A poll took place yesterday for the election of a member of the House of Commons to represent tire Gorton division of Lancashire in the place of Mr. R. Peacock. ...
Article : 109 wordsThe defeat in the House of Commons on Wednesday of Mr. John Morley's motion censuring Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, for his alleged maladministration, ...
Article : 185 wordsAbout 10.15 on Saturday night a fire broke out on board a stone craft called The Thomas, owned by Thorson, of Fern Cottage, Bridge-street, Port Melbourne. The vessel lay at the time on ...
Article : 213 wordsCr. Wm. levers addressed an open air meeting on vacant land in Bouverie-street, near Pelham-street, on Saturday evening. Mr. John Scott occupied the chair, and in a short speech ...
Article : 1,215 wordsAn extraordinary general meeting of the Colonial Permanent Trustees, Executors and Agency Company Limited was held on Friday, at Scott's Hotel, Collins-street. ...
Article : 555 wordsAn inquest on, the exhumed remains of a young woman, Lavinia Dinnes, who it is alleged died under suspicious circumstances on the 3rd inst., was held on Saturday afternoon. The ...
Article : 570 wordsThe Phoenix Foundry, which is now a centre of attraction among the working classes of the colony, consequent upon the strike which commenced on Friday, was started, it may be said, ...
Article : 871 wordsMr. Joseph Harris addressed the constituents of South Yarra at Shepherd's Hotel, Argo-street, on Friday evening. The room was crowded. Cr. Edwards occupied the chair. ...
Article : 458 wordsThe Tribunal of Commerce in Paris has refused an application for an order for liquidation in respect to the Comptoir d'Escompte, but appointed provisional ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. James Hearn, one of the eight candidates contesting the representation of East Bourke, made his first public appearance on Saturday at the Temperance Hall, South ...
Article : 400 wordsThe Portland exhibition was formally closed last night, in the presence of nearly 1000 persons. The Attorney-General, Mr. Wrixon, was present, and in his speech congratulated ...
Article : 279 wordsA "white book" has been published by the German Government, containing correspondence with reference to the Samoan dispute. In one of the letters published Prince ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Right Rev. Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, M.A., late Vicar of St. Mark's Church, Kennington, who has been appointed to succeed Dr. Sandford ...
Article : 137 wordsMr. E. Stanhope, Secretary for War, has stated, in reference to the request by the South Australian Government that Major-General Downes bo permitted to ...
Article : 83 wordsMrs. Reid, wife of Dr. J. A. Reid, was discovered dead in her bed yesterday, an empty chloroform bottle by her side. The unfortunate lady had been suffering greatly for some time ...
Article : 170 wordsAt the South Melbourne police court on Saturday several grocers were charged with a breach of the Shops and Factories Act, viz., keeping their shops open after hours. Mr. J. A. ...
Article : 338 wordsMr. Rutherford, the newly appointed manager of Maneroo Station, near Barcaldine, who was lost in the bush, has been found dead. He was only recently from Melbourne. The sum of ...
Article : 109 wordsOn Saturday evening Mr. D. M. Davies, one of the representatives of Grenville in the late Legislative Assembly, and the holder of a portfolio without office in the present Government, ...
Article : 845 wordsMr. W. M. K. Vale addressed a meeting of the electors of Collingwood, in the local town hall, on Saturday evening, and met with an excellent reception. Two persons in the ...
Article : 384 wordsMr. Frederic H. Cowen, who was musical conductor at the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition, and recently,returned, has been interviewed by a press ...
Article : 184 wordsMr. P. J. Slattery, of the Exchange Hotel, corner of Doveton and Mair streets, was brutally assaulted in his bar by four men on Saturday night. ...
Article : 427 wordsMr. C. A. Goodchap, formerly Commissioner of Railways in New South Wales, who is now visiting England, and was elected in his absence as a member of ...
Article : 56 wordsThe exports from New South Wales into Victoria through the border ports almost invariably show a steady increase. From Corowa they increased in value from £372.457 in 1887 ...
Article : 150 wordsA report is published that Emin Bey met and defeated the Mahdi's forces in July last year. ...
Article : 27 wordsA football match took place yesterday between the Maori footballers and a team representing Hull. The match resulted in a draw. ...
Article : 28 wordsUp to the present there is no immediate prospect of a settlement. It seems that several of the loading officers of the Ballarat Trades Hall and Labor Council are strongly of opinion that ...
Article : 623 wordsThe South Australian Land and Mortgage Company declare a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum. LONDON, 22ND MARCH. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe capture of the notorious "Spud" Murphy, and the heavy sentences subsequently passed upon him and his associates, seem to have acted only as a temporary check to the ...
Article : 258 wordsThe lepers who have been quarantined in the lazaretto in the ranges beyond Ballarat East for the past 14 years, were removed by the police last night preparatory to being transferred to the ...
Article : 236 wordsThe proprietors of several of the leading British and foreign newspapers have resolved to establish paper mills and supply themselves with paper, in order to frustrate ...
Article : 73 wordsThere was a large gathering of electors of Melbourne East at the corner of Queensberry and Medeline streets on Saturday afternoon to hear an address from Mr. Frank Stuart. Mr. ...
Article : 341 wordsRelative to the retirement of Mr. R. Murray Smith from the St. Kilda electorate, "a member of Mr. R. M. Smith's committee" sends as the following :-- ...
Article : 568 wordsThe death is announced of Count Schouvaloff, the Russian ambassador at Berlin, and formerly British ambassador for Russia. ...
Article : 193 wordsThe A.U.S.N. Company's R. M.S. Waroonga arrived at Colombo 22nd, outwards. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Parramatta, from ...
Article : 39 wordsA large meeting of journeymen plasterers was held yesterday, and the agreement to be signed by masters and men was read and adopted. The agreement stipulates that 11s. be the wage for ...
Article : 107 wordsThe following casualties have been admitted to the Alfred Hospital since Friday:- Peter Kenny, aged 12 years, living at Harvey street, Prahran, with a bullet wound on his left foot, ...
Article : 57 wordsAn accident, attended with a fatal result, happened on the South Yarra tram line on Saturday evening. A Mrs. Storms and her brother were coming in to Melbourne on the ...
Article : 151 wordsAn accident, resulting in the fearful injury of a young woman named Margaret D'Arcy, employed as a servant by Mrs. Guttrey, of Robestreet, St. Kilda, took place on Saturday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 311 wordsReports to hand from the New Hebrides state that another destructive hurricane has visited the northern part of the group, doing considerable damage. During the gale the ...
Article : 89 wordsA large meeting of electors met at the skating rink, South Preston, on Saturday evening, to hear the views of Mr. J. Mackmeikan, a candidate to represent the constituency of East ...
Article : 599 wordsMr. W. H. Colechin addressed a public meeting on Saturday evening at Fern Tree Gully, Mr. R. Hughes in the chair. Mr. Colechin said he was in favor of assisting the farmers by ...
Article : 284 wordsA retired gentleman named John Mickleborough, aged 76, residing in Watford-terrace, Peel-street, Windsor, died suddenly at his place of abode yesterday morning. The deceased, it ...
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Advertising : 77 wordsOn Saturday Mr. Langton definitely decided to retire from the election contest for South Yarra. He did so in compliance with the wishes. of the Coalition Committee, to whom the matter had been referred, as in the case of the ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 25 Mar 1889, Page 5
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