The 1st of May, 1893, will long be remembered as the most eventful day in the commercial history of Victoria. The publication [?] the news of a compulsory bank holiday ...
Article : 17,897 wordsA strike of dock labourors on a large scale is impending in London. Three thousand men have resolved to cease work to-day. unless the free labourors ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Times this morning, commenting on the action of the Victorian Government in proclaiming a five days' bank holiday, condemns the step that has been ...
Article : 138 words" A grave act of state " is generally accepted as the correct title of the procedure of Ministers in closing, as far as it is in their power, the banks trading ...
Article : 8,241 wordsMr. John Burns, M.P., the wellknown labour leader, has declared himself averse to a general strike in the shipping trade, declaring that such a ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Times this morning, replying to a correspondent who expresses himself adverse to the scheme of reconstruction of the English, Scottish, and Australian ...
Article : 52 wordsThe proposed strike of 3,000 dock labourers in London has proved a total failure. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe National Bank of Australasia is applying to the Court for a winding-up order for the purpose of protecting the assets. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Chicago Exhibition will be officially opened to-day by President Cleveland. May 1 is the date fixed for the opening, and it has been decided not to postpone ...
Article : 125 wordsBar silver is quoted at 38 7-16d. per oz. standard, being an advance of ?d. since Saturday. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe election campaign has opened very favourably for the Government. Thirty-two members have now been returned, 22 being classed as Ministerialists, two as Opposition, ...
Article : 277 wordsThe P. and 0. Company's R.M.S. Australia, J. Reeves commander, arrived from Colombo at 5.45 p.m. She brings the following saloon passengers:— ...
Article : 170 wordsA Spanish gunboat has left Now York for Cuba to assist in suppressing a revolution which has broken out there against the Spanish Government. ...
Article : 50 words" Professor " Hullar, the snake charmer, who is at present exhibiting in Echuca, had a somewhat exciting experience to-night through being bitten by a tiger snake. After ...
Article : 213 wordsCaptain Stanley and Lieutenant Croker, of the Victorian Artillery, who have been undergoing a course of military study in England, have obtained first-class certifi ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Seddon, the acting Premier, has been asked by the Governor to undertake the reconstruction of the Ministry, and has consented to do so. He will become Premier, ...
Article : 311 wordsCaptain Dodds, who is in command of the New South Wales Cavalry team, has been elected an honorary membor of the Army and Navy Club and of the officers' ...
Article : 51 wordsFires have been of frequent occurrence recently. Two outbreaks occurred at one house during last week, and a domestic servant who was arrested on a charge of arson ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Right Rev. James Francis Turner, Bishop of Grafton and Armidale, New South Wales, has died at Rome. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Great Southern Tin and Gold Fields Company, Gippsland, has been registered, the capital being £100,000. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S.S. Rimutaka, which left Lyttelton on the l6th March, arrived at Plymouth on the 27th ult. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe coal seam discovered on the Government reserve between San Remo and Kilcunda, and reported in The Argus some time since, is being developed into a successful ...
Article : 295 wordsAt 11.— Mercantile Finance Trustees, and Agency Company v. Hall and another, Bates v. Taylor, Hooper v. Real Estate Bank, Randall v. M'Pherson and Co., Foran v. Derrick. ...
Article : 234 wordsMatthew Langtree Ashe, of the firm of T. H. Doughty and Co., of Brunswick, timber merchants and furniture manufacturers. Private schedule. Cause of insolvency—The ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 2 May 1893, Page 5
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