ACCORDING to a familiar proverb it is the unexpected that happens, and therefore all forecasts ought to be made with some of reserve. On the 1st inst. the ...
Article : 7,442 wordsThe wharfingers' offer a scale of graduated pensions to the workmen in their employ on condition that they will enter into agreements for lengthened ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Government have not yet arrived at any definite determination respecting the selection of a leader of the House of Commons in succession to the late Mr. ...
Article : 115 wordsThere were 200 shareholders present at the meeting of the Bank of South Australia held to-day, and the chair, was occupied by Mr. .J. W. Arbuthnot. ...
Article : 303 wordsLe Ganlois, a Parisian daily paper, statesthat Baron Maurice Hirsch is the largest individual subscriber to the Russian loan of £20,000,000 now in process of ...
Article : 40 wordsEfforts are being made to provide by subscription throughout Russia the sum of £20,000,000 required in order to supply food for the famine stricken peasantry ...
Article : 84 wordsTenders for the Russian loan were opened yesterday, the week's extension of time having expired. The loan was covered seven times over, though the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe lightermen and watermen have decided to continue the block to shipping pending the decision of the Stevedores' Association, which will he announced on ...
Article : 33 wordsNothing definite is yet decided with regard to the political crisis which has arisen over the defeat of the Minister; but it appears beyond all doubt that all ...
Article : 1,176 wordsThe St. Jennet's Gazette affirms that the Russian explorations in the Central Asian tableland known as Little Pamir and in the Alichur Valley of north-west India ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, considers Mr. Balfour to be entitled to the leadership of the Commons. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Ben. Tillett, organising secretary of the London Dockers' Union, urges workmen not to accept the wharfingers' offer of graduated pensions as the condi ...
Article : 57 wordsTempestuous weather still prevails in the southern counties of England. Gales of extraordinary violence were experienced yesterday, occasioning the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe shock of her husband's sudden death and the excitement connected with his funeral have had an injurious effect upon Mrs. Parnell, who is now lying ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is considered probable that the: claim advanced by the Russian exploring party to the possession of the tableland in Central Asia, known as Little Pamir, ...
Article : 46 wordsThe story of the wreck of a cattle steamer on the coast of Newfoundland, by which 42 lives were alleged to have been lost, is now described as a boas. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Admiralty are offering for sale the third-class screw cruiser Opal, 2,120 tons, formerly employed for Australian defence. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Senate of the Argentine Republic have rejected the Bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies in favor of a forced currency. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe autumnal gathering of the Congregational Union, which began its sittings on the 12th inst., at Southport, was ' brought to a close to-day. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe German Government propose to gradually reduce the term of active service in the army from three to two years, and have created several new battalions, ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Newcastle Daily Leader affirms that Australia is gradually capturing the Indian market for coal, and that the Australian product threatens eventually to ...
Article : 36 wordsShares in the Bank of South Australia have fallen £1. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe authorities at Kieff, in European Russia, have arrested 500 students of the local University implicated in the recent conspiracy to kill the Czar. , ...
Article : 32 wordsArrangements are being made on an elaborate scale for the celebration of the 50th birthday of the Prince of Wales. ...
Article : 27 wordsNews has been received in England that the health of Mr. E. S. W. DeCobain, Conservative member for East Belfast, who absconded rather than meet a charge ...
Article : 48 wordsSir. T. M. Healy, one of the members of the seceding party, threatens the adherents of the Parnellite faction with startling disclosures relative to the ...
Article : 51 wordsAir. Gutteride. a Gladstonian Liberal, Las consented to contest the vacancy for the Strand division of London, against Mr. Frederick Smith, son of the Right ...
Article : 39 wordsOnly ten tenders were received for the 4 per cent, loan of £74,000 invited by the Corporation of Newcastle, New South Wales, the highest individual amount ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Pope is stated to be deeply incensed at the conduct of a number of Roman Catholic pilgrims at the Pantheon in exhibiting wanton marks of disrespect ...
Article : 92 wordsAt various gatherings of working men recently resolutions have been adopted renouncing allegiance to both Tories and Liberals, and demanding for the labor ...
Article : 38 wordsThe carn Tual, barque. 497 tons, of Newcastle, New South Wales, which left Cardiff on March 5 for Mauritius and has not since been heard of, has this day ...
Article : 44 wordsThe crank shaft of the mail steamer Parramatta, which left Sydney for London on August 24, broke while she was near Aden and she was delayed at that port for ...
Article : 66 wordsThe London postal officials are still undecided as to the proposed change of route of the Anglo-Australian mails. The suggestion is that Salonica instead of ...
Article : 151 wordsThe weekly returns of the Bank of England, published to-day, show the proportion of the reserve to the liabilities to be 38 per cent., the same as last week. ...
Article : 123 wordsFather Hyacinthe has become a convert to the doctrines of Theosophy. ...
Article : 257 wordsIt now turns out that the accident to the Parramatta was a very trivial one, and that the frozen carcases which it was feared would be spoilt are totally ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Middle Park Plate, of 500 sovs., added to a sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, £20 forfeit, was run to-day over the Bretby Stakes course (six furlongs) at ...
Article : 70 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions Bertram Everard, who was found guilty on the previous day on three different indictments of unlawful assault, inflicting ...
Article : 317 wordsThe application to commit the publisher of the Arguss and Austrmlashut newspapers for contempt was further heard by the Full Court to-day. A new ...
Article : 280 wordsA strike meeting was held this morning. It was resolved that the men get pay for the time taken in measuring contracts, but not to exceed two days. ...
Article : 225 wordsThe charges against Messrs. J. P. Howe, M.P., and James Miller, late directors of the collapsed Australian Mercantile Loan and Mercantile Company, of conspiring ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. Fred W. Dyler died at Lambton. of influenza to-day. Several deaths from the epidemic are reported from the Albury district. ...
Article : 60 wordsQuite recently a choice parcel of tea known as "Golden Tips," believed to be the finest ever offered, was sold on August 22, at MincingLane, London, at the remarkable price of £35 ...
Article : 98 wordsThe remains of the late Mining Inspector Rue, who died yesterday from influenza, were buried to-day. The funeral was largely attended. ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Sat 17 Oct 1891, Page 5
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