Another sitting of the Legislative Assembly was given up to a continuation of the critical debate upon the merits and blemishes of the Government "cheap money" scheme. Interest ...
Article : 5,643 wordsThe Premier yesterday forwarded a letter to Sir George Dibbs, in reply to the lengthy communication which he had received from the latter, outlining the basis of a scheme for the ...
Article : 279 wordsThe tenders for the supply of coal to the various departments of the public service, excluding the railways, have undergone final supervision by the Tender Board, and the ...
Article : 2,049 wordsSome very surprising facts came to light yesterday in connection with the tragedy which took place at the Southern Cross Hotel, Bourke-street, on Tuesday night, and these most ...
Article : 882 wordsA fearful holiday disaster occurred to-day at Samara, on the River Volga, in Russia. A ferry boat, in which about 70 youths ...
Article : 89 wordsThe scheme which the Stock Conversion and Investment Trust Limited has under consideration with respect to the purchase and conversion into marketable stock of ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Agents-General of the colonies, who in a recent interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer protested strongly against the colonial incidence of the new ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Times this morning, commenting on the proposal of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, Premier of Cape Colony, that a system of preferential duties be levied in South Africa ...
Article : 94 wordsSir George Grey, the veteran colonial statesman and Governor, who returned to England from New Zealand a few weeks ...
Article : 162 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the executive committee of the Employers' Union, held at the union rooms on Tuesday evening (Mr. C. Edgerton, president, in the chair), a letter was read ...
Article : 189 wordsIn the course of an interview on the subject of Sir George Dibbs's federation scheme to-day, Sir Henry Parkes, alluding to the Premier's expressed desire to save expenditure in public ...
Article : 317 wordsThe solicitors to the Bank of England have suggested to the Agents-General for the Australian colonies that it would be well if the police of the several colonies ...
Article : 91 wordsThe abolition of the right of the House of Lords to reject measures which have been passed by the House of Commons by substantial majorities is now ...
Article : 57 wordsA large portion of the shipment of Australian cheese brought by the steamer Thermopylae, which arrived in a partially melted condition, is practically ...
Article : 38 wordsProposals of great importance are embodied in the bill to amend the Mining Act, which has been prepared by the Minister of Mines. The measure is designed to remove a ...
Article : 682 wordsMr. Gladstone has sent a cable message in reply to Mr. Chauncey Depew, who, acting as the mouthpiece of a large number of leading American citizens, despatched ...
Article : 79 wordsTelegrams from Tangiers report that the young Sultan of Morocco, Abdul Aziz, who has now been formally recognised by the Powers, has caused to he arrested and ...
Article : 52 wordsA bank robbery of a most mysterious character is reported from Christchurch. Late in the afternoon it was discovered that a sum of £500 in gold coin had been stolen from the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 wordsAn encyclical letter has been issued by his Holiness Pope Leo XIII., appealing to the Protestant sects of the east of Europe to abandon their independent attitude and ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, the debate on the address in reply was continued. Sir John Downer, leader of the Opposition, expressed the opinion that federation was the principal ...
Article : 294 wordsThe committee of the United States Congress, to which the Nicaragua Canal Bill was referred, recommends tho issue of Nicaragua Canal debentures to the amount ...
Article : 146 wordsThe whale hunt in Port Phillip Bay, which caused so much excitement during the last few days, has terminated in a most unsatisfactory manner. The whale, it is thought, has escaped ...
Article : 296 wordsAt a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute to-day the Right Rev. J. R. Selwyn, late Bishop of Melanesia, gave an address on the subject of the ...
Article : 101 wordsBest Australian tin unchanged, present delivery £71 per ton; forward delivery, £71 10s. to £72 per ton. Chilian bar copper is 10s. lower, viz., ...
Article : 187 wordsAn attempt has been made by the New South Wales railway authorities to cause it to appear that Victoria alone is the culprit in the practice of offering specially reduced rates to ...
Article : 326 wordsMr. Thomas Cornish, mining expert, who has returned from Australia to float various mining properties on the London market, states with respect to his proposal to ...
Article : 95 wordsThe cheap money proposals of the Government at present before Parliament are being freely discussed by our farmers, who do not appear to look upon it with the same favor as that ...
Article : 263 wordsThe reason for the deed, as it may be gleaned in the light of present information, was the lawsuit that had been carried on between the parties over some alleged outstanding debts. ...
Article : 593 wordsSubject to the consent of the Council of the University the Defence department, at the instance of Major-General Tulloch, proposes to establish a University school of instruction for ...
Article : 229 wordsThe R.M.S. Arcadia, which left Melbourne on the 19th May, arrived at Suez on the morning of the 19th June. The R.M.S. Duke of Devonshire, of the ...
Article : 58 wordsAt the half yearly meeting of the Broken Hill Consols Company, held to-day, the chairman, Mr. Ward, stated that the mine continued to improve greatly, and that the ...
Article : 63 wordsNews from Coolgardie, dated Sunday last, reports that splendid stone is being raised at the Lake View mine, near Hannan's. Bissenberger's mine is also looking wall. The main ...
Article : 213 wordsRepresentatives from the Great Morwell Brown Coal Company, the Maryvale Coal Company and the Yarragon Brown Coal Company waited upon the Minister of Mines yesterday, ...
Article : 233 wordsFor priority shares in the Kangarilla Silver Mining Company, capital £12,000, which was lately placed on the London market, £8000 has been subscribed. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe hearing of the case in which W. H. Lilburu, managing clerk to the firm of Lawson and Jardine, solicitors, was charged, on a summons issued at the instance of Samuel Louis Sullivan. ...
Article : 224 wordsThe elections for the Assembly are proceeding. All the four members of the Forrest Ministry in the Assembly have been returned, and 19 elections have been completed, resulting in the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Jeetho Proprietary Colliery Company started work yesterday to dismantle and remove the Calyx drill from Nyora, where it has recently put down a test bore for the ...
Article : 114 wordsReferring to the war of railway rates between Victoria and New South Wales, the Treasurer to-day said that because the Victorian railway receipts were falling off that was no reason why ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 21 Jun 1894, Page 5
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