English Mails.—The R.M.S. Oroya, with English mails on board dated December 6, arrived at Albany (W.A.), at 2.20 p.m. on Friday. The Tasmanian ...
Article : 2,212 wordsThe Right Hon. Lord Hardinge Stanley Giffard Halsbury, Lord High Chancellor of England, has been granted an earldom. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe revenue for the six months ending to-day was 3,374,255, compared with £3.224,321 for the corresponding period of last year. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Employers Federation officials are in receipt of private information which shows that continental employees are largely contributing ...
Article : 43 wordsA young man, named William Roberts, residing at Woosang, died to- day suddenly of sumstroke whilst engaged harvesting his crop. The ...
Article : 154 wordsJames Henry Cecil Hozier, Conservative member for Lanarkshire South, and Colonel William Arthur J. Wallace, the latter of India, celebrity, have ...
Article : 26 wordsAt Bendigo sports yesterday the band contest was won by the Melbourne Brass Band with 143 points. The Hobart Garrison Band scored 96 points. ...
Article : 32 wordsFairfield's shipping yards in Glasgow have locked out 25 per cent. of the engineers employed, all the unionist workmen being withdrawn. ...
Article : 24 wordsSir Saul Samuel, late Agent-General for New South Wales, Frederick Wiggan, Mr. Edwin, Lawrence, M.P. for Truro, Mr. Johns William M'Clure, M.P. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Archbishops of Canterbury and York have advised the clergy to use their influence with the employers and employees to act forbearingly, and ...
Article : 47 wordsA man named Geo. Gibbs, who was one of the rescue parties at the sewerage fatality last week, died yesterday from the effects of foul air ...
Article : 39 wordsJudge Boucaut, of South Australia, has been created a Commander of St. Michael. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe heat which has been raging over the colony all the week had not abated in its intensity this evening, as predicted by the Government astronomer, ...
Article : 241 wordsA conference representing a million unionists has been held in London, at which the action of the engineers was enthusiastically applauded. The ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. Brown, Superintendent of Corean Customs, has been made a Companion of St. Michael and St. George. ...
Article : 21 wordsShortly after daylight on Saturday morning rain set in, but it only lasted for a couple of hours, and was only sufficient to lay the dust. The ...
Article : 160 wordsBarometer.—Maximum, 30.20 on 6th; wind W. Minimum, 29.40 on 31st; wind, N.b.W. Mean for month, 29.85; range, 0.80. ...
Article : 267 wordsThe Zakkakhed tribesmen are still obdurate, and the British, troops are taking action, in, their territory. Two villages have been burnt, and 25 towers ...
Article : 69 wordsA terrible fire is now sweeping through Woodbridge and surrounding districts. The wind is blowing a galo, and the flames are something ...
Article : 114 wordsLater particulars relative to, the death of General Havelock Allan, who was recently killed in the neighbourhood of the Khyber Pass by the Zakkakhels, ...
Article : 107 wordsA British committee has been appointed to consider the project of laying a cable from Fremantle, West Australia, to Deo Garcia, Mauritius, and ...
Article : 100 wordsSome interesting figures have been compiled by Mr. Baracchi, showing what has been the maximum December heat since 1891, as well as the ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Commissioner of Police (Mr. Bernard Shaw) has received the following alarming telegrams:— CARNARVON, Friday. ...
Article : 60 wordsA strange accident happened to- day. A four-in-hand drag was conveying passengers from the Brighton Junction to the racecourse, when the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, has decreed a provisional arrangement in regard to the Austro-Hungarian revenue and expenditure, in ...
Article : 56 wordsIn consequence of all the lines being interrupted in districts where fires have been burning during the last few days, it is very difficult to get reliable ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 152 wordsMr. Charles Wyndham., the well-known London actor and manager, presided at a farewell supper given to Mr. Charles Cartwright, who is ...
Article : 43 wordsThe celebration of the centennary of the Irish rebellion of 1798, commencing on New Year's Day, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, in deference to the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe fire kind still ,holds sway, and yet another report is to hand of its ruthless destroying influence. It is said that a German colonist named Tillack ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Spanish authorities have refused to transmit the documents containing General Weyler's complaint against President McKinlay, of the United ...
Article : 60 wordsA grim indication of the effects of the severe heat is found in the fact that over 30 interments took place at the Melbourne General Cemetery on ...
Article : 76 wordsThe recruits of the regiments of Guards garrisoned in and near Berlin were sworn in on November 18, in the presence of the Emperor, who ...
Article : 439 wordsReliable reports received in Paris from Africa confirm the statement that the French have occupied Fashoda. ...
Article : 47 wordsWhilst on duty in the Exhibition Gardens on Wednesday afternoon (states the "Age") Constable Lawrence, of Carlton, noticed a respectably ...
Article : 135 wordsAt the aquatic carnival held at Newcastle, on Tyne, William White won the Christmas Handicap, which was rowed in heats. He defeated the New ...
Article : 58 wordsRelative to the destruction of "'The Chalet," an the Huon road, near Hobart, the Hon. Henry Dobson states that the fire, which had threatened the ...
Article : 658 wordsGreat activity in naval matters is reported from Hong Kong. The movements of the British fleet are, however, kept secret. ...
Article : 30 wordsPeel River Company.—A dividend of three per cent. has been declared by the directors of the Peel River Company. ...
Article : 24 wordsChina has postponed the floating of her additional loan until Great Britain has replied to certain questions relative to her attitude towards the empire. ...
Article : 27 wordsA cyclist named Wm. Davis was found dead yesterday near Lang Lang. He was out touring on a bicycle, and appeared to have succumbed to the ...
Article : 61 wordsButter.—Weddel's circular estimates that imports of butter from all parts into Great Britain during January will be 30,000cwt, below the total for the ...
Article : 39 wordsMany newspapers comment on, the menacing international situation. at the opening of the year. ...
Article : 17 wordsMr. Brown, English Superintendent of the Corean Customs, whom the Russian authorities endeavoured to, remove has affected a' compromise with ...
Article : 35 wordsThe quarterly revenue returns amount to £27,483,543, the principal items being:—Customs £6,178,198, excise £9,942,000, stamps £2,010,000. ...
Article : 23 wordsA girl aged 10 years, named Maud McLean, died suddenly yesterday afternoon at Bushell's Creek. It was believed that death was owing to intense ...
Article : 90 wordswhich is about two miles from the Fern Tree. Assistance was at once sent, but fortunately the wind veered, and saved the residence. ...
Article : 63 wordsAustralian Stocks.—The following sales of Australian stocks have taken place on the London Stock Exchange: —Broken Hill Proprietary, 40s; Mount ...
Article : 62 wordsWould it not be desirable to consult the doctor as to which soap commends itself to our uses, as so many skins are ruined past redemption by inferior soaps? PEAR'S ...
Article : 74 wordsnear the Cascades. Twelve men have been held in readiness by Mr. H. E. Packer, so that if their assistance is required they will be at once despatched. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe weather has been severely felt here for the last week, the thermometer reading from 104 to 107 in the shade Two deaths have occurred in the ...
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Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899), Mon 3 Jan 1898, Page 5
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