The Irish policy of the Government is approved of by all the English journals, including those which support Mr. Gladstone. ...
Article : 82 wordsAt the conference at the Colonial office yesterday Mr. Stanhope, tho Secretary of State for the Colonies, announced that the position of affairs with regard to ...
Article : 313 wordsMr. W. Gardiner, of the firm of W. Gardiner and Co., on behalf of the Australian section of the London Chamber of Commerce, has proposed that there should be ...
Article : 123 wordsThe annexation of the Solomon Islands by Germany need occasion no surprise in Australia. This group, together with the Radack Chain, the ...
Article : 8,189 wordsThe "plan of the campaign", adopted by the National League, the principal feature of which is the retaining of rents by a committee of tenants, has been ...
Article : 69 wordsA deputation from the London Chamber of Commerce waited on Mr. Cecil Raikes, Postmaster-General, to urge the Government to grant improved facilities for ...
Article : 125 wordsThe proceedings instituted at Loughrea against Messrs. Dillon, O'Brien, Harris, and Sheehy have been abandoned, but the defendants, as well as ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Dillon, M.P., and Mr. O'Brien were out driving yesterday, when the vehicle was upset, and its occupants were thrown out violently. Mr. O'Brien ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. James Fletcher, the Minister of Mines, has resigned his portfolio. The reason for this action has not transpired, but it is said to be owing to serious differences of opinion ...
Article : 301 wordsThe Journal de St. Petersbourg, the official organ of the Government, contains an article to-day in which the candidature of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg for ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Reichstag adjourned yesterday for the usual Christmas recess, without making any further progress with the Army Bill. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Belgian Government have decided to send commissioners to the Adelaide Jubilee Exhibition. All the South Australian exhibits at ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies yesterday voted a temporary budget, after which the session of the Legislature was formally closed. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe members of the Bulgarian deputation arrived here to-day from Vienna. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe United States House of Representatives yesterday refused by a majority of six votes to consider the question of a reduction of the Customs tariff. ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the Natal Legislative Council to-day a motion affirming that the Governor, Sir Arthur Havelock, does not possess the confidence of the colony, and requesting ...
Article : 51 wordsThree and a half New South Wales inscribed stock, 10s. lower, £100. Four per cent. Queensland do., 10s. lower, £101 10s. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe allotment of shares in the Midland Land and Railway Company of Western Australia, which was formed to take over the concession to Mr. John Waddington ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsMr. David Christie, the manager of the fire department of the South British National and Adelaide Insurance Company, who is retiring at the end of the ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the case Proudfoot v. Proctor a verdict was given yesterday for the plaintiff, who claimed £500 as the penalty to which the defendant was liable for having an interest ...
Article : 75 wordsA meeting of the Executive Commissioners of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition was held yesterday, when Sir Charles Tupper, on behalf of his ...
Article : 125 wordsThe total quantity of wheat afloat at the present time for the United Kingdom is 1,590,000 quarters, or 70.000 more than last week. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe mails, ex Union Company's R.M.S. Australia, from Sydney November 6, were delivered to-day via San Francisco. ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Hugh Bannister, of the firm of Hankey, Bannister, and Co., wine merchants, London, condemns the casks used for the Australian wine sent to the ...
Article : 49 wordsA large fire occurred at West Maitland this morning, which destroyed seven shops, with their contents, and damaged other premises in High-street, the total loss being ...
Article : 141 wordsKOONDROOK, DEC. 18—Stock crossings at the Koondrook punt:—December 17, 250 wethers from Barham,Now South Wales, J. Linacre owner in charge, to be trucked at Kerang for the Melbourne markets; ...
Article : 71 wordsThe barque Earlscourt, bound from Cardiff for Albany, W.A., with a cargo of railway material, which was wrecked on the coast of Glamorgan, is unloading her ...
Article : 42 wordsMr Pritchard, contractor, who purchased the wreck of the Corangamite, left yesterday in the tug Eagle for the stranded vessel, and commenced operations by directing the ...
Article : 146 wordsBALRANALD, DEC 18.—The weather during the past few days has been intensely hot. A welcome change occurred at midday in the shape of a thunderstorm, when rain fell and 14 points was registered. ...
Article : 612 wordsThe Dutch Government have decided to remit the duty on sugar exported from Java for a period of five years. ...
Article : 30 wordsMessrs. Boumphrey and Co. (? Humphrey and Co.), corn merchants, Liverpool, have failed, the amount of their liabilities being £55,000. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe auxiliary schooner rigged steam yacht MarChesa, with the Earl of Dudley, Mesars. W. H. Carnegie, and W. Moncrieff, and Dr. Hull on board, arrived yesterday from Norfolk ...
Article : 185 wordsThe wheat market is strong, with a rising tendency for parcels on the spot and to arrive. Australian wheat on the spot has been sold at 38s., the demand ...
Article : 49 wordsThe frozen mutton shipped at Melbourne by the R.M.S. Orient is sellingat 4d. per lb. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe following telegram from the warden at Teetulpa was received to-day by the Commissioner of Crown Lands:—" Stoneham and mate have got a nugget of 7oz. 5dwt. ...
Article : 199 wordsDIMBOOLA, DEC. 18—The first load of new wheat was brought into Dimboola to-day and stored. The sample is excellent, the grain being well filled plump, and hard. The farmer who resides at Katyll stripped ...
Article : 232 wordsMr. W. T. Burrowes, the secretary of the Ballarat fire brigade, died to-day at Portland, aged 57. He was one of the founders of the brigade, was captain for four years, and has ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 20 Dec 1886, Page 5
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