AFTER a debate extending over several weeks the Legislative Council of NewSouth Wales has rejected the Bill for electoral reform. The length and ...
Article : 5,447 wordsThe Financial News urges the expediency of the Governments of Queensland and New Zealand subsidising the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe report of an interview with Mr. B. R. Wise, of Sydney, who is visiting London in connection with the frozen meat export trade, is published in ...
Article : 218 wordsIt is probable that M. de Freycinet, who resigned because of an adverse vote in the French Chamber of Deputies, will resume office, as it is stated that it will be ...
Article : 53 wordsThe strike affecting several trades which has taken place in Rome on the question of a reduction of working hours threatens to collapse. Dissensions ...
Article : 45 wordsIntelligence has been received from India of another aggression by a border tribe, resulting in severe bloodshed. The British garrison at Sadon was attacked by ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Irish press is divided on the subject of the County Councils Bill. The Independent, the Freeman's Journal, and the National Press totally condemn the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Durham colliery proprietors have threatened their employes with a lockout to take effect from Saturday next unless they agree to an immediate reduction in ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. Balfour is reported to have determined to persist with his Irish County Councils Bill, but it is believed that he will agree to all reasonable modifications ...
Article : 42 wordsM. Laur (leader of the Opposition in the French Chamber of Deputies) has issued a process against M. Constans, Minister of the Interior, for an assault ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Queen, who is now at Osborne, has decorated Coxswain Hennessy with the Albert medal of the second class for the conspicuous bravery he displayed in ...
Article : 58 wordsA violent thunderstorm at Lisbon has caused immense damage to properly in the city and to shipping in the harbor. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Pall Mall Gazette publishes a scathing attack on Mr. Balfour's Bill, and concludes with the expression of an opinion that the two sections of the Irish ...
Article : 46 wordsThe jute mills in Dundee have been compelled to shorten time in consequence of the stagnation of the industry. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Pope has issued an encyclical reviewing the relations of the French Government to the Church. His Holiness says that the growth of religion in France ...
Article : 171 wordsThe betting on the match between Maher and Choynski, for a purse of £2,000 offered by the Olympic Athletic Club, is strongly in favor of the former. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Prince of Wales is about to proceed on a cruise in the Mediterranean in a yacht lent by the Queen, the health of his Royal Highness having been so ...
Article : 54 wordsThe National Observer, a Conservative weekly journal, congratulates Sir Samuel Griffith on the timely somersault he has accomplished on the colored labor ...
Article : 59 wordsIt is stated that Sir W. C. F. Robinson, late Governor of West Australia, has not yet arrived at a determination on the question of the acceptance of the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe weather is very threatening, but no rain of importance has fallen. ...
Article : 22 wordsSir Robert S. Ball, LL.D., has been appointed director of the Observatory at Cambridge in succession to the late Mr. John Couch Adams, F.R.S. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Orizaba, Captain Dixon commander, arrived here from Colombo at 3 a.m. and sails for Adelaide at 11 a.m. The saloon passengers are:— ...
Article : 187 wordsIt transpires that prior to shipment the heat damaged a portion of the consignment of butter ex the P. & O. steamer Parramatta, which left Melbourne on ...
Article : 59 wordsRepresentations have been made to the authorities to the effect that the practice of sweating prevails extensively in connection with various Government ...
Article : 96 wordsThe total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,420,000 quarters, being 26,000 quarters more than last week. Prices for wheat are rising owing ...
Article : 92 wordsThe wills to which probate was given during the past financial year were unprecedented in number by reason of the extraordinary mortality attendant on the ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is alleged that the enquiry which has been laboriously prosecuted into the departmental irregularities in Canada has resulted in further discoveries of bribery ...
Article : 56 wordsThere is a probability that the political crisis in France will be adjusted by M. de Freycinet undertaking the formation the another cabinet. The unpopularity ...
Article : 104 wordsThe London Economist disputes the accuracy of Hayter's latest statistics relative to the public and private wealth in Australasia. The excess of the former ...
Article : 65 wordsIntelligence has reached San Francisco to the effect that the Tamerline, an American whaling steamer, has foundered near Hawaii, the captain and 16 of the crew ...
Article : 38 wordsThe excellent start made by Lord Sheffield's team on Friday, when the afternoon's play against the New South Wales Eleven resulted in 271 runs being scored for five wickets, ...
Article : 1,116 wordsThe following are the latest quotations for shares in the banks mentioned:— The Bank of New South Wales, £62. Union Bank of Australia, £56 10s. ...
Article : 49 wordsA choral service for the people was held in the Archer-street Methodist Church on Sunday evening. The Rev. H. T. Burgess preached to a fairly large congregation on "Ready to ...
Article : 413 wordsIn connection with the Nord-Deutscher Steamship Company no dividend has been declared for the past year, but the directors on the contrary have withdrawn ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is announced that the President of the French Republic has entrusted M. Ribot, late Minister of Foreign Affairs, with the formation of a new Ministry, ...
Article : 47 wordsThe temperance jubilee festival to be commenced on Monday promises to be very successful. It will last from 10 a.m. till 10.30 p.m. A temperance demonstration will be ...
Article : 54 wordsThe London wool sales closed yesterday. For the Continent the total purchases have been 167,000 bales, for the United States 1,600 bales, Great Britain ...
Article : 105 wordsFurther intelligence from Buenos Ayres states that affairs in the province of Ceara, in Brazil, are now quiet. It transpires that the expulsion of ...
Article : 61 wordsA thunderstorm broke over this district last night, but produced very little rain, and though a cool change was anticipated the weather to-day has been very close and oppressive. ...
Article : 115 wordsSevere snowstorms and destructive gales are reported from the south of England, and the telegraph lines have been so injured as to be rendered unserviceable ...
Article : 39 wordsWinds have raged with great violence during the past two days and deposited large quantities of snow on the railway lines so as to completely block the traffic ...
Article : 42 wordsThe steamer Cuzco sailed on Saturday for Europe with a considerable list of passengers. During the night of February 18 the house of Mrs. Stub, Woodside, St. Kilda, was entered ...
Article : 369 wordsThe Premier (Hon. W. Shiels) will probably deliver a Ministerial statement at Casterton on Saturday next. The Speaker to-day issued writs for the election of members of the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Militia Band visited Gawler on Saturday, on which occasion a rifle match between 10 local men and the members of the Reserve was fired off, resulting in a win for Gawler by ...
Article : 124 wordsIn reply to a paragraph in one of the Sydney newspapers on Thursday, in which Walter McIndoe, the champion swimmer of Australia, challenged Ernest Cavill. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Countess of Hopetoun, who is at Woodlands, was safely delivered of son yesterday morning. ...
Article : 23 wordsA Battery of Field Artillery was to have gone to Dry Creek on Saturday for shot and shell practice, but the order was countermanded, and the men had an afternoon at standing gun drill. ...
Article : 508 wordsA good deal of attention has been bestowed upon the subject of rabbit destruction, and some astounding proposals and suggestions have been received by the Minister of Lands ...
Article : 167 wordsHis Lordship the Bishop of Adelaide (Dr. Kennion) arrived at Narracoorte on Saturday and gave an address at the Friendly Societies' Club in the evening. He also conducted the ...
Article : 79 wordsA meeting of depositors and shareholders in the Queensland Deposit Bank was held on Saturday afternoon. The report from the committee of inspection appointed at the ...
Article : 85 wordsAs the practical outcome of the recent agitation in relation to the means adopted for obtaining an adequate supply of water for domestic and mining purposes for Broken ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Shearers' conference was resumed on Saturday, when Mr. W. G. Spence occupied the chair. The question as to whether the branch secretary could hold the position of ...
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Advertising : 391 wordsLord Jersey left Sydney on Saturday by the R.M.S. Victoria for Hobart, Lord Sheffield also being a passenger. During Saturday morning Lord Jersey ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Customs authorities are considering the propriety of prosecuting a firm in the city which has been selling varnish made in the colony as manufactured by "Harley & Son, ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. James R. Hatcher, a respected citizen of Clair View, Inverell, N.S.W., gives the following facts in a statement to the Daily Telegraph of Sydney:—"I am a poor man with eight ...
Article : 239 wordsThe Congregational Union Conference was opened at Wellington to-day, when there were three Australian delegates present. The union appointed 10 delegates to be present at the ...
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The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931), Mon 22 Feb 1892, Page 5
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