Mabel Countess Russell, as she still prefers to be called--though legally she is now Mr. Brown--was unable, through severe illness, to appear at the preliminary trial ...
Article : 728 wordsThe foreign trade organ has been endeavoring to prove to its own satisfaction that reduced duties, instead of increasing importations, are a stimulus to local industry. ...
Article : 446 wordsDevelopments in the British Columbian land and railway scandal have brought about a political crisis. The Premier, Col. Prior, recently called upon Mr. N. C. ...
Article : 201 wordsA disastrous fire, accompanied by many sensational incidents and two fatalities, occurred early on Monday morning at Eton College. The fire, which is attributed to a ...
Article : 454 wordsMr. Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies, in a letter addressed to the editor of the "British Australasian" newspaper on his Imperial preferential reciprocity ...
Article : 144 wordsA conference of the Hawthorn and Camberwell councils was held at the Hawthorn town hall last evening to discuss the advisability of extending the present horse ...
Article : 430 wordsThe new Chief Commissioner of Railways has lost no time in assuming control of the organisation which he is expected to place on a footing of businesslike management. ...
Article : 358 wordsThe train arrangements are upsetting the mail business of the local merchants, no train leaving here for Melbourne later than 12.40 p.m. The chamber of commerce ...
Article : 95 wordsThe unpunctual arrival of trains has been very noticeable since the strike, and the rule now is for a train to put in an appearance at any time within an hour after the ...
Article : 512 wordsMr. Copeland, Agent-General for New South Wales, has addressed a letter to the London "Standard" in support of Mr. Chamberlain's preference trade proposals. ...
Article : 187 wordsFurther reports from Algeria with reference to the treacherous attack made by the brigandlike Moorish tribes of Figig upon M. Jennart, Governor of Algeria, when ...
Article : 146 wordsMr. Tait met his first deputation yesterday. afternoon. Along with Messrs. Fitzpatrick and Hudson he received a number of residents of Maldon, introduced by Mr. ...
Article : 113 wordsPrince Henry of Prussia, brother of the Kaiser, and commander of the German Baltic fleet, who lately left Kiel with a very powerful squadron to visit Dutch, Belgian ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Chief Commissioner of Railways, Mr. Oliver, stated to-day that he has been watching the electrical working of railways closely for some time. Shortly after he ...
Article : 277 wordsThe sub-committee of the Cabinet, comprising Messrs. Bent, Sachse and Pitt, has had a number of sittings during the past fortnight, during which many charges ...
Article : 260 wordsCommenting on Mr. Chamberlain's Imperial preferential trade schema, the New York "Evening Post" recommends the United States to arrange for reciprocity ...
Article : 150 wordsThe first of the trades mentioned in the list given in "The Age" as adversely. affected by the increase of importations under .the lower Federal tariff was the ...
Article : 616 wordsThe most melancholy feature of the Eton fire, the shocking fate of tho boy James Herne who was burned to death because his bedroom window was barred ...
Article : 66 wordsReports from Southern China state that the rebellion in the province of Yun-nan is still spreading. The country between the northern border of French Tonquin and ...
Article : 72 wordsAmerican telegrams report that the State of Georgia has been visited by a furious tornado, which has wrought great destruction. At Gainsville, a cotton ...
Article : 131 wordsLord Brassey, formerly Governor of Victoria,in a newspaper interview on Mr. Chamberlain's preferential trade policy, has expressed the opinion that it is useless to ...
Article : 83 wordsSir,--In your very important article in "The Age" of this day re suburban train service, one is struck by the difference in the train service to the various suburbs. ...
Article : 181 wordsMount Hekla, the celebrated Iceland volcano, is in active eruption, sulphurous flames and clouds of volcanic dust issuing from its crater. ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Seddon, in an interview to-day, outlined the principal matters of policy which are likely to form the subject of legislation in the approaching session. There will be ...
Article : 189 wordsIt does not appear to be very plain exactly why the Minister of Railways obtained a report from Mr. Gillan, of the Public Works department, concerning the ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Government policy regarding the Mildura railway requires some explanation. The rails have been laid to Nowingie, a place previously unheard of situated 28 ...
Article : 573 wordsThe Legislative Assembly of Cape Colony yesterday passed unanimously a resolution expressing its high appreciation of the results of the late visit to South Africa of ...
Article : 45 wordsMuch anxiety is being felt in Germany as to the fate of the German Antarctic exploring ship Gauss, which started last year about the same time as the Discovery, and ...
Article : 105 wordsThe conference of English co-operative societies now in session at Doncaster, in Yorkshire, yesterday discussed the industrial position brought about at Bethesda, in ...
Article : 126 wordsSir,--I have read the different proposals to make this line pay, and I am convinced that the only way to make the Whittlesca line pay is to connect it to tho Collingwood ...
Article : 151 wordsTelegrams from Mombasa, the port of British East Africa, report that a gold field has been discovered at Mwanza, in German East Africa. The yield is said to be 3 oz. ...
Article : 64 wordsDuring the week ending Friday last the traffic receipts totalled £45,827, as against £48,3SS in the same week a year ago, or a falling off of £2561. The total receipts for ...
Article : 76 wordsThe University Commission sat yesterday at the Law Courts. There were present Mr. T. Fink, M.L.A. (chairman); Mr. Boyd, M.L.A.; Mr. E. E. Smith, M.L.C., ...
Article : 524 wordsThe anxiety concerning the fate of the Gauss has been set at rest by a cablegram from Durban announcing that the Gauss has passed the Natal port, returning from ...
Article : 42 wordsThe woollen industry is one that has been considerably affected by the reduced Federal tariff. On piece goods the reduction was from 30 to 15 per cent., and on blankets ...
Article : 272 wordsThe periodic agitation which breaks out at intervals in Italy for the acquisition from Austria of Trient and Trieste, Istria and Dalmatia--formerly Italian possessions ...
Article : 248 wordsAccording to Mr. Lochhead, the Chief Traffic Manager, the railway block at Williamstown is now almost at an end. Yesterday there were 207 trucks at work on the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe now German tariff law provides, as a solatium to the working classes for the increased duties on food imports, that after 1910 all surplus accruing from the higher ...
Article : 59 wordsAt the meeting of the Flemington and Kensington council last evening, Cr. Granger presented a petition, signed by 50 ratepayers, asking for the use of the local town hall for Saturday evening ...
Article : 370 wordsAn International Miners Congress, the delegates to which represent 1,250,000 miners, is now sitting at Brussels, under the presidency of Mr. Benjamin Pickerton, ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. Norman, Chief Engineer for Existing Lines, was interviewed yesterday by Mr. Fleming and another representative of the unemployed, who complained that the men ...
Article : 309 wordsWhen the Federal tariff was first submited to Parliament, and the new duties became operative in October, 1901,there was at least a reasonable endeavor to carry out ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsThe great strike of textile workers in the factories of Philadelphia, of whom over 100,000 threatened to "come out" on Monday to enforce their demand that the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe comparison of imports in these trades under the Victorian and Federal tariffs respectively is as follows:— 1S99. ...
Article : 214 wordsHilmi Pasha, the Sultan's special administrative representative in the Balkan provinces of Turkey, has sentenced without a trial 103 Macedonian and Bulgarian school ...
Article : 64 wordsAn elderly man, named John Montgomery, a cab proprietor, residing at Young-street, Moonee Ponds, died at the Flemington racecourse yesterday in very sudden circumstances. For many ...
Article : 232 wordsThe West Indies are suffering severely this season from drought. In Jamaica the sugar cane plantations have been so severely affected that the crop is 43 per cent. ...
Article : 87 wordsIn response to a question, the mayor of Brighton (Cr. W. II. Allard) informed the council on Monday evening that he had been asked by the Trades Hall to let the town hall on Saturday night for a ...
Article : 204 wordsThe question whether cartridges are liable to customs duty because they contain shot, which is dutiable, was decided in the negative by the Full Court to-day. The court ...
Article : 107 wordsArrived.--Buteshire, steamer, from Lyttelton, 16th April; Ionic, steamer, from Wellington, 16th April; Marere, steamer, from Wellington. 15th April; Loch Vennachar, ...
Article : 47 wordsThe time table on the Mordialloc line was the subject of a bitter complaint by Cr. Scudds at Monday's meeting of the Moorabbin council. The second morning ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 3 Jun 1903, Page 5
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