"WATCHMAN, what of the night " is a cry which is being raised in many quarters just now. In England, in France, in Germany, and in Russia, the ...
Article : 6,481 wordsA 5 per cent, loan of £75,000 has bean successfully floated on behalf of the city of Prahran. The minimum was fixed at £102, and the City of Melbourne Bank ...
Article : 280 wordsIt is understood that Sir Henry Loch will extend his visit here till May 13. Sir Anthony Musgrave has invited a small number of leading colonists to meet Sir ...
Article : 112 wordsA letter from Mr. David Symes appears in this morning's Daily Chronicle reviewing the position with regard to the New Hebrides. Mr. Symes protests against the ...
Article : 318 wordsThe delegates at the Colonial Conference accepted the invitation of Mr. Cecil Raikes to pay a visit yesterday to the Woolwich Telegraph Department. ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Pacific Cable Company propose that England and the colonies should combine to guarantee £75,000 per annum for a period of 25 years as a condition to the ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Wilson, the officer in charge of ports and harbors, has sent in a report to the Commissioner of Customs in which he contrasts the charges for docking vessels ...
Article : 189 words*****The latest quotation for sugar from *****beet is 12s. per cwt. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe committee appointed by the House of Commons to enquire into the subject of the sugar bounties is now completely organised. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe directors of the Shaw, Saville, and Albion Shipping Company have declared a half-yearly dividend at the rate of 5 per Cent. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday a question was asked relative to the alleged conduct of the British consul in Tonga in supporting the tyrannical proceedings of ...
Article : 82 wordsSeveral new pictures, purchased in England by Mr. E. Combes, C.M.G., one of the trustees, have been added to the art gallery collection in Sydney. ...
Article : 898 wordsAt the invitation of Mr. Raikes, Postmaster-General, the colonial delegates today paid a visit of inspection to the telegraph department at Woolwich, where ...
Article : 52 wordsThe barque Diamond, Anderson, master, sailed this afternoon for Brisbane with a cargo of 600 tons of flour, valued at £6,074, shipped by Messrs. John Dunn & Co. The ship got ...
Article : 61 wordsRamsay's patent transhipping gear fitted to double cattle vans was put to a further teat this morning, but it did not work satisfactorily. One truck carrying 16 head of cattle took ...
Article : 144 wordsThe delegates at the Colonial Conference will attend a lecture to be delivered on Monday, under the auspices of the London Chamber of Commerce, on the ...
Article : 48 wordsA conference of the committee of municipal delegates appointed to make arrangements for celebrating her Majesty's Jubilee was held this afternoon. ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Temps to-day states that M, Waddington, the French Ambassador to London, proposes as a solution of the New Hebrides difficulty the creation of ...
Article : 57 wordsThe performance of Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" has been stopped by the authorities owing to persistent antiGerman demonstrations outside the ...
Article : 33 wordsThe ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Trades and Labor Council was held at the Sir John Barleycorn Hotel on Friday evening. Mr. R. E. Rogers presided over a good ...
Article : 994 wordsA public meeting was held in the Town Hall to-night to celebrate the opening of the Working Men's College, which has been founded chiefly by the munificence ...
Article : 561 wordsArticles have been signed for a match between Beach and Hanlan for £500 a side, to be rowed on the 26th November, on the river Nepean, between 3 and 4 p.m. ...
Article : 41 wordsCount Von Munster, the German Ambassador, who has for some time past been absent, has retained to his official duties, On his arrival he was received ...
Article : 47 wordsThe case of Wells v. Delaney has excited considerable interest at Glen Innes, where it was heard in the District Court before Judge Murray to-day. This ...
Article : 287 wordsThe shipment of frozen meat ex Potosi, consisting of 5,594 sheep and 230 lambs, arrived in excellent condition, all being sold at ruling rates. ...
Article : 29 wordsIn the House of Commons last night a division was taken on the motion introduced by Mr. Charles Lewis to the effect that the Times committed a breach of ...
Article : 104 wordsA grand banquet in honor of the colonial delegates has been arranged for Wednesday by a joint committee of Peers and Commoners. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe three-masted schooner Reward has been wrecked near Portland Island and the coast. Andrews the cook and one seaman were drowned. The mate and ...
Article : 65 wordsA conference will be held shortly to consider the question of State aided colonisation. ...
Article : 20 wordsOn Thursday morning the congratulatory address to the Queen from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of South Australia was presented to his Excellency the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 19 wordsThe barque Glenesk, from London, reports having sighted a burning vessel of apparently 1,500 tons on February 28. The Glenesk stood by her all night in ...
Article : 90 wordsThe proportion of the Bank of England's reserve to its liabilities is 48 per cent, and the reserve stands at £14,800,000. ...
Article : 27 wordsA public meeting was held in the institutehall, Salisbury, on Thursday evening. Mr. Richerd Whiting presided. It was resolved— "That this meeting decides to have a local ...
Article : 241 wordsThe coming sugar season will soon be in full swing, a few mills in this district purposing to begin operations next week, but the crop is likely to be under 5,000 ...
Article : 163 wordsThe following passengers passed through here in the express for Melbourne to-day:— Messrs. Willmott, Mais, Gollen. C. C. Kingstop, M.P., Waller, the Hon. J. G. Ramsay. ...
Article : 153 wordsSome time since the water conservation commission, whose official existence terminates on the 10th of May, applied to the Government for an extension of time ...
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The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), Sat 7 May 1887, Page 5
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