Sir Henry Holland was questioned by the Right Hon. H. C. E. Childers in the House of Commons yesterday with respect to the rumor that certain passages, ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Colonial Office have received a dispatch from Sir G. Mitchell, Commissioner for the Pacific, dated April 13, confirming the reports of the religious ...
Article : 71 wordsThe deputation disease has broken out again. Not a day passes on which the Government are not beset by requests from all parts of the country for all kinds of favors, ...
Article : 795 wordsThe Premier has received a communication from the Government of Tasmania stating that the sum of £3,000 had been placed on the Estimates towards the ...
Article : 475 wordsAn Australian mining syndicate has purchased the Mount Leysh[?] (Queensland) gold mine for £25,000, and a company to work the property with 180,000 ...
Article : 54 wordsThis match was played on the Alberton Oval in the presence of about 600 spectators. The game all through was a very tame one, and nothing brilliant was done on either side. ...
Article : 457 wordsOn Saturday afternoon Bishop Kennion laid the foundation-stone of St. John's Church, Halifax-street east, in the presence of a number of the clergy and laity of the Church of ...
Article : 1,014 wordsThe latest intelligence from Tonga by the Lubeck is to the effect that the visit of the High Commissioner had resulted in a satisfactory settlement of the recent ...
Article : 114 wordsThe widow of the Hon. James Goodall Francis, formerly Chief Secretary of Victoria, who since the decease of her husband had been residing in England, is ...
Article : 37 wordsIn a leading article diseasing the prospects offered by the colonies for British commercial enterprise, the London Daily Chronicle points out that the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Union Mortgage Agency Company are offering at par £200,000 worth of debentures bearing interest at 4½ per cent. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe quotations for beet sugar remains at 12s. per cwt. ...
Article : 16 wordsBy the fourth clause of the Customs Bill, introduced by the Colonial Treasurer, all goods bonded before September 30 could not be released after that date ...
Article : 108 wordsThe German Government have introduced their Sugar Bill into the Reichstag. The Bill fixes the import duties from August, 1888, as follows:—Syrup, ...
Article : 94 wordsA dinner was given yesterday by the Cobden Club to representatives of the colonies at the Imperial Conference. Mr. John Morley was chairman. Sir Saul ...
Article : 128 wordsMr. W. E. Sheridan, tragedian, who was stricken down by a fit of apoplexy on Thursday night while standing at the rear of the dress circle, and fell back into Mr. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe whole of Zululaud, with the exception of the newly-formed republic, has been proclaimed British territory. ...
Article : 27 wordsA very fair concourse of people assembled at the Kensington Oval on Saturday to witness the first contest between the Norwoods and Hothams. A sharp shower fell just before the ...
Article : 578 wordsMr. Parnell arrived to-day from Ireland. He has proceeded to Bournemouth for the benefit of his health. ...
Article : 27 wordsSir Henry Holland made a statement in the House of Commons to-day in reference to the scheme of administration of New Guinea. It is proposed that the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Cabinet have had under consideration the question of the joint contribution of the Australian colonies towards the funds of the Imperial Institute. All the ...
Article : 146 wordsLeases of land for potato ana wheat growing belonging to the Moorak estate were offered for sale yesterday. There was a large attendance of farmers, and bidding was brisk. ...
Article : 174 wordsElliott and Hollick, the Victorian cyclists, who were injured whilst bathing at Congee Bay, oil Friday, are much better. ...
Article : 309 wordsThe People's Palace, in the Mile-end-road, East London, the foundation of which was laid in June last by the Prince of Wales, was formally opened by the ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Bulli commission continued their enquiry yesterday, taking the evidence of several colliery managers. The most serious statement made was that of Mr. ...
Article : 206 wordsThe absurdity of forcing on the sale of leases next Thursday has been shown in another way to-day. Several people have been wanting to see plans of the land, without which it was ...
Article : 304 wordsTHE great success which has attended the floating of our last loan has been the subject of talk and congratulation on all sides. The Government were properly advised to ...
Article : 667 wordsAbout 2,300 persons assembled on the Adelaide Oval on Saturday afternoon to witness the first contest between these two old senior clubs. The weather during the morning was ...
Article : 753 wordsSir W. Ridgway and the English members of the Joint Afghan Boundary Commission have been formally received by the Czar at Gatschina Palace. ...
Article : 30 wordsSir—Seeing in your issue of to day's date a statement that "The Song of Australia" would not be performed at the opening of the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition owing to our ...
Article : 637 wordsMr. O'Brien has arrived from Montreal. He has been received with much enthusiasm by the Irish residents. He intends to speak at Toronto despite the opposition ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. W. G. Lempriere, one of the victims by the Windsor railway disaster, died early yesterday, making the sixth death. His case was hopeless from the ...
Article : 130 wordsShaw, Savill, & Co 's s.s. Doric, which left Lyttelton on April 2, arrived at Plymouth yesterday afternoon, her cargo of 37,000 carcases being in good order. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe British- India and Queensland Agency Company have contracted for seven shipments of fat cattle from Queensport for Melbourne. The ...
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Advertising : 390 wordsA little excitement was cauced here to-day owing to Mr. Byerlee, a director of the Day Dream South S.M. Co., receiving a report from the manager stating that a lode bearing chlorides ...
Article : 60 wordsBy the northern steamer Birksgate, which arrived to-day, 15 prisoners were brought for the Brisbane Gaol. Of these five are under sentence of death. At the ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Britannia and Scotia silver mine, Silverton, has been taken over by a company of 36,000 shares of £1, the original vendors taking shares in [?]e of the balance of purchase-money. ...
Article : 51 wordsTwo office-boys, supposed to be implicated in the wholesale pilfering of postage stamps for sale to two Greeks, keepers of ice-cream stalls, were arrested on Friday ...
Article : 94 wordsA man fossicking at the head of Goslin's Gully got a 14 oz. piece, and another man got a 4 oz. nugget on Windlass Hill, Good reports are received from the Mingary ...
Article : 216 wordsSladen and Costello met in Foley's Hall last night. The former undertook to knock the latter cut in six rounds. Daring a great portion of the contest the fighting ...
Article : 74 wordsA meeting was held in St. George's schoolroom, Goodwood, on Thursday evening, May 12, for the purpose of forming an art, floral, and industrial union. The following schools ...
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The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922), Mon 16 May 1887, Page 3
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