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  2. CABLE MESSAGES. LABOR TROUBLES.

    A section of the bootmakers now on strike at Leicester and elsewhere have offered to accept piecework by machinery based on (he quantity of the output The employers, how ...

    Article : 44 words
  3. CABLE MESSAGES. THE EIGHT HOURS BILL.

    The Miners' Federation of Great Britain have asked the leaders of the Conservative party to grant their support to the Bill designed to introduce the Eight Hours System ...

    Article : 142 words
  4. NEW AUSTRALIA.

    Eleven persons embarked from Sydney yesterday for the settlement of Sew Australia, including Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Birks of Adelaide. The party, which ...

    Article : 206 words
  5. CABLE MESSAGES. WATERLOO CUP.

    The contest for the Waterloo Cup is attracting a good deal of interest. The present favorite is Falconer, the runner-up to Count Stroganoffs Texture, which won last year. ...

    Article : 67 words
  6. CABLE MESSAGES. SIR ROBERT DUFF.

    The news of the critical illness of Sir Robert Duff, Governor of New South Wales, is causing great anxiety among his friends. Lord Ripon, the Colonial Secretary, and Sir ...

    Article : 48 words
  7. CABLE MESSAGES. AFFAIRS IN EGYPT.

    The Egyptian Ministers have given their adhesion to Sir J. E. Gorst's scheme regulating the duties and powers of Sheiks in accordance with the policy of Nubar Pasha, the ...

    Article : 51 words
  8. CABLE MESSAGES. THE PRICE OF SILVER.

    Silver is quoted at 28 Ad. per oz. ...

    Article : 19 words
  9. DEATH OF SIR ROBERT DUFF.

    Sir Robert Duff arrived by the steamer Oonah shortly after midnight last night, and special arrangements had been made to convey him to Government House. An ambulance. ...

    Article : 422 words
  10. COMMERCIAL.

    The weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show the proportion of reserve to liabilities to be 70 per cent. The total reserve in notes and bullion is £2S, 870,000, ...

    Article : 79 words
  11. THE COREAN WAR.

    It is reported that China has offered the Customs revenue to Japan as a guarantee for the payment of the war indemnity. ...

    Article : 30 words
  12. MISS ADA CROSSLEY.

    Miss Ada Crossley, the Melbourne contralto, who has been for several months under the tuition of Madame Marches, with whom Madame Melba studied, will appear on the ...

    Article : 41 words
  13. BRITISH POLITICS.

    It is announced that Mr. George Peel, son of Mr. A. W. Peel, the retiring Speaker of the House of Commons, will contest in the Unionist interest the seat for Warwick, now ...

    Article : 54 words
  14. THE OROYA.

    Owing to the boisterousness of the weather in the Mediterranean all attempts at refloating the Orient steamer Oroya, aground in the Bay of Naples, have been stopped. The whole of ...

    Article : 65 words
  15. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.

    Quotations for Government securities are:—Two and three-quarter per cent. Imperial consols, £101 7s. 6d. (53. lower). Four per cent. New South Wales inscribed ...

    Article : 209 words
  16. SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS.

    Mr. Asquith, Home Secretary, in reply to a deputation yesterday stated that the colonial branches of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers must conform to the colonial laws. ...

    Article : 47 words
  17. THE CHAMBER OF MANUFACTURES' EXHIBITION.

    The Exhibition of Art and Industry was opened to the public at noon on Friday sod during the afternoon there -was a rood attendance. The exhibits are being ...

    Article : 87 words
  18. THE ARMENIAN TROUBLE.

    It is stated that no fewer than 3,000 Armenians incarcerated in Turkish prisons for political reasons. They include 8 bishops and 24 priests, doctors, and professors, not one ...

    Article : 51 words
  19. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE.

    Messrs. Mcllwraith, McEacharn, & Co. report that the choicest Victorian butter has realised 85s. per cwt. ...

    Article : 24 words
  20. FRANCE AND GERMANY.

    M. Jules Simon, the eminent French Publicist, in a letter to the press characterises the acceptance by the French Government of the invitation from Germany to participate in ...

    Article : 145 words
  21. BANK SHARES.

    Shares in the Bank of Australasia are quoted at £55. _________ ...

    Article : 16 words
  22. SIR THOMAS McILWRAITH.

    The health of Sir Thomas McHwraith is reported to be improving. ...

    Article : 21 words
  23. THE MEAT MARKET.

    Queensland hindquarters are quoted at [?]. per lb. and forequarters at 3¾d. per lb. New Zealand mutton ranges from [?]. per ib. to [?].per 1b. ...

    Article : 63 words
  24. THE DISTRICT OF PROSPECT.

    The question of passenger traffic,which has so long been a drawback to the detect of Prospect Beams likely to be satisfactorily ...

    Article : 171 words
  25. MR. JOHN HARE.

    Mr. John Hare, the well-known actor, now of the Garrick Theatre, proposes to make a tour through Australia early in 1896. ...

    Article : 29 words
  26. OBITUARY.

    The death is announced of the Bight Rev. Josiah Brown Pearson, D.D., ex-Bishop of Newcastle, aged 54. ...

    Article : 128 words
  27. THE TROUBLE OF CHITRAL.

    The Indian Government have ordered Umra Khan, who recently murdered Nizamul-Mulk and seized the throne of Chitral, to leave the country with his retinue. A British ...

    Article : 51 words
  28. A STRANGE DEATH.

    An inquest was held at Stawell to-day on the body of the woman Keane, who is supposed to have died from strychnine. Dr. Nathine deposed that when he attended the woman she ...

    Article : 180 words
  29. HOLLAND.

    The Parliament of Holland have voted a sum of £800,000 to supply tie Dutch army with Mannlicher rifles. ...

    Article : 27 words
  30. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    A farewell social was tendered to the Goverment Resident on Thursday evening by the Palmerston Dramatic and Musical Society, at which he is president. A large number of ...

    Article : 652 words
  31. NEW AUSTRALIA.

    By the steamer Wakatipu, which sailed this evening for New Zealand Mr and Mrs. Fred Bides and family, of Adelaide, and Mr. and Mrs. Schultze and family, of Queens ...

    Article : 115 words
  32. THE WESTERN GOLDFIELDS.

    Good coarse gold is being obtained from the northern shaft of the Faith mine. The latest discovery is across the lode situated on the south-eastern. portion of the property. The ...

    Article : 134 words
  33. COMMANDER LUNDH.

    Commander Lundh, late of H.M.C.S. Protector, and more recently of the Taxation Office, Adelaide, leaves South Australia for England by the steamer Innamincka to-day. ...

    Article : 82 words
  34. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    A deputation of sawmillers to-day informed the Minister of Lands that redgum was specially suitable for export and street-paving, and should not be overlooked in the experi ...

    Article : 406 words
  35. THE PASTORALISTS' ASSOCIATION.

    One of the most representative meetings of the Burra district committee of the Pastoratists' Association of South Australia and West Darling ever held met here to-day, ...

    Article : 131 words
  36. SIR ROBERT DUFF'S CAREER.

    Sir Robert Duff was born in 1535, and was educated at Blackheath School. He entered the Imperial navy in 1848, and after 16 years' service attained the rank of commander; He ...

    Article : 293 words
  37. CREMATION IN MELBOURNE.

    The rite of cremation was carried out today on the remains of a Sikh, Charem Singh, a hawker, who died in the Melbourne Hospital. The remains were taken below Sandringham ...

    Article : 86 words
  38. INTERNATIONAL CRICKET.

    The match between Mr. A. E. Stoddarf s team and Tasmania was commenced to-day. The weather was showery last night, and as the wickets were soft play was not started till ...

    Article : 325 words
  39. H.MS. PYLADES IN HEAVY WEATHER.

    H.M.S. met with heavy weather on her run from Sydney to Hobart last week, luring which she was assailed by several tremendons seas. One of the waves sent a venti ...

    Article : 728 words
  40. LANGE V. BAGE LIBEL ACTION.

    The libel action of Lange v. Bage was continned to-day, Frederick Lange being in the witness-box the whole tune. He gave evidence in an intelligent manner, and his version of ...

    Article : 57 words
  41. " THE R.M.S. ORIZABA.

    The Orient line E.M.S. Orizaba, Commander Clarke, arrived from Colombo at 11.20 to-night. ...

    Article : 21 words
  42. TO-DAY'S SPORTS.

    On the Adelaide Oval this afternoon, provided the weather is suitable, the North Adelaides and Adelaides will resume their match, the Norths having scored ...

    Article : 399 words
  43. A DISABLED BASQUE.

    The barque Annosia, bound from Java to Conception Bay, has been towed to Dunedin disabled by a succession of violent gales. The cargo, consisting of 2,000 tons of sugar, was ...

    Article : 40 words
  44. SMALLPOX IN MELBOURNE.

    Dr. Greeswell reports that Mrs. King, the smallpox patient, is progressing satisfactorily. He states there was no possible danger of contagion from the persons who were sent down ...

    Article : 53 words
  45. NEW SOUTH WALES WOOL EXPORT.

    The total amount of wool exported from Sydney and Newcastle since July 1, 1894, was 677,720 bales, as against 672,282 for the corresponding period of the previous year. ...

    Article : 223 words
  46. PORT DARWIN MERCATILE AGENCY COMPANY.

    The final bearing in the insolvency of the Fort Darwin Mercantile Agency Company has been adjourned for three months to enable foreign creditors to enter on appearance, and ...

    Article : 46 words
  47. Advertising

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  48. THIS DAY'S EVENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 words
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