The Australian Eleven commence their first match on Monday next at Sheffield-park, Sussex, against a team selected by the Earl of Sheffield. ...
Article : 265 wordsThe Cabinet has not yet arrived at any decision with respect to the offer made by Mr. Cecil Rhodes to Mr. Chamberlain to retire from the control of ...
Article : 107 wordsIntelligence has been received at Buluwayo that several Matabele impis (regiments) are ambushed in the forests on the Shangani River, waiting to attack ...
Article : 135 wordsAs far is the present series of wool sales has gone a comparison of the prices obtained with those of the March series shows a decline of from par to 5 per ...
Article : 280 wordsA verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest held to-day on the body of Charles Owen Peart, who died early this morning from injuries sustained when diving ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Land Board was occupied all day taking evidence regarding the application for a new appraisement of the Murtee holding. Mr. Bell appeared for the lessees. Arthur J. ...
Article : 952 wordsA cheerful view of things is usually a wise view, and probably the most cheerful account of British affairs which has appeared of late years is given ...
Article : 5,628 wordsThe Mount Lyell shares case was continued in the Supreme Court to-day, Dixon, the plaintiff, being further cross examined by Mr. Purves, Q.C. The Court was crowded, ...
Article : 251 wordsThe Chief Justice and a jury of six gave their attention yesterday to a claim for £1,000 damages, made by James Masters, a blacksmith and farmer, formerly of Yarra Glen, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsAt the Fruit Conference to-day Mr. C. Fuller, of New South Wales read a paper on insects which prey upon orchard pests. In the course of the discussion Mr. Wilson, of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 124 wordsMuch surprise was expressed in political circles yesterday, and also amongst Ministers, at the statement attributed to the Minister of Agriculture in The Argus of yesterday. ...
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Article : 70 wordsThe Victorian apples shipped at Melbourne by the R.M.S. Rome on March 21 are pronounced to be the best that have yet been sent from Melbourne. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe open market quotation for three months' bills is ? per cent., or 1? per cent. below the Bank of England rate. ...
Article : 25 wordsIntelligence has been received of a successful mutiny of French convicts at sea. The men were being sent out to ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Earl of Durham, a large landed proprietor and colliery owner in the north of England, has sold 14 of his coal-mines for the sum of £1,000,000. ...
Article : 49 wordsBar silver is quoted at 31d. per oz. standard, or a decline of ?d. since Tuesday last, when the quotation was 31?d. ...
Article : 31 wordsA serious outrage by natives is reported to have occurred in Tunis. The victims were an English clergyman named Leach, his wife, and his son, ...
Article : 59 wordsBroken Hill Proprietary shares are quoted at 47s. 6d. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe fort-seventh annual meeting of the members of the Australian Mutual Provident Society was held this afternoon, Sir J. P. Abbott presiding. There was a large ...
Article : 552 wordsTHE BRADFORD WOOL MARKET.—Business is quiet. Bradford tops, common sixties, 19d. per lb.; super sixties, 20d. WHEAT.—The English market shows a ...
Article : 251 wordsThe Board of Trade returns of the trade of the United Kingdom for the month of April compare with those for the corresponding period of 1895 ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. William M'Kinley's prospects of receiving the nomination of the Republican party for the presidency at the ensuing convention at St. Louis are held to be ...
Article : 38 wordsAll the European Sovereigns have congratulated the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria on the success of the exhibition opened on the 3rd inst. at Buda-Pesth to ...
Article : 48 wordsJames Murphy was committed for trial this morning at the police court for sending threatening letters to Mr. Frederick Lord, M.L.A. The following are extracts from a ...
Article : 199 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the debate on the Government Education Bill introduced by Sir John Gorst, the vice-president of the Committee of ...
Article : 63 wordsSeveral of the South Coast miners' lodges have struck a 5 per cent. levy in aid of the Newcastle miners. A general application is being made by the ...
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Article : 133 wordsAt the police court to-day Samuel Tomkinson, attorney for John Charles Marshall Taylor, of parts beyond the seas, gentleman, was charged, on the information of Charles ...
Article : 175 wordsSir,—I with many others was very pleased to see the letter re the Essendon trains in your issue of to-day. It has long been a standing disgrace the way the Essendon ...
Article : 228 wordsMrs. Holdsworth, wife of the organist of St. Alban's Church, Armadale, discovered yesterday evening that the building had been entered by thieves, who had broken open the ...
Article : 158 wordsSir,—The recent decision of the Chief Justice upon company law places our late workmen in an unfortunate position which nobody could have possibly foreseen. They ...
Article : 239 wordsFrancis M'Sorley, jun., of Echuca, railway employe. Filed at Echuca. ...
Article : 17 wordsMessrs. Stott and Bastings.—At Northcote, at 3—Villa and cottage properties and land. Mr. John Munday.—At Sunbury, at ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 9 May 1896, Page 7
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