In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Chamberlain the Secretary of State for the Colonies, referred to the action of the directors of the British South Africa Company in ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Duke of Sermoneta, the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs has made an important announcement respecting the foreign policy of Italy. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe House of Commons, after sitting all night considering the report of the Committee of the House on the Agricultural Rating Bill, rose after 8 o'clock this morning. ...
Article : 179 wordsThe third match between the Australian Eleven and the county of Yorkshire was continued to-day at Bradford, when the Yorkshire team, who yesterday lost five ...
Article : 692 wordsThe imports into Sydney for the past halfyear amounted to £7,735,384, compared with £6,124,165 received during the corresponding period of 1895, the increase of £1,611,219 ...
Article : 406 wordsMessrs. Joseph Clay, William Stoker, and Benjamin Jones, representing the Manchester Co-operative Wholesale Society, arrived by the R.M.S. Ballaarat this afternoon. Mr. W. ...
Article : 1,696 wordsIn moving the second reading of the Companies Bill Mr. ISAACS explained why the Government measure was not gone on with last session. The reminded ...
Article : 9,749 wordsSir,—The Legislative Council has recently been charged both in the press and by some public speakers with— (a) Want of harmony with the popular ...
Article : 1,079 wordsThe quarterly revenue returns show that the total public revenue of the United Kingdom for the quarter ended June 30 amounted to £24,011,081, against £21,015,410 ...
Article : 70 wordsThe following new gold-mining companies have been registered:—Joker, kalgoorlie capital £250,000, issued £55,000, which has already been subscribed; Hannan's Golden ...
Article : 44 wordsIt will be remembered that in March last year Li Hung Chang, the Chinese Viceroy, when visiting Shimonaseki, in Japan, for the purpose of arranging terms of peace was shot ...
Article : 312 wordsThe fourth series of London wool sales for the present year opened this evening. The competition was spirited, but prices showed a decline of from par to 5 per cent, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsThe adjourned meeting of shipmasters to discuss the question of the detention of vessels in harbour through the coal strike was held to-day. Captain Parker, of the ...
Article : 270 wordsMr. J. Mathieson yesterday entered upon his five years' term of office as Railway Commissioner, and was kept busy throughout the day with interviews with the retiring ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsThe French police have made a number of arrests of great importance. Twenty-one burgiars belonging to a remarkably well-organised gang have been ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Land Board resumed its sittings to-day, and occupied some hours with an inquiry as to the fulfilment of the conditions of a certain homestead lease. In the course ...
Article : 107 wordsAt the police court to-day two Chinese, named Tung Ki and Willie Ah Poy, were each fined £50 for evading the poll tat, and ordered to pay, in addition, the poll tax ...
Article : 463 wordsThe Treasury has appointed a commission of experts to inquire whether any of the schemes for old-age pensions which have been proposed are practicable. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe mineral output for June is valued at £55,185, compared with £39,856 for June, 1895. The aggregate value of the minerals exported in the first six months of the year ...
Article : 215 wordsMr. Robert Haper, M.L.A., has completed his negotiations with the committees representing the British depositors in the Commercial Bank of Australia Limited. ...
Article : 52 wordsCardinal Moran to-day, speaking of the Pope's latest encyclical, said, in reply to inquiries:—"I presume that the new encyclical is explanatory of the former letter issued by ...
Article : 218 wordsThe well-known mare La Fleche (by St. Simon—Quiver), for whom the late Baron Hirsch gave 5,500 guineas as a yearling, and who won him the One Thousand Guineas, ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. Lovett has received a telegram from R.L., Menzies, stating the result of a crushing of 10 tons of stone treated at Melbourne and Adekaude. The stone averaged 10z. 4gr. to ...
Article : 206 wordsThe contributories of Chaffey Bros. limited have appointed one of the official receivers as liquidator, and he is to be assiated by a committee of the contributories. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe racing stud of the late Colonel J. T. North has been sold for £40,000. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn the Council to-day, Mr. Alex. Brown moved the adjournment to call attention to the action of the Government in appointing a Royal Commission to inquire into the loss of ...
Article : 377 wordsR.M.S.Duke of Buckingham left Aden for London on 20th June. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe traffic returns of the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company Limited for the month of June have been issued. They show that the number of passengers carried ...
Article : 160 wordsThe revenue receipts for June amounted to £61,036 compared with £54,975 for June 1895. The aggregate for the first six months of the year is £373,881 compared with£370,500 for ...
Article : 40 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Mr. Tozer moved the second reading of the Diseases in Stock Bill, which he saud was intended to deal with the tick pest. The live stock of the colony ...
Article : 200 wordsIn the Assembly to-night the Premier stared that the Government, if time permitted, would introduce this session a bill to amend the Land Values Assessment Act, or ...
Article : 257 wordsThomas Moran, of 48 Capel-street, West Melbourne, railway employe. Causes of insolvency—Sickness in family, reduction in wages, and pressure of creditors. ...
Article : 136 wordsThe steamer Federal is to load coal here for the Melbourne Gas Company. A writ for the election of a member of the Assembly for the seat vacated by Mr. ...
Article : 54 wordsAt a meeting of the Maryborough branch of the Austratian Natives' Association last night complimentary reierence was made to the articles entitled "Deeds that Won the ...
Article : 90 wordsInformation from Port Moresby states that Sir William MaeGregor and a Government parly have succeeded in meeting and have punished the notorious Tugeri tribe of skull ...
Article : 147 wordsAt Half-past 10.—Alliance Contracting Company v. Russell (part heard). PRACTICE COURT. Mr. Justice A'Beckett will take chamber business ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 2 Jul 1896, Page 5
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