Her Majesty has given her assent to the Western Australian Enabling Bill. ...
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Article : 749 wordsA special meeting of the members of the Operative Masons' Society was held at the Trades-hall on Saturday evening to consider a difficulty which had arisen ...
Article : 243 wordsA deadlock has occurred between the steamship owners and the Federated Seamen's Union with reference to the new rules which the latter body sought to enforce. ...
Article : 2,306 wordsSome of our stock and station friends in the elder colony are advancing with the times, and in very practical fashion. In evidence thereof take the following advertisement cut ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 441 wordsSir Henry Parkes has received a cable message confirming the intelligence that the Earl of Jersey has been appointed to succeed Lord Carrington as Governor of the colony. ...
Article : 353 wordsMadame Melba (Mrs. Armstrong), the Australian vocalist, sang before the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough-house last evening. ...
Article : 25 wordsMiss Myra Kemble, the actress, sails for Australia by the Orient Co.'s R.M.S. Orizaba, which leaves London on August 29. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe creditors of Viscount Deerhurst have accepted his offer to pay 10s. in the £in cash immediately, and give security for the balance of his liabilities. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe circular letter from the employés of produce merchants and chaffcutters was read at a meeting of the merchants this evening. It stated that the men in their employ would ...
Article : 132 wordsA good deal of public comment has been provoked by a decision of the Prince of "Wales in connection with the Royal Commission on the Working ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 178 wordsThe Chief Secretary has received reports from the Railway Commissioners and other Government departments as to the possibility or otherwise of extending the eight hours ...
Article : 200 wordsIt has been arranged that General Caprivi, the Chancellor, shall accompany the Emperor William of Germany on his approaching visit to Russia. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsThe inquiry into the wreck of the Nelson was resumed on Saturday. Alexander Clerke, resident engineer, stated that be recently made a survey of the Porpoise Rock, and ...
Article : 142 wordsYesterday 500,000 acres of land forming the Olis Estate, in Hampton Plains, Western Australia, was offered for sale at auction in London. Fifty-five ...
Article : 69 wordsA burglary of a daring character was reported to the South Melbourne police on Saturday by Mrs. Smith, the wife of a blacksmith living at 140 Coventry-street. She ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Premier visited Launceston on Saturday, and, accompanied by the mayor and aldermen, selected a site for the detention house for short-sentenced prisoners. The ...
Article : 91 wordsAbout 11 o'clock on Saturday night the dead body of a man was found lying at the side of the railway on the up line to Melbourne, between the Moonee Ponds and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsThe French Government proposes to [?]ay a cable for telephonic purposes between France and England, by which [?]eans direct telephonic communication ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the town council meeting held last evening, the members for the North and South wards drew lots to decide who should retire prior to the forthcoming election, with ...
Article : 95 wordsMendelssohn's "Elijah," by the Perth Musical Union, was given last night in the town-hall to a crowded audience. The rendering was in every respect a magnificent ...
Article : 129 wordsSir,—I was afraid of making my letter of the 21st inst. under the above heading too long, or there were one or two points connected with the labour question not touched ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsThe experiments which have been made by the British military authorities with the smokeless powder are satisfactory. Some doubts, however, are expressed as ...
Article : 44 wordsSir,—At Friday's meeting of the Trades-hall Council (vid[?] The Argus report of the same) Mr. J. Hancock "had no hesitation in denouncing the whole [meaning my 'Misery' ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 wordsThe revenue received by the South African Republic from the Transvaal gold-fields during the half year ending June 30 shows a decline of £66,000 ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Wellington Acclimatisation Society shipped by the Hauroto for Sydney 5,000 brown trout ova, 2,000 Loch Leven trout ova, and as an experiment a thousand American ...
Article : 170 wordsThe French naval manœuvres now proceeding. An attack upon Cherbourg formed part of the operations. A number of ironclads forced the entrance to ...
Article : 52 wordsThe city coroner, Dr. Youl, held an inquest at the Melbourne Hospital yesterday on the body of a man named Stephen Clarke, who was admitted to the institution on the 22nd ...
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Article : 64 wordsDrs. Crane and Reville, the Roman Catholic bishop and coadjutor bishoop of Sandhurst, have given a commission to an artist in Rome to paint a picture for the Sandhurst ...
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Article : 221 wordsMr. W. Pritchard Morgan, M.P., states that the executive of the Mining Exhibition which is to be opened at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, on Monday ...
Article : 53 wordsAn exciting scene was witnessed at the Parramatta gaol yesterday. Two prisoners, who had been working on the extension of a wall on the gaol premises under the care of ...
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Article : 77 wordsThe P. and O. Co.'s R.M.S. Coromandel, from London 11th July, left Suez for Australian ports on the morning of the 25th inst. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 28 Jul 1890, Page 6
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