A general impression provails in Egypt that the British Government are preparing for a prolonged occupation of Egypt. ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is probable that the railway policy of the Government, when submitted to Parliament, will prove much less comprehensive than was expected. It is generally understood, ...
Article : 1,031 wordsThe delay in the appointment, of the commissioners to sit on the Railway and the Civil Service Boards can be understood. Ministers have not been pressed ...
Article : 9,107 wordsThe death is announced of Captain George Gilmore, master warden of the Marine Board at Launceston, who held the office of Colonial Secretary in Mr. Kennerley's ...
Article : 157 wordsAn active controversial warfare is being carried on by the newspaper press in Paris and Berlin, angry recriminations and menaces being freely indulged in ...
Article : 45 wordsThe departure of the Rev. Sydney Linton, the newly appointed Bishop of Riverina, has been postponed. He will not leave for Australia until towards the ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Gladstone has written to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, regretting his inability to accept the invitation of the members of the Legislature to visit the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Right Rev. Alfred Burry, D.D., the bishop elect of Sydney and metropolitan of Australia, was consecrated in Westminster Abbey this morning. ...
Article : 195 wordsA disastrous fire occurred this morning at Messrs. Kirkpatrick and Co.'s fine brick free and bonded stores, which were completely destroyed, nothing whatever ...
Article : 450 wordsRear-Admiral Wilson, writing to a friend in Sydney, on the annexation question, expresses his opinion that though it is very doubtful whether the British Government ...
Article : 101 wordsGreat excitement prevailed at Dromore yesterday on account of the large bodies of Orangomen and Nationalists who had assembled in the town for the purpose of ...
Article : 127 wordsA murderous assault was committed at Buninyong last night upon a man named Nathaniel M'Grath. The latter states that at about 11 o'clock last evening he went ...
Article : 278 wordsA disastrous fire occurred at Walgett this morning, by which the block of 15 buildings in Fox-street, extending from Wright and Chadwick, new store to Paterson's Hotel, ...
Article : 106 wordsThe failures of Mr. Alexander Brogden, M.P., and of Mr. Henry Brogden, the well-known railway contractors, with liabilities amounting to £750,000 in each ...
Article : 90 wordsBush fires raged all round Moruya yesterday. A Violent hot wind blew until 3 p.m., when it suddenly changed, thus saving many places that were in danger. ...
Article : 143 wordsStock Movements.—500 fat cattle trucked for Homebush. 2,000 fat sheep and 3,000 store sheep passed for Orange. The weather is very dry and hot, and the ...
Article : 116 wordsSince the failures of Messrs. Alexander and Henry Brogden have been announced, numerous small firms connected with the iron tiade have filed their petitions in ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is rumoured that the Government have sent home instructions to restrict the immigration to 10,000 yearly, including bounty and nominated immigrants. ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Orient Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Chimborazo, from Melbourne November 17, arrived at Plymouth yesterday Her shipment of ...
Article : 45 wordsH.M.S. Miranda returned to port yesterday from the South Seas after anuneventful cruise. The only important items of interest in her log are the settlement of a tribal war at ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Thames, which left Melbourne on November 8, arrived at Plymouth to-day. ...
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Article : 282 wordsConcerning the new comet, Mr. G. Butterfield, of Stanmore, writes to the press as follows:—"The comet is now in such a position that it should be seen from this latitude ...
Article : 149 wordsThree per cent. Consols, 100?. The following colonial Government securities are quoted, ex dividend:—Four per cent. Queensland, 1913-1915 loan, ...
Article : 134 wordsA number of gentlemen met at the railway workshops to-day to inspect the patent axle contrivance of Mr. David Anderson, of Stawell, Victoria. The adjustment was explained by ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 3 Jan 1884, Page 5
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