Telegrams from Vienna report that the situation in the Balkans is desperate. The Turkish authorities are quite incapable of restoring order in Macedonia, where strong ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is not the intention of Mr. Irvine, in the pre-sessional speech which he will deliver at Nhill on Saturday next, to anticipate to any great extent the financial ...
Article : 910 wordsThe butter making industry affords a very striking illustration of the advantage of co-oporation and technical knowledge applied to a rural industry. Thirteen years ...
Article : 1,682 wordsAnother success has been achieved by the rebels in Southern China, a force of imperial troops having been defeated at Svcichan. Three thousand imperial soldiers, ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Imperial Parliament was prorogued by, commission yesterday. In the House of Commons the closing hours of the session were marked by much wrangling on ...
Article : 253 wordsThis week the Federal electoral political campaign begins afresh and with renewed energy. All the portents point to an early, dissolution. The Government is reticent on ...
Article : 324 wordsThe second instalment of the Board of Trade returns bearing on the fiscal issue has been published. The return ideals with the Canadian ...
Article : 80 wordsSir,--The galled jade winces because her withers are wrung. In a contemporary a letter lately appeared dealing with the effect of a preferential tariff on ...
Article : 180 wordsA squadron of the Russian Black Sea fleet is reported to have sailed into Turkish waters. ...
Article : 24 wordsAn important statement bearing on the endeavors being made to pacifically settle Russian and Japanese claims in the Far East is made by the "Daily Mail." The St. ...
Article : 77 wordsA speech strongly antagonistic to the preferential trade proposals of Mr. Chamberlain was made at High Wycombe last evening by Earl Carrington, formerly ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Premier of Greece, M. Ralli, in receiving the foreign ambassadors in Athens yesterday, pointed out to them the necessity of giving Turkey a free hand in ...
Article : 93 wordsIn connection with the proposed new scale of wages in the Mount Lyell mines, Tasmania, Mr. J. Praed, general secretary of the A.M.A., has received the following ...
Article : 117 wordsAn important notification as to the powers possessed by the Legislative Council of the Transvaal Colony was made by Mr. Chamberlain in replying to a question ...
Article : 74 wordsAs sportsmen stand around a covert watching for hidden game, so the sharpshooters of the fiscal controversy await the emergence of the facts now in process of ...
Article : 2,535 wordsThe Bulgarian Government is presenting to the powers a memorial which makes an enumeration of the misdeeds against Christians which have been perpetrated in the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe council of the Protectionists' Association, having in mind the injury done to various Victorian industries through reduction of duties under the Federal tariff, are ...
Article : 277 wordsAs the driven of a dray loaded with timber was removing the chain from the wheel in Elizabeth-street on Saturday afternoon something startled the horse, which set off ...
Article : 166 wordsRouter's correspondent at St. Petersburg makes the announcement that the Czar Nicholas--who recently, in deference to the apprehensions of the Russian secret service ...
Article : 85 wordsSir J. L. Hulett, the leader of the Opposition in the Natal Legislative Assembly, who on the defeat of Sir A. H. Hime's Ministry a few days ago, was sent for by Sir ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Turks and Macedonians mutually accuse one another of perpetrating massacres. The instances given by the opposing sides include massacres of Christians at ...
Article : 263 wordsHis Majesty King Edward, who arrived at Maricabad, in Bohemia, on Thursday, has begun the regulation course of chalybeate and saline baths pertaining to the ...
Article : 112 wordsIn response to inquiries as to the health of the Marquis of Salisbury, who has of late been slowly losing strength, and has been confined to his room since Monday ...
Article : 76 wordsThere can be very little doubt that the present prevalence of swine fever in Victoria is largely due to the neglect of pig owners to properly look after their animals, ...
Article : 302 wordsAt a public meeting held on Saturday, under the auspices of the Birchip branch of the Citizens' Reform League, resolutions were passed adverse to the Federal ...
Article : 103 wordsThe latest report with respect to the state of the Marquis of Salisbury is that he has improved in strength somewhat, after having spent a restful night. The ...
Article : 51 wordsGeneral won Eirnem, director of the Prusian War department, has succeeded General von Gossler, who resigned office in May last, as Prussian Minister of War. ...
Article : 96 wordsWith reference to the statement that Senator Playford has been selected for the position of Vice-President of the Executive Council and leader for the Government in ...
Article : 210 wordsTelegrams from Rome allege that the sum of £280,000 has been found in the rooms of the late Pope Leo XIII. and also a jewelled tiara, worth £80,000, which had ...
Article : 91 wordsThe promise made to the Czar by the Sultan, who in expressing his deep regret for the murder of M. Rostkovsky, the Russian consul at Monastir, stated that he ...
Article : 96 wordsA highly sensational mountaineering accident has occurred in the Monte Rosa Alps, in the Pennine range, which separates the Swiss canton of Valais from ...
Article : 135 wordsCertain statistics as to the number of pigs in Victoria have been furnished to the Director of Agriculture, Mr. Williamson Wallace, by Dr. A. A. Brown, inspector of ...
Article : 203 wordsMr. E. Burney Young, the manager of the South Australian wine depot in London, has obtained a large contract with the War Office on behalf of Mr. W. C. Conrad, ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is reported at Vienna that King Peter of Servia, in resentment at the dictatorial and terrorising attitude of the entourage of his court, which consists chiefly of men ...
Article : 116 wordsIt is officially announced that the famous Sussex amateur, C. B. Fry, who has recently been showing phenomenally good batting form, has declined to accept the ...
Article : 51 wordsSenator R. Reid and Mr. Knox, M.P., look advantage of Cr. Hedges's smoke night at Camberwell on Saturday to make a strong, and in one case a personal, attack ...
Article : 558 wordsThe feeling of disquiet occasioned in Paris by the terrible catastrophe on the underground railway at Menilmontant, has been increased by the report of another fire ...
Article : 57 wordsThe master tanners and leather manufacturers of Victoria have issued a protest to the Chief Secretary against their industry being placed under the Factories ...
Article : 425 wordsA sad case of suicide occurred at Middle Park last night, Mr. John Mahon, a well-known resident of the district, and licensee of Mahon's Middle Park Hotel, cutting hiss throat with a razor. At ...
Article : 243 wordsA boxing match has taken place at San Francisco for the heavy weight championship of the world, between James J. Jeffries, the holder of the title, and James J. ...
Article : 488 wordsThe latest reports from the West Indies state that the recent terrific cyclone which devastated the eastern portion of the island of Jamaica, destroying several villages and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 351 wordsThe gross value of the estate left by the late Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, who during his lifetime, distributed large sums annually for religious ...
Article : 42 wordsAt an inquest held at the Morgue on Saturday concerning the death of Alfred K. Roberts, a letter carrier, whose body was found with the throat cut in his house at York-street, Prahran, on Thursday, ...
Article : 68 wordsA serious disaster has taken place on the River Dnieper, near Kieff, in Southern Russia. A river steamer collided with a boat containing thirty passengers, eighteen of ...
Article : 37 wordsA child, 2 years of ago, the daughter of Mr. Lawrence Phelan, who resides at Longmore-street, Middle Park, was admitted to the Alfred Hospital yesterday morning, suffering from severe burns over ...
Article : 261 wordsA meeting of the United Friendly Societies' Distress Relief Committee was held at the town hall, Port Melbourne, on Saturday night, when it was reported that ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 17 Aug 1903, Page 5
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