A terribly destructive fire occurred yesterday in Boston, United States, the damage resulting being estimated at £250,000. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe decline of Melbourne as a centre of Australian trade has been so marked during the past twelve months as to call for serious consideration ; and the Premier, on his attention ...
Article : 3,097 wordsThe Premier received a cable message yesterday from Mr. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, intimating that the Government of that colony in strongly opposed to the suggestion made by a ...
Article : 3,577 wordsIntelligence has been received of a fearful railway catastrophe in San Salvador, the capital of the republic bearing the same name in Central America. ...
Article : 79 wordsA now find is reported from Hannan'a, situated 9 miles from the condensers. Several parties have gone to the place. A petition has been sent to the Premier, ask ...
Article : 134 wordsThe cab drivers of London, of whom 7000 have struck, some on account of the heavy hiring charges, which the owners of the vehicles they drive exact from them, and ...
Article : 168 wordsEvery day is demonstrating the vastness and richness of our coal fields. Only a few days ago the Premier was giving official recognition to a great enterprise at Jumbunna, and now we ...
Article : 322 wordsA large number of clerical gentlemen, representing the commission of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, visited the Premier's office yesterday for the ...
Article : 1,138 wordsCoolgardie news, dated Sunday, reports the discovery of a 50 oz. nugget at Kurnaipi. It was found by a digger named Burrows, in an abandoned claim. Another slug, weighing 42 ...
Article : 206 wordsAt a mass meeting of cabmen last night, it was decided by a large majority that the threatened strike should be forthwith enforced. ...
Article : 69 wordsSir John Pender, chairman of directors of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, has issued a reply to the speech of Sir Charles Tupper, High Commissioner ...
Article : 124 wordsIn the Spanish Cortes yesterday, the Premier, Sefior Canovas del Castillo, spoke with regard to the question of naval control in the Mediterranean. Alluding to ...
Article : 86 wordsImportant news has been received from the foreman in charge of the drill at Berry's Creek, who reports that the bore had passed through another seam of splendid coal at a depth of 864 ...
Article : 435 wordsThe disorderly behavior of undergraduates in the Oxford Colleges, of which great complaints have been made recently, has caused the University authorities to ...
Article : 85 wordsThe following letter, dated Cue, Murchison, West Australia, 23rd April, 1894, has been received from Mr. R. M'William, who is representing the Australian Explosives Company in ...
Article : 1,259 wordsA brutal agrarian outrage was perpetrated lost night near Castlebar, County of Mayo, Ireland. A man named Mitchell, who had leased ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Times this morning publishes a letter by Mr. F. do Labilliere, a member of the Council of the Royal Colonial Institute, dealing with the budget proposals ...
Article : 95 wordsThe dissatisfaction expressed by a number of applicants for allotments of land in the area recently thrown open for selection in the Coranderrk aborigines reserve, near Heales ...
Article : 208 wordsThe attention of the London health authorities has been drawn to the condition of the model dwellings erected in the poor districts in the East End of ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honor—the highest distinction created —has been conferred upon M. Ambroisi Thomas, the celebrated musical composer. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe new directorate of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has decided not to take proceedings against the old directorate. ...
Article : 44 wordsIn connection with the trouble in the boot trade, although the factories from which the unionists were locked out on Monday were re opened today, the men did not return to work. ...
Article : 486 wordsBest Australian tin has declined 10s. to 20s. per ton, and is now quoted at £72 per ton for both present and future delivery. Chilian bar copper, present delivery. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe two conflicting parties into which residents of Elsternwick have been divided for some time past on the question, Shall the Elsternwick Park be again leased for racecourse ...
Article : 700 wordsThe Egyptian Assembly of Notables has passed a resolution recommending that criminal prosecutions be instituted against M. Ferdinand de Lesseps and other members ...
Article : 65 wordsThe success which is now attending the operations of the Ballarat Woollen and Worsted Company, At Sunnyside, has exceeded the most sanguine anticipations of many of the warmest ...
Article : 259 wordsThe charge brought against the man Tournemire, who was recently arrested on suspicion of being the perpetrator of the bomb outrage in Avenue Kleber, in Paris. ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the Assembly today Mr. Gormley moved the adjournment of the House to call attention to a Gazette notice setting out that conditional purchases on which arrears of instalments or ...
Article : 519 wordsThe R.M.S. Merkara, of the Queensland Royal Mail line, arrived at Plymouth on the 15th inst., bound for London. The R.M.S. Jumna, of the same line, arrived ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Treasurer's financial statement made today re-estimates the revenue for 1894 from existing sources at £721,420, being a reduction on the late Treasurer's ...
Article : 196 wordsSIR,—It cannot be possible the stock and station agents of Melbourne are aware of the injury they propose doing to Victorian interests by the present efforts they are making to get ...
Article : 183 wordsThe case against Messrs. Bailey and Wynne, for not cutting thistles on ground belonging to them within 14 days after receiving from the thistle inspector notice so to do, was heard at ...
Article : 144 wordsAt the inquest today on Mrs. Mary Ann Bryant, shot by her son George, the prisoner admitted the act. He made a confession to his brother Luke. It seems that he had asked his ...
Article : 137 wordsThe proposal of the Minister of Public Instruction to amalgamate the State school at Mentone with the one at Cheltenbam, and to require the older pupils of the former to attend ...
Article : 135 wordsNo definite tidings have yet been obtained regarding the lady who has for the past three days been missing from Miss Macartney's private hospital at East Melbourne. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 17 May 1894, Page 5
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