On the Assembly meeting yesterday afternoon, the Speaker's chair was left vacant, and the Clerk (Mr. T. G. Watson) read, an announcement that the Speaker ...
Article : 712 wordsThe present bids fair to be a quiet week in the Federal Parliament. The leader of the Opposition and the Opposition whip were away yesterday, and half the Ministry ...
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Article : 1,090 wordsThe situation in the Balkans is now worse than ever. Bulgaria has despatched a note to the powers, affirming that the mobilisation of the whole Turkish army, ...
Article : 195 wordsThe British Cabinet held a special meeting yesterday to discuss the fiscal question, the deliberation lasting over three hours. The "Standard," which is a strong Unionist ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Chinese Viceroy Chung-chi-tung is urging the imperial court to reject the agreement which Russia asks China to accept as embodying her conditions for ...
Article : 139 wordsAn important alteration has been decided on by the Railway Commissioners in the method of dealing with the goods traffic. Hitherto goods on being deposited at a ...
Article : 407 wordsThe Railway Commissioners recently decided on making some changes in regard to the payment for overtime at the Newport workshops, which have caused ...
Article : 413 words"There is a great deal of very violent feeling existing at the present moment," said the Prime Minister in a general reference to the fiscal controversy, as he was about to ...
Article : 1,848 wordsThe United States Navy department is asking Congress, through Mr. Moody, Secretary to the Navy, for an appropriation of 100,000,000 dol. (£20,000,000) for ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Russian Foreign Affairs Minister, Count Lamsdorff, speaking at a reception given to foreign diplomatists at St. Petersburg yesterday, remarked that the Balkan ...
Article : 226 wordsRussian official reports confirm the press telegrams concerning trouble between the authorities in Trans-Caucasia and the Armenian inhabitants. Disturbances are ...
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Article : 355 wordsA sensation has been caused in diplomatic circles at Vienna by an extraordinary scandal at the Turkish legation. Djevad Abdullah Bey, the Turkish ...
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Article : 519 wordsThe Emperor William of Germany is at present paying a visit to Hungary, where he is enjoying the sport of stag hunting. The Italian Government has warned ...
Article : 52 wordsLast night the Rev. Digby M. Berry, M.A., lectured to about 600 people in the town hall on the subject of Reformation Heroes. Mr. Densem presided. ...
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Article : 113 wordsThe young women who died on Sunday at the house of a Mrs. Griffiths, in Queen-street West Melbourne, in circumstances that justified Dr. Rose who attended her in ...
Article : 441 wordsSome curious revelations were made in the Divorce Court to-day during the hearing of a petition by William Weismantel, farmer, of Hanging Rock, near Lismore, for ...
Article : 716 wordsIn the "Times" to-day the writer of a letter signed "An Economic Expert" advocates the application to Australian wines of Mr. Chamberlian's ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Greek Premier, M. Ralli, has formulated a demand on Turkey for the punishment of the officials responsible for the massacres perpetrated by the Turks in the ...
Article : 88 wordsThere was a large attendance at the animal banquet of the local branch of the A.N.A. last night. The president, Mr. Harry Gillard, occupied the chair. The ...
Article : 479 wordsThe electoral manifesto issued by Dr. Leander Starr, Jameson, leader of the Progressive party in Cape Colony, announces that the great objects which the party ...
Article : 76 wordsReports from the Balkans indicate that the Turks are endeavoring to suppress the Macedonian insurrection by the ruthless and indiscriminate slaughter of all ...
Article : 244 wordsA novel Government prosecution came to a conclusion yesterday at the Old Bailey, where Walter John Richards, principal clerk in the postal department of Somerset ...
Article : 113 wordsAt the Essendon council on Monday, Cr. Mauger drew attention to the inconvenience inflicted on residents by the withdrawal of the Sunday morning train to Essendon, ...
Article : 191 wordsThe body of the Rev. J. M. Marshall, chaplain of the a Wanganui Collegiate School, has been found in the river near Christchurch. The deceased gentleman was ...
Article : 212 wordsOwing to the reported outbreaks of plague at Marseilles, the foreign consuls at that great French port have notified the city prefecture that they are unable to deliver ...
Article : 97 wordsA young man named Sydney Butler was charged at Ryde court to-day with having on 3rd August, at Epping, attempted to poison Frank Midson, by giving him ...
Article : 224 wordsThe railway authorities are being approached with the object of having the afternoon train from the metropolis delayed on Saturday, in order to enable ...
Article : 85 wordsThe circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Henry Chaffey Baker, who was found dead at Gilles-street yesterday morning, were inquired into this morning by the ...
Article : 374 wordsBelgrade telegrams report that the unrest in Servia continues. Another military plot of the same character as that lately found at Nish, for the punishment of the assassins ...
Article : 89 wordsThe first sale agreement under the Land Purchase Act, recently passed by the British Parliament, has been completed, to the mutual satisfaction of the tenant purchaser ...
Article : 98 wordsThe district officers of the Illawarrn colliery employes met the directors of the South Clifton Company in conference on Monday, but no settlement of the dispute ...
Article : 105 wordsAt last night's meeting of the Melbourne South Labor party a report was received to the effect that it had been decided to hold a conference of the combined local ...
Article : 91 wordsHenry Cornish, aged about 50, was cleaning out an old well at Challner, 30 miles from Streaky Bay, last night, when the sides of the well caved in, burying the man ...
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Article : 65 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day, Mr. Guthrie moved the adjournment of the House to call attention to a discrepancy between the State Electoral Law and the ...
Article : 145 wordsLast evening at the Commercial Hotel, an escape of gas became apparent, and the licensee went into the room containing the gas meter, and made an investigation with ...
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Article : 45 wordsAt the last meeting of the local agricultural society it was resolved to co-operate in opposing the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wed 16 Sep 1903, Page 5
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