The French Ministry have introduced a bill in the Chamber of Deputies authorising the Panama Canal Company to suspend payments for a period of three ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Parliamentary session is to close next Wednesday evening, and at noon on Thursday the Governor will attend tho Legislative Council chamber to assent to the bills passed ...
Article : 4,459 wordsThe question of the investment of trust funds in colonial securities was discussed to-day, when the Agents-General for the Australian colonies waited upon Lord ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Gladstone delivered an important political speech at Limehouse, in the East End of London, to-day. Speaking of the Unionist-Liberal party, the members of ...
Article : 235 wordsThe symphony introduced at the special orchestral concert on Saturday afternoon' was that by Raff, entitled Lenore, the final movement, illustrative of Burger's weird ballad of ...
Article : 546 wordsThe news of the reported capture by the Mahdi of Emin Passha, who was left by the late General Gordon in charge of Wadelai, and of Mr. H. M. Stanley, the well known ...
Article : 191 wordsAlthough the welcome rains which fell on Friday and Saturday have not boon general, and it cannot yet be announced that the drought has been broken up, substantial good has been done ...
Article : 518 wordsIn view of the supposition that Stanley and Emin Pasha are prisoners at Khartoum, it will be interesting to read of the treatment to which the white captives at that place are subjected. ...
Article : 451 wordsThe Parnell commission sat again today for the further hearing of evidence, and at its rising adjourned over the Christmas holidays. The next sitting will be ...
Article : 50 wordsBaron do Lesseps applied to the committee of the Chamber of Deputies to whom the Panama Canal Bill was referred, that they would hear him in support of the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Emin Pasha relief committee entertain doubts as to the truth of the statement that Stanley has fallen into the hands of the Mahdi. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. W. O'Brien, M.P. for the north-east division of Cork, has been cited to appear before the commission for contempt of court. The charge is laid in respect of ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Hon. Sidney Carr Glyn and Messrs. David Murray and J. Ewen have been appointed members of the London board of the Bank of New Zealand. ...
Article : 44 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Lord Randolph Churchill inquired whether, in view of the report that Emin Pasha and Mr. Stanley had been captured by the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe two youths, William Gower and Charles Joseph Dobell, charged with murdering an engine driver named Lawrence, have been found guilty and sentenced to ...
Article : 309 wordsA poll took place yesterday to fill the seat in the House of Commons as representative of Maidstone, caused by the death of Major Alexander H. Ross ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Financial News to-day publishes a scathing article concerning the management of tho Bank of New Zealand. It is declared that disclosures have been ...
Article : 212 wordsA slight outbreak of fire occurred early yesterday afternoon at the City of Melbourne Bank, corner of Elizabeth and Collins streets. Constable Pauling, who was passing the building ...
Article : 213 wordsOnly slight showers have fallen, registering 20 points, and the rain therefore will not interfere with harvesting. With the exception of oats, which are generally a failure, the crops ...
Article : 381 wordsThe latest authentic news of Mr. H. M. Stanley is over 12 months old, and it did not reach England until early last month. Writing on the 3rd November, the Times says: ...
Article : 1,198 wordsAn interesting letter was some time since received by Dr. Felkin from Emin Pasha. It is dated Wadelai, 17th April, 1887, and in the course of it Emin Pasha says that "the work that Gordon ...
Article : 783 wordsAt the wool sales to-day 10,000 bales were catalogued. Prices remained without material change. LONDON, 15th DECEMBER. ...
Article : 152 wordsMuch alarm was created yesterday by a report that a fire had broken out on the Queen's Wharf. The outbreak occurred at No. 4 shed, where 519 bales of trussed hay, just landed ...
Article : 110 wordsThe proposal for the annexation of Canada to the United States is regarded with apathy in the States. ...
Article : 31 wordsA telegram was received yesterday afternoon from Cape Otway announcing that the screw steamer Bowra was ashore in Apollo Bay. The Bowra is a wooden vessel built at Terrigal, in ...
Article : 207 wordsThe ordinary monthly meeting of the board of management of the Melbourne Typographical Society was held at the Trades Hall on Saturday; the president (Mr. Geo. Jordan) in the ...
Article : 730 wordsThe total quantity of wheat afloat is estimated at 2,205,000 quarters. Tho wheat market is quiet. Australian off coast cargoes have declined, being quoted at 39s. ...
Article : 95 wordsHeavy rain fell on Saturday night, and continued for four hours. Telegraphic reports state that rain fell over a large portion of Riverina. This evening the atmosphere is muggy, with ...
Article : 124 wordsProfessor Geffsen, who is at present imprisoned at Hamburg for having published extracts' from the diary of the late Emperor Frederick III., is to be tried on ...
Article : 67 wordsEarly this morning Sydney was visited by one of the heaviest storms ever experienced in the city. About 6 o'clock on Saturday evening rain fell very heavily both in city and suburbs, and ...
Article : 524 wordsThe death is announced of Prince Alexander of Hesse, father of Prince Alexander, formerly ruler of Bulgaria. ...
Article : 28 wordsA sad accident, which resulted in the almost instantaneous death of a man named Andrew Russell, took place at South Melbourne shortly after 6 o'clock yesterday evening. The deceased, ...
Article : 143 wordsThe yacht Coquette, of Lyttelton, has been wrecked on the Bunks Peninsula. Percy Nalder, the son of a solicitor, and two young companions were drowned. Fears were ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. G. J. Goschen, the Treasurer, has promised Parliament to reconsider the question of establishing penny postage between Great Britain and the United ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is reported in Ballarat that an American engineer, who came to the city a few days ago, is here for the purpose of putting together 10 bogie locomotives of the Baldwin pattern that are ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 487 wordsThe Maori football team played the Broughton team yesterday, and won the match. ...
Article : 19 wordsComplaints have been made by parents for some time past of the manner in which their children have been treated at the Nhill State school, and yesterday the committee of the local ...
Article : 111 wordsThe barque Thurso, which arrived in harbor on Saturday from Lyttelton, had a narrow escape from foundering on the voyage. After battling against a series of westerly gales the ...
Article : 203 wordsSailed: Damascus, s., for Melbourne via Adelaide; Autofagosta, for Melbourne. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 172 wordsA daring attempt at extensive robbery was made here at 3 o'clock this morning. The first place visited was the Golden Stream Company's mine, where the manager's office was broken ...
Article : 194 wordsA six-roomed dwelling house at Long Point, between Creswick and Ascot, took fire at about 8 o'clock this morning, and was completely burned. The house, which was insured for ...
Article : 67 wordsProfessor Brown, of Otago University, while exploring the west arm of Lake Manapouri, wandered from his party and got lost. The weather was terribly rough, and a week's search ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 17 Dec 1888, Page 5
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