At the annual meeting of the directors of the Australasian United Steam Navigation Co., Limited, held to-day, a dividend of 6 per cent per annum was ...
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Article : 43 wordsAT the Thames Court, George Webb, 29. .and William Chalkley, 20, able-bodied, young men, were charged with [?]efractory conduct whilst pauper inmates of the St. ...
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Article : 23 wordsMr. David Christie Murray, the novelist, who is shortly to visit Australia on a lecturing tour, is to be entertained at a banquet before he leaves London. Mr. Edmund ...
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Article : 137 wordsMr Psotta, the American amateur champion Soulier, has arrived in London. He is of opinion that the contest between Searle and O'Connor for the sculling ...
Article : 48 wordsAT Marylebone, Mrs. Agnes M'Donald, a lady residing at 19 Belsize-square, South Hampstead, appeared to answer a summons for assaulting Ann Rogerson. The ...
Article : 602 wordsThe official liquidator of the Comptoir d'Escompte de Paris has arranged with the owners of the American copper mines to limit the output so as to enable existing ...
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Article : 31 wordsA FIRE was discovered at about a quarter to 1 this morning upon the premises, 102 Bayswater-road, occupied by a man named Vogeler and his wife, and used ...
Article : 88 wordsNARRABRI, This Day.--In connection with the recent robbery of Bishop Dawes' bag from Maitland, and the arrest of the criminal here, Constable Lovett yesterday ...
Article : 80 wordsBoth Sir George Chetwynd and Lord Durham, who are concerned in the notorious turf dispute which has been submitted to arbitration, have resigned their ...
Article : 39 wordsNOWRA, This Day.--James Jeffrey, driver of Malone's mail coash between Nowra and Kiama, was charged at the Shoalhaven Police Court, under the Tolls ...
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Article : 280 wordsMr. Donald Larnach, in a letter to the newspapers, urges the annexation of Tasmania by Victoria as a moans of developing the resources and increasing the ...
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Article : 316 wordsIT has been arranged that a manœuvring fleet, a squadron for evolutions, and a flotilla of torpedo boats shall assemble this year in the western basin of the Baltic, in ...
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The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909), Sat 25 May 1889, Page 5
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