A large number of the Mahdi's followers under Osman Digna are collected at Tamai, on the proposed route of the British and colonial expedition from ...
Article : 265 wordsPresent—All but Councillor Wigg, who apologized for his absence, owing to domestic bereavement. Corporation Bonds.—Four tenders were ...
Article : 239 wordsThe colonies are evidently ready to do their share of the work of quelling the disorder in the Soudan. New south Wales has made a definite offer of the ...
Article : 1,376 wordsThe Minister of Defence continues to receive a large number of offers of assistance from different parts of the colony. Nearly all the members of the Naval and ...
Article : 220 wordsThe news that the Imperial Government have accepted the offer of New South Wales to send a force to the Soudan has greatly stimulated the ardour of the ...
Article : 1,755 wordsA telegram appeared in the Argus of February 14 stating that two international Commissions would be held in London—one to consider the Mew Guinea question, the ...
Article : 209 wordsPresent—All except Mr. Moulden. The Sanitary Inspector reported that he had served four notices for the abatement of various nuisances in the municipality during ...
Article : 79 wordsThe greatest enthusiasm continues to prevail here concerning the action of the Government in reference to the dispatch of troops for the Soudan. This morning the ...
Article : 1,495 wordsPresent—The Chairman (Mr. J. Bennets), Messrs. Threlfall, Mildren, Packham, Beaumont, Carter, and Hales. Correspondence—From Messrs, Binns and ...
Article : 726 wordsMr. R. B. Sheridan having tendered his resignation as Postmaster-General, Mr. Griffith was at the Cabinet meeting to-day appointed Postmaster - General pro tern., ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Premier has received a communication from Mr. J. S. Lyster, who is a relation of General Gordon, offering £1,000 towards the equipment of a Queensland contingent for ...
Article : 118 wordsPresent—His Worship the Mayor (Mr. J. Bertram, J.P.), and Councillors Church, J. Jackman, Hales, Shepherd, Gamean, Sando, and O'Halloran. ...
Article : 498 wordsA meeting of fruitgrowers and other residents of Wanden and Yallock districts in the Shire of Lillydale was held on Saturday to protest against the remission of the duties on ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Hon. R. C. Baker, Minister of Justice and Education for South Australia, has returned from Queensland, where he had an interview with ...
Article : 213 wordsThe statement published in the Observer that the offer of New South Wales to equip a body of troops for service in Egypt has been accepted has been ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Melbourne City Council to-day, on the motion of Councillor Smith, M.L. A., seconded by Councillor Meares, M.L.C., unanimously passed a resolution expressing profound ...
Article : 60 wordsThe territorial revenue returns from July to February 7 of the financial year 1884-85 show an increase in the revenue from auction sales over estimate of £16,764. Selectors ...
Article : 112 wordsA destructive fire occurred at the residence Alderman Chapman, Rosemamet Villa, Waratah, at 4 o'clock on Sunday morning, when the premises, which were ...
Article : 220 wordsIt is announced that the King of Burmah has ceded a large tract of country called the Shan or-Lao States, in the vicinity of Cochin China, to France. ...
Article : 54 wordsA letter which seems to indicate that the farmers of Manitoba, Canada, are not so prosperous as has been represented has been received by our Department of Agriculture ...
Article : 106 wordsPresent—His Worship the Mayor (Mr. T. Hack, J.P.), Councillors Christie, Dickson, Lovely. Wilson, Harris, Woolnough, Hannay, and Willimott, the Town Clerk (Mr. J. K. ...
Article : 841 wordsThe Californian gold-mining town of Alta, about two miles from the Great American Canon, has been overwhelmed by an avalanche. ...
Article : 25 wordsA large number of bootmakers went to work to-day after having been idle fourteen weeks, but some of the manufacturers could not employ the whole of their hands, ...
Article : 55 wordsAdvices are to hand from General Briere de Lisle, slating that the French forces have succeeded in occupying the fortress of Langson, in Tonquin. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Victorian Parliamentary cricket team will be selected from the following :—Messrs. Campbell and Wettenhall, M.L.C.'s, Derham, Gardiner, Gibb, Fincham, Mackay, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 242 wordsThe Chyebassa left Batavia to-day. ...
Article : 9 wordsThe intercolonial cricket match was resumed at noon to-day on the Association Ground, Moore Park. The weather was dull, rain fell. There was a good attendance, ...
Article : 189 wordsArrived: At Antwerp—Laju, s.s., from Sydney November 29, via Melbourne December 16. ...
Article : 17 wordsAt a meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures to-night a cordial vote of thanks was passed unanimously to Meters. Berry and Langridge for their exertions at the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe weather is very sultry and close. A good light rain fell during the greater part of yesterday, and 58 points were registered. It is still overcast, calm, and ...
Article : 193 wordsThe election of a representative of the District of Wallaroo in the House of Assembly to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Grainger took place to-day. Great ...
Article : 277 wordsThe bishop who christens her babies, the coachman who drives her pair, The man who carries her letters, the footman behind her chair; ...
Article : 308 wordsIn most of the pulpits in Brisbane yesterday feeling reference was made to the death of General Gordon. A serious shooting affray occurred at ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Governor will meet a Samoan deputation. A boat capsized at Invercargill, and Rowland Dunn and his sister were drowned. ...
Article : 42 wordsAn old man named Richard Harvey Gordon, working or Maxwelton Station as a cook, gave himself up to the police at Cloncurry on the 18th January for a murder which ...
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Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912), Tue 17 Feb 1885, Page 3
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