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  2. ADELAIDE AND LONDON TELEGRAPH.

    The British Premier (the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone) has offered to receive a deputation from the Belfast Chamber of Commerce in regard to the question of ...

    Article : 58 words
  3. Echoes and Re-Echoes.

    Now will the candidate go forth, And about most boldly in the people’s ears, And they with ears all tending to the front Will shout, and stamp, and loudly yell withal. ...

    Article : 1,234 words
  4. ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN BANK PROSECUTIONS.

    Robert William Billy and Sydney Gunn Allwright, Directors of the Anglo-Australian Bank, who were convicted of fraud in issuing a false report and ...

    Article : 520 words
  5. SIR GEORGE DIBBS’S RETIREMENT.

    This morning Sir George Dibbs filed a petition for a sequestration order with the Registrar in Bankruptcy. The petition sets forth that he is unable to pay ...

    Article : 359 words
  6. THE PANAMA SCANDAL.

    MM. Blondin and Charles De Lesseps, Directors of the Panama Canal Company, have appealed against the verdict by which the former was sentenced to ...

    Article : 100 words
  7. Our Ladies’ Letter.

    My dear Ellinor—In my letter last week I told you I hoped soon to be able to tell you something about the circus that has been advertised so largely here lately. So, collecting ...

    Article : 1,898 words
  8. NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERY QUESTION.

    The operation of the Newfoundland Bait Act has been suspended, although the measure itself is still retained on the Statute-book. ...

    Article : 115 words
  9. Mr. Gladstone’s Home Role Speech.

    The scene in the Members’ Lobby of the House at noon of February 13 (writes a lobby journalist) was one to be remembered. The edic[?] of the Speaker closing the House until noon ...

    Article : 959 words
  10. Sir Thomas Mc[?]wraith.

    The Hon. Sir Thos. Mc[?]wraith, K.C.M.G., M.L.A., LL.D., who is now forming a Minis try in Queensland, is in his fifty-eighth year, having been born in Ayr, Scotland, in 1835. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 184 words
  11. The “ Submerged Tenth.”

    The following letter appeared in the London Standard of February 17 :— Sir—I have recently had my attention called to a result of General Booth’s attempt to ...

    Article : 423 words
  12. QUEENSLAND FLOODS.

    The London Corporation has subscribed the sum of 100 guineas towards the Queensland Floods Relief Fund. ...

    Article : 21 words
  13. FRANCE AND AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

    The Australian Agents-General have addressed a protest to the Secretary of State for the Colonies (the Marquis of Ripon) against France imposing its ...

    Article : 60 words
  14. RETRENCHMENT IN VICTORIA.

    The Public Service Board have recommended to the Premier that the Health Department should be amalgamated with the Chief Secretary’s Department, that ...

    Article : 375 words
  15. Barbarous Murder of a Sleeping Man.

    A sensational murder trial, which has excited great attention all over Spain, was brought to a close on February 11 at Valverde del Fresno (Caceres). A woman named Doiia ...

    Article : 609 words
  16. AN AMERICAN CYCLONE.

    A terrible cyclone has swept over a portion of the State of Mississippi. Cleveland and other towns have been destroyed, with, it is feared, great loss of ...

    Article : 34 words
  17. THE MERCANTILE BANK PROSECUTIONS.

    The Police Court proceedings in connection with the prosecution of the Directors and officials of the Mercantile Bank were continued to-day before Mr. ...

    Article : 350 words
  18. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BEDFORD.

    The death of George William Francis Sackville, tenth Duke of Bedford, at the age of forty-one years, is announced. The deceased nobleman succeeded to ...

    Article : 48 words
  19. THE COTTON TRADE DIFFICULTY.

    The English cotton operatives have agreed to submit to a reduction of wages to the extent of 7d. in the pound. They will accordingly resume work next ...

    Article : 389 words
  20. What Home Rule is Like in Kansas.

    Telegrams from Topeka state that a conflict which recently broke out between the Republicans and the Populists in the Lower House of the Kansas State Legislature has now reached ...

    Article : 222 words
  21. A FARMER VICTIMIZED.

    The police are in search of a couple of swindlers who have victimized a farm labourer named William Wallace to the extent of £300 by means of the confidence ...

    Article : 127 words
  22. Feeding the School Children.

    Mr. Hyndman and his Socialist friends would give power to School Boards to feed and, if necessary, to clothe children out of the rates (says the Pall Mali Gazette). Private ...

    Article : 153 words
  23. THE INSOLVENCY OF MR. J. L. DOW.

    The application of Mr. J. L. Dow, an ex-Minister of Lands, for the release of his estate from the Insolvency Court on the ground that his creditors had agreed ...

    Article : 220 words
  24. REFLECTIONS.

    Some people never cease striving after higher things until they secure an eight-foot drop. Everything that is created serves some end. From the huge whale, which yields up its ...

    Article : 225 words
  25. Ballroom Blown Up and on Fire.

    The Vienna and Buda-Pesth newspapers print accounts of a terrible occurrence which took place on February 13 at Deutsch-Pereg, in the Comitat of Arad. The carnival was being ...

    Article : 231 words
  26. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 words
  27. VICTORIAN REVENUE.

    The revenue for the week ended March 21, unlike the returns for the previous week, show a decrease compared with the amount received during ...

    Article : 100 words
  28. The Labour Question.

    At the request of the Burra Town Council Mr. F. W. Holder interviewed the Commissioner of Public Works on Thursday last, urging that the ballast quarries at Burra ...

    Article : 116 words
  29. Terrible Weather at Sea.

    The Allan Line steamer Pomeranian, a week out from the Clyde, on her journey to New York, returned to Greenock on February 12 with her decks swept. When about 1,100 to ...

    Article : 244 words
  30. QUEENSLAND’S NEW MINISTRY.

    It is expected that the names of the members of the new Ministry will be formally announced to-morrow. The following gentlemen are mentioned as ...

    Article : 45 words
  31. SHOCKING ACCIDENTS IN VICTORIA.

    Another fatal accident through the premature explosion of a blast happened to-day. Bernard Quinn, one of the steadiest and most careful quarry men employed in ...

    Article : 126 words
  32. UNEMPLOYED AT PORT AUGUSTA. A LARGE MEETING.

    A meeting of unemployed was held here to-day. Mr. R. Fawcett occupied the chair. A number of residents and unemployed addressed the meeting, the speeches showing ...

    Article : 158 words
  33. Advertising

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    Advertising : 102 words
  34. PATENT PEN DELUSIONS.

    What a delusion and a snare are some of those patent penholders credited with the faculty for carrying a reservoir of ink—a sort of pen with a stomach like a camel (says Hugh ...

    Article : 387 words
  35. DEATH OF A LEADING WESLEYAN MINISTER.

    The Rev. Barnard Butchers, B.A., one of the leading ministers of the W[?] Church, died unexpectedly at Carisbrook this morning. At the last [?] ...

    Article : 65 words
  36. Advertising

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    Advertising : 86 words
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