed loading her cargo of wool for London, and rode at anchor in the roadstead off Napier. Everything went well until between 9 and 10 o'clock ...
Article : 746 wordsAt the City Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Call, P.M., and a bench of magistrates, Thomas Francis Butler, chief clerk in the Registrar-General's office, was brought up on ...
Article : 1,649 wordsThe treasurer has been empowered to draw the sum of £500 for defence fund purposes. Mr. Curley was appointed at the meeting of the,delegate board yesterday to interview Mr. ...
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Article : 81 wordsSir Henry, Arthur Blake, who has been appointed Governor of Queensland, is to have an interview with the Secretary of State for the Colonies to-morrow for the ...
Article : 120 wordsThe seamen's dispute has been finally settled. The union accept time for time instead of overtime, and the Northern Steamship Company concede .all the other points in dispute, ...
Article : 183 wordsThe charge of contempt preferred against Mr. E. Harrington, M.P., for West Kerry, by the Attorney-General Sir K., E. Webster, Q.C, in connection ...
Article : 93 wordsSir H. Parkes to-day received the following telegram from the Premier of Queensland:--I read with the sincerest pleasure the telegraphed account of last night's debate in your ...
Article : 116 wordsNotwithstanding the generally injurious effects of the drought on the prospects of the ensuing harvest some parts of the district will have fair crops, notably at ...
Article : 265 wordsIntelligence was brought to the North Fitzroy police station late yesterday evening that a man had been seen to jump over the parapet of the Merri Creek-bridge, and was then lying, ...
Article : 269 wordsA committee, of which the Marquis of Lome is president, has been appointed to inquire into the scheme for colonising New Zealand proposed by Mr. Bees, who lately ...
Article : 57 wordsSir John Bender, chairman of the Eastern Extension Cable Company, has written to several of the London newspapers, discrediting the project for a telegraph cable between ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. J. Russell Lowell, late American ambassador in England, was entertained at a farewell banquet last flight. In responding to the toast of his ...
Article : 70 wordsIntelligence has been received of the wreck of the schooner Lizzie Guy and the loss of two lives. The disaster occurred on that portion of the east coast of the North Island ...
Article : 142 wordsBoring for artesian water in the waterless country of the Bourke district has been, proceeding for some time, and has resulted most successfully on the Kerribree run, where a ...
Article : 127 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day a petition was presented by Mr. Trickett in favor of the Broken Hill Water Supply Bill, which was read a first time. The Broken Hill Gas Supply Bill ...
Article : 249 wordsArrived:--Sam Mendel, ship, from Adelaide, 10th August; Oaklands, barque, from Adelaide, 2nd August; Prior Hill, barque, from Lyttelton, 9th July; Eurydice, ...
Article : 44 wordsA further advance of 2s. 6d. per ton in the freight charged to Melbourne and Sydney is announced. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Frederick O. Bruce, a well known lawyer of Adelaide, committed suicide this morning by shooting himself in the region of the heart with a revolver. When the clerk opened the office at ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Australian cricketers returned from their tour to England by the R.M.S Cuzco to-day. The men are all well, and have enjoyed the trip thoroughly, and the tour has been a great ...
Article : 84 wordsThe M.M Company's F.M.S. Salazie left Aden on the 21st inst., homewards. The British India Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Taroba left London on the 20th ...
Article : 47 wordsAn important statement was made in the Legislative Assembly shortly before midnight yesterday by the Premier on railway construction and the condition of the railway account, ...
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Article : 128 wordsThe County Court was opened here to-day, Judge Hamilton presiding. The only cases of interest were G. M'Donald v. J. Revell, for £500 damages for slander, and J. Hen v. A. O'Keefe ...
Article : 107 wordsIn the House of Assembly the afternoon was occupied by the discussion on the Federal Council, Bill. Several members spoke both for and against the measure, and the ...
Article : 296 wordsA sad accident occurred on Monday at Marungi, by which the wife of a fanner named Ballard lost her life. Deceased was boiling water at an inside fire, when her clothes became ...
Article : 142 wordsA public meeting was held here to-day to protest against the passing of the Redistribution of Scats Bill by the Upper House, on the ground that the measure should he first submitted to ...
Article : 118 wordsThe steamer Konoowarra, 2000 tons, Captain G. Smith, from Sydney, arrived at the wharf at 2.20 this morning. She brought the following passengers:--Saloon: Mesdames Stewart, ...
Article : 216 wordsA Chinese named Ah Yow, 41 years of age, made a determined attempt to commit suicide yesterday evening. Towards 6 o'clock he appeared on Princes-bridge very scantily ...
Article : 179 wordsWhen the 10 p.m. train from Melbourne to Brighton Beach arrived at the Elsternwick station on Wednesday evening, a young man named George M'Cure, a native of Geelong, was ...
Article : 181 wordsA quarterly meeting of the Wharf Laborers' Union was held at the Trades Hall on Wednesday evening, the president (Mr. F. J. Hall) presiding. The balance sheet of the union was presented ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 23 Nov 1888, Page 5
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