The first series of colonial wool auctions for the current year opened to-day, the total quantity catalogued being 330,000 bales. ...
Article : 94 wordsJan. 28—Flinders, s, 948 tons, H. Sams commander from Melbourne. T. S. N. Company, agents. Passengers—As per yesterday's [?]. ...
Article : 690 wordsAmong other measures for raising [?] increased revenue, the Parliament of the Argentine Republic has passed a bill levying a tax of 2 per cent. on all ...
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Article : 86 wordsThe World asserts that Sir Henry Norman, who 1s at present on a visit to England, intends to retire from the Governorship of Queensland. ...
Article : 54 wordsSailed—T. S. N. Company's s. s. Oonah, Hobart. Passengers—Saloons Bishop of Adelaide ; Mr and Mrs Willinz ; Mesdams Coombs and seven children, Jacobs,[?] ...
Article : 49 wordsLord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has under consideration the question referred to him recently by the Governor of Victoria as to the relative ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Postmaster-General has issued writ for libel against the Sunday T[?] claiming £2000 damages. An agitation is being raised to has ...
Article : 200 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Select Committee on emigration was re-appointed. [A Select Committee was appointed by ...
Article : 152 wordsMR A. W. BIRCHALL, J. P., president at the City Police Court yesterday. Three women and one man were each fined 5s, or 24 hours, for being drunk and incapable.— ...
Article : 3,156 wordsCaptain Christenson, a New Geiur trader, was remanded at Port Moresby today; on a charge of strangling and dumb child. ...
Article : 118 wordsEVERY fresh report of the progress of the railway surveys now being carried out from various centres towards the West Coast silver-fields affords ...
Article : 1,914 wordsIn consequence of the absence of Mr Charles Bradlaugh, M. P. for Northampton, from his seat in the House of Commons through serious illness, the ...
Article : 60 wordsThis demonstration, which took place last evening, was most successful, and was attended by close on two thousand people. The torchlight procession formed in ...
Article : 249 wordsA serious collision has occurred on the Kansas railway, United States. A train filled with cavalry returning from the scene of the recent Sioux ...
Article : 45 wordsMessrs W. T. Bell and Co. sold by auction yesterday lots 3 and 4 in the late J. Edward's estate to Messrs Lindsay Tulloch and Co. for £470, the other lots, including the hotel, ...
Article : 84 wordsA drover named Hector Ross poison himself by taking strychnine to-day. Henry Derit, a hawker, cut his three with a razor to-day, and is in a precar[?] ...
Article : 56 wordsMr Bradlaugh who had been improving in health has suffered a relapse. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe wheat market is weaker, 3s 6d being the offer for shipping lots, and 3s 5d to 3s 5½d for milling parcels. Flour is unchanged ; stone made at £7 10s to £8, and roller dressed to £9. ...
Article : 92 wordsA party of masked strikers took forcible possession of an engine shed at Strathaven, a town in Lanarkshire, with a population of nearly 4000. ...
Article : 95 wordsA man named Wm. M' Eachern, a in the employ of Messrs Siddeley and shipping agents, to-day fell down the stain well in Roll's Buildings, Collins-street, ...
Article : 75 wordsClose at Launceston at under :— INTERCOLONIAL PORTS—S. s. Flinders, this day, 1.30 p.m. VICTORIA.—S.s. Flinders, this day, 2.30 p.m. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe annual meeting of this Society was held at the Fire Brigade Hotel on Tuesday evening. There was a large attendance, and Mr J. Sparrow occupied the chair. ...
Article : 315 wordsThe German Government are trying to obtain a footing in the Malayan Peninsula. [The Malayan Peninsula is about 9 0 ...
Article : 85 wordsAt the inquest on the Darling [?] tragedy, held to-day, the evidence disclose no fresh facts, but it was shown that is murderer Wilson, being Jealous of the ...
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Article : 25 wordsThe inquest on the victim (Mrs Johnsk of the tragedy at Ballarat was reopened at the City Court to-day, but had to further postponed owing to the inabilty ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Times states that a new South Australian loan at 3½ per cent. will be issued in a fortnight, and will be placed on the market before the projected ...
Article : 44 wordsThe prospectus is issued of the Anglo Australian Investment Company, with a first issue of debentures for £150,000 capital. ...
Article : 41 wordsSaid a father to his ten-year old boy, " what have you done today that may be considered a good deed?" "I gave a boy sixpence," replied the young hopeful. " Well, and what ...
Article : 277 wordsA boxing match has been arranged between Pritchard, the English pugilist, and Bob Fitzaimmons, the Australian boxer. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Airlie, from Hong Kong, arrived day, and from the eastern files we learn that the China Navigation Company Shanghai was burned on December ...
Article : 139 wordsMrs O'Shea, whose name has been so prominently connected with that of Mr Parnell, is seriously ill. ...
Article : 19 wordsMr Baldwin, of Wellington, New Zealand, who is now studying at the Middle Temple, has gained a first class scholarship. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr Stephen Johnson Field, Association Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, in answer to the application of the Canadian Government for an ...
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Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899), Thu 29 Jan 1891, Page 2
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