The agents-general will meet at the office of the Admiralty on Tuesday, to discuss with the Admiralty authorities the question of the defences of the colonies. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Standard this morning publishes a statement to the effect that Russia claims Meruchak, a place on the Murghab, some miles beyond Penjdeh ; object to the fortification of Herat ...
Article : 108 wordsThe shipment of Australian grapes by the Orient steamer Potosi has been found on examination to have arrived in a marketable condition. Tin.—For best Straits and Australian, £84. ...
Article : 303 wordsThe New Zealand Government have intimated that they will agree to the omission of the 31st clause of the Federation Enabling Bill, on condition that the compromise ...
Article : 45 wordsDudley and Stephens, the .captain and mate of the yacht Mignonette, who in December last were convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of the boy Parker, whom they ...
Article : 53 wordsThe latest advices from the Russo-Afghan frontier report that Colonel Stewart has arrived at Herat, where he has been warmly welcomed by the inhabitants. Colonel Ridgeway, who ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is reported that the Companionship of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) will be conferred upon Mr. F. T. Sargood, Minister of Defence, Victoria ; Mr. J. F. ...
Article : 69 wordsAdmiral Sir Geoffry Horuby, K.C.B., has been appointed to the supreme command of fleet to consist of 15 ironclads, which is about to assemble at Portland. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe French Government and the three empires (Germany, Austria, and Russia), having protested against any deduction being made on the half-yearly coupons now due, ...
Article : 56 wordsCholera has le-appeared at Marseilles, and two deaths have already occurred from the epidemic. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Russian corvette Djiggitt has arrived at Honolulu. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe death is announced of Victor Hugo, in his 84th year. LONDON, May 23. The French Government has decided to ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Franco-Chinese difficulty has been settled, both powers having come to an agreement as to the terms of a treaty of peace. ...
Article : 36 wordsThree of the British regiments now stationed at Suakin are about to proceed to Cairo, where they will remain for the present. In the House of Commons to-night, Sir A. ...
Article : 662 wordsJoachim Hagen, a grocer, of Collingwood, who absconded from his creditors in Melbourne in January last, with a draft for £2000 in his possession, has been arrested, and ...
Article : 39 wordsThe R.M.S. Cuzco, from Plymouth 1st May, left here to-day, en route for Australian ports. SAN FRANCISCO, May 22. The R.M.S. Zealandia, from Sydney April ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Emperor William of Germany has granted a charter to a German New Guinea Company, to which a large tract of territory, be named Wilhelm’s Land, together with ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. James Munro, who has arrived here from Melbourne, has requested the Secretary of State for the Colonies to take steps to prevent the importation into and sale of introricating ...
Article : 66 wordsSir Patrick Jennings, the executive commissioner for New South Wales at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, has been in communication with the president of the Victorian ...
Article : 1,483 wordsThe Earl of Rosebery, Lord Privy Seal. arrived here to-day. The object of his visit has not yet transpired. ...
Article : 27 wordsA serious conflict took place yesterday in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise between a party of Communists and a body of police. During the disturbance one person was killed, and ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Daily News of to-day publishes a paragraph stating that differences exist between members to the Cabinet regarding the renewal of the Irish Crimes Act. ...
Article : 109 wordsWallace Ross, the American Sculler, has expressed his surprise that W. Beach, of Sydney, has not replied to his challenge to row a match for the championship of the world, in ...
Article : 38 wordsPerkins, of London, has challenged C. Messenger, of Sydney, to row a sculling match. ...
Article : 20 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Gladstone stated that the Government would reconsider the question of the promised purchase of Irish lands when Parliament had ...
Article : 167 wordsIntelligence received from the North-west provinces states that it has been ascertained that the Indians who have joined in Riel’s rebellion are torturing their prisoners. ...
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