During the first six days of the present month the Lands department has received £41,000 from selectors on account of arrears of rent, as well as rents just due. The response ...
Article : 5,140 wordsA plot to assassinate President Peixoto has been discovered in Rio de Janeiro. A number of arrests have been made, and several of the conspirators have been shot ...
Article : 54 wordsThe recent action of the House of Lords in persisting in its amendments on the "contracting out" clause of the Employers' Liability Bill, and to the Parish Councils ...
Article : 236 wordsAlthough the detectives have been unremitting in their efforts to trace Wm. Kemp, the missing secretary of the Tender Board, no trace of his whereabouts has yet been discovered. At ...
Article : 188 wordsOfficial accounts received in Paris regarding the massacre of French troops at Timbuctoo, in Central Africa, state that the invading force was surprised when ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Premier returned to town on Saturday night by ordinary train from Beechworth, after a flying tour through the North-Eastern district, having in tho course of two days visited ...
Article : 590 wordsThe British India Steam Navigation Company have received a cable from their representatives at Batavia, stating that the Dorunda, which left Brisbane in January, and on board which ...
Article : 108 wordsThe second Separation Convention sat yesterday, under the presidency of Mr. G. S. Curtis, and was attended by delegates from all parts of the district. The second statement of the case, ...
Article : 167 wordsSupplies of food having been summarily stopped by the Agricultural Colleges Council to men who have been employed clearing on the Framlingham reserve, a deputation of the ...
Article : 225 wordsM. Breton, the editor of a Socialist newspaper published in Paris, has been brought before the court on a charge of having threatened to assassinate M. Carnot, ...
Article : 79 wordsIn the French Chamber of Deputies yesterday, attention was called to the massacre in Timbuctoo, and the Government was asked whether it was intended to ...
Article : 69 wordsNews from Murchison states that Cue and Four Mile are the great centres of attraction. Horseshoe is practically deserted. The Mount Augustus field is pronounced a duffer, and only ...
Article : 139 wordsA sensational attempt at self destruction was made on Saturday morning by a man named Charles Wallaoe, 54 years of age, residing at 105 Chestnut-street, South Richmond. ...
Article : 223 wordsReports of an authentic and shocking character are to hand from Eastern Asia. It is stated that owing to great cruelties inflicted on them the Russian convicts on ...
Article : 144 wordsM. Soubeyran, one of the directors of Banque d'Escompte, has been arrested in Paris, charged with having committed extensive frauds. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Premier has received a cable from the Agent-General with reference to the floating of the Sydney municipal loan. The money is required for the erection of new market ...
Article : 135 wordsA young man named Bert Palmer was charged at the Carlton police court on Saturday with being the keeper of a common gaming house. On Friday night Detectives Gleeson and D. G. ...
Article : 311 wordsIt is announced that the Shah of Persia will pay a visit to the Czar of Russia, at St. Petersburg, next June. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Gladstone, who has for some weeks been at Barwitz, in the south of France, has returned to England. A special Cabinet meeting has been ...
Article : 59 wordsBurglars have been very busy in the suburbs of late. Amongst other houses visited was that of Mr. Benjamin Lee, ex-police magistrate at Annandale, where they secured about £40 ...
Article : 125 wordsSIR,--We can all quite understand why the Attorney-General should have taken official notice of the distribution of property schemes, which are attracting so much attention just now; ...
Article : 581 wordsThe quotation for rupee paper yesterday was £58 2s. 6d. per 1000 rupees, a rise of 17s. 6d. since the previous day. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Conservative press expresses the belief that there will be an early dissolution of Parliament as the only choice left to the Government if they refuse to accept ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 247 wordsBar silver is [?] 14d. higher than yesterday, the present price being 2s. 5 12d. per oz. LONDON, 11TH FEBRUARY. The Statist states that the collapse in the ...
Article : 61 wordsA boot maker named Alf. Croft, 35, residing at Balmain, committed suicide yesterday morning in a very sensational manner. About 5 o'clock he was seen to jump into the water at ...
Article : 124 wordsThe R.M.S. Britannia, Captain Preston, commander, arrived from Colombo at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and sailed for Adelaide at 6 in the evening. Passengers in saloon : For ...
Article : 205 wordsMr. Joseph Chamberlain's proposal to institute a National Party, whose main object would be to maintain the integrity of the Empire, and which would include ...
Article : 97 wordsBroken Hill Proprietary shares are quoted at 47s., a rise of 2s. since yesterday. ...
Article : 21 wordsPlain clothes Constable Carter, with Clothes Constable Gleeson, organised a raid upon an establishment at Collingwood on Saturday afternoon. A detachment of half a dozen ...
Article : 212 wordsSo far the triennial local option vote, which is being taken in connection with the municipal elections throughout the colony, has gone strongly against both granting new licences and ...
Article : 40 wordsWith reference to the dispute in the Maltese courts respecting the validity of Protestant marriages on that island, which has been referred to the Privy Council for ...
Article : 75 wordsA sad boating accident happened here on Saturday evening. A hulk keeper named Maxwell, and his wife, were returning to their hulk from town. When close alongside the vessel a ...
Article : 96 wordsIt is reported that Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England, who is now 74 years of age, is about to retire from the bench, and that he will be succeeded by . ...
Article : 54 wordsA double sculling match has been arranged to take place on the Thames at an early date. Bubear, the English champion, and T. Sullivan, the New Zealand ...
Article : 57 wordsThe steamer Warrimoo, which arrived yesterday from Vancouver, vid Honolulu, brings news with regard to affairs at Hawaii. It was stated recently in San Francisco that the ex-Queen of ...
Article : 131 wordsActing on information received from Melbourne, the police detectives on Friday night arrested a man named Wm. Hudson, or Page, who is wanted in Melbourne on a charge of ...
Article : 278 wordsMr. Perry, P.M., paid a special visit to the Richmond court on Saturday for the purpose of deciding some technical law points arising out of an application made under somewhat ...
Article : 470 wordsThe alleged defalcations of the secretary of the Free Gardeners' Lodge, Brunswick, have caused the authorities to issue a warrant for his arrest. The name of the officer in question is ...
Article : 92 wordsThe second Sunday Afternoon meeting under the auspices of the Richmond Working Men's Club took place in the new city reserve yesterday, when a lecture entitled A Minimum Rate ...
Article : 366 wordsConsiderable uneasiness prevails in shipping circles in Sydney owing to the non-arrival of the three-masted schooner, Sydney Belle. The vessel, with 2610 bags of sugar, left Johnstone ...
Article : 81 wordsSIR,--I cannot tell you the feeling of intense interest and anxiety that the reading of the letters in your valuable journal on the above subject has roused in me. I am a widow, my ...
Article : 453 wordsThe judgment of the Privy Council in the Australian appeal case, Wilson versus M'Intosh, was given to-day. The appeal was allowed With costs. ...
Article : 29 wordsAbout 3.40 on Saturday morning a fire broke out in premises situated at 163 Elgin-street, Carlton, aud occupied by William Blab, a furniture manufacturer, considerable damage ...
Article : 385 wordsJacky, the Dora Dora black, was recaptured on Friday night on a small island of 30 acres of dense scrub, 30 miles up the coast. He was known to be there during the past fortnight. ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Australian Mutual Shipping Company has declared a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum. ...
Article : 27 wordsA football match, under the Association rales, was played yesterday between teams representing England and Ireland. The English team won. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe steamer Watrimoo, which arrived on Saturday from Vancouver via Honolulu and Fiji, brings news, that the R.M.S. Miowera, which was stranded at Honolulu, arrived at San ...
Article : 47 wordsA Lenten pastoral was read in all the Anglican churches to-day. Mrs. Annie Evans, wife of Wm. Evans, mining manager, committed suicide at York on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 231 wordsEthel Gray, a married woman, 20 years of age, was apprehended on warrant by Senior Constable Brennan at St. Kilda yesterday on a charge of stealing a gold brooch and a gold chain ...
Article : 95 wordsAs the 7.35 p.m. train from Melbourne to Williamstown was passing the Castlemaine-street crossing, near Yarraville, on Saturday night, an elderly man named Daniel Quail, 73 ...
Article : 137 wordsThe remarkable criminal career of Emily Lawrence, a self willed girl of 16 years of age, was brought under the notice of the City Bench on Saturday last, when she was charged with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsTen pounds each was the sum fixed by the Brnnswick bench on Saturday morning as the price that Henry Hawkins and Daniel Busfield should pay for attending an evening party to ...
Article : 176 wordsEarly on Sunday morning the dead body of a man was found on the railway line at one of the crossings near the Mordialloc station. The man, who was not known in the district, was ...
Article : 95 wordsThe complete schedule of Andrew Gilmour, of 17 Queen-street, Melbourne, accountant, was filed in the Insolvency Court on Saturday. Liabilities. £13,907 15s. sssets. £5281 15s. 11d. ...
Article : 100 wordsSIR,--If the shareholders of the Premier Permanent Building Society would only petition the Government to allow the property to be distributed by lottery--each house a prize, making ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 12 Feb 1894, Page 5
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