The Premier, Sir John Downer, will reply to the communication of Mr. Shiels, with reference to the Serviceton railway station dispute early this week. Sir John Downer ...
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Article : 38 wordsA meeting of 150 representatives of labor societies was held to-day to consider the formation of a New Labor Party. The delegates passed a resolution ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. Gladstone and his colleagues have fully considered the Irish Home Rule scheme, and the final draft of the bill to be introduced in the House of Commons has ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Statist says the existing condition of affairs in France justifies grave apprehensions. The action of the Bank of France in ceasing to purchase gold and ...
Article : 86 wordsA very lengthy meeting of the Cabinet was held on Friday night, extending into Saturday morning. With the exception of Sir Julius Salomons, vice-president of the Executive ...
Article : 1,044 wordsThe uneasiness caused by the outspoken speeches which have recently been delivered by Count von Caprivi in relation to the European situation has been intensified ...
Article : 129 wordsAnother case of suicide was brought under the notice of tho authorities of the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday. John Downie, of Colobrook-street. Brunswick, shot himself on ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Government have decided to suspend for the present any action with respect to the proposal of Mr. Joseph Ebb-smith, who holds three-fourths of the ...
Article : 121 wordsThe leaders of the Parnellite and Anti-Parnellite sections of the Home Rule party have mutually agreed upon a scheme for the distribution of the funds which Mr. ...
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Article : 30 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Anthony John Mundella, has declined to grant the request made for the establishment of a Government labor bureau. ...
Article : 35 wordsA special invitation to attend the opening of the Chicago Exhibition has been sent by the United States commissioners to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. ...
Article : 37 wordsStephen Bushall, a cook, 36 years of age, committed suicide by nearly Cutting his head off with a razor at Dorrit-street, Carlton, lateast night. He lodged with James Tracey. ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Morning Post, alluding this morning to the proposed federation of the Australian colonies, compliments Mr. E. Barton, Attorney - General of New South ...
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Article : 63 wordsA report is current in Vienna that a matrimonial match is being arranged between the Czarewitch of Russia, the Grand Duke Nicholas, and Princess Alice ...
Article : 114 wordsSome of the London newspapers are inquiring whether, under the Absentee Income Tax Bill, passed through the Legislative Assembly and which is at present before ...
Article : 68 wordsA young married woman named Linham, of 85 Gipps-street, Collingwood, was admitted into the Melbourne Hospital on Saturday, with a fearful wound in her throat, which was inflicted ...
Article : 153 wordsDr. Graham, the medical man who signed a certificate of death from natural causes, in the case of the girl Clover, one of the victims of Neill, who has been executed for ...
Article : 114 wordsThe state of public feeling in Servia is greatly disturbed, and popular manifestations are of such, a character that the Government fear an extensive outbreak of ...
Article : 36 wordsThe directors of the Melbourne Permanent Building Society have addressed the following circular to their depositors:--The directors find it necessary to ask the consent ...
Article : 365 wordsMr. Cleveland, the President-elect of the United States, has appointed Mr. Carlisle to the position of Secretary to the Treasury. ...
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Article : 84 wordsA strong syndicate has opened negotiations with Sir Andrew Clarke, acting Agent-General for Victoria, with the object of taking up the 4½ per cent. ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. William O'Brien, M.P. for Cork City, the noted Home Rule leader, who last year sued the Marquis of Salisbury, then Premier of England, for libel, and ...
Article : 70 wordsAn inquest was held on Saturday by Dr. Youl at St. Kilda upon the body of Mr. L. Clarke squatter, of Wilcannia, New South Wales, who shot himself at Acland-street, St, Kilda, on ...
Article : 205 wordsThe severity of the winter in America is so great that in Ohio great distress prevails in consequence of the blockage of the river by ice, preventing the transport of food ...
Article : 74 wordsFather Navarre, the head of the Roman Catholic mission to New Guinea, has issued an appeal for funds to aid in carrying on missionary work amongst the natives. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe syndicate of capitalists which is negotiating with the object of taking up the issue of Victorian Treasury bonds to the amount of £750,000 has put in a tender at ...
Article : 54 wordsA fearful disaster is reported to have been brought about in China through the action of a band of robbers, who first ransacked and then burned a temple at ...
Article : 87 wordsAnother case of determined suicide took place at Prahran on Saturday afternoon, when a man named George Robinson, in the employ of Mr. Thuriing, licensee of the Albion Hotel, ...
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Article : 25 wordsThe attention of the officers of the Mining department has been arrested by the comparative failure of the first practical test of the ore on the Mount Wills tinfield, and it will be seen ...
Article : 647 wordsGoldsbrough, Mort and Co. Limited, of Melbourne and Sydney, are arranging to issue at par debentures to the amount of £250,000, bearing interest at 4½ per cent. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe British special commission sent under Sir Joseph Ridgeway, with a naval force, to Tangier, to demand from the Sultan of Morocco satisfaction for the ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Union Bank of Australia Limited will pay a dividend at the rate of 12 per cent. per annum, and carry forward £6000. ...
Article : 29 wordsLieut-Colonel E. G. Cracknell, officer commanding the P.P. Submarine Miners, died at his residence, Edgecliff-road, Woollabra, about 3.30 on Saturday morning. Mr. ...
Article : 241 wordsThe total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,182,000 quarters, being 47,000 less than last week. The market is firm and steady, prices being ...
Article : 181 wordsJohn Sansum, the victim of a supposed attempt at suicide, was admitted into the Melbourne Hospital at 10.30 yesterday morning. He lodged with a Mrs. Wright at ...
Article : 93 wordsThe selection of Walter Giffen as a member of the Australian eleven has given the greatest satisfaction here, press critics agreeing that his inclusion is a wise one, because he was a most ...
Article : 181 wordsIn Simpson's road, Richmond, late last night, a scene of violence caused a large concourse of people to assemble, and the police to exert themselves to a considerable degree. A feud has ...
Article : 252 wordsThe artillery for the fortifications recently constructed at Albany on King George's Sound, with the mountings for the guns complete, have been shipped for ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Railway Commissioners arrived here this afternoon, and were waited upon by the members of the borough council. Mr. W. Anderson introduced the mayor, who asked that the ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Parliament of West Australia was prorogued on Friday, and Sir John Forrest and Sir James Lee-Steere left Perth by special train at midnight to catch the Parramatta at ...
Article : 67 wordsA girl named Adelaide Griffiths Montgomery, who had been for some time ill, died early on Friday morning, but her death was not reported. The mother of the girl, who belongs to a sect ...
Article : 126 wordsIn reply to Mr. Joseph Thompson, formerly of Melbourne, who at a meeting of English bookmakers recently condemned the Australian system, of "licensing" ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 16 Jan 1893, Page 5
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