It is announced that Sir Hercules Robinson, the Governor of the Cape Colony and Her Majesty's High Commissioner for South Africa, is to be raised to the peerage. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe question of the cost of the Indian troops who were sent to Suakim in connection with the Anglo-Egyptian expedition to Dongola was decided by the House of Commons ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Silverites, or party in favour of the unlimited coinage of silver, claim that 621 of the delegates to the Democratic Convention to be held at Chicago to adopt a platform ...
Article : 155 wordsWriting from Lydiard-street, Ballarat, under date July 1, Mr. Ferguson Hendley Tuthill, ex M.L.A., solicitor, complained to the Solicitor-General of the conduct on the ...
Article : 312 wordsMr. J. C. Von Steiglitz, a member of the Tasmanian Legislature, who also owns a cattle station in the Townsville district, Queensland, in the heart of the area now ...
Article : 2,760 wordsThe community as a whole would be glad to read in The Argus an outline of the report of the board appointed to report on the charges ...
Article : 10,202 wordsThe Australian Eleven commenced a match at Southampton to-day against the county of Hampshire. The local team consisted of the following ...
Article : 1,155 wordsThe British South Africa Company, having disbanded the Buluwayo field force which has for some months past been oprating against the Matyhabele insurgents, has offered to enrol ...
Article : 96 wordsSir John Pender, G.C.M.G., the chairman of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, the Eastern Telegraph Company, the Eastern and South African Telegraph ...
Article : 90 wordsRussia is endeavouring to increase her influence in China by establishing a bank at Pekin. In connection with this institution Russia ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Government has introduced a bill to provide for the establishment of an old age pension scheme. Everyone aged sixty-five and upwards who his lived in the colony ...
Article : 191 wordsA notice appears in the Government Gazette proclaiming that certain territory situated between the Congo Free State and the British protectorate of Uganda is included within the ...
Article : 40 words"The Times," in its article on the colonies this morning, suggests that the other Australian colonies should unite with Victoria in creating a regular standard of Australian ...
Article : 71 wordsThree hundred and fifty members of the honourable Artillery of Boston, United States, are at present visiting London. The municipal authorities have allowed ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Cretan insurments, ignoring the warning of the foreign conusis that they will forfeit the sympathy of Europe unless they accept the concessions offered by the Porte, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe output of gold for the quarter ending June 30 was 150,257oz., being an increase of 2,5830oz. compared with the previous quarter. The largest returns were 54,752oz., from ...
Article : 184 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day the market was quiet, and many of the lots offered were withdrawn. Prices were irregular. ...
Article : 64 wordsA painful discovery was made to-day at Cobham-hall, near Gravesend, Kent, the seat of the Earl of Darnley. The dead body of Lady Mary Rose Florence ...
Article : 121 wordsThe powers are urging the Greek Government to prevent the despatch ot shipments of arms for the Cretan insurgents from Greece. They also advise the Cretans not to persist ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Premier to-day communicated the offer he received yesterday from the Newcastle colliery owners to Mr. James Curley, the secretary of the Northern Miners' ...
Article : 276 wordsMr.W Bateman, who was sent to Adelaide by the Victorian Government to meet the delegates of the English Co-operative Societies, returned to Melbourne by the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Melbourne Bicycle Club have determined to regain the distinction of running the biggest and most valuable cycle race in the world, a distinctin which the £250 Austral ...
Article : 395 wordsThe sales of stud sheep were continued today, the auctioneers being Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., and as they were entrusted with the disposal of some of the choicest ...
Article : 744 wordsGreat alarm has been caused in the island of Cyprus by a rapid succession of earthquakes. The seaport of Limasol, on the south coast, ...
Article : 63 wordsParliament was opened this afternoon with the customary ceremony, but the pouring rain rather spoiled the spectacle outside. In the Assembly the Speaker, the Premier, and ...
Article : 216 wordsBar silver is quoted at 31½d. per oz. standard, being an advance of 1-16d. since yesterday. ...
Article : 23 wordsA deputation appointed by the Conference of Stock and Pastures Boards, which sat yesterday evening in Sydney, to-day asked the Minister of Agriculture to pass a short ...
Article : 508 wordsThe friends of Mr. J. G. Ward, late Colonial Trasurer, are promoting a testimonial to him as a mark of sympathy. The whole fund is to be devoted tot he benefit of ...
Article : 100 wordsThe following departures are reported:— For Adelaide—Buteshire. For Lyttelton— Mamari. The shares in the Gloucester Hauraki (New ...
Article : 33 wordsThomas Comber, of Coburg, civil servant. Causes of insolvency—Sickness and deaths in family and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £119 13s. 6d.: assets, 10s.; ...
Article : 283 wordsMr. French, the Government entomologist, desires to draw the attention of the public to an insect new to Victoria, and which has been introduced in tubers of ...
Article : 133 wordsIn connection with the supposed murder of Mrs. Watson, the wife of a rabbiter named Charles Wetson, who had been arrested in Otago on a charge of murder. When ...
Article : 293 wordsIn the Assembly to-day Mr. Scherk presented a petition from 19,437 male adults, praying that publichouses should be opened between 1 and 3 and between 8 and 10 on ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 8 Jul 1896, Page 5
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