The Government has decided to reduce the British force in Egypt, which was considerably strengthened in February last in consequence of the crisis arising ...
Article : 74 wordsLord Wolverton, one of the Lords in Waiting on Her Majesty, has resigned his position. He has taken this step in consequence of a disagreement with the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe liquidators of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, the London Chartered Bank of Australia, and the Colonial Bank of Australasia have ...
Article : 297 wordslast two wickets 14 runs were still wanting when the stumps were drawn. At the finish there was intense excitement, anil the Australians were loudly ...
Article : 384 wordsThe match between the Australians and the Marylebone club was continued ut Lord's, play at lunch time having been stopped by rain when the score stood at 228 for the loss ...
Article : 999 wordsPublic attention is now rivetted upon the possibility of future action by the SolicitorGeneral in the matter of the Mercantile Bank prosecutions, the subject having become an ...
Article : 1,164 wordsThe New South Wales Government must be wrong in its decision to come to the relief of the current account holders by an issue of state notes, or ...
Article : 6,036 wordsA terrible landslip has occurred at Vaerdalen, a village near Trondhjem, in Norway. Twelve large farms suddenly sank into ...
Article : 82 wordsThe House of Commons has adjourned for the Whitsuntide holidays until Monday week, the 29th inst. ...
Article : 32 wordsH.R.H. the Princess of Wales and her daughters have returned to London after an extended absence. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. Asquifch, the Secretary of State for the Home department, has refused to release Gilbert, an American' dynamiter, who is undergoing a term of ...
Article : 34 wordsM. Charles de Lesseps, formerly a director of the Panama Canal Company, who in February last was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for swindling ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. Salmon, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Port Melbourne, who is visiting England, is making a tour of inspection of the. British coast ...
Article : 46 wordsThe team to represent England in the first of the representative matches, to he played at Nottingham [?]or Shrewsbury's benefit, commencing on June 28, has already been ...
Article : 78 wordsMadame Melba appeared last in night in Signor Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci," which has nob been before produced in London. The performance was ...
Article : 69 wordsThe directors of the Bank of Victoria have decided not to call any meetings of shareholders and depositors to consider the proposed scheme of reconstruction, as ...
Article : 42 wordsA political crisis has occurred in Italy. Signor Giolitti, the Premier, who has hold office since May 15, 1892, has tendered his resignation to King ...
Article : 80 wordsThe infliction of corporal punishment on female prisoners in Siberia has been abolished by order of the Czar. ...
Article : 28 wordsA petition has been presented for the compulsory winding-up of the City of Melbourne Bank. The date of hearing is fixed for June 7. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following team will represent Yorkshire in the match against the Australians commencing at Sheffield on Monday next. F. E. Woodhead is the only amateur in the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe French press alleges that England is backing up Shim in her opposition to the extension of French territory to the river Mekong. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe members of the Ministry were busy yesterday considering the proposed new bill to deal with banking matters. In the morning Mr. M'Millan, late Colonial Treasurer, ...
Article : 801 wordsA serious accident occurred yesterday in connection with the Women's Congress which is boing held at the Chicago Exhibition. ...
Article : 55 wordsA petition has been presented on be half of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney for the voluntary winding up of the bank. The hearing is fixed for ...
Article : 87 wordsJames Neill Campbell, the son of a Bombay officer now deceased, has been brought before the magistrates on a charge of theft and remanded. ...
Article : 33 wordsViscount Gormanston, the new Governor of Tasmania, and Lady Gormanston, were entertained last night at a banquet by Sir Edward Braddon, the ...
Article : 160 wordsThe offices and factory, of Spratt's Patent Limited, manufacturers of dog biscuit and poultry food, London, have been destroyed by fire. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe upward tendoncy in Australian bank stocks continues to be well maintained. LONDON, May 21. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe barque Templeton has had a most disastrous voyage in the Atlantic. She encountered frightfully severe weather, during which one of her yards, ...
Article : 56 wordsA petition has been presented for the compulsory winding up of the Queensland National Bank. The hearing will take place on June 7. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe monoy intended for the payment of the intercut on Western Australian railway debentures, due next month, is locked up in tha National Bank of ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Presbyterian body in the United States is agitating for the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which provides for the expulsion of all Chinese who fail ...
Article : 108 wordsBroken Hill Proprietary shares are quoted at £3 15s. WHEAT. The English wheat market is weak in ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Rupertswood battery of horse artillery visited the Woolwich Arseual yesterday. They were very much impressed with the new field guns, which ...
Article : 96 wordsA petition for the compulsory winding-up of the Mercantile Finance, Trustees, and Agency Company of Melbourne has been presented, and will be heard on ...
Article : 74 wordsAt yesterday's public auction of Australasian tallow l,600 casks were offered, of which 1,150 were sold. Prices realised showed an unaltered market. ...
Article : 26 wordsAverage prices realised for rabbit skins at the auction sales held yesterday were as follow, viz.:—Australian, fair to good, Is. l½d. per lb.; medium to fair, ...
Article : 43 wordsEdward Yeatman, or Winter-street, Malvern. collector. Causes of insolvency— Inability to realise on land, having to pay heavy interest, and the failure of person with ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Archdule Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the members of his staff attended high mass at St. Mary's Cathedral this morning. Nearly 5,000 persons were present. There ...
Article : 175 wordsMr. T. J. Byrnes, the Attorney-General, speaking at Sandgate in support of the Ministerial candidate last night, said that there was ample money to carry on present ...
Article : 246 wordsThere was a further rise in Australian Government securities to-day. The following are the quotations:-Victoria 3½ per cent., £87. ...
Article : 43 wordsSir,—I am rather amused by the announcements put out as to the intentions of Mr. Isaacs in the Mercantile Bank proceedings. Of course one has to be (outside Parliament) ...
Article : 295 wordsThe P. and O. Co.'s R.M.S. Parramatta, P. Harris, commander, arrived from Colombo at 4 p.m. to-day. She brings the following saloon passengers:— ...
Article : 144 wordsAt Half-past 10.—Jones v. City Road Property Co., Barwood Land Company v. Berridge, Harper v. Gay. nor, in the matter of George Wallder (an insolvent). Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company Limited v. ...
Article : 277 wordsThe P. and O. R.M.S. Occana, from Melbourne 8th ult., arrived at Plymouth on the morning of the 19th inst. The Norddeutscher-Lloyd Imperial ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 22 May 1893, Page 5
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