Illustrations in "The Leader" this week include a series of views takes in the South Seas during the recent excursion to the summer isles of Eden, organised by the ...
Article : 4,862 wordsThe petition by the directors of the Standard Bank of Australia Limited and the rival petition presented on behalf of a creditor named John Cookson, praying that the ...
Article : 1,436 wordsThe Khalifa's former gencralisslmo, Mahmoud, who was captured at the battle of Atbara, where his army was routed and his camp stormed by General Kitchener ...
Article : 81 wordsThe speech delivered three days ago by the Emperor William, at Mayence, in which be said he was determined to preserve with all his strength the work of his grandfather ...
Article : 127 wordsAffairs at Manila are reported to be settling down now that the Americans are in possession, and that the blockade is raised, and business, long interrupted, has been ...
Article : 123 wordsThe annual report of the Railway Commissioners for the year ended 30th June last was laid on the table of the Assembly tonight. The total earnings of the railways ...
Article : 726 wordsThe hearing of the case Cayron and others v. Russell and others, which arises out of disputes between the members of a milling syndicate holding properties in West ...
Article : 1,565 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day three small bills were read a first time as formal motions, including Mr. Meagher's measure providing that judges shall not comment on ...
Article : 169 wordsNews has been received from the Congo Free State that the dervishes in the Southern Soudan, who recently massacred a Belgian boating expedition on the Bahr-el-jebel ...
Article : 75 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, The Commissioner of Public Works stated that in the tenders for railway coal there was a difference of £8500 between Huddart ...
Article : 339 wordsThe Norwegian Polar expedition, which started out 1st November last year to search for traces of Dr. Andree, who on 11th July, 1897, started from Dane's Island ...
Article : 102 wordsThe malarial and climatic influences which caused the hurried withdrawal of General Shutter's army from Cuba are making themselves seriously felt among General Mtles's ...
Article : 59 wordsThe general elections for the Cape Assembly arc not yet completed. Mr. Cecil Rhodes has been returned by an immense majority for the Barkly West constituency; and in ...
Article : 108 wordsTelegrams from Santiago de Cuba report that Commodore Schley, who commanded the American fleet that destroyed Admiral Cervera's squadron, and Captain Evans ...
Article : 44 wordsAt the Parramatta police court to-day George Peisley and Henry Burnett Hunter were charged with shooting Constable M'Lean, at Parramatta, on 6th September ...
Article : 341 wordsThe Court of Cassation, at Rome, has decided numerous appeals made to it against sentences passed by the military tribunals, which administered the affairs during the ...
Article : 63 wordsA typhoid epidemic of alarming extent and virulence has broken out in Belfast, Ireland. Over 600 cases of the disease have been reported within the last three weeks. ...
Article : 36 wordsNews has been received at San Francisco that the formal hoisting of the Stars and Stripes at Honolulu, as official intimation of the annexation of Hawaii to the United ...
Article : 73 wordsThe harvest in Russia, which has usuaily a large surplus of grain for export, has proved this season a partial failure, and in consequence great privations in many ...
Article : 50 wordsThe phenomenal heat in England still continues, the shade temperature being nearly 90 degrees Fabr. Many sunstrokes, but few fatal, have occurred in Loudon parks and ...
Article : 118 wordsThe now Divorce Bill passed in committee in the Legislative Council to-day, with the amendment substituting live years' desertion for seven. ...
Article : 60 wordsWheat.--The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,400,000 quarters, or 210,000 quarters, less than last week. The quantity afloat for the Contlueut ...
Article : 266 wordsThe steamer Urmston Grange, which was despatched from Sydney yesterday for Manila with a full cargo of food stuffs, had 1700 tons of frozen meat from Queensland ports. ...
Article : 79 wordsIn the Assembly to-night, a motion proposing that the "urgent" telegram system should be re-restablished, was negatived. ...
Article : 22 wordsSir,--Notwithstanding that flour has, been selling for some time at £9 per ton and under, the ordinary householder is still being charged 6d., or even more, per 4 lb. loaf At this ...
Article : 524 wordsThe case in which the guard, fireman, engine driver and another officer of the Railway department were dismissed for falsifying the running time table was dealt with ...
Article : 138 wordsFollowing on the recent volcanic disturbances in Italy and the eruption of Vesuvius, earthquakes have been experienced in Scotland, several shocks having been felt ...
Article : 284 wordsA memorandum from the Central Telegraph Office says:--"Berne notifies that communication is re-established with Manila, without restriction with regard to secret ...
Article : 29 wordsIn the Hawthorn town hall last night, Mr. George Swinburne--who contests Power ward at to-day's election, against Or. Edgerton--addressed a large and orderly meeting ...
Article : 492 wordsThe Premier has received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, through the Governor of New South Wales, a telegram relating to the position of affairs brought ...
Article : 72 wordsAt the conference of the Farmers and Settlors' Association to-day, at Bathurst, resolutions were adopted disapproving of the action of the Government In throwing open ...
Article : 112 wordsThe "Standard," in an article on the colonial policy of Germany, declares that the German "Chauvinists" are resolved to upset the Samoan triple control agreement, and ...
Article : 111 wordsOwing to the recent favorable weather the growth of vegetation has been excellent. ECHUCA, Wednesday. ...
Article : 132 wordsA monster meeting of the minors association was held this evening, to consider the strike at the Jumbunan mine, it was decided to resume work in the morning ...
Article : 43 wordsMrs. Martha Beaver, a married woman, aged 65, the mother of several grown up children, and a resident of Footscray for 30 years, met with her death in a shocking manner early yesterday ...
Article : 232 wordsThe magistrates of Brunswick interviewed the Premier yesterday to present a resolution they had agreed to at a meeting supporting the town hall site for the new court buildings, as against the ...
Article : 235 wordsThe mayor of Hawthorn last night reported to the local council that he had attended the meetings of the Cemeteries Conference. Tho whole proceedings had been in the interest of the site at ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Bijou Theatre will be opened by the Cosgrove Musical Comedy Company on Saturday next with the farcical comedy, Fun On the Bristol. The character of the Widow ...
Article : 114 wordsA mysterious robbery was reported to the police as having been committed during the passage from London of the steamer Southern Cross, which last evening was berthed at the Australian wharf, near ...
Article : 197 wordsSir,--In your sub-leader of to-day you say Cardinal Moran states that while at the commencement of the century there were In Great Britain but 70,000 Catholics in a ...
Article : 289 wordsFrank Peverel and Ashton Rhodes, at Brunswick court yesterday, were charged with setting fire to a letter pillar on 3rd inst., and pleaded guilty. The offence carries with it liability to ...
Article : 104 wordsWhilst on duty at the intersection of Flinders and Elizabeth streets on Monday afternoon, Constable J. Wilson was startled at the conduct of the driver of a meat waggon who disregarding a ...
Article : 206 wordsAt the meeting of the Hawthorn council lust night it was resolved, on the motion of Cr. Dalley, to write to the Melbourne Council and the various electric lighting ...
Article : 68 wordsA patient named James Hobson, aged 37, died in the Melbourne Hospital, yesterday, while an operation was being performed on him by Dr. F. Bird. Deceused was a wharf laborer, residing at ...
Article : 221 wordsAt 10.30 last evening another petition was presented to the Chief Justice at Government House by Mr. Rennick on behalf of Sarah Gras-y-fort, of M'Kean-street, Clifton ...
Article : 71 wordsAt Kew court yesterday, two youths named Percy Pilkington and William Hockey were fined 1s. each for picking wattle blossom in Studley Park. They pleaded that they did not know they ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 25 Aug 1898, Page 5
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