In consequence of some complaints made against the system of registering the unemployed at the Railway department, the Acting Premier (Mr. Isaacs) had a long ...
Article : 1,407 wordsThe Legislative Assembly will probably sit four days this week in order to complete the consideration of the Federal Constitution Bill. Many of the vital points ...
Article : 3,451 wordsThe Federation of British Employers has declined the request of the Federated Trades Unions for a conference to consider the gradual or immediate reduction of the ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Sherman, Secretary for State in President M'Kinley's Cabinet, in a newspaper interview on the subject of the Behring's Sealeries conference, is reported ...
Article : 189 wordsWhen the Railway department last year prepared plans for the new central metropolitan station, the scheme was set aside by the adverse opinion of the Railways ...
Article : 914 wordsSeveral of the crew of the wrecked steamer Tasmania arrived here yesterday by the steamer Tarawera, from New Zealand. They were Messrs. M'Gregor, third engineer; ...
Article : 1,402 wordsA public meeting was held at the Essendon town hall on Friday night for the purpose of arousing attention to the movement initiated for the purpose of having religious instruction ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Emperor and Empress of Germany yesterday arrived at Cronstadt, at the entrance to the Neva, to pay their promised visit to the Emperor of Russia. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe view which the wholesale manufacturers take of the new scale of wages fixed for the clothing trade is one of general dissatisfaction. They say that their interests ...
Article : 1,270 wordsThe New South Wales detachment of Mounted Rifles now in England, after undergoing n month's training at Aldershot, are to be attached to the Royal ...
Article : 117 wordsThe officials of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers state that there is no prospect of an appeal being made at an early date to the Board of Trade to intervene ...
Article : 55 wordsTho London County Council has decided to concede the eight hours system to all workmen in its employ. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Archbishop of Melbourne on Saturday afternoon performed the opening ceremony in connection with the recently completed school buildings connected with St. Brigid's Roman ...
Article : 579 wordsThe election for the Brightside division of Sheffield, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Right Hon. A. J. Mundella, took place yesterday. The seat had ...
Article : 92 wordsAt the Royal Yacht Club races at Cowes to-day, the Prince of Wales's yacht Britannia won the Meteor Challenge Shield, presented by the Emperor William ...
Article : 82 wordsThe German Government has entered a strong protest against the action of the United States Congress in imposing, under the Tariff Revision Bill recently adopted, ...
Article : 94 wordsThe British Parliament was to-day prorogued. The prorogation speech stated that the German and Belgian commercial treaties had been denounced by her ...
Article : 120 wordsA terrible explosion occurred yesterday at Rustchuk, a fortified town in Eastern Bulgaria, on the Danube. In some unexplained way a magazine depot full of rifle ...
Article : 58 wordsExports in tobacco state that the trial consignments of Victorian tobacco leaf sent to England show excellent quality, but that the leaf requires better ...
Article : 278 wordsAn accident occurred on the Buninyong while that vessel was proceeding down the Port Adelaide River on Friday, resulting in the death of two of her crow, named W. ...
Article : 193 wordsTelegrams from Bombay, which a month ago suffered so severely from the bubonic plague, report that Asiatic cholera, is raging there with great virulence. Last ...
Article : 58 wordsSome of the German newspapers which support the aims of the colonial party are now urging that the moment is opportune for the annexation by Germany of Samoa, ...
Article : 113 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies, has decided, contingently on the native protectorates of Zululand and ...
Article : 75 wordsThe barque Lalla Rookh, bound from Calcutta to Autofagasta with gunny bags, put into port yesterday morning for repairs, having sustained damage during heavy ...
Article : 139 wordsDuring the past few days a number of prominent electors identified with the constituency of Bourke East have been considering the advisability of selecting a candidate in the Liberal ...
Article : 253 wordsTowards fulfilment of an announcement which was made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, in his recent Budget speech, the Imperial ...
Article : 76 wordsThe silver market is again depressed through the stoppages of the recent purchases for India, and by heavy sales in America. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe British Empire Finance Corporation has been registered with a capital of £500,000, shares to the amount of £57,583 to be issued. ...
Article : 141 wordsMr. E. H. Cameron, M.L.A., delivered a lecture here, last night on Narrow Gauge Railways; the shire president, Mr. T. Dobson, presiding. There was a good attendance, and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 494 wordsSir Michael Hicks Beach, Chancellor of tho Exchequer, has been waited upon by the special envoys of the United States Government who were recently despatched ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. Tillett, the English Labor leader, was entertained at a harbor picnic yesterday by the Labor organisations. In responding to the toast of his health, Mr. Tillett urged the working ...
Article : 105 wordsThe complete schedule of Charles Marriott Watson, of 59 Chancery-lane, Melbourne, solicitor, was filed in the Insolvency Court on Saturday. The following is the balance sheet ...
Article : 498 wordsSir, --In reference to your paragraph in this morning's paper, referring to " floor mats," and our having been called on to pay £23 16s., we beg to state that the goods in question are ...
Article : 147 wordsThe result of the Boulder Perseverance crushing has been cabled to London, but until a cable message is received from London stating that the message has arrived, the news will not ...
Article : 273 wordsWilliam Garrick, of No. 2 Coates-lane, off Little Collins-street, soap maker, trading as Garrick and Co. Causes of insolvency: Want of remunerative employment and want of sufficient orders to enable ...
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Article : 150 wordsThe Forest Commission visited the Barmah and Yielma State forests yesterday, and at Picola took evidence from the saw millers, who were unanimous for a reduction of the royalty ...
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Article : 85 wordsThe stock sale held here to-day by Messrs. Bence and Patterson was the most remarkable for high prices and cager demand of all the sales ever held in the district. Over 400 head ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 9 Aug 1897, Page 5
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