A British force has been landed upon and has occupied the island of Mytilene, off the Gulf of Adraniyati, in Asiatic Turkey. ...
Article : 117 wordsA German expedition into East Africa, led by Herr Zalewski, has been severely defeated in an encounter with hostile natives. The leader himself mid eight ...
Article : 189 wordsFurther news concerning the disastrous floods in Southern Spain states that 2,000 persons have been drowned in Toledo. No help could be rendered owing to the ...
Article : 55 wordsIn order to provide for the starving peasantry in the famine-affected districts of Russia, enormous sacks have been provided in the Cathedral of the Kazan ...
Article : 75 wordsMany of the leading officials who occupied positions under President Balmaceda have been arrested at passes across the Andes in their attempts to ...
Article : 89 wordsIn all the Australian Parliaments to-day a number of members sit who represent minorities, and who affect to represent majorities. The terms ...
Article : 8,147 wordsThe extraordinary disappearance of the military clerk, Sergeant T. Griffiths, the particulars of which were detailed in The Argus yesterday, continues as mysterious as ever, ...
Article : 522 wordsFurther accounts continue to come to hand concerning the severity of the floods in Spain. In the provinces of Valencia and ...
Article : 114 wordsThe famine which has caused so much distress in many parts of Russia shows no signs of lessening in severity. On the contrary, the horrors attendant upon it ...
Article : 77 wordsIt has transpired that Senor Aldunato, who was one of the Chilian Ministers of State under ex-President Balmaceda, was murdered whilst making his escape after ...
Article : 55 wordsCaptain Olson, of the barque Aino, which sailed from Newcastle, in Now South Wales, for Valparaiso on January 20, with a cargo of coal, has ...
Article : 95 wordsA number of further deaths have been recorded in connection with the epidemic of Asiatic cholera on two vessels of the British naval squadron at Bombay, viz., ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Greek, French, and Russian consuls on the Island of Mytilene have sent despatches to their respective Governments confirming the statements as to ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Parliamentary Committee appointed to inquire into the charges of corruption against Canadian politicians and officials has now concluded its ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Earl of Dudley has been married to Miss Gurney. The Prince of Wales waa one of the guests present at the celebration of the marriage. ...
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Article : 62 wordsA letter-sorter named Rhodes, in the employ of the Post-office department in London, was recently arrested on a charge of perpetrating an extraordinary series ...
Article : 95 wordsThe news has created an immense sensation at Cairo. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe Parliamentary Committee on Railways has determined that its next progress report shall deal with the construction of the proposed Fitzroy and Collingwood railwavs, ...
Article : 784 wordsThe evening newspapers in Paris, commenting upon the reports of the occupation of Mytilene, speak of the action of Great Britian as England's reply to the ...
Article : 42 wordsThe schooner Enterprise Captain J. Thompson put into Lewis Channel "Welshpool yesterday in disabled condition, both masts with sails and rigging, having been ...
Article : 351 wordsA body of 20,000 Chinese has put a stop to the construction of a telegraph line at Luanchow. They burnt 10,000 telegraph poles, and expelled the ...
Article : 66 wordsA party of brigands has attacked stations at Paolokioi. In a conflict which took place between them and the Turkish gendarmes two of the latter were killed. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Foreign Office and the Admiralty deny that they have entered upon any hostile occupation of Mytilene. They explain that possibly a few seamen were ...
Article : 118 wordsEarthquake shocks continue to be felt in the republic of Salvador. [The above message appeared in a portion of yesterday's issue.] ...
Article : 31 wordsTippoo Tib asserts that there is no truth in the statement which was published by Mr. H. M. Stanley that Lieutenant Jamieson, one of his officers, was present ...
Article : 52 wordsFive hundred dock labourers in the employ of the Carron Shipping Company, of Falkirk, and the Leith, Hull, and Hamburg Steam Packet Company, of ...
Article : 71 wordsThe entire German army has been supplied with a new rifle. [The aboye message appeared in a portion of yesterday's issue.] ...
Article : 30 wordsThe brokers in the city are highly pleased it the receipt of the news by cable that three Sydney banks intend tendering lurgely for the New South ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Louis Brennan, the torpedo inventor, has been married to Miss Quin. [The above message appeared in a, portion ...
Article : 31 wordsThe report of an interview with the Marquis di Rudini, the Italian Premier, concerning the prosont aspect of affairs in the East has been published. The ...
Article : 88 wordsAn Imperial decree was recently issued in Russia with the object of preventing the proselytising of Russians of the orthodox Greek Chirch, and it was announced ...
Article : 97 wordsColonel Desmond, of the Indian service, has accepted a challenge issued by Mr. Stuart Cumberland, the famous thought-reader, for £1,000, to ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Westby B. Perceval, one of the members of the House of Representatives for Christchurch city, will be appointed Agent General for New Zealand to suceeed ...
Article : 142 wordsReferring to the last annual report of the New South Wales Railway Commissioners, the Financial News expresses the opinion that the railways of the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe settlement of the proposed amalgamation between the Bank of Van Diemen's Land and the National Bank is still prevented owing to the obstruction of the Government ...
Article : 272 wordsSir William White, the British Ambassador it Constantinople, recontly demantled an apology from the Turkish Government, in consequence of certain ...
Article : 124 wordsSir Saul Samuel gives a positive denial to the statement thut he treated Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, the labour delegate, with discourtesy when the latter was in Eng ...
Article : 40 wordsThe wise of Daniel O'Connor, M.L.C., Postmaster General, versus the publisher of the Sunday Times, for libel, was called on in the No. 1 Jury Court to-day. The article ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 254 wordsIt is reported that the British East African Company are about to abandon their station at Uganda, near Lake Victoria Nyanza. ...
Article : 31 wordsThree thousand five hundred lumber hands at Ottawa have gone out on strike for higher wages and shorter hours. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe R.M.S. Victoria, from London August 21, left Colombo for Australia on the evening of the 13th inst. The R.M.S. Ballaarat, from Melbourne ...
Article : 40 wordsSince the recent dismissal from office of Kiamil Pasha, the ex-Grand Vizier of Turkey, a report has been in circulation that he had been arrested on a charge of ...
Article : 53 wordsGeorge Edward Jordan, who was arrested at Portland last week, charged with falsifying the books of the Smythesdale branch of the Bank of Australasia, of which he was until a ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Adye Douglas, a Launceston director of the British Bank, has issued un advertisement requesting shareholders and depositors in the bank not to sign a circular forwarded ...
Article : 66 wordsAbraham Friedman, of Horsham, storekeeper. Compulsory sequestration. Causes of insolvency—Inability to collect debts, ill ness in family, and loss in speculations. ...
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Article : 20 wordsAn ordinary breakfast cup of Malted Cocoa contains, more nourishment than a pint of the best [?] or stout. it does not thicken in the cup. "The most strengthening combination pos ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 16 Sep 1891, Page 5
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