A new system of fire alarms is now being tried by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Board this city. It is known as that of the Utica Fire-alarm Telegraph Company of New York, and under the ...
Article : 600 wordsLondon, May 7.--General Lumsden has tendered his resignation as British Commissioner, being dissatisfied with the action of the Government in connection with the Pendjeh ...
Article : 133 wordsSuakim, May 6, 4.10 p.m.--Have just returned from a successful reconnaissance which was made last night in the neighbourhood of a village about 20 miles from Suakim. The force ...
Article : 151 wordsOttawa, Wednesday.--The latest news from the North-west provinces reports that severe fighting bas taken plate in the vicinity of Battleford between the Canadian troops and a large force of ...
Article : 105 wordsThe recent proceedings of the German Government in the Western Pacific, a part of the globe in which German interest heretofore was very limited,leads us to look towards those islands where ...
Article : 6,082 wordsA promise was made some weeks ago by the Victorian Premier to have a report prepared showing the amount of Sunday work performed by the railway employees, and to distinguish the work ...
Article : 184 wordsA meeting will be held at the Grammar School at 7.30 this evening, to consider the possibility of amalgamating the Old Cadets' Corps with the Volunteer Regiment which is at present being ...
Article : 228 wordsMelbourne, Thursday.--The Premier has received a cable from the Agent-General to the following effect:--" Feeling of doubt still exists in London about perfect peace being established ...
Article : 44 wordsLondon, May 7.--It is expected that the New South "Wales contingent will visit England, there to await further orders. ...
Article : 24 wordsA meeting of the Trades and Labour Council was held at the Swan-with-Two-Necks Hotel, Park-street, last night, Mr T. Caddy, president, in the chair. The council sat for three hours, but made ...
Article : 177 wordsSuakim, May 7.--A highly successful mid night march was accomplished last night by a battalion, with which the New South Wales Contingent is at present serving. The ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Minister for Lands, we are sorry to state, is still unable to attend to the duties of his department. Through the last long session of Parliament, and also of late, Mr Farnell overworked ...
Article : 123 wordsLondon, May 7.--Lord Augustus Loitus, Governor of New South Wales, contributes an article o the "Pall Mall Gazette" on the Federation question. Lord Loftus expresses the opinion that ...
Article : 52 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.--The Government have answered favourably the proposal of Mr Dalley to form a united defence league to indemnify from loss any place in Australia which may have suffered ...
Article : 206 wordsColonel Richardson, Commandant of the Australian Contingent in the Soudan, forwarded the appended telegram to the Acting-Colonial Secretary from Suakim, dated Wednesday, May 6:-- ...
Article : 60 wordsAs might be expected, the action of the city authorities in cutting off the water in different localities is meeting with strong reprobation from suffering householders, who claim that at least 24 ...
Article : 240 wordsLondon, May 6.--The first masting of the South Australian Commission of Inventions was held today. The Hon John Cox Bray, M.L.A., ex- Premier of South Australia, presided, and Mr ...
Article : 51 wordsSome commotion was caused amongst the residents in Clarence-street yesterday by the intelligence that two skeletons had been discovered in a box at the rear of Petty's Hotel. Early in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsLondon, May 7.--The proposal to hold a meeting for the purpose of organising opposition to the Australian freight ring has collapsed. ...
Article : 25 wordsLondon, May 7.--Mr J. B. Thurston, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of Fiji, who in conjunction with Dr. Krauel has been conducting the cases brought before the recent Commission appointed ...
Article : 46 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--At a Cabinet meeting to-day, it was decided that in the event of war all the requisitions by the enemy for coals and other supplies shall be refused at whatever cost, on the ...
Article : 68 wordsLondon, May 6. --Tenders are invited by the Queensland Government for a loan of two millions and a half at 4½ per cent. Tenders will be opened on May 15. The minimum has been fixed at £97. ...
Article : 76 wordsLondon,May 7.--Mr George Anderson, formerly M.P. for Glasgow, who has been appointed Master of the Melbourne Mint, embarked to-day for Melbourne. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsThe members of the Royal Commission on the conservation of water have for some time had in contemplation a visit to the country districts for the purpose of collecting evidence similar to one ...
Article : 247 wordsThe case of the prisoner Barnes, who is waiting sentence of death for the murder of J. B. Slack, has (says the "Age") come under the consideration of the Executive Council. Barnes petitioned ...
Article : 415 wordsLondon, May 7.--Captain Rhodes, Victorian Naval Instructor, has embarked for Melbourne. ...
Article : 14 wordsKEMPSEY, Thursday.--Mr R. Burdett Smith, member for Macleay, left Sydney on Tuesday evening by the Woodburn to pay a visit to his constituents. Although the weather was extremely ...
Article : 392 wordsParis, Wednesday.--The committee appointed to select the most suitable colony for the deportation of recidivistes have decided in favour of French Guiana. ...
Article : 42 wordsHOBART,Thursday,--The adjourned meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held this evening, for the purpose of considering the reciprocity treaty with Victoria. Mr John M'Farland ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsLondon, May 6.--The British-India Company's teamer Quetta left here to-day outwards for Queensland ports. Bio Janeiro, May 4.--The New Zealand Shipping ...
Article : 57 wordsLast evening the various places of amusement, notwithstanding threatened unpropitions weather, were well attended. " Extremes," at the Theatre Royal, was played with smoothness, the artists ...
Article : 405 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the School of Arts Committee yesterday evening, a petition signed by 67 members it questing that a special meeting of members be called to consider the conduct of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.--The first intercolonial football match of the season was played on the Kensington Oval to-day, when the Hothams met the South Adelaide. The attendance was ...
Article : 378 wordsAmongst the passengers from Europe by the next French mail steamer will be Dr J. E. Taylor, M.F.G.S., F.L.S., editor of " Science Gossip"--the most widely circulated of English scientific periodicals. ...
Article : 166 wordsAUCKLAND, Thursday.--The Stout-Vogel Government has forwarded a memorandum to Lord Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and to all the Australian Governments, asking for a ...
Article : 129 wordsGoulburn, Thursday.--Under the presidency of Mr Wm. Davies a well attended meeting of the general committee of the Goulburn Agricultural, Pastoral, and Horticultural Society was held this ...
Article : 110 wordsYesterday evening, Mr G. Fraser, the enterprising owner of the steamship Triumph, invited a number of friends to a social evening on board his splendid vessel. It will be remembered that ...
Article : 380 wordsAUCKLAND, Thursday.--Dr. Von [?] has been appointed Executive Commissioner for New Zealand at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London next year. ...
Article : 100 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--An application was made in the Equity Court to-day for an order to compel Sir Obas. M'Mahon to pay £5000, due by him as a contributory to the Melbourne Banking ...
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Advertising : 118 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--At the General Sessions to-day John Johnston pleaded guilty to receiving, and Jesiah Jackson was found guilty of stealing, £400 worth of jewellery from Mr Frank ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Fri 8 May 1885, Page 5
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