The average price obtained for the amount of the Victorian 3½ per cent. loan that was subscribed, namely £2,000,000, was £97 11s. 4d., or 1s. 4d. above the ...
Article : 202 wordsA serious disagreement has taken place among the members of the committee who are entrusted with the duty of selecting pictures for the Melbourne National ...
Article : 360 wordsAn Anglo-Indian force, consisting of 10,000 men, has been massed at Kohat, in the Punjaub, to suppress the rising of the Miranzais, a Pathan tribe, which ...
Article : 123 wordsThe result of the application by the Victorian Government for a loan of £3,000,000 at 3½ per cent, is not altogether pleasant, nor yet is it ...
Article : 9,779 wordsCaptain T. S. Boileau, of the 44th Bengal Native Infantry, who escaped from Manipur, denies the charge made by Jubraj, the leader of the insurgents, that ...
Article : 99 wordsA shocking murder was committed to-day at Surrey Hills, When an old man, named Maurice Dalton; battered his wife to death with a branding-iron. The mnn is 72 years of age, ...
Article : 412 wordsThe scrip for the new Victorian loan is quoted at the minium price, £97 10s. The Times, commenting on the result of the operation, says that the colonies ...
Article : 138 wordsThe forces under Lieutenant Grant and Captain Presgrave, who have retired from Thobal to Tamu, will shortly effect a junction with Islie's (?) column at Patel, ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Nicholas Chevalier, the well-known artist, formerly of Melbourne, has declined to assist Mr. Louis Fagan, the assistant-keeper of prints and drawings ...
Article : 172 wordsThe cable message which the Treasurer received from the Agent-General yesterday with reference to the floating of the loan was as follows:— ...
Article : 696 wordsIt is expected that Portugal will ratify the new convention which Lord Salisbury has drafted, with a view to settling the boundaries of the British and Portuguese ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Shipping Federation has decided that the existing shilling registration ticket which it issues to its employés shall insure for the sum of £25 any ...
Article : 79 wordsA confession made by a Sicilian named Polity, one of those who were lynched at New Orleans, has been published. The man was shot in gaol along with 10 ...
Article : 70 wordsThe R.M.S. Britannia, which arrived at noon yesterday, has been detained all day in close quarantine. Nineteen Adelaide passengers have landed, and gone into the ...
Article : 44 wordsWith reference to the quarantining of the R.M.S. Britannia at Adelaide, the chairman of the Board of Health states that as soon as he heard of it he telegraphed to the president ...
Article : 151 wordsIt is estimated that the recent strike at the London docks cost the Shipping Federation £15,000, this amount including £12,000 which was paid as wages ...
Article : 42 wordsThe London evening paper, The Star, asserts that warrants have been issued for the arrest of Captain E. H. Verney, M.P. for North Buckinghamshire, and ...
Article : 70 wordsAt the burning of the Dime Museum in Chicago, which was connected with the Haymarket Theatre, the audience were enabled to escape unhurt through ...
Article : 87 wordsA passenger by the Britannia kindly forwarded us the following information yesterday morning:— "We have been quarantined here on ...
Article : 285 wordsA serious fire occurred last night at the residence of Madame Melba, the Australian prima donna, in Paris. The flames gained ground so rapidly ...
Article : 104 wordsThe P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Valetta, from Melbourne, February 28, arrived at Plymouth on the afternoon of the 13th inst. ...
Article : 116 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Goschen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that he would deliver his Budget speech on Thursday, ...
Article : 37 wordsThe influenza in New York is increasing in severity, and the disease is also very prevalent in the city of Brooklyn. The number of deaths daily ...
Article : 94 wordsThe elections to fill the vacancies in the East Sydney and Newcastle electorates caused by the death of Mr. J. R. Street and Mr. James Fletcher were held to-day. [?] ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Broken Hill East Consols Silver-mining Company, an offshoot of the Australian Broken Hill Consols Company, will shortly be placed upon the London ...
Article : 72 wordsAt the usual meeting of the Marine Board to-day, the inquiry into the l[?] the steamer Truganini at the N[?]des was resumed, The board found, after further ...
Article : 141 words42s. to order, cash only. Extraordinary value. George and George Limited, Collins-street.—[ADVT.] ALBUMS, ALBUMS.—A magnificent supply of Albums, ...
Article : 41 wordsFry's Malted Cocoa does not thicken in the cup. It is perfectly pure, with Malt Extract added, and an ordinary breakfast cup of the cocoa is more invigorating and sustaining than a pint of the best a[?] or [?]ut. ...
Article : 49 words"A perfect Food."—Health.—[ADVT.] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 15 Apr 1891, Page 5
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