To-morrow's issue of "The Age" will consist of 16 pages. Following her annual custom, Lady Brassey will to-day entertain State school ...
Article : 4,165 wordsThe great Melbourne conflagration has been the incentive, at this advanced period of the session, to the introduction of a bill for the inauguration of a scheme of ...
Article : 765 wordsTo-day saw the fourth day's play in the test cricket match at the Sydney cricket ground. The weather was fine, and would have been perfect but for a high wind which ...
Article : 3,459 wordsReports from the out districts state that swarms of grasshoppers are doing a great deal of damage in orchards and vineyards at Urangeline and Four Corners. The pest has ...
Article : 111 wordsTelegrams received from General Lockhart's Tirah expeditionary force report further severe fighting with the Afridis, who are adhering to their lately adopted tactics, ...
Article : 371 wordsThe Privy Council to-day delivered judgment in the following appeals from Australian courts:--BANK OF AUSTRALASIA V. ...
Article : 1,027 wordsThere are now prospects of an agreement between the representatives of the Employers' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineers in the conference, which ...
Article : 89 wordsAt a meeting of the Wagga presbytery held yesterday at Culcairn, at which all the ministers of the Presbyterian churches in Riverina were present, the scheme of union of ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Hon. T. A. Brassey (Conservative), M.P. for Banbury, and brother of Lord Brassey, Governor of Victoria, in a speech delivered last night dealing with the ...
Article : 99 wordsIn connection with the supposed fatal case of Maori witchcraft at Taupo, the Maori girl, Ngapaki, has been discharged from custody, the evidence at the preliminary trial showing that ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day Jno. Shean was charged with shooting at Albert Harrington with intent. The Chief Justice summed up strongly against the prisoner, but the jury ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Governor of the French Congo has informed the French Colonial department that he discredits the reports from the Congo Free State, that the expedition of M. ...
Article : 177 wordsThe wreck of the Fitzroy is making a bed in the sand. The deck from the fore part of the bridge to the bows is just awash. The starboard bulwarks and the fore and after hatches have ...
Article : 57 wordsElizabeth Howe, aged 26, a native of Victoria, was attending a gas stove at the Infants' Home, Ashfield, on 13th inst., when her clothes caught fire, and she was fearfully burnt about ...
Article : 534 wordsThe delegates sent to Constantinople by Greece to arrange the definition peace treaty with Turkey have made an appeal to the Porte that the time allowed for ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. John Dillon, leader of the National section of the Irish Home Rule party in the House of Commons, and Mr. W. Redmond, leader of the Parnellite section, ...
Article : 90 wordsAn important step has been taken by the Minister of Agriculture with the object of promoting the wine industry by the dissemination of expert knowledge among the ...
Article : 496 wordsThe Great Northern Railway Company has decided, with a view to improve the saving opportunities of their employes, to establish workmen's banks, paying 3½ ...
Article : 57 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, Sir Hugh Nelson read the following memorandum he had received from Mr. Wilson, the Acting Attorney-General, are the Queensland National Bank:-- ...
Article : 252 wordsLetters written by emigrants to the Klondike gold field about the end of October have been received in England. At that date 3000 miners and residents were ...
Article : 74 wordsThe death is announced of Sir William Edward Maxwell, K.C.M.G., Governor of the British Gold Coast of the Gult of Guinea since 1895. ...
Article : 74 wordsIt is reported that a United States Government agent is now at Trondjhen, in northern Norway, purchasing 1000 reindeer with sledges, and hiring 100 ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Under Secretary to the Treasury has been instructed to report on the question of the division of the public account among the associated banks. He will visit Sydney and ...
Article : 58 wordsThe inquiry into the cause of the great fire in Cripplegate, London, which on 19th November destroyed warehouses, shops and goods to the value of £2,000,000, was ...
Article : 70 wordsThe trial of the Burmans arrested for complicity in the murderous attack made on Mandalay Fort, Upper Burmah, in October last, has resulted in the ...
Article : 127 wordsA fisherman, name unknown, fell off the steamer Pearl into the River Murray, near Morgan, this evening, and was drowned. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Murphy has for time been exercising his wits in piloting a bill through Parliament to authorise the construction of a nice little non-paying railway in the hon. ...
Article : 243 wordsMr. George Fagg, a well known architect, died to-day somewhat suddenly. Deceased was prominent in all philanthropic and religious works. ...
Article : 166 wordsThe United States Senate passed a bill confirming the arrangement made by President Cleveland's Cabinet with Russia and Japan, for the stoppage of pelagic ...
Article : 105 wordsRecently an Armenian girl, aged 16 years, was arrested in Constantinople by the Turkish police for delivering secretly, at the Italian Embassy, letters written by ...
Article : 78 wordsQ.R.M.S. Duke of Argyll left Port Said 14th and Suez 15th inst. for Australia. ...
Article : 16 wordsAt the Carlton court yesterday two young women, named Forby Brown and Nelly Brown, were charged with interfering with the floral offerings which were left on the ...
Article : 233 wordsThe steamer supposed to be the overdue Anglian, from Sydney, turned out to be the Hauroto, from Fiji. The Anglian, however, arrived to-day, her lateness being accounted ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Milloo West post office, kept by a farmer named Tonkin, was burned down last evening. The fire was caused by the clothes of a servant girl named Goar ...
Article : 111 wordsSir,--I wish, with your kind permission, to draw the attention of your readers to the following case of sad necessity:--A lady, having been deserted by her husband over ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 17 Dec 1897, Page 5
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