"The Times" this morning publishes a telegram from its correspondent at Pretoria which contains some statements of a decidedly alarming character. ...
Article : 265 wordsAn important statement respecting the situation in South Africa was made in the House of Commons to-day by Mr. Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for ...
Article : 486 wordsIn consequence of the defeats which the dervishes under Osman Digna have sustained at Tokar, near Suakim, the Mahdist leader is retiring to Adarma. ...
Article : 40 wordsAn announcement has been made that Russia is about to take an important step in the direction of increasing her influence in Corea. ...
Article : 83 wordsJudge Hamilton writes:—The law's delay is attracting a fleeting attention at the present moment, and various remedies for the numerous grievances of ...
Article : 902 wordsA suggestion made by the St. Petersburg journal the "Novosti" (News) affords a significant indication of the policy of Russia with regard to the ...
Article : 77 wordsAs stated in The Argus on Saturday it was arranged that the tug Eagle and one of the Customs launches should leave Williamstown that morning for the locality of the ...
Article : 559 wordsAt St. Patrick's Cathedral last night Archbishop Carr delivered the last of the present series of lectures on the Primacy of the Roman Pontiff. ...
Article : 2,066 wordsThe Porte has appointed a Moslem Governor of Zeitoun, where serious disturbances recently occurred. An inquiry into the circumstances of the ...
Article : 79 wordsSince the delivery by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, of his Budget speech in the House of Commons on Thursday night, ...
Article : 57 wordsMenzies' Gold Development Company, Western Australia, has been registered with a capital of £250,000. Shares amounting to £150,000 are being issued. ...
Article : 90 wordsBefore he purchased Carbine the Duke of Portland owned the famous sire St. Simon, who has been described as "the greatest horse in Great Britain." In view of this description ...
Article : 298 wordsJameson's surrender to Cronjé and whether or not it was conditional is proving a matter of serious discussion in both the English and African papers. According to Sir John ...
Article : 488 wordsBar silver is quoted at 31d. per ounce standard, being an advance of 1-16d. since yesterday. [Published in Saturday's second edition.] ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Railway Commissioners to-day, at a second conference with the millers from Riverina nnd the Western districts, decided to modify the recently-imposed flour rates, ...
Article : 247 wordsTALLOW.—At yesterday's public auction of Australasian tallow 1,275 casks were offered and 450 were sold. Fine mutton realised 22s.; medium mutton, 20s.; fine ...
Article : 130 wordsAt a meeting of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association yesterday, a letter was read from the secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria, asking ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. Chamberlain has informed President Kruger that the despatch of additional British troops to South Africa is not to be taken as meaning any departure ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsRepresentatives of the City of London Exploration Syndicate, of which Colonel North is the head, have returned from Mount Margaret. They report having bought a ...
Article : 113 wordsSir,—You have rightly pointed out the essential difference between Professor Gosman nnd the agitators by whom he was surrounded on Monday night. He is a ...
Article : 924 wordsMr. Barney Barnato, the well-known South African financier, has stated, in the course of an interview, that President Kruger is determined to promote peace ...
Article : 63 wordsNothing has been done as yet as regards the commissionership of railways, but the matter will be decided at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. ...
Article : 107 wordsThe conference between the colliery proprietors and the miners, arranged by Mr. Reid, the Premier, will be held in Sydney on Wednesday. The Premier is much ...
Article : 135 wordsAt 9 o'clock on Friday evening last some person threw a stone through the front window of a house occupied by Henry Board and John Sheldrick, at 19 Motherwell-street, ...
Article : 251 wordsRecent news from South Africa strongly points to the confirmation of the facts announced by cable with regard to President Kruger's warlike preparations. As has ...
Article : 809 wordsThe increased activity in the share market of the past few days has again put considerable pressure on the telegraph line between Adelaide and Perth. Satisfactory progress is ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the meeting of the committee of the Melbourne Hospital which is to be held tomorrow afternoon, the applications of three Lidies to be admitted as resident medical ...
Article : 563 wordsThe population of the colony according to estimates issued by the registrar-general is 117,179, showing an increase during the quarter ending March 31 of 15,944. The ...
Article : 137 wordsSir Henry Parkes is seriously ill from an attack of broncho-pneumonia, caused by a chill which he caught when attending a ball at Government-house last week. His ...
Article : 126 wordsAccording to the latest news from Buluwayo, the anxiety among the beleaguered residents caused by the deficiency in the supply of provisions is ...
Article : 219 wordsThe first conference of librarians and others interested in library work will open tomorrow evening, in Melbourne, with a conversazione, to be given by the trustees of the ...
Article : 484 wordsThe importance of the jaw in the human anatomy is now generally recognised, and any untoward circumstance winch tends to throw the delicate mechanism out of gear ...
Article : 176 wordsThe steamer Mararoa has arrived from the Bluff, and leaves for Melbourne at noon tomorrow. She spoke the barque County of Anglesea, from Liverpool for Brisbane, off ...
Article : 37 wordsThe University commemoration was held yesterday in the town-hall, and was a highly decorous ceremony. The undergraduates absented themselves in a body, as arranged, ...
Article : 162 wordsSir Patrick Buckley is likely to resign his seat on the Supreme Court bench on account of ill-health. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe revenue returns for the quarter ending March 31 show that the expenditure was £385,872, against £199,748 for the same period last year. The excess of revenue over ...
Article : 39 wordsThe house of Mrs. Ellen Scott, widow, 37 Lewisham-road, was burglariously entered by some person at half-past 4 a.m. on Saturday last. Mr. Scott found the man behind her ...
Article : 131 wordsOn the afternoon of the 10th inst, a man who gave his name as Frederick Leslie called at the detective office and confessed to Superintendent Brown that he had ...
Article : 158 wordsAt Half-past 10.—Crotty v. Anderson (part heard, Levy v. The Union Bank of Australia Limited, Gardiner (executor, &c.) v. Wilson and others, T. K. Bennet and Woolcock Limited v. ...
Article : 252 wordsSir,—As far as we knew at the time or can since ascertain a party consisting of eight persons, of whom with three exceptions all were members of my own family, were the ...
Article : 291 wordsAt the Richmond Court on Saturday Inspector Devine proceeded against Augustine Walker, licensee of the Queen's Arms, Church-street, on a charge of trafficking in ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 20 Apr 1896, Page 5
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