Parliament made another desperate but unsuccessful effort yesterday to rid itself of the odds and ends of the sessional work. Interest was chiefly centred in two ...
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Article : 145 wordsThe following is a copy of the resolutions passed at the Australasian Quarantine Conference, held on 28th and 29th February and 2nd and 3rd March, at the offices of the ...
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Article : 678 wordsThe United States Senate, in view of the determination shown by Spain to resist its action in proposing American interference between Spain and the Cuban rebels, has ...
Article : 119 wordsNews has been received from Massowah that General Baratieri, the Italian commander in chief in Abyssinia, has made an unsuccessful attack on the Shoan forces, ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Sydney banks to-day agreed to reduce the deposit rates by ½ per cent. as from to-morrow. The late 3½ per cent. rate had remained in force in Sydney since 10th August, ...
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Article : 55 wordsA girl named Gibson, recently a bar maid in a hotel on the West Coast mining field, shot herself to-night in the side. The ball entered a few inches below the heart, and has not yet been ...
Article : 89 wordsThe February series of wool auctions have opened. The attendance is large. It is not expected that values will show any great alteration from the prices which ...
Article : 85 wordsThe hearing of the charge brought against the captain of the British ship Bermuda and 60 persons found on board the vessel, who were all arrested ...
Article : 92 wordsThe second session of the Intercolonial General Council of Australian Labor Federation opened at the Trades Hall to-day. gates were present from the Sydney and ...
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Article : 104 wordsThe annual fire brigades' demonstration opened to-night with a torchlight procession and general march through the streets of the city and town. The pageant was one of the ...
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Article : 104 wordsThe Public Service Commission is already giving evidence of its existence. To-day it was announced that it had made a complete sweep of the Local Government Office. For the last ...
Article : 156 wordsArrived. From Sydney: Brilliant, ship, sailed 22nd November; Gulf of Mexico, sailed 25th December, vid Adelaide 14th January; Porthshire, s., sailed 12th November, ...
Article : 58 wordsThe decision of the docks committee to impose a charge of from 2s. to 3s. 6d. per ton on all goods discharged over a vessel's side into lighters has created ...
Article : 66 wordsErnest Clark, a boy aged 13 years, who placed a sleeper across the main line of railway at Ross, was to-day remanded, with a view to sending him to the reformatory instead of for ...
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Article : 176 wordsThe I.G. M.S. Bayern left Suez on the 2nd inst. for Australian ports. ...
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Article : 128 wordsA meeting of the Presbytery of Melbourne North was held yesterday morning at the Presbyterian Assembly Hall, Collins-street, the moderator, the Rev. Alexander Stewart, M.A., ...
Article : 178 wordsH.M.S. Royalist, which arrived to-day from Noumea, brings full tidings of the trouble at Raiatea; but there is not much to report additional to that already published. It seems from ...
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Article : 61 wordsThe commission appointed by the Imperial Parliament to inquire into the causes of the agricultural depression, and to suggest a remedy therefor, has in a ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 4 Mar 1896, Page 5
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