The first meeting of the Cabinet after the holidays will take place this evening, when further consideration will be given to the Railway Management Bill. During tho second-reading ...
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Article : 168 wordsA return of the number of insolvencies made and dealt with in the Melbourne district for 1895 has been compiled by Mr. H. W. M'Leod, the clerk of the Insolvency Court, and shows ...
Article : 1,246 wordsFor some hours yesterday afternoon Dr. Youl, the City Coroner, was occupied investigating the causes attending the death of Margaret Robinson, a single woman, aged 23, who ...
Article : 1,482 wordsThe Johannesburg correspondent of the Times telegraphs important information of the latest Boer action in the Transvaal. ...
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Article : 2,472 wordsPresident Cleveland has rejected the offers made by the financial syndicate headed by Mr. Pierpont Morgan, the New York banker, to supply the United States ...
Article : 175 wordsJohn M'Leod, a bedroom steward on the Rotomahana, jumped overboard during the passage across, and although buoys were thrown and boats lowered nothing mere was seen of ...
Article : 116 wordsThe obscurity in which affairs at Johannesburg and the conflict between Dr. Jameson's expedition and the Boer forces have been involved by the ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Lancashire Witch, one of two barges towed by the Alert (one of Permewan, Wright and Co.'s steamers) has founded near Bumbang, beyond Euston. The two barges contained ...
Article : 84 wordsNews has been received from the Gold Coast that Colonel Sir F. C. Scott's expedition crossed the Prah River, and is advancing an Coomassie, where Prempch ...
Article : 73 wordsThe latest information obtainable from the Transvaal discloses a curious complication in its internal troubles. Apparently there were two rival plots ...
Article : 225 wordsThe returns of the gold yield for 1895 are not yet complete, but the approximate total is 626,299 oz., as against 679,511 oz. for 1894, or a decrease of 53,212 oz. The returns for 1895 will ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Portuguese troops in the Lorenzo Marques country of Delagoa Bay have captured the native chief, Gungunhana, who has caused so much trouble and ...
Article : 48 wordsThe committee of the league of wheelmen has disqualified J. Megson, at one time champion of Australia, for six months. His alleged offence was disorderly conduct, followed by ...
Article : 45 wordsAt the quarterly meeting of the Northern Minors' Delegate Board on Thursday next, it is expected that a motion will be submitted asking for a general increase in the bowing rate of ...
Article : 258 wordsTelegrams from Cape Town announce definitely that Mr. Cecil Rhodes, the Premier and Minister for Native Affairs, who as managing director of the British ...
Article : 86 wordsConsiderable doubt prevails among merchants in the Australian trade with respect to the effect of the Tariff Act recently passed by the New South Wales ...
Article : 51 wordsSir Westby Perceval, the retiring Agent-General for New Zealand, will, it is announced, discharge the duties of the office until his recently appointed ...
Article : 41 wordsWith respect to the failure of the Uitland organisation at Johannesburg to attempt the fulfilment of the promises of aid by which Dr. Jameson ...
Article : 78 wordsNo explanation has yet been received as to the cause of the derailment of a train on the Natal to Johannesburg railway line at Dannhaussen, but it is now announced ...
Article : 86 wordsAn old man named Peter Fletcher died at Woolloongabba last night from the effects of poison, alleged to have been self administered. ...
Article : 122 wordsAn extraordinary instance of arbitrary conduct by the Emperor William of Germany has been published by the Vossiche Zeitung, a leading Berlin paper. ...
Article : 142 wordsA further extraordinary illustration of German audacity and insolence in respect to the Transvaal is afforded by the announcement that the Germans are forming ...
Article : 153 wordsThomas Meredith Sheridan, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Jessie Nicholls, was executed in Darlinghurst gaol this morning shortly after 9 o'clock. Death ...
Article : 210 wordsMr. Kingston, the Premier of South Australia, advises Sir E. Braddon that a conference on the Japanese treaty will sit at Sydney on tho 14th inst. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Commissioner of Crown Lands left to-day to visit the village settlement on the Murray. A large gathering of members of the Insurance Institute ...
Article : 414 wordsThe Victorian butter brought by the R.M.S. Austral, which left Melbourne, 23rd November, has arrived in good condition. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. M'Eacharn, of the firm of Messrs. M'[?]wraith, M'Eacharn and Co., has returned by the R.M.S. Ormuz, after having successfully arranged with an English syndicate to take over ...
Article : 371 wordsThe leading newspapers of Great Britain, both in London and throughout the provinces, fully recognise in the Continental demonstrations of anti-British feeling in ...
Article : 119 wordsBar silver is to-day quoted at 2s. 6 9-16d. per oz. standard. [Published in part of yesterday's issue.] ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsParliament was opened to-day by the Governor in person. The vice-regal speech referred only to the Ennobling Bill. Sir Edward Braddon, the Premier, in a brief ...
Article : 144 wordsArrived.--From Melbourne: Salamis, ship, sailed 16th October. From Sydney; Canton, steamer, sailed 9th November via Melbourne 19th November, and Adelaide 23rd November. ...
Article : 89 wordsAbout midnight on Saturday last Constable Waddell arrested two swagsmen, named Charles Shaw and William Jackson, in Nicholson-street, Footscray, on a charge of vagrancy. Whilst ...
Article : 194 wordsIt has now transpired that not only were appeals made to Dr. Jameson for protection for the British residents in Johannesburg, but that the "National Union" of ...
Article : 190 wordsThe various ointments and plasters which were alleged to have been prescribed by "Professor" Davis for the woman Catherine Currie have been submitted to Mr. Blackett for ...
Article : 86 wordsSplendid gold has been struck in the Victoria mine, lately bought by Captain Mitchell. The find in at the 140 feet level, the beat stone raised being boxed at the mouth of the shaft. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 8 Jan 1896, Page 5
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