Members resumed work in a leisurely fashion in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. It having been agreed that there must be a summer session this year, the House ...
Article : 4,249 wordsThe first report of the Committee of Public Accounts was presented to the Assembly yesterday by Mr. Shiels, chairman of the committee. It premises that the desirability of appointing such ...
Article : 1,189 wordsIt is reported from Upper Egypt that the Mahdi has released from captivity seven Egyptians who had been held as prisoners since the capture of Khartoum by the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Dean conspiracy trial was concluded today. After a lengthy summing up by Acting Justice Cohen the jury retired, and after some deliberation returned into court with a verdict ...
Article : 186 wordsTho United States House of Representatives yesterday, after the reading of President Cleveland's message, voted amidst wild cheering and enthusiasm 100,000 dol. ...
Article : 161 wordsThe fishing boat Mabel was found in Storm Bay this morning, drifting and full of water, by Mr. Wra, Barnett, owner of the fishing boat Sunbeam. In the boat ...
Article : 98 wordsFor the third time during the last 15 years the populous inland city of Ballarat is being made an exhibition centre. The circumstance at once arrests attention not only as a bold ...
Article : 3,461 wordsIt is understood that Messrs. Nelson, Philp and Byrnes leave on Saturday for Sydney, and if accommodation is available by the Mariposa they intend to proceed to Auckland, Samoa ...
Article : 75 wordsThe importers of live cattle to the island of Malta, a British naval and military station in the Mediterranean, are endeavoring to secure the imposition by the civil ...
Article : 103 wordsImmediately after assent has been given by the Lieutenant-Governor to the Supreme Court Bill the appointment of a judge for the Central district will be offered to and will be accepted ...
Article : 81 wordsIn the Assembly this afternoon, as a matter of privilege, Mr. Crick made a speech regarding his arrest and trial on a charge of conspiracy. After a very generous eulogy of himself, Mr. ...
Article : 643 wordsAccording to the observations taken by some persons the rain early in the month had the effect of lessening the tick plague, but since then it has recurred with its former virulence. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe steamers Moira and Pilot, both laden with general cargo, arrived from South Australia last night. The Goldsbrough left Menin die up stream today. The Maggie left ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Ashantee envoys, who have been in England and have conveyed assurances to Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies, that " King" Prempeh will submit to ...
Article : 148 wordsThe lending jurists and most competent authorities on international law in the United States do not, it is reported, support the reading of the " Monroe Doctrine" ...
Article : 52 wordsWalter Clarke, a jockey, was charged at the central police court today with having forged a railway ticket. It was alleged that he had bought a ticket from Sydney to Strathfield. ...
Article : 372 wordsThe bellicose tone of the American press has somewhat moderated. The New York Herald, which at first adopted a Jingoistic attitude, and was ...
Article : 194 wordsThe judicial committee of the House of Lords has decided that the San Paulo Railway Company, trading in America, whose office is in London, is liable to pay ...
Article : 66 wordsA terrible explosion on board the German ship Athena has occurred at Cape May, on the east coast of the United States, owing to a quantity of naphtha which she was ...
Article : 57 wordsThe special reporter of the Daily News, who is now in New York, telegraphs that President Cleveland's message to Congress and his defiance of England are merely ...
Article : 57 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, Lord Brassey, accompanied by Lady Brassey and a party from Government House, attended a concert in the Fitzroy town hall last evening in aid of the ...
Article : 477 wordsMr. A. F. Matvieff, ex-superintendent of electric telegraphs in Queensland, died this morning. A letter has been received from Mr. Robert Gordon ...
Article : 43 wordsIn the Legislative Council this evening, Mr. "Want, the Attorney-General, replied to the attack made upon him in the Assembly by Mr. Crick, whom, he said, he could not congratulate ...
Article : 377 wordsSilver.—Bar silver is today quoted at 2s. 6⅜d. per oz. standard. [The above appeared in part of yesterday's issue.] ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is rumored that Messrs. Howe, Poynton and White, acting on behalf of the Angipena Treasure Gold Mining Syndicate, intend to take proceedings against the original proprietors in ...
Article : 213 wordsIn England the attitude of Lord Salisbury on the Venezuelan question is warmly commended, not only the Liberal and Conservative newspapers, but also the extreme ...
Article : 52 wordsIn the report published in yesterday's issue of the proceedings at the board of inquiry appointed to investigate the charges brought by Mr. W. J. Lormer, J.P., against certain ...
Article : 532 wordsThe results of the music examinations held at Melbourne and Ballarat in connection with Trinity College, London, show that 31 of the candidates have passed ...
Article : 50 wordsThe leading French newspapers, in commenting on the extraordinary claim of President Cleveland to fix a frontier between Venezuela and British ...
Article : 92 wordsVisitors to the lovely stretches of beach between Brighton and Mentone should be on their guard against bathing in the open sea, as the water contains many sharks. During high ...
Article : 369 wordsAt the half yearly meeting of the National Bank of Tasmania today, reference was made to the increase of gold in hand, which during the six months had advanced £20,000. Increases ...
Article : 225 wordsTho Canadian press strongly and heartily applauds Lord Salisbury's refusal to recognise the "Monroe doctrine" in any way in connection with the rights ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Treasurer is in receipt of a telegram from Thursday Island, stating that the steamer Merrie England reports having sighted a fore and aft schooner on the south end of Dungeness ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. T. F. Bayard, the United States ambassador, in speaking at a banquet in London last night, laid strong emphasis on the tics of kinship between the English ...
Article : 40 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the town council this afternoon, a resolution passed some time age providing for the alienation to the Railway department of land on the northern ...
Article : 119 wordsLord Gormanston, speaking at the annual meeting of the university today, spoke eulogistically of the facilities afforded to the youth of the colony for education. He regretted that ...
Article : 70 wordsA fire broke out at the slaughter house of Mr. Henry Stone, situate off the Geelong-road, Wyndham shire, and about 2 miles from Footscray, at 9.50 last night. The stables, which ...
Article : 151 wordsThe commercial effect of President Cleveland's message is a tendency to flatness in the London and Manchester markets. American securities have fallen on Change, ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 20 Dec 1895, Page 5
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